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How many trees are needed to offset a city's carbon emissions?

Inhabitat - Innovation

While the push for electric vehicles and renewable energy through solar panels, wind power and hydroelectricity takes the spotlight, another part of the solution equation is growing all around us in the form of trees.

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World behind on almost every policy required to cut carbon emissions, research finds

The Guardian: Energy

Countries are falling behind on almost every policy required to cut greenhouse gas emissions, despite progress on renewable energy and the uptake of electric vehicles. Retire about 240 average-sized coal-fired power plants a year, every year between now and 2030.

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Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?

GreenBiz

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules.

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Wind Power Giant Vestas Launches Venture Capital Fund

GreenTechMedia

Leading global wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has launched a venture capital unit as it looks to stoke the energy transition. While Northvolt is primarily planning to serve electric vehicle demand, it has already gone to market with a modular stationary storage product.

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Solar powered football and carbon captured Coca-Cola: BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week

Business Green

National Grid to unveil plans for UK 'electrical spine' Grid operator this week published its blueprint for connecting up to 86GW of offshore wind power to the grid by 2035. -

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Vestas Promises to Be Completely Carbon-Free by 2030

GreenTechMedia

Vestas, the world’s leading manufacturer of wind turbines, announced plans to become carbon-neutral by 2030 without the use of any offsets, also stating it will lean heavily on its suppliers to shrink their own emissions. “We’re talking to all our main suppliers today,” Ekstrand said.

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Comment: Carbon net zero – we’re halfway there

Envirotec Magazine

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. A lot of the hard work has come from decarbonising the grid and the shift to renewable power. In 2020, the UK went without coal power for 180 of the 366 days.