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The benefits of being a climate optimist

Corporate Knights

And it would soon achieve net-zero emissions. And here was a thriving net-zero community in prosperous Denmark to lead the way. . Fossil fuels hadn’t literally been eliminated, but Samsø’s energy planners added enough wind power to offset the emissions from the cars and ferries that continued to burn oil.

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Energy-Saving Water Technologies Could Bring the World Closer to Net Zero

3BL Media

There’s discussion among many water utility leaders to have water utilities sign up for net zero goals, for example,” he added. The city of Portland, Oregon, has used in-pipe units since 2015, saving enough energy to power several hundred homes. Planning for the future.

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Budget 2023’s clean investments don’t add up

Corporate Knights

There were a lot of big numbers in it, tallying up $112 billion of past announcements of climate commitments since 2015, as well as a raft of announced investments in Canada’s cleantech and auto sectors. The table below shows new budget funding to address the climate crisis and opportunity imperatives this fiscal year.

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Guest Post – From Bytes to Robot Bees: AI’s Pivotal Role in Eco-sustainability

ESG Today

In September 2023, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came out with some disappointing rollbacks around net zero, pushing back the deadline for the combustion engine phaseout, slowing the uptake of heat pumps, among others. However, the PM did hit the nail on the head when it came to the UK grid infrastructure… it isn’t ready for net zero.

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How European Climate Policy Can Bolster Energy Efficiency Measures

3BL Media

C target set out under the Paris Agreement in 2015. However, renewables and electrification alone can’t realize the EU’s net-zero ambition. Similarly, improvements in distributed energy generation and smart-grid technologies increasingly enable end-users to also become producers of energy, or “prosumers”.

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Indonesia’s Climate Transition in the Balance

Chris Hall

Despite the promise of funding to support its net zero journey, the country’s dependence on coal and mixed messaging around policy hamper progress. Indonesia has had the fastest growing per capita coal emissions of any G20 country since 2015. Momentum continued to build around Indonesia’s low-carbon transition last year.

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Unlocking the value of energy communities

Renewable Energy World

Digital solutions are unshackling a growing number of ‘active consumers’ and prosumers, thereby accelerating the development of local smart grids and even helping to cost-effectively balance larger regional grids. in 2015 to 60% in 2050 (IRENA).