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

Clean Energy Canada

This electrification of industry, buildings and transportation will help displace fossil fuels and cut pollution. Our relatively clean grid means the things we build on Canadian soil have a lower carbon footprint than they might elsewhere. Coal phaseouts result in sudden and dramatic decreases in carbon pollution.

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The war to electrify: America can do it

GreenBiz

Same size homes, same size cars, the same American Dreams, just without the pollution and with much higher efficiency. Griffith’s steps to "radically demystify" decarbonization start with the supply side, the 730 million tons of coal mined from 669 coal mines, and then all the layers of natural gas and gasoline infrastructure.

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Review of Climate Policy Options

Low Carbon Prosperity

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The same elasticity effect applies to pollution. Economists argue that Pigouvian taxes , like a carbon tax, are the most economically efficient means of reducing pollution.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Logan Green has cited growing up with Southern California traffic and carpooling as a student in Zimbabwe for inspiring the launch of Zimride in 2007. million acres the 4.4

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The war to electrify: America can do it

Business Green

Griffith was introducing a dramatic approach to slowing climate change and creating tens of millions of new jobs on US soil. Griffith's steps to "radically demystify" decarbonization start with the supply side, the 730 million tons of coal mined from 669 coal mines, and then all the layers of natural gas and gasoline infrastructure.

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The war to electrify: America can do it

AGreenLiving

Same size homes, same size cars, the same American Dreams, just without the pollution and with much higher efficiency. homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. Plus, renewable energy is more efficient than natural gas and coal-fired energy, which lose a lot of heat. CO2 emissions.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. million acres the 4.4 million acres it protects in the Amazon.