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What Is Energy Transition? A Guide to the Future of Energy

3BL Media

above pre-industrial levels as outlined in the Paris Agreement. National and international climate commitments, including those under the Paris Agreement, are driving policy shifts toward decarbonization by setting emissions reduction targets.

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DuPont Reaches 100% Renewable Electricity Across Europe

ESG Today

Converting our EU manufacturing sites to 100% renewable electricity is a significant step in our journey to further reduce our emissions, lower the carbon footprint of our products and put us on a clear path toward decarbonization in our operations by 2050. Scope 3 emissions were also down 39% from 2020 levels.

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Morgan Stanley Softens Climate Targets

ESG Today

Morgan Stanley set a goal in 2020 to achieve net zero financed emissions by 2050 and has released a series of interim financed emissions reduction targets for several high-emissions sectors, which it updated and expanded in its new report. Reflecting the current misalignment of the pace of decarbonization with a 1.5°C

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Outgoing Biden Administration Sets New 2035 U.S. Climate Goal

ESG Today

Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. NDCs are national climate action plans presented by each country under the agreement, and are required to be updated every five years with increasingly higher ambition. The new target is intended to form the basis of the U.S.

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Biden Bans New Offshore Drilling Across 625 Million Acres of U.S. Oceans

ESG Today

to the Paris Agreement on his first day in office after President Trump formally withdrew from the agreement in 2020. President Biden has made climate action a key focus of his administration, with high profile initiatives including returning the U.S.

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‘Significant’ risk of Amazon forest dieback if global warming overshoots 1.5°C

Eco-Business

The research, published in Nature Climate Change , assesses the impact of “overshooting” the aspirational goal of the Paris Agreement on the Amazon and Siberian forests. He tells Carbon brief that the authors selected “optimistic” pathways that “each have different relationships to the Paris Agreement goals”.

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Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes

GreenBiz

Wed, 09/16/2020 - 01:30. In order to manufacture products, companies in the industry sector must burn fuel, typically natural gas, to create heat. Interacting with the customer is especially important for the manufacturing industry, where production is profit, Gupta said. Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes.