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The Healthy Planet Action Coalition’s Case for Urgent Direct Climate Cooling

Energy Central

The Healthy Planet Action Coalition’s Case for Urgent Direct Climate Cooling The Healthy Planet Action Coalition is an international organization that advocates for an urgent and more ambitious global response to climate change. The target needed to protect coral reefs, the canaries.

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Can ACs cool the world without warming it?

Grist

Several companies, including Gradient where Romanin is CEO (which landed him on the 2021 Grist 50 list ), are developing new AC technologies and approaches that are starting to show what a more efficient, less climate-intensive approach to cooling will look like. “And that absolutely doesn’t need to be true.”

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“Cost-effective alternative to air source heat pumps” secures £1.3m funding

Envirotec Magazine

Instead of using refrigerant gases with high global warming potential (GWP), Barocal’s technology uses new solid-state, temperature-changing materials. Said to be cheap and non-toxic, they are organic materials that release and absorb heat at different pressures as they change volume.

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Should the world ban solar geoengineering? 60 experts say yes.

Grist

And it also released a cloud of sulfur dioxide, a chemical that, in large enough quantities, reflects the sun’s rays and cools the planet. They called for an “international non-use agreement” on so-called solar geoengineering technologies, which would cool the planet by releasing sun-reflecting chemicals into the atmosphere.

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Sustainable Facilities Forum – Education Program

Green Technology

You will hear from such organizations as August Berres, First Note Finance inc., Additional Showcase Videos: Registrants will also have access within the Forum virtual platform to product and service videos, and how you can benefit from these with your sustainability projects. and many more.

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Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

GreenBiz

Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. Organizations such as nursing homes or hospitals should be involved in designing livable and healthy cities of the future. We need to build resilience into both physical and social structures of our cities.

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Majority of companies to miss net-zero targets, analysis shows

Envirotec Magazine

Net zero should be managed as any strategic business priority: set clear objectives to drive the entire organization to the same direction, and monitor progress to correct the trajectory as appropriate. And as our study shows, the targets work. Scope 1 emissions are GHG direct emissions from companies’ own and controlled resources.