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Closing the climate funding gap is key to Canada's prosperity

Corporate Knights

Emissions today are higher than they were in 1995, and in the 17 years since they peaked in 2007 they have declined a total of just 11%. This “decarbonization capex (capital expenditure) gap” is the focus of the Climate Dollars research project at Corporate Knights. R alph Torrie is the research director at Corporate Knights.

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Building a Sustainable Future: Owens Corning Releases 16th Annual Sustainability Report

3BL Media

Our commitment to a decarbonized future is evident throughout the report, as we share our progress toward doubling our product handprint and cutting in half our environmental footprint.”. Highlights from the report.

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Southern Company Issues 2023 Sustainability Summary

3BL Media

"The energy industry is currently facing simultaneous opportunities and challenges that compound these complexities: rapidly growing demand, potentially the greatest infrastructure investment cycle in a generation, a desire to decarbonize, a prolonged inflationary environment pressuring customer rates and an evolving regulatory landscape.

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Oil industry pioneer wants to lead sustainable aviation revolution. Will it take off?

Corporate Knights

Neste is well aware of the aviation industry’s epic decarbonization difficulties and is gambling its whole future on transportation biofuels. Decarbonization is the biggest challenge the aviation industry has ever faced,” the airline group’s Canadian chief executive, Ben Smith, said in a statement when announcing the Neste purchase.

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Podcast: Manufacturing and the Journey Toward a Low-Carbon Future

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Today more than ever, manufacturers across all industries are being challenged to employ more sustainable practices in their manufacturing processes, all in an effort to decarbonize. Industries that incorporate fossil fuels in their manufacturing process may have the biggest challenge ahead to decarbonize.

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New utility-scale solar needs far less land than a decade ago, LBNL says

Renewable Energy World

The authors said that concerns about the land requirements and land-use impacts of utility-scale PV have grown as deployment has accelerated and as decarbonization plans call for the solar sector’s rapid expansion. The sample included 736 plants totaling 35,482 MWDC (27,001 MWAC) that came online from 2007 to 2019 across 38 states.

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Southern Company Accelerates Clean Energy Transition With Expansion of Zero-Carbon Resources and Bold Net-Zero Goals

3BL Media

Our greenhouse gas reduction goals are to achieve 50% reduction from 2007 levels by 2030 and to reach net zero by 2050, consistent with the commitments of the Paris Agreement. Effective Execution of Decarbonization Strategies Through 2023, Southern Company has reduced Scope 1 GHG emissions by 49% relative to our baseline year of 2007.

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