Vattenfall - Wind power and biodiversity come together at Hollandse Kust West offshore wind farm
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JULY 13, 2022
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How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change
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JULY 20, 2020
Clean ocean energy: catalyzing large-scale deployment of offshore wind power; ensuring the protection of critical offshore habitats; creating robust programs to assess additional renewable ocean energy systems such as wave, current, tidal and thermal. Aquaculture, sustainable fisheries and marine biodiversity conservation: helping U.S.
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Tracking Climate Action: How the World Can Still Limit Warming to 1.5 Degrees C
The City Fix
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. Taken together, such stories.
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The road to a sustainable economy
The Environmental Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Solar, geothermal and wind power, all offer a cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels. Techniques, such as organic farming and biodiversity can make all the difference. Through investment, countries can help support renewable energy, reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.
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Green Hydrogen Production Diverse Impact on Energy, Industry and Marine Life
Hydrogen Fuel News
JANUARY 14, 2024
The latter has the potential to rejuvenate oxygen-deprived ‘dead zones’ in our oceans, thereby fostering biodiversity and ecological balance. How Green Hydrogen Could Revitalize the Gulf Harnessing the power of green hydrogen could offer a potential solution for the oxygen depletion in the Gulf of St.
Renewables Not a Threat to Agriculture, Alberta Utilities Commission Finds
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 19, 2024
“The large 35-km buffer that has been proposed (around wind power projects) severely limits wind development, and the uncertainty around other regulations, including the still undefined ‘pristine landscapes,’ is likely to perpetuate the uncertainty about the future of renewable energy in Alberta started by the moratorium.”
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How Modern Poultry Farming Practices Contribute to a Sustainable Environment
The Environmental Blog
AUGUST 24, 2023
The most common renewable energy sources used in poultry farming are solar and wind power. Solar panels can be installed on the roofs of poultry houses to generate electricity, while wind turbines can be placed on farms to generate electricity. Poultry farms are also using renewable energy. Promotion of sustainable agriculture.
GWEC and UN Global Compact launch global roadmap for offshore wind
Renewable Energy World
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
reach 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030? GWEC and the UN Global Compact say the roadmap will help reduce the pressure and degradation of the ecosystem and biodiversity in the marine sector. It is essential that mitigation measures like offshore wind do not in turn damage biodiversity. “A
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Ocergy’s offshore floating wind solutions attract Series A equity funding
Renewable Energy World
APRIL 15, 2021
Ocergy’s low-cost floating offshore wind turbine foundation has the potential to meet local supply chain and industrialization requirements with clear value, and the OCG-Data buoy technology enables integrated environmental data gathering and support for biodiversity, the statement added.
Industry Insight on Egypt – Emerging Power in Green Hydrogen
Hydrogen Fuel News
MARCH 6, 2024
High Solar and Wind Potential A significant factor in the production of green hydrogen is the availability of renewable energy sources like solar and wind power. Egypt is favored with high solar irradiance and strong, consistent wind speeds, particularly in areas like the Gulf of Suez.
Shell snaps up majority stake in floating wind project off Irish coast
Business Green
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
The second phase would see the installation of a further 700MW-900MW capacity of floating offshore wind power. Future studies could also focus on increasing the role of marine robotics in collecting data before and after the construction of floating offshore wind farms at remote sites, the companies said.
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Subsidies to biomass plant in Teesside must be stopped says environmental coalition
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 10, 2021
In the seven years since the subsidy agreement was made, scientists have warned that the large-scale burning of forest biomass for electricity is undermining both climate goals and the world’s biodiversity. If it begins operating, MGT Teesside will import wood pellets from the Southeastern United States.
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Research: $1.3tr global circular economy investment 'far below' what is needed
Business Green
JULY 18, 2021
But the report argues that, as well as being crucial to combatting environmental crises such as climate change and biodiversity loss, circular economy initiatives can offer major benefits in helping to tackle poverty, build more resilient economies, and boost the bottom line for companies. per cent of the sector's $8tr economy.
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Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Green Market Oracle
OCTOBER 8, 2019
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) released a study the shows the cost of onshore wind power generation has dropped 23 percent since 2010, while solar electricity saw a decrease of 73 percent. While the real costs of fossil fuels are increasing the costs of renewables are declining.
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Writing the next chapters in offshore wind innovation
Business Green
OCTOBER 18, 2020
The delicate surface is recorded in minute detail and the data is fed into sophisticated algorithms, telling the maintenance engineers where to focus their efforts in keeping these blades spinning, ten revolutions per minute, day and night for decades to come, producing carbon-free power.
