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Why electrification is key to curbing future climate change

Smart Energy International

Electrification holds the key to cleaner, more efficient energy distribution and use. With this year’s Earth Day seeing a continued climb in carbon emissions, what will our climate be like on Earth Day 2050? What do we need to do in our industry to ensure that global temperatures don’t stray more than 1.5°C

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

Happy Earth Day 2021! When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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Roundup: Fellows in the Field

Defend Our Future

Catching up with the Community Organizing Fellows While Defend Our Future’s campus ambassadors are enjoying a well-deserved summer break, our community organizing fellows have been hard at work with our partners to engage community members to build a future free from fossil fuels. Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to!

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Roundup: Fellows in the Field

Defend Our Future

Catching up with the Community Organizing Fellows While Defend Our Future’s campus ambassadors are enjoying a well-deserved summer break, our community organizing fellows have been hard at work with our partners to engage community members to build a future free from fossil fuels. Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to!

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). The Paris Climate Agreement opened for signature on Earth Day (22nd of April 2016), at the UN headquarters in New York. For simplicity, when defining scope 1 emissions, think burnt.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Clean energy for Native American communities. Vartan Badalian’s mother has a favorite story to prove that being born on Earth Day imbued him with an innate concern for the environment. One day while sitting in the car, she attempted to toss a piece of gum into a nearby trash can and missed. The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

AGreenLiving

Clean energy for Native American communities. Deonna Anderson Vartan Badalian, 28 EV100 Program Manager for North America, The Climate Group; New York City LinkedIn | Twitter Vartan Badalian’s mother has a favorite story to prove that being born on Earth Day imbued him with an innate concern for the environment.