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GREEN house effect: Calculate the savings from electrifying your home

Corporate Knights

As more people become concerned by the heat waves, forest fires and flooding exacerbated by climate change, they're switching their carbon-emitting home appliances for electric, emissions-free alternatives. Critics say fear of climate change will not prompt people to adopt new technology.

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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. It is a complicated place.

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Eco-friendly jetting backs super-thin tank technology at new hospital car park

Envirotec Magazine

Lanes has used a jet vac tanker to clean silt traps in the giant water tank. Ian Clapham said: “As climate change makes our weather systems more volatile with longer periods of heavy rain throughout the year, smart SuDS solutions like this will become all the more critical.

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Green light for path to UK’s first ‘electric motorway’

Envirotec Magazine

Because of the limits of existing technology, the plan says “removing [road freight] emissions requires the development and deployment of clean technologies.”.

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Sizewell C to power desalination plant with clean electricity

Envirotec Magazine

Desalination will become an important future technology in the UK as the effects of climate change put greater strain on water supplies in rivers and reservoirs. Our desalination plant will run on clean energy and combined with our long-term plan for water, will help build a more resilient supply in the East of England.

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Trade groups call for solar funding reprieve in Scotland

Envirotec Magazine

“More than 60,000 households already have solar panels and we need more installed across the country on homes, businesses and public buildings to protect consumers from the high electricity prices the UK currently faces and to tackle climate change. “It

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Bloomberg report: Urgent deployment of existing technology can get world close to net zero

Envirotec Magazine

Although prevailing wisdom holds that time is running out, BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2024 seemingly shows how the world could still achieve the major goal of the Paris Agreement – holding global warming to well below 2°C and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change – and what it would take to get there.