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Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?

GreenBiz

The last 15 percent of the economy is hard to clean up — aviation, shipping, manufacturing, long-distance trucking," Fakhry said in an interview. The last 15 percent of the economy is hard to clean up — aviation, shipping, manufacturing, long-distance trucking. Green hydrogen can do that.". Green hydrogen can do that. Pull Quote.

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Driving Sustainability: FedEx's Commitment to Carbon Neutral Operations and a Greener Global Supply Chain by 2040

3BL Media

Between FY 2009 and FY 2023, FedEx reduced its carbon dioxide equivalent emissions intensity on a revenue basis by 48%, even as volume grew by 121%. These efforts have a natural alignment with the companys longstanding work to improve the efficiency and sustainability of its operations.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. But seven years on, researchers, regulators and activists are still arguing about how California’s most famous climate policy has affected its most vulnerable residents — and how to do better.

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From Human to Planet: Why Innovation Is Key to a Sustainable Future

3BL Media

Lenovo is also working with its supply chain to use sustainable biofuels in our ocean shipping with Maersk. Lenovo has been measuring its emissions since forming its first emissions reduction goals in 2009/10, which it met and exceeded in 2020. Every business has a role to play on the journey to a more sustainable future.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

In background briefings, officials said the announcement makes Canada the first of the world’s wealthiest countries to publish a detailed implementation plan for a pledge that was first announced at the G20 leaders’ summit in Pittsburgh in 2009.

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Preserving Land for Future Clean Energy Projects

3BL Media

As Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand surveys his city's otherwise pristine oceanfront landscape, he can't help but notice an unmistakable scar that has bothered the former airline crew chief since before he was elected to public office in 2009.

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Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park to use hydropower for operations

Renewable Energy World

Access to clean, renewable power will eliminate the need to ship more than 38,000 gallons of diesel fuel annually through the sensitive marine environment of southeast Alaska. Operating since 2009, the Falls Creek Hydroelectric Project eliminates the need to import an estimated 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel annually to Gustavus.