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1 month ago | 
corporateknights.com | Gaye Taylor
When ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgraded the creditworthiness of the largest municipal utility in the United States, some experts warned it could signal early cracks in the historically stable municipal bond market. But the wider consensus is that municipalities – in both the United States and Canada – are awakening to climate risk, a shift many see as a positive development.
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1 month ago | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
Responding to requests from three of its largest municipalities, Norway is moving to allow cities to enforce zero-emission zones, the better to encourage the uptake of electric vans and trucks in the commercial light transport sector. Norway tops the charts in passenger electric vehicle adoption, with 96% of all new cars registered in January being battery-powered.
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1 month ago | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
From firebricks to ice batteries, ancient technologies are being reimagined to help heavy industry and building owners cut emissions and save money. Easily sourced and inexpensive, clay bricks have been used for millennia to retain heat in ovens—and to warm the foot of cold beds.
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1 month ago | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
Responding to the Trump administration’s recalibration of U.S. foreign policy, the United Kingdom and many European Union countries are rushing to redirect billions of euros into military spending after previously earmarking them to help the Global South build climate resilience. The move will have serious socio-economic and strategic consequences at home and abroad, policy experts warn.
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1 month ago | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
A French-made shipping vessel aims to cut its emissions on North Atlantic crossings by up to 80% through the use of two towering fiberglass sails, a supplementary electric motor, and a range of efficiency-enhancing technologies. The 136-metre Neoliner Origin can carry 5,300 tonnes of cargo and is purpose-built to make its journeys through emissions-free sail power, writes The Loadstar, a supply chain newsletter.
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1 month ago | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
Following aggressive lobbying by an Australian coal mining tycoon, the Danielle Smith government is moving to pursue metallurgical coal extraction in the eastern reaches of the Rocky Mountains, even though nearly 80% of Albertans say they oppose all coal mining in the region.
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1 month ago | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
The world’s mountain glaciers lost more than 6.5 trillion tonnes of ice to global heating between 2000 and 2023, and the rate of melt is accelerating, finds a groundbreaking study published in Nature. This equates to an average annual loss of 273 billion tonnes—“about the daily water intake of every person on Earth for 30 years,” says [video] the European Space Agency (ESA), which is working to standardize ice-loss estimates to support global research and monitoring efforts.
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1 month ago | 
corporateknights.com | Gaye Taylor
Published by the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) and the parent-led advocacy group For Our Kids, the Polluting Education report argues that industry-backed materials present a distorted picture to students, steering them toward false solutions.
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2 months ago | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
A homebuilder and a solar installer in Alberta are marking a milestone in sustainable housing: 10 megawatts of solar power generated by nearly 4,000 homes built with rooftop panels. Since 2018, Jayman Built has constructed 3,964 high-efficiency homes, each topped with a 10-square-metre solar array installed by SkyFire Energy, reports CTV News.
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2 months ago | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
A 2°C increase in global temperatures could make six percent of the Earth’s land—an area roughly the size of the United States—so hot that even healthy adults would struggle to maintain a safe body temperature, warns a new study in the journal Nature Reviews Earth and Environment. This would mark a tripling of the landmass where healthy individuals aged 18 to 60 would cross the “critical overheating threshold” during extreme heat events.
