Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Joe Biden in the White House, and potentially Democrats in control of the Senate too, could turbo-charge climate change as an investment theme, argues Schroders' Simon Webber. Myriad other issues also compete for voters' attention, and climate change often takes lower billing on the US political agenda than it does in Europe.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. It is a complicated place.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

I first started working on climate change in the 1990s, advising President Clinton as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the run-up to the 1997 Kyoto Conference of Parties. We understood that the potential cost of climate change was significant. . Yellen’s to the Institute of International Finance.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The group said that current growth rates of wind energy installations are falling behind net-zero goals -- a pace that puts the world on track for 43% of the wind required by 2050, based on projections by the International Energy Agency and the International Renewable Energy Agency.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Her top team looks likely to include MPs with an extensive record of downplaying the need for urgent climate action, according to reports. It comes as the latest polling by Ipsos showed that 84 percent of the British public were greatly concerned about climate change, with more than half “very concerned”. Medieval’ Wind Power.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

McKinsey estimates that global power consumption will triple by 2050. With the impact of climate change adding urgency to reducing energy use and energy waste, the energy industry is accelerating innovation to drive impact and outcomes at scale.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2023

The attractiveness of new hydropower is decreasing fast, both due to the increasing economic competitiveness of solar panels and to the increasingly uncertain effects of climate change on river flows. This is another reason why solar power will emerge as the more attractive technology in the long term,” says Dr.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

Global climate goals at risk without more ambitious support for wind power from G20 countries, CEOs warn. global warming pathway", and current growth forecasts for wind power installations are far below what is needed for a 1.5C At present, however "the world is spinning towards a 2.4C

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Defend Our Future

MAY 28, 2019

Climate change threatens our economy, our health and our children’s future. We need to stop adding climate pollution to the atmosphere by 2050 — producing no more than we can remove. The Dangers of Climate Change. Wind power is almost 70% cheaper.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The source for author Jordan Peterson’s recent claim that climate change cannot be modelled was a climate science denier who received money from a libertarian think tank funded by oil companies. Peterson responded to the criticism on Thursday in tweets to his 2.2

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

DNV’s fifth annual Energy Transition Outlook comes two months before COP26 , the climate summit of world leaders, in Glasgow. At COP21, world leaders agreed to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 in pursuit of capping global warming to 1.5°C Wind will provide 33% of the world’s electricity output by 2050, the report forecasts.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The report lays out five alternative pathways to reaching its targets, ranging from those that rely on a complete shift to renewable energy and electrifying transport and buildings, to those that rely more on nuclear power, carbon capture and storage or biomass to decarbonize. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May said the UK has “confounded the pessimists” by taking action on climate change while growing the economy. The cost of wind power and solar power has plummeted over the past decade whilst creating thousands of jobs.”. Theresa May’s own record on climate change has not gone uncriticised, however. .

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The International Energy Agency called for "unmistakable" action by world leaders to reduce emissions ahead of the COP26 Climate Change Conference , warning that the global transition to renewable energy isn't happening quickly enough to meet net-zero goals. Follow @EngelsAngle. C in the "Announced Pledges Scenario.".

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

The news came as the government also confirmed a suite of new innovation funding competitions backed by a combined £92m of investment to support energy storage, floating offshore wind power, and sustainable biomass production projects, as trailed by in last week's Budget announcement.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The Biden Administration said has set a goal is to deliver 40% of clean energy investments to disadvantaged communities experiencing what it said are the most severe impacts of climate change. Funding comes from the $1 trillion infrastructure plan passed by both Houses of Congress and signed into law by President Biden in November.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Vano , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. Southeast in 2050.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in sustainable agriculture as the world confronts the challenges of climate change and dwindling resources. It can also help to mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. by the year 2050. Solar-powered irrigation in India.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

With the United Nations climate change conference - COP26 - postponed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK government now has a unique opportunity to take action and lead the world in its response to climate change through this period. The public wants climate action.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

