Over $300 billion invested in clean tech in the US since passage of the IRA
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
In 2023, emissions were 16 percent below 2005 levels, according to Bloomberg.
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“No excuses:” Australia urged to exit coal, double rooftop solar by 2030 in accelerated push to net zero
Renew Economy
MARCH 26, 2024
Major new report maps out a path for Australia to deliver a 75% emissions cut below 2005 levels by 2030, and net zero by 2035. The post “No excuses:” Australia urged to exit coal, double rooftop solar by 2030 in accelerated push to net zero appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Queensland sets 2035 emissions reduction target of 75% below 2005
John Englart
DECEMBER 15, 2023
The new Premier of Queensland Steven Miles has announced for Queensland a new emissions reduction target of 75% below 2005 levels by 2035. This will be a legislated target.Queensland already has a commitment to deliver 50% renewable energy by 2030, 70% by 2032, and 80% by 2035.
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The climate litigation trend is gathering global momentum
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
New analysis reveals 80 cases have been filed against governments since 2005, seeking more ambitious action.
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Canada ranks dead last among G7 on climate progress: Earth Index
Corporate Knights
APRIL 19, 2022
Canada must make up for lost ground if it’s going to meet its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 45% from 2005 levels by 2030. The agriculture sector has seen emissions flatline since 2005, but a small GHG reduction in 2019 nudged it in the right direction. However, more needs to be done.
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From design to recycling, opportunities abound to make solar more circular
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
Since 2005, First Solar has been a part of an established global recycling and take-back program for its panels since 2005. As Andreas Wade of First Solar explained, the energy-resource nexus is a top priority at First Solar. The company works throughout the production, deployment and maintenance parts of the solar industry.
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How these oil and gas players are undermining climate action in Canada
Corporate Knights
MAY 31, 2023
Last year, it committed to cut emissions by 40 to 45% below 2005 levels by 2030. It’s counting on the oil and gas sector – which represents 26% of all emissions in the country – to shave its emissions by 31% below 2005 levels by 2030 while at the same time forecasting oil production to rise by 22% between 2020 and 2030.
Canada caught between climate obligations and dissent at home
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The Net Zero Advisory Body (NZAB) – a group appointed by Guilbeault to help the government find a credible path to net-zero – is proposing that Ottawa set a 2035 target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by between 50% and 55% below 2005 levels, a 10% increase from the current federal target for 2030.
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Canada's emissions inch up, but show progress
Corporate Knights
MAY 3, 2024
lower than in 2005, the base year used to measure national progress. compared to 2005 levels, even as they increased 73% in oil and gas extraction. Emissions from heat and power production were down 54% since 2005 and 7% since 2021, due to reduced use of coal and refined petroleum products and an increase in low-emitting generation.
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Rockwell Automation Employees Embrace Opportunity to Educate During Black History Month
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
AAPN was founded in 2005. “AAPN provides immense value to members and allies; it introduces you to the Rockwell community, fosters positive working relationships, and helps to enhance your career,” said Rockwell’s Stephanie Walker, corporate agreements manager and president of AAPN’s Milwaukee chapter. .
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Students Earn 2024 Fifth Third Education Scholarships From the Fifth Third Foundation
3BL Media
JULY 11, 2024
In 2005, Fifth Third established its Scholarship Program to award one-time, $2,500 scholarships annually to children of Fifth Third employees for study at a college or university. More than 450 students have merited scholarships since 2005. This year’s scholarships total $62,500. Tombragel, child of Greg Tombragel, Madisonville, Ohio.
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Timberland invests in regenerative leather ranches
GreenBiz
JUNE 19, 2020
It actually dates back all the way to 2005 [when] Timberland co-founded a group called the Leather Working Group (LWG), which basically was formed to address the impacts of the tanning stage of leather production," Angelini said. "We think we have a big opportunity in front of us to.
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Local Business DTOCS LLC Wins KeyBank’s Key4Women 2024 Women-Owned Business Pitch Contest in Partnership With Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO), and the Portland Thorns FC
3BL Media
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Founded in 2005 to assist Black-owned small businesses that were experiencing challenges in the wake of gentrification in North and Northeast Portland, the nonprofit now serves more than 600 entrepreneurs and small businesses in Oregon and Southwest Washington each year. For more information, visit [link]. KeyBank Member FDIC.
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3M's Hutchinson Minnesota Plant Celebrates 75 Years
3BL Media
AUGUST 17, 2022
A 5,000 square foot addition also expanded the plant’s office space. The 1960s and 70s were a time of growth for the Hutchinson plant. Numerous building additions were completed. By the late-1970s, the site covered about 90 acres. The plant’s north and south facilities are physically linked into one continuous building, creating a 1.4
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Aviation industry emissions are sky high - what is Canada doing about?
