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Chemours Joins University of Kansas-Led Collaborative the Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) To Advance Sustainable Cooling Technologies

3BL Media

By bringing together industry leaders, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), refrigerant reclaimers, and academic institutions, EARTH aims to drive innovation and create practical solutions that can be implemented on a global scale. The role of HFCs in mitigating 21st century climate change. Velders, G. Daniel, J. Montzka, S.

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Empowering Young Leaders to Solve the World’s Energy Challenges: Insights From Nine Business Case Studies Highlight Paths to a Sustainable Future

James Militzer

These young people have grown up under the shadow of climate change, and they rightly view it as a threat to their future. In retrospect, how should the VW CEO have reacted to the news from the EPA? This has inspired many of them to choose career paths that will prepare them to tackle this threat head-on.

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Building a More Sustainable Future with 6G

3BL Media

Besides an economic boon, it has become imperative that the technologies of tomorrow deliver positive environmental and social change, and 6G is foundational to this vision. As climate change brings rising temperatures and extreme weather, global citizens are demanding urgent action. 6G’s environmental sustainability use cases.

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Beyond Plastics: Shifting the Waste Reduction Burden from Consumers to Producers

B the Change

Enck: I served at the Environmental Protection Agency during the Obama administration, and when I left the EPA I wanted to work on an issue that had a very significant environmental impact. There were many people working on climate change, which obviously is important, but I felt there was an unmet need in regards to plastics.

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The oil industry says it might support a carbon tax – here’s why that could be good for producers and the public alike

Renewable Energy World

The oil industry’s lobbying arm, the American Petroleum Institute, suggested in a new draft statement that it might support Congress putting a price on carbon emissions to combat climate change, even though oil and gas are major sources of those greenhouse gas emissions. A carbon tax could be passed decades before 2050.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

Solutions to the world's biggest problems, including climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, are studied in research laboratories across the globe. As for the overuse of single-use plastics, the University of Exeter estimated that academic researchers produced plastic waste equivalent to 5.7 Elsa Wenzel.

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State of Corporate Conservation 2023: The Journey Towards Nature Positivity

3BL Media

For one thing, it means that for the last year or so, I’ve had a serious case of the “told you so’s” as developments on the global, regional and national scales from think tanks and academics have validated the work that we have all been doing for the last 35 years enabling the private sector to act for nature.