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Net Zero Efforts Are Slowly Paying Off

The Horizons Tracker

Between 2000 and 2010, emissions went up by 2.3% These rules include things like using less energy, making clean technology cheaper, protecting forests, and using cleaner sources of energy. Other actions, like putting a tax on carbon emissions, reducing deforestation, and saving energy, also helped, but not as much.

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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

In 1968, the chair of Ontario Hydro said, “I feel safe in predicting that man will have unlimited electrical energy to shape his future during the next hundred years. The more energy we deliver, the lower will be the unit cost of electricity.” It was 200 gigawatts and reached 370 by 2015.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015

Harvard Business Review

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade.

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Solving the Looming Talent Shortage in the Energy Industry

Harvard Business Review

for example, a backlog of baby-boomer retirees is expected to turnover upwards of 40 percent of utilities'' 400,000-strong workforce, according to a study by the Task Force on America''s Future Energy Jobs produced by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). In the U.S., The need for digitally savvy technical hires is especially pronounced.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

Attitudes have changed since 2010, the last time Washington debated serious climate action, and not only because most of us have connected the dots between climate change and the extreme weather events that ravage our communities. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business Review

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C Embrace renewable energy. °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F). Getting to 1.5

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The Fallacy of the "China Defense"

Harvard Business Review

companies will be at a disadvantage if we tax carbon or invest in clean energy because "China's not doing anything.". And it's just the latest in a series of Chinese commitments, which include the following: July 2010: 5 trillion yuan , or $800 billion, alternative energy plan over 10 years (this is like the part of the U.S.

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