Introducing the Green Premiums
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
A powerful tool for understanding clean energy and climate change.
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Reducing cars’ emissions easier said than done, says EU audit institution
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 29, 2024
In addition, each manufacturer – which must declare a vehicle’s CO₂ emissions on certificates of conformity – must pay an excess-emissions premium if it doesn’t meet specific emissions targets. Despite lofty ambitions and strict requirements, most passenger cars on EU roads still emit the same quantity of CO2 as 12 years ago.
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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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GMC Continues the Electric Truck Revolution: Introducing the First-Ever 2024 Sierra EV
Green Living Guy
JANUARY 1, 2023
Led by Sierra EV Denali Edition 1 with a 400-mile range1, GMC becomes industry’s first brand with three all-electric trucks 2022-10-20 GMC’s introduction of the first-ever Sierra EV marks a turning point for the premium truck brand. This is as it expands its portfolio of all-electric trucks. Led by the 2024 Sierra EV Denali Edition […].
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Audi pilots concept for premium-level fast charging hubs
Charged
JUNE 4, 2021
Audi has big plans to ramp up its EV offerings, introducing more than 20 fully electric models by 2025, and it’s working on a concept for premium-level charging infrastructure in keeping with its market position as a luxury brand. Photovoltaic modules on the roof will provide additional green energy.
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HelloFresh would like to clear the air on meal kits
GreenBiz
MARCH 22, 2021
Since the world was introduced to the first meal kit over a decade ago, the industry has matured in size and familiarity, but it also has endured notable criticism surrounding packaging and its perceived impact on the environment. HelloFresh would like to clear the air on meal kits. Jeff Yorzyk. Mon, 03/22/2021 - 02:00.
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New Zealand firm offers improved LFP battery packs for Nissan Leaf
Charged
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Now New Zealand-based EVs Enhanced plans to introduce a replacement Leaf battery pack that offers better performance than the original pack. “By The initial Green variant will offer a long-lifespan LFP chemistry and a capacity of around 40 kWh. The Nissan Leaf is a historic and much-loved vehicle.
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From Humble Sponge Balls to Global Innovation: How a Simple Invention Revolutionized Air Conditioning
GreenTech Gazette
MAY 1, 2024
Automated Cleaning: The system automatically introduces the sponge balls into the tubes at regular intervals. All thanks to a seemingly simple invention: tiny sponge balls. This isn’t science fiction, but the reality for a company called Innovas Technologies, based in Coralville, Iowa.
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Infarm raises $200m to support global expansion of vertical farms
Business Green
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Infarm also plan to introduce new Growing Centres, which connect multiple vertical farming units with a distribution centre, and in-store farming units to new markets in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. The Growing Centre will harvest tomatoes, strawberries, herbs, and leafy greens, among other fruit crops.
Bentley Flying Spur V8 Plug-In Hybrid?
GreenTech Gazette
MAY 1, 2023
It would likely be a high-performance vehicle with a premium price tag, catering to drivers who value both performance and sustainability. Bentley has also indicated that it plans to introduce fully electric models in the future. Bentley has also indicated that it plans to introduce fully electric models in the future.
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How to Create ESG Goals for Your Business in 5 Steps
Green Business Bureau
DECEMBER 16, 2022
In this Green Business Bureau article, we introduce the concept of ESG goals. ESG goals are company-wide objectives that help an organization meet environmental, social, and governance business needs as per the standards set in the ESG framework. You’ll then learn how to set ESG goals using our 5-step process. What are ESG goals?
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How to Create a Sustainability Program: A 10 Step Guide To Creating a Purpose-Driven Business
Green Business Bureau
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
These steps include setting a green mission statement, creating a green team, defining a sustainability plan, implementing both environmental and social responsibility initiatives and developing effective communication with all stakeholders: employees, customers, partners and investors. Sustainability Program Challenges.
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If the UK wants economic resilience, strong climate disclosure rules are crucial
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
As it stands, they fail to meet the expectations set by the government in its 2019 Green Finance Strategy. The second problem with the FCA's draft is that it only applies to premium listed companies. When it comes to knowing how badly climate change will affect a company's bottom line, disclosure matters.
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Newly-launched Hydrogen UK trade body urges government to ramp up hydrogen infrastructure delivery
Business Green
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
Hydrogen UK this week called on the government to step up its efforts to develop and deploy hydrogen projects, as RenewableUK urged Ministers to ensure green hydrogen projects are not sidelined. A key recommendation in the report is that Hydrogen Business Models are made available to producers by mid-2022.
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New guides aim to accelerate shift towards net zero buildings, but challenges remain
Business Green
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
New guidance and rating systems aim to help property developers and managers green their buildings, but an analysis warns Spending Review commitments could cover barely a thousandth of the total cost of making UK buildings net zero compatible.
