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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

Studies show that investing in road capacity increases the number of cars – a phenomenon known as ‘induced demand’. The group’s expert evidence to court argues that the DfT failed to properly calculate carbon emissions from the operation of the road schemes and ignored non-tailpipe emissions such as from land clearance and road construction.

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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.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Taxonomy utilises a “transition” category, acknowledging the unique challenges and needs of Asia’s shift towards a net zero economy amidst economic growth and increasing energy demands. Th announcement follows the final consultation paper that the Green Finance and Industry Taskforce released in February 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

When we started Sol Systems around a dinner table in 2008, PV modules cost $3/watt — and that was a recent breakthrough. Investor demand for yield is also forcing developers to get more creative in how they structure projects. Those same modules now cost 30-40 cents/watt and they are significantly more efficient.

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 29, 2019

” Under a 2008 state law, Massachusetts is required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by midcentury. That was due to demand from the Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target ( SMART ) program, which went into effect in 2018. Some had already been constructed.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis calls went up for green stimulus plans, but while they gained some traction support was largely confined to environmental campaigners and clean tech industries and the opportunity to deliver sweeping climate-focused recovery packages was ultimately squandered.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nationwide energy supply-and-demand patterns. Secondly, costs to construct wind farms have slid over 40%, whereas solar costs have sunk by over 80%, making both more appealing. Stay-at-home social distancing measures have altered U.S. electricity consumption. But another concern is alleviated, too.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nationwide energy supply-and-demand patterns. Secondly, costs to construct wind farms have slid over 40%, whereas solar costs have sunk by over 80%, making both more appealing. Stay-at-home social distancing measures have altered U.S. electricity consumption. But another concern is alleviated, too.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The report is published as the government attempts to fend off growing criticism from green groups, MPs, and the construction sector for its move to cut funding for its Green Homes Grant home energy efficiency retrofit programme to just £320m for the coming tax year, after launching it with a budget of £1.5bn last autumn.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This year's Summit is set to be larger and more logistically demanding than usual given it is expected to mark the official coming into force of the Paris Agreement and as such scores of world leaders are expected to attend, fuelling media interest and creating additional security requirements.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 16, 2020

Industrial output and electricity demand were far below usual levels, including a 36% drop in coal consumption, a 34% drop in utilization of oil refining capacity and a 5% to 10% rate of flight cancellations globally. Shops close, construction sites take a break and many industries cut back on operations. During this time, U.S.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Until very recently, investor demands regarding environmental impact largely have focused on the climate crisis and greenhouse gas emissions. The most dependent industries: construction, agriculture and food and beverage.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete. The new demand in contactless and physically distant healthcare has now become a precedent for the future.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

The abundance of cheap, reliable solar power in the region offers the potential for relatively inexpensive green hydrogen production, which is expected to be in hot demand in Europe and beyond in the coming years. But I think moving forward we can see there is a lot of demand and discussion about green hydrogen.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 22, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in construction slowdowns and fewer permits for new housing in California, potentially delaying the impact of the nation's first statewide residential solar mandate. De Young, which constructs about 100 homes per year, expects to grow its builds by 10 to 20 percent in 2020.

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Better Ventures

JUNE 29, 2020

In sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, construction, there is still a gaping need for more tech enabled and scalable upskilling solutions and a nascent field of offerings. Workers from Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, and FedEx, amongst many others, have staged strikes and protests to demand better protection and pay.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 14, 2020

its thirteenth sustainability report since 2008. According to the 2019 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction, the built environment sector accounts for some 40% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Changing the Future.",

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Despite successful counterexamples like Tesla, Nest, Enphase and Silver Spring Networks, those failures, combined with the Great Recession starting in 2008, led to the loss of roughly half of the $25 billion in venture capital invested in the sector from 2006 to 2011, according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers. The Washington D.C.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

