They will live in low-carbon houses, drive low-carbon cars, and patronize low-carbon local businesses.
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The imperative is to build low-carbon systems, not individual low-carbon houses, and to get as many people as possible into those systems.
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The proceeds of green bonds were mostly directed towards clean energy projects, low-carbon buildings, low-carbon transport, water and land use and waste.
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The proceeds of green bonds were mostly directed towards clean energy projects, low-carbon buildings, low-carbon transport, water and land use and waste.
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Each shuttered plant takes a gigawatt or two of low-carbon energy off the grid, at a time when we need all the low-carbon energy we can get.
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" Thomas Hushen, spokesman for Campbell Soup, said the company supported "continued U.S. participation in the Paris agreement and the continuation of low-carbon policies and investment in a low-carbon economy.
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California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard went into effect in 2011 and has displaced 3.3 billion gallons of petroleum-based fuels with low-carbon alternatives including renewable diesel, electricity and renewable natural gas.
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Low carbon fuel may be the answer, UCL's Smith said.
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Proceeds will be reinvested in projects with low carbon emissions.
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If Perry wants to establish a rule offering cost recovery to low-carbon generators — or, more sanely, if he wants low-carbon to become a valuable attribute in energy-market auctions — I'd be delighted.
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Almost half of businesses expected increased demand for low-carbon goods.
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For example, low-carbon ETFs own oilfield services companies, including Schlumberger.
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She will use low-carbon transport options while on the trip.
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A successful transition to a low-carbon future requires their support.
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Simply put, the private sector already chose a low-carbon future.
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Blackrock's iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target E.T.F. is constructed similarly.
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California is committing $140 million to subsidize low-carbon freight transportation.
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That price isn't competitive with fossil fuels, but Holmes cites programs like California's low carbon fuel standard that has incentives or credits for low-carbon intensity fuels that could level the playing field in the future.
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" Ban added that the international push to move toward a low-carbon economy is "unstoppable," with or without Trump, and businesses know that "going to a low carbon economy is the answer for their business future.
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Failure to build a low-carbon economy puts American prosperity at risk.
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Hydrogen and other low-carbon fuels are much more expensive than diesel.
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Scarcely a day goes by without some low-carbon milestone being passed.
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The Russian company is not alone in pushing its low-carbon credentials.
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We have excess low-carbon electricity that could be used for them.
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Join the journey to a low-carbon future — it's time to #makethefuture.
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It has not taken the lead in vitally needed low-carbon energy.
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And the accord supports the global transition to a low-carbon economy.
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But there are plenty of other jobs that are already low-carbon.
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It would offer "policy insurance" to European businesses making low-carbon investments.
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Governments can offer advanced market commitments to purchase new low-carbon technologies.
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This global interest has driven down the price of low-carbon technology.
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Other EU "alliances" will follow for low-carbon industries and raw materials.
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But we must find a smooth transition to a low-carbon economy.
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This station will heat up to 15000 homes with low carbon energy .
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Such economies are often low-carbon and use resources efficiently, the report noted.
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"Simply put, the private sector already chose a low-carbon future," he said.
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And, right now there are no great low-carbon alternatives for those processes.
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There are other reasons for the current interest in low-carbon index funds.
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But it would be a low-carbon, low-impact operation all the same.
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The iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) follows the same index.
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Here at home, the transition to a low carbon economy is well underway.
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Or will they enjoy pleasant, sustainable, low-carbon communities we begin planning today?
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The cap and trade policy would invest revenue into low-carbon transportation infrastructure.
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The Office of Fossil Energy includes work to develop low-carbon coal tech.
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A move like this could throttle the next generation of low-carbon technology.
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Locally sourced berries, green beans, and asparagus, though, have a low carbon footprint.
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The report assumes more power generation from low carbon sources, including nuclear energy.
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The resulting incentives will channel capital to low carbon solutions and drive innovation.
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VITOL * Invested $53 million in VLC Renewables, a joint venture with Low Carbon.
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For another, they want to scrap the state's low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS).
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Pittsburgh has seen the future, and the future is green and low-carbon.
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None of us can choose unilaterally to live in a low-carbon society.
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Over 85033 American businesses and investors, including major multinationals, signed an open letter to then President-elect Trump and Congress imploring them to protect low-carbon policies, continue U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement and invest in a low-carbon economy.
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There's a low-carbon fuel standard to limit the carbon content of imported fuel.
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"[N]ew energy contracting approaches that focus on providing firm low-carbon electricity 24x7."
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It's one of many impact-investing funds at BlackRock, including a low-carbon fund.
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The world, particularly China, is moving towards low-carbon and renewable sources of energy.
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Many of the companies are seeking partners to invest new low-carbon energy projects.
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Step one: Add more low-carbon electricity (solar, nuclear, hydro, wind) to the grid.
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Experts say balancing is critical to the larger project of a low-carbon world.
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The SPDR MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (LOWC) has been raking in assets.
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Low-carbon solutions must integrate into existing systems, be scalable, and be incrementally deployable.
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Now they should take the lead in making the low-carbon economy a reality.
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Together, RE100 members are creating change, and accelerating progress to a low carbon economy.
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Are governments taking the right steps to encourage a transition to low-carbon energy?
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And when grown in a sustainable manner, it can have a low carbon footprint.
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Ten years ago, cellulosic biofuels were considered a promising low-carbon alternative to gasoline.
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We have to scale up and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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How can they can make the low-carbon economy a driver of social inclusion?
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It includes scaling back the Department of Energy's efforts to accelerate low-carbon energy.
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Insofar as that provides the grid with low-carbon power, that's a good thing.
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Electricity is likely to eventually fuel the bulk of passenger vehicles in a low-carbon scenario, but even in California, it will take decades to replace vehicle fleets, and in the meantime, there's a multibillion-dollar market for low-carbon liquid fuels.
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This is currently very expensive, but it could help low-carbon aviation to take off.
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Compared with low-carbon sources like wind or solar or nuclear, that's a relative pittance.
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Bringing low-carbon transitions to slums will require governments teaming up with communities, it said.
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Another is exempt from risk due to the very low carbon content in the soil.
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BP invested $500 million in low carbon activities in 2018, according to its annual report.
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Looney would "thoughtfully lead BP through the transition to a low carbon future," Dudley said.
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"Low-carbon transportation systems are therefore urgently required in the fast-growing metropolises," Kloppenburg added.
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In 2017, California passed groundbreaking "Buy Clean" legislation mandating government procurement favor low-carbon materials.
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"Business and government leaders must urgently work together to drive a thriving, low-carbon economy."
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The significance of this U.S.-Russian supply deal is the centrality of low-carbon aluminium.
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Many countries, including China, are trying to make the shift to a low-carbon economy.
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In fact, a low-carbon mix with nuclear is significantly more affordable than one without.
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Laws that would have ensured that newly built houses were low-carbon were recently scrapped.
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American businesses are poised to be winners in the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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Coal plants have benefited for years from low carbon prices which kept operational costs down.
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Low-carbon and zero-carbon technologies have benefited in the past from similar financial incentives.
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Between now and 2022, Uniper will invest more than 1.2 billion in low carbon projects.
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Many of the individual signatories have already begun working towards a low carbon future individually.
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It would integrate town and country, it would have cheap and low-carbon public transportation.
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China vowed to get 20 percent of its energy from low-carbon sources by 2030.
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It also includes targets to speed the development of low carbon energies and renewable hydrogen.
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Over 300 major businesses and investors have called on President Barack Obama, President-elect Donald Trump, members of Congress and world leaders to "strongly support" and stick with low-carbon policies, investment in the low-carbon economy, and U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement.
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Any low-carbon resource located in an area subject to a carbon tax or cap-and-trade program could be hit — for instance, participants in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), like low-carbon power plants in Delaware and Maryland, could see their prices hiked.
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"Radical innovation in low-carbon energy technology is critical to long term climate mitigation," Wolfensohn said.
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In response, SSE invested about £4 billion from 2007 on wind and other low-carbon sources.
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Walking away would have an unknown effect on the global push toward low-carbon energy sources.
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But matching is easier to do with a low-carbon fund than with many other types.
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In essence, the plan divvies out cash to Americans in support of a low-carbon future.
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"Hopefully this can show neighboring countries that low carbon development of the power sector is possible."
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The road to low carbon emissions will probably be lined with wind turbines and photovoltaic panels.
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The other reality is that the transition to a low-carbon economy is already far underway.
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Other technologies play a role but cannot replace the need for large-scale low-carbon generation.
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However, the proposal doesn't explicitly promise the usual trifecta of low-carbon energy, equity and growth.
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For companies producing electricity from low-carbon nuclear and hydroelectric plants, higher carbon prices are welcomed.
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Will businesses and investors seize the economic opportunities associated with low-carbon energy and green technology?
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The proposals required each company to report their plans for transitioning to a low-carbon economy.
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"The challenge is the scope and scale of the necessary low carbon energy transition," Grumet said.
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Opposing methane regulation would weaken the argument that natural gas fits into a low-carbon future.
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Frumhoff isn't convinced that the market strength of low-carbon technologies alone can cause this transition.
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For years, the British authorities offered lower vehicle taxes to motorists using low-carbon diesel engines.
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"We have a need for low-carbon fuels," said Barbara Burger, president of Chevron Technology Ventures.
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Another State Street offering, the SPDR MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target E.T.F., takes a different approach.
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The variety of low-carbon stock funds makes it easier for people to invest this way.
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More broadly, there are more than 58,000 jobs in Scotland's low carbon and renewable energy economy.
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Grow in low-carbon electricity from power generation to power storage and sale to end customers.
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One way to invest in sustainable companies is the iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF.
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The ferment for low-carbon energy, felt up and down the coast, reaches beyond power grids.
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Toronto wants all vehicles riding within its city limits to use low-carbon energy by 2050.
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Whaling advocates point to its high protein content and low carbon footprint compared with other meats.
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What nuclear plants provide the grid, and deserve to be paid for, is low-carbon power.
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Future caps on aviation emissions could, for instance, spur supersonic jets to adopt low-carbon biofuels.
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The state's low-carbon fuel standard successfully reduced emissions by more than one million tons in 2018.
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The plan would include job guarantees for people working in the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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The CfD scheme is used by the U.K. government to support the generation of low-carbon electricity.
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The transition to the low-carbon economy is now recognized by the business community as a certainty.
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The ethanol can then be turned into chemicals and fuels, including low carbon products like jet fuel.
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"Firm" low-carbon resources including nuclear, natural gas with carbon capture and hydro-dams with large reservoirs.
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GREEN DRIVERS The significance of this U.S.-Russian supply deal is the centrality of low-carbon aluminium.
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CCS is a possible low-carbon option for capturing the CO2 from calcination and from the heat.
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Those taking the boldest path towards a low-carbon future are the justices "full of wise saws".
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Households would also need to be weaned off natural gas heating and switch to low-carbon alternatives.
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Low-carbon activities now account for 9.73 percent of its portfolio from 29.7 percent three years ago.
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It's part of BP's wider, $500 million-per-year mix of low-carbon and alternative energy investments.
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They range from expanded electric vehicle credits for low-carbon manufacturing to ending fossil fuel-related incentives.
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There are more than 58,000 jobs in Scotland's low carbon and renewable energy economy, the government said.
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These fuels should be low-carbon and sourced from renewable sources: the best option is bioenergy feedstocks.
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At a time of heightened global discussions about low-carbon energy, we should take stock of priorities.
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Low carbon levels leave the ground nutrient-poor, requiring ever-greater amounts of fertilizer to support crops.
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It's worth noting though that nuclear, while also low-carbon, is not currently amenable to local ownership.
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Fossil Free, which campaigns against fossil fuels, says the shift towards a low carbon economy is irreversible.
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After all, there's no better way to say "I love you" than with a low carbon footprint.
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Households would also need to be weaned off natural gas heating and switch to low-carbon alternatives.
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In cities, ride-hailing trips typically displace low-carbon trips, such as public transportation, biking, or walking.
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We need a faster transition to a low-carbon energy system and a net-zero-emissions world.
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In cities, ride-hailing trips typically displace low-carbon trips, such as public transportation, biking, or walking.
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This would not be possible without all the talk about climate change and a low-carbon economy.
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Just as importantly, China must transition to a low carbon economy as a matter of public health.
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Congressional action would free them to produce renewable, low-carbon biomass energy to power mills and communities.
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All these efforts will help ensure that more money will flow into low-carbon, climate-resilient investments.
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We are also a growing force in newer industries such as tech, low carbon and life sciences.
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LOW-CARBON LIFESTYLE Musk had billed the Solar Roof, designed to look like conventional roof tiles, as a cornerstone of the companys strategy to sell a low-carbon lifestyle to eco-conscious consumers who could use the power from a Solar Roof to charge their Tesla electric vehicle.
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LOW-CARBON LIFESTYLE Musk had billed the Solar Roof, designed to look like conventional roof tiles, as a cornerstone of the company's strategy to sell a low-carbon lifestyle to eco-conscious consumers who could use the power from a Solar Roof to charge their Tesla electric vehicle.
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LOW-CARBON LIFESTYLE Musk had billed the Solar Roof, designed to look like conventional roof tiles, as a cornerstone of the company's strategy to sell a low-carbon lifestyle to eco-conscious consumers who could use the power from a Solar Roof to charge their Tesla electric vehicle.
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At the moment, nuclear power is still far-and-away the most efficient low-carbon energy generation solution.
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Based in Canada, the company aims to commercialize captured air-to-fuel technology to produce low-carbon fuels.
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For instance, the iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF (CRBN) carries an expense ratio of 0.20 percent.
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But, he cautioned, it's still not certain that low-carbon biofuels will actually materialize in such large quantities.
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South Korea's Songdo, billed as the world's greenest city, also has faced challenges meeting its low-carbon aims.
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So far, though, the returns of a low-carbon portfolio are similar to those of less green ones.
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There are, after all, other low-carbon sources of electricity available, such as wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear.
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Big spending increases on low-carbon energy and "resilient infrastructure" funded by reversing Trump's 2017 corporate tax cuts.
