Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

Sustainable Law Firms. Law firm sustainability is a strategic business shift that aims to prevent socially and environmentally damaging operations in the legal industry. This could be by reducing an organization’s carbon footprint while also establishing a healthy work-life balance for employees.

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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. As we're moving from what was traditionally an avoidance of carbon emissions to avoid climate change, we're now moving much more into adaptation," she said. Risk and adaptation.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The proposals include a new climate law to be drafted within 100 days and stronger carbon taxes including the creation of so-called carbon borders. These would levy carbon taxes on imports to prevent the offshoring of emissions by firms that shift activities overseas. ” Electrification.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The Clean Peak standard jumped from policy proposal to law of the land in Massachusetts in just a couple years. But the Clean Peak in Massachusetts will do little to reduce carbon emissions from energy storage plants, according to a study published earlier this year. Clean Peak standard vs. carbon pricing.

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GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

There is concern that Moore’s Law , the idea that the number of transistors on integrated circuit will double every two years, is slowing down. Consider running AI applications in cloud data centers using carbon-free energy. Get acquainted with the concept of "die stacking" in computing hardware design. Plenty of R&D power there.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Following years of delays, at COP21 last year countries agreed on rules for the implementation of international carbon market mechanisms. Black carbon. Carbon market (including carbon offsets).

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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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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

A much better choice was to switch the existing chillers from gas-fired steam turbine chillers to electrified chillers, significantly reducing the carbon footprint to cool the massive complex. It was quite a process to convince the state of New York that the $100 million-dollar CHP Plant was not a good choice.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

“This means less of a need for reserve power plants that mostly use fossil fuels to produce electricity, which then leads to less carbon dioxide emissions.” building on each other’s strengths, to collectively grow our portfolio to offer more clients affordable and reliable sustainable heating and cooling.” A subsidiary of E.ON

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 11, 2022

5060 ), titled An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, into law on Thursday August 11, 2022. The law keeps the required procurement total at 5.6 DPU is instructed to study how to make it easier for communities to adopt geothermal heating and cooling systems. Governor Baker signed the climate bill ( H.5060 GW by 2027.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Environmental departments in major oil companies are well-staffed with people who devote their careers to ensuring environmental laws are followed. That might seem like a ludicrous notion, but consider that in the 1970s the public had been bombarded with messages that the world was cooling. They are oil companies, after all.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Both systems can be used in reverse to cool the home in warm weather. And since heat pumps can also be used for cooling, homeowners don’t have to worry about installing a separate cooling system. Massachusetts law requires the state to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. It’s ‘going to fit in somewhere’.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 5, 2021

The 2050 goal itself had already been adopted by the secretary of energy and environmental affairs under preexisting law. Without attempting to comprehensively summarize the act (or even just its energy law components), here are some of the provisions that are likely to push energy policy in Massachusetts towards a carbon-free future.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Greenhouse gas emissions from heating and cooling buildings continue to rise in Connecticut despite the state’s efforts to improve energy efficiency. Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If metric tons.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Whether it’s a new build or a retrofit (also referred to as greenhabbing , or green rehabbing an older building to be more eco-friendly), the real estate industry is moving towards sustainability because a low-carbon building is proven to have lower operating costs, improved resale value and higher occupancy rates. Lower carbon footprint.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As such, new legislation is to be introduced would prohibit larger businesses in the UK from using forest risk commodities that have not been produced in line with producer country laws. Our new due diligence law is one piece of a much bigger package of measures that we are putting in place to tackle deforestation.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Seven states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, have passed 100 percent clean energy transition laws. All 100 percent state laws, and some city and county policies, also include interim targets to keep clean energy deployment on track. The binding nature of these targets is also noteworthy. Washington D.C.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

Here at Greentech Media, we’ve spent years covering the contenders, which range from quixotic defiers of the laws of physics to understated, scientifically minded strivers. The company’s mechanism cools down air and stores it in pressurized, above-ground tanks. Plenty of options technically “work.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2021

The technology industry in the US now emits more carbon than ever before, so more efficient data centres are vital. Traditionally, companies have tended to have on-site server rooms, often in regular offices, and while these have evolved over time, they were not purpose built, so cooling and ancillary power requirements make them inefficient.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

