Here’s how Apple has cut its emissions 55% since 2015
GreenBiz
APRIL 18, 2024
The company aims for a 75 percent reduction by 2030.
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Highest offshore wind load factors recorded since 2015 due to larger wind turbines
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
These are some of the highest load factors recorded since the latter end of 2015. Newer (post-2016) windfarms fared much better with offshore wind farms load factors averaging 55%.
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Inside Amazon’s push to switch from plastic to paper mailers
GreenBiz
MARCH 11, 2024
Amazon has cut more than 37,150 metric tons of plastic packaging since 2015, but still uses twice that amount annually.
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Global analysis of 30M hydrogen energy tweets shows increase from 2015 Paris Agreement
TechXplore
MAY 10, 2024
Australia's hydrogen energy-related discussion on Twitter (now X) is now ranked seventh globally, according to an analysis of 30.7 million tweets conducted by QUT researchers.
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Renewables installations soar 65 per cent delivering 'strongest year since 2015'
Business Green
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
The performance marks the highest annual deployment since 2015, when just over 200,000 installations were registered, the bulk of which were deployed ahead of the government's controversial axing of subsidies for domestic and small scale renewables installations. We had an incredibly busy 2022 and the data confirms the progress we've made.
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Vale faces £3bn legal action over 2015 Mariana dam disaster
Financial Times: Energy
MARCH 19, 2024
New class action pursues mining group and project partner BHP over one of Brazil’s worst environmental disasters
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Octopus Energy turns first profit since launch in 2015
Financial Times: Energy
JANUARY 26, 2024
Result built on tripling of revenues after several years of rapid growth
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Trafigura trims senior team in biggest reshuffle since 2015
Financial Times: Energy
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Restructure comes as trader posts record earnings but is hit by alleged $590mn nickel fraud
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‘Say what we do, do what we say’: Behind the scenes on Nextracker’s ISO 9001:2015 certification journey
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 17, 2021
Getting ISO’ed is a big deal, and I’m proud to have helped lead the charge at Nextracker to achieve certification for ISO 9001:2015. Our ISO 9001:2015 accreditation is confirmation of our demonstrated and ongoing commitment to reliability, quality assurance, the environment, and safety.
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The market for next-gen materials is growing
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 4, 2021
billion in investments since 2015. Innovators in the space have seen more than $1.29
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CESA report highlights state-level clean energy leadership since 2015
Solar Power World
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
A new report from the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA) called “Returning Champions: State Clean Energy Leadership Since 2015” highlights the essential role that states are playing to develop and implement effective policies and programs.
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WCS Talks 2015
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
MARCH 21, 2016
In case you missed our event at Google in November of 2015, here’s the complete list of videos from the event. The post WCS Talks 2015 appeared first on Women in Cleantech & Sustainability.
'Deeply disturbing': Just 35 banks have handed $2.7tr to fossil fuels since 2015, study finds
Business Green
MARCH 17, 2020
Just 35 banks around the world have together financed fossil fuel projects to the tune of over $2.7tr over the four years since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, a major new study has found, once again casting the global financial system's worrying exposure to climate-related risks under the spotlight.
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I understand climate scientists' despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope | Christiana Figueres
The Guardian: Energy
MAY 9, 2024
Even as the former head of the UN climate change convention that achieved the Paris agreement in 2015, I, like many, can succumb to believing in the worst possible outcome. I resonate with her feelings of despair.
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110 Sharp rise in number of climate lawsuits against companies, report says
The Guardian: Energy
JUNE 26, 2024
About 230 cases filed against corporations and trade associations around world since 2015 The number of climate lawsuits filed against companies around the world is rising swiftly, a report has found, and a majority of cases that have concluded have been successful.
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What might the new global climate finance goal look like?
NRDC onEarth
APRIL 22, 2024
Back in 2015, governments in the UNFCCC agreed to negotiate a new collective quantified goal (NCQG) for climate finance prior to 2025. What are the key elements that countries need to agree on?