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They would be cleaner too, and become more so as more electricity is produced from low-carbon sources.
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Their conclusions are summarized in a new book, Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy.
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In a central zone of the sprawling venue, countries have "pavilions" where they showcase their low-carbon efforts.
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U.S. corporations would lose incentives to decarbonize, and China would become the world leader in low-carbon innovation.
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That means waking people up to the massive social, economic, and cultural benefits of a low carbon transition.
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" It also advocated population control, leaving "fossil fuels in the ground" and replacing them with "low-carbon renewables.
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This global challenge needs everyone – companies, governments and individuals – to work together to achieve a low carbon future.
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I recommend corporate America mostly ignore that blip and continue to develop low-carbon technologies and production processes.
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Still, the growth of nuclear is slowing in comparison to other low-carbon sources like wind and solar.
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"Nubian Vault uses only locally available materials with a very low carbon footprint," says Nuttall of the UNFCCC.
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For decades, institutional investors have pushed companies to recalibrate their strategies and prepare for a low-carbon world.
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Morgan Stanley Capital International has 11 environmental, social and governance indexes, including popular low-carbon and sustainability indexes.
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Investment in low-carbon renewable energy reached $315 billion in 2015, making up 17 percent of the total.
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Yet many large international oil companies are beginning to invest in the transition to a low-carbon future.
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It's famous for its oil fields, but this country just doubled down on renewables and low carbon innovation.
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Green bonds are a fixed-income security designed to raise capital for low-carbon or clean energy investments.
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Nuclear energy, the only source of low-carbon power ever deployed at the needed scale, is also anathema.
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A new round of LEED standards, currently in development, could go even further by urging low-carbon standards.
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By contrast, plant-based protein sources like tofu, beans, peas, and nuts have a very low carbon footprint.
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Natural gas companies are the primary beneficiaries of, and now defenders of, clean air and low carbon regulations.
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We want a sustainable, low-carbon economy that creates high-quality jobs and helps stabilize our runaway climate.
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The industry is also looking at low-carbon fuels and possible market-based mechanisms to help cut emissions.
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A carbon tax would create incentives to limit greenhouse gas emissions and stimulate investment in low-carbon energy.
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It is the latest low-carbon investment for Exxon, which has come under criticism for its climate policies.
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Carbon Tracker estimates that $63 trillion of oil industry investments are at risk in a low-carbon shift.
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The state's largest source of low-carbon electricity, the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, may shut down in 2025.
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Total has said it plans to invest between $1.5 billion and $2 billion a year on low-carbon electricity.
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As solar panels, wind turbines and other low-carbon technologies become cheaper and more efficient, their use has surged.
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It also invests about $500 million a year on low carbon energy and technologies such as wind and solar.
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The coastal megacity of 12.5 million helps the bay lead the way in electric vehicles and low-carbon transit.
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Glyphosate is too important to low carbon and affordable food production to leave this context out of the conversation.
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Demand for zero-carbon liquid fuels looks poised to rise as climate-friendly places adopt low-carbon fuel standards.
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Without a more sustainable energy mix, the low-carbon future Mr DiCaprio envisions will be a thing of Hollywood.
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She estimated the cost of making low-carbon infrastructure that can withstand shocks might be an additional 10 percent.
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Which brings us to sweeping energy transformation goal number two: generating all electricity through zero or low carbon sources.
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It also invests about $2100 million a year on low carbon energy and technologies such as wind and solar.
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Shell said it also disagreed with AFPM's opposition to a price on carbon and action on low-carbon technologies.
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These include an energy storage project in Shetland and low carbon heat networks in Stirling, Dundee, Clydebank and Glenrothes.
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The team analyzed more than 700 papers on the impact of low-carbon infrastructure on cities around the world.
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There are some older ETFs with longer track records have targeted low-carbon stocks and doing well attracting investors.
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What life-style changes will be required and how much will the transition to a low-carbon economy cost?
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La Vagabonde, the couple's boat, touts an incredibly low carbon footprint, utilizing solar panels and hydro-generators for power.
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Above all, the world will miss America's talent, leadership and ideas as we map out a low-carbon future.
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Nuclear power is being promoted as a necessary low-carbon solution to help mitigate the risks of climate change.
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At the same time, lower gasoline prices could slow the adoption of electric vehicles and other low-carbon technologies.
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We can synthesize low-carbon vehicle fuel to power a military that remains the world's largest single energy consumer.
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While low-carbon is the right objective, a 100 percent renewables approach for the U.S., proposed by some, isn't.
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Germany is embarking on an expensive energy transition to replace coal and nuclear power capacity with low-carbon energy.
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One of the key findings showed that low carbon electricity's share of generation hit 54.4 percent, a record high.
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Democrats at that time were saying natural gas could serve as a bridge fuel to a low-carbon future.
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The document, almost 20300 pages long, outlines four main scenarios for Russia's low-carbon development through to mid-century.
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However, as this Financial Times piece points out, Chevron's investment in low-carbon energy is smaller than some rivals.
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What I'm watching: To what degree Exxon increases its funding and seeks to commercialize a particular low-carbon technology.
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Poland still generates most of its electricity from coal but more and more companies are exploring low-carbon options.
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A proposed Climate Catalyst Fund would finance local government investments in low-carbon transportation options and sustainable agriculture programs.
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That explains one major reason European oil companies have announced aggressive changes to prepare for a low-carbon future.
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The CCC is an independent body that advises the U.K. government on how to build a low carbon economy.
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The vessel is equipped with solar panels, a wind turbine, and hydro-generators to power their low-carbon journey.
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That would have made my house almost fossil fuel–free, since Seattle enjoys very hydro-heavy, low-carbon electricity.
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The high-tech, low-carbon concrete "is a piece of the puzzle" toward reducing the city's emissions, Ennis said.
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We support the Paris agreement and are taking action to advance the world's transition to a low-carbon future.
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NAB's proposed A$112.5 million residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) will finance loans on properties certified as low-carbon buildings.
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Cargo-shipping regulators have struck a historic deal to set their dirty fuel-burning industry on a low-carbon course.
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Green bonds are debt instruments to raise funds for projects such as renewable energy, energy efficiency and low-carbon transport.
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"Even though Britain is an island, our low carbon future is linked to the rest of the EU's," Benton added.
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The TDAP is part of a 10-year program to make U.K. a world-leader in low-carbon propulsion technology.
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"We view carbon capture as a way to differentiate ourselves," said Richard Jackson, president of Occidental's low carbon ventures division.
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CMB's strategy is about testing low-carbon technologies on smaller ships, such as the Hydroville, and then scaling them up.
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Adapting to warming could make cutting emissions even harder if those higher energy needs aren't met with low-carbon sources.
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Wind and solar power expanded rapidly as costs fell, demonstrating that a high-tech, low-carbon future is within reach.
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The Kemper project was supposed to be a lifeline for coal in a world that's inching toward low-carbon energy.
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Having an inventory of 1.5 million low carbon vehicles to sell will generate more profit than 28,000 full electric vehicles.
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Whether that will be enough to compete in California's low-carbon fuels market in the 2020s remains to be seen.
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For Generation, target companies would provide "goods and services consistent with a low-carbon, prosperous, equitable, healthy and safe society".
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That ought to reduce compliance and development costs, boosting both progress on low-carbon propulsion systems as well as profitability.
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The mission is clear: Action is urgently needed to set and follow high-impact pathways to a low-carbon future.
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Reducing carbon dioxide emissions thus requires massive investments in energy efficiency and low-carbon energy sources throughout the energy economy.
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"There's still a perception that moving toward a low-carbon path would be costly," lead author Helen Mountford told Reuters.
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Extreme weather could make the low-carbon trip all the more arduous: August and September are peak Atlantic hurricane season.
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"A low-carbon footprint is logical and a noble goal to reach," said the mayor, who regularly cycles to work.
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"Because CCGT plants can be built quickly, supply can be filled, but it will not be low-carbon," Roulstone said.
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He also pledged $3 billion over the course of a decade to develop low carbon fuel and alleviate global warming.
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A carbon tax would boost EDF's low-carbon nuclear plants' competitiveness, but it is unclear when it could take effect.
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That's because of its relatively low carbon intensity (that is, emissions per unit of output) compared to other major producers.
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To meet the ambitious Paris agreement Latin American countries would have to build infrastructure that supports low-carbon energy systems.
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"Oil and gas companies have been insufficient in actually changing their business models to a low carbon economy," he said.
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Yes, our hydroelectric resources allow us to produce lots of aluminum at a reasonable price with very low carbon emissions.
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Would you, for example, be prepared to pay more for "green" low-carbon footprint aluminium over "black" higher-carbon material?
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Revamping the global energy system could require $220 trillion in investment in low-carbon technologies by mid-century, IRENA said.
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Even as Germany has scaled up wind and solar, it has also been shutting down its low-carbon nuclear plants.
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The pandemic reveals the value of energy security and of investment in low carbon energy, such as solar and wind.
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The project will provide low-carbon power equivalent to displacing 550,000 cars from the road, Suncor said in a statement.
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Policymakers and regulators are also pressuring financial firms to do more to accelerate the move to a low-carbon economy.
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If governments started requiring fuels and building materials to be low-carbon, they could rapidly create substantial markets for alternatives.
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Investment in a new generation of planes using low-carbon energy sources could excite imagination and open up new runways.
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Over $2.6trn has flowed into low-carbon energy alone since 2010, according to BloombergNEF, a research firm (see chart 1).
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The Amager Bakke powerplant, designed by the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, turns local trash by incineration into low-carbon energy.
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This year alone BP will spend around $403 million on low-carbon activities, including wind, solar and electric-vehicle charging.
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" He added, "There is a market for low-carbon energy sources, and we want to be part of that future.
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Our member companies are helping build a system that is reliable, low-carbon and more affordable than the previous one.
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The British government, eager for reliable, low-carbon energy to replace aging coal plants and nuclear reactors, has been encouraging.
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Its new organisation includes four units: Production and Operations; Customers and Products; Gas and Low Carbon Energy; and Innovation & Engineering.
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Philip D. Murphy signed legislation to keep his state's nuclear plants open as part of a broader low-carbon portfolio.
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Those who focus on the "urgent" part say that the overwhelming priority should be to deploy existing low-carbon technologies.
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Deficit spending in the name of building long-term low-carbon infrastructure makes all the economic sense in the world.
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Joining EV is both about contributing to the transition to a low-carbon economy and about acting as a good neighbor.
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Reliance on oil will probably peak between 2030 and 2035 if countries adhere to their recent low-carbon pledges, Barclays said.
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The report, the Low Carbon Monitor, demonstrates with great clarity just how much of a difference half a degree can make.
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The IA also urged leaders to drive investment into low-carbon energy by taking action such as phasing out coal worldwide.
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Money raised from the auctions goes into an account dedicated to funding low-carbon programs like California's high-speed rail project.
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Since 22, Total has spent the most on low-carbon energies, around 4.3 percent of its budget, according to the study.
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The analysis cautions that large energy companies adopting a "business as usual" attitude are underestimating the advances of low carbon technologies.
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The low-carbon revolution is well underway, but it not yet at the scale and pace required to solve the problem.
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"Hence, efforts aimed at fostering sustainable urban energy paths are crucial to meet national and global low-carbon ambitions," it said.
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The report showed that Chinese, Russian and U.S. companies lagged behind European and East Asian companies in developing low-carbon technologies.
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HOUSTON — I caught up with Lamar McKay, BP's deputy chief executive, to chat about the company's venture and low-carbon strategies.
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Germany has lavished $1trn on low-carbon electricity, and even then still depends on fossil fuels for over half its power.
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Oil and gas companies have heralded LNG as the fossil fuel of the future thanks to its relatively low carbon emissions.
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"No U.S. domestic smelter currently delivers low-carbon primary aluminum slabs," it said, making Rusal something of a no-brainer partner.
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There's widespread agreement that we should look into a low-carbon solution for air travel and trucks making long-distance hauls.
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"In Paris… we helped to lead the world to the first significant global agreement for a low-carbon future," he added.
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"In Paris…we helped to lead the world to the first significant global agreement for a low-carbon future," he continued.
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That's why states like California are putting incentives in place to offset the added costs of using these low-carbon products.
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Companies must prepare credible, transparent plans, and actively promote and support government policies to shift to a low-carbon energy mix.
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For example, the GND lacks sufficient measures to spur action abroad, such as financing for low-carbon investments in poorer countries.
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The consortium said it would boost output with low-carbon steelmaking technologies, ultimately up to 9.5 million tonnes of finished products.
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The province will support construction of low-carbon pilot cities and raise emission standards for its heavily polluting industries, Xinhua said.
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That would be competitive in California, where low carbon fuel standards to cut pollution from cars and trucks mean high prices.
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As a result, it has delivered a highly volatile carbon price that is often too low to encourage low-carbon investments.
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While Trump could scrap funding for local climate programs, there's one thing he can't so easily reverse: the low-carbon economy.
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It's also Total's biggest investment in low-carbon power thus far, the consultancy Wood Mackenzie said in a brief note Wednesday.
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CEO Ben van Beurden took on the resolution on a call with reporters yesterday where touted the company's low-carbon initiatives.
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"Energy security rests in energy diversification, innovation, and development of zero and low carbon energy sources," Menendez said at the hearing.
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This is a catch-all for low-carbon resources not widely available today, like carbon capture technology and advanced nuclear power.
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The fund has, for instance, advised the city of Zhangjiakou on how to deliver a low-carbon Winter Olympics in 2022.
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The government could strengthen policies discouraging coal plants, support low-carbon power and begin a transition toward clean energy, it said.
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"The low-carbon transition also presents exciting opportunities in clean energy, transport and tech that could benefit UK businesses," she said.
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Mr. Lovins and Mr. Nanavatty work at Rocky Mountain Institute, which is focused on creating a clean, low-carbon energy future.
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The next few years, they write, will be "a critical transition phase to ensure a low-carbon and energy-efficient future."
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Energy majors need stable public policies and predictable pricing signals to accelerate long-term investments in low-carbon products and technologies.
