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Ten good news stories on climate and clean energy in 2024

Corporate Knights

This year also brought important new policy research on an Indigenous electrification strategy , Indigenous participation in clean energy , and Indigenous housing and clean technologies. Climate policies are working with industrial carbon pricing leading the pack.

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EU Invests €4.8 Billion in Decarbonization Projects Funded Through Carbon Pricing System

ESG Today

The European Commission announced today that it has selected 85 decarbonization technology-focused projects to receive €4.8 85 innovative projects in 18 countries bring cutting-edge clean technologies at the service of climate action.

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Seeding a low-carbon farming wave

Corporate Knights

million cows in 2005) have partly offset rising nitrogen use, leaving Canadian agriculture emissions largely stalled. . In addition, the federal government’s Agricultural Clean Technology Program recently expanded its envelope to $195 million over five years (2021–2026). Closing the “say–do” gap.

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Global 100 companies prove sustainability is good for business

Corporate Knights

Members of the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI), a global equity index, derive just 30% of their earnings from products or services aligned with the Corporate Knights Clean Taxonomy, while 47% of the Global 100 do so (up from 41% last year). This is reflected in their performance.

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

Sustainable Development Network

The new report, issued by the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP), comes on the heels of the historic climate agreement last week between the United States and China, in which the U.S. The scenarios achieved reductions of 83% below 2005 levels, and 80% below 1990 levels. government reiterated the 80 by 50 goal. The U.S. “The

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Meet the 50 fastest-growing green companies in Canada

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With the International Energy Agency insisting that electric vehicles need to represent 79% of global bus fleets and 59% of heavy truck fleets by 2050, Bédard says, “The need to take immediate action to decarbonize transportation is clear.”. Earth Alive Clean Technologies. Greenlane Renewables. Growth rate: 146%.

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Nine million green jobs could be on the way as U.S. Senate passes $369B climate bill

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emissions 37 to 41% from 2005 levels by 2030, short of the country’s Paris agreement target of 50 to 52% but close enough to “make up the difference with executive actions and changes to state law,” Inside Climate says. A federal clean energy investment of this magnitude is our best defence. The Price of a Deal.