Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Ahead of world leaders gathering in Egypt for the COP27 climate summit in November, here is an A-Z of common terms: 1.5°C. This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 19, 2021

Local community solar projects enhanced by one-stop shop digital systems are set to play a crucial role in the global energy transition. The History of Civilization is in many ways the History of Energy. The control of energy has been a key – some say the key – factor in geopolitics and capitalism.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Changes in people’s buying habits need to be consistent to speed up the green transition, say experts. . Putting people at the centre.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2022

Realtors® and Home Buyers Going Green. With continued advances in energy efficiency, green technology and design, houses built today operate more sustainably than they did several decades ago. There is also a growing number of homebuyers desiring green homes. Why Green Homes Should Matter to Homebuyers and You.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

You’ll also learn about key technology areas that are driving momentum to equitably tackle the climate crisis, and explore the plentiful opportunities for everyone to be a part of the energy transition that’s already unfolding. Northeast Clean Energy Council President Peter Rothstein. Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

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Living Green Technology

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Image via Pexels According to the Climate.gov , 2015 through 2018 were the four warmest years on record—a major indicator that our planet’s average surface temperature is increasing with each passing year. With a Nest thermostat, for instance, you can save as much as $145 per year on the cost of heating and cooling your home.

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

With the UK lagging behind on meeting its emissions reductions targets, according to the latest estimates from the Climate Change Committee , it is more important than ever that the government swings into action and makes the case for broad-based, credible environmental tax reform.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Dr Azad Camyab, founder and CEO of the London-based company Pearlstone Energy, talks about the challenges and opportunities of virtual power plants (VPPs) in the burgeoning UK market with Smart Energy International. The cleanest and greenest energy is the energy not used!”. Have you read?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It comes less than two months to go until the crucial COP26 climate change summit in November, ahead of which countries are expected to come forward with enhanced emissions reduction plans, and Climate TRACE said it hoped the data released today could help inform world leaders' negotiations in Glasgow.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A report published this morning by the Public Accounts Committee highlights how the combination of increased housing development on flood plains, poor flood defences, unaffordable flood insurance, and the growing number of flooding events present major risks to the UK's homes, businesses, infrastructure, food supplies, and ecosystems.

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Charged

AUGUST 26, 2020

That makes electric cars a problem: they take time to explain to shoppers. Now, we have proof that educating both salespeople and shoppers about electric-car charging actually boosts sales of EVs. Electric utilities came to appreciate the idea at varying paces, as utilities don’t historically have to do much marketing to consumers.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

“There’s a void underneath the houses that is filled with water — like a complete lake over there,” said Howard Brunet on August 24, just before his uncle Chris Brunet was about to sign the final paperwork on a new home. Chris Brunet, with his niece Juliette and nephew Howard at the closing of his new home on August 24.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

Major poll of 30,000 people suggests Europeans are concerned about climate change and want ambitious action to tackle it, but lack confidence the issue will be resolved by mid-century. At the same time, they are concerned about the long-term consequences of climate change for them individually and for society as a whole.".

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. In short, forests are vital in global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, and eradicate hunger and poverty. Around the world, 1.6

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

The contrast and volatility in weather patterns, which bears many of the hallmarks of climate change, has astounded scientists. Recent analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) found that, if lockdown measures extended into the winter months in the UK, it could exacerbate already rife fuel poverty.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

Natural gas has been touted as a green energy source by some because, when burned for fuel, it emits less CO2 than coal. McKain was not involved in the study, but published a much-cited 2015 paper on methane emissions. That’s especially bad news, since methane is roughly 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2. McKain explained.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Now, a new peer-reviewed study , published in the journal PLOS ONE , highlights how one particular form of fossil fuel extraction has pummeled the Appalachian region’s rivers and streams, including the Elk River – waters that the diamond darter and dozens of other endangered species call home. Mountaintop removal is a form of strip mining.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The site is home to the world’s largest ethane steam cracker plant, which will feed the production of nurdles – tiny pellets that form the building blocks for plastic products. The chances of this happening are low but could increase due to climate change. Garcia, in Taft at his home that has a view of the Exxon-SABIC plant.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

And it has been at pains to insist that the move away from polluting energy, products, and services towards cleaner alternatives will avoid the mass unemployment prompted by poorly managed industrial transitions of the recent past. But the LCREE survey provides a somewhat patchy snapshot of green jobs in the UK. It is a challenging balance."

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Grist

APRIL 13, 2022

Now, it serves a dual purpose, carrying scientists and volunteers on weekends and in off-hours to monitor the coral they’re working to save. A 2018 report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that up to 90 percent of coral reefs could be lost if the world warms by 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Most often, climate change is associated with a decrease in groundwater, fueled by worsening drought and evaporative demand. In the San Francisco Bay Area, rising groundwater threatens to spread contamination that can evaporate and rise into the air inside homes, schools, and workplaces.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

However, you can't call a product 'compostable' if someone can't compost it safely and in a 'timely' fashion at home. Made with renewable energy. A company that uses fossil fuel-based energy shouldn't make this claim unless it buys renewable energy credits (RECs), the FTC says. Then it may belong in a compost bin.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The three-part assessment will be the most vital and comprehensive reference yet for informing international negotiations to curb catastrophic human-caused climate change.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. And it is damning.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Despite substantial progress in the power sector, it is a long way off being on track for net zero and the government lacks a credible plan. If you ask energy and climate experts for a UK success story, they tend to give you a remarkably consistent response: offshore wind. What explains this success?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The project’s supporters assert diverting the river to its historic path and unleashing the power of nature will result in the creation of 21 square miles of new submerged land in the basin’s wetlands over the next 50 years. And HDR has done extensive work on the project for the CPRA and is also a client of Emergent Method.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

Regain your power, and use this article alongside the ISO 14000 family of standards to approach sustainability with an actionable manual to get things done. To name a few, the most common standards are: ISO 9001:2015 – Used for general organizational Quality Management Systems (QMS).

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

While advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) technology had been fully deployed in the power and gas industries, water was just beginning to look into its adoption. In 2010, the EPA launched a comprehensive health review of chromium-6 and from 2013 to 2015, the Agency required larger water utilities in the US to test for chromium-6.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Progress on protecting life on land has been agonisingly slow, as deforestation and habitat loss has accelerated, but hopes remain that a step change in global land management can yet be engineered. And then there are the big picture climate threats that poorly managed land can rapidly amplify. To take just one example, an estimated 1.6

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

The state leads the country by housing about half of the nation’s total installed solar capacity, according to the latest data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Del Chiaro is also looking to hire its fifth staff member early this year, and expects CALSEIA’s 2015 budget to reach about $850,000. solar industry.

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Grist

MAY 11, 2022

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the rolling hills around San Diego and its suburbs, the rumble of bulldozers and the whine of power saws fill the air as a slew of new homes and apartments rise up. Today that number is 10 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This story originally appeared in Grist & The Texas Observer and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This story originally appeared in Grist & The Texas Observer and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

The wastewater well sits on land that’s owned by ExxonMobil, was drilled by ConocoPhillips, and eventually wound up run by a tiny start-up called Black Elk Energy that specialized in wringing out the last dregs of oil from aging wells. Unplugged oil and gas wells have contaminated groundwater and been responsible for deadly home explosions.

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