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Energy transition progress report: We're 10% of the way there

by David Brancaccio , Meredith Garretson and Alex Schroeder
Aug 16, 2024
So what will it take for the other 90%? A lot of sweeping physical transformation.
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The EPA will dole out $4.3 billion to cut greenhouse gas emissions over the next six years

by Caleigh Wells
Jul 29, 2024
Hundreds of local municipalities, states and tribes applied to get a share of the money; 25 made the cut.
Roughly $1.2 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act's funds earmarked for pollution reduction will go toward transportation, like Austin's light rail system.
Courtesy Austin Transit Partnership
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Climate change is the focus in shared curriculum for business schools

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Apr 30, 2024
"We can't really address the problem without engaging business at full scale," says Columbia Business School's Bruce Usher.
The Open Climate Curriculum is a free, shareable resource for educators to teach business students about the climate crisis.
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Zero-carbon homes exist. Can you really live in one?

by Caleigh Wells
Feb 2, 2024
A Malibu mansion and a more modest home in a middle-class neighborhood have something in common: net-zero carbon emissions.
Reclaimed wood, low-carbon concrete, solar panels and batteries make this home’s carbon footprint net zero.
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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture has been a COP28 priority

by Savannah Peters
Dec 11, 2023
There’s been more than $3 billion pledged toward making global food systems more resilient in the face of climate change.
Food supply sustainability has been a focus at the U.N.'s climate conference, COP28.
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Carbon accountants help firms keep their climate pledges

by Daniel Ackerman
Jun 21, 2023
Before companies can cut emissions, they first have to measure their carbon footprint. The new service is in high demand.
“Electricity usage and refrigerant leakage ... are the two main sources of emissions,” says Cooper Elsworth of Watershed, Sweetgreen's carbon accountant. Sweetgreen plans to become carbon neutral this decade.
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A push for corporate climate disclosures in California could influence rest of U.S.

by Lily Jamali
Mar 3, 2023
A proposed carbon emissions disclosure law in the world's fifth-largest economy could push such requirements into the mainstream.
If Senate Bill 253 goes into effect, roughly 5,400 companies in California would have to disclose greenhouse gas emissions generated by themselves, their suppliers, suppliers’ suppliers and consumers. Above, downtown Los Angeles.
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Report: Greener fuels are best path to cutting carbon out of air travel

by Samantha Fields
Dec 8, 2022
But so far, sustainable aviation fuels are expensive and not widely available.
The transportation sector is responsible for almost 30% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
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How do you calculate a company's carbon footprint? The SEC is figuring that out.

by Lily Jamali
Jan 19, 2022
Emissions by a company's suppliers and customers could count towards the total.
The SEC may soon require companies to disclose greenhouse gas emissions. Whether they'll also include emissions from suppliers — usually a larger proportion of emissions — is unclear.
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Clean energy would create trillion-dollar market and millions of jobs, IEA says

by Samantha Fields
Oct 14, 2021
Just how do researchers calculate that?
Solar panels are shown in Dry Lake Valley, Nevada, in June 2021. Investments in clean energy would both help countries minimize average global temperature increases and make clean energy rival the oil market.
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