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A Boutique Hotel Helps Explain the Benefits of Businesses and Government Teaming Up to Conserve Energy

Inside Climate News · By Dan Gearino · last updated
Businesses’ voluntary climate plans can do a little. Combined with state and local government policies, they can do a lot.

By Dan Gearino

What once was an abandoned department store in downtown Racine, Wisconsin, is now a boutique hotel that is unusually good at conserving energy.

Related Knowledge Center: Climate diplomacy: COP 27

State of Play

The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) produced a groundbreaking agreement to create a “loss and damage” fund to help developing nations cope with the impact of climate change.

But the conference, held from Nov. 6 to Nov. 20, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, fell short of a hoped-for agreement to speed reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.

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