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  • Auto & Alternative VehiclesBuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCCS & Negative EmissionsClimate & SocietyClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyUnited States

    Cut U.S. Emissions 50% by 2030, Over 300 Corporate Leaders Urge Biden

    April 14, 2021
     
    April 14, 2021
    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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  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionDemand & EfficiencyEnergy Access & EquityFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesJobs & TrainingLegal & RegulatoryRenewable Energy

    IEA Urges ‘Massive’ Energy Efficiency Gains to Hit Net-Zero Targets

    April 13, 2021
     
    April 13, 2021
    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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  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionDemand & EfficiencyEuropeFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryRenewable EnergyUnited States

    ‘Chaotic’ UK Retrofit Program a Cautionary Tale for Trudeau, Biden

    April 13, 2021
     
    April 13, 2021
    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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  • BuildingsCanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionDemand & EfficiencyEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryOpinion & AnalysisRenewable Energy

    Pre-Budget Talk Centres on National Child Care Plan as Trudeau Mocks Conservatives’ Climate Policy

    April 11, 2021
     
    Primary Author Compiled by Mitchell Beer @mitchellbeer
    April 11, 2021
    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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  • BuildingsCarbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionEuropeJurisdictionsLegal & Regulatory

    Architects Criticize ‘Huge’ Embodied Carbon in New Green Buildings

    April 11, 2021
     
    April 11, 2021
    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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  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionDemographicsEnergy Access & EquityFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsUnited States

    New Start-Up Aims to Build U.S. Energy Equity One Neighbourhood at a Time

    April 8, 2021
     
    April 8, 2021
    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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  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionDemand & EfficiencyEnergy Access & EquityEuropeJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySupply Chains & Consumption

    Danish Architects’ Prefab Façades Could Cut Building Energy Use in Half

    April 5, 2021
     
    April 5, 2021
    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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  • Auto & Alternative VehiclesBuildingsCanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridFinance & InvestmentJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySolarSupply Chains & ConsumptionTransitUnited StatesWind

    Biden to Announce Massive Jobs and Infrastructure Plan as Allies Push for Climate Spending

    March 31, 2021
     
    Primary Author Compiled by The Energy Mix staff
    March 31, 2021
    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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  • BuildingsClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionHealth & SafetyInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsSevere Storms & FloodingUnited States

    New Study Reveals Mega-Tornadoes More Common than Previously Believed

    March 30, 2021
     
    March 30, 2021
    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

    March 28, 2021
     
    March 28, 2021
    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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  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionDemand & EfficiencyEnergy Access & EquityEuropeJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySupply Chains & Consumption

    Top Architecture Award Picks Refurbishment Over High-Carbon Reconstruction

    March 23, 2021
     
    March 23, 2021
    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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  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDemand & DistributionGeneral RenewablesHealth & SafetyInternational Agencies & StudiesJobs & TrainingLegal & RegulatoryRenewable Energy

    New Report Counts 600+ Cities in 72 Countries with 100% Renewable Energy Plans

    March 23, 2021
     
    March 23, 2021
    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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  • BuildingsCanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionDemand & EfficiencyEnergy Access & EquityEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsGeneral RenewablesJurisdictionsRenewable Energy

    Use Energy Efficiency to Counter Energy Poverty, Analyst Urges

    March 18, 2021
     
    March 18, 2021
    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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  • Auto & Alternative VehiclesBatteries/StorageBuildingsCanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsEuropeFinance & InvestmentJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsOpinion & AnalysisUnited States

    Initial Economic Gains Mustn’t Deter Freeland’s Green Recovery Budget, Analysts Warn

    March 17, 2021
     
    Primary Author Mitchell Beer @mitchellbeer
    March 17, 2021
    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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  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesNon-Renewable EnergySupply Chains & Consumption

    IRENA Urges $131-Trillion Investment through 2050 to Hit 1.5°C Target

    March 17, 2021
     
    March 17, 2021
    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 ...
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  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsEuropeFinance & InvestmentICYMIJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySolar

    Two Subsidy-Free Solar Farms Open in UK

    April 13, 2021
     
    April 13, 2021
  • BuildingsCanadaCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentICYMIJobs & TrainingJurisdictions

    Canadian Heavy Industry Has Big Advantages in Green Economy: Smith and Petrevan

    April 13, 2021
     
    April 13, 2021
  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsEuropeFinance & InvestmentICYMIJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySolarSub-National GovernmentsUnited States

    Danish Developer Plans 300-MW Solar Project in Texas

    April 13, 2021
     
    April 13, 2021
  • BuildingsCitiesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentICYMIJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasSub-National GovernmentsUnited States

    Warren Buffett Investment Firm Presses Texas for More Gas Power Plants

    April 13, 2021
     
    April 13, 2021
  • BuildingsClimate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingClimate Impacts & AdaptationCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyICYMIJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergySub-National GovernmentsUnited StatesWater

    Big Georgia Coal Utility Wants Taxpayers to Clean Up Toxins in Drinking Water

    April 13, 2021
     
    April 13, 2021
  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsICYMIJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & Gas

    U.S. Utilities Raise Reuse of Power Plant Waste from 38 to 44% in a Decade

    April 13, 2021
     
    April 13, 2021
  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEuropeFinance & InvestmentICYMIJurisdictionsNon-Renewable Energy

    Turkey’s Fifth-Biggest Bank Refuses to Finance New Coal Mines, Power Plants

    April 13, 2021
     
    April 13, 2021
  • AfricaBuildingsCitiesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentICYMIInsurance & LiabilityJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & Gas

    Ghana Faces Higher Cost Risk with Dependence on LNG

    April 13, 2021
     
    April 13, 2021
  • BrazilBuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEuropeFinance & InvestmentICYMIJurisdictionsRenewable EnergyWind

    Norwegian Firm Starts Work on 519-MW Wind Farm in Brazil

    April 13, 2021
     
    April 13, 2021
  • BuildingsCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionDemographicsElectricity GridHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureICYMIJurisdictionsSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States

    Sudden Winter Freeze was ‘Living Nightmare’ for Texas Mobile Home Community

    April 13, 2021
     
    April 13, 2021
  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryRenewable EnergySolarSub-National GovernmentsUnited States

    Pennsylvania Government to Draw Nearly Half of Electricity from Solar by 2023

    April 13, 2021
     
    April 13, 2021
  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsEuropeICYMIJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsNon-Renewable Energy

    Germany’s Just Transition Holds Lessons for Exiting Coal

    April 11, 2021
     
    April 11, 2021
  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsICYMIRenewable EnergySolar

    Analysts Predict 180 GW of New Solar in 2021

    April 11, 2021
     
    April 11, 2021
  • BuildingsCarbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergySub-National GovernmentsUnited States

    Judge Orders Climate Review of Utah Coal Expansion

    April 11, 2021
     
    April 11, 2021
  • BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentGeneral RenewablesICYMIJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryRenewable EnergySub-National GovernmentsUnited States

    Nevada PUC Approves Transmission for 5 GW of Renewables

    April 11, 2021
     
    April 11, 2021
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