With businesses under pressure to minimise energy costs, improve resilience and accelerate decarbonisation, what role can onsite technologies and systems play? Here, edie rounds up best-practice advice from the business leaders on this vitally important topic. When the UK Government first announced its legally binding net-zero target, it was regarded as world-leading. Aside from encouraging... Continue Reading →
Two of the world's biggest professional services firms have this week announced ambitious goals to slash greenhouse gas emissions and secure net zero status within the next decade. Boasting combined revenues of more than $60bn, EY and KPMG each outlined a range of actions to achieve net zero emissions and bolster their green credentials with... Continue Reading →
Consultancy giants announce ambitious new net zero goals
Climate From climate change and eco-tech to the latest green innovations and solutions: discover our selection of environment news and stories from around the world. The reason I highlighted this site is because similar to 'The Guardian' and the 'Independent_' some of the stories are difficult to find in other places. Continue to site... ... Continue Reading →
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Over 400 companies across some of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitting industries – from shipping to steelmaking - have agreed to work together on plans to decarbonize by 2050, according to a coalition of climate advocacy groups that set up the partnership. The agreement, to be announced at the virtual Davos... Continue Reading →
Heavy industry, transport sectors to align on net-zero climate plans
The oil industry spent much of Joe Biden’s first week in office publicly squawking in protest. The American Petroleum Institute called his decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline a “significant step backwards both for environmental progress and our economic recovery.” And in response to Biden issuing a 60-day halt on new leases and permits for drilling on... Continue Reading →
The Fossil Fuel Industry Thinks It Will Have a Good Year Under Biden
In June, as 15 million people nationwide marched in Black Lives Matter protests and employees at tech companies called on their bosses to cancel company contracts with law enforcement, Microsoft announced that it would temporarily restrict sales of its facial recognition software to police departments. In July, as temperatures in the far north climbed to... Continue Reading →
Big Oil, Big Profits, Big Brother
Despite all the attention on the new Biden Administration’s efforts to combat climate change, one state, California, is reshaping the world’s oil markets through its progressive climate policies. Most dramatic has been the state’s shift to renewable diesel (RD). Unlike its green cousin, biodiesel, RD is molecularly identical to conventional ultra-low-sulfur-diesel (ULSD), making it a... Continue Reading →
The renewable diesel revolution: How California is reshaping world oil markets
Solar Power is set to be the dominant transformative form of power on the mighty subcontinent of India as it moves away from its dependence on coal and towards a more sustainable future. But land is at a heavy premium there, so the engineers put their thinking caps on and came up with a solution... Continue Reading →
India’s Solar Canals. Lateral thinking at its finest!
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Shell buys UK’s largest electric vehicle charging network
A key part of the United States' clean energy transition has started to take shape, but you may need to squint to see it. About 2,000 wind turbines could be built far offshore, in federal waters off the Atlantic Coast, in the next 10 years. And more are expected. East Coast states from Maine to... Continue Reading →
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