Corporate Knights
JULY 29, 2022
In Canada, “emissions from Canadian airlines increased by 75% between 2005 and 2019 to over 22 million tonnes a year; equivalent to the emissions from five million passenger vehicles,” Adamson and Vipond say. The sector has made innumerable concerted, ongoing, and self-interested efforts to undermine or delay efforts to reduce emissions.
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The future is climate-friendly software
GreenBiz
JUNE 4, 2021
Energy use in data centers doubled from 2000 to 2005, a trend we thought would continue. Today, they’re responsible for 1 percent of global electricity demand, with projections that the segment will consume 3 to 8 percent within the next decade. .
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YouTube's first-ever video was published 19 years ago and it was filmed at a zoo
Good.is: Planet
APRIL 27, 2024
The 19-second clip was uploaded by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005, and it was a simple video about his visit to the zoo.
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Electric school buses may yield significant health and climate benefits, cost savings
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
MAY 20, 2024
The researchers found that these benefits -- including fewer greenhouse gas emissions and reduced rates of adult mortality and childhood asthma -- and their associated savings are strongest in large cities and among fleets of old (2005 and before) buses.
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Forest carbon storage has declined across much of the Western U.S., likely due to drought and fire
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
JULY 11, 2024
The paper analyzed trends in carbon storage across the American West from 2005 to 2019. But a new study confirms widespread doubts about the potential for most forests in the Western US to help curb climate change.
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Scientists find a human 'fingerprint' in the upper troposphere's increasing ozone
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
AUGUST 2, 2024
A team detected a clear signal of human influence on upper tropospheric ozone trends in a 17-year satellite record starting in 2005. Scientists confirmed that much of ozone's increase in the upper troposphere is likely due to humans.
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KeyBank’s Key4Women Collects School Supplies in Rochester, NY
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Since 2005, Key4Women has been supporting the financial progress and empowerment of business women through advocacy, connections and empowerment. Teammates SaraJane Deisinger, Pam Suro and Sonia Navolio helped our branches collect supplies to help children and families who could not afford items on their list or need refills during the year.
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Local Business L&M Hair Company Wins KeyBank’s Key4Women, 2023 Women-Owned Business Pitch Contest in Partnership With Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO), and the Portland Thorns FC
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Founded in 2005 to assist Black-owned small businesses that were experiencing challenges in the wake of gentrification in North and Northeast Portland, the nonprofit now serves more than 600 entrepreneurs and small businesses in Oregon and Southwest Washington each year. For more information, visit [link]. KeyBank is Member FDIC.
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The benefits of being a climate optimist
Corporate Knights
MAY 17, 2022
The year was 2005, and Samsø had been chosen by the Danish government as a showcase for its emerging expertise in renewable energy and other emission-cutting efforts. It would become the world’s first “renewable energy island,” completely free of fossil fuels. That was the promise.
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Rockwell Automation Supports Relief Efforts for Hurricane Helene
3BL Media
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Hurricane Helene is the second-deadliest mainland US Hurricane in the past 50 years behind Hurricane Katrina in 2005, claiming more than 200 lives to date with hundreds of people still reported missing. Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) has committed $100,000 to the American Red Cross to support disaster relief for Hurricane Helene.
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Remember the ‘Disaster Girl’ from viral meme? She earned $500,000 by selling the original photograph
Good.is: Planet
APRIL 25, 2024
The viral meme has an interesting story behind it that goes back to 2005. It was a mischievous smile that made the internet go crazy.
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PacifiCorp plans nearly fourfold increase of solar and wind portfolio by 2032
Utiliity Dive
APRIL 6, 2023
The utility’s resource plan is expected to reduce its system's greenhouse gas emissions 70% from 2005 levels by the end of the decade and 100% by 2050.
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Whole Planet Foundation Approves $50,000 to Smiling Through Light To Scale Pay-As-You-Go Operations in Sierra Leone
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Founded in 2005, the foundation is a private, non-profit organization established by Whole Foods Market and dedicated to poverty alleviation. The nonprofit's mission is to empower the world’s poorest people with microcredit and the chance to expand a home-based business and lift themselves and families out poverty.
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Duke Energy - Duke Energy's annual Impact Report shares progress toward a cleaner tomorrow that includes affordability and reliability
Global Renewable News
APRIL 24, 2024
Highlights Carbon emissions from electric generation are down 48% from 2005 levels Since 2022, helped customers access nearly $377 million in financial supportDuke Energy (NYSE: D.
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A1 Boxing Academy Helps Youth in Denver Learn Self Defense
3BL Media
JANUARY 10, 2024
Bank company blog In 2005, Glenn Goodson saw a commercial about boxing and fitness, and that sparked an idea to open his own gym. Originally published on U.S. He soon became the proud owner of a franchise, but the budding Denver entrepreneur had a bigger vision.
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Xcel Energy, Inc. - Xcel Energy continues to deliver progress in achieving carbon reduction goalsSustainability report also shows job creation in communities, uptick in service reliability
Global Renewable News
JUNE 12, 2024
Xcel Energy has reduced carbon emissions 54% from the electricity it provides to customers from 2005 levels, the company announced in its 19th annual Sustainability Report today (June 12).Xcel.
