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Going for the E-S-Gold: Home of the Paris Agreement Hosts the Olympics

3BL Media

While there have been some setbacks, particularly regarding pollution in the Seine River and a reversal on using air conditioners in the Olympic Village, the Paris Olympics have won overall high marks for being environmentally friendly.

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We, Sofidel. Our Passions Fuel Our Future

3BL Media

These 13 were read and interpreted by photographer Pietro Paolini, founder of the “TerraProject Photographers” collective and winner of the World Press Photo in 2012 and the Marco Pesaresi Prize for contemporary photography in 2013. The Sofidel Group is one of the leading manufacturers of paper for hygienic and domestic use worldwide.

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Going green: The future of hydrogen energy

Renewable Energy World

Manufacturing and installing hydrogen technology at scale is one of the main ways that costs can come down — the sooner the economic landscape allows for this scale of deployment, the sooner the shift to a zero-carbon economy. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012.

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Paris 2024: High Ambitions for Lower-Carbon Games

3BL Media

In a bold move defined during the candidature phase, the Paris 2024 Committee pledged to halve carbon emissions compared to the average of London 2012 and Rio 2016. It meets a local need in the deprived Seine-Saint-Denis department, where half of middle-school children do not know how to swim.

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Siemens publishes advice for businesses on steps to decarbonise

Envirotec Magazine

In addition, decarbonisation is not just an objective imposed by policies such as the Paris Agreement: with the right approach, it also creates tangible business opportunities that go beyond long-term financial savings. Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

The corporation, which manufactures wood pellets as a purportedly renewable alternative to coal, did what most industries do in prospective communities — they promised jobs, economic development, and minimal impacts. Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. .

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ESG Explainer: On the Road to Transition

Chris Hall

In the whole of 2012, about 130 000 electric cars were sold worldwide. At COP26 in Glasgow last year, governments, businesses, and other stakeholders in the automotive industry and road transport committed to “rapidly accelerating the transition to zero emission vehicles to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement”.