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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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Sustainable Freight: Towards a Greener Air Cargo Culture

The Environmental Blog

Or will it always be seen as the bad boy for carbon emissions? Within the transport sector, other modes such as road vehicles have already made significant strides towards carbon neutrality. As things stand, aviation and shipping currently account for 5% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Switching to low carbon fuels.

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EU recovery package: Net zero launch pad or missed opportunity?

Business Green

Indeed, the European Green Deal programme aimed at transitioning Europe to become the world's first climate neutral continent by 2050 has been a major driving force behind the pandemic recovery and budget agreement. There were disappointments for the green economy in the EU Council deal, too.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. In this blog I aim to figure out how much longer will we still have Arctic sea ice. Good news for boats, bad news for polar bears.

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March 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicle Supply Chain Changing Shapes | American Jobs Plan |…

Clean Energy Trust

Plus: Clean Energy Trust portfolio company Varuna shows up on the Google homepage, Jigar Shah is heading to the DOE, and BNEF puts out more graphs about energy than you can shake a stick at. Chinese consumer electronics company Xiaomi is planning to spend $10 billion to jump into making electric vehicles over the next decade.

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Wales goes to the polls with renewables firmly on the agenda

Renewable Energy World

The UK recently celebrated its ‘greenest ever’ Easter with low-carbon energy sources making up nearly 80% of Britain’s power supply. The Spring break’s perfect combination of sunny and windy weather placed zero coal demand on the grid and proved yet again that the UK enjoys optimum conditions for clean energy production.