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Seeking clarity

Envirotec Magazine

sources include vehicle emissions, coal-burning power plants, industrial emissions, and burning agricultural waste. One clear finding from this year’s report is that its impact on health disproportionately affects poorer regions, with exposure levels particularly high in cities in parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

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New Plans Reveal How China’s Grid Is Prepping for Net-Zero Carbon

GreenTechMedia

As of 2020, it was responsible for the transmission of that 450 GW of installed wind and solar power. GW in 2012 to 130 GW in 2017, according to data from the Asia Europe Clean Energy Advisory. Building a grid and power market fit for net-zero carbon. Now it’s happening again. The coal question.

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Double Jobs Blow as Vestas and Siemens Gamesa Plan European Cuts

GreenTechMedia

As existing production capacity in Europe becomes outdated and demand in the region slackens off, there could be more redundancies ahead, said Shashi Barla, Wood Mackenzie’s principal analyst for global wind supply chain and technology. ” Vestas' EnVentus turbines will come equipped with blades as long as 162 meters.

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Will sweat help us survive climate change?

Grist

If a widespread power outage hit Phoenix during a heat wave and lasted for days, it could kill thousands and send half the city to the emergency room, according to a recent study. In 2017, Mora and colleagues found that 30 percent of the world’s population was already exposed to potentially deadly heat for 20 days or more each year.

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BNP Paribas sets out rules for coal financing phase out

Business Green

Companies planning to build new coal-fired power plants will no longer be able to get financing from BNP Paribas, following the banking giant's introduction of a string of new policies aimed at eliminating its exposure to coal-fired electricity projects. BNP Paribas granted €185m to Germany's RWE, €150m to Czechia's ?EZ,

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LNG Projects Make Claims of ‘Net-Zero’ to Ease Way for Expansion

DeSmogBlog

Gulf Coast typically receives much of the attention for the LNG rush , the Pacific Coast of Canada is home to multiple proposed LNG export projects, as energy companies scramble to export fracked gas from northeast British Columbia. Thames is a former executive at Cheniere Energy, a prominent U.S. Credit: Rich Duncan. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

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One small steak for man, one giant leap for space-grown meat!

AFN Sustainable Protein

The revived interest of space activity is taking hold among new space powers like India, along with seasoned space racers like the US, China or Russia; private ventures like Space X are also getting in on the act. Cargill was joined by another new investor M-Industry, the industrial group of Swiss retailer Migros.