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Delivering Tangible Climate Action Through the Circular Economy
3BL Media
JANUARY 4, 2024
Since early 2005, over 130 million kg of recycled plastics went into our products [4], with closed-loop post-consumer recycled (CL-PCR) content incorporated in nearly 300 Lenovo devices[5]. From manufacturing through to end-of-life, Lenovo supports sustainability at every step of the journey.
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Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Even with decarbonizing the electric and transportation sector, to reach long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, the United States would need an 80 percent reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide emissions by 2050.
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Canada can’t hit its net-zero goals without phasing out gas-guzzling vehicles
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Should Canada fall short of transitioning to zero-emission vehicles at the pace needed, we will fail to reduce national emissions by 40% to 45% below 2005 levels by 2030. Draft regulations applicable to heavy-duty trucks and buses – where emission levels have climbed rapidly, threatening to surpass those of cars – have not been released.
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3M’s Thinsulate and Scotchgard Helped Protect Racers in “World’s Highest Marathon” on Mt. Everest
3BL Media
AUGUST 12, 2024
The Everest Marathon , held every year since 2005 on May 29 and considered the world’s highest marathon, celebrates the historic ascent of Mt. Originally published on 3M News Center Running a marathon is an impressive feat on any terrain, but the challenge of taking on 26.2
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Labor Climate Policy for 2022 Federal Election, and science based climate targets
John Englart
APRIL 1, 2022
The Australian Labor Party announced on 3 December 2021 they would be taking to the next election (sometime in the next 6 months) an interim emissions target of 43 percent reduction by 2030 on 2005 levels. This is 2% lower than the target they had for the previous election in 2019.The
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Arbor Day Foundation to Distribute 1,200 Trees to Asheville Community Members
3BL Media
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The Foundation has been heavily invested in assisting disaster-affected communities and forestlands since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005 and has planted and distributed millions of trees as a result. The work has aided recovery efforts following hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and floods.
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Optimizing Energy Efficiency: The Benefits of Microgrids, PPAs and CHP
Environment + Energy Leader
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
In the aftermath of major power outages, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the interest in microgrids increased significantly as a way to provide critical infrastructure and services with reliable and resilient power during emergencies.
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Direct Relief Announces Appointment of Three Directors to Board
3BL Media
JUNE 21, 2024
From 2005 to 2007, Ms. Prior to that, she was the 37th Director of the United States Mint, a position she held from 2001 to 2005. He joined Abbott in 2005 as Counsel and progressed to Division Counsel, IP Litigation, and later became Divisional Vice President and Section Head, IP Strategy. Foreign Assistance in the U.S.
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My Refugee Journey: Returning Home Again
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Then the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005) turned my dreams upside down and forced my family to flee our home. As a young boy, I never dreamed of pursuing a career in medicine. Instead, I imagined a life following in my father’s footsteps as a cattle herder in Mangol Apuk in what is now South Sudan.
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Workiva Inc. Applauds Bipartisan Introduction of the Financial Data Transparency Act in the U.S. Senate
3BL Media
MAY 31, 2022
In 2005, the FDIC adopted data standards for collecting call reports from U.S. The FDTA seeks to modernize financial regulatory filings to gain similar efficiencies and benefits found in government innovation programs in tax, banking regulations, and open data reforms.
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EU Lawmakers Vote to Require all Member States to Cut Emissions by 2030
ESG Today
MARCH 14, 2023
The European Parliament announced today that it has adopted a revised Effort Sharing Regulation, including a first-ever requirement for all EU member states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and raising the EU’s overall 2030 emissions reduction target to 40% compared to 2005 levels, up from its prior 30% goal.
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LG Electronics Earns Top Rating in MindClick Sustainability Assessment Program for Marriott
3BL Media
APRIL 20, 2022
Since we began our alliance with Marriott in 2005, we’ve always held a shared responsibility to reduce environmental impact, while enhancing quality of life for guests. In 2021, LG achieved top scores in seven of the nine evaluation categories. “We We are honored to once again be recognized by MindClick as a sustainability leader.
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Aircraft Fuel Conservation and Fleet Modernization at FedEx
3BL Media
JULY 27, 2022
DESCRIPTION: In 2008, we set an aggressive goal to reduce our aircraft emissions intensity 20% by 2020, compared to a 2005 baseline. In 2011, we stretched our 2020 target to an even more ambitious 30% reduction from our 2005 baseline. SOURCE: FedEx Corporation.
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EU Lawmakers Approve New Carbon Tax, Tougher Emissions Trading System
ESG Today
APRIL 25, 2023
Established in 2005, the European Emission Trading System puts a price on carbon emissions for key GHG intensive sectors, including electricity and heat generation, oil refineries, steel, cement, paper, chemicals, and commercial aviation, among others. The Council also adopted laws to revise the EU ETS.
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