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Del Birmingham

Green Light: India To Near Clean Energy Goals In 2019 - EnergyInfraPost - 1 views

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    India's renewable energy (wind and solar) sector's contribution to the overall power generation mix is expected to cross 10% in FY20 as the country will add 10 giga-watt (GW) generation capacity during the period.
Adriana Trujillo

NV Energy Announces Solar Agreement with Apple - 0 views

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    Apple has reached an agreement with Nevada utility NV Power to build 200 MW of new solar power capacity in Nevada by 2019, supporting Apple's renewable energy needs for its Reno data center.
Adriana Trujillo

April's Sustainable Forest Management Policy Met With Criticism, Caution · En... - 0 views

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    Threatened with expulsion from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Indonesian pulp and paper company Asia Pacific Resources International re-committed to an earlier pledge to stop clearing forests for new plantations by the end of 2014. The company also pledged to double its forest restoration program to 40,000 hectares and use 100% plantation fiber by the end of 2019.
Adriana Trujillo

SFI Releases New Sustainable Forestry Standards, NGO Says Not So Fast - 0 views

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    Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) released a new set of standards that will guide the organization's certification practices through 2019. SFI claims that its standards include policies and guidelines that will help protect water quality, biodiversity, wildlife, endangered species and old-growth forests in the United States and Canada.
Del Birmingham

Climate Action Barometer: 12 Charts Explain Where We Are Today, and Where We Need to Be... - 0 views

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    The Mission 2020 campaign defines six milestones -in energy, transport, land use, industry, infrastructure and finance - that give governments and industries a clear roadmap to put us on a path towards achieving 1.5 degrees C. In a working paper published today, WRI found progress in some areas, but we'll need faster action in order to achieve the 2020 turning point.
Adriana Trujillo

Rainforest Alliance, UTZ announce merger to create single sustainability standard and c... - 0 views

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    Two of the world's leading sustainability certification bodies, Rainforest Alliance and UTZ, plan to merge later this year in an effort to simplify the certification process for sustainable agriculture. Under the name Rainforest Alliance, the organization create a single global certification standard by 2019 that will streamline certification for farmers and empower companies to build more responsible supply chains, more efficiently.
Del Birmingham

Amazon's sustainability story will receive closer scrutiny in 2019 | GreenBiz - 0 views

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    Is the world's largest provider of cloud computing services falling down on its 2014 pledge to one day power all of its data centers entirely with renewable energy?
Del Birmingham

How to feed 10 billion people: Landmark report lays out a sustainable diet for the planet - 0 views

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    Billed as a planetary health diet for both the Earth and its people, the set of guidelines put forward by the EAT-Lancet Commission gun for nothing short of a "Great Food Transformation," something they say would feed 10 billion people, save lives and avoid large-scale environmental destruction.
Del Birmingham

Climate Action Barometer: 12 Charts Explain Where We Are Today, and Where We Need to Be... - 0 views

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    Countries committed under the Paris Agreement to a broad goal of limiting global temperature rise to under 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F), ideally 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F). The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes it clear that half a degree of warming makes a huge difference, and 1.5 degrees C is the safer target.
Adriana Trujillo

WHY TRANSPARENCY MATTERS - Fashion Revolution : Fashion Revolution - 1 views

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    The Fashion Transparency Index 2019 reviews and ranks 200 of the biggest global fashion and apparel brands and retailers according to how much information they disclose about their suppliers, supply chain policies and practices, and social and environmental impact.
Adriana Trujillo

Volvo, Betting on Electric, Moves to Phase Out Conventional Engines - The New York Times - 1 views

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    Volvo Cars on Wednesday became the first mainstream automaker to sound the death knell of the internal combustion engine, saying that all the models it introduces starting in 2019 will be either hybrids or powered solely by batteries.
Del Birmingham

After defeat in West, U.S. carbon tax push looks East | Reuters - 0 views

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    Lawmakers in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont aim to introduce carbon pricing legislation, including carbon taxes and market-based carbon cap-and-trade measures,
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