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1 month ago | 
jp.wsj.com | Perry Cleveland-Peck
エネルギー関連のシンクタンクである英エンバーの分析によると、米国では昨年、風力と太陽光による発電量が初めて石炭火力による発電量を上回った。この二つの再生可能エネルギー源が米国の電力構成の17％を占め、石炭の割合は15％に低下した。 エンバーが米エネルギー情報局（EIA）のデータを分析したところ、最も急速に成長したエネルギー源は太陽光発電で、前年比27％増加した。風力発電は7％増加した。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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1 month ago | 
wsj.com | Perry Cleveland-Peck
“We’re in a new paradigm,” said Dave Jones, chief analyst at Ember. “Solar did more to meet the rising demand for electricity last year than natural gas.
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1 month ago | 
wsj.com | Perry Cleveland-Peck
For a tech millionaire, Yishan Wong, founder of the reforestation company Terraformation, is remarkably dismissive of his former industry. “I’ve worked on a lot of large-scale tech and there’s this subtle rule you learn: To solve a big problem, you want as little tech as possible,” the former CEO of Reddit and director of engineering at Facebook said. When it comes to fixing the climate, he says, you want to keep it simple.
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1 month ago | 
marketscreener.com | Perry Cleveland-Peck
--Brent crude oil is down 3.7% at $68.44 a barrel--European benchmark gas is down 5.5% at 41.08 euros a megawatt-hour--Gold futures are up 0.6% at $2,937.80 a troy ounce--LME three-month copper futures are up 1.9% at $9,565.50 a metric tonPlatinum Market Set for Third Year of Major Deficits on Weak SupplyThe platinum market is likely to post a third year of deficits in 2025, as supply is stretched.
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1 month ago | 
morningstar.com | Perry Cleveland-Peck
MARKET MOVEMENTS: --Brent crude oil is down 3.7% at $68.44 a barrel --European benchmark gas is down 5.5% at 41.08 euros a megawatt-hour --Gold futures are up 0.6% at $2,937.80 a troy ounce --LME three-month copper futures are up 1.9% at $9,565.50 a metric ton TOP STORY: Platinum Market Set for Third Year of Major Deficits on Weak Supply The platinum market is likely to post a third year of deficits in 2025, as supply is stretched.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Perry Cleveland-Peck
“The business case for small-scale farming is very difficult,” said Ben Todd, the owner of a 220-acre farm in southeast England. “I looked at hay, I looked at sheep, I looked at cows, maize, corn.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
wsjprosustainablebusiness.cmail19.com | Perry Cleveland-Peck
Welcome back: An influential United Nations-backed nonprofit organization that assesses whether the climate promises that companies make are ambitious enough to help keep global warming in check has said that it will allow companies to use carbon credits to reduce the emissions from their value chains.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Perry Cleveland-Peck
For Pflug and IKEA, however, the sustainability outlook appears mostly bright. The company’s climate footprint (its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions) has shrunk 12% from the previous year, according to its 2023 sustainability report, and is down 22% from a 2016 baseline. The company has a goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 at the latest without using carbon offsets. Pflug says IKEA is largely on track.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Perry Cleveland-Peck
But while the offshore action will no doubt be exhilarating to watch, it is the work taking place in the boat sheds and sail lofts on shore that could prove more interesting for the shipping industry as it seeks to meet its net-zero goals. “A surprising amount of the tech that is developed for the America’s Cup finds its way into the commercial fleet” as the industry “strives to reduce carbon emissions,” said Peter Sand of ocean analytics firm Xeneta.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Perry Cleveland-Peck
Mars Chief Sustainability Officer Barry Parkin says the company has made its sustainability goals as important to its executives as its financial goals. And it has done so by linking performance objectives to executive pay. The candy company, one of the largest privately held firms in the U.S., revealed in its sustainability report this summer it had reduced its carbon footprint by 8% in 2023. That’s no mean feat when most businesses are seeing only increases in their emissions numbers.
