The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Gansu Wind Complex, China The Gansu Wind Complex stands as a testament to China’s commitment to renewable energy and sustainable development. Unveiling the Giant: Gansu Wind Complex The Gansu Wind Complex is one of the world’s largest wind power installations, covering vast expanses of the Gansu Province in northwestern China.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 16, 2022

In our previous article, titled Scope 1 2 3 Emissions Explained: Understanding the GHG Protocol’s Emission Classification System , we defined scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions as follows: Scope 1 emissions are GHGs released directly from a business. What are business scope 2 emissions?

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2021

Data centre firm CyrusOne announces all its facilities are now running on a 100 per cent renewable energy tarrifs. Data centre firm REIT CyrusOne has announced that all its facilities in Europe are now running on 100 per cent renewable energy tariffs. A version of this article first appeared at BusinessGreen's sister site Computing.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 11, 2022

The 2001 GHG Protocol’s guidelines were the first to categorize business GHGs as scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions. The aim of this emission classification system was to help organizations measure and manage their carbon footprint. What is the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol? Patagonia scope 2 emissions.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 28, 2023

Decreased Renewables Cost: Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) to project sponsors is expected to decrease by 40-60%, which will likely result in cost reductions for commercial electricity users. Notes: PTC stands for Production Tax Credit. ITC stands for investment tax credit. Sources: Deloitte Analysis, H.R.5376

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

Ferrari and Enel X have announced a partnership for a unique off-grid energy production system, built specifically to charge Ferrari hybrid and fully electric models with solar energy. How to improve ROI for commercial PV solar systems Wärtsilä to deliver five solar + storage projects in the US.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The battery maker has developed a full-scale greenfield manufacturing business in less than five years of operations. One component of the green steel business case is access to Sweden’s ample renewable energy resources. Costs and carbon. That involves a mixture of biomass and carbon-capture approaches.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

Industry Voice: The buildings in which we live and the energy they consume play a fundamental role in the process of decarbonisation, according to Schroders. From the use of renewables such as solar power to the latest technologies, including heat pumps and smart meters, the homes of the coming decades will need to become net zero.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions against Russia have highlighted Europe’s vulnerability when it comes to energy security. TES is a green hydrogen company that will accelerate the energy transition through its ambitious plans to develop a green hydrogen hub at Wilhelmshaven in Northern Germany.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

General contracting businesses that are eco-friendly and practice sustainability are realizing real benefits including new customers and sales growth. . Attracting new customers has become more complicated since consumers often consider how eco-friendly and green a business is before making a purchase decision. Recycled Steel.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

General contracting businesses that are eco-friendly and practice sustainability are realizing real benefits including new customers including sales growth. . Attracting new customers has become more complicated since consumers often consider how eco-friendly and green a business is before making a purchase decision. Recycled Steel.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . South, where companies find ample forests, lax business regulations, and ports along the Atlantic coast. South to burn them overseas in its power plants.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Policymakers met with fossil fuel and biomass producers nine times as often as with their renewable energy counterparts, DeSmog can reveal, raising fresh concerns over the depth of the government’s commitments to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Our record on renewable energy speaks for itself,” they said. “In

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis?

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. Hopes that energy-related emissions could peak in the next few years feel more fragile than ever.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Latest batch of carbon analysis from electronics giant reveals how clean technologies can help slash emissions from transportation and distribution. The German-headquartered company first started collecting carbon data in 2020, and as such the data unveiled yesterday provides the first year-on-year comparison of its climate impact.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Tech giant announces raft of fresh sustainability measures and investments to address emissions across its global business. Could Apple - one of the world's largest, most successful, and most visible companies - really become a fully net zero business by the end of the decade?

