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

Corporate Knights

Together, a combined green and transition taxonomy can support a holistic approach to achieve a low-carbon transition. Most of the G7 and G20 countries are moving ahead with their taxonomies, which speaks to their importance in a clean-growth toolbox.

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How the US Is Running Away with Green Investment

Chris Hall

With the looming Paris Agreement goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 43% by 2030, nations are adopting different approaches to stimulating their green economy and encouraging sustainable investment. The UK, meanwhile, is trailing behind in terms of green investment.

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Overshoot is Here

Chris Hall

This means that the entirely predictable and necessary Ratchet-driven call post-2025 for increased policy and significant uplift of global investment into clean energy and clean technology systems must be heeded with a tagline of ’we really mean it this time’.

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More Than a Pipe Dream?

Chris Hall

Green hydrogen has huge potential and multiple use cases, but cost concerns and operational risks linger. The world’s net zero future depends on introducing and upscaling clean technologies to neutralise and/or replace the hardest-to-abate CO2 emissions produced by carbon-intensive industries. Circular argument.

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AI Revolution is Transforming Clean Investment

Chris Hall

That’s according to Jennifer Boscardin-Ching, a Client Portfolio Manager with Pictet Asset Management, who has seen AI become the most transformative trend in clean energy investing. This seemed to be at the expense of ESG-related investments, which fell down the list of asset managers’ priorities. gigawatts of solar power.

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Renewable Energy Shift Unstoppable Despite U.S. Election Result

We Mean Business Coalition

Delaying the transition to clean solutions, will mean losing competitiveness vis a vis countries like China that will reap the benefits of their leadership in the development of clean energy supply chains (from extraction of critical materials and manufacturing, to combining clean solutions like renewables, electric vehicles and battery storage).

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Legislative Carrot Feeds US Climate Transition

Chris Hall

billion in developing its US solar supply chain, opening a second plant in Georgia, raising its total annual solar panel production capacity to 8.4 US-based FirstSolar is investing US$1.2 Swedish battery developer Northvolt is considering pausing a German factory expansion to instead take advantage of the opportunities in the US.