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

3BL Media

This strategy centers around goals to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030, create a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035, and achieve net zero emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050. How Is the US Strategizing to Secure the Supply Chain?

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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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IRA: A Driver of Increased M&A Activity?

Chris Hall

Some of these provisions are likely to increase the supply of and demand for companies who directly benefit from the IRA. For example, the IRA will protect and promote the solar industry, which has been struggling to overcome the recent hurdles in supply chain logistics. What are the relevant aspects of the IRA?

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Meet the 50 fastest-growing green companies in Canada

Corporate Knights

Earth Alive Clean Technologies. Building on scientific research that began in 2005, Earth Alive Clean Technologies has developed a platform called “Soil First”: a portfolio of innovative biological and microbial technologies that reverse today’s global trends toward soil degradation. Growth rate: 28%.

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

Corporate Knights

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. But Sanders’ amendments received little or no traction, with a couple of them defeated by 1-99 and 1-97 margins.

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EU Commission Commits €4.6 Billion to Support Cleantech Projects

ESG Today

billion for net zero technologies, including €1 billion targeted specifically to electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing, and a further allocation of €1.2 Teresa Ribera Rodríguez, Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, said: “By investing more than €4.5

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Legislative Carrot Feeds US Climate Transition

Chris Hall

billion in developing its US solar supply chain, opening a second plant in Georgia, raising its total annual solar panel production capacity to 8.4 gigawatts (GW) by 2024. US-based FirstSolar is investing US$1.2