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Trane Charmes Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels With Innovative Heat Pump Technology

3BL Media

The installation of the electrified Thermal Management System at Trane Charmes is an example of the real-world, sustainability-in-action needed to bend the curve on climate change,” said Dave Regnery. Trane Charmes is helping Trane Technologies reach its sustainability goals.

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AI doesn’t have to be a power hog

GreenBiz

At the current rate of AI adoption — with no changes in the underlying computer server hardware and software — the data centers needed to run those applications could claim 15 percent of that power load, semiconductor firm Applied Materials CEO Gary Dickerson predicted in August 2019. So, what’s being done to "bend the curve," so to speak?

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New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion

GreenBiz

When surveyed in 2019, 42 percent of our member companies put "biodiversity risk" as important or very important to them. The Earth’s interrelated systems of water, land, biodiversity and ocean are facing unsustainable pressure. We cannot win the fight against climate change without addressing nature loss.?.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

We are bending the curve on Canada’s fight on pollution.” In a release Monday, Oil Change International placed the total at $50 billion since 2019. But as far back as 2019, it was not certain that LNG exports would replace coal, rather than being used side by side and delaying clean energy alternatives.

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Nature Map Earth Project Launched

Sustainable Development Network

Building on the work of the Bending the Curve Consortium of biodiversity modeling teams and others, the Nature Map initiative will also explore geospatially explicit estimates of restoration potentials across the world. Preliminary results are expected in advance of the United Nations Climate Summit in September 2019.

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3 Sustainability Leaders (That Are Saving The World)

Carlos Sanchez

She is Convener of Mission 2020 , an initiative to ensure the world bends the curve on greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 protecting the most vulnerable. Mann received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2019. Founded in 1995 and directed for 8 years of the Center for Sustainable Development of the Americas (CSDA).

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Minneapolis Health Department splits the bill with green investors

Renewable Energy World

Between 2016 and 2019, Cost Share invested 3.5 In 2019, Cost Share contributed to 173 projects and 5,500 tons of reduced carbon dioxide emissions. You really start to bend the curve down towards hitting your 80% reduction goals by 2050, if you can maintain that level of reduction. Concentrating Impact Where it Counts.