Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

At the heart of the climate change challenge is the dependence on fossil fuels that is built into every sector, from buildings and vehicles to power plants and farm equipment, steel mills and breweries. With that built-in fossil fuel dependence comes locked-in greenhouse gas emissions. Such an alignment is possible.

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ESG Today

JULY 21, 2022

Real estate technology-focused venture capital firm Fifth Wall announced today the $500 million close of its inaugural Climate Fund, aimed at investing in solutions to decarbonize the global real estate industry. The post Fifth Wall Raises $500 Million for Real Estate Decarbonization Venture Fund appeared first on ESG Today.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 2, 2022

But the short-term crisis doesn’t change the inevitable, underlying logic of a rapid transition off fossil fuels. The European Union spent decades negotiating decarbonization strategies that were aggressive by international standards but still mild and equivocal compared to what the science of climate change demands.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 18, 2021

of Energy is backing 10 energy efficiency pilot p rojects that aim to transform thousands of homes and workplaces into resilient smart buildings. DOE is providing $61 million for the "Connected Communities" program, which will equip buildings with smart controls, sensors, and analytics to reduce energy use, costs, and emissions.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

As we emerge, we are learning how to build the capability to truly understand, qualitatively and quantitatively, our communities’ vulnerabilities against a much broader set of scenarios. In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

HVAC and climate control solutions company Trane Technologies announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BrainBox AI, which has developed an artificial intelligence and cloud-based building systems optimization tool aimed at helping building owners to accelerate decarbonization and reduce energy consumption.

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3BL Media

JULY 21, 2022

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned of ‘a rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.’ The mobile industry can do two things to help address the climate crisis. Firstly, to rapidly decarbonize as a sector – something that Ericsson is supporting via our ambition. The takeaway.

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