Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

All of yesterday’s growth and fun came with a steep price tag. We’ll look at the rise and fall of alternate forms of energy and how they support the new resilient society we’re building. The trick in the coming decades will be to use all we’ve built with this energetic momentum into a modernized, resilient system.

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Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Energy 52

Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

Sustainability-linked sovereign bonds can help promote economic resilience and a much-needed sustainable recovery to Covid-19, according to the World Bank's Fiona Stewart and Samantha Power. Sovereign sustainability-linked bonds could provide a way to link sovereign financing with national climate and nature commitments.

Sustainability 87

Sustainability Government Resilience Policy 87

Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Firms with fewer than 250 employees - the traditional cut-off point for SMEs - may individually have a fraction of the climate impact of their corporate counterparts, but they together make up as much as 90 per cent of all businesses worldwide, according to the World Bank. A net zero emission economy cannot be built without them.

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Resilience Agriculture Investment Technology 36

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They must make both new and old infrastructure resilient to climate change disruptions to head off more frequent outages and catastrophic fires and regulators and customers want all this without big rate hikes. It can help with modernisation, reliability and resilience while being a net positive in terms of cost.

Energy Monitor 59

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Electricity Resilience 59

Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Research by Inside Housing has put a price tag of £104bn on decarbonising all the UK's homes, with an upper estimate of £250bn - equivalent to just under a quarter of the government's total projected spending for 2022-23. Unfortunately, that doesn't necessarily spell money for the private sector.

Climate change 92

Climate change Government Fossil fuels Construction 92

AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

With extreme weather wreaking havoc around the world, there is a need for resilient shelters more than ever before. EEMY Architecture and Design has created a sustainable and resilient structure that can withstand nearly all severe conditions. Each bamboo shelter starts at $8,500 and can be constructed within 28 days.

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Resilience Construction Sustainability Solar Power 36

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As green groups slam the government's 'attack on nature', the opposition is this week seeking to make bolder climate action central to its offer to the country. This is a plan that will drive jobs, tackle the cost of living, and protect our homes for future generations by tackling the climate crisis.".

Government 69

Government Policy Climate change Fossil fuels 69

GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

Kit Kennedy, senior director of the climate and clean energy program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), spends her time promoting renewable and sustainable solutions to problems that face the public. Typical programs have a price tag of several hundred thousand dollars. Chinyere originally set out to do criminal law.

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Law Education Energy Energy 130

Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Boris Johnson's speech should have fired the starting gun on a healthier, more resilient future for the UK," said Shaun Spiers, executive director of think tank Green Alliance. However, Ed Matthew of the Climate Coalition offered a damning assessment of the Prime Minister's heavily-trailed speech.

Packaging 92

Packaging Government Investment Fossil fuels 92

EDF + Business

JULY 30, 2019

You might not be thinking about smart cities, or how the company is working to accelerate technology innovation, eMobility, resilience, and urban sustainability. As air pollution and climate change pose unprecedented threats to cities across the globe, it’s more important than ever to transform the way that urban areas operate.

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Smart Cities Pollution Policy Organic 49

Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

Yet without action to get to net zero emissions across every corner of the global economy, the planet's climate will continue to warm. Increasing process efficiency and the use of recycled materials, as well as buying more renewable power, provides companies with major climate gains at very low costs.".

Carbon 72

Carbon Demand Recycled materials Investment 72

Climate 4.0

APRIL 1, 2021

What We Can Measure, We Can Address To address this situation, a small group of colleagues and I have developed a group of indices and rankings over the past decade that measure the relative technological progress of nations, and the relative difficulty they face in addressing climate change and economic development at the same time.

Climate change 52

Climate change Africa Resilience Investment 52

Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

In what is a crucial year for climate action in 2021, there CCC has today given the government much food - but little time - for thought - here are its top takeaways. Emissions may have fallen rapidly, but they are on course to rebound just as quickly to pre-pandemic levels as carbon-intensive transport use ramps up again, the CCC warns.

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Government Policy COP Carbon 62

AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Until very recently, investor demands regarding environmental impact largely have focused on the climate crisis and greenhouse gas emissions. Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top “theme” only means people have begun talking about it.

Biodiversity 36

Biodiversity Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 36

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

How the climate crisis will crash the economy Joel Makower Mon, 09/14/2020 – 02:11 The chickens are coming home to roost. Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. So many people and stories. financial system.

Climate change 36

Climate change Organic Sustainability Politics 36

Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

If concerns about the impact of Brexit or climate change on our food supply weren't incentive enough for a rethink of how we produce, import and consume food, the reality of the situation we have found ourselves in recently almost certainly is. Food production is breaching planetary boundaries.

Technology 67

Technology Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 67

Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

But several major new reports in recent days have stressed that longer-term policy stability, incentive programmes, and reforms crafted and enacted by the UK government over the coming weeks and months could prove just as important - if not more important - to the country reaching its 2050 climate goal that the much-debated stimulus packages.

