GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2021

Outdoor gear company Arc'teryx flies toward a circular economy. In the front yard of the Coast Mountains in North Vancouver, Canada, Arc’teryx, an outdoor clothing and climbing gear company, is building a circular economy. From there, the company cleans and repairs the used gear before reselling it online at lower prices.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Last week, the cloud-based software company Salesforce notified its thousands of suppliers that it will include language in all future procurement contracts requiring them, among other things, to set science-based targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Inside Salesforce’s bold play for supply-chain leadership. Joel Makower.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Fewer than six out of 400 companies surveyed in 2020 legal filings said there was a potential pandemic problem, Rodney Irwin, managing director of redefining value at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, said during GreenBiz 21. Securities and Exchange Commission. Consider compliance.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

After all, if most big companies still calculate these numbers largely through spreadsheets and complex data mashups, how should we expect under-resourced founders to have ready answers? So far, more than 140 firms have used early versions of the SERC tool, which went live this week. The company closed a $3.2

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

What the US could learn from China about how leasing affects EV transition. How US government procurement can lead the clean economy. Rob Bailey, director of climate resilience for Marsh & McLennan Companies, offers insights. . E-mail us at 350@greenbiz.com. Heather Clancy. Fri, 02/05/2021 - 02:00. Week in Review.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

In recent weeks and months, as many of us have "sheltered in place" in the face of a global pandemic, each of us has come to grips with a valuable reminder of what’s truly important: family, friends and colleagues; security and safety; food and water; healthcare. For some of us, that includes our work.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Food company Kraft Heinz has been relatively quiet about its corporate sustainability strategy in the five years since it was formed through the merger of food giants Kraft and Heinz — stepping out in early 2018 to provide an update. Kraft Heinz sustainability chief reflects on 'interdependence'. Heather Clancy.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

We want people to be inclusive, and we want people and companies not to be silent on these issues anymore because that’s how we’ve gotten to this point in the first place," said Katz, director of communications at IE. "By They can learn more about why it’s important to have sustainability goals and also have diversity goals.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Many of us on the front lines of climate change, from senior leaders to entry-level employees, confront an array of emotional ups and downs. Two experts share their insights on climate change as “existential change management,” on leading change at scale inside a big company, and the implications for sustainability leadership going forward.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 9, 2024

Ben van Beurden says company is undervalued in UK and US investors are ‘more positive’ about fossil fuels Business live – latest updates Shell’s former chief executive has stoked fears that the oil company will quit the London Stock Exchange in favour of a New York listing because US investors are “more positive” about fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2023

An agreement to establish the Fund was reached at COP27 last year but since then progress has been slow and marked by disagreements about how it should be funded and managed. The biggest initial pledges were a commitment by the EU to provide US$245 million (with US$109 million coming from Germany alone) and the UAE to provide US$100 million.

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Charged

APRIL 25, 2024

Syrah Resources , an industrial minerals and technology company, has become an integrated natural graphite active anode material (AAM) supplier outside China, processing natural graphite from Syrah’s Balama Graphite Operation in Mozambique.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Suddenly everyone is talking about green hydrogen. But the rush is also raising lots of questions: Where will hydrogen be most useful? Stephen Lamm is the director of sustainability at Bloom Energy, a company deploying zero-carbon solutions like green hydrogen. From South Africa to the United Arab Emirates. From China to Utah.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

The battle to get companies to take sustainability seriously is essentially over. I’ve spent two decades arguing that sustainability is good for companies. Need to I rarely talk about the science of the climate threat, preferring to focus on that business case. And yet, the question “Why should we do this?”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Matt Eustace, Data Protection Officer at UK AI firm Aiimi, which works with a number of water companies on cyber-security, offers perspective on recent events, and advice on making data watertight against such attacks. Last month, not one, but two major water companies were the victims of ransomware attacks.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

A family-owned whisky distillery in the central belt of Scotland, Falkirk Distillery, has joined forces with biotechnology company MiAlgae in a bid to advance the use of circular economy principles in the whisky industry. What really stands out to us about the Falkirk team is their authenticity.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 11, 2020

With every state in America under a disaster declaration, the implosion for early-stage companies has been swift. Once fast-growing companies are losing their revenue overnight. The full impact on climatetech and cleantech companies is still unknown. Want to share your opinion about the topic? Let us know on Twitter.

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Charged

MARCH 1, 2024

UK-based EV leasing company Octopus Electric Vehicles has launched its DriveFree plan in the Houston area. With DriveFree, we wanted to address all the concerns people have about switching to electric vehicles,” said Octopus EV US Co-lead Chris George. DriveFree covers all maintenance and tires through a mobile mechanic service.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As the demands of AMP8 and the ambitious targets of The Environment Act come into focus, water companies need to embrace technology companies much more readily, says Andrew Welsh. We are already having highly productive strategic conversations with some of the most agile water service operators about AMP8.

