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The IPCC Synthesis Report: Ten key takeaways for business

Business Green

The technologies and solutions required to combat the climate crisis are ready, available and increasingly affordable, the report notes, highlighting the drastic cost reductions seen in solar, wind, and lithium-ion battery production over the last decade or so. or the more dangerous 2C, the IPCC warned.

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I Converted a Home Fully to Electricity. Here’s How It Worked — and What It Cost

GreenTechMedia

In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets. Fortunately, with current solar, battery and heat pump technology every building with a sunny roof under two stories can be a net generator of energy — essentially carbon negative.

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Climate change is an infrastructure problem – map of electric vehicle chargers shows one reason why

Renewable Energy World

The greenhouse gas emissions those fossil fuels release when burned have raised global temperature by about 1.1°C The new assessment, like its predecessor Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C C (2°F), with serious consequences for human lives and livelihoods, as the recent report from the U.N. Edwards , William J.