Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

As Congress debates billions of dollars in new infrastructure investments, advocates are touting the social and economic benefits of building new high-voltage transmission lines, clean energy plants and electric vehicle charging stations, along with fixing aging roads and bridges. policy since the 1970s.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

It’s not often that we have a chance to savor a history-making win on the climate change front. The $370B in climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act — the biggest climate bill ever passed — provides such a moment. Treating forests as climate solutions that scrub carbon from the air.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed. The halfway mark has now passed between 1990, the year that countries who signed the U.N.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

This low-carbon image is out of step with the reality of fleet production figures – both current and projected – which reveal a business model out of step wedded to sales of fossil-fuel powered vehicles. The study revealed that airline companies, by contrast, mostly chose to ignore the climate crisis altogether in their advertising.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Renovate buildings and redesign cars to run entirely on electricity, power them with renewable energy from the sun and wind, and bing, bam, boom, you’ve just knocked out a majority of the carbon entering the atmosphere. the gas industry is actively fighting laws that promote electrification with calls to “preserve energy choice.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The findings, taken from the IEA's An Energy Sector Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality in China report, suggests Beijing's existing policies will also give the country the capacity to accelerate its transition to clean energy sources and reach carbon neutrality before 2060.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Australia's biggest polluters to face binding 2030 carbon targets. The proposed law would impact 215 of Australia's biggest polluters, which are currently responsible for 28 per cent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. China wind, solar, and electric vehicle rollout rapidly accelerating.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Fee levels are still being considered as the Authority engages with ship owners about how the new system would work in practice, but charges are likely to incorporate several factors such as operational efficiency of ships and the use of zero carbon or carbon neutral fuels. Greece climate law aims to ditch lignite coal by 2028.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

Biden said he would make this policy technology-neutral, letting power companies choose the portfolio that makes sense to them. Nearly all major electric utilities have pledged to go carbon neutral or zero out emissions by 2045 or 2050. Still, coal and gas burning plants would have to go, by 2035.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

We learned we’re (1) changing the earth’s land so much that we threaten our food security and the land’s ability to capture carbon, (2) heading toward devastated oceans that are coral-free, and (3) not cutting emissions even remotely fast enough to avoid these outcomes. The costs are not theoretical any more.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

For a start, when all the sectoral targets are tallied up, they represent – at best – a 43 per cent reduction, according to the government’s own Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC). The post Ireland’s Agri Lobby Has Dodged Its Climate Commitments Through Special Pleading and Dubious Science appeared first on DeSmog.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Worried about the climate crisis? The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. Electric vehicles are making huge inroads in the market.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It will also explore how complex or jargon-heavy language can be used to mislead costumers and whether companies that fail to provide all relevant information about the sustainability of a product of service - for example, whether it's non-recyclable or highly polluting - have breached consumer law.

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Charged

JANUARY 18, 2023

Traceability is becoming a critical function in the EV industry, thanks to the “Buy American” requirements of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and similar provisions in the EU’s new Battery Directive. I finished my career at PSA being an electric vehicle project manager.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

CEO of the UK's Climate Change Committee calls for more debate and scrutiny over how to deliver the UK's net zero transition. I think it was a mistake not to put [the Sixth Carbon Budget] to a vote in Parliament on both occasions," said Stark. There is such a positive story of progress to tell here," he said.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Abstract: There is a growing recognition among businesses, policymakers, and the general public regarding the economic and societal risks of climate change. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Climate Act requires that the scoping plan “inform the state energy planning board’s adoption of a state energy plan,” and the State’s energy law requires that all state entities must make “any energy-related action[s] or decision[s] … reasonably consistent with the. state energy] plan.”.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Individuals passionate about protecting the environment, combating climate change and creating a more secure future for all should consider a career in sustainability. They develop strategies to reduce a company’s overall ecological footprint and minimize their carbon emissions. Sustainability Engineer.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed landmark the deal on Christmas Eve as a major victory for the UK, claiming it was worth around £668bn of trade in 2019 terms, while allowing Westminster to "take back control" of the UK's laws, borders, money, and fishing waters. Climate change. Electric vehicles.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

Ireland's coalition government has this week reached an agreement on a new climate bill that would put a target to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 on a legal footing and establish ambitious new near term emissions goals for 2030. Climate change is the big challenge of our time," JBS chief executive Gilberto Tomazoni said in a statement.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

How do they contribute to our overall goal of slashing emissions, countering climate change, and ensuring that the environment and communities thrive together? Our energy systems will be increasingly decarbonized and distributed, with variable and firm low-carbon energy sources gaining increasing market share. California goal.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Designed and executed with care, net-zero carbon goals can offer more than sustainability window dressing for commercial buildings in the decades to come. The market has changed from seeing sustainability as an amenity to sell to being something that is actually about risk management," said Breana Wheeler, director of U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Ofgem CEO Jonathan Brearley said: "At a very difficult and pivotal time for consumers up and down the country, the Energy Bill provides a clear direction of travel to boost our clean home-grown energy, reduce reliance on global fossil fuels, and drive us towards a secure and carbon neutral future.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Individuals passionate about protecting the environment, combating climate change and creating a more secure future for all should consider a career in sustainability. They develop strategies to reduce a company’s overall ecological footprint and minimize their carbon emissions. Sustainability Engineer.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

based insurer to achieve carbon neutrality in 2016. . Ballen, who recently took on her new role at Indigo Ag, says her time working in the food and beverage sector shed light on "just how important agriculture is to a sustainable future and the climate change battle.". — Jesse Klein. Jennifer Ballen, 28 . Meg Wilcox.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 6, 2019

In the CNN debate on July 30th, the first group of ten randomly assigned candidates discussed subjects including: the climate crisis, the Green New Deal, fossil fuels, renewable energy, electric vehicles, agriculture, science, and Republican denial. The second thing I’m going to do is I will reengage on global climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. After decades of gridlock, the US looks set to pass sweeping climate legislation for the first time.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

She has developed a vendor sustainability scorecard for a Fortune 100 company, consulted with a national brand to improve impact measurement and reporting, and quantified the carbon emissions of an industry association. Praneet Singh Arshi. A certified B Corp, Grove serves hundreds of thousands of households in the U.S. every month.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Will grants go out at the 5% per year minimum required by law of foundations, or go faster? ($500 So…what might a billion do if focused on political change? What if Bezos supported candidates — including at the state level, which requires much less money — who support aggressive policies like a price on carbon?

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Climate change and COP26 (results are not enough). Climate change: IPCC report is ‘code red for humanity’… here. World economy set to lose up to 18% GDP from climate change if no action taken… here. Alibaba Group Announces Carbon Neutrality Goal by 2030… here.

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