The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

“It’s not a question of ‘if,’ it’s just a matter of ‘how soon’” With renewables now the cheapest power source, solar and wind energy are loosening fossil fuels’ grip on the global economy. Demand for coal, oil, and gas is expected to peak this decade, according to the IEA’s new Outlook. degrees of global warming this century.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 25, 2024

Key Focus: Agricultural methane Methane is a major source of global warming, with over 80 times the potency of carbon dioxide over 20 years. According to the IPCC, human-related methane emissions have caused one-third of the observed global warming to date.

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Methane Agriculture Global warming Innovation 128

GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. Lower-temperature applications are the best fit for electrification, as two-thirds of industrial heat demand is below 300 degrees Celsius. greenhouse gas emissions come from industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The GlobalABC’s Global Buildings Climate Tracker found that there have been some incremental improvements in action to decarbonize and improve the energy efficiency of the sector. Governments need to commit to further decarbonising the power, as well as heating and cooling energy supply. Some small progress, but not enough.

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Green Technology

JANUARY 26, 2023

All education sessions and showcase videos will be available on demand following the live Sustainable Facilities Forum on May 18th. You will hear from such organizations as August Berres, First Note Finance inc., and many more. You will be able to watch them in any order.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

While they cloak their demands for more fossil fuel extraction in concern for their constituents’ household bills, the MPs have strong ties to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading producer of climate science denial and misinformation. Global Warming Policy Foundation Links.

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Charged

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This growth is being driven by new regulations, increased public demand for greener transportation and, ultimately, the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, according to the UN Climate Change Conference, the global automotive fleet will be composed of more than 30% EVs by 2030. It is non-flammable and non-toxic.

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Batteries Cooling Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 71

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

HFCs are less harmful than CFCs, but they create another problem – they have a strong heat-trapping effect that is contributing to global warming. How HFCs keep rooms and food cool. It sounds almost miraculous – heat pumps use energy to take heat out of a cold place and dump it in a warm place. What can replace HFCs?

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Ozone Cooling Global warming Fossil fuels 71

Business Green

MARCH 10, 2020

Global growth of emissions from the cooling sector has been estimated to rise by 90 per cent by 2050 as demand for air conditioning and refrigeration technologies soar, with many systems still relying on HFCs - a group of greenhouse gases which have a far more potent global warming effect than carbon dioxide.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

Manufacturer confirms it will begin producing air-to-water heat pumps at flagship UK plant after seeing 'record demand' for the zero emission heating solution.

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Climate change Global warming Technology Demand 88

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Global warming to climate change; climate change covers a broader term and now special interest groups can use it for any situation, as we have recently seen with the fires in Western Canada and now Australia.

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

Yafali and his family found respite in their AC, but they were fortunate outliers; Seattle, known for its cool, wet winters and mild summers, is one of the least air conditioned big cities in the country. They took refuge in shady parks or in community cooling centers. Global warming, after all, involves warming.

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Climate change Cooling Global warming Soil 80

Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Maintain efficient heat exchangers According to the Energy Efficiency Movement, heat exchangers, used widely in building heating and air conditioning, refrigeration, and data centre and fuel cell cooling, are rarely maintained adequately. of global carbon emissions – roughly the equivalent of the entire airline industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The real threat to humanity comes not from any (trivial) greenhouse warming but from cooling periods creating food shortages and famines.”. link] — Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) January 27, 2022.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Doing so would address a glaring omission in the 2015 Paris accord, which never actually mentions coal, oil, or natural gas despite being an international agreement to stop global warming. Solar and wind power are already cheaper alternatives to coal, oil, and gas in most of the world when it comes to meeting new electricity demand.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Consequently, technologies and business models that serve to reduce demand for virgin materials should deliver substantial reductions in emissions, alongside wider environmental gains. In total, the report estimates the cumulative impact of such actions would be to cut emissions by 11.8Gt and reduce demand for materials by 13.6Gt.

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Waste Waste Fossil fuels Agriculture 101

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. It found the latter emitted only 7.5 per cent less methane than the former.

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Fairsnape

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But, with this sector contributing only 2% of globally emissions we must also look closer to home and to improve our carbon understanding and literacy. Our homes and buildings contribute 40% greenhouse gas emissions, with 28% through design and the way heat cool and light, the way we live, play and work within our homes and buildings.