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BP invested $500 million in low carbon activities in 2018, about 3% of annual capital expenditure, according to its annual report.
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They are used to fund projects which have clear environmental benefits, such as renewable energy, low-carbon transport or sustainable buildings.
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It would mean insurers being able to invest in demonstrably low-carbon financial products and services, based on real, hard data.
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Even in the I.E.A.'s most aggressive low-carbon scenario, oil and natural gas will meet approximately half of that demand.
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California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard CCS Protocol — with credits trading close to $200t/CO2 — is arguably one of the most innovative.
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Soften U.S. opposition to the Paris Climate Accord For China, investing in the low carbon economy has become very big business.
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A $2.5 billion low-carbon portfolio announced in July by the California State Teachers' Retirement System will use an MSCI index.
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Those plans include moves for Total to produce its own power, distributing it to clients, and developing its low carbon businesses.
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It aims to grow its low-carbon energy assets to 20 percent of total assets by 2035 from 5 percent today.
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Guterres welcomed moves by the European Union to adopt a new "European Green Deal" to transition to a low-carbon economy.
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The hope is that one day hydrogen will become abundant and cheap, allowing for the integration of low-carbon fuel cells.
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I hope she continues to refrain from policy recommendations, live a low-carbon life, and drag the spotlight back to science.
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Primary aluminium is often a focus in the low carbon debate as electricity accounts for between 30%-40% of production costs.
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They say we need better, cheaper low-carbon tech if we ever hope to reduce global carbon emissions close to zero.
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By some people's definition teaching and childcare are "green jobs" too, owing to their low carbon footprint and social-fabric-building function.
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Households would need to be weaned off natural gas heating and switch to low-carbon alternatives such as hydrogen or heat pumps.
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Together, these yield the conventional policy recommendation from economists, for decades now: a relatively low carbon tax that rises steadily over time.
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Their goals include moving to 100% renewable electricity and job guarantees for people working in the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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What's new: They're focused on the intersection of information tech and low-carbon energy services, including solar power, electric vehicles and storage.
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Shell plans to make more of such low-carbon energy solutions available in Singapore in the following months and years, she added.
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But the fact is, today, virtually all of that combustion is fossil-fueled, and there are very few viable low-carbon alternatives.
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For now, to a first approximation, all the available low-carbon alternatives substantially raise costs of industrial-heat processes against the baseline.
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Policies that ignore the question of how structural environments need to be changed to incorporate low-carbon technologies will not be successful.
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If it's the latter as some critics contend, IEA could be inadvertently hindering efforts to greatly speed up the low-carbon transformation.
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Brian Herzen, an expert in maritime permaculture, takes Mr Gameau on a trip (on a low-carbon vessel) to Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
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Doing nothing was not an option, Harper added, and a major roll out of renewable and low carbon energy sources was needed.
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Kurtyka said challenges included sharing the burden between developed and developing nations of the cost of moving to a low-carbon world.
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Much of the public debate has centered on the central role of renewable power sources in realizing a low-carbon energy future.
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It's going to require phasing out virtually our entire installed industrial base and replacing it with new, low-carbon technologies and practices.
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California collects data on biofuels sold or produced in the state, calculating lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions and informing low carbon fuels standards.
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It made the announcement during the government's "Green GB Week", which aims to raise awareness of the benefits of low-carbon growth.
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If you look closely at the launch keynote slide for the iPhone 8 and X, you'll find the words low carbon process.
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Thirty-seven states have adopted renewable energy standards that require utilities to get a certain percentage of electricity from low-carbon sources.
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The deal is in line with Total's strategy to expand its low carbon businesses and develop new markets for gas, it said.
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The Paris accord provides the global framework we need to fight climate change and create the low-carbon global economy of tomorrow.
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Growing the use of electricity is a powerful way to utilize low-carbon energy sources by building on an enormous existing infrastructure.
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The sum will not only be for buying new cars but also relatively new second-hand vehicles with low carbon dioxide emissions.
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"Emerging economies can benefit from what we have learned, and take advantage of the low carbon technologies we have invented," Freeman wrote.
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Glasenberg said Glencore's African copper retained significant potential and would "play a key role in the transition to a low carbon economy".
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The Kalama project could offer the world's second-largest oil consumer another alternative low-carbon fuel and further diversify its fuel choices.
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The aforementioned Global Commission report found that "ambitious climate action" could generate more than 65 million new low-carbon jobs in 2030.
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Resolutions calling on ExxonMobil and Occidental Petroleum to analyze what a low-carbon future means for them received unprecedented majority investor support.
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SIPs leave enormous flexibility for states, allowing them to choose trading systems, carbon taxes, low-carbon fuel standards, or what have you.
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Between the lines: It provides several reasons why transportation emissions are stubborn... The relative lack of easy and low-carbon substitute fuels.
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It's difficult to know at this stage which firm, low-carbon resources will be cheapest when they become more necessary post-2030.
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There is no need for a fight with California and other states in light of the trend towards efficiency and low carbon.
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To their immense credit, Greta's parents join her on this new pilgrimage, committing to a low-carbon lifestyle and renouncing air travel.
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RNG is not as low-carbon as the industry claims and its local air and water impacts are concentrated in vulnerable communities.
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Since 153, the industry has directed less than 1% of its annual capital expenditure towards low-carbon businesses, according to the report.
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The big picture: Under the announced policies scenario, low-carbon sources — notably solar — meet more than half of demand growth through 2040.
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"There is no planet B" - French President @EmmanuelMacron tells US Congress to find a smooth transition to low carbon economy https://t.
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California, through its Low Carbon Fuel Standard CCS Protocol, which took effect earlier this year, is incentivizing direct air capture facilities globally.
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In October 2019, the company announced that it would dedicate its $400 million venture fund to ushering in a low-carbon economy.
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Repsol also boosted its low-carbon electricity generation capacity target for 2025 to 7,13 megawatts, up 3,000 MW from a previous target.
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Cobalt production connected to low-carbon energy sources is expected to balloon by 585 percent by 2050, according to The World Bank.
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When considering companies that diversify into clean tech and zero- or low-carbon initiatives, most investors base their view on the merits.
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While some people are genetically obese and are vegetarian, and eating relatively low carbon foot print foods, most obese people are not.
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To arrive at their conclusions, Maslin and Georgeson focused on low carbon industries such as electric vehicles and energy management in buildings.
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"We need a low-carbon fossil solution," said Deck S. Slone, senior vice president for strategy and public policy at Arch Coal.
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After graduating in 2013, he gathered startup funding and support from Shell through the Shell Springboard programme - which supports low-carbon SMEs.
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California is demonstrating that the solutions and tools needed to build a low carbon economy powered by 100 percent renewable energy exist.
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The island is becoming an important proving ground for ideas about how low-carbon energy can be practical, both technically and financially.
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But he has had mixed success in getting some of his ideas put into practice, especially those on renewable, low-carbon energy.
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A change in consumer mindset means that people preferentially choose low-carbon, high-efficiency options to meet their energy service needs. 2.
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This year, they're projected to spend $110.4 billion on their oil and gas businesses and just $3.6 billion in low-carbon investments.
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Shell wants 20 percent of sales from its fuel stations worldwide to come from recharging electric vehicles and low-carbon fuels by 2025.
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In response, the board agreed to review how far its partners are moving their entire portfolios towards low-carbon and climate-resilient investment.
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Obama's current energy secretary Ernest Moniz is a longtime supporter of fracking, which he sees as a "bridge" to a low-carbon future.
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The new electricity paradigm is to match flexible, diverse, low-carbon supply with (increasingly controllable) demand, through sophisticated real-time sensing and software.
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The plan is to fund low-carbon transportation projects like mass transit and electric vehicles, in order to shrink the American carbon footprint.
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The investment is designed to create a low-carbon economy by 2025 by financing projects that promote energy efficiency, renewable energy and transportation.
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The investment on reducing low carbon emissions "is not only the right thing to do," but it "will also be economic," Dudley said.
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It also steered the policy away from nuclear power and industrial carbon capture, unlike the resolution that's agnostic on particular low-carbon options.
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Investments will include research and innovation to combat climate change, and will speed up France's transition to low carbon and greater energy efficiency.
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"There would potentially be a large tranche of low-carbon power coming offline and a fossil fuel stepping into its place," he says.
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Branson is trying to set up a fund to help Caribbean nations replace fossil fuel-dependent utilities with low-carbon renewable energy sources.
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"The nature of that investment will play a significant part in determining whether we create a low-carbon, climate-resilient world," it added.
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It calls for big spending increases in low-carbon energy and "resilient infrastructure" funded by reversing the Trump administration's 2017 corporate tax cuts.
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This will be increasingly important in a low carbon future, considering that most helium production today is a by-product of methane production.
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These two developments play into the third, longer-term trend: the need to create a low-carbon energy system to fight climate change.
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And let's not forget Germany's low carbon transformation, which seems to be based on dragging out coal consumption for as long as possible.
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Rusal boasts its "ALLOW" brand has a "guaranteed low carbon dioxide footprint" of less than four tonnes of CO2 per tonne of metal.
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The hallmark item of the Trudeau government's green shift is $2 billion over the next two years for a 'Low Carbon Economy Fund.
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Households would also need to be weaned off natural gas heating and switch to low-carbon alternatives such as hydrogen or heat pumps.
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While the U.S. chases fossil fuels, however, China is aggressively rolling out solar plants, wind farms, electric vehicles and other low-carbon technologies.
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The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has announced details of more than £43 million ($55.7 million) of investment in low-carbon infrastructure.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's biggest power supplier E.ON wants smart homes to be smart business in a world of decentralized, low-carbon energy markets.
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Low-carbon development policies will be included in the government's next medium-term development plan for the 2020-2024 period, the report said.
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Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday began her return to trip to Europe on a low-carbon catamaran, The Associated Press reports.
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The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy.
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They are increasingly supporting low-carbon options, such as natural-gas plants, battery storage and payments for reducing electricity consumption at peak periods.
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Dubai, Muscat and Doha, for example, are developing low-carbon residential areas that aim to reduce emissions and serve as green living models.
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Dubai, Muscat and Doha, for example, are developing low-carbon residential areas that aim to reduce emissions and serve as green living models.
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It should overhaul the industrial overproduction of food to support low-carbon farming and small farmers, and eliminate waste of food and resources.
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Recently, Mexico, Canada and the United States committed to a low-carbon output goal of 50 percent by 2025, a major step forward.
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The International Energy Agency has called for more investment globally in low-carbon energy, which was stable last year at about $620 billion.
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The Green New Deal seems less risky by contrast, since it would mandate the transition to low-carbon energy sources that already exist.
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But many Latin American countries also have among the best opportunities to reach climate goals because of their extremely low-carbon electricity sectors.
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The government should also evaluate the risk of low-carbon projects already under development failing to be delivered on time, the CCC said.
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For example, 7 Northeastern states and D.C. are engaging communities and stakeholders around policies to bring about a future of low-carbon transportation.
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The European Union's Renewable Energy Directive classifies wood as a low-carbon fuel source, and would encourage deforestation around the world, critics say.
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Sixty-nine percent of Fortune 23 companies reported more demand for "low carbon" products this year, according to the nonprofit Carbon Disclosure Project.
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Another obvious measure is the creation of a federal green bank to extend stable, low-cost loans that help finance low-carbon investments.
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The only reason anyone might want to encourage them anyway is that they are low-carbon and could potentially help fight climate change.
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A newer low-carbon E.T.F., the Etho Climate Leadership E.T.F., ranks companies according to their carbon efficiency, based on emissions per dollar invested.
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Oil and gas will meet about half of that demand; a prediction that holds firm even in the most aggressive low-carbon scenario.
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The more that happens, the more innovation can happen, such as insuring for a low-carbon economy, something that will become increasingly important.
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Several companies have formed the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative to invest in low-carbon technologies and reduce the powerful greenhouse gas, methane.
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The financial cost of emitting carbon is widely seen as far too low across the globe to spur levels of low carbon investment.
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By creating the data platform, insurers can invest in low-carbon financial products, rather than ignore them because they can't be priced right.
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Players compete to see who can build better cities while executing the party's key policies, such as poverty alleviation and low-carbon transportation.
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But plutocrats' pledges, no matter how generous, are hardly proof that a low-carbon transition can be allowed to happen on their terms.
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Financial regulators have primarily focused on how climate change impacts big investor's liabilities and how they can improve conditions for low-carbon investments.
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But if low-carbon-emission buildings are the next business frontier, they're also good for the planet, which shouldn't be overlooked, she said.
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Those companies stressed that if they were going to expand their businesses in A.E.P. regions, they would need access to low-carbon energy.
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Banks across the world have come under pressure from investors, regulators and climate activists to ease the transition towards a low-carbon economy.
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Banks across the world have come under pressure from investors, regulators and climate activists to ease the transition toward a low-carbon economy.
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He will also be accountable for upstream modernization and lead the development of the upstream approach to a low-carbon future, BP said.
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Banks across the world have come under pressure from investors, regulators and climate activists to ease the transition toward a low-carbon economy.
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These advantages make the economics of a balanced low-carbon power system more attractive than those that rely solely on weather-dependent renewables.
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We must set it high enough to encourage a turn to cleaner energy sources and accelerate our transition to a low-carbon future.
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As part of the Paris climate deal, China has pledged to get 20 percent of its energy from low-carbon sources by 2030.
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America's private sector clearly understands this opportunity, which is why, in January, 630 businesses and investors — with names like DuPont, Hewlett Packard and Pacific Gas and Electric — signed an open letter to then-President-elect Trump and Congress, calling on them to continue supporting low-carbon policies, investment in a low-carbon economy and American participation in the Paris agreement.
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Repsol is also looking to diversify toward renewable energy and gas in response to pressure faced by refiners to move to low-carbon sources.
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Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma and other tech titans recently committed $1 billion to launching a new, low carbon energy fund.
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But this agreement shows the world is now united in tackling its biggest threat and the path towards a low carbon world is set.