The bill contains hundreds of millions of dollars in funding over the coming years to boost research and development for solar and wind power, energy storage, smart grid, electric vehicles, and other key clean energy technologies. trillion spending bill passed by Congress in December.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

Now, more than ever, we feel the urge for humanity to address a future inevitable crisis, one poised to be bigger and even longer-lasting than the current crisis we are facing - climate change. If the current warming trend is not reversed, about 150 million people will be living below sea level by 2050. Sea levels are rising.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

On Tuesday, the United States government published the Fifth National Climate Assessment — an exhaustive summary of the leading research on climate change and how it affects life in every part of the country. Still, emissions must decrease far more rapidly than that by 2050 to keep us in line with international climate goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. Launched in March this year, the drive to decarbonise industry forms a major part of the UK’s journey to 2050 net zero.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

ClientEarth and Planning Inspectorate had both argued the power station could undermine the UK's climate change targets. Drax also argued the project would play a vital role in the UK's energy system and support climate change targets.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Feb 2, 2023 OTTAWA — In Alberta and Ontario, wind can now produce electricity at lower costs than natural-gas-fired power—with even more reductions on the horizon, according to a new report from Clean Energy Canada, which was informed by research commissioned from Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Carbon Tracker study finds solar and wind energy potential is 100 times as much as global energy demand. per cent of wind potential tapped thus far. As such, the analysts predict exponential growth for the solar and wind power sectors, noting that "humans specialise in extracting cheap energy, and fast".

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2021

The four year programme is set to fund leading edge research into how offshore wind farms affect the marine environment alongside other growing pressures on UK ecosystems including climate change and human activities such as fishing.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Canada’s hydropower-rich grid is 84% non-emitting with variable renewables (essentially wind and solar) currently making up 7% of the country’s total electricity generation. However, the Canada Energy Regulator projects that this would rise to between 33% and 37% of electricity generation in 2050 in a net-zero 2050.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including India wind power targets, China EV sales, and calls for a net zero referendum in Switzerland. EU wind installations up by a third in 2022. India targets 8GW of new wind power each year by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 7, 2021

To address the enormous challenges of climate change, we need a vast increase in renewable energy sources, including wind and solar. energy demand in 2050. Globally, we have enough degraded lands to meet the Paris climate goals 17 times over ( Baruch-Mordo 2019 ).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The Charter, which was drawn up after a consultation open to all of our members across the renewable energy sector, states: "we know that this decade will be the most important in the fight against climate change. It also stresses that they believe the UK can deliver on its net zero emissions by 2050 target ahead of schedule.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Al-Sabah’s comment contrasts with an estimate of one billion deaths caused by climate change if warming reaches or exceeds two degrees Celsius this century. The argument that people will die if oil and gas production isn’t maintained, or if decarbonization happens too fast, was reiterated at other panels throughout the day.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Scottish Widows has today published a wide-ranging Climate Action Plan, designed to put the pensions giant on track to deliver a net zero emissions portfolio by 2050. It also said it has divested nearly £1.4bn from companies that have not met their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Energy and Clean Growth Minister Kwasi Kwarteng said he was "thrilled to see so many green jobs on the way to the North East of England thanks to our world leading offshore wind industry". I look forward to watching its progress in the months and years ahead.".

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 23, 2021

Public support for clean energy is growing at a pace of knots and most governments now also view climate change as a non-negotiable priority to tackle. The task-force’s main observation is that “green jobs and skills should not be considered as niche or restricted to certain sectors of the economy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This is an important part of our world-leading efforts in eliminating our contribution to climate change by 2050 while also growing our economy, creating up to two million green collar jobs across the country by 2030.". BEIS said the winning projects in the competition could potentially help cut home energy bills in half.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

PM touts 'green industrial revolution' as fix for climate and Covid crises as he urges countries to step up climate efforts. We are going to be putting a big bet on wind power - we want to be the Saudi Arabia of wind. The world was caught napping by coronavirus," said Johnson.

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