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Carbon negative: Brewdog makes it a double (offset)
Business Green
AUGUST 24, 2020
The report also highlights the company's new 24 month plan to slash its carbon footprint and become a zero waste organisation through its sourcing of 100 per cent wind power, the production of biomethane using by-products from its breweries, and plans to install carbon capture technologies and switch to a 100 per cent electric fleet.
'Leading edge research': Crown Estate launches new push to assess environmental impact of offshore wind farms
Business Green
AUGUST 23, 2021
Critics argue that large offshore wind turbines pose a threat to seabirds and marine mammals, while some experts counter that the the way in which offshore wind farms create artifical reefs and de facto no fishing zones can actually serve to enhance marine biodiversity.
UK Ministers Met 1-on-1 with Fossil Fuel and Biomass Producers Nine Times as Often as Renewables Since Kwasi Kwarteng Took Energy Portfolio
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
In recent months alone, we’ve secured record investment in wind power, published a world-leading Hydrogen strategy, launched a new UK Emissions Trading Scheme, committed to end coal power by 2024, pledged £1bn in funding to support the development of carbon capture and invested £2bn to support the decarbonisation of transport.”.
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Green Campus Initiatives: A Path to Sustainable Higher Education
Hydrogen Fuel News
OCTOBER 17, 2023
It can be achieved through various means, such as using energy-efficient appliances and lighting systems, improving building insulation, and harnessing renewable energy sources like solar or wind power. They help reduce waste generation, decrease carbon emissions, conserve water, and promote biodiversity.
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Wind farm pioneers system to protect birds in South Africa
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 30, 2021
The eight biodiversity monitors, who are predominately female, have been recruited from the surrounding communities. Additionally, the program provides local job creation.
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Europe’s offshore network development plans set out
Smart Energy International
JANUARY 24, 2024
Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed The plan also reviews environmental protection issues and recommends that the development of the offshore network infrastructure should happen in synergy with the protection of the maritime environments in order to achieve a sustainable energy system coexisting with biodiversity.
'Economic injury': How the UK's electricity and transport networks could be racking up £264bn in hidden societal costs
Business Green
MARCH 25, 2021
The authors calculated the huge additional costs lumped onto society by the transport and electricity sectors' contribution to climate change, air pollution, land degradation, noise, and biodiversity damage, as well as health and social costs, with the estimated total bill coming to £264bn.
Boom in mining for renewable energy minerals threatens Africa’s great apes
The Guardian: Energy
APRIL 3, 2024
Researchers applaud move away from fossil fuels but say more must be done to mitigate effects on endangered species Up to a third of Africa’s great apes are threatened by a boom in mining projects for minerals required for the renewable energy transition, new research shows.
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Global Briefing: Russia touts 2030 climate goal, but still eyes fossil fuel growth
Business Green
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
Lead author of the paper Dr Michael Clark from the Oxford Martin School and Nuffield Department of Population Health said it was therefore crucial to shift the world away from meat and dairy towards plant-based diets, which would also benefit biodiversity and human health. Global wind capacity to reach record 1,000GW by 2025.
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There is no vaccine for the climate crisis
Business Green
MAY 17, 2020
The rapid loss of biodiversity has led an increasing number of pathogens to infect humans as intermediate hosts. We should see that, before 2050, wind power and solar power will become the new coal for generating power, batteries and hydrogen fuels will be the new oil, and the AIoT operating system will turn into the new power network.
The potential of green bonds in emerging markets
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 29, 2021
After renewable energy, transport, followed by green buildings, waste, water, biodiversity conservation, and adaptation, comprise other areas for proceeds. Demand for green bonds in emerging markets rose by 21% to $52bn (€54bn) in 2019, with emerging market green bond issuances in 2019 amounting to $52 billion (a 21% increase from 2018 ).
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Climate Performance Potential is the unsung predictor of superior financial returns
Business Green
MAY 17, 2022
Of the 15 technology areas PWC analysed, the areas that represent over 80 per cent of future emission reduction potential by 2050 - such as solar power, wind power, food waste technology, green hydrogen production, and alternative protein - received just 25 per cent of recent climate tech investment between 2013 and the first half of 2021.
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How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change
AGreenLiving
JULY 20, 2020
Clean ocean energy: catalyzing large-scale deployment of offshore wind power; ensuring the protection of critical offshore habitats; creating robust programs to assess additional renewable ocean energy systems such as wave, current, tidal and thermal. Aquaculture, sustainable fisheries and marine biodiversity conservation: helping U.S.
Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 4, 2021
The Arctic sea ice, a driver of climate stability and biodiversity on this planet, might be preserved for future generations. More importantly, though, these investments could help to regenerate the world economy, creating an abundance of new jobs. Scientists have a responsibility to share the truth, no matter how difficult it is to hear.