Decarbonisation, not deindustrialisation: How upskilling holds the key to the green jobs revolution
Business Green
JUNE 20, 2022
Major new report from Resolution Foundation and LSE argues UK is set to experience a surge in the number of green jobs, but the transition needs to be carefully managed. What constitutes a 'green' job? million 'green' jobs in the UK and 1.3 It is a trickier question to answer than it at first appears. million 'brown' jobs.
Latest Adidas shoe uses upcycled materials to avoid waste
AGreenLiving
JANUARY 25, 2022
Adidas has introduced a new hiking and athletic shoe in its TERREX line of apparel. The color palette is subtle but sporty, including muted red, pink, orange, green and blue details along with the classic gray Adidas stripes on the outside. It’s the latest in a growing movement for sustainable footwear. Adidas Images via Adidas.
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Decarbonisation barred by energy sector challenges – WEF
Smart Energy International
AUGUST 5, 2022
Unlocking grid flexibility with smart metering data: The 3 questions everyone’s asking Crypto mining and data centres – the green challenge. Unlocking grid flexibility with smart metering data: The 3 questions everyone’s asking Crypto mining and data centres – the green challenge. Have you read? Source: World Economic Forum.
Can the 150-year old London Metal Exchange broker a low-carbon future?
Business Green
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
The LME is the world's oldest and largest industrial metals exchange - BusinessGreen investigates how it is preparing for the battery metal goldrush and responding to calls for a more sustainable metals industry. What role do metals exchanges have in driving a sustainable transition to a low-carbon economy?
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Government preps autumn green bond and pension push, but tensions over net zero plans remain
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
The government is reportedly poised to issue its first green sovereign bond in the next few weeks, as it looks to kick off an autumn that will be dominated by a wave of crucial green spending and policy announcements in the run up to the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow.
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'Critical step': Government plots mandatory climate risk rules for 1,600 UK firms
Business Green
MARCH 24, 2021
This move will support investment in green technologies, services and infrastructure, and help to mobilise billions in private investment as set out in the Prime Minister's 10 Point Plan.". They added that the rules could deliver a significant competitive advantage for the UK.
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'Commercial opportunity': Energy Transition Commission urges businesses to drive demand for low carbon steel
Business Green
JULY 1, 2021
Major report from industry group argues that steel buyers can play catalysing role in accelerating growth of green steel market. Automotive, energy, construction, and white goods companies can reap a number of commercial benefits if they team up to become the first large scale purchasers of low-carbon steel.
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How can the shipping sector unlock the 'first wave' of net zero emission projects?
Business Green
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
While focused on green ammonia and methanol pilots geared at containerships, the authors claim the report's findings will be relevant for a number of alternative fuels. New report from Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) sets out how a "first wave" of commercial zero emission shipping projects can get off the ground.
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BusinessGreen Leaders Awards spotlight: Andrew Brooks, head of cocoa sustainability at Olam International
Business Green
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
BusinessGreen : What recent green achievement are you most proud of? Olam International's Andrew Brooks sits down with BusinessGreen to reflect on the food giant's recent sustainability wins and share the firm's priorities for the years ahead. And to have won BusinessGreen's Nature-Based Project of the Year award.
Cryo-Compressed Hydrogen in Aviation
Hydrogen Fuel News
JANUARY 17, 2024
This essay introduces the intricate technological fundamentals of cryo-compressed hydrogen, providing a scholarly examination of its storage at both low temperatures and high pressures to enhance energy density. This approach ingeniously combines two hydrogen storage methods: cryogenic storage and high-pressure storage.
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Top 10 takeaways from the Treasury's Greening Finance report
Business Green
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Investment Week's Lauren Mason takes the microscope to the Treasury's sweeping new plans to try and accelerate flows of green investment. They will also report environmental impact using the UK Green Taxonomy. TCFD should also be implemented within this time frame across premium-listed issuers and for certain standard-listed issuers.
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'We need to act now': Can COP15 bridge the nature finance chasm?
Business Green
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Namely, which countries are responsible for mobilising 'green' finance, and under what terms, which nations qualify to be on the receiving end of this support, and how a global financial system heavily skewed towards supporting activities that hurt the climate and biodiversity can be reformed in time to avert environmental catastrophe.
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? Fueling carbon-free transport
Climate Tech VC
AUGUST 3, 2023
We’ve written a lot about clean electrons recently, but electrifying everything only gets us so far. Buckle up—we’re going high-octane eco this week with clean molecules. As energy demands increase for heavier and longer-distance transport, the energy efficiency equation for fossil based-fuels becomes harder to displace.
