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Schneider Electric leads the smart grid revolution

Corporate Knights

In this weeks Corporate Knights drill-down, we focus on the importance of smart grids to transition to a sustainable economy, and Schneiders electrics investments in smart grid technologies. Smart grids are crucial for transitioning to a sustainable economy and addressing climate change.

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Budget 2023’s clean investments don’t add up

Corporate Knights

After last year’s budget, I submitted a media request asking the Department of Finance and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change how much they were set to spend to address the climate crisis in 2022. The official response was a shoulder shrug. They add up to $386 million, 0.02% of Canada’s GDP.

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Cisco: Three Years of Progress on the Pathway to Net Zero

3BL Media

Climate change is both an urgent issue needing immediate action and a topic that requires long-term planning for positive transformation. Climate investing has grown over the past few years, with more than 330 new sustainability, ESG (environmental, social, and governance), and impact funds launched from 2019 through 2022.

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The benefits of being a climate optimist

Corporate Knights

In 2019, I was reminded how remote from the centre of the world’s energy future Samsø had felt when I found myself on another Danish island with big ambitions. Who knew where it would lead? The few of us who knew of Samsø’s ambitious experiment hoped it was a snapshot of our future, but there was no clear path from there to anywhere at all.

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Prysmian Group’s $107 Million Investment Is Already Enhancing Sustainability

Environment + Energy Leader

In its 2019 Sustainability Report, the Prysmian Group said it was committed to combating climate change and to increasing its recycling rates. Running its operations on renewable energy is critical. Its record?

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The central role of energy storage in our renewable energy future

Sustainability Matters

As the impacts of climate change intensify globally and emission reduction deadlines loom, Australia must prioritise its power supply. The 2019–2020 Australian bushfires, which triggered widespread blackouts nationwide, underscore the urgent need for power resilience.

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Clean energy is hot: how industry employers can find the best people in a growing and competitive job market

Renewable Energy World

economy is gathering steam, as the Biden Administration commits to creating 10 million green jobs to help address climate change and consumer demand for it swells. Sunny optimism about the expansion of a clean-energy U.S. The sky’s the limit on green jobs.