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Carbon Biodiversity Global warming Health 78

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. Connecticut’s Global Warming Solutions Act calls for a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and 80% by 2050. Commercial building emissions were also higher.

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Natural gas Fossil fuels Cooling Construction 90

Econaur

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The hygiene levels demanded by COVID-19 simultaneously require a cleaner, more pollution-free environment – something that begins at home. Architecture has long been a contributor to global warming, with Ed Mazria, the founder of Arch2030, saying that buildings will account for 60% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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Sustainability Health Global warming Demand 98

Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

With most of the world's energy demand being supplied by fossil fuels, we are facing the harsh reality of climate change. The impact of global warming is being felt across the planet with all corners of the world experiencing weather anomalies, from scorching temperatures and wildfires to flash floods and hurricanes.

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Hydrogen Fossil fuels Natural gas Cooling 78

Grist

JULY 20, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. Read more here.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

As one example, New Jersey Natural Gas is requesting rate recovery of millions of dollars of new gas infrastructure investments without any demonstration of how increased investment in the gas system will comport with New Jersey’s Global Warming Response Act. Consider Pilots to Test Innovation.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

That was followed by the growing popularity of ice hockey from the 1880s onward, which increased the demand for more rink construction. HFCs heighten the greenhouse effect, while carbon dioxide similarly intensifies global warming. Carbon dioxide is a better alternative, though its use still contributes to global warming.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Since these standards were developed, the demand for carbon offsets has increased over the years. It’s estimated that it will be ~51 years for oil, ~114 years for coal, and ~53 years for gas reserves to diminish, based on current demand estimates and reserves. To facilitate this rise, other certification programs have come into effect.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 Boston Metal, an outfit spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, uses electric currents to heat iron ore into a bright orange-white liquid, which converts into metal and cools as gray steel blocks.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

The first - the latest edition of consulting giant McKinsey annual 'Global Energy Perspectives' report - argues that global oil demand will peak at some point within the the next two to five years as electric vehicles (EVs) start to edge internal combustion engines off the roads in the world's largest markets.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 23, 2020

The ever-increasing global population and the rise in environmental consciousness have created a demand for sustainable business practices. Farmland irrigation: The growth in global food demand is placing unprecedented pressure on water resources.

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Agriculture Sustainability Methane Biodegradable 99

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. Geothermal would provide constant power, with wind and solar contributing intermittent power. to 4 million deaths that occur worldwide, each year.”

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Rinexii

OCTOBER 22, 2021

They allowed for reliable heating and eventually cooling, easy and fast transportation, and allowed for the growth of the economy. In the first place, there is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels.”.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 31, 2021

To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. Lower-temperature applications are the best fit for electrification, as two-thirds of industrial heat demand is below 300 degrees Celsius. greenhouse gas emissions come from industry.

Building Energy Monitoring 36

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 36

Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

But in February, shortly before an independent Harvard advisory committee was expected to give the go-ahead, a group of Swedish environmental organizations and the Indigenous Saami Council sent a letter demanding the project be canceled. Some segments of the media adopted a more frenzied tone, blurring facts in an effort to get clicks. “My

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Climate change Technology Global warming Patents 138

Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

CEO insists climate crisis demands more ambitious targets, as he earmarks £1bn of investment to help the supermarket help hit net zero 10 years ahead of the government target. Only when the trajectory for global warming slows to a maximum of 1.5

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

That was the heat index, a measure of both heat and humidity that’s crucial because humidity curbs the body’s lifesaving ability to cool itself by sweating. degrees Celsius) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Saturday This is the kind of thing that happens with just a little over 1 degree Celsius of global warming today.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

In recent years, seaweed has been quite a catch for health-conscious consumers, in turn, making kelp, a brown macroalgae, one of the more in-demand types of seaweed offerings. We came up with dozens of cool products and hosted tastings in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. said Courtney Boyd Myers, co-founder and CEO of AKUA. “We

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

More to work on: A bill to increase the State’s insufficient targets for emissions reductions to match the Paris Accords failed to advance for the second year in a row, leaving Washington state’s targets far below what’s necessary to avoid the worst harms from global warming. This policy was Front and Centered legislative priority. **We

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

The electricity used by these IT devices is ultimately converted into heat, which must be removed from the data center by cooling equipment that also runs on electricity. On average, servers and cooling systems account for the greatest shares of direct electricity use in data centers, followed by storage drives and network devices (Figure 1).

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