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Petroleum workers journey into the world of renewable energy

Corporate Knights

In 2014, a global oil glut sent petroleum prices spiralling down. We need to shift our country’s labour market in order to implement solutions to slow climate change.” . In 2013, a buddy of Newfoundland apprentice electrician Devin Keats convinced him to go west to work in the oil and gas fields of Alberta.

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Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator Announces 12th Cohort Focused on Climate-Aligned Agriculture

3BL Media

The cohort consists of sustainable agriculture companies focused on mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change on global food systems. "In The selected companies have commercially viable technologies with tremendous potential to deliver environmental, economic, and societal benefits.” “As

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New Report Shows How U.S. Can Slash Greenhouse Emissions

Sustainable Development Network

20, 2014 Researchers Map Low-Carbon Investments and Policy Changes A new report shows how the United States can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, using existing or near-commercial technologies. The report suggests that a multifaceted technology approach is needed to meet the greenhouse gas reduction target.

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Converging crises call for converging solutions

GreenBiz

Perversely, it is possible that economic crises will be the catalyst we need to address climate change. That’s because the problems have the same solution: the rapid deployment of clean technologies across the economy. . But thanks to clean energy, this relationship is no longer true.

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Why Battery Energy Storage Is the Solution Everyone Needs. For Now

3BL Media

Climate change, renewable energy , and the electrification movement are the intertwined drivers behind the surging interest in battery energy storage systems (BESS). Wind and solar power help resolve the climate crisis by replacing fossil energy with zero-emission electricity, but these resources are, by nature, intrinsically variable.

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The case for raising up women in climate tech

GreenBiz

That’s equivalent to roughly 10 years’ worth of China’s annual emissions as of 2014 — an amount that far surpasses the 90 billion ton avoidance potential of Drawdown’s top-ranked solution, refrigerant management. Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels.

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Navigating EHS and Sustainability in 2025: What to Expect From the Incoming U.S. Administration

3BL Media

Costs for a lot of those technologies are falling fast. Companies are under pressure from their customers and investors to deal with climate change. There is no denying that another Trump presidency will stall national efforts to tackle the climate crisis and protect the environment, but most U.S.