Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

The EU’s climate commitments mean that we will replace those smokestacks with clean technologies, sooner or later. However, too many ESG funds merely invest in low-carbon tech companies from Silicon Valley, not in the startups developing essential climate technologies. Where Gail sees despair, Fred sees opportunity.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

With the UK set to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030 – and similar targets being introduced in other developed countries around the world – the market penetration for electric vehicle sales could well exceed 50% by 2030. Dynamic market expansion. The reason for this dynamic market expansion in recent years is two-fold.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 29, 2023

An array of new tax credits for clean energy development and a pledge to secure Canada’s place in a global green economy are at the centre of this year’s federal budget, released Tuesday afternoon by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, with an estimated $80 billion in multi-year funding for mostly clean energy technologies.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 17, 2024

With a new taskforce working towards developing global climate taxes, possibilities and challenges ahead are seemingly endless. To address climate change issues properly, the developing world needs more than US$2.4 C by 2050 commitment. However, the climate finance gap still yawns wide. trillion a year by 2030.

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

One set of actors that are most certainly moving fast are those companies at the forefront of clean technology transitions. In contrast to the global stocktake, which focusses on country-level emissions, the Corporate Climate Stocktake examines the pace of clean solutions adoption within economic sectors.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 11, 2023

For some years now, pundits and experts across the political spectrum have been proclaiming the end of the neoliberal era – the political and economic paradigm that dominated the global economy since the early 1990s, characterised by globalisation, free trade and the state’s retrenchment from the economy.

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James Militzer

MARCH 6, 2025

The endpoint of the Sustainable Development Goals, the year 2030, is only five years away. Yet instead of ramping up this sort of proven approach, multiple factors have combined to undercut gender and climate-focused funding in several key global economies. Consider the case of South Africa.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 30, 2024

The $70-million-plus project run by the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) – will be chockablock with cutting-edge mineral-processing technology, including systems that promise to recycle the water and chemicals used in the plant. Further technological refinements, produced in American and Japanese labs, followed in the 1980s.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Just like I got distracted by the lightning storm and failed to take note of the prevailing wind patterns, as a society we pay too much attention to the storms and flashes of the political economy, unaware of the prevailing winds of the real economy.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Almost daily, Canadians are faced with an onslaught of concerning developments south of the border on a variety of important issues. That familiar refrain is becoming ever more absurd as the worlds largest country puts its foot on the accelerator for clean technologies. But what about China?

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