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Bloomberg report: Urgent deployment of existing technology can get world close to net zero

Envirotec Magazine

The new report indicates that the speed with which clean technologies and decarbonization of the power sector are scaled up is crucial. The power, transport, industry and buildings sectors transition at different speeds based on the technologies available for them to decarbonize, but all see emissions start to fall immediately.

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Report details China’s complex energy landscape and its enormous green energy shift

Envirotec Magazine

The power sector is decarbonizing quickly by replacing coal with domestically sourced renewable energy, and domestically produced coal will largely be sufficient for the remaining coal demand segments by 2050. On the other hand, DNV forecasts fossil fuels will still account for 40% of its energy mix in 2050.

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GREEN house effect: Calculate the savings from electrifying your home

Corporate Knights

Corporate Knights partnered with the Toronto Star to analyze the co-benefits of these clean technologies, quantifying just how much households can save by adopting them, and what their impact will be on emissions. And the faster these technologies are adopted, the fewer emissions Canada will produce. In the U.S.,

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Crumbs of consolation? What the budget offered

Envirotec Magazine

Veolia’s Gavin Graveson saw the budget as “a missed opportunity” given the dearth of measures to deliver decarbonized and local energy. Decarbonizing these modes of transport received an apparent boost with a £270 million joint investment in technologies for zero-carbon aircraft and automotive.

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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

The EU’s climate commitments mean that we will replace those smokestacks with clean technologies, sooner or later. We want financiers to commit $1 trillion USD annually to decarbonization and negative emissions technologies. Where Gail sees despair, Fred sees opportunity. Where Gail sees despair, Fred sees opportunity.

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Think tank outlines possible clean energy industrial strategy for the UK

Envirotec Magazine

It did so by making a bet that only government policy could move the economy and private sector to embrace clean energy at scale; and the only way to do this required restoring US manufacturing, addressing the supply chain crisis, and making energy both carbon-free and cheap. Economic opportunity.