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Corporate climate action: 3 acceleration areas to get ahead on in 2024

Corporate Knights

On this basis, the global community reached a consensus to: triple renewables and double energy efficiency, while transitioning away from fossil fuels. support climate innovation and encourage cross-border and inter-generational collaboration for sustainable social and economic development. million residents.

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Local Leaders and mayors call for power shift to meet net zero

Envirotec Magazine

Local and regional authorities are already delivering new approaches that demonstrate the value of locally based solutions: from transport infrastructure and decarbonisation to retrofitting homes and developing smart energy solutions. Addressing energy market failure.

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White vans go green: Half a million builders and plumbers needed to reach Net Zero

Envirotec Magazine

The finance should be predominantly met from the private sector with the Treasury pump-priming £5bn via a Net Zero Development Bank.[1]. The UK Green Building Council has estimated that to achieve Net Zero carbon by 2050, we will need to improve almost all of the UK’s 29 million homes, meaning we need to retrofit more than 1.8