Energy Refuge

APRIL 17, 2020

The world is becoming more aware of the dangers of greenhouse gasses and the pollution creating carbon emissions, believed to be responsible for symptoms of global warming. With this awareness, businesses that consume large amounts of power or contribute to this pollution are looking at ways to reduce their carbon footprint.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The new funding builds on an array of climate commitments made by the GLA under Sadiq Khan's leadership, including to make London a zero carbon city by 2030 and to develop a climate plan compatible with the highest ambition of the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

A Triad of Problems - Energy Storage, Pollution and Monies Humanity has 99 problems but energy generation ain't one. A second problem humanity needs to face, is marine pollution. There is much controversy surrounding the exact amount of pollution. FLoating SOlar - Combining the Power of the Sun and the Potential of the Sea.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

And although heat pumps can resolve this – they produce no carbon emissions or harmful air pollution – achieving their rapid installation in domestic homes on a mass scale is an immense challenge. In 2021, approximately 85% of UK domestic heating was provided through networked gas. Enter the BEIS.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As more wind turbines, solar arrays, and other renewable energy installations are built, they generate a larger proportion of energy on the grid. As more eco-invested consumers choose green power, it increases the demand for renewable energy sources. Have you read?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 9, 2020

Speaking of pollutants, the fishing industry also contributes heavily to beach and coastal pollution through petroleum and plastic waste in the form of broken nets and other debris. However, the U.S. ” Related: What do Americans think about fake meat products? BlueNalu is all about looking into the future of food production.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 3, 2021

Tucked into a proposal from Xcel Energy, the state’s largest electric company, was a comparison of two proposed solar projects: one, a giant solar array on the site of a closing coal plant; the other, a small collection of rooftop solar projects to serve low-income residents. October 8, 2020. 19 Pandemic.

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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. Investing in decarbonisation means investing in the future and establishing a region where people want to live and where businesses want to invest.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2019

A new report out this week, Business and the Fourth Wave of Environmentalism , suggests one possible answer: CEOs can turn their technology investments into a one-two punch that delivers business results and protects the planet. Investment firms are already seeing and taking advantage of this golden opportunity.

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EDF + Business

JULY 19, 2019

These sensors are making it easier and more affordable for companies to detect, visualize and manage a wide array of environmental impacts. As study after study shows how air pollution is bad for businesses , it’s in executives’ best interest to gain an understanding of the problem – and of the solutions.

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2022

To figure out how to make electric trucks work in practice, the manufacturer, the state of California, and a wide array of partners—more than a dozen all told—launched the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project in 2019 to test its first electric Class 8 tractors with multiple Southern California operators.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Campaigns run by the AAA and Danish Crown are just two examples of the way in which the meat industry is increasingly turning to a playbook long used by other polluting sectors such as Big Oil and pesticide manufacturers , with the campaigns ultimately causing “confusion and delay,” NYU’s Jacquet argues. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

But what about those wind turbines, those solar arrays, those hydro dams? This electrification of industry, buildings and transportation will help displace fossil fuels and cut pollution. Coal phaseouts result in sudden and dramatic decreases in carbon pollution. And the cleaner the electricity, the greater the benefit.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Argentine government, with the cooperation of an array of global institutions, has the country locked in an “oil and gas trap,” mortgaging the country’s future on fracking even as the financial risks continue to grow, the report warns. But it’s not at all clear the bet will pay off. The new Profundo report , commissioned by 350.org,

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

He also promised action to slash air pollution, plant 140 million trees, close 50 large open-air landfills, and reform regulations to ensure corporate bonuses are linked to environmental performance. China debuts new climate investment fund. In addition, he pledged to build 50 offshore wind farms by 2030 and six new nuclear reactors.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

While a North Star defines the way toward your destination, you need an array of instruments and maps to ever arrive there. We invest in energy companies that enable and increase the deployment of clean energy and reduced energy use, and companies that ensure that access to technologies and benefits are equitably distributed.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

In recent years, this lag in utility recognition has become increasingly problematic, risking the health, environmental, and financial impacts of over-investment in large fossil fuel power plants. When the first solar arrays were installed at homes, it made electric meters — as unprepared as the utility that owned them — run backward.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

Even where new policy documents have been unveiled, such as in the form of last week's Transport Decarbonisation Plan , observers frequently bemoan the failure to fast track promised green recovery investments and clarify long term policy plans. Energy Saving Tax Relief.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Polluting companies often buy carbon offsets derived from these relatively short term solutions. But they argue that permanent carbon removal will not be an option later without immediate, sustained investment. The council launched last year and includes more than 80 members representing a wide array of solutions.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

A wide array of trends and technologies have combined to ensure that nature is finally being given due consideration. Fears that a handful of successful nature restoration projects could be used as cover for the continuation of polluting business models are entirely justified.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 24, 2019

By commuting via e-scooters, it was hoped they would reduce traffic volume, promote zero-carbon transport and improve air quality by mitigating pollution. Consequently, Bird is trying to drum up more investment capital just to stay afloat, thus hinting at the startup’s overvaluation. Could this be the end for e-scooters?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Despite lower carbon dioxide emissions, the combustion of biomass can release other pollutants, including particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic compounds, which may affect local air quality and raise health concerns. Investment and research into these areas signal a shift towards more sustainable fuel alternatives.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

These changes could allow the bank to lend money towards not only supporting some of the world's least developed countries, but increasingly also to highly-polluting middle-income locations, using climate vulnerability as a key consideration in its borrowing criteria, according to the news site.

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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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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. The demonstrable reality is that burning an expensive and polluting source of energy costs more than generating power through clean and lower cost technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The rolled-back cuffs of his rumpled blue button-down reveal an array of mismatched wristbands. But it seems that the pull of massive revenues from these highly polluting clients means we probably won’t see an agency dropping them anytime soon.” In a June 2023 video interview, Yannick Bolloré looks relaxed.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Sustainability Summit will be part of the Planet Explore 2020 conference, our largest event of the year, which will draw thousands of online participants from a broad array of fields, geographies and disciplines. As a major financial institution noted earlier this year, in future, “climate risk is investment risk.”

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

. “There is a tension between the transition away from fossil fuels and issues of social justice,” Baker said, describing work among indigenous Mexican communities who were fighting displacement and pollution from a planned wind project.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Intelligent Sewer Suite was applied to an array of 98 level sensors already present in the network – 89 at combined sewer overflow (CSO) sites and the remainder at pumping lift stations. Blockages can lead to costly service failures including pollution or flooding events, but if spotted early enough, they can be quickly remedied.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Through incorporation with the Climate Resilience Demonstrator digital twin, this will lead to informed targeted decision making on strategic cross-sector investment to ensure water supply and sewerage services remain resilient in the face of a changing climate.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 11, 2024

“This project stands out as an exemplar for investment and innovation in renewable energies,” said a spokesperson for Shell. The facility is tasked with fabricating and assembling an array of process and pipe rack modules. To put this into perspective, consider the environmental impact of traditional diesel trucks.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

They will use their connections to network, lobby – and even raise investment. In our interactive Routes to Influence Map below, DeSmog has plotted the extent of the opportunities open to the world’s most powerful and polluting food and farming companies and lobby groups to influence debates at COP28.

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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

JUNE 23, 2023

The two corporations investing billions to build three new factories just outside Columbus, Ohio, have said that the facilities will be carbon neutral — despite Ohio’s near-total reliance on electricity from fossil fuels. “You can use this hammer to do something good, to build something, or use it to fracture somebody’s skull.”

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