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Mars Aims to Eliminate Fossil Fuel Use for Operations by 2040
Nov 15, 2016Mars is urging the business community and global leaders at COP22 to take bold action to implement the targets agreed last year in Paris for tackling climate change. Mars combined this call to action with an announcement of plans for a ...
Tags: Mars, Fossil Fuel
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Tetra Pak Commits to 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030
Jun 6, 2016Tetra Pak has joined RE100, committing to increase its use of renewable electricity from 20% today to 100% across all global operations by 2030. The announcement was made at the Clean Energy Ministerial forum yesterday in San Francisco, ...
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Historic Climate Pact Adopted at COP21
Dec 18, 2015From L-R, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, President-designate of COP21 and French ...
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China Urges Implementation After Historic Climate Deal Sealed
Dec 18, 2015China called for implementation on Saturday after a historic deal was sealed in Paris on global efforts to combat climate change. The Paris agreement on climate change was adopted with no objection by the 196 Parties of the United Nations ...
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Chinese President Calls for Effective Implementation of Global Climate Deal
Dec 17, 2015Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that China and France should work with all parties to effectively carry out the historic climate accord reached in Paris. During a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Francois ...
Tags: global economic growth, climate change, Paris climate conference
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U.S. Energy Secretary Invests in Laser Technology and Efficient Lights to Solve Climate Change Issues
Dec 11, 2015World leaders gathered in Paris last week for the 21st UN climate conference, known as COP21. At the meeting, U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz highlighted several solutions to reduce carbon emissions, including launching a Climate ...
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Osram Discusses LED Streetlights Conversion During The Cop21 in Paris
Dec 11, 2015"LED lighting solutions save power and therefore reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and they're not only environmentally-friendly but also economic. In most situations, costs for upgrading to LED lighting are paid back rapidly due to lower ...
Tags: Osram, LED Streetlights, LED lighting
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Paris 2015: UN Climate Deal to Boost Clean Power, Curb Coal: UBS
Dec 2, 2015The UN global climate negotiations in Paris starting Monday are likely to drive further investment in renewable energy, prompt a switch to electrification in heating and transport and further curb coal-fired power, Swiss bank UBS said in a ...
Tags: coal-fired power, decarbonized economy, wind, solar
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The Climate Group Urges Governments to Swap City Streetlights to LEDs by 2025
Oct 14, 2015Today, The Climate Group, which is hosting its annual Climate Week NYC, called on every single city and utility around the world to schedule the switch of their street lighting to LED by 2025 and launched its new major global campaign LED = ...
Tags: government policy, LED streetlight upgrade, The Climate Group
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USGBC Announces International Rankings of The Top 10 Countries for LEED
Jul 27, 2015The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced its international rankings of the Top 10 Countries for LEED, the world’s most widely used and recognized green building rating system. The Top 10 list highlights countries outside of ...
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Renault-Nissan Alliance Will Supply a Fleet of 200 EVs
May 28, 2015The Renault-Nissan Alliance will supply a fleet of 200 electric vehicles (EVs) for the United Nation's COP21 climate conference to be held in Paris this November. The fleet, including Renault ZOE, Renault Fluence Z.E. sedan, Nissan Leaf, ...
Tags: Renault-Nissan, electric vehicles