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October 25, 2021 3:18 AM
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Net-zero emission targets are the new normal for both governments and businesses. But achieving them is often a different story. Certain emissions are difficult to avoid easily, so neutralising them by investing into climate action projects in developing countries has become a fixture in many companies' climate plans.
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July 27, 2021 8:35 AM
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Un an après avoir été retenues dans la démarche nationale '' Territoires d’innovation'', les premières actions du projet '' La Rochelle territoire zéro carbone '' se lancent. La première coopérative locale du carbone est en cours de constitution.
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June 3, 2021 5:39 AM
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Electricity from heat pumps, combined with a shift to renewables in district heat networks, emerged as the winning technologies to drive the Finnish capital’s transition to carbon neutrality by 2035. Finland has “a very strict target” to become carbon neutral by 2035 and the same goal applies to its capital city, said Kaisa-Reeta Koskinen, manager at the Carbon Neutral Helsinki project. Helsinki has a huge challenge decarbonising its district heating system, which is currently entirely fuelled with coal and gas, she told a EURACTIV virtual event on 20 May.
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May 17, 2021 2:22 AM
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Annual GHG emissions from U.S. households peaked in 2005, the researchers report in Environmental Research Letters. Since then, emissions have been decreasing by about 2% per year.
One reason for this that newer homes and appliances are more energy efficient. But the main explanation is that the U.S. electric grid is decarbonizing. Less fossil fuel power and more renewable power means that the average kilowatt hour of electricity results in fewer GHG emissions than it used to.
The decrease isn’t fast enough to keep global warming within 1.5 °C – that would require emissions to fall about 7% per year.
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March 10, 2021 1:00 PM
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Les villes moyennes françaises ont un potentiel très important et largement sous-estimé en matière de décarbonation ! Découvrez nos neuf propositions.
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February 18, 2021 8:02 AM
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There will be social, cultural and relational repercussions that must be accounted for to uphold just transition: to leave none behind.
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January 26, 2021 3:24 AM
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Des étudiants proposent des solutions pour aider les villes de moins de 200.000 habitants à réduire leur empreinte carbone.
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January 5, 2021 2:02 AM
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Decarbonisation of heating requires switching from systems and appliances that combust fossil fuels to those that rely on renewable energy. Nowhere is the switch more challenging to achieve for existing building stock than in the UK. If it can be done there, it can be done anywhere
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December 21, 2020 5:14 AM
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In July 2020, Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), promised to explore every avenue for greening the ECB’s operations, including the asset purchase scheme undertaken to help stimulate the Eurozone economy. Indeed, the rapid and profound economic devastation brought on by the coronavirus pandemic illustrates the vulnerability of our economies to catastrophic shocks and should prompt central banks to hasten progress towards a low-carbon transition. The ECB simply cannot afford to address one crisis whilst neglecting – if not worsening – another.
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December 1, 2020 2:43 AM
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Le projet Goéland est issu d’un groupe d’étudiants réunis afin de proposer une réflexion sur la transition écologique de notre société. Convaincus que les villes moyennes peuvent jouer un rôle
important dans la décarbonation de nos sociétés, et constatant que peu d’études synthétiques sont consacrées à cet échelon territorial, nous avons souhaité synthétiser les connaissances sur le sujet dans ce rapport, afin d’en faciliter l’accès aux élus locaux et aux citoyens en hiérarchisant les priorités (notre critère principal étant la décarbonation).
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November 5, 2020 10:53 AM
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Beyond market neutrality in the ECB's corporate QE
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October 1, 2020 10:44 AM
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According to the European Green Deal, transport accounts for a quarter of the European Union’s greenhouse gas emissions, a substantial contributor to climate change. A 90% decrease in transport emissions, and an increase in renewable energy sources, will be necessary in order to reach climate neutrality by 2050. Steps have been taken in the right direction, with the EU adopting one of the most ambitious renewable energy policies in the world in 2018; the revised Renewable Energy Directive. This Directive strengthens the sustainability of bio-energy – allowing Europe to maintain its role as a global leader in the fight against climate change.
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October 1, 2020 8:14 AM
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Berlin, Bristol, Cape Town, Durban, London, Los Angeles, Milan, New Orleans, New York City, Oslo, Pittsburgh and Vancouver sign C40’s ‘Divesting from Fossil Fuels, Investing in a Sustainable Future Declaration’.