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'They know exactly how this ends': Top UK banks slammed for £25bn coal funding since 2015
Business Green
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Data from Greenpeace shows HSBC, Barclays, RBS, and Standard Chartered have collectively provided £25bn to companies with new coal plant plans since 2015.
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altenergymag
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Latest research from Cornwall Insight highlights that as a result of the elevated wind speeds experienced in January onshore wind load factors averaged 42% for the month, and older offshore sites (pre-2016) reached an average of 52%.
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Chart: Clean energy set to attract double investment spent on fossil fuels
Canary Media
JUNE 14, 2024
Since 2015, the ratio of… The amount is nearly double what will be invested in oil, coal, and gas this year, according to the International Energy Agency’s new report “World Energy Investment 2024.”
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128 15 for 2015: Women in Cleantech
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
JANUARY 3, 2016
As 2015 comes to a close, the Energy Excelerator team would like to recognize our fellow innovators paving the way for the next generation of cleantech leaders. 2015 was a big year for her, moving from her position as the Nation’s first Chief Sustainability Officer to managing sustainability across Google’s universe of companies.
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Great Lakes fish found to be full of microplastics
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 13, 2021
This mind-boggling fish was hauled out by researchers in 2015, but their study has just been published in Conservation Biology. A Great Lakes fish set a new record, and not in a good way. The brown bullhead had 915 particles in its body.
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Antarctica reaches record high temperature
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
That’s quite a leap from its previous record of about 63 degrees Fahrenheit, set five years ago in 2015. The frozen continent recently logged its warmest temperature to date, a whopping 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Hinkley Point C could be delayed to 2031 and cost up to £35bn, says EDF
The Guardian: Energy
JANUARY 23, 2024
As nuclear plant is hit by further delay, real cost will be far higher after inflation is included, as project uses 2015 prices The owner of Hinkley Point C has blamed inflation, Covid and Brexit as it announced the nuclear power plant project could be delayed by a further four years, and cost £2.3bn more. Continue reading.
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Consumer Reports finds high arsenic level in Whole Foods bottled water
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 26, 2020
Starkey Spring Water, which Whole Foods has been selling since 2015, contained at least triple the amount of arsenic as every other brand tested.
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LEED Platinum Akademeia High School caters to millennials
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 13, 2020
As a result, their design of Akademeia High School, completed in 2015, encourages a welcoming and flexible “lifestyle atmosphere” where students would be encouraged to stay in school even after classes end. Changing millenial needs inspired Medusa Group Architects' design for Akademeia High School, a Polish high school in Warsaw.
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SunFunder Raises $17M in Equity and Debt in 2015
Better Ventures
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
SunFunder (BVFI and BVFII portfolio company) had a banner year during 2015, raising $17M in equity and debt capital. The market for off-grid energy in the developing world has grown rapidly since then, and 2015 was a record year with a total of $131M in equity capital pouring into the category. In December, the company closed a $3.8M
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SEPA issues first Scottish penalty for greenhouse gas leak under F-Gas Regulations
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 19, 2023
DSM Nutritional Products (UK) Limited, based in Dalry in Ayrshire, received the first penalty to be issued in Scotland under the Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Regulations 2015 (the F-Gas regulations 2015), which are designed to control fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases).
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France is Europe’s biggest supporter of ‘carbon bomb’ projects, data shows
The Guardian: Energy
OCTOBER 31, 2023
French banks have financed $154bn to firms running biggest fossil fuel projects since 2015 climate pact France is Europe’s biggest supporter of “carbon bomb” extraction projects that hold enough fossil fuels to pump out more than a gigaton of CO 2 each, the Guardian can reveal.
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101 How can the world combat the climate crisis?
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 27, 2023
This figure was chosen in the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world's first holistic climate-related treaty. In order to avoid the risks brought about by climate change, we must control greenhouse gases (GHGs) from being released into the atmosphere and boost the means of sequestering them.
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Norway is investigating massive hydrogen cargo ship possibilities
Hydrogen Fuel News
JUNE 19, 2024
The project itself will involve the use of the Samskip Kvitnos vessel, which was built by Samskip back in 2015. The funding will be used right from the start of the project, including the development of the conversion plans. The Kvitnos is based in Rotterdam and travels north along the Norwegian coast.
