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Japan’s Offshore Wind Market Finally Looks Set to Launch

GreenTechMedia

Although Japan's first offshore wind pilot projects date back to 2003, the country had just 66 megawatts of capacity in the water at the end of 2019. megawatts in size — will automatically qualify for the feed-in tariff, a briefing note from law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe said.

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Bulgarian Coal-Fired Power Plant May be Under-Reporting Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Investigation Finds

DeSmogBlog

As Europe moves toward cleaner forms of energy, many of these assets have become increasingly outdated, inefficient, and mired in debt. More than a dozen — including Brikel, Bobov Dol and others checked by GMI Verify — were privatized between 2003 and 2008 at low prices and through controversial tender processes. and Cyprus.

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Are carbon offsets the answer to the climate change crisis?

Business Green

Globally, the challenge is even greater of course, since Europe is in fact a leader when it comes to tackling climate change. Coad says the firm's business client base now ranges from micro enterprises to agencies to law firms, and the number of larger clients continues growing. Beyond personal.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks.

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COP27: Unshackling the demand for renewables

Business Green

Most of Europe and roughly half of the United States is deregulated. We find that the net-metering laws are widely varied across the globe and even within a single country. When I started in 2003, just getting anyone to pick up the phone and talk to you about sustainability or renewable energy was a real challenge. Absolutely.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

If the industry was not exempt from hazardous waste law,” said Troutman, “the characterization of their waste would be far better, the tracking would be far better, and it would be harder for companies to manipulate the system like this.”. One particularly damning Railroad Commission inspection occurred in May 2003.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe.