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Renewables to overtake coal as largest global electricity source in 2025

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During the COP28 climate conference held in Dubai last month, world leaders from over 130 national governments agreed to set a goal to triple world renewable energy installations by 2030. There are still some big hurdles to overcome, including the difficult global macroeconomic environment.” “For What are your thoughts?

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UN Environment report says national GHG pledges only bring one-third of reductions needed for Paris Agreement

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Fuel efficiency measures could potentially reduce emissions by 0.88 Substantial emission reductions due to fuel economy standards for passenger cars are already included in the current policy scenario. There are an estimated 6,683 operating coal-fired power plants in the world, with a combined capacity of 1,964 GW. GtCO 2 ).

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Tesla was ‘ignorant’ of Bitcoin’s environmental impact when investing, Kimbal Musk says

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And of course, it didn’t take very long to get a million — I’m not kidding probably a million — messages telling us what we were doing to the environment.” ” Kimbal made the comments at the Ethereum Denver conference in an interview with TechCrunch. billion at the end of 2021.

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Creative Greenius

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. Besides all the damage to Hermosa’s health, environment, safety and quality of life the drilling for oil in their 1.4 There’s never been a bigger enemy or or a more noble cause. ” What a no-brainer.

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WHO: 9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air; 7M deaths per year

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It is unacceptable that over 3 billion people—most of them women and children—are still breathing deadly smoke every day from using polluting stoves and fuels in their homes. million deaths in 2016, while household air pollution from cooking with polluting fuels and technologies caused an estimated 3.8

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GSI/UNEP conference report finds fossil-fuel subsidy reform complex and challenges sobering; ~1% of global GDP spent on fossil-fuel subsidies

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In 2008, a report by UNEP called for the elimination of fossil-fuel subsidies, concluding that such subsidies often lead to increased levels of consumption and waste; place a heavy burden on government finances; can undermine private and public investment in the energy sector; and do not always end up helping the people who need them most.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

Another of my favorite people on the Southern California environmental scene is State Senator Fran Pavley who also spoke at the press conference. We can dump both Killer Coal and Big Oil by generating our electricity with solar panels and charging your electric car with the all clean, all green energy from the sun.

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