Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Greenhouse gas emissions from heating and cooling buildings continue to rise in Connecticut despite the state’s efforts to improve energy efficiency. Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If from 2017. “New

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 5, 2021

The 2050 goal itself had already been adopted by the secretary of energy and environmental affairs under preexisting law. Without attempting to comprehensively summarize the act (or even just its energy law components), here are some of the provisions that are likely to push energy policy in Massachusetts towards a carbon-free future.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Both systems can be used in reverse to cool the home in warm weather. And since heat pumps can also be used for cooling, homeowners don’t have to worry about installing a separate cooling system. Massachusetts law requires the state to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. It’s ‘going to fit in somewhere’.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

They began by summing all the emissions released at power plants to keep buildings cool and electricity flowing to wall outlets. He wrote the Passive Solar Energy Book in 1979, and now leads Architecture 2030 , a non-profit that aims to remake the built environment into a climate solution. Increasingly, this may be the law.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Seven states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, have passed 100 percent clean energy transition laws. All 100 percent state laws, and some city and county policies, also include interim targets to keep clean energy deployment on track. The binding nature of these targets is also noteworthy.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

To date, BlocPower and its contractor partners - which include Augmented Construction , Urban Energy , VRF Solutions , Super Cool HVAC and Ch! Even more important to BlocPower - which specialises in clean energy retrofits - is Local Law 97. I thought he was a pretty cool dude," Kinch says. "I

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In practice, this could look like homes pre-heating or -cooling when their solar system is producing, to save money in evening hours when the prices go up. "It That law created objective standards to measure things like cost of service to solar customers, long run costs of net-metering and the economic benefits of a homegrown solar industry.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Those markets can be either regulated (reflecting laws requiring companies to secure credits in proportion to their emissions) or voluntary (where buyers choose to acquire credits generated by carbon-reducing activities). Indirect emissions from purchased or acquired electricity, steam, heat and cooling. Carbon sequestration.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

By 2030, that production is expected to top 1,000GWh , growing by nearly a factor of 20. Billions of dollars in incentives such as the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law have spurred the creation of a so-called Battery Belt across the southeastern US, all fuel to fire an anticipated spike in electric vehicle demand.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

A critical services facility, such as police and fire stations, emergency responders, health care facilities, cooling centers, and others providing critical functions. The California Energy Commission also is developing a plan to reduce GHG emissions from buildings 40 percent by 2030, as mandated by Assembly Bill 3232.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

However, the European Commission has estimated that achieving the current 2030 climate and energy targets will require €260bn of additional annual investment, equal to about 1.5 Worldwide, the OECD estimates that $6.9trn a year is required up to 2030 to meet climate and development objectives. per cent of 2018 GDP. Taking action.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. These findings demand regulatory action under federal environmental laws including the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, because these activities are concentrated in an area with high numbers of imperiled species,” the study states.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. and globally by 2040. Patrick Collison, CEO and co-founder, Stripe; San Francisco.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

Today, the thinking goes, it’s a research balloon with an instrument-laden gondola; tomorrow, it’s a dystopian fleet of government aircraft, spraying cooling particles into the air. Is that the kind of solar geoengineering you want to possibly be contending with in 2030, 2040, 2050?” she said. “I

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Radhika also manages a global coalition of over 30 leading organizations to spur innovation in the air conditioning industry through the Global Cooling Prize. As a leader on Austin’s 2020 Climate Equity Plan, Phoebe supports a community led process to achieve their overall goal to lower greenhouse gas emissions by 52% by 2030.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” Legislation also passed that phases out Hydrofluorocarbons (HB 1112) a potent greenhouse gas used in refrigeration and cooling products.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The current 50,000 or so stations are to be expanded to 10 times that by 2030. Electric heat pumps can replace furnaces and, despite their name, they can actually heat and cool. Seattle this year passed a law to phase out natural gas in new commercial establishments and large apartment buildings. That’s begun in Cascadia.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

of New York City’s 1 billion buildings – this is despite the significant benefits the technology brings (urban cooling, flood defense, and biodiversity support). The paper reported green roofs cover less than 0.1% The city’s progressive adoption of renewable energy technology contributes to this achievement.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As part of the recently-adopted Environment Act, the government is seeking to make it illegal for larger UK companies to use, buy or import certain forest-risk commodities that have not been produced in line with relevant local laws around the world. °C," she said.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Enshrining goal to plant 30,000 trees each year by 2025 in law could help catalyse wider action on woodland, petition argues. That's why we've launched a petition to call on the UK government to set a tree planting target in law, and act now to deliver on the urgent need to tackle the climate crisis.".

