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Ten good news stories on climate and clean energy in 2024

Corporate Knights

In fact, gas vehicle sales in Canada peaked in 2017 and have been falling ever since. This type of planned transition in the building sector is necessary to protect consumers from higher costs and stranded assets. nationally. The question ahead is one of pace, with Quebec rapidly taking the North American crown for EV adoption.

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Ontario and Alberta are building natural gas plants despite lower costs of renewables

Corporate Knights

There is also the risk that fossil fuel infrastructure is retired before the end of its economic lifetime and becomes a stranded asset—a liability taxpayers would likely pay for.” As a result, carbon pollution from the Ontario grid is expected to increase 375% from 2017 levels by 2030, and 600% by 2040.

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Larry Fink says accelerate. He needs to say it much louder

GreenBiz

Every dollar not spent in new ways to cut GHG and to stop the voracious linear economy is investing in future stranded assets. Remember the mess at NRG in 2017 ? For investors, the acceleration question is: What are the companies in your portfolio doing in 2021 to cut pollution by 10 to 15 percent this year?

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Is someone you know changing the world? Nominate them for the constellation prize

Renewable Energy World

Keith Schue and I were introduced through email in 2017 by the executive director of New York Geo , Bill Nowak. The focus of our argument beyond reduction of GHG emissions was that the installation of natural-gas-fed electric power generators would be a “stranded asset.”

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Jay Egg wins award for proposing a renewable solution over a gas-fired project planned for NY building

Renewable Energy World

Back in October of 2017, Jay wrote an article that Renewable Energy World published called CHP Project for Empire State Plaza Misses the Mark. Just after the holidays I heard from an old friend, Jay Egg , who heads up a geothermal consulting firm, EggGeo.

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Energy Giants Come Under Shareholder Pressure on Emissions

Chris Hall

Most of the co-filers of the TotalEnergies proposal are members of investor coalition Climate Action 100+, which has been engaging with the firm since early 2017 to ensure alignment of emission reduction targets with a 1.5?C C aligned and be an example for others in the sector”, he added. Pressure on Amazon.

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Blog by Fred van Beuningen: Climate and the cost of inaction

Clean Tech Delta

His apocalyptic scene in 2045 where hurricane Odessa destroys houses and floods large parts of Houston Texas has actually happened in 2017, when hurricane Harvey reached Texas in a world already 1 degree warmer than in preindustrial times. In the twelve years since the first book was published, the situation has not improved.