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Taking Climate Action Forward: India Key to Dubai Climate Talks
NRDC onEarth
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Highlights of India’s actions on climate change since the 2015 Paris Agreement and what to expect at COP28 in Dubai
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Decarbonisation
Financial Times: Energy
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
Many governments and business leaders have made commitments to reduce carbon emissions in response to the 2015 Paris Agreement. This series covers topics surrounding clean tech innovation, energy efficiency and internal carbon pricing
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107 Water quality monitoring project wins water industry award
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 22, 2024
The project was implemented to help ensure the protection of water quality while treated water was discharged into the river through a temporary outfall pipe at a new location, following the damage of the original outfall by storm Desmond in 2015.
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Study: 80 per cent of global CO2 emissions since Paris Agreement linked to 57 companies
Business Green
APRIL 4, 2024
InfluenceMap analysis highlights the top CO2 emitting fossil fuel and cement companies since hundreds of countries signed up to the Paris Agreement at the end of 2015
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Biochar is a proven form of carbon removal. Can it scale up?
Canary Media
OCTOBER 2, 2023
When Beauregard Burgess and three friends decided to start a hog and poultry farm in 2015, they chose an odd location: 20 acres of swampy land on the east side of Homer, Alaska, a coastal hamlet south of Anchorage. This story was first published by Grist. The land, logged years ago, was in an industrial part of…
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If you build it…
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 2, 2024
Between 2009 and 2015, 24 local government councils in New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, adopted curbside services to collect food and garden waste for recycling into compost. Households received a red bin for general waste, a yellow bin for recycling, and a green bin for organic waste.
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Pula lands $20 million to offer livestock insurance to smallholder farmers
Impact Alpha
APRIL 16, 2024
Insurance tech startup Pula launched in 2015 to provide crop insurance to small scale farmers, 80% of whom lack access to products that. The post Pula lands $20 million to offer livestock insurance to smallholder farmers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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BHP and Vale ordered to pay $9.7bn over Brazilian dam collapse
Financial Times: Energy
JANUARY 25, 2024
Disaster at Samarco iron ore mine in 2015 killed 19 people and ranks among country’s worst environmental catastrophes
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Renewable Hydrogen on the island of Ireland - the catalyst for a Balanced Pathway
Energy Central
MAY 9, 2024
As part of our journey in tackling the climate crisis Ireland signed up to the Paris Agreement in 2015 ]. Introduction Hydrogen is not a new fuel by any measure, but its zero carbon qualities now underpin the rapid drive to facilitate the incorporation of hydrogen into global and domestic energy policy.
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Taking Climate Action Forward: India Key to Dubai Climate Talks
NRDC onEarth
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Highlights of India’s actions on climate change since the 2015 Paris Agreement and what to expect at COP28 in Dubai
Green Cars in 2015 (Infographic)
Alternative Energy News
MARCH 3, 2015
Electric Cars | Hybrid Cars | Transportation Considering a green car? These days it makes a lot of sense but there are so many options; electric, hybrid, hydrogen and even solar. One day soon we’ll all be driving one, so how do we choose? And if we don’t have a green car, what can you we do to help the environment in […].
BTG Pactual’s Timberland Investment Group secures $1.2 billion for timberland in Latin America
Impact Alpha
MAY 1, 2024
Timberland Investment Group, a division of Brazilian bank BTG Pactual, closed its inaugural Latin America timberland fund with $860 million in 2015. The post BTG Pactual’s Timberland Investment Group secures $1.2 billion for timberland in Latin America appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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59 Clean-up of Indian coal-fired power plants ‘could have saved 720,000 lives’
The Guardian: Energy
APRIL 18, 2024
Despite regulations passed in 2015, fewer than 5% of these plants operate with modern systems to clean up air pollutants from their chimneys. Researchers say early deaths may have been avoided over 10-year period if technology installed Research has estimated the health impacts from the coal-fired power plants that operate across India.
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