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Ten good news stories on climate and clean energy in 2024

Corporate Knights

But its true: Canada and the world made enormous strides addressing climate change and building a cleaner economy. This year also brought important new policy research on an Indigenous electrification strategy , Indigenous participation in clean energy , and Indigenous housing and clean technologies.

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COP27 and the Canadian mini climate budget that wasn’t

Corporate Knights

The 27th UN climate summit, COP27, which got underway in Egypt on Sunday, seems to have been pre-ordained as a modest contribution to the increasingly fraught fight against climate change. . spending bill that pumps hundreds of billions of dollars into climate investments. .

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Seeding a low-carbon farming wave

Corporate Knights

A great deal of work lies ahead: to be on track to meet Canada’s national climate goal by 2030, emissions from the agriculture sector must decline at an average annual rate of 2.9 But data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) shows a yawning “say–do” gap, with emissions declining by just 0.4

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Budget 2023’s clean investments don’t add up

Corporate Knights

Contrary to what people might think, the federal budget tells us precious little about what the government is actually spending money on this year when it comes to clean economy incentives, or anything else for that matter. The official response was a shoulder shrug. That's a big number.

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Abrupt end to Canada’s green retrofits program leaves industry in chaos

Corporate Knights

With more than 165,000 grants already issued, and the rest of the audits and retrofits still in the queue, Greener Homes “has supported over 75,000 jobs in the retrofit economy, ranging from jobs in construction, made-in-Canada manufacturing, home energy auditing, sales, clean technology, and financial services,” the department said in a release.

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U.S. Department of Energy Shares Strategy to Secure the Clean Energy Transition

3BL Media

In order to keep up with rapid innovation, stakeholder demand for the transition to clean energy, and the urgent need to combat global climate change, the energy sector must transition significantly. In February of this year, the United States published and committed to the “Strategy to Secure the Clean Energy Transition.”

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New Report Shows How U.S. Can Slash Greenhouse Emissions

Sustainable Development Network

The scenarios achieved reductions of 83% below 2005 levels, and 80% below 1990 levels. If you bet on America’s ability to develop and commercialize new technologies, then the net cost of transforming the energy system could be very low, even negative, when you take fuel savings into account,” said Williams.