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"The 2019/20 budget assists our transition towards a low carbon economy and provides practical environmental solutions that will benefit future generations," Price said.
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Statoil plans to invest up to 100 billion Norwegian crowns ($12.22 billion) in the renewable energy and low carbon technologies from 2017 until 2030.
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The share of low-carbon energy in total energy investment is nearly 35%, which needs to grow to 65% by 2030, the IEA said.
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Other provisions that aided low-carbon energy included: The stimulus expanded and helped finance the federal loan guarantee program for various clean energy projects.
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The transition to a low-carbon economy is going to have profound implications for our cultures, economies, institutions, tools, and day-to-day lives.
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Aviation, in particular, may make up only around 2% of emissions worldwide, but it is a growing industry with few affordable low-carbon alternatives.
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Where it stands: The campaign will also focus on low-carbon transit, EV deployment, climate-friendly manufacturing and emissions from buildings, the announcement states.
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The commission urged the state and federal governments to adopt nuclear power generation, to "allow it to contribute to a low-carbon electricity system".
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Carbon Engineering wants to make very low-carbon fuels, with a process powered by renewables, using CO2 from the air, drawing hydrogen from electrolysis.
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The basic point of the chart is clear, though: A2F has the lowest carbon intensity of any available form of low-carbon liquid fuel.
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AFRICAN POTENTIAL Glasenberg said Glencore's African copper retained significant potential and would "play a key role in the transition to a low carbon economy".
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Kibert said there are two methods for reducing the carbon footprint beyond zero-energy homes: a low-carbon grid and better renewable energy storage.
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Dudley expressed hope the U.S. will still support low-carbon energy resources despite President Trump's vow to withdraw America from the Paris climate deal.
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Since 22019, the oil and gas sector has invested more than twice as much as any other industry in zero- and low-carbon technologies.
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Low carbon solutions will look very different in various parts of the United States and, for that matter, in different countries with different climates.
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Many energy firms have said the price rises are due to wholesale price increases and the cost of delivering on government low-carbon policies.
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"Anything that is a low-carbon solution has to be pursued, and anything that can get bipartisan support ought to be pursued," said Sen.
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A group of global oil and gas companies is announcing a trio of investments in low-carbon technologies at a meeting today in London.
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We are heading towards an increasingly low-carbon global economy, according to the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC).
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French producer Total, which is also getting into the electricity space, wants 20% of its total energy output to be low-carbon by 2035.
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We are already plugging in power from renewable resources such as solar, and this system can become greener by adding more low-carbon energy.
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What they did: Researchers conducted surveys that asked respondents to build a hypothetical low-carbon power portfolio that cuts emissions by 50% in 2050.
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This narrative argues that because of short- and long-term environmental harm from burning fossil fuels, we must transition to low-carbon renewable energy.
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It needs $1 trillion over the next five years to make investments in efficient buildings, low-carbon transportation and clean energy in its cities.
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Sizable national oil companies also see the low-carbon horizon as an increasingly relevant contour of the competitive future for which they must prepare.
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Eventually, those microgrids can be linked up and connected to larger (low-carbon) power plants, so these rural areas can have real, industrialized economies.
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Technology advances and growing consumer demand for low carbon energy sources and products ensure that many renewables will grow rapidly in the coming years.
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"Their lack of corporate sustainability reporting is kind of a shame, especially considering their main product is a low-carbon product," Sustainalytics' MacMahon said.
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Since 2000, the oil and gas sector has invested more than twice as much as any other industry in zero- and low-carbon technologies.
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"The country will fall short of its 2030 emissions target without a major effort to move to a low-carbon model," the OECD said.
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Duke pointed out that the United States could do better investing in low-carbon technology and said it is lagging far behind other countries.
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These are the right areas of focus to accelerate the transition to low-carbon energy in Mexico, one of the planet's top 15 emitters.
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They need some predictability, a glide path to a low-carbon world, and they can't afford to just sit back and hope it happens.
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But as Paul also noted, it will take more than minor nudges to build a prosperous and low-carbon America out of a downturn.
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They said the JP Morgan MSCI low-carbon equity indices generated only a 17 basis point outperformance in the past s decade, before fees.
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And even if it were low-carbon, equitable, and abundant, it still wouldn't be an excuse to expand natural gas infrastructure or slow electrification.
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How it works: One portion would create an "equity screen" for big federal investments she's proposing for accelerating the transformation to low-carbon energy.
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Between 2010 and 2018, BP invested just over 2 percent of its total capital in low-carbon energy, in line with other oil majors.
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In 2007, restaurant company Bon Appetit Management Company launched a Low Carbon Diet program to reduce the food service sector's contribution to climate change.
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The cooperation could also leverage Noble's logistics management expertise to transport the commodities and support Asia's transition to a low-carbon future, he said.
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Adi says his work will also help the planning ministry add a new marine and fisheries sector to the Low Carbon Development Initiative plan.
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Rusal, which produces 90% of its output using hydropower, launched a low-carbon brand two years ago, hoping some customers would pay a premium.
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There is mention of investment in charging stations for electric vehicles, a lot of focus on the low carbon transition, which is not surprising.
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So when we discuss technologies intended to forge the transition to the low carbon economy, scientists like Moomaw argued, time is an important factor.
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Low-carbon transportation — including better mass transit, lots of EVs, better neighborhood design — is going to handle that issue on time and under budget.
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon like myself are doing cutting-edge work on a wide range of topics related to a green, low-carbon future.
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"We will continue to champion offshore wind technology since it enables us to drive the energy transition to a sustainable, low carbon economy," he added.
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"With all the talk about the transition to low-carbon, things should be looking good long-term for the wind industry in Europe," Dickson commented.
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Local governments, civil organizations, and especially businesses — whose energy investments will stall or propel the low-carbon economy— all have an important role to play.
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It said it would aim to maintain and advance Britain's environmental, labor and anti-corruption standards and support UK low-carbon industries, technology and innovation.
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With new low-carbon fuels, as with so many other areas of emerging technology, there's a pressing need for long-term thinking about possible pitfalls.
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But others argued that climate campaigners should be less focused on shaming individual flyers and more on the pressing for research on low-carbon travel.
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A template Ocasio-Cortez has circulated includes a rapid transition to 100% renewable electricity and job guarantees for people working in the low-carbon transition.
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Worldwide investment in renewables and other low-carbon energy sources dipped 24% last year to $1101 billion, according to the consultancy Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
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"This is a substantial sum but the economic returns from adopting low-carbon policies far outweigh the costs," Juzhong Zhuang, ADB's deputy chief economist, said.
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The market for long-term energy storage will eventually be very large, and it will probably start, like the low-carbon fuels market, in California.
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Nuclear energy constitutes the majority of low-carbon electricity generation in the U.S., at just under 20% of the overall domestic energy mix for electricity.
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"Our future is low-carbon, clean and efficient," Ian Harnett, Jaguar Land Rover's executive director of human resources and global purchasing, said in a statement.
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But there is something we can do – and it could make the whole difference and buy us time to develop the necessary low carbon economies.
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Switching more of these cars and furnaces to run on electricity would allow us to tap into low-carbon energy from renewables and nuclear plants.
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To be sure, Perry's canned statement offered a more full-throated endorsement of low-carbon energy than the Rose Garden speeches by Trump or Pruitt.
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Promoting a coal- or fossil-fuel-based economy will, in reality, leave America last in terms of a low-carbon economy in the 21st century.
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The other three-quarters would come from the state's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, efficiency standards, renewable energy portfolio standard, and various and sundry other regulations.
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CBA will make A$15 billion ($10.07 billion) of funding available to low carbon projects by 2025, the lender said in its environmental policy framework.
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EDF launched the sale of its Polish assets earlier this year as part of a strategy to focus on low-carbon nuclear and renewable energy.
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Quoted: "Anything that is a low-carbon solution has to be pursued, and anything that can get bipartisan support ought to be pursued," said Schatz.
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Recycling and reducing waste are also key, as is using natural, low-carbon materials in construction, like bamboo and wood instead of cement, it said.
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Six years ago, the tag line was "To be proud of Made-in-China", while last year's was "Low-carbon and environmentally friendly cyclical development".
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At the same time, other countries — including the nation's biggest economic competitors — are seizing the opportunities in wind, solar and low-carbon innovation and technology.
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We believe that businesses that embrace a high-efficiency, low-carbon model will have a better chance to survive and grow in the 21st century.
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The firm has more than $15 billion of assets under management and focuses on investing in low-carbon generating sustainable companies, according to its website.
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"This is an unprecedented victory for investors in the fight to ensure a smooth transition to a low carbon economy," he said in a statement.
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Today, we have an opportunity to produce a new high octane low carbon fuel at little or no additional cost or inconvenience to the public.
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To unleash the full potential of breakthrough clean energy technologies, we need well-designed policies that accelerate the low-carbon transition rather than hinder it.
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This will surely mean finding creative ways to align the financial interests of nuclear power plant owners with those of a low-carbon electric system.
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We hope that nuclear proponents will work with us to solve the real problems holding back all low-carbon energy, rather than waging internecine warfare.
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Now, the key must be turned on the local level – the most important door in the transition to a low-carbon and climate resilient future.
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In fact, current RPS policies were estimated to cost a mind-numbing 18.6 times more than a broader portfolio that includes those low-carbon sources.
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The volume of "green bonds" with proceeds earmarked for investments such as a wind farm or a low carbon transport network nearly doubled in 2140.
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Another pending bill would reauthorize the 22020 percent investment tax credit for offshore wind projects, unlocking vast quantities of low-carbon electricity off our coasts.
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But ultimately, those countries themselves still face an enormous task back home of creating a low-carbon future that doesn't leave too many people behind.
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Cafe owners argue that since most of the heaters run on electricity, which in France largely comes from nuclear energy, they have low carbon footprints.
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Even if it were low-carbon and equitable, there simply isn't enough of it to substitute for more than a small fraction of natural gas.
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The Foresight Energy Infrastructure Fund will invest in low-carbon energy infrastructure such as renewable energy, battery and energy storage and transmission and distribution assets.
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" JENNIFER WINTER, ECONOMICS PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY: "There is a lot of emphasis on innovation and low carbon transition and money to reduce emissions, electricity.
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He told the party's annual conference in the northwestern city of Liverpool that a Labour government would focus on developing a low carbon energy industry.
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The state would also need to lower the carbon content of its gasoline supply under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, possibly by increasing biofuel use.
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To zero out emissions this century, we'd have to replace most of that with low-carbon sources like wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal, or carbon capture.
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The undisclosed amount of capital Carbon Engineering raised from the investment arms of two of the world's largest oil and gas companies — Oxy Low Carbon Ventures and Chevron Technology Ventures — will be used to commercialize its technology at a time when legislation in California and British Columbia are making low-carbon fuels more economically viable, according to a statement from the company's chief executive, Steve Oldham.
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But if the warning signs scientists are witnessing up North do nothing to push society toward a low-carbon future, the changes will continue to accelerate.
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Nuclear power has been a vital source of low-carbon electricity for decades, reducing emissions by more than 60 billion tons over the past 50 years.
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As a whole, however, the world's top 24 publicly-listed companies spent 1.3 percent of total budgets of $260 billion on low carbon energy in 2018.
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A rapid shift to low-carbon energy sources requires much more refined techniques – the creation and implementation of detailed, ambitious and often politically unpopular industrial policies.
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She also applauded the launch of a green investment principle for Belt and Road projects at the Beijing conference, emphasizing low-carbon and climate resilient investments.
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Here's how much they would increase cement ("clinker") production costs: As you can see, every low-carbon alternative raises costs more than 50 percent above baseline.
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In California the authorities through the carp association have since a number of years have implemented a so-called LCFS (Low-carbon fuel standard) credit system.
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Banks went on to add that political support for renewables had to continue if Scotland wanted to reap the benefits of being a low carbon economy.
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For a predominantly low-carbon nuclear power generator, such as France's EDF, strong carbon prices are bullish as the company can benefit from higher electricity prices.
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We can do that in a million different ways, by reducing our consumption, using current technologies more efficiently, or shifting to low-carbon technologies and practices.
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The Bank's Climate Action Plan "identifies DPF operations as the main instrument for incentivizing countries to transition to low-carbon economies," BIC noted in a statement.
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"The thorium molten salt power plant can produce clean energy cheaper than coal, which could be reliable energy system toward a low-carbon economy," PAL said.
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The price tag for inaction promises to get much higher, and the transformation to a low-carbon energy will inevitably stretch to mid-century and beyond.
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Households would also need to be weaned off natural gas heating and switch to low-carbon alternatives such as hydrogen or heat pumps, the report said.
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Global installed wind energy capacity has grown on average by 22 percent a year since 2006 as countries turn to low-carbon sources to produce electricity.
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"These projects have great potential to help us tackle climate change, and remain at the forefront of low carbon and renewable innovation," Sturgeon said on Wednesday.
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"Low-carbon investment in cities can help meet the needs of residents today, while protecting cities for residents of the future," she said in a statement.
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It was a major victory for those fighting to keep dirty fossil fuels in the ground and to promote a shift to a low-carbon economy.
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For oil, gas and power companies, as the world turns to a low-carbon economy, two thirds of the world's fossil fuel reserves cannot be burnt.
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The green bonds "have the potential to deliver the low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure needed in Nigeria... with access to private capital at scale", he said.
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For this to happen, countries will need to adopt policies that reduce the price of low-carbon investments to make them more attractive for private investors.
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Some 22019,000 of these employees are contributing to the generation of low-carbon electricity, including in the sectors of renewable energy, nuclear energy and natural gas.
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Europe's energy giants have stepped up investments in low-carbon energies following the landmark U.N.-backed 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, in contrast with their U.S. rivals.
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Rittl warned, however, that falling investment in programs such as low-carbon agriculture and wind power - due to the economic slowdown - could have a harmful impact.
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China led the world in energy investments with 21 percent of global total share, the report said, driven by low-carbon electricity supply and networks projects.
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These disclosures provide companies and investors alike with a roadmap to financing the transition to a low-carbon economy — and that's good for all of us.
