Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 19, 2022

Germany-based Henkel wants to reduce its CO2 emissions from its 185 production sites by 75% by 2030 from a 2010 baseline. It is focused on efficiency rates and using more renewable energy. The post Henkel Lauded for Vastly Improving Its Water and Energy Efficiency Rates appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Japan's Sekisui Chemical set a target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26% by 2030 from a 2013 baseline. It is replacing aging facilities and buying more renewable energy to get there. The post Sekisui Chemical Is Upping The Ante on Its GHC Reduction Goals appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

The country’s new energy transition plan targets an estimated US$7.4 billion of hydropower investments by 2030. By Fermín Koop New government plan says US$86 billion of spending needed to boost energy transition – while backing natural gas too. These targets represent a potentially significant shift in Argentina ’s energy mix.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 28, 2022

Last week was a big one for clean energy in Michigan. First, Union of Concerned Scientists and the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition released a new report on how Michigan and other states can achieve 100-percent renewable energy standards that benefit all communities. Consumers’ plan wisely avoids that risky path.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 13, 2022

And in January 2021, it said it would source 100% renewable energy to power GM facilities in the U.S. by 2030 and globally by 2035. The post GM Has Become an ‘Energy Star’ with Efficiency and Circular Programs appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. It achieved that goal in 2017.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 11, 2024

China is running away with clean energy expansion, with the E.U. following far behind

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

Scotland set a 2020 goal of 100% renewable energy electricity generation. renewable energy generation (62% coming from onshore wind) A climate plan adopted in 2018 sets a binding target of net-zero emissions by 2045. There is an interim target of 75% reduction of 1990 levels by 2030. Committed to net-zero by 2030.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 11, 2024

The International Energy Agency finds the world is on track to more than double renewable energy capacity by 2030, but more support is needed to reach the target of tripling capacity by the end of the decade

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2021

We need to quickly transition to a clean energy future in Illinois to prevent additional negative public health impacts from fossil fuel plants. The Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA) HB 0804/ SB1718 is the only bill that puts Illinois on a path to 100% carbon-free electricity by 2030 and 100% renewable energy by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Although the nuclear bailout was repealed and refunded in 2021, some of the law’s other egregious provisions requiring ratepayers across the state to subsidize money-losing coal plants and gutting renewable energy and energy efficiency standards are still in place today. The Union of Concerned Scientists opposed H.B.

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Law and Environment

JULY 2, 2021

On June 29, 2021, a cohort of New York local governments (including many where large-scale solar projects are currently proposed), community organizations, and avian interest groups filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court (the State’s trial-level court) against the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (“ORES”).

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 25, 2021

And now in their latest green move, they’re branching out into energy as they’re to sell renewable energy to households, starting at home in Sweden. Affordable renewable electricity. Building the biggest renewable energy movement.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Transformative action every year until 2030 is our only chance to keep 1.5°C Collaborative Optimism The upcoming political landscape in the United States may seem like a setback for global climate action, but the momentum for climate action and energy transition remains unstoppable. C within reach.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

These estimates come from quantifying the benefits of a more efficient grid that enables lower cost energy, greater system resilience, and more rapid decarbonization. According to Clean Grid Alliance, these projects will also enable more than 7,800 MW of new renewable energy resources developed in the state.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

For example, UCS, COPAL , and other project partners released a report last year that found achieving 100-percent renewable-electricity standards in US Climate Alliance states, including Minnesota, is feasible and would produce significant health and economic benefits. One area where the bill could do better?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. They offer a lot of good news about clean energy progress.

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

In order to make their portfolio more sustainable and respond to lower fossil fuel demand, oil majors are increasingly snapping up renewable energy projects as the pressure grows to take action on climate change. from 2020 to 2030. A significant portion of this will be fulfilled by renewable power generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

On the last day of the 2022 Minnesota legislative session, state legislators had a real case of the Mondays: They failed to deliver on climate and energy policies that would have accelerated renewable energy enough to forge a clear path to carbon-free electricity and set the state on track to meet science-based emission reduction targets.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

