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Majority of companies to miss net-zero targets, analysis shows

Envirotec Magazine

The European business community is more engaged than ever in the race to zero, with the number of companies publicly setting goals having grown over the last two years,” said Jean-Marc Ollagnier, CEO of Accenture in Europe. Our findings show that it is possible, but only if European businesses act now,” Ollagnier said.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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Leading Think Tank Met With Minister Over North Sea Energy While Funded by Fossil Fuel Interests

DeSmogBlog

The Transition Deal echoed the fossil fuel lobby by emphasising the importance of hydrogen power and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to the green transition. The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with net zero.

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Carbon pricing currently too low for a just transition to net-zero, says climate advisory group

Envirotec Magazine

Coal-fired power plants in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (image credit: Asian Development Bank , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective. license ).

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 3)

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Ominous Trend Revealed in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data

Green Market Oracle

GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants in particular are incompatible with emissions reductions. A 2019 study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed that global energy demand grew 2.3

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Ominous Trend Revealed in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data

Green Market Oracle

GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful. A 2019 study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed that fossil fuels accounted for almost 70 percent of global energy demand.