The 12 cities pledge to divest from fossil fuel companies and advocate for greater sustainable investment, as part of their commitment to accelerating a green and just recovery from COVID-19.
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September 8, 2021 5:47 AM
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Bike share equity remains an uphill battle in impoverished neighborhoods and communities populated primarily by low-income residents and people of color. However, neither catering to affluent, white men nor community apathy and indifference are necessarily to blame. The reasons are complicated, but progress is happening, and more inroads are on the horizon.
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June 3, 2021 8:59 AM
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Baptisée “le papillon de la mer Égée” en raison de sa forme, cette île de 1 300 habitants est visitée chaque année par quelque 70 000 touristes pour ses plages immaculées, sa mer cristalline et ses maisons blanches.
A l’horizon 2026, le projet ambitionne de faire d’Astypaléa “la première île durable de Méditerranée”, où “la mobilité sera électrique, alimentée par une électricité verte produite localement”, promet le gouvernement grec, qui a déployé mercredi plusieurs ministres dont le Premier ministre Kyriakos Mitsotakis sur l’île de l’archipel du Dodécanèse.
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May 18, 2021 7:32 AM
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Spain’s parliament voted in favour of the long-awaited climate law, which commits the country to cut emissions 23% by 2030, compared with 1990 levels.
The law bans all new coal, gas and oil exploration and production permits with immediate effect, prohibits the sale of fossil fuel vehicles by 2040 and enshrines a goal to generate 74% of the country’s electricity with renewable sources by 2030.
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March 24, 2021 6:32 AM
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The EC is currently considering a mission proposal to achieve “100 climate neutral cities by 2030 – by and for the citizens”. Arguing for its endorsement and the proposed umbrella governance, Simon Skillings and Eleonora Moro at E3G explain why cities are an ideal laboratory for tackling the big unanswered question: which European Green Deal …
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February 24, 2021 3:25 AM
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The UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (UKHFCA) has published a paper highlighting the importance of the UK Government to take action now if it wishes to remain the leader in hydrogen energy and continue spearheading the global decarbonisation movement.
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February 18, 2021 1:56 AM
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In defining pathways for Europe to become climate-neutral by 2050, low-carbon hydrogen has entered the forefront as a potential solution in many applications. However, the advent of the hydrogen economy has so far been hampered by the chicken-and-egg problem of hydrogen infrastructure. Now, a new study by Agora Energiewende entitled “No-regret hydrogen: Charting early steps for H₂ infrastructure in Europe” identifies early opportunities for anchoring hydrogen infrastructure around inescapable demand.
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January 5, 2021 2:03 AM
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Denmark has led the way on decarbonisation of heating, with a rapid transition away from fossil fuels aided by its large scale adoption of heating networks over the past 40 years. Instead of exchanging individual heating appliances in every home and commercial building, the Danes are centrally converting their heat networks to renewable energy, saving citizens a pile of money in the process
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January 4, 2021 3:06 AM
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L'Allemagne lance deux projets phare de sa transition énergétique. Elle lance la facturation de chaque tonne de CO2 émise par les transports et les habitations et la sortie progressive du charbon avec la fermeture d'une 1ère unité de centrale thermique. Dans les deux cas, ces mesures sont le fruit de longues négociations politiques de la coalition d'Angela Merkel, sous la pression des défenseurs du climat qui jugent que les décisions ne sont pas assez ambitieuses.
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December 8, 2020 4:55 AM
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Experts disagree about which technologies should be used to meet the EU’s climate change targets.
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November 18, 2020 4:12 AM
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The Heat Pump Association has released a ground-breaking report outlining the steps that the UK Government must take to shape future policy and decarbonise the heating industry.
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October 29, 2020 11:08 AM
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Step by step, hydrogen has worked its way into the heart of the energy transition: as a storage medium for renewable energy; a fuel of the future for ships and planes; and a replacement for fossil fuels in homes, power and industry.
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October 1, 2020 8:19 AM
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Tradable Energy Quotas rationfossil fuel energy use for nations by either a contracting carbon emission budget or scarce fuel availability
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