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In particular, the resolutions sought information on research into low-carbon energy sources, company public-policy positions regarding climate change, as well as executive incentive schemes.
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" Winnie Byanyima, executive director, Oxfam International "The signing of the Paris agreement today marks a critical step forward towards building a more resilient, low-carbon future.
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Low-carbon transportation such as energy-efficient public transport could attract $1 trillion during the same period, while electric vehicles could see $1.6 trillion in investments.
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Although some key technologies have seen widespread adoption, other areas like negative emission technologies and low-carbon industrial processes remain in need of sustained, targeted innovation.
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Vermeulen said not enough progress had been made by oil and gas companies to transition to a low carbon economy since the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
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The agreement, though nonbinding, aims to expand cooperation between China and California on renewable energy, zero-emission vehicles and low-carbon urban development, Brown's office said.
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These criticisms have some merit, and a better-designed proposal would dedicate some money for programs designed to ease the adjustment to a low-carbon economy.
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States like California, Massachusetts and New York, and cities like San Francisco, Chicago and New York, are partnering with businesses to create new low carbon opportunities.
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In February, the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority issued a $500 million green bond, which was certified under the Climate Bonds Standard's low carbon transportation criteria.
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Nevertheless, campaigners say the government's support for fracking and a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport raise questions about its commitment to a low-carbon future.
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California might be a potential early market: The state has a Low Carbon Fuel Standard that offers hefty financial incentives to find cleaner alternatives to gasoline.
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Proponents of a low carbon diet are encouraged by the growth of animal product alternatives, such as the rise of plant-based milks and meat substitutes.
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"The acquisition of Chargemaster by BP marks a true milestone in the move towards low carbon motoring in the U.K.," David Martell, Chargemaster's chief executive, said.
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Exxon now concedes that climate change is happening because of the burning of fossil fuels, and it has spent a modest amount on low-carbon investments.
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This is at a time when the science warns us the next decade is critical in bending the emissions curve and delivering a low-carbon transition.
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In the U.S. itself, cities and states are pursuing their green objectives as costs tumble and the move to a global low-carbon economy gathers momentum.
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Additionally, Repsol plans to increase production of low-carbon biofuels and chemical products, and said it will invest in alternative power generation and carbon capture initiatives.
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By implementing low-carbon measures, they could cut urban emissions in key sectors by almost 2438 percent by 20203, according to the Coalition for Urban Transitions.
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"This is a big step forward towards our goal of a low-carbon society and nutrient recycling – a genuine circular economy solution," Gasum said in a statement.
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Kyte said governments had agreed in 2015 to pursue a low-carbon future, and should push ahead despite worries around faltering growth in China and emerging markets.
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Scientists figured this probably has something to do with a low carbon loss, but they weren't exactly sure how it made up for this deficit until now.
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The company, which is Europe's biggest oil producer, last year created a New Energies division to invest at least $1.7 billion in renewable and low-carbon energy.
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This year, Chevron resolutions to limit its methane emissions and to adapt its business to a low carbon economy received 45 percent and 8 percent support, respectively.
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"The decision is based on a growing global market demand for low-carbon solutions in transport and cities, aviation, polymers and chemicals," Neste said in a statement.
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"We see a major opportunity in offshore floating wind where demand is growing in the transition to a low-carbon future," Aker Solutions CEO Luis Araujo said.
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Rival Royal Dutch Shell, which is expanding its own retail power business, has said it plans to invest the same amount on renewables and low-carbon business.
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The big picture: The 2009 stimulus law funneled some $90 billion into low-carbon energy initiatives, including grants for renewable electricity development in lieu of tax credits.
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Hydro launched a low-carbon brand of aluminum in November and expects customers from carmakers to packaging firms to pay a premium to help slow climate change.
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But, but, but: Investments in low-carbon and emerging energy tech and companies — including renewables and EV infrastructure — remains a very small part of oil majors' portfolios.
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To get this far, the Solar Impulse team has had to overcome many of the same technological challenges that are facing humanity on our low-carbon transition.
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The wind farm will have a maximum total generating capacity of almost 100 megawatts and provide enough low-carbon electricity to power 33,000 homes, the company said.
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Image: IPPWind, solar and nuclear power are all going to be important parts of our low-carbon energy future, but they aren't the only game in town.
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Producing hydrogen from low-carbon energy is still costly and its adoption is also being held back by the slow development of infrastructure and some regulatory hurdles.
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"Meeting current or growing levels of energy need in the next few decades with low-carbon solutions will be extremely difficult, if not impossible," the paper finds.
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Those should be phased out to meet political commitments, and to align finance with the Paris pact vision of a low-carbon, climate-resilient world, she added.
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Employment in low-carbon energy fields is better-paid than average jobs and is widely available to workers without college degrees, a new Brookings Institution analysis shows.
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For all low-carbon technologies, it puts the figure at $13bn a year until 21, four times the sum that renewables, batteries and the like attract today.
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Any price would promote more established low-carbon technologies first and NETs only much later, thinks Glen Peters of the Centre for International Climate Research in Oslo.
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Roughly $15bn a year goes to research into all low-carbon technologies; that pot needs to increase, and more of it should be channelled to extracting carbon.
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We can achieve a greater reduction of carbon emissions by creating incentives which work throughout the economy to encourage conservation and a shift to low-carbon energy.
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Green ABS are all related to low-carbon assets like solar-powered systems or real estate loans in which the proceeds are used to finance green projects.
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These will probably include stricter design and operation standards for ships to increase efficiency, as well as programs to introduce low-carbon fuels or carbon-free propulsion.
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So far the oil majors have committed a small fraction of their annual investment to low-carbon technologies as they balance shareholder demands for returns and innovation.
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Trevor Houser, Clinton's top energy adviser, argued for the Democratic presidential nominee's vision of a future in which low-carbon sources dominate the world's energy markets. Rep.
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Ahmad is certain the only way out of Pakistan's energy crisis is to bypass the grid and leapfrog straight into low-carbon sources like wind and solar.
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The International Energy Agency estimates that the switch to a low-carbon economy will cost on average $3.5 trillion in investments a year for the foreseeable future.
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"This auction underlines that Britain is open for business to companies seeking to invest in low carbon energy," Jesse Norman, the energy minister, said in a statement.
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Beyond that faction, positions are not as clearly defined or vocal, but the shared theme supports a broader mix of low-carbon technologies cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Climate Action 100+ initiative, in partnership with researchers, will issue an annual report on the progress of the companies in their transition to low-carbon enterprises.
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Partin said relatively wealthy Helsinki was a good proving ground for low-carbon innovations, with the ideas that work best then available for use by other cities.
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The greatest impact the U.S. can have on climate change is via deployment of U.S. expertise and low-carbon technologies as tactical elements of a broader strategy.
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Copenhagen, Denmark's capital, is one of Europe's smartest cities, or low-carbon sustainable cities; two-thirds of its residents cycle to work, while only 9% drive cars.
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The key to understand is that we have options in the transition to a low carbon economy and there's no need to resort to the riskiest first.
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Countries such as India are pushing to create "green homes" while aluminium smelters are responding to the demands of regulators and developers to produce low-carbon materials.
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The report also said that changes to low-carbon energy policies in 2015 has undermined investor confidence and reduced the number of renewable energy projects in development.
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"The countries and companies that lead in implementing the Paris Agreement and enacting strong climate and low carbon energy policies will see significant economic benefits," it said.
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Denmark is a world leader in wind energy and Danish companies have played a leading role in Denmark's transition towards an economically efficient low-carbon energy mix.
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This process — known as "scenario analysis" — is a key step to understanding how transitioning to a low-carbon world would impact a company's long-term financial health.
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The biggest problem with the energy ministers' gathering is the walling off of one path on the world's journey toward a low-carbon energy menu – nuclear power.
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The bottom line: As the global economy transitions from high to low carbon and climate change proceeds, investors will weather significant gains and losses on their assets.
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Precious time that could have been used to move the country and the world to a low-carbon economy was squandered in pursuit of drill, baby, drill.
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Big oil: A number of the world's biggest oil-and-gas companies are ramping up their investments in low-carbon technologies like renewables and electric vehicle infrastructure.
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A major climate storyline in the Trump era has been the way that cities, regional governments and companies worldwide have been pressing ahead with low-carbon efforts.
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But, but, but: The same day that paper came out, the International Energy Agency released its latest data on global growth of low-carbon energy technology deployment.
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In Europe alone, IEA estimates the retirement of nuclear power plants has offset 40 percent of the benefit from low-carbon power generation from renewables since 2010.
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"You have to give energy but a different kind of energy," he said, referencing low carbon dioxide energy, the circular economy and hybrid renewables with gas solutions.
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The mandate for the competition was to plan a building with a low carbon footprint for a scorching climate that necessitates air-conditioning much of the year.
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"The transition to a low-carbon economy, less dependent on fossil fuels, represents a substantial uncertainty for companies engaged in coal, oil and natural gas," Brusewitz said.
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Last October, California enacted a new "Buy Clean" law that requires steel, glass and other materials used in public works projects to meet certain low-carbon standards.
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"The answer is yes because the opportunity for those workers to transition to high-paying jobs...is real," he said, talking up jobs in low-carbon infrastructure.
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In fact, eating shellfish like oysters can be more sustainable than being totally vegan, because it's just such an efficient and low-carbon way to make protein.
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These proposals are not comprehensive climate strategies, but they are serious climate policies that would dramatically cut emissions while accelerating low-carbon innovation in the private sector.
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Active participation from the energy majors is also essential in ensuring a smooth transition to a low-carbon future that avoids major supply disruptions or price spikes.
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This global point of view extends to action on climate change and the economic potential inherent in pursuing a clean energy, low-carbon future for our children.
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We are strongly urging other leaders around the world to swiftly implement these actions to secure a healthy, low-carbon and climate-resilient future for our ocean.
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"For instance, solar and wind subsidies were possible because the climate change agenda has forced policy makers to turn to a low-carbon economic model," he said.
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Some 71% expect to increase or maintain investment in renewable energy, decarbonising oil and gas production and new low-carbon technologies, compared with 54% a year ago.
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"As one of the world's largest diversified mining companies, we have a key role in enabling transition to a low carbon economy," Glencore said in a statement.
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According to the Scottish government, there are more than 58,000 jobs in the low carbon and renewable energy economy in Scotland, spread across nine renewable energy sectors.
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South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg: The youngest candidate in the race, the 20-year-old says he has a personal stake in the low-carbon future.
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Climeworks had installed the machines on the roof of the power plant to tap into the plant's low-carbon electricity and the heat from its incineration system.
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Artist Conrad Shawcross' The Optic Cloak is his design solution for a 160' high chimney flue which is part of the low carbon Greenwich Peninsula Energy Centre.
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If it is a moral good for influential people to signal that low carbon is a priority, then it is a moral good for all of them.
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By keeping the nuclear plants open, it preserves several gigawatts of low-carbon generation that would otherwise have been replaced (mostly) with carbon-polluting natural gas plants.
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The bottom line: It's part of the industry's wider diversification into renewables and low-carbon tech, even though oil-and-gas remains the overwhelming majority of their portfolios.
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The claim was widely criticized within the renewable industry, which sees the shift to a low-carbon economy as an opportunity to drive investment, job creation and innovation.
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The move is an acceleration of ING's efforts in the global transition to a low-carbon economy, agreed through a 2015 global accord on climate change in Paris.
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But EEF's Warren said the government already helps low-carbon investment though other schemes, such as its contracts-for-difference which provides a guaranteed price for electricity production.
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Set up in May, HCC's role is to advise on the change to a low-carbon economy and is modeled on the British Committee on Climate Change (CCC).
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The institute would focus not only on technological innovation, but also climate change policies and strategies, Yao Qiang, director of Tsinghua's Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy, told Reuters.
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Cumulative green bond issuance has reached nearly $107 billion, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative, a London-based non-profit which promotes investment in the low-carbon economy.
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Those fell 227 percent to 223 million tonnes of CO133e as low-carbon electricity production from renewable and nuclear power plants rose and carbon-intensive coal generation fell.
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Background: Hydrogen is being studied extensively for its potential as a highly efficient, low-carbon energy carrier, with particularly significant applications in the transportation and electricity-generation industries.
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Vedanta has said it is well placed, with its zinc mines and it also produces aluminum - meaning it produces two other materials used in light, low carbon transport.
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In fact, the evidence has been clear since the publication of the Stern Review in 2006 that the benefits of the low-carbon transition far outweigh its costs.
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As we scale up existing technologies to displace fossil fuels, we also must work to create new technologies that will ease the transition to a low-carbon future.
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It raised planned investment in its new energies division which focuses on renewables and low carbon technologies to $1-2 billion until 2020 from the current $1 billion.
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I began to document the community grass-roots projects around Britain that were taking steps to transition to a low-carbon economy, from repair cafes to urban farms.
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The Paris Agreement on climate change has spurred research and development into low-carbon technologies; major cities have allied to share information and technical advice about reducing emissions.
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One, resistive electricity is the only low-carbon industrial-heat option competitive with CCS or blue hydrogen, and that's only where clean electricity is extremely cheap and plentiful.
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By making them part of the solution, rather than left out in the cold, you obtain a coalition with its interests preserved in the new low carbon world.
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Why it matters: The report provides a highly granular look at the workforce characteristics in fast-growing, low-carbon energy sectors that already employ several million people combined.
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Nuclear energy is a low-carbon resource and so some argue that Hinkley Point C will be a crucial factor in helping the country meet its energy targets.
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Cumulative green bond issuance has reached nearly $1.53 billion, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative, a London-based non-profit which promotes investment in the low-carbon economy.
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"Working alongside renewables, nuclear provides the reliable low carbon energy required to balance variable wind and solar generation," said Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the Nuclear Industry Association.
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Overall, "low carbon emission" sectors employed about 800,000 workers last year, while 1.1 million people worked in the traditional coal, oil and natural gas industries, the department said.
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Analysts see the embrace of home batteries as an important step toward a future in which low-carbon economies rely on increasingly decentralized and fluctuating renewable energy supplies.
