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Report: UK requires 'substantial and sustainable' behaviour change to hit net zero

Business Green

The public-private Energy Research Partnership warns all new decarbonisation incentives must include 'behaviour change enabling plans' for corporates and the public. Peer pressure is also a major factor in delivering behaviour change, the report notes, arguing that "visible positive behaviours" can trigger people to make low-carbon choices.

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible.

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Tipping Points In Tropical Forests: Carbon Fluxes In The Amazon And Africa

Energy Innovation

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions.

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The Inflation Reduction Act: Investments in Environmental Justice

Energy and Cleantech Council

On August 7, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Act), which would provide about $369 billion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below their 2005 levels by 2030 as well as reduce carbon emissions and invest in renewable energy.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

Instead, the TCEQ has allowed K-Solv, a chemical distribution company nestled in Channelview’s Jacintoport neighborhood, to expand its operations four times since the problem was discovered in 2005. Although it has been linked to leukemia since the late 1920s, it is unevenly regulated because of relentless opposition from industry groups.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Clean energy for Native American communities. Decarbonized buildings. I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. GreenBiz Editors.

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Mitigating social impact in a low-carbon Singapore

Eco-Business

The UK has put Clean Growth at the heart of its industrial strategy, and last week even the Trump Administration announced that it will join the One Trillion Trees Initiative. The country has committed to unconditionally reducing GHG emissions intensity by 36 percent from 2005 levels, and to peak its carbon emissions by 2030.

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