Room for renewables … If we do it right
Renewable Energy World
APRIL 7, 2021
” This one line leaves a lot of questions open about how to expand renewable energy, including how to do so while conserving land and protecting biodiversity. All sectors committed to climate and biodiversity conservation have a role to play. Site Wind Right mapping tool reveals there are 90 million acres in the Central U.S.
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Cutting global emissions is essential to keeping the 1.5C target alive
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
And we all need to recognise the relationship between climate, biodiversity, economics and livelihoods is intertwined. We know that a changing climate contributes to biodiversity loss, as habitats are threatened. Biodiversity loss in turn contributes to climate change, as carbon sinks are destroyed. We all have a part to play.
'Green Day': The green economy reacts
Business Green
MARCH 30, 2023
While there remains much more to do, particularly to unlock cheap wind power and scale up nature-based solutions, it is welcome to see the government accelerating the UK's progress towards net zero." Cheap wind power is still effectively banned onshore in England. There's no net zero mandate for the energy regulator.
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The Estée Lauder Companies' sustainability leader on racial justice, 'sector-agnostic' solutions
GreenBiz
JULY 27, 2020
Lauder office facility, while the Minnesota one will contribute up to 50 percent — the remainder of its power will come from utility-sourced wind power. . The New York installation will provide 100 percent of the electricity required for its Joseph H.
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Estée Lauder's sustainability leader on racial justice, 'sector-agnostic' solutions
GreenBiz
JULY 27, 2020
The New York installation will provide 100 percent of the electricity required by the office operations, while the Minnesota one will contribute up to 50 percent — the remainder of its power will come from utility-sourced wind power. .
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Global Briefing: Australian Government agrees to cap greenhouse gas emissions
Business Green
MARCH 31, 2023
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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Setting the gears in motion: Why the path to net zero must not grind to a halt
Business Green
JANUARY 7, 2021
That being said, politicians and societies have expressed a preference for renewable energy as a cheaper energy source to protect their local biodiversity, and there is significant political support for 'building back better' post-pandemic.
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Meet the leaders - with RES Group's Rachel Ruffle
Business Green
DECEMBER 6, 2020
I remember we talked about the potential of harnessing wind energy on a large scale - which in the early 1990s seemed like an impossible dream. I couldn't see a reason why wind energy wasn't contributing more. I knew I wanted to do a job which would help create a sustainable future for our planet.
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Green recovery: What should feature in the Prime Minister's promised 10-point plan?
Business Green
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
The UK must be "at the forefront of efforts" to halt and rapidly reverse the decline of biodiversity and nature globally, given nature's vital role in limiting climate change and ensuring our future generations' ability to produce food, they warn.
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Global briefing: Wind and solar dominate new Indian power projects
Business Green
MARCH 17, 2023
"As the country presides over the G20 presidency this year, India is well positioned to take climate leadership as a prime example on the possibilities of enabling clean power generation by unleashing solar and wind power."
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'He muffed it': Green economy reacts to Rishi Sunak's first Spending Review
Business Green
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
A green jobs guarantee that will help put us on track to meet climate targets and reverse biodiversity loss. The 10 point plan set out by the Prime Minister last week set out serious commitments in areas such as wind power, decarbonising heating, developing hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.
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Sunak pledges 'energy sovereignty' by 2045, as UK reckons with heatwave chaos
Business Green
JULY 20, 2022
But as the country reflects on the wildfires and travel chaos caused by yesterday's stifling heat, the candidates are facing growing calls from colleagues and green groups alike to explain precisely how they envisage the ambitious decarbonisation and biodiversity targets being met. per megawatt hour, just behind offshore wind on £37.35/MWh,
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The Estée Lauder Companies’ sustainability leader on racial justice, ‘sector-agnostic’ solutions
AGreenLiving
JULY 27, 2020
Lauder office facility, while the Minnesota one will contribute up to 50 percent — the remainder of its power will come from utility-sourced wind power. The New York installation will provide 100 percent of the electricity required for its Joseph H.
Estée Lauder’s sustainability leader on racial justice, ‘sector-agnostic’ solutions
AGreenLiving
JULY 27, 2020
The New York installation will provide 100 percent of the electricity required by the office operations, while the Minnesota one will contribute up to 50 percent — the remainder of its power will come from utility-sourced wind power.
The Sierra Club's Top 20 Cool Schools
Green Market Oracle
OCTOBER 25, 2020
The school just unveiled a 35-acre athletic center on native meadows whose plants were selected for their ability to attract pollinators and restore biodiversity. The past year saw another solar installation and a new wind power project go online. The project is pursuing SITES Silver and LEED Gold certification.
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