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Nuclear is now the largest low-carbon power source in Europe and the United States, about three times bigger than wind and solar combined, according to IEA data.
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To date, Exxon has bet that the transition to a low-carbon economy will happen more slowly than many studies, and even other oil companies think it will.
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Many companies already are well into a transition to lower-carbon forms of energy — and the global low-carbon economy is potentially a $1.4 trillion global business opportunity.
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Although the commitments are voluntary, the agreement sets a clear course toward a low-carbon future, with nearly 200 countries working together and playing by the same rules.
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" Paul Wheelhouse said Tuesday that the Scottish government had a "moral responsibility to tackle climate change and an economic responsibility to prepare Scotland for new low carbon opportunities.
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But there is no question that the world needs to ramp up its transition to a low-carbon, environmentally sustainable and resilient economy, and to do so rapidly.
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Thanks to the hydro-produced low carbon aluminum Rusal will provide to the mill, Braidy will have the lowest carbon imprint in the global aluminum rolling mill industry.
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"If we're to move from today's high-carbon, low-efficiency world economy to tomorrow's high-efficiency, low-carbon world economy, quite a lot needs to shift," he said.
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Leaving the Paris agreement means that other global powers, like China, Germany, and beyond, will "gobble" emerging jobs and markets for renewable and low-carbon energy, Light stressed.
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Con Edison believes in clean, low-carbon energy, but a balance must be found to satisfy environmental goals, he told an audience of New York real estate brokers.
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"This friendly takeover is part of the group's strategy to expand along the entire gas-electricity value chain and to develop low-carbon energies," CEO Patrick Pouyanne said.
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U.S. industry is responding positively to this movement and is racing to keep up with China, Japan and Western Europe in the development of the low carbon economy.
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It's widely suspected the Clean Power Plan, intended to reduce state emissions through low-carbon infrastructure, will not survive, but this won't change state-level clean energy trends.
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Stuck at the bottom of this list were a couple of detail-free claims that the iPhones are produced via a "low-carbon process" and are "highly recyclable".
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Especially in the bi- and multilateral deals that surrounded the main agreement (the US signed dozens), it was mainly about researching, testing, commercializing, and deploying low-carbon technologies.
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For instance, a carbon tax that led to stiffer fuel taxes could encourage the market for electric cars, which are seen as essential to a low-carbon future.
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Mr. Hale said the returns of the low-carbon fund would not track the broader market: If the energy sector were to surge, the fund would probably underperform.
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Last fall, California's lawmakers took an early stab at confronting the issue by setting new low-carbon standards on the steel the state buys for its infrastructure projects.
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VanEck Vectors Low Carbon Energy ETF and Invesco Solar ETF were up in the past year, up 2500% and 63%, respectively, but are laggards over the last decade.
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Mass adoption of electric cars could also prove a key strategy in fighting climate change — provided the vehicles are increasingly powered by low-carbon electricity rather than coal.
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Overall, the authority's power mix is more than half clean, well above the national figure of 38 percent of all electric-power generation coming from low-carbon sources.
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Bank of America (BAC) said last year it will provide $300 billion in finance for low-carbon business activities by 2030, adding to a previous $145 billion commitment.
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Sometimes called the "low-carbon diet," this approach involves cutting down on meat and dairy, as well as eating locally and seasonally and reducing packaging and food waste.
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Norman said offshore wind would be an important part of the government's new industrial strategy, which was unveiled on Monday and includes delivering affordable, low-carbon energy growth.
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"By 2040, the range of EVs' market share is from 15 percent at the bottom to over 90 percent for the low carbon scenarios," writes CGEP's Marianne Kah.
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To attain LEED certification, buildings must be constructed to reach sustainability goals including high energy and water efficiency, low carbon emissions, a healthy indoor environment and cost savings.
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Customers use a dashboard to choose whether to prioritize cheap or low-carbon energy sources, and they're able to terminate their relationship with Drift at a moment's notice.
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"Some European companies are making bold new low-carbon investments to roll out renewables, build greener infrastructure, buy electric vehicles and make manufacturing more energy-efficient," Tebbe said.
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This would be a game-changer in American foreign policy, essentially upending the world order as we know it in the interest of building a low-carbon world.
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Automakers are just one example of an industry that will be forced to reinvent itself as technologies and policies shift the world economy towards a low carbon model.
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One thorny and complex area is how to define low-carbon aluminium, but the LME will allow the industry to take the lead in that aspect, he added.
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When finished, it will cover the power plant chimney from the new Low Carbon Energy Centre and we can't wait to see it completed in all it's glory!
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And it's worth noting that those political instruments and market developments, if they did manifest, would also benefit nuclear's low-carbon competitors, which are already kicking its ass.
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Central banks have so far focused largely on the impact of climate change risks on big investors' liabilities and how they can help improve conditions for low-carbon investments.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Swedish banking group SEB issued its first green bond last week, raising 500 million euros ($532 million) for loans to low-carbon projects, it said on Monday.
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While those cities may lack expertise, they do not have "big negative bureaucracies to push against", which may make winning the case for low-carbon development easier, he said.
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Renewable energy is one of the most important drivers of Germany's plans to become a low-carbon economy, part of the country's commitment to help to combat global warming.
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The U.S. may also become a clean energy laggard, as manufacturers and investors flock to China, India, Europe, and other nations that more openly embrace the low-carbon economy.
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Wilhelmshaven LNG could also offer low-carbon bunker fuel for ships in the German Bay, ahead of limits on heavily polluting ship fuels imposed by the IMO from 2020.
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The consortium said it would boost output with low-carbon steel-making technologies, ultimately up to 9.5 million tonnes of finished products from less than 6 million tonnes now.
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In January it announced plans to spend 2.5trn yuan ($360bn) by 2020 on new generating capacity using renewable or low-carbon sources, including solar, wind, hydroelectric and nuclear plants.
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The bottom line: The U.S. has managed to deploy low-carbon technology with sub-optimal market incentives, such as Renewable Portfolio Standards, federal R&D support and tax credits.
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The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, has proposed a new set of measures intended to speed up the European Union's (EU) transition to a low carbon, clean economy.
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That said, here's a rough-and-ready cost comparison: You might notice that most of the blue bars, the low-carbon options, are way over on the expensive right.
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The Bucuti and Tara resort last August was certified as 100 percent carbon neutral by Natural Capital Partners, an international organization that works to promote low-carbon sustainable development.
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The IEA said that the target is "a major step forward" but politicians need to speed up the implementation of low carbon technologies and energy efficiency across all sectors.
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Environmental group Greenpeace said the government was still not doing enough to support low-carbon electricity production, saying Britain needed at least 45 GW of offshore capacity by 2030.
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Speaking at a debate in parliament on Wednesday, former energy secretary Ed Davey said opposition Labour Party plans to nationalise energy infrastructure would not aid a low-carbon transition.
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The Isles of Scilly aim to generate 40 percent of their energy from renewable sources, and make 40 percent of vehicles driven there electric or low-carbon by 13.
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Granted, there's a third option here: Congress could enact a carbon tax or similar policy that would give all low-carbon energy sources a leg up over fossil fuels.
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Governments should shape energy policies to keep existing reactors running: they provide low-carbon energy, and decommissioning them is as likely to create safety problems as leaving them running.
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Increased energy efficiency across all economic sectors, a very low-carbon electricity system and the electrification of buildings, transportation and industry to the extent that is practical are key.
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Instead, the idea is that by eliminating holdings in fossil fuels, investors send a signal that those energy companies are undesirable and morally incompatible with a low-carbon future.
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Storage is seen as crucial in transitioning to a low carbon, renewable future, because sources such as the sun and wind do not promise a constant stream of power.
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Yet with solar and wind power booming in the U.S., and natural gas supplanting coal, the low-carbon EV dream is finally becoming a reality, a new analysis says.
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Countries such as Norway and Costa Rica are making progress with low-carbon transport and renewable energy deployment but China's carbon emissions rose again this year, the report said.
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Consumers may soon have a choice of buying green, low-carbon aluminium or "black" metal with a higher carbon footprint, raising the prospect of a two-tier market structure.
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The big challenge now is reducing material and energy consumption in wealthy countries and ensuring poor and middle-income countries are on a low-carbon development path, she said.
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Speaking at a debate in parliament on Wednesday, former energy secretary Ed Davey said opposition Labour Party plans to nationalize energy infrastructure would not aid a low-carbon transition.
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But while its history is checkered, nuclear energy mostly operates out of sight, generating about 10% of the world's total electricity and 29% of the world's low-carbon power.
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Germany's E.ON is focusing on low-carbon power, grids and retail activities, and is left with nuclear power production only in Germany and Sweden, where it also operates hydropower.
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Financing the world's transition to a low-carbon economy will be costly, but we can't afford not to do it and, it is important to note, it is feasible.
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By encouraging workers to pursue low-carbon fields of employment, we will be protecting the environment, meeting our societal needs, and strengthening the economy — all at the same time.
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UCS said the best policy to help plants would be a national carbon tax or other policy to charge polluters, while low-carbon electricity mandates could also help significantly.
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Consumers may soon have a choice of buying green, low-carbon aluminum or "black" metal with a higher carbon footprint, raising the prospect of a two-tier market structure.
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After Irma, Branson suggested that rich countries fund a "Caribbean Marshall Plan " to help islands move beyond fossil fuels toward low-carbon renewable energy sources like solar and wind.
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Blunt spending programs will force contractors to sell what they know to meet government deadlines rather than encouraging research and development into the next generation of low carbon technologies.
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These often come in the form of renewable credits and fuel standards, such as the EPA's Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) and the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program (LCFS).
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But despite its less-than-perfect ambitions, the climate pact has sent a clear signal that the world is willing to invest in a low-carbon future, Bailey said.
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Related: The Oil Industry Sought Patents for Low-Carbon Technologies Decades Ago — Then Abandoned Them And the company's record on climate change has become a matter of public concern.
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The Berlin government's offshore target, part of its renewable energy plan to move to a low carbon economy, also counts in more modestly sized plants in the Baltic Sea.
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The last few years have seen enormous uptake of renewable energy, but we must now redouble our efforts to ensure these new low-carbon technologies are able to thrive.
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Such proposals include the adoption of new environmental regulations, investment in new technology for low-carbon agriculture, securing a workers' bill of rights, and expanding workers' ability to unionize.
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The Scottish government has published its first energy strategy, which includes plans for a £20 million ($26.75 million) energy investment fund and a £60 million low carbon innovation fund.
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Tourists interested in remote destinations are typically also the kind who want to visit in a way that still promotes "conservation, sustainability and a low carbon footprint," he said.
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More than half the fund's assets are invested in companies involved in low-carbon electricity and energy efficiency, such as Iberdrola, a Spanish utility that relies on wind power.
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But how much removal we need depends on what other tactics we use, whether that's energy efficiency, switching to low-carbon energy sources, or cutting our energy use overall.
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On a smaller scale, a growing number of tour operators, such as Roar Africa, are selling trips that exclusively include hotels working toward low-carbon or carbon neutral operations.
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A second category would exist for investments that can meet less-stringent criteria which still prove they "do no significant harm" to the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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The fund is designed to replicate the world market as closely as possible — it invests globally, in developed and developing countries — while still being low carbon, Mr. McKnett said.
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Total, which did not disclose the value of the deal, has said it plans to invest up to $2 billion annually to expand its footprint in low carbon businesses.
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French "low carbon label": Environment Minister Élisabeth Borne announced the label as a financial incentive for farmers who dedicate a share of their land to protect and restore biodiversity.
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"But this needs to be balanced by the current reality of the economics of the low-carbon technologies" that are generally less profitable than oil and gas, he added.
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Total has been an "oil producer" for nearly a century, but now it is a major "energy player" that produces and markets fuel, natural gas and low-carbon electricity.
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Our data centers should be powered by ever-cheaper renewable energy along with battery storage, and our vehicles powered by low carbon technologies (like electric cars), said Stanford's Azevedo.
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"We agree the world needs to move to net zero emissions, and we support a rapid transition to a low carbon future," the BP executive told the assembled technologists.
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"But this needs to be balanced by the current reality of the economics of the low-carbon technologies" that are generally less profitable than oil and gas, he added.
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Along with advocating the phasing out of fossil fuels, it should champion plans to help communities dependent on fossil fuel jobs make a transition to a low-carbon economy.
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The Scottish Government has announced that £5.3 million ($6.82 million) will be invested to convert a former bottling plant for Diageo brand Johnnie Walker into a low carbon development.
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"Subsequently, we've gotten out of a lot of our Exxon shares when they wouldn't take seriously the risks to their business model around a low-carbon scenario," he said.
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Shell is committed to supporting bright energy ideas and this event will excite, entertain and explore how we can be part of the journey to a low-carbon future.
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"Bold steps by big companies will make a huge difference in the development of new technologies and industries to support a low carbon economy," said Figueres, in a statement.
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"I am also asking all investors to scale up green ventures, to increase lending for low-carbon solutions and to stop, in effect, financing pollution," he said in June.
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Auditors are not giving enough weight to a potentially rapid transition towards a low-carbon future as governments implement the 2015 Paris Agreement to curb climate change, they said.
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NDP Finance Minister Carole James announced her government will also use new carbon revenue to help families pay for green initiatives such as home retrofits or low carbon transportation.
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While Codelco's plan would mark a first for the copper industry, producers of aluminum started charging premiums for low carbon products and metal made from renewable energy earlier this year.
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Its cost is passed on to consumers through higher electricity bills, meaning companies with low-carbon generation such as nuclear or renewables can then benefit from the higher electricity prices.
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Shell and other European peers including BP, France's Total and Norway's Statoil are becoming increasingly active in the low-carbon energy sector and are vocal supporters of the Paris agreement.
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The report said there were few signs of the large reallocation of capital towards low-carbon energy, which is needed to help achieve goals to keep global warming in check.
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Should this come to pass, many low-carbon technologies now available, including CCS, would become economically viable and could replace carbon-intensive processes in both the power and industrial sector.