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Policy Government Packaging Transportation 73

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. GHG emissions are what directly contribute to global temperature rise and are therefore the ultimate target of any action to combat climate change. emissions in 2018.

Carbon 531

Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 531

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

How the climate crisis will crash the economy Joel Makower Mon, 09/14/2020 – 02:11 The chickens are coming home to roost. Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. So many people and stories. financial system.

Climate change 28

Climate change Organic Sustainability Politics 28

The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

. | Bess Adler/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Biden administration on Thursday announced $100 million in funding to make low-income homes in the US more energy efficient and resilient to climate change. Both programs are funded through the Inflation Reduction Act.

Energy 140

Energy Energy Resilience Investment 140

Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 5, 2024

But let’s chit-chat about something that often tags along with investing: dividends. Just like in a garden where there’s a mix of sun-loving and shade-seeking plants, your portfolio can be enriched by including green dividend stocks that may flourish in different economic climates, offering stability amidst market fluctuations.

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Investment Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Hydrogen 83

Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

Navigating the boom and bust cycle of government subsidy programmes may have been turbulent, but throughout it all the sector developed a remarkable resilience. After one particularly deep round of cuts, around the decade's mid-point, the industry contracted in size by a third, shedding roughly 12,000 jobs.

Energy 69

Energy Energy Government Carbon-neutral 69

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The letter was written by prominent climate and biodiversity scientists from universities and organisations in top biomass sourcing countries – the U.S., The signatory scientists urge countries to stop relying on biomass given that it destroys forests, endangers wildlife, and accelerates climate change.

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Biodiversity Energy Energy Carbon-negative 235

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 14, 2020

But what about the chronic condition of climate change? The resulting reduction in CO2 emissions from manufacturing and transportation has opened up a window to what a more sustainable world would look like if we took action to address climate change. How to challen the power of collective action for the climate crisis.

Earth Day 52

Earth Day Climate change Resilience Transportation 52

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact. It’s a relatively new discipline born from the collective awareness that carbon dioxide emissions are impacting our climate. The ongoing commitment towards UNFCCC – via COP – symbolizes how the political recognition of climate change has increased globally.

Carbon 78

Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There have been repeated warnings about the UK's vulnerability to flooding - now the PM must put climate resilience at the centre of his 'leveling-up' agenda. It is a sobering reminder that climate change is very much in the here and now, with the threat of worse to come.

Climate change 49

Climate change Government Resilience Investment 49

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

By providing this intervention, the government now has the chance to make our energy system more resilient for the future. Despite these tough times, business remains in no doubt that doubling down on net zero is the route out of this crisis, the way we grow our economy and the way we make ourselves more energy resilient for the future.".

Government 73

Government Energy Energy Fossil fuels 73

ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This is inherently wasteful and it comes with a price tag of emissions. In my view, we need more innovative ideas like this to solve the climate crisis, and since this idea was developed by Dr. Saar, several improvements to the cycle have been proposed by other researchers, and the commercial sector is interested in advancing this concept.

Geothermal power 105

Geothermal power South America Cooling Fossil fuels 105

Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

While not exactly a climate tech deal, the $4.9B It’s the largest single carbon-management investment since the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), but not quite a true climate tech deal. The generous read: This could benefit climate tech interests in the long-term. Happy Monday-before-Barbenheimer! each hour of 2022).

Building Energy Monitoring 52

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 52

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. GHG emissions are what directly contribute to global temperature rise and are therefore the ultimate target of any action to combat climate change. emissions in 2018.

Carbon 28

Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is the kind of price tag that is bound to make treasuries baulk and climate sceptic newspaper editors salivate, but the report stressed that the benefits from building a global clean energy system would greatly outweigh the costs. But there is also a crucial climate angle, he argued. On the energy crisis.

Hydrogen 36

Hydrogen Energy Energy Fossil fuels 36

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

However, with the government also planning to lift the ban on fracking and potentially ditch hundreds of environmental regulations, concerns are sure to remain about the the new Downing Street's commitment to the UK's climate obligations. This could have been a win-win for house buyers, energy security and the climate.

Government 36

Government Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 36

Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

  👀 ICYMI, last week we unveiled Sightline Climate , our new market intelligence platform for the new climate economy. More than 20 leading investors, corporates, and governments already use the platform including the US Department of Energy, BHP, and Galvanize Climate.

Home Energy Monitoring 72

Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 72

DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

The FERC decision was split, with two of the five commissioners dissenting, writing that the Commission had failed to adequately examine the climate-changing pollution linked to the fossil fuel pipeline. Gulf Run’s relatively modest price tag — estimated at $540 million by its builders or over $1.1 Running to the Gulf.

Construction 98

Construction Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 98