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Are carbon offsets the answer to the climate change crisis?

Business Green

However, the European Commission has estimated that achieving the current 2030 climate and energy targets will require €260bn of additional annual investment, equal to about 1.5 Globally, the challenge is even greater of course, since Europe is in fact a leader when it comes to tackling climate change. per cent of 2018 GDP.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Company profile.

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Ranked: The 12 best ways to get cars out of cities

Business Green

The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe. The leading killer of children in both the US and Europe. Despite the (slow) migration to electric-powered cars, consumer trends are making driving even more wasteful and unequal. Question: what do the following statistics have in common?

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COP27: Unshackling the demand for renewables

Business Green

Powers, vice president for global cleantech and renewables at Schneider Electric, who explores how public-private sector collaboration can help unshackle the surging demand for renewable energy. Most of Europe and roughly half of the United States is deregulated. Interview with John D. I was really impressed.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations). Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021.

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