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How Canada's LNG could hurt – not help – Asia's green transition

Corporate Knights

as a global climate solution, with some industry boosters even going so far as to call Canada’s supply of the fossil fuel the “cleanest in the world.” Yet this is still being presented by gas advocates as global progress on climate change. Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C.

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Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?

GreenBiz

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? This article originally was published on Yale Environment 360. gas company, Air Products & Chemicals, announced that as part of Neom it has been building a green hydrogen plant in Saudi Arabia for the last four years. Jim Robbins. Thu, 11/19/2020 - 01:30.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. What if the government were to integrate support for clean energy into its COVID-19 economic recovery program? Back to normal is not an option.

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Revolutionary changes in transportation could slow global warming if done right

Corporate Knights

Transportation is a growing source of the global greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change, accounting for 23% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions worldwide in 2019 and 29% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. While some of that will rebound, telework is likely to continue for many sectors of the economy.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants. In the U.S.

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U.S. Department of Energy Shares Strategy to Secure the Clean Energy Transition

3BL Media

August 17, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Global energy end-use continues to be highly dependent on fossil fuels, and the United States is no exception. In February of this year, the United States published and committed to the “Strategy to Secure the Clean Energy Transition.” SOURCE: Antea Group. DESCRIPTION: ST. PAUL, Minn.,

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. The stuff is in the air, coming [in] all directions. Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. .