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MAY 14, 2021

The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019 (CLCPA) requires New York to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and 85 percent by 2050. The CLCPA also mandates 185 Trillion BTUs in end-use savings in the building and industrial sector by 2025.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MAY 14, 2021

The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019 (CLCPA) requires New York to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and 85 percent by 2050. The CLCPA also mandates 185 Trillion BTUs in end-use savings in the building and industrial sector by 2025.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2022

It is aiming to have a 'net zero carbon' portfolio by 2030 and plans to get there by reducing the environmental impact of its development activity while curbing the operational emissions produced by the buildings it owns and operates across Europe.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2021

Earlier this week New Zealand became the first country in the world to bring in a law forcing its financial firms to report on the effects of climate change on their business, while the UK is also set to phase in similar rules over the next two years. Report: China must shut 364GW of coal by 2030 to reach net zero.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The new climate bill - which passed with support from Green and crossbench senators - introduces a new near term target to cut emissions by at least 43 per cent by 2030 against 2005 levels, in addition to a long term goal to deliver net zero emissions by 2050. US climate tech firm CarbonCapture Inc.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

While that’s less than the $85 credit the law creates for permanently storing each tonne of CO2, it offers a company like Exxon an avenue to utilize IRA incentives. In the News The EU narrowly passed a nature recovery law. The policy means ~20% of land and sea in the region will need to have recovery measures in place by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The infrastructure bill signed into law by President Biden in November includes $9.5 Electrification and batteries are likely the best decarbonization solution for light vehicle transportation, building heating and cooling, and many other applications. fracked gas industry under the guise of “clean” blue hydrogen.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

By focusing on the development and deployment of enhanced water recycling and air-cooling technologies, SAVE Farming aims to dramatically improve the energy performance of vertical farms, especially in challenging climates in countries such as Singapore. White House unveils $3.7bn carbon removal plan.

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Clean Energy Trust

MAY 7, 2021

The legislatures there recently passed a bill, which would put a cap on carbon emissions, ratcheting down over time to reduce emissions 95% by 2050 (the state had already previously committed to a zero-emissions power sector by 2030 and to eventually electrify buildings). Of note, this bill includes an escalating price on carbon?—?a

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It would take some $277B each year to meet Africa’s 2030 climate goals , according to The Climate Policy Initiative, but annual climate finance to the continent today totals just $30B. The deficit in climate funding is made worse by rising interest rates, which make it even more expensive for poorer countries to borrow money.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. and globally by 2040. million acres the 4.4 million acres it protects in the Amazon.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Sometimes I use the comparison to Moore’s law,” said O’Shea. There are technical hurdles, cooling being the primary one, whether or not a human is going to actually operate that, or it’s going to be automated, for the actual connection, there are things to work out, but it is happening. “You It’s not the future anymore.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Tall buildings also rely on fans to push and pull air through heating, cooling and ventilation systems, and pumps to lift water hundreds of feet up. Beyond their dispersed heating and cooling infrastructure, they’re exposed to the weather on all sides, whereas 4-story courtyard apartment units share one to two walls each.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

It is an argument based on existing convention or belief, but not grounded in- or prohibited by the laws of physics. The timeline to achieve a zero emission vessel is, unless stated otherwise, 2025 to 2030 at the earliest. All the fuel pumps, heating and cooling systems, fuel treatment systems and more: these would not be needed.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

In the spring of 2023, Safe & Healthy Colorado, a coalition of state environmental groups, launched a statewide ballot initiative to phase out new oil and gas permits by 2030. Representatives from West Group, a law and policy firm, proposed the first of these “energy choice” ballot measures in August.

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