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Innovative Partnership Sets Green Banks and Community Lenders Up for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Success

Elemental Excelerator

In addition to supporting the expansion of Banyan’s platform to additional community lenders, Milken will provide a set of trainings and best practice resources on funding and developing specific types of projects of interest to community lenders.

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EPA Creates Historic National Green Bank; Elemental Excelerator Partners With Winning Coalitions to Deliver Climate Solutions

Elemental Excelerator

Elemental will join winning Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund awardees to invest in climate solutions that create jobs, improve public health and advance economic opportunities for communities across the country. The work we have done over the last 14 years investing in climate technologies has prepared us for today.

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Government must recognise the key role of local authorities in tackling climate crisis, says coalition

Envirotec Magazine

Ahead of the publication of the government’s Net Zero Strategy, which sets out where carbon emissions savings will be made, a coalition of local government, environmental and research organisations have called for urgent powers and resources for local authorities. What we need now is the recognition and resource to go further, faster.”.

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'Plausible': Why scientists believe delivery of COP26 climate targets could cap warming at 1.9C

Business Green

target is highly unlikely unless national climate pledges are strengthened and followed with policy action. The world stands a chance of capping global temperature rise at just below 2C if governments act quickly to enact the policies required to deliver on their national climate pledges, fresh scientific research has concluded.

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Do Solar Panels Work in Cold Weather?

Sunrun

Even in cold, northern latitudes and rainy climates, solar power is a reliable and resilient energy source. A solar installation generates clean, renewable energy—year round. Now is a great time to go solar. It’s your home, use your own energy. It’s your home, use your own energy.

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An Open Letter: The Texas Energy Transition—The Greentown Labs Community Offers Pathways to a Resilient and Sustainable Energy Future

Greentown Labs

The Texas energy crisis in February 2021 reminded us of the precariousness of energy systems and their high costs of failure. At least 111 deaths are confirmed , over 17M homes lost access to clean wate r , and $200B in damages are projected. The cold weather in February 2021 caused energy demand to skyrocket.

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New California Energy Policy Simulator Modeling Shows Major Benefits Of Early Action

Energy Innovation

This week, Energy Innovation released new rese arch evaluating California’s climate progress and identifying a policy pathway that would reaffirm California as a climate leader. This modeling showed the state is off track for its 2030 and 2045 climate goals, and must triple its historic emissions reduction pace.

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