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Global Briefing: Spain celebrates record low cost for onshore wind power

Business Green

"Spain has delivered the lowest prices ever seen for onshore wind in Europe," said Giles Dickson, CEO at trade body WindEurope, highlighting bids from onshore wind developers that ranged from €20/MWh to €28.89/MWh. The European wind industry continues to reduce costs through innovation, scale and learning effects.

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Meet e-commerce’s sustainability problem that isn’t the cardboard box

EDF + Business

By Aileen Nowlan With the click of a button, our groceries, clothes, personal care products, household items – just about anything – could arrive on our doorsteps in a neatly packaged cardboard box. What happens behind-the-scenes to get a package delivered to your door is taking a toll on our planet and our health. But at what cost?

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Brewery Sustainability: Getting Started Guide for Business

Green Business Bureau

For instance, a single pint of beer can have a carbon footprint as high as 900g CO 2e (for bottled beer that’s been extensively transported). This is ~14% of the daily average carbon footprint from meals per US citizen – having 2 to 3 pints ramps that percentage up to 42%. Challenge 5 : The brewing process is wasteful.

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N.C. offshore wind faces big challenges, even bigger opportunities, advocates say

Renewable Energy World

“It presents such a tremendous opportunity for North Carolina on many fronts,” said Jaime Simmons, program manager for the Southeastern Wind Coalition, a member of the new group. It’s a necessary component to carbon neutrality by 2050. But most of the excitement about wind power in North Carolina is off the coast.

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Global Briefing: Australia and EU flex muscles over carbon border tariff proposals

Business Green

From G7 rows to giant South Korean wind farms, BusinessGreen rounds up all the news from around the world this week. Row brewing over Boris Johnson's G7 plans to promote carbon border tariffs. CS Wind Corp, and Samkang M&T Co. Bank of America unveils new net zero plans.

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Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Rule the $700 Billion Hydrogen Market from a Marine Perspective

Mr. Sustainability

The 4 gigawatt plant will be completely powered by wind and solar energy. All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. That $1 trillion-plus stimulus package will try to make the continent carbon-neutral. “By Carbon targets? Hydrogen targets!

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Green recovery or bust? Six green things we learnt from the Budget (and a lot of things we didn't)

Business Green

In his speech yesterday, Sunak extolled the virtues of the growing green economy, setting out a vision of a "future economy" dominated by offshore wind power, carbon capture and storage, innovative clean technologies, and "decent well-paid green jobs".