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'Economic injury': How the UK's electricity and transport networks could be racking up £264bn in hidden societal costs

Business Green

Exclusive: Researchers have sought to calculate the external environmental, social and health costs of from fossil fuels, renewables, road transport and aviation. The think tank also followed up that analysis yesterday with research drawing similar conclusions about gas power plans in Italy , the UK's co-hosts for COP26 later this year.

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Global Briefing: Australian Government agrees to cap greenhouse gas emissions

Business Green

Businesses leaders urge EU committees to champion Nature Restoration Law An alliance of 12 major business networks is this week urging key European Parliament committees to support and strengthen a proposed Nature Restoration Law, which if passed would set out legally binding goals for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity.

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The Sierra Club's Top 20 Cool Schools

Green Market Oracle

Cornell University Score 82.14 | Ithaca, New York In March 2020, Cornell saw 100 percent of its campus power needs met by solar, hydropower, and other renewable energy projects. The past year saw another solar installation and a new wind power project go online.

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Global Briefing: China hints at no new coal power plant permits 'in principle'

Business Green

Writing in a Twitter thread , NGO China Dialogue said the update from the agency also highlighted how it intended to provide "active support" for the further development of hydro, solar and wind power, and the development of transmission links between provinces. New UN-backed Nature for Health fund launched.

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Roaring Twenty-Twenties: Accelerating Energy Transition

Mr. Sustainability

For example, DSM, a Dutch multinational corporation active in the fields of health, nutrition and materials, is investing heavily in bio-based ethylene as a replacement for fossil products including plastics. Renewables include bio-energy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind power.

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