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Cut U.S. Emissions 50% by 2030, Over 300 Corporate Leaders Urge Biden
With U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate leaders’ summit just over a week away, more than 300 major corporations are urging the White House to ... -
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IEA Urges ‘Massive’ Energy Efficiency Gains to Hit Net-Zero Targets
Countries will need “massive improvements” in energy efficiency to achieve their net-zero targets under the Paris Agreement, International Energy Agency policy analyst Alyssa Fischer ... -
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‘Chaotic’ UK Retrofit Program a Cautionary Tale for Trudeau, Biden
A failed attempt at a building energy retrofit program in the United Kingdom could offer lessons for governments in Canada and the United States ... -
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Pre-Budget Talk Centres on National Child Care Plan as Trudeau Mocks Conservatives’ Climate Policy
Fresh from a Liberal Party policy convention over the weekend, the Trudeau government is just days away from an April 19 budget that is ... -
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Architects Criticize ‘Huge’ Embodied Carbon in New Green Buildings
A group of architects in the United Kingdom is pointing to new building construction as the biggest unchallenged obstacle to a carbon-free future and ... -
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New Start-Up Aims to Build U.S. Energy Equity One Neighbourhood at a Time
To be poor and a person of colour in the United States all too often means living with energy poverty and its associated health ... -
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Danish Architects’ Prefab Façades Could Cut Building Energy Use in Half
An architectural design collaboration in Denmark is hard at work on a prefab, modular façade that can be quickly installed on an existing building ... -
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Biden to Announce Massive Jobs and Infrastructure Plan as Allies Push for Climate Spending
U.S. President Joe Biden will be in Pittsburgh today to announce a massive new jobs and infrastructure plan worth as much as US$4 trillion ... -
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New Study Reveals Mega-Tornadoes More Common than Previously Believed
Meteorologists have long used infrastructure damage to calculate tornado wind speeds, but that metric underestimates the real number of truly terrifying storms by as ... -
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New Legislation Requires Massachusetts to Reach Net-Zero by 2050
Two months after he vetoed a landmark climate bill, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (R) has signed something very similar, with a 2050 net-zero target ... -
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Top Architecture Award Picks Refurbishment Over High-Carbon Reconstruction
For the first time in its 46-year history, the most prestigious award in architecture has gone to a firm that has devoted three decades ... -
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New Report Counts 600+ Cities in 72 Countries with 100% Renewable Energy Plans
The latest global status report on renewable power in cities shows that 2020 was a good year for the development of targets and policies ... -
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Use Energy Efficiency to Counter Energy Poverty, Analyst Urges
Energy efficiency is an essential part of the solution for the 20% of Canadian households now living in energy poverty—but the country’s major news ... -
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Initial Economic Gains Mustn’t Deter Freeland’s Green Recovery Budget, Analysts Warn
The federal government could be at risk of squandering its best opportunity at a just, green transition if a rosy February jobs report, the ... -
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IRENA Urges $131-Trillion Investment through 2050 to Hit 1.5°C Target
Countries will have to speed up renewable energy development eight-fold, invest US$131 trillion by 2050, and massively ramp up hydrogen production to meet a ...
