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Is 'net zero' much ado about nothing?

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According to one telling , a group of female climate leaders met at a Scottish estate in 2013 to discuss bold climate goals that could be enacted two years later in Paris. After a heated debate, they agreed that the goal should be to pursue net zero by midcentury.

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Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes

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Skyven Technologies, founded in 2013, is a company with a unique proposition for companies in the industrial sector — a way to save money through decarbonizing. Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes. Myisha Majumder. Wed, 09/16/2020 - 01:30. dissertation in microelectronics to an entirely different field: climate change.

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Inside Salesforce’s bold play for supply-chain leadership

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degrees Celsius goal of the Paris Agreement; to develop and implement a plan to reduce “the carbon footprint and the environmental impact” of any products or services provided to Salesforce; and to publicly disclose their Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. He welcomed the nudge from Salesforce.

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Using Carbon Markets To Fuel the Energy Transition

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This is the first in a three-part series exploring how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can spur the clean energy transition. According to International Emission Trading Association estimates , Article 6-powered financial flows to achieve Paris Agreement goals could soar to $1 trillion a year by 2050.

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COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet

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Serving as a negotiator to the series of Climate Change COP events since COP21 (2015) where the Paris Agreement was adopted, Dr Abdel-Aziz provided the Alliance with exclusive insight into this year’s landmark developments and future prospects. Human activity is overloading the natural carbon cycle.

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

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In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. does not account for carbon loss from the wood pellet industry because it is no longer part of the Paris Agreement on climate change. .

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We, Sofidel. Our Passions Fuel Our Future

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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. www.sofidel.com. Sofidel Press Office. Silvia Colleoni – +39 349 3457751 – silvia.colleoni@bcw-global.com.