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The Corona Virus Reduces China's Emissions by 25 Percent

Green Market Oracle

China burns about half the coal used globally while at the same time it is the leading market for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. This duality is evident in Shanxi, which is both China's coal mining region and the location of some of the country's largest solar and wind power projects.

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Comment: Carbon net zero – we’re halfway there

Envirotec Magazine

A lot of the hard work has come from decarbonising the grid and the shift to renewable power. In 2020, the UK went without coal power for 180 of the 366 days. Wind power contributed 25% of electricity generation, with bioenergy providing 13% and nuclear 16%. However, while a lot has changed, not much has changed.

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

.” More recently, Morano has been talking about whales—specifically, the idea that the higher-than-usual number of dead ones washing ashore along the East Coast is the result of President Joe Biden’s push to develop 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade. In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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#Greentown10: A Look at Greentown’s Biggest Annual Event Throughout the Years

Greentown Labs

The 2014 DEMO Day was hosted in partnership with Global Cleantech Meetup Week, which was organized by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and ACTION New England. Green Gas USA , which captures agricultural methane through an anaerobic digester and converts it to fuel. The speaker lineup included Somerville Mayor Joseph A.

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The prospects for I-1631 eliminating 20 million tons of carbon pollution annually by 2035

Low Carbon Prosperity

million tCO2e decrease in statewide fossil fuel emissions from 2014 to 2035. At the program level, California is the largest economy-wide carbon reduction program in the United states, having managed auction proceeds and investments since 2014. 9 The PERI report evaluates a 30.5 LCPI projects a 30.5 million ($12 CDN/ tCO2e).