GreenTechMedia

APRIL 9, 2020

Construction is slowing, tenders are postponed and, for earlier stage projects, there are question marks around financing. percent in 2008 during the Great Recession. “Solar is pretty quick to develop and construct. As a result, WoodMac has slashed its forecast deployment by 18 percent, from 129.5 gigawatts to 106.4

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 9, 2020

Last month, Lightsource announced the financing of a 260-megawatt Texas project during a week when financial markets saw their worst since October 2008, which kicked off the Great Recession. “Certainly, it is a different market,” said Smith.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The Government has exceeded its powers under Section 44 Climate Change Act 2008, by which it is able to set up the emissions trading scheme and is required to make rational decisions. The omission of municipal waste incinerators is irrational.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 19, 2021

The equity investment in Mainstream will help the developer finance ongoing construction projects, said Aker. GW of renewable capacity since 2008. The acquisition forms part of near-term plans to take Aker Horizons public on Euronext as a precursor to listing on the Oslo stock exchange, 180-year-old Aker revealed. Today it has a 1.4

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Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

RP Construction Services (RPCS) announced earlier this week the launch of a campaign to bring e-readers to the Secondary Education for Girls’ Advancement (SEGA) school in Morogoro, Tanzania, with the help of Nurturing Minds, a U.S.-based based non-profit organization.

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Fairsnape

OCTOBER 18, 2019

It was back in 2008 when I first came across Rob Hopkins through his Transition Handbook. Of course that reskilling is still to happen within the built environment sector, and is ever important as we look to circular economy, toxic free and nature based construction techniques and materials.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

TerraPower, founded by Gates in 2008, is developing two separate SMR technologies. As is the case with all nuclear power, cost and construction timelines will be heavily scrutinized. According to the pair, it could be used to boost a 345-megawatt small modular reactor (SMR) to around 500 megawatts for a period of up to five hours.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

The most dependent industries: construction, agriculture and food and beverage. . BNP Paribas, France’s largest bank, last month pledged to stop financing companies that produce or buy beef or soybeans cultivated on land in the Amazon cleared or converted after 2008.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 14, 2021

There are inherent challenges with multi-project portfolios, which require diligent management of development, financing and construction,” said Goran Arya, Director of Business Development at Adapture Renewables. Since 2008, U.S. Adapture Renewables acquired the portfolio in early 2019. Bank has invested more than $12.6

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Tomlinson’s race car-building company Ginetta, which he purchased in 2005, built a successful electric race car prototype as early as 2008, but plans for a wider release of the vehicle were shelved due to a lack of funds.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

On the other hand Pakistan has a long history of floods and floods of 1928, 1929, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1973, 1976, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2008, 2010, and recent 2020 share the saddest events with tremendous damages in the country. The floods of 2010, resulting from heavy monsoon rain affected the Indus River basin.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 13, 2020

2008 Great Recession when] renewables were still on the fringe,” Declercq said. He said the company is benefiting from having had an unusually advanced construction program in 2020, to make sure its projects were finished well before the end-of-year deadline for federal wind-energy tax credits.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Founded in 2008, the Dublin-based firm has built up significant interests in large scale solar and onshore and offshore wind projects across Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and Africa, and is involved in more than 1.2GW of major capital projects currently under construction.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A few weeks ago, a geothermal project at the site of waste incineration plant by Lounavoima set a new record with the drilling of a thermal well to a depth of 2008 meters. In the future, the Geomachine drilling solution will be marketed to real estate investors, district heating developers, construction companies, and large property owners.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 25, 2021

For example, in 2018, the International Maritime Organization (“IMO”) adopted a goal of reducing greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions 50% below 2008 levels by 2050. This pressure comes from a variety of sources. Courtesy: Ian Simmonds/Unsplash). Role of the Poseidon Principles. combustion) and not production, transport, etc.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Copper recycling is another clear solution and must be implemented in tandem with new copper mine construction. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jerome Leroy Having been with Nexans since 2008, Jerome Leroy is crrently vice president of Nexans Canada , a wire and cables company.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 6, 2020

Following the 2008 financial crisis, countries around the world put together stimulus packages with varying emphasis on clean energy. Building retrofits and solar panel installation programs re-employed construction workers laid off during the housing crash. These investments also paid off in reduced carbon pollution: since 2008, U.S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The legal threat comes after the Supreme Court last week ruled the government acted lawfully when it approved the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport in June 2018, arguing the policy framework which governed the decision, the NPS, was not required to treat the Paris Agreement as government policy. "We We think that's unlawful.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