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 14, 2019

It cuts the buildings carbon footprint in half compared to comparable traditional arenas and it also uses half the energy. The 76,000 square-foot highly efficient arena is lit by natural light and LED lighting and a 504-kilowatt rooftop solar array generate 40 percent of the building’s electricity needs.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 13, 2021

Meaningful progress on climate change in this decade will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land use. It has sensitive ecological and climatic systems and we have to monitor those systems.” . “We

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Zambia hopes to triple its current output by 2030, which would require 3m tons of copper production per year. Mineral ambitions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The energy industry's interest in low carbon hydrogen is building fast, and the nuclear industry reckons it could yet have a crucial role to play. There may be on-going debates about how best to use hydrogen - should it be deployed to heat buildings, provide energy storage, decarbonise heavy industry, or fuel trains and planes?

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Cleantech East

MAY 12, 2020

The Broads Authority currently has a decarbonisation plan in place to reduce the emissions of the region to carbon neutral status by 2030, and net carbon zero by 2040. Electrification is the process of reducing carbon-based energy sources across a region through the increased use of electricity over fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

These water “batteries” could form the basis of a smart water grid, improving the resilience of the water supply in the wake of climate change – in the same way solar batteries in homes store excess electricity that can be sold back to the National Grid. A full list of the winners is included below.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Drought conditions are causing saltwater to creep into the drinking water of communities along the Mississippi River, and the DOE puts $325M toward long-duration energy storage projects. Corporate carbon footprint tracking collects $27M, and forestry and battery interests intersect to invest $18M toward bio-graphite for lithium-ion cells.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Despite numerous governments setting targets to reach net zero carbon emissions, the world is not on track to contain rising temperatures. Investing in decarbonisation could mean selecting only those companies who are directly enabling the energy transition through their products, such as wind turbine or solar panel manufacturers.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Climate Corps alumni are energy and sustainability leaders of today who are working around the world to tackle some of our most challenging environmental issues. an accomplished business leader and long-time supporter of Climate Corps. The William K. See below for current and past winners. Environmental Justice Award.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The agency said the strategy represened an unprecedented effort to drastically slash pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy. "No No economy in the world, much less the soon-to-be fourth largest, has put forth such a comprehensive roadmap to reach carbon neutrality.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Sweden’s Pledge to be Carbon-Neutral Despite uncertainties in global leadership, Sweden promised to honour the Paris Agreement made by the United Nations and cut all its greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. Around 70% of these should already be gone by the year 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

While an audible sucking-in-of-breath might have seemed in evidence with energy experts appraisal of the technical challenges of speeding-up the transition to electric vehicles, other observers waxed lugubriously about a lack of ambition in the plan. Electric avenue. Making EVs more affordable was seen as still a major hurdle.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Reaching Net Zero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson. As such, it has an ethical imperative to adopt practices that lead to carbon neutrality. Raw materials.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

that focus on some of the more visible, day-to-day sustainability and environmental problems like waste, pollution and carbon emissions. Understanding which sustainability regulations apply to and influence your business is part of the responsibility that comes with being a green business. Sustainability Regulations Taking Hold.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

Mobilising billions of dollars of low carbon investment is a huge challenge, but it is also a massive opportunity for those financiers willing to innovate in pursuit of net zero emissions. Chief among them is the huge investment gap that must still be bridged before the destination of carbon neutrality can be reached.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

So says a new report from Deloitte highlighting the known, yet often underappreciated, challenges faced by utilities across the country promising to zero out their carbon impact by midcentury. That’s not news to those who’ve been closely tracking plans to reach net-zero carbon from major U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Arguing that "the time is now" for the UK to be a global climate leader, it calls for immediate policy action to ensure that by 2030 all homes are highly energy efficient, petrol and diesel car sales are phased out, wind and solar generation triples, and 10 million heat pumps are installed in homes.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2020

Hitachi Capital is scaling up its financial support for a network of electric vehicle superchargers in the U.K. Gridserve’s model is to develop subsidy-free solar-plus-storage plants alongside a network of EV infrastructure. The first such solar site was connected to the grid in December last year: a 34.7-megawatt

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Would Rishi Sunak deliver the sweeping net zero financial plan and green stimulus measures that businesses, campaigners, economists, and scientists broadly agree are urgently needed to meet statutory climate goals? Ahead of yesterday's Budget, anticipation was high.

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