Feeling stressed? Bank of England warns climate risks to become 'persistent drag' on profitability
Business Green
MAY 24, 2022
by the end of the century; a 'late action' scenario where bolder climate policies are delayed by a decade but then an emergency effort to tackle emissions limits warming to 1.8C; and a 'no additional action' scenario where governments fail to introduce further decarbonisation policies and temperatures hit 3.3C
Algae is Poised to Become a Mainstream Food Ingredient if Supply Can Keep Up With Demand
AFN Sustainable Protein
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Another startup, Kuli Kuli , which is backed by Kellogg’s venture capital arm Eighteen94 Capital , has introduced moringa, a protein-rich green, to U.S. The competition among large US food manufacturers is growing ever more intense, even as the economy improves. For example, General Mills’ venture capital arm, 301 Inc. ,
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Algae is Poised to Become a Mainstream Food Ingredient if Supply Can Keep Up With Demand
AFN Sustainable Protein
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Another startup, Kuli Kuli , which is backed by Kellogg’s venture capital arm Eighteen94 Capital , has introduced moringa, a protein-rich green, to U.S. The competition among large US food manufacturers is growing ever more intense, even as the economy improves. For example, General Mills’ venture capital arm, 301 Inc. ,
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Global Briefing: UN calls for rapid acceleration in European CCS deployment
Business Green
MARCH 5, 2021
UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report from the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) argues that contrary to popular opinion the CCUS sector already comprises a "vast portfolio of existing technologies that are economically viable". Chevron announces plans for US BECCS plant.
A tale of missing 'E's: The green economy reacts to the Spring Statement
Business Green
MARCH 15, 2023
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's first Budget elicits a decidedly mixed reaction from the green economy Addressing Parliament earlier today, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's said the focus of his first Budget was on four 'E's - enterprise, employment, education and everywhere. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all of the reaction from the green economy.
Heat: A policy chasm on the route towards net zero
Business Green
MAY 6, 2020
Richard Lowes at the University of Exeter argues that the encouraging rhetoric in the government's latest green heat proposals conceals a paucity of ambition that looks to be way off track against the UK's net zero emission goals. A consultation on the closure of the non-domestic RHI scheme and ongoing questions. Background.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2022
Greentown Labs
MARCH 22, 2022
Nineteen startups joined our community in the first quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as green hydrogen development, cow-manure combustion pellets, and motionless wind turbines for buildings. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Agriculture. Resiliency + Adaptation.
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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”
Charged
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
A pre-production XC40 Recharge I drove for an hour last October through rolling suburban hills outside New York City drew little attention, perhaps due to its muted, elegant silvery-green color and black roof. You might not know it to look at them, but these two cars—one Swedish, one Chinese—share underpinnings and a parent company.
Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2022
Greentown Labs
JUNE 21, 2022
We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Advanced Ionics is enabling green hydrogen production without the green premium. Electricity. Manufacturing. Resiliency + Adaptation.
Budget 2021: All the green announcements at a glance
Business Green
MARCH 3, 2021
BusinessGreen's all-you-need-to-know guide to the raft of key green tax and spending pledges in Rishi Sunak's second budget. So, just how green was Sunak's second Budget? Budget 2021 set out a number of measures designed to usher in a lower-carbon future for the UK, the bulk of which had already been trailed ahead of Sunak's speech.
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Volvo revamps Swedish plant to produce next-gen EVs, adds Tesla-style megacasting
Charged
MARCH 1, 2022
The company will introduce a number of new technologies and manufacturing processes at the plant, including the Tesla-pioneered technique of megacasting of aluminum body parts. Source: Volvo via Green Car Reports. Volvo Cars plans to invest SEK 10 billion ($1.07
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Rishi Sunak: UK to issue first green bond and require firms to disclose climate risk
Business Green
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Chancellor unveils raft of green finance plans, including green taxonomy proposals and mandatory climate risk disclosure rules for listed companies. In a statement to Parliament today, Sunak said the government would issue the UK's first Sovereign Green Bond in 2021, subject to market conditions.
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In focus: How to push climate resilience up the corporate agenda
Business Green
MARCH 28, 2023
Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.
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Retail Business Sustainability Guide: Retail Sustainability Initiatives and Trends
Green Business Bureau
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Retail business sustainability. For this article we’ve analyzed the business landscape to identify such trends. Using these trends we then present retail sustainability initiatives that will help you kickstart your organization’s sustainability program. What is retail sustainability?
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Sustainable Coffee Shops: Your Getting Started Guide
Green Business Bureau
AUGUST 17, 2022
This study found that consumers were willing to pay a premium of $2.20 With this in mind, we’ve created this Green Business Bureau article to act as your starter coffee shop sustainability guide, giving you 5 top tips to kick-start your sustainability program. And this shift is ultimately being driven by the consumer.
Mr Green Residence Providers 10% Off
Mearth
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Mr Green Residence Providers 10% Off. Mr Green retired earlier this year; yet he nonetheless made a concerted effort to come into school, spend time with students and relief train. Mr Green Auckland offers industrial and home cleaning franchisees to the Greater Auckland space.
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Delta, JetBlue, United give sustainable aviation fuel a lift
Business Green
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Many of the world's biggest airlines are betting big on the fledgling Sustainable Aviation Fuel market. This article was adapted from Mobility Weekly, our free weekly newsletter. Register for a subscription here. The pandemic travel reprieve gave airlines the opportunity to refocus their sustainability initiatives. The SAF flight path.
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