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Parsing Panera's plan to nudge consumers toward low-carbon meals

GreenBiz

Parsing Panera's plan to nudge consumers toward low-carbon meals. In 2007, for instance, PepsiCo added a label to its Walkers potato chips noting that each bag generated 80 grams of carbon dioxide. In June, Unilever announced ambitious plans to attach carbon labels to its products. Fri, 10/23/2020 - 01:00.

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Greentech Media Chronicled Clean Energy Before It Was Cool

GreenTechMedia

From 2007 onwards, this publication paid attention to solar, batteries and distributed energy when they were insignificant players in a vast and old-fashioned power industry. Zero-carbon sources will supply 84 percent of new U.S. utilities have pledged to eliminate carbon emissions. This stuff is big business now.

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NuScale’s Federal Safety Approval Moves US Modular Nuclear Reactors a Step Closer to Reality

GreenTechMedia

Those include a deal with state power agency Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems to build 12 of its 50-megawatt modules by 2030 to deliver power across the Intermountain West as part of UAMPS’ Carbon Free Power Project. NuScale says it has also signed agreements with entities in the U.S.,

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GHG Protocol: Scope 2 Emissions Explained

Green Business Bureau

They’re the result of bought energy, such as electricity, steam, heat, and cooling. Cooling : Cooling agents – such as chilled water – provided by a third party will contribute to a business’s scope 2 emissions. The carbon footprint of data centers can be reduced by: Accurately measuring and tracking use.

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DOE Awards $160M to TerraPower and X-Energy to Build Advanced Nuclear Plants by 2027

GreenTechMedia

TerraPower is partnered with the GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a nuclear industry joint venture formed in 2007. Many of the utilities setting net-zero carbon goals by midcentury are relying on advanced nuclear reactors to provide carbon-free energy to replace closing coal and natural gas plants. DOE intends to invest about $3.2

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UN: Pandemic causes dip in building emissions, but long-term outlook bleak

Envirotec Magazine

While the level of emissions within the sector are 10 per cent lower than in 2015, reaching lows not seen since 2007, this was largely due to lockdowns, slowing of economies, difficulties households and businesses faced in maintaining and affording energy access and a fall in construction activity. “The Some small progress, but not enough.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.