Now as nuclear makes a comeback, increased demand combined with a neglected supply chain has fueled a uranium price spike. A supply-demand chain reaction for uranium prices Uranium prices went nuclear on Monday, blasting past $100/lb for the first time since 2008. of national emissions, at the price of 2,800 jobs.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Reflective walls can prevent solar heat gain indoors during the summer, shaving electricity consumption in the building and lowering peak demand on the grid. buildings were constructed before 1980. The research team at Berkeley Lab found in a recent study that in much of the U.S., Around half of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

“The 2°C limit is what we call a social construct. The year was 2008. degree limit as the main demand. The tiny Pacific Ocean island of just 12,000 people was insistently demanding , along with AOSIS and LDCs, a legally binding treaty that would keep the temperature rise below 1.5°C. However, the exact 1.5°C

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

. – Co-Founder and executive director of WE CARE Solar Dr. Laura Stachel’s story of how she went from unknown OB/GYN to one of CNN’s Top 10 Heros of 2013 , starts in Northern Nigeria in 2008. She is also an alumni representative for the International School of Beijing (ISB) in Beijing, China and holds an MBA.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

As Gideon Henderson, chief scientific officer at Defra, explains the 2008 Climate Change Act represented a "big step change" in the government's approach to climate change, introducing long term emissions goals, the system of five yearly Carbon Budgets that require governments to develop credible decarbonisation plans, and the CCC.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete. The new demand in contactless and physically distant healthcare has now become a precedent for the future.

Sustainability 28

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

They built a roomy, two-story metal house and constructed livestock pens for hogs, goats, donkeys, and cattle. However, the COVID-19 pandemic reduced demand for oil at a time when there was already an oversupply of the fuel, disrupting the industry to a degree unseen in decades. When you come out here, it is dry. A decade ago, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

They built a roomy, two-story metal house and constructed livestock pens for hogs, goats, donkeys, and cattle. However, the COVID-19 pandemic reduced demand for oil at a time when there was already an oversupply of the fuel, disrupting the industry to a degree unseen in decades. When you come out here, it is dry. A decade ago, the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When you look back on 2008—when U.S. Along with Vogtle Unit 4, these are the first newly constructed nuclear units built in the United States in more than three decades. production was at a 62-year low, and exports were zero—it is a remarkable turnaround.” ” In a closely related story, the U.S. started Vogtle Unit 3.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The situation illustrates the intermittency problem with renewables like wind and solar power and how outages can increase demand for fossil fuel generation,” Energy In Depth , a project of the Independent Petroleum Association of America that is run by FTI Consulting , wrote about Europe’s gas price crisis on September 22. 56% of new U.S.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2020

Minimal activity from industrial sites, factories and construction sectors has minimized the risks for toxins to escape, in turn improving air quality. Even assuming a bounceback once the lockdown is lifted, the planet is expected to see its first fall in global emissions since the 2008-9 financial crisis.” degrees Celsius.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Meeting Electricity Demands in an Increasingly Electric World (Panel Discussion): As communities and companies move to electrify everything – from transportation options to buildings and indoor agriculture – we’re discovering the ways the current utility infrastructure isn't always up to the challenge.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

While several LNG terminals currently under construction will continue, the Biden administration in January put a halt to new applications while the U.S. The oil and gas industry, and many Republicans in Congress, demanded the Biden administration immediately lift the pause, and some even threatened legal action. Hiatt said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As global oil prices fluctuated over the following years, carbon capture was paused at the plant during periods when CO2 demand for oil extraction dropped. Building upon a Bush Administration program, in 2008, the Kemper CCS facility was proposed as the flagship project of the U.S. Credit: Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA 3.0

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The company put the total cost of construction at about $260 million, 1% of its capital budget for 2020. The company put the total cost of construction at about $260 million, 1% of its capital budget for 2020. Construction was set to begin over the summer. The shale boom also sent prices for natural gas into free fall.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

As such, the report reveals a 16 per cent year-on-year drop in coal power capacity under construction and in pre-construction development last year, completing a 66 per cent decline in the pipeline since 2015 when the research was first carried out.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this.” Nations saw rapid industrial and economic growth, accelerated consumer demand, and introduced significantly new changes in lifestyle and culture. So was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008. He is certainly not the only pessimist (or realist?)

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