AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave? Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Rio Tinto says it will invest $98 million in a 34-megawatt PV array and 12-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery system to help power its Koodaideri mine in Pilbara, Western Australia. Anglo American has also installed an 84-kilowatt floating solar array at its tailings pond at Los Bronces, a first for the industry, Martinez said.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

Mobilising billions of dollars of low carbon investment is a huge challenge, but it is also a massive opportunity for those financiers willing to innovate in pursuit of net zero emissions. Chief among them is the huge investment gap that must still be bridged before the destination of carbon neutrality can be reached.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

This is the most ubiquitous explanation for why the solar panels you see on a rooftop or in a small solar array alongside a stretch of highway are almost certainly from Chinese firms. In fact, the Chinese government invested far more over a much longer period into the semiconductor industry than into solar.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The threat of power grid-sparked wildfires is forcing California utilities to invest billions of dollars in hardening and monitoring their grids and to institute grid blackouts affecting up to hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce the risk of live wires sparking conflagrations.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries. Part of that strategy appears to be redefining its expanding petrochemical and plastics business as a solution to climate change. Shell Norco.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

where the company plans to ramp up its investments into grid-scale batteries, hybrid renewables projects and offshore wind, says North America chief Gwenaelle Avice-Huet. With a long history in fossil fuels and nuclear energy, Engie has pivoted dramatically toward renewables over the past few years — a strategy that included the U.S.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 29, 2022

The last couple months have been a hard lesson about the danger and limitations of our old-school fossil fuel economy. million investment from HSDC/HTDC. As gas prices rise, we love that this bill will help people move around town with less impact on the climate and lower their cost of living in our community!

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

They hoped to convince policymakers and the climate community that reversing carbon emissions — in addition to reducing them — was essential to limiting the worst impacts of climate change. A lot has changed since then. There’s generally two reasons scientists say carbon removal will be necessary to tackle climate change.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Corporate carbon footprint tracking collects $27M, and forestry and battery interests intersect to invest $18M toward bio-graphite for lithium-ion cells. The news came just as the United Nations was highlighting “first movers and doers” during the Climate Ambition Summit in New York, sparking outrage from many in attendance.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

There is a generation of Millennials around the globe who have written off fossil fuels,” Chris Romer, co-founder of Project Canary, told the oil and gas industry trade publication Rigzone this month. “We stock and bond capital investment according to Morningstar, up from just 1 percent in 2014. Platinum Gas. .

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Partner Content: For financially constrained local authorities, deciding where to invest public money to achieve net zero carbon targets is increasingly complex. More than 80 per cent of the public say they are concerned about climate change and more than 30 per cent think it is one of the top three issues facing the UK.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 21, 2022

A new report by Reality Team, a nonprofit digital marketing group, suggests that social media ads can help reach people who aren’t closely watching topics like climate change or vaccine science and are often targeted by disinformation campaigns. Putting up a Fight. ” – Debra Lavoy.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

"Through unprecedented collaboration with the extraordinary array of businesses, academic and environmental institutions that make up the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, this government is putting its full weight firmly behind the Net Zero campaign," said Shapps. "By

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

Upfront investments in low carbon infrastructure deliver much faster paybacks than they did a year ago, because the fossil fuels they displace are orders of magnitude more expensive. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. per cent loss of GDP to a 0.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2022

Post-COP26 the world risks taking its foot off the pedal of climate action in 2021, but businesses must not let that happen, writes Pinwheel's Rob Cheesewright. Businesses have often been blamed for sluggish progress on climate change - yet at COP26 it was the progress that governments made that felt frustratingly slow.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

But these groups have been joined by a wide array of mainstream businesses, with a host of Blue Chips across Europe calling on politicians to place the net zero mission at the heart of their stimulus packages.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Department of Energy’s investment of $7 billion in creating seven Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs is a testament to this burgeoning interest. Shaping Policy : The summit serves as a ground for discussions that could shape future policy and investment in the hydrogen sector.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

With just weeks to go until world leaders meet in Sharm El Sheikh for the critical upcoming UN climate summit, it means Sunak will face an immediate test of his commitment to combatting climate change, with the UK set to officially hand over the reins of its COP Presidency to Egypt at COP27.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for a proposed floating offshore wind research array. Ensure a stable and predictable investment environment. Pursue Offshore Wind Supply Chain Infrastructure and Workforce Investments to Support Economic Growth and Resiliency. Attract investment and workforce.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

The UK solar industry has rubbished claims from Tory leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak that solar farms pose a threat to farmland, pointing out that climate change poses by far the bigger risk to food security and therefore further underscores the need to decarbonise energy sources.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

"According to the United Nations, over 160 firms with $70tr in assets are committed to decarbonise the global economy, which means phasing out fossil fuels by 2050," he said. He urged "all countries to revisit and strengthen their NDCs to deliver on the Glasgow Climate Pact by the 23 September deadline".

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

That is the hypothesis advanced in a new report published today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The report also predicts disputes over what constitutes 'renewable energy' or 'green' investment.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This means corporations are using the term to describe a vast array of different practices. We’re seeing a gold rush of investment in soil carbon credits,” said Emily Oldfield, agricultural soil carbon scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, a U.S.-based based environmental organization.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Historically, the private sector invested in research and development to produce world-changing innovations.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

But what about those wind turbines, those solar arrays, those hydro dams? Over the past few months, we’ve been writing this series to inform readers about just what exactly the federal government is doing in the fight of our lifetimes — that is, the fight against climate change. The reason? million cars off the road.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

More broadly, it promises that the regulator will step up support for clean tech R&D and take a more agile and adaptable approach to price controls for network operators so as to enable investment in net zero infrastructure. Anderson said the regulator was demonstrating a "colossal disconnect" with the UK's long term net zero plans.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2022

This key role will develop and drive accelerator programming and processes to enable D3’s rapidly growing ecosystem of startups, corporates, investors, and mentors to collaborate in scaling climate innovations globally. Some examples of our current programing being delivered by the team that is to be managed by this position include: .

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For this reason, the hydrogen market today is dominated by steam reformation of natural gas, it’s essentially a fossil fuel. However, the imperative of climate change has been amplified by other factors such as security of energy supply concerns that have been greatly increased by the war in Ukraine, for example.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. And it is damning.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As this year’s climate summit gets underway in Dubai, powerful food and farming companies are well positioned to ensure their interests are protected. They will use their connections to network, lobby – and even raise investment. Meat lobby group, the Canadian Cattle Association, attended with Canada in 2022. “A

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave? About 77 percent of ESG funds that existed 10 years ago are presently available, whereas only 46 percent of traditional investment vehicles maintain that survivorship. A declining investment rationale for fossil fuels. ESG investors were not unwise.

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Investment Climate change Ethics Government 28

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

New Approach to Investments in Office Spaces and Technology. A remote workforce affects the way a company does business and the way their employees work and operate, but it also impacts the type of investments a company makes in real estate, buildings, office space and technology. This article expands on these benefits of remote work.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

New Approach to Investments in Office Spaces and Technology. A remote workforce affects the way a company does business and the way their employees work and operate, but it also impacts the type of investments a company makes in real estate, buildings, office space and technology. This article expands on these benefits of remote work.

Sustainability 148

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