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Ecocentricity Blog: Embracing Clean Technologies, Even If We Don't Have All of the Answers Yet

3BL Media

Not Every Climate Change Question is an Honest One. It suggests that proponents of clean technologies like renewables and electric vehicles are being dishonest by ignoring or glossing over any downsides that come with them. The incumbent and extractive fossil-based technologies. Okay, so here’s my actual answer.

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Biden and the future of clean energy politics

GreenBiz

The theory goes that in order to rapidly deploy clean energy, you need three elements: technology; policy; and finance. When these components are integrated, we’re able to thoughtfully accelerate the speed and scale of clean technologies. The technology is there and is getting better.

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Canada ranks dead last among G7 on climate progress: Earth Index

Corporate Knights

He pointed to the fact that the Liberals established one of the world’s first comprehensive carbon pricing regimes, its requirement for phasing out coal-fired plants by 2030, and its investments in clean technology. billion over several years to fight climate change on top of what the government had provided previously.

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Bio-CHP provider selected to join Google’s climate change accelerator program

Renewable Energy World

Enexor BioEnergy, LLC, said it has been selected as one of 11 companies in North America to participate in the inaugural Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change. Launching in June, the three-month program grants climate-change-focused start-ups access to Google programs, products, people and technology.

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Canada’s net-zero opportunities might skip some provinces

Corporate Knights

Ontario, for example, has the highest number of workers in industries threatened by the energy transition but lacks a “consistent, comprehensive, and long-term approach” to climate policy that would support high-growth clean technology companies. We see this transition as inevitable,” Arnold said.

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If we want to compete, Canada needs a green and transition taxonomy ASAP

Corporate Knights

To achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 , the Government of Canada has invested billions of dollars in practical efforts to lessen the effects of climate change and encourage clean economic growth.

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Report Report: Timber, trends and TCFD

GreenBiz

A round-up of recent reports on sustainable business and clean technology.