There’s a lot of discussion of how the private sector is supporting renewable energy, but it’s almost all about power consumers like Apple and Walmart. Zero coal by 2035, 24 GW solar/wind by 2030, net zero emissions by 2050, including upstream and downstream emissions. Net zero by 2030, 50% cut from 2007 by 2030.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 10, 2023

Cardinal Health has set greenhouse gas emissions goals, vowing to limit its Scopes 1 and 2 emissions by 50% by 2030, using 2019 as its baseline. The post Cardinal Health Vows to Cut Greenhouse Gases by 50% by 2030 ? appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 7, 2021

Bolstering its efforts to achieve ambitious emissions reduction goals, Porsche is requiring its nearly 1,300 suppliers to use renewable energy to manufacture its vehicle components. Porsche aims to be carbon neutral in its supply chain by 2030. For instance, Read more ».

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Environmental Leader

JULY 14, 2021

Microsoft has announced that by 2030 the company will have 100% of its electricity consumption, 100% of the time, matched by zero carbon energy purchases. The move extends Microsoft’s existing commitment to execute power purchase agreements equivalent to 100% of its energy needs by 2025. Over the last 12 months, Read more ».

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Environmental Leader

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The post Eddie Bauer to Power Headquarters and Stores with 100% Renewable Energy by 2030 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. New benchmarks have been established to improve Eddie Bauer's sustainability practices for product categories.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas. Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 23, 2023

Climate negotiators are aiming for net zero by 2050, requiring a tripling of renewable energy by 2030. They will take up the issue at this year's climate conference in Bonn, Germany, where the plight of the rainforest nations will also take center stage.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

energy policy has done little to incentivize the growth of these technologies, relying on a patchwork of energy credit programs, tax breaks, and development spending to promote renewable energy production. But as the market grows, some urge caution before using wastewater to create renewable natural gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Last November, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released an interdisciplinary study exploring the various pathways to meeting US goals to cut heat-trapping emissions economywide 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050. The good news?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

UCS found that the IRA more than doubles the current rate of annual US emissions reductions to roughly 3 percent through 2030. But to lower emissions by 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, the United States would have to cut emissions by more than 5 percent a year. How is that going to happen?

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

As you can see there are tax credits and subsidies for electric vehicles, renewable energy, nuclear energy, transmission, hydrogen, air pollution reduction, energy infrastructure, climate resilience, rural development, residential buildings, etc. The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries are essential for decarbonizing transportation through electric vehicles and building a resilient, renewable energy grid through energy storage batteries. Nearly every part of a renewable energy grid can be circular, with all outputs circulating back as inputs in a regenerative cycle.

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Environmental Leader

MARCH 7, 2022

Akamai Technologies made strides in reaching its 2030 sustainability goals with progress in renewable energy and emissions reductions. The post Akamai Makes Progress on Renewable Energy, Efficiency and Reducing Platform Emissions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

These laws ban new fossil fuel plants and set aggressive targets for the state’s two major utilities, requiring emission cuts of 80% by 2030, 90% by 2035 and 100% by 2040. The law also contains provisions addressing wages and benefits for workers on renewable energy projects.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Sharp r eductions needed in gas generation to meet US climate goals Under the Paris Agreement, the United States has committed to reducing heat-trapping emissions to 50-52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and to reaching net zero emissions no later than 2050. Source: UCS Accelerating Clean Energy Ambition.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 7, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen A joint project between the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and Masdar, the innovative United Arab of Emirates (UAE) energy company, is planning to start a knowledge project outlining how to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030. Photo credit: IRENA.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing December 11 on House Bill 1467 (Otten-D-Chester) expanding the mandate for renewable energy under the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards to 30% by 2030. House Bill 1467 was introduced by Rep.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In the nearer term, it wants to reduce its emissions by 56% by 2030, using 2019 as a baseline. Meanwhile, it aims to make all of its clothing using recycled components by 2030. The post H&M Group Wants All of its Clothing to be Made Using Recycled and Sustainable Components appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 21, 2022

Grid upgrades enable clean energy industries to flourish. MISO’s LRTP tranche 1 investments are expected to enable more than 53,000 megawatts of new renewable energy, enough to power 12 million average homes annually. In fact, most of the projects MISO is voting on aren’t expected to be in service until 2030.

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