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Google Pledges 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy by 2030

GreenTechMedia

Google on Monday pledged that by 2030 it will run its entire business on carbon-free energy — every hour of every day of the year. West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. Europe and Chile.

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Tory London Mayor Candidate Backed Fracking and Promoted Climate Science Denial

DeSmogBlog

Four months later, during the COP27 climate summit, Frost joined the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s principal climate science denial group. The IPCC has said the role of human-caused emissions on climate change is “unequivocal”, and that human action can limit global warming.

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Report: Industrial giants guilty of 'slow progress' on climate action

Business Green

Analysis of the carbon performance of the 72 largest listed industrial companies, which include cement, steel, paper, and aluminium firms, reveals just 19 per cent are currently have strategies that are aligned with a 2C pathway. pledges having doubled since 2018. Most of this improvement came from China and Russia, the report noted.

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With 25% of Europe’s greenhouse emissions coming from buildings, scientists suggest fundamental policy changes

Envirotec Magazine

Renovating a building to reduce its energy consumption makes little sense if there is no control of the carbon-intensive materials and components used for the renovation, and if these are transported over long distances.”. As there are only about 10 years left before the door closes for limiting global warming to less than 1.5

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New ‘decade that matters’ report shows shifting attitudes about renewables and climate change

Renewable Energy World

Over the past ten years, vocabulary moved from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’ to ‘climate crisis.’. The report highlights how attitudes to the environment have shifted, how discourse was becoming more urgent and how Covid-19 has affected the global online climate conversation. On March 1, BayWa r.e.

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Intrepid Travel touts flight-free trips in science-based climate plan

Business Green

global warming goal, having already been ceritifed carbon neutral since 2018. Many of the firm's existing itineraries that rely on air travel are also set to be shifted to lower carbon alternatives, it said. To do this, the company said it would transition to 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2025.

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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.