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Climate Change, Environment
The race to zero is also a race to a better future This year’s UN Climate Change Conference brings the world together under a unifying challenge: a Race to Zero; that is, for industry, municipalities, investors and institutions to commit to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 at latest – writes
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Confidence among both renewable energy investors and developers is at an all-time high according to new analysis released by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). The report, Expectations for Renewable Energy Finance in 2021-2024, presents the results of a new survey of prominent financial institutions and renewable energy development companies
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Through its 2050 long-term strategy, the EU aims to achieve climate neutrality. Reaching this objective will require a cost-effective, just and socially balanced transformation of Europe’s society and economy.As part of the European Green Deal, in 2020 the Commission proposed the first European Climate Law to enshrine the 2050 climate-neutrality target into
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WorldGBC network has launched Sustainable Buildings for Everyone, Everywhere — a new strategy to tackle the climate emergency, health and wellbeing, and resource efficiency issues in the built environment. Supported by its 70 Green Building Councils and their +36,000 members, the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) network has launched Sustainable Buildings for Everyone, Everywhere—
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The World Business Council Sustainable Development has issued this briefing as part of a series of interim outputs linked to WBCSD’s current refresh of its Vision 2050, a landmark 2010 report that laid out a pathway to a world in which nine billion people are able to live well, within planetary
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The Women in Wind Global Leadership Program, a joint initiative of the Global Wind Energy Council and the Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition, has released a guide on Best Practices for Gender Diversity in Talent Recruitment as a resource to advance gender equality in the wind industry.The guide aims to
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Every year, more than 11 billion tons of waste are produced worldwide according to the United Nations Environment Programme – writes company president Brad Smith. A byproduct of our daily lives and every sector of the world’s economies, the trash we discard pollutes our land, clogs our waterways, depletes our natural resources
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SolarPower Europe is looking again for the brightest business ideas in the sector. At the SolarPower Summit 2020, the 3rd annual Digital Solar & Storage Startup Awards, which will take place online, will honour small, early-career startups with the most innovative ideas in the field of digitalisation and solar storage. Applications are open,
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With 6.1 GW of new capacity added, 2019 was the best year in history for the global offshore wind industry and 6.6 GW is expected to be installed in 2020 despite the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.Offshore wind is being seen as a major contributor to post-COVID economic recovery by
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The 2030 calculator is an innovative climate footprint tool to help consumers, manufacturers and brands alike understand the climate impact of consumer goods. The development of this application has been led by the Swedish Fin-Tech Doconomy as part of a wider partnership with UN Climate Change to increase awareness among stakeholders of the climate impact
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