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Meijer vows to halve carbon emissions by 2025

Environmental News Bits

Meijer announced on Tuesday it aims to halve its absolute carbon emissions by 2025. To reach the target, the Midwestern retailer said it will add more renewable energy procurement and test “innovative” technologies like energy-saving geothermal projects for refrigeration, which it plans to pilot next year.

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2025 coal consumption peak steals the highlight in China’s energy outlook

A Greener Life

By Anders Lorenzen The consumption of coal, the most climate polluting fossil fuel, is predicted to peak by 2025 in China, the world’s highest emitting country. Analysis by Sinopec, expects coal consumption to peak around 2025 at 4.37 This compares with 425 BCM and 9% of primary energy consumption projected for 2025.

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Penn State Task Force Unveils Recommendations To Eliminate 100% Of Carbon Emissions By 2035

PA Environment Daily

By Penn State News Last spring, at the request of President Eric Barron, a team of more than 20 faculty members, staff members and students began to formulate a plan to address climate change, one of the most complex and urgent issues of our time, by significantly lowering the University’s greenhouse gas emissions on all its campuses.

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Renewables to become first global electricity source by 2025

Edouard Stenger

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) , renewable energy sources are to become the first electricity source by 2025, surpassing dirty coal. This trend will only accelerate as in the meantime, electricity storage technologies are becoming better and cheaper. Good news everyone !

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E2 Law Podcast: Episode 19 | Empire Environmental – New York State Climate Action Council Plan to Reduce Carbon Emissions

E2 Law Blog

Specifically, New York is statutorily required to achieve: An economy-wide 85% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050; 70% renewable energy consumption by 2030 followed by a 100% zero-emission electric system by 2040; and. 6,000 MW of solar by 2025, 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2035, and 3,000 MW of energy storage by 2030.

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Another Day Older and Deeper in (Carbon) Debt

Law and Environment

Instead, the IEA is predicting a plateau at around 8 billion tonnes lasting through 2025. Still, cost-effectiveness considerations should tell us not to focus solely on reducing our own emissions. And our carbon debt is growing bigger every day. And the IEA report isn’t predicting those any time soon.

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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

A Greener Life

By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. The US Agency for International Development works with Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturers, such as VinFast, to reduce emissions. © Zul Kifli / AFP / Getty Images.