Description
Executive Review & CCBJ Awards in 2024
The annual Climate Change Business Journal Business Achievement Awards recognize innovation, commitment, outstanding performance, project planning, execution or key accomplishments and milestones in 2024. Climate change industry players need resilience as market factors and policy inaction conspire to make business challenging, but leaders and innovators prepare for 2025-2026.
CCBJ Feature: 2024 data on emissions, energy and temperature combine to frame the continuing challenges of the energy transition & climate resilience; Atmospheric CO2, temperatures, global carbon emissions from fossil fuels and other indicators all reached record highs in 2024 14-26
AECOM Responds to Restoration Needs in Puerto Rico With Resources to Advance Nature-Based Solutions 27
Solar Incineration Investment Embodies Veolia’s Applied Innovation Focus on Operations & Sustainability 31
SCS Engineers Continues Strong Growth With Added Focus on Climate Change & Renewabke Energy 35
EA Engineering Wins Multiple Awards: Climate Vulnerability Assessments, Asset Management and a Climate Projection Assessment Tool Support Infrastructure Protection Across the Client Spectrum 37
SWCA Grows 20% in 2024 Paced by Advisory Services, Renewabke Energy Engineering & Ecological Restoration, Remaining Flexible to Market Demands 39
Weston Solutions Advances Remote Site Assessments, Air Monitoring & Geospatial Data Integration With LiDAR, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems and AI 42
CIS Launches Advisory Services That Build Off of Water & Climate Expertise and Expanding Reach Into New Markets 45
TRC Invests in the Future with Multiple Innovation Initiatives; Climate Change, Disaster Response & Energy Transition are Key Focus Areas 48
Climate X Offers a Strategic Perspective on Recent Rollbacks of SEC Climate Risk Disclosures 51
Rincon Consultants Advances Climate Action and Resiliency Planning 52
EBJ Lifetime Achievement Award: Bill DiGuiseppi, Jacobs 53-58
Exhibits in this edition
2024 Global Carbon charts from the Global Carbon Project
Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Region,1965-2023 (million tonnes of CO2)
2023 US Energy Sanket Diagram: LBL
Global Oil Production by Region, 1965-2023 (Thousand barrels daily)
Global Coal Consumption by Region in Exajoules, 1965-2023
Global Electricity Generation from Coal in Terawatt-Hours, 1985-2023
Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Region,1965-2023 (million tonnes of CO2)
Global Energy Consumption in Exajoules
U.S. Energy Information Administration STEO and AEO charts
Manufacturing energy consumption by subsector (trillion Btu)
Global 2024 Temperature Report data from Berkeley Earth
Index
AECOM 2, 3, 6
ALO Advisors 39
APTIM 2
Arthian Ltd 4
Avantus 12
Berkeley Earth 25
Breakthrough Energy Ventures 11
BSI 37, 38
Burns & McDonnell 6
CarbonCapture 13
CIS 5, 45
City of Guelph 3
Climate X 51
ClimeCo 11
Climeworks 6
Deep Sky 13
EA Engineering Science and Technology 3, 10
EarthSoft 30
Fervo Energy 12
Form Energy 13
Fresh Coast Protection Partnership 5
GE3S 5
GEI Consultants 6
GHD 7
Global Carbon Project 14
Graphyte Carbon Removal 11
Greater Toronto Airports Authority 3
GreenLabs Recycling 34
Heirloom 13
Helion Energy 12
Intersect Power 13
Jacobs 5, 7
Korea Airports Corporation 7
LS Power 13
MassBio 34
Materials, Cyclic 13
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District 5
Marstel-Day 7
NSF International Holding 45
Oklo 12
Pace 8
PBC 3, 10
Pelican Renewables 8
Port of Cleveland 7
REGENESIS 11
Resilient Analytics 3
Rhodium Group 17
Rincon Consultants 8, 52
Science 3, 10
SCS Engineers 8, 35
Stantec 8
SWCA Environmental Consultants 9, 39
Terracon 4
Tetra Tech 9
The Water Counci 45
TRC 9, 48
Twelve 12
U.S. Energy Information Administration 19
Veolia Environnement 31
Veolia North America 10, 31
Weston Solutions Inc. 4, 10, 42
WSP 4, 11
X-energy 12