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This month, leaders from business, government, and academia met in San Francisco as part of the Low Carbon Technology Partnerships Initiative to examine the problems and prospects for sustainable fuels.
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While the money he has committed to help fund the transition to a low-carbon economy are expected to turn into projects later this summer, money managers aren't investing yet.
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And here's the real kicker: in most cases, it is cheaper to capture and bury CO2 from these processes than it is to switch out systems for low-carbon alternatives.
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Why it matters: It marked the lowest level for any half-year since 2013, according to BloombergNEF, the consultancy that carefully tracks investment in low-carbon energy projects and companies.
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"Britain needs to upgrade its supplies of energy, and we have always been clear that nuclear is an important part of ensuring our future low-carbon energy security," Clark added.
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The International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation, an intergovernmental body based in Beijing, says the renewable, low-carbon alternative to plastics and timber is now "part of China's environmental leadership bid".
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I chatted with Maarten Wetselaar, a senior Shell exec, about whether they will increase the $1 billion to $2 billion per year they're investing until 2020 in low-carbon efforts.
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In a media briefing, Trudeau also said oil and gas executives are looking for greater clarity on regulations and pricing, arguing the world is ready for a low-carbon economy.
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What exercises him, as California's insurance commissioner, is the way in which a transition to a low-carbon economy might affect the financial health of the state's 1,300-odd insurers.
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As it happens, there's a pretty big one nearby: California has a low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) that requires fuels sold in the state to steadily decline in carbon intensity.
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"Paris is saying that we're moving to a low-carbon future," said Mindy S. Lubber, president of Ceres, an organization that mobilizes investment and business leaders to fight climate change.
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"As one of the world's largest diversified resource companies, Glencore has a key role to play in enabling transition to a low carbon economy," the company said in a statement.
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Why it matters: Corporate, state and city-level efforts around low-carbon energy are taking on increased importance as President Trump reverses the Obama administration's federal and international climate efforts.
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"No country is better suited to confront the climate challenge and reap the economic benefits of a low carbon future than the United States," Obama wrote in the Science article.
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To reach this goal, Angela Merkel's centrist government has implemented an ambitious policy bundle known as the Energiewende that seeks to transition Germany to a nonnuclear, low-carbon energy future.
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"Our focus on natural ecosystems is one step we are taking today to support the transition towards a low-carbon future," Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said in a statement.
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We must, however, strive for a broader public consensus that respects local differences and allows all citizens equal opportunity to build a prosperous, fair, safe and secure low-carbon future.
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The initiative was welcomed by many, with the World Resources Institute predicting it would translate into more low-carbon projects, including renewable energy and public transit systems, as a result.
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The initiative was welcomed by many, with the World Resources Institute predicting it would translate into more low-carbon projects, including renewable energy and public transit systems, as a result.
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The ADIA's comments show how global sovereign funds are waking up to growing calls from governments to address climate change and to build a low-carbon society in the future.
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Moody's said in April the issuance of green bonds, which are used to help finance projects such as renewable energy and low-carbon transport, could reach $70 billion this year.
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In a statement, former President Barack Obama suggested Trump's decision could hurt American innovation, even as he said the march toward a low-carbon future by businesses was well underway.
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"We agree that our country should not lose its seat at the table," the lawmakers told Tillerson, arguing that the pact helps the market move toward a low-carbon economy.
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His critics have argued, however, that the risks of climate change require action, and that a shift to a low-carbon energy economy can create more jobs than it eliminates.
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Governments are also tapping the trend, selling green bonds to fund projects such as wind farms or low-carbon transport, with Poland, France and Nigeria making their debut this year.
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Despite the global market shift in favor of low-carbon energy, coal and other fossil fuels are expected to remain a significant part of the global energy mix for decades.
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While Pacific Gas & Electric asserts Diablo Canyon would be replaced with other forms of clean, low-carbon power, nothing in the proposal would require the company to go that far.
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Despite high-profile support from President Barack Obama, US funding for low-carbon energy research has stalled in Congress — but current technologies like wind and solar power keep plugging away.
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But as low-carbon and no-carbon energy options, delays in the construction of hydro and nuclear necessarily also have an impact on the growth of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
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If such regulatory rules were streamlines, we truly could see an "all-of-the-above" free-market environment for low-carbon and no-carbon energy infrastructure, which doesn't currently exist.
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Exported U.S. products from a revamped U.S. manufacturing sector will need to meet these standards and compete in places with carbon pricing or other regulations that favor low-carbon technologies.
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The free-market forge is poised to refine a $90 trillion thing of beauty and wonder by using a "carbon price signal" sufficient to engineer a low-carbon energy economy.
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Once policy sends a clear signal, if past is prologue, American businesses will rise to the challenge and, in doing so, prepare to lead in a future low carbon world.
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They can then join the 3 million Americans working in technologies related to low-carbon energy sources and energy efficiency and speed the transition to cleaner sources of energy 4.
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Along with other carbon capture and storage technologies, direct air capture is today increasingly viewed by energy experts as an integral component to the transition to a low carbon future.
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This would involve setting high benchmarks for developing green enterprise zones, renewable energy, cultivating food locally, restoring biodiversity, planting more trees and emphasizing walkability, low-carbon transportation and zero waste.
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The U.S. department of energy (DOE) agrees with the IEA that extending the life of existing reactors is perhaps the most competitive way to produce low-carbon electricity, he said.
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Why it matters: The spotlight on new tech underscores how the high-carbon parts of the energy industry are trying to embrace the future of low carbon and high tech.
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Why it matters: The findings underscore how, despite gains in low-carbon energy technologies, the world is nowhere near an emissions-cutting pathway that avoids highly dangerous levels of warming.
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The big picture: The report underscores how achieving extremely steep emissions cuts in the coming decades will require far more than just increased use of low-carbon power generation sources.
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Even less, how the approach might be scalable to a national level or make polluters pay for the transition to a low-carbon economy, one of the Alliance's main goals.
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The OGCI created a $1 billion fund to develop technologies to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in the sector as the world aims to shift toward a low-carbon economy.
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Regardless of the precise mix of fuels in a future low-carbon energy system, most estimates indicate that our energy supply will rely on fossil fuels for the foreseeable future.
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"Robust investment in renewable power is even more important for boosting low-carbon power generation in light of a sharp fall in investment in new nuclear power," the IEA said.
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The plan outlines a $200 billion transitional fund over 10 years for displaced workers and the renovation of existing plants and assembly lines in the creation of low-carbon products.
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This will have the beneficial effect of getting carbon-intensive trading partners (like China) to decarbonize, while rewarding trading partners with low-carbon economies (like Sweden and many American allies).
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The MacBook Air still uses a 100-percent recycled aluminum enclosure, whereas the iPad Pro has an enclosure made with "low-carbon aluminum," as well as other recycled components inside.
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Another dynamic to watch: The oil crash, which is putting a financial strain on drilling companies, could cause some companies to reconsider their plans to invest in low-carbon technology.
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Meanwhile, the world's biggest energy companies last year devoted just 1 percent of their capital investment to low-carbon energy sources, a separate study from the Carbon Disclosure Project found.
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Climate change has surged to the top of the agenda for investors as policymakers demand companies step up efforts to help drive the global transition to a low-carbon economy.
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"If the government decides to proceed, HS2 Ltd has a highly skilled team in place ready to build Britain's new state-of-the-art, low-carbon railway," a spokesman said.
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The Russian company intends to invest $200 million in this mill and supply about 2 million tonnes of low-carbon aluminum over 10 years worth about $500 million per year.
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For example, if you bring down the cost of low-carbon technology in the US, you can make it competitive with fossil fuels in China and India, encouraging its use.
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Evidence such as this shows that moving toward a low-carbon economy is a good thing for society as a whole as it benefits both the economy and the environment.
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The 142-year-old LME said last month it was in discussions with the metals industry over how to support the transition to a low-carbon economy, especially in aluminium.
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ING Group, a Dutch financial services firm, estimated that the shift to a low-carbon economy could require $30 trillion in new investments toward clean energy and energy efficiency worldwide.
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By contrast, just 0.53 percent of the world's primary energy is "low carbon": a little bit of wind and solar power, some nuclear power plants, a bunch of hydroelectric dams.
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We're reducing emissions from our own operations, down 1.7m tonnes last year, improving our products to support our customers' efforts to reduce their emissions and creating new low-carbon businesses.
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In comparison, about $391 billion was invested in low-carbon and climate-resilient growth in 20173, according to the Climate Policy Initiative, which tracks both public and private climate finance.
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Inslee had been threatening to pass a low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) like California's, which would have mandated reductions in the average carbon intensity of the state's liquid transportation fuels.
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On the substance, look for Democrats to include provisions on low-carbon energy and climate resilience as part of an infrastructure package, which Pelosi mentions in her statement responding the demonstration.
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The trend toward low-carbon electricity means that states will have a leg up in meeting the Clean Power Plan's goals even if the plan itself is delayed by the courts.
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The power firms said the carbon tax encourages them to invest in low-carbon power generation and said it is central to the country's efforts to meet its climate change goals.
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But it's also a clear sign of just how difficult it is to decarbonize the airline industry, for which surprisingly few low-carbon technologies or fuels have been developed so far.
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Shell, which has been producing oil since 1907, and its peers are increasingly switching to less-polluting natural gas production as the world transitions to a low carbon emission energy system.
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"Financial policymakers will not drive the transition to a low-carbon economy, but we will expect our regulated firms to anticipate and manage the risks associated with that transition," Carney said.
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What they found: We're going to need to rely on that last category — "firm" low carbon resources, in order to affordably get power sector emissions down to zero, the study concludes.
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Instead of going all-in on renewables, "The most feasible route to a low-carbon energy future is one that adopts a diverse portfolio of technologies," Clack and his coauthors wrote.
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That document includes a goal of 100% renewable electricity within 10 years (up from 17% today), a federal jobs guarantee for people working in the low-carbon transition, and universal healthcare.
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But both systems effectively raise the price of using fossil fuels, which encourages utilities and other producers to generate more energy from low-carbon sources like solar, wind and nuclear power.
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Situated alongside displays from other countries, coalition members will explain the actions they are taking to reduce emissions and inform Americans about the benefits and opportunities of a low-carbon economy.
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Experts say companies should make the huge leap towards decarbonization by investing in dual combustion systems, which use a combination of diesel and low-carbon fuels, such as hydrogen, or batteries.
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While China has "few uncertainties" at home for passing the deal, it could cause controversy within the U.S., according to Liu Shuang, an officer with Energy Foundation's low-carbon development programme.
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For quite a long time, we've been building these aggressive energy requirements into our code, but they're not actually performance-based for what we're trying to achieve, which is low carbon.
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A wise and just transition to a low-carbon economy, moving as fast as is technically and socially possible, must minimize stranded physical assets as well as stranded workers and communities.
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So the split in the industry continues to widen, with Shell, Statoil and Total actively preparing for a low-carbon future, and Exxon et al doubling down on business as usual.
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The world will need to invest around $145 trillion in low-carbon technologies by 2050 in order to stay within the Paris limits, two global renewable energy agencies said in March.
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"Now they can either make it easier for the rise of renewables and for a transition to a low-carbon energy future, or this administration can make that much more difficult."
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Carbon pricing, via taxes or emissions trading schemes, is used by many governments to make energy consumers pay for the costs of pollution, and to spur investment in low-carbon technology.
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"There isn't much room for bitumen in a low-carbon, low oil price future and the smart money recognizes that's where we are headed," said Greenpeace Canada energy strategist Keith Stewart.
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They can advocate for healthy, low-carbon energy systems and for the protection of urban green spaces and can encourage patients to benefit from the healing effect of being in nature.
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Investments to rapidly shift Asia's economy onto a low-carbon path must be a high priority because the coming decade is crucial to achieving the Paris Agreement goals, the report said.
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A reformed European energy market, recalling the union's postwar origins as a coal and steel community, could integrate abundant British wind and wave power into a Continental low-carbon energy grid.
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Previously, investors could find funds that focused on companies with low carbon footprints, or high gender diversity and inclusion, said Martin Small, head of iShares for the United States and Canada.
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Rural communities can provide climate answers, including: While rural communities will be key in the transition to a low carbon economy, they also face challenges that make a just transition critical.
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Gathered to discuss the challenge in Barcelona, officials from development banks, businesses and governments agreed to work together to push the need for low-carbon, resilient infrastructure up the political agenda.
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France wants to develop more wind, solar and other low-carbon energy sources to cut its dependence on nuclear energy power, which currently counts for over 75 percent of its needs.
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California's Air Resources Board (CARB), responsible for most of the state's climate policy, passed a protocol for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects within the state's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).
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The combination of currently low carbon emission prices and coal prices in Europe is making coal-fired plants twice as profitable as gas-fired plants even though they are more polluting.
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It would be a shame if British businesses, which are often at the cutting edge of sustainability and low-carbon innovation, lost the opportunity to influence these rules in the future.
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Allowing the project, called Plains and Eastern, to go ahead could encourage the spread of low-carbon electricity and increase system reliability at a reasonable cost to consumers, the department said.
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They would like to see a major policy initiative on the scale of a federal low-carbon power mandate (an idea floated under Obama), and perhaps a direct price on carbon.
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Jairo Quirós, an electrical engineer at the Universidad de Costa Rica, said the country is well suited to electric cars, and not just because the country's electric power is low carbon.
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Climate change will have dire consequences for the way we live and nuclear power plants, with their low-carbon cost, represent an efficient and possibly less environmentally disastrous source of energy.
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The EU aims to cut carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030, for which it estimates about 180 billion euros ($212 billion) in additional low-carbon investments are needed per year.
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OPIC spokeswoman Andrea Orr said the agency adheres to the Obama-enacted low-carbon policy and that its portfolio is "demand driven" – reflecting the shift globally toward lower carbon energy sources.
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Dr. Carmichael would like airlines to prohibit customers from using their rewards points on flying and instead restrict them to low-carbon goods and services like e-bikes and gym memberships.
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The ECIU report said the government should launch fresh support for new renewable projects, to ensure any gap in nuclear generation is filled by low-carbon sources instead of gas plants.