We've dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, supply issues, government policy u-turns, Minimum Import Pricing, and now we're proving our salt in the midst of a global pandemic. Construction. On the construction side, we are also making progress. The sites we have under construction are open. Development.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A beacon of sustainability, beyond geothermal Elevating the environment as part of EDC’s Geo 24/7 was institutionalized under BINHI in 2008, its flagship regreening program that seeks to propagate endangered, indigenous tree species in order to protect and grow water reservoirs that are critical to geothermal energy production.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Key architect of the 2008 Climate Change Act returns to frontline politics, as Sir Keir Starmer unveils Labour's new front bench team. As such, Miliband was instrumental in passing the 2008 Climate Change Act, which set UK decarbonisation targets into law and established the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The oldest of the batch originally started generating power in 2008. In 2019, about 2 gigawatts — or one-fifth of all wind projects constructed in the United States — were repowering projects, according to the American Clean Power Association. Repowering represents a substantial chunk of the wind industry’s growth.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

TAN, however, argues that ministers had a legal duty under the Climate Change Act 2008’s statutory targets and the Paris Agreement to consider the strategy’s full impact on the environment and could not leave that assessment to the planning stage of individual road projects. The strategy doesn’t mention RIS2.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

But a piece of it lives on with founder John Schaeffer, who left the company in 2013 and bought back control of the Solar Living Center, a lush compound in Mendocino dedicated to teaching sustainable lifestyles, including solar power, permaculture and natural construction techniques. "I Photo courtesy of John Shaeffer). Growth before a fall.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As an example, it highlighted efforts to boost the supply chain for greener materials and products in the construction sector, which it said would help to support green home retrofitting and in turn boost the market for green mortgages that NatWest offers. In addition, Rose received a £5.2m

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2021

Responding to the research, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) claimed 40 per cent of the country's homes were now rated at EPC Band C or higher, marking a significant increase from nine per cent in 2008. "We

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

One study reports that the amount of meat eaten each day per person fell by 17 per cent on average in the UK between 2008 and 2019. Each dataset is constructed using a different type of information and the accuracy of each is unclear. Research indicates that meat consumption habits have changed.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Any one of these three shocks alone "is enough to force fresh thinking" and as such the UK's economic plans must be "more like 1945 than 2008", Danker will say, highlighting the creation of the NHS and welfare state after the Second World War as key examples of the radical policy moves that helped drive post-war reconstruction. "Our

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

The construction of the proposed development will be damaging and it has been granted with insufficient consideration for the effects on nature as described by the governments own experts. We are dismayed that the decision by this interim government goes against the advice of the Examiners and their own experts in this matter," she said.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Started in 2008 by Josée Lupien and Jean DesRosiers, Vertima is a group of environmental strategies professionals that have the answers companies are looking for regarding everything from building materials to air quality inside the office.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

That year, a piece of legislation called the Base Load Review Act (BLRA) passed fairly quietly, which allowed PSC-regulated utilities to collect revenue for major construction long before the projects were put into service —projects such as two new reactors proposed for the SCE&G/Santee Cooper VC Summer nuclear plant, approved in 2008.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 8, 2020

Manufacturing and construction make up 20% of CO2 emissions. It’s too early to know how much carbon will be reduced globally due to COVID-19, but if we look at the global recession of 2008-09, the last year in which carbon emissions went down, it caused a small reduction of 1.4% Air travel makes up 2.5% of global carbon emissions. ?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2023

The survey was open to workers across a variety of sectors in the oil and gas industry, including exploration, production, transportation, construction, and refining. Solet left the oil and gas industry in 2008 after he crashed his car while driving sleep deprived after a long shift. Before covid layoffs I was making $29 hourly.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

“Even Sunrun wasn’t public in 2008.” Halted permitting and construction could impact 10 to 30 percent of the company’s 200-megawatt pipeline. ” Such offerings could be seen as a sign of industry desperation affecting even the market's leaders.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the same month, the High Court ruled that the government’s net zero strategy did not meet its obligations under the 2008 Climate Change Act. Bridgemere, a group of companies owned by construction magnate Steve Morgan that advertises a private jet for charter on its website as part of its business, donated £62,500 in May.

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Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

Slow UK growth in output and real wages over the past lost decade-and-a-half has meant these metrics are barely any better than they were prior to the 2008 financial crisis. Yet if real wages had grown at the same rate as they did before 2008, we would be on average almost £200 per week better off.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This strategy aims for net zero emissions by around 2050 and includes shorter-term goals of cutting emissions by at least 20% and aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, relative to 2008 levels. Th announcement follows the final consultation paper that the Green Finance and Industry Taskforce released in February 2023.

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