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TechCrunch: Climate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We’re talking about Apple’s commitment to be 100% carbon neutral by 2030. How do you make a nearly $3 trillion company green? We’re going to hear a lot about that subject when Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environmental, policy and social initiatives, joins us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt […]

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Charged

MARCH 7, 2024

Tiamat will use the new funding to start construction of a sodium-ion battery plant in France for power tools and stationary storage applications. In the future, the company plans to scale up production of second-generation products for EV applications.

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Charged

MARCH 25, 2024

Vietnamese automaker VinFast has been on a roll lately—the company plans to expand to 50 countries in 2024, and is working on EV manufacturing plants in the US, India and Indonesia. In the initial phase, the company will seek out land and partners to establish its charging network in “key markets around the world.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The report comes four months after the two organizations announced a lawsuit against the company alleging Eni used “lobbying and greenwashing” to push for more oil and gas production, despite having known about the risks fossil fuels posed over the past 53 years.

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Charged

APRIL 1, 2024

In contrast, lead-acid batteries have a 99% recycling rate in the US. Aqua Metals has pioneered a new electro-hydrometallurgy process that uses renewable electricity and recycles the chemicals used. The company has a pilot line up and running to demonstrate its process, and has big plans to scale up its technology.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It won’t be news to regular Charged readers that myths and misconceptions about EVs have taken deep root among the populace. When I tell a new acquaintance that I write about EVs, as often as not their reply is some sound bite that could be a direct quote from an oil industry social media feed.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 20, 2024

It’s easy to think that it’s because the new data about climate change has shown its true risk, and governments are now reacting to it in order to prevent the planet from warming excessively – or at the very least, to slow it down until we can know what else to do about it.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Data centers already use a hell of a lot of electricity, which could thwart the company’s climate goals unless it can find clean sources of energy. Energy-hungry AI makes that an even bigger challenge for the company to overcome. The company “does not currently have any agreements to sell reactors to Microsoft,” it told CNBC.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

That’s why it was particularly refreshing to hear Ford CEO Jim Farley candidly describing some of the growing pains that his company has experienced in the transition to the new technology. Farley admitted that production problems of this kind meant that Ford “left about $2 billion of profit on the table.”

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Charged

APRIL 9, 2024

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has revised its procedures for calculating the petroleum-equivalent fuel economy of EVs. The Petroleum Equivalency Factor (PEF) is used by the EPA to assess automakers’ compliance with the DOT’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Firstgreen Industries, which is headquartered in the Czech Republic and has a US headquarters in North Carolina, is breaking into the US skid steer market, competing with established equipment manufacturers such as Bobcat (which recently introduced an electric skid steer loader ). The machines are also 98% recyclable.” “In

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Charged

MAY 16, 2023

To guide its efforts as it finalizes what is sure to be a complex set of programs and regulations, the agency is asking for public input about the availability of zero-emission technologies in the heavy-duty vehicle and port sectors. Also of particular importance: information about systems that include US-made components.

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Petersburg, Florida is known as a boater’s paradise (and of course, the epicenter of EV journalism), so John Vo, the former Global Head of Manufacturing at Tesla, saw it as the perfect site for his new electric boat company, Blue Innovations Group (BIG). The initial goal is to produce about 500 R30s annually. kW solar canopy.

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Charged

MAY 3, 2023

SAE has also partnered with a company called ChargerHelp ! Charged : Public charger uptime is a huge issue—everybody’s up in arms about it. If you’ve ever put a child safety seat into a car or exited an airplane or gotten a delivery by a truck, you’ve interacted with us. Public charging fails about 25% to 30% of the time.

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Charged

MARCH 20, 2024

Its sales were about equal to those of the next 7 models combined. The cheapest BEV CleanTechnica found on offer was the 39 kWh Nissan LEAF, which starts at 232,600 Norwegian kroner (about $22,000). The lack of affordable EVs is an issue everywhere in Europe, and in the US. of the entire auto market.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has been awarded to 20 companies across 12 states for extracting and processing lithium and graphite, battery manufacturing and the demonstration of new approaches. Funded project goals include developing enough lithium to supply about 2 million EVs per year, enough graphite for 1.2

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 17, 2024

The HUF10.074 billion (US$27 million) rollout is being supported by the Hungarian government’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). He adds that in the current year the company is investing €390 million (US$415 million) in the network, increasing to €1 billion over the coming years. Have you read?

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Andrew Winston

MARCH 22, 2022

[ As part of last month’s GreenBiz conference, my Net Positive co-author (Paul Polman) and I wrote an article about the critical role of sustainability executives in driving change. This is the “eco-anxiety” everybody’s talking about, and the young feel it most. Here are some excerpts. The full article is here. ].

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