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Demystifying the ?Absolute Zero? concept

GreenBiz

The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action — from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" — are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts. Offsetting versus insetting.

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'Nothing' is not as straight forward as it seems

Business Green

Basil Demeroutis, managing partner at real estate investor FORE Partnership, offers a whirlwind guide to the complex world of net zero carbon. There is a lot of excitement about creating net zero carbon buildings, and rightly so. Not many property professionals can tell you what net zero carbon actually means. Or all of them.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. Going bi adds several nifty new benefits to driving electric. What did you tell the folks in Sacramento? That’s one way.

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Big Ag Influence Over UN Food Systems Summit Criticised by Green Farming Advocates

DeSmogBlog

The groups said the summit disregarded “the urgent need to address the gross power imbalances that corporations hold over food systems.”. Companies have also been promoting the use of better technology for the application of fertilizers and pesticides, along with backing efforts to store more carbon in the soil. Corporate Capture.

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Facing up to Covid, climate and equality challenges

Business Green

They show starkly where it is failing: prioritising efficiency over resilience in healthcare, not accounting for the enormous cost of carbon emissions, and allowing persistent inequalities to develop within societies.

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Residential Buildings Adapting the Sustainable way

Econaur

million sq meters of green building space and this statistic is from the end of 2018. The focus of these spaces is on the efficient use of natural resources including energy (sunlight), water and construction materials. billion people, it is definitely not easy reaching sustainability targets. This adds up to more than 24.81

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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

Grist

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.