LNG fuel - which is essentially natural gas cooled down into liquid form - has been touted by some firms as a lower carbon alternative to conventional diesel and petrol, as it produces lower levels of CO2, nitrogen dioxide, and sulphur emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In practice, this could look like homes pre-heating or -cooling when their solar system is producing, to save money in evening hours when the prices go up. "It That law created objective standards to measure things like cost of service to solar customers, long run costs of net-metering and the economic benefits of a homegrown solar industry.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. The reasoning is that once wet, the land will stop losing carbon and the sinking will come to a halt. And over the long term, marsh plants may, through photosynthesis, capture enough carbon from the atmosphere that the ground begins rising again.

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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. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. Electric heat pumps can replace furnaces and, despite their name, they can actually heat and cool.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

President Joe Biden has signed into law the most significant piece of legislation supporting clean energy and climate change mitigation in US history. With this law, the American people won and the special interests lost,” Biden said at a bill signing ceremony on 16 August. By Jennifer Runyon and John Engel. In prepared remarks, Sen.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

If we want to make a lasting durable connection between this philosophical imperative, the new law that is emerging, and the new institutions that we are creating to channel finance, we need to ensure that the realisation of nature's value is manifested in real transactions.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

Although reflective particles already make their way into the atmosphere (both from aerosol pollution and volcanic dust and ash ), purposefully altering the skies already pumped full of carbon dioxide seems misguided at best — and disastrous at worst.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There’s been a 38-fold increase in sustainability-related laws and regulations since 1972. Sustainability-led initiatives help mitigate the risk of non-compliance as these laws and regulations continue to develop. Are there opportunities to improve energy efficiency and upgrade lighting, insulation, heating, and cooling?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In 2020, Governor John Bel Edwards (D) joined the international Race to Zero Campaign, which aims to reach net zero carbon emissions around the world by 2050. This is despite Edwards’s continued support for numerous carbon emitting projects, including proposed LNG facilities and Formosa’s proposed petrochemical complex in St.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

But we’re overdue for more from the governments that we, as tax-payers, voters, and (generally) law-abiding citizens, have contracted to manage our societies. In 2014 , the average emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to the atmosphere per person was 4.6 But the truth is just that we’re embarrassingly carbon-inefficient.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

The drop in sulfur oxide emissions, which ironically have a cooling effect in the atmosphere by reflecting light, has also played a role in record high ocean temps this year. IMO will assign a CII rating, with A being the best, least carbon-intensive and E being the worst, most carbon-intensive. What’s new?

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Radhika also manages a global coalition of over 30 leading organizations to spur innovation in the air conditioning industry through the Global Cooling Prize. Their work has positioned NYCHA to more efficiently comply with New York City’s climate action laws, perform data driven asset management, and advance their sustainability goals.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” Legislation also passed that phases out Hydrofluorocarbons (HB 1112) a potent greenhouse gas used in refrigeration and cooling products.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A significant factor explaining New York’s low carbon footprint is the city’s widespread use of public transport (an impressive 31% of residents commute using public services). Funding support for the development of innovative nature-based solutions to lower emissions and sequester carbon. metric tons of C0 2e.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions. For examples, South Carolina steel-maker Nucor is working to make low-carbon steel and set a goal for net zero across value chain by 2050.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2020

There is concern that Moore's Law , the idea that the number of transistors on integrated circuit will double every two years, is slowing down. Consider running AI applications in cloud data centers using carbon-free energy. Get acquainted with the concept of "die stacking" in computing hardware design. Plenty of R&D power there.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

It was important for Arrival to focus on the commercial vehicle segment because the company's vision is to ultimately ensure a broad cross-section of society has access to comfortable, low carbon travel, Rugoobur emphasises. "We We want to make the bus cool," he says. "We We are thinking about this as an ecosystem," he says.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

In Georgia, when you flush your toilet, you might just be helping to cool a data center! Google prides itself on having been carbon-neutral since 2007, with data centers that use 50% less energy than is typical. It was a law school lottery number for picking electives — 499 out of 500 — that led her to environmental law.

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