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. Buildings’ resilience needs to increase to future proof our homes and work spaces. Some small progress, but not enough. What comes next?

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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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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

At its full potential, AD could meet 25% of the UK domestic gas demand and insulate customers from rocketing energy prices, which in turn send the costs to farmers and the food industry spiralling. The guardians of the Paris Agreement have concluded AD is the cheapest and most cost-effective way to keep global warming below 2 ?

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

Coordinating the introduction of a smart charging infrastructure will enable network operators to balance demand and supply through an electricity grid increasingly incorporating intermittent renewable energy sources.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The letter, sent to 47 company chairs and chief executives, calls on emissions-intensive firms to align all direct corporate lobbying activity and indirect lobbying activity managed by trade associations with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5 Risk & Resilience. Finance & Investing. Greenhouse Gas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Decisive government and business action can trigger a transition of our energy system to help build a resilient, carbon-free future.". Climate scientists have warned that limiting global warming to 1.5C by the end of the century requires global greenhouse gas emissions to be halved by 2030, and reduced to net zero by 2050.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

That is the headline conclusion of a fresh analysis from the International Energy Agency (IEA) today, which offers a glimmer of hope that global emissions are closer than ever to an historic peak, even if the rapid decline in greenhouse gases required this decade to limit temperature increases to 1.5C remains a hugely challenging prospect.

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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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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

However, if there is to be wide-spread adoption of hydrogen as a viable alternative energy source, there needs to be a national focus on establishing a network of hydrogen production and refueling — not unlike EV charging roll out — to provide the basis for resilient local supply chains. We must do more. Production will follow.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

Think tank reveals wind and solar are now providing 10 per cent of global power and are demonstrating impressive resilience to the coronavirus crisis, as coal investment continues to slide. But compared to fossil fuels, the IEA expects far more resilience from clean power, having forecast coal spending to fall by a quarter this year.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 17, 2022

Technologies for renewable electricity generation, energy storage and power grids are essential to decarbonise existing supply and meet growing electricity demand from rapid electrification of buildings, transport, and industry. A big part of this is ensuring that the infrastructure and power supply match the demand for EVs.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 17, 2022

Milestone reflects growing demand for net-zero buildings June 14, 2022 (Washington, D.C.) – Today, the U.S. Green Building Council announced nearly 100 net-zero certifications earned under the LEED Zero program, representing more than 23 million square feet of space.

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Green Living Guy

JANUARY 13, 2022

Last year’s coal narrative used the historically low generation totals from 2020 to tout a supposed boom in demand. […]. Preliminary 2021 data from the Energy Information Administration confirm what IEEFA said throughout the year: The long-term-trend in U.S. The post The Coal Boom that Wasn’t appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

The government's climate advisors will today publish a major new analysis of the UK's climate adaptation investment priorities, which argues that essential climate resilience measures remain badly underfunded by both government and businesses. That figure could rise further with more dangerous levels of global warming."

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

The rapid growth of Vietnam’s population in urban areas is resource intensive and leads to increased energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) Index ranks Vietnam as the 89 th least ready to adapt to climate change. Image source: The Hound. Agriculture. Concluding Words .

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Rising global environmental awareness is influencing various industries. Eco-consumerism places sustainability-enhancing demands on businesses and pushes them to make emission-reduction improvements. Consumers are searching for carbon-reduction methods, using their purchasing power to improve ecological conditions.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The global food system, like many of the world’s Achilles’ heels, is representative of the tragedy of the commons: a renowned economic theory by which individual agents of a system using shared resources act in accordance to their self-interest at the expense of society. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

There they aim to accelerate action to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by the middle of the century. The Paris Agreement, which rests on a commitment by countries to prevent the worst effects of climate change by keeping global warming this century to well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C,

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Senior Manager, Resilient Food and Forests, EDF+Business. Reducing methane now is the fastest way to slow global warming and stay on the best possible path to net zero by mid century. Methane emissions continue to grow along with rising food and energy demand as the population increases. Methane matters…a lot.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

Food & Agriculture: I’m excited to fund solutions that build a more climate-resilient food system and help farmers transition to regenerative practices that restore land, promote biodiversity, sequester carbon, and improve economic livelihoods. What areas in food, agriculture, and nature-based solutions are ripe for innovation in 2022?

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Green Living Guy

MAY 3, 2022

Many organizations are contemplating reducing their carbon footprint and energy use because both employees and customers demand sustainability when doing business. Currently, sustainability has become part of our daily lives. Those businesses which cannot adapt to this will encounter significant problems in the future.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

The alarms that are being sounded on global warming, income inequality, and humanitarian crises are the result of materialistic greed. So, limiting human strain on natural resources is the main area of concern to ensure the earth is able to fulfil increasing food demand by reducing stress on climate.

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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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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Limiting global warming to 1.5C warming involves two distinct questions. So scientifically speaking, humanity can still limit global warming to 1.5C An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 2018 synthesised hundreds of studies and found rapidly escalating risks in global warming between 1.5C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The letters come as firms worldwide face growing pressure from investors to ensure that corporate engagement with policymakers helps advance a resilient, net zero economy. The private sector cannot address the full range of impacts from climate change without strong public policy designed to help stabilize the climate.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The analysis, due to be published on 18 June, is expected to include recommendations to governments on how to stimulate economies and revive a moribund energy investment climate following the pandemic while also generating jobs and building a more resilient and cleaner energy sector. is "central" to the report.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 16, 2021

For comparison, the Fort McMurray fire of 2016 was up to six times more likely as a result of global warming. There’s no pretending that things aren’t changing, nor is there any denying that global demand for what we produce here in Canada must change with it. Climate change threatens many important industries.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

While the power sector must stop using coal without carbon capture-and-storage within 30 years in order to achieve global climate targets, the research points out that coal combustion still accounts for 40 per cent of global CO2 emissions from energy use, with demand still growing in China, India and other populous Asian countries.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Climate change is "landing blow after blow on humanity" yet the world is still failing to mobilise the hundreds of billions of dollars of investment needed to better prepare for and guard against the myriad worsening impacts of global warming. UNEP's report does point to some progress made by governments on climate adaptation.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The world should not develop any new sources of fossil fuels if it is stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C in line with international climate goals, as there are already enough supplies of gas required to meet global demand, a major new study today has concluded.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

New report warns world is 'heading in wrong direction' post-pandemic resulting in a 48 per cent chance the global 1.5C There is now a near 50-50 chance of global warming temporarily rising above the totemic 1.5C temperature goal could be temporarily breached in next five years. Meanwhile, between 3.3 billion to 3.6

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. We are more resilient and adaptive than we think.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. added resilient building consultant and former Passive House Canada board chair Deborah Byrne.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) chair Sir John Armitt has called for greater honesty and openness with the public about the urgency of investing in major net zero infrastructure projects, such as energy efficient buildings, flood resilience and public transport networks, in a speech delivered to MPs last night.

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