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Energy efficiency: EP100 hails one billion tonnes of corporate carbon savings

Business Green

By moving quickly to stop energy waste, [leading companies] are cutting carbon and boosting the bottom line," she said. Swiss Re said it had reached its EP100 goal five years ahead of schedule after committing to double energy productivity by 2020 against a 2005, but still managed to deliver a 16 per cent improvement last year.

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Canada’s power grid is pretty clean. Here’s why it needs to be cleaner

Clean Energy Canada

It includes the people who make our homes waste less energy: insulators and HVAC operators. It also more or less marked the end of Ontario’s smog days (of which there were 53 in 2005). To which our organization, Clean Energy Canada, so often replies: actually, the clean-energy sector is bigger and broader than that.