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Timothy Wirth (D-Colo.) recently came together to urge environmental advocates to take another look at biofuels—including ethanol at 30 percent volume to provide the high octane and low carbon.
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One way or another, within the decade the West Coast likely going to cohere into a large, unified market for clean electricity, low-carbon fuels, electric vehicles, and smart-grid technology.
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Further depressing the proceedings were recent defections and political troubles in countries that, along with the United States, had been expected to lead the way to a low-carbon energy future.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick, deputy director for clean energy at Third Way, a center-left think tank, applauded Mr. O'Rourke for not ruling out any forms of low-carbon energy, like nuclear power.
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The report also urges individuals to act, such as by reducing consumption of meat and dairy products, driving electric vehicles or taking public transport and demanding and buying low-carbon products.
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"But if companies take meaningful actions to expand electric vehicles and pooled rides—and policymakers and consumers can help—then these services can be part of a low-carbon transportation future."
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So how to build a low-carbon energy infrastructure without damaging communities and the environment in the process is a question that's likely to pop up on the campaign trail again.
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The move adds a potential barrier to any takeover proposal at a time analysts, bankers and miners expect to see more deals in copper, a critical ingredient in low-carbon technologies.
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"This government will continue to seize these opportunities as the world moves towards a low carbon future, and will set out ambitious proposals in the upcoming Clean Growth Plan," Harrington added.
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Nonetheless, Berlin is falling short in its ambitious renewable energy initiative, known as "energiewende," that envisages a transition from coal and nuclear power to renewable sources and a low-carbon economy.
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The increases reflect the expansion of wind and solar power installations under Germany's long-term strategy towards a low-carbon economy and also how the exploitation of weather patterns worked out.
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There are lots of liquid fuels in the world, and there are existing markets for cleaner alternatives, including in states like California and Oregon with a low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS).
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Related: The Oil Industry Sought Patents for Low-Carbon Technologies Decades Ago — Then Abandoned Them Worn rails are increasingly a source of concern, particularly with rising amount of freight train traffic.
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Especially in states like California (and my home state of Washington), with ambitious carbon-reduction goals and low-carbon electricity grids, there is no way around it: decarbonization means tackling cars.
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Market regulators maintained that selling the permits, the proceeds of which fund low carbon programs like the state's bullet train, is not the primary point of the program – cutting carbon emissions is.
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This means adopting everything from electric cars to electric heating systems, scaling up our reliance on solar and wind power and pairing those technologies with low-carbon energy that's used more efficiently.
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The world needs to package the benefits of a low-carbon transition in way "that political parties can embrace", said Nasheed, speaking at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford.
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Hydrogen produced from low-carbon sources could fill some of those gaps by fueling ships and long-haul trucks, and providing a key raw material for industries like iron, steel and chemicals.
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"Although the program, like all markets, is subject to some fluctuation, we remain on a steady low-carbon trajectory with a historic transition to more efficient and sustainable energy use," Nichols said.
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In 2010, a report conducted on behalf of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warned of the dangers of thinking that soya-based products were guaranteed to have low carbon emissions.
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These actors are all part of a recognition that moving to a low-carbon future will be good for the economy as well as good for health, poverty reduction and the planet.
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The intrigue: What's unclear is which candidates will embrace some of the biggest concepts in the AOC proposal, such as a federal job guarantee for people working in the low-carbon transition.
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Green bonds are fixed-income securities which raise capital for projects with environmental benefits, such as renewable energy generation, low-carbon transport or grid upgrades so that renewable energy can be transported.
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The energy watchdog said the transition to a low-carbon future would require "massive changes in the energy system" to prevent the globe's temperature from rising by more than 250 degrees Celsius.
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Loh is hopeful of a greener future for the GBA, noting the low-carbon development plan enjoys top-level political support, with Hong Kong playing a key role in financing green projects.
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"Storage is vital if we are to get the level of renewables that are required for a low carbon future," Stuart Nelmes, engineering director at Highview Power Storage, told CNBC's Sustainable Energy.
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Last year "the majority of the typical household bill resulted from wholesale, transmission and distribution costs which are unrelated to the government's low-carbon policies," Britain's Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said.
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The British government is under pressure to bring down users' electricity bills while also subsidizing low-carbon generation to help meet its carbon emission reduction targets and plug a looming supply gap.
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"The World Bank has pledged to help countries adopt a low-carbon development path specifically by phasing out fossil fuel subsidies," Nezir Sinani from the Bank Information Center said in a statement.
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The initiative would work to ensure an open world economy, rebalance globalization and work toward trade liberalization, he said, adding that it would also boost support for green and low-carbon development.
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"(The) largest growth in nuclear energy is in the Asia region, especially in China and India," she said, adding that nuclear power is "absolutely compatible" and "necessary" for a low carbon future.
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And they worry that saddling the federal utilities with a massive green power mandate would hamper the thriving renewable energy industry and complicate an already slow transition to a low-carbon economy.
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Adding renewable-energy capacity does not solve the problem: when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine, nuclear energy still provides the best low-carbon source of reliable "baseload" electricity.
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"Australia is currently perceived as a laggard compared to other developed countries in pursuing the urgent pathway to a low carbon economy, and committing to deep action on climate change," it said.
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Brazil will also restore five million hectares of degraded pasture land by 2020, and it will launch a low-carbon farming plan to improve another five million hectares of land by 2030.
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EDF Energy said the NAO report showed the project was good value compared with other low-carbon energy alternatives, and that EDF Energy and CGN bear the construction risk of the project.
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The Scottish government says that there are more than 58,000 jobs in the low carbon and renewable energy economy in Scotland, and that renewables are Scotland's single largest contributor to electricity generation.
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He nevertheless said that expected growth in demand for energy means oil and gas companies such as BP will have to invest in new production while slowly growing a low carbon business.
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Renewables have grown rapidly in the past decade but about 20 percent of new low-carbon capacity has been lost from the decommissioning of nuclear plants in the same period, he said.
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The miner also separately released a major report into its plans to transition into a low carbon future, and Jacques made a point of underlining its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) credentials.
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These low carbon, sometimes futuristic technologies include nuclear fusion power plants (something that's in development but perhaps decades away), cheaper traditional nuclear power, and capturing carbon and storing it in the ground.
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Founded in 2009, Carbon Engineering developed technology that captures carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the atmosphere and converts it into low-carbon fuels for transport and for use in enhanced oil recovery.
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But it will also cause companies to invest more effort in coming up with innovations that improve energy efficiency and make low-carbon fuels cheaper, reducing the economic impact of the tax.
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"Addressing global issues like climate change and the transition to a sustainable and low-carbon future takes collaboration, innovation and investment," Anne Finucane, vice-chairman, Bank of America, said in a statement.
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By the mid-2020s, China will most likely lead the world in key technologies for low-carbon energy, robotics and advanced transportation, among other areas targeted in China's long-term development strategy.
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The GOP currently has no plan, no bill, and no strategy to put forward as an alternative to the Green New Deal to combat emissions and move toward a low-carbon economy.
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The transition to a low-carbon trajectory to reduce harmful greenhouse gases is creating opposition from the coal industry and fuelling uncertainty in countries where job creation was linked to coal mining.
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In a joint statement, the states and Washington, D.C., said they'll formulate a detailed plan within a year to cap emissions and direct more resources toward low-carbon transportation, among other goals.
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The International Energy Agency sees a growing role for offshore wind worldwide — with growing investment needed — in a future low-carbon energy mix that meets the goals of the Paris climate deal.
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And Shell is increasingly buying or investing in low-carbon energy firms, such as its 2017 purchase of the EV charging company NewMotion and recent investment in the battery storage firm Sonnen.
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Shareholder action, however, has yet to lead oil and gas companies to "materially change their behavior and invest vastly more than 10% of their capital investment into low carbon technologies," Vermeulen said.
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"Without a diverse low carbon mix and with increasing demand to power electric vehicles, we run the risk of becoming more reliant on burning fossil fuels to produce our electricity," he added.
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Total has said it plans to invest about $2 billion annually in low-carbon energy and increase its generation capacity to about 25 gigawatts (GW) by 2025, from around 3 GW currently.
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Nevertheless, many businesses see big opportunities in any low-carbon transition, hoping progress at home will help innovative British companies grow rapidly in emerging markets hungry for climate-friendly goods and services.
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He has made clear again and again that he has no intention of supporting farmers, particularly when it comes to creating low-carbon biofuels that would compete with his fossil fuel funders.
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We should create a five-year, GI-type bill so that anyone who wants education or further training in public health, clean energy and low-carbon industry can do that for free.
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Between the lines: Pinning that figure down is tricky because many companies don't disclose and even those that do use definitions that vary widely for what constitutes cleaner energy or low-carbon.
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In a wide-ranging media briefing, Trudeau said oil and gas executives are looking for greater clarity on regulations and pricing, arguing that the world is ready for a low-carbon economy.
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The initiative last year created a $1 billion fund to develop technologies to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses in the sector as the world aims to shift towards a low-carbon economy.
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Kim made major strides, refusing to finance most oil and gas projects this year, doubling investments to $200 billion in low-carbon projects — directly contrary to the policies of the Trump administration.
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If we are to avoid dangerous levels of temperature rise, all governments must embrace the innovations that will enable us to accelerate climate action and the transformation to a low-carbon economy.
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The LME, the world's oldest and largest market for industrial metals, has rejected the idea of creating a new low-carbon primary aluminium contract because that would dilute trading volumes, Chamberlain said.
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She had hoped to take the train to Albany most weeks, she said, because it was a low-carbon alternative to driving, but only a few trains ran each day from Syracuse.
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OPIC spokeswoman Andrea Orr said the agency adheres to the Obama-enacted low-carbon policy and that its portfolio is "demand driven" – reflecting both global development needs and American foreign policy priorities.
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Through the Hunts Point South Bronx Clean Truck Program (HPCTP), the city will incentivize the purchase of low-carbon emission cargo trucks, a leading source of pollution in an area that sees .
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But BP's discoveries show how tech is helping the industry find far more oil-and-gas in a more cost-effective way — even as BP and other majors expand their low-carbon portfolios.
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BP said in a strategy update on Tuesday that it was exploring new investments in low-carbon forms of energy, a part of the industry in which it sees significant future business potential.
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More renewable and low-carbon electricity would be needed to meet the target and technology to capture and store or use carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sectors must be adopted, the report added.
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Aluminum smelting is an energy-intensive business and the market is starting to differentiate between "green" low-carbon metal, powered by hydro, and "black" high-carbon metal powered by fossil fuels, particularly coal.
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Even considering the additional disposables that end up in crowded landfills, experts on low-carbon living argue that the environmental impact might still be less than using fancy biodegradable diapers or even cloth.
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The plan has some of everything: a "green bank," electric car subsidies, programs to encourage bike lanes and urban density, a low carbon fuel standard, tight building efficiency standards, and on and on.
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The company can now work with its partner, the French utility firm EDF, to provide Britain with a safe, reliable, sustainable source of low carbon energy, it said on its official Weibo microblog.
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Still, with the first ambitious global framework for tackling climate change on the cusp of being activated, there's more reason to be hopeful about a high-tech, low-carbon future than ever before.
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Our actions will continue to be inspired and guided by the growing, global momentum to tackle climate change and to accelerate the irreversible transition to low-carbon, climate resilient and resource-efficient economies.
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Aluminium smelting is an energy-intensive business and the market is starting to differentiate between "green" low-carbon metal, powered by hydro, and "black" high-carbon metal powered by fossil fuels, particularly coal.
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The Bay Area is a much greener place to live than other parts of the United States, because it's blessed with a more temperate climate and relies more heavily on low-carbon electricity.
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If Santa Monica succeeds in setting up systems that enable a low-carbon lifestyle, by far the best thing it can do for the climate is to pack more people into Santa Monica.
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Close to 900 companies and investors have called on President Trump and Congress to support the Paris Climate Agreement and low-carbon policies that will help the U.S. achieve its carbon-reducing commitments.
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"Oil majors already do scenario analysis but, as Exxon previously indicated, they do not assign sufficient probability to a rapid (low-carbon) transition," said James Leaton, head of research at Carbon Tracker Initiative.
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Investors in the technology now include U.S. billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, Canadian billionaire Murray Edwards, coking coal producer BHP, Chevron Technology Ventures, Oxy Low Carbon Ventures as well as others, the firm said.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's QBE Insurance Group Ltd plans to stop offering new policies for thermal coal mines and coal-fired power stations to help encourage a low carbon economy and combat climate change.
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"Sapa will enable us to assume global leadership, establish a platform for growth, and provide responsible operations and sustainable solutions for the future low-carbon economy," Hydro Chief Executive Svein Richard Brandtzaeg said.
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"We're building a track record in managing these low-carbon solutions," Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of Storebrand Asset Management, told Reuters, saying they were also reducing Storebrand's overall exposure to oil and gas.
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According to the Scottish government, there are more than 58,000 jobs in the low carbon and renewable energy economy there, while the country is home to one quarter of Europe's offshore wind resources.
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Democrats, meanwhile, now depend primarily on the states mostly along the two coasts that produce little energy and have generally transitioned more rapidly toward an information-age and service-based, low-carbon economy.
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Issuance of green bonds - debt instruments used to raise funds for projects involving renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean transportation or encouraging a low carbon economy - rose 26.7 percent in 2016 to 93.4 billion.
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The 56-year-old Frenchman noted that in making a transition to low-carbon electricity he was less limited by capital than by securing sites, permits and eventually viable projects in different countries.
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The company also reaffirmed a target set last month to raise investment in renewable energy and low-carbon solutions to 15-20 percent of investments by 2030, or four times the share now.
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"The $100 billion commitment that we are announcing today acknowledges the scale of the challenge in making a transition to a low-carbon future," Stuart Gulliver, group chief executive, said in a statement.
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To get there, the American Action Forum added $5.4 trillion for a low-carbon electricity grid, $2050 trillion for a net-zero emissions system, and $4.2 trillion for green housing—which, fair enough.
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