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Electrification gets down to the wire

GreenBiz

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals.

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What Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Gets Wrong About Heat Pumps

DeSmogBlog

While Canada’s federal government is interested in helping Canadians transition off oil and gas for home heating — and is incentivizing the installation of heat pumps — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has repeatedly warned against them. Roughly one-third of residents in Canada’s Atlantic provinces heat their homes with home heating oil.

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A New Era for Germany’s Gas Industry Fuels Climate Fears

DeSmogBlog

Climate campaigners, however, see the new piers and pipelines as ominous signs that the gas lobby has finally achieved a long-standing goal to lock Germany into the $100 billion global LNG market – threatening to keep Europe’s biggest economy hooked on fossil fuels for decades to come. “A It’s fossil fuel madness.”.

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How behavioural science can boost the green transition

Smart Energy International

Different organisations, universities, governments, industrial partners and citizens need to come together to decide how we want to live in the next decades, when fossil fuels are not available anymore,” says Leonor Ruiz, strategic designer at the consultancy Soulsight, Spain. Putting people at the centre. Resistance to change?

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. Note: You will need to create a Thomas account to access this directory.

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? Blackrock’s $550M DAC bet #174

Climate Tech VC

Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy. Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B

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? Alterra’s $30B bridge for climate financing #176

Climate Tech VC

The appointment of Sultan Dr. Al Jaber as Chairman of Alterra, and also host of COP28, has already stirred controversy due to his role as President of ADNOC and rumored intention to broker fossil fuel deals during COP. 52 countries pledged to reduce their global cooling emissions by 68% through 2050. Execution questions marks.