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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. Since 2007, we have reduced the number of units in our coal generating fleet from 66 to 15 and expect to further reduce our coal fleet by the mid-2030s.

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UN: Pandemic causes dip in building emissions, but long-term outlook bleak

Envirotec Magazine

While the level of emissions within the sector are 10 per cent lower than in 2015, reaching lows not seen since 2007, this was largely due to lockdowns, slowing of economies, difficulties households and businesses faced in maintaining and affording energy access and a fall in construction activity. Some small progress, but not enough.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Logan Green has cited growing up with Southern California traffic and carpooling as a student in Zimbabwe for inspiring the launch of Zimride in 2007. million acres the 4.4

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How China's energy transition engine is driving change in the Global South

Corporate Knights

pulling out of the Paris Agreement, there is a fracturing of trust that is happening, says Fikayo Akeredolu, a Nigerian climate and energy-transition scholar completing a doctorate at the University of Oxford. And it so happens that lots of countries have these decarbonization targets, so how perfect is that? With the U.S.