GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Electric vehicles have been one of the hottest categories for SPACs, as more than 24 EV-related companies agreed to go public via SPAC mergers over the last nine months. percent while the median return for other SPACs is 7.7 In just the first six weeks of 2021, SPACs raised $33 billion, more than was raised by all SPACs before 2020.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Carbontech, a category of climate tech I’d love to see break through next year. What you are seeing is an accelerating pace of interest and activity," said Nicholas Eisenberger, managing director at Pure Energy partners and co-founder of CCN, who spoke about this topic during a carbontech market update at VERGE 20. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2020

The berry grows best in boggy, water-soaked soil that can’t be used for many other crops. SAI’s Farm Sustainability Assessment dives into 112 questions over 17 categories to evaluate a farm’s investment in sustainable practices. And every one acre of cranberry bog requires 5.5 Food & Agriculture. Food & Agriculture. Sustainability.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2021

The Impact Dashboard model’s outcomes and impacts associated with preferred materials sourcing — and environmental indicators of greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption and fossil-based energy use is modeled using the Higg Materials Sustainability Index (Higg MCI). This year, results show a slight growth, from 0.06 percent to 0.07

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

White identified a few factors that stakeholders can focus on to shift behavior — social influence (in other words, peer pressure), habit formation, individual values, emotional buy-in and tangible outcomes. . The biggest chunk of that is the energy used to heat the water in the washing machine. Pull Quote. Consumer Trends.

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Sustainability North America Packaging Health 517

Bidgely

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Watch our on-demand webinar AI, GPT and the Utility of the Future to continue to explore this topic. While the jury is still out on the pros and cons of AI, Bidgely strongly believes that AI is imperative for the energy transition and to realize a clean energy future.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This shift in the world of business created a new category — Climate Technology, or simply ClimateTech — made up of business solutions whose offerings are designed to help work against climate change. The new industry could mean big benefits for businesses that pay attention to these trends and work to take advantage of the new category.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Air Grants and Green Funding : Includes competitive grant funding announcements for projects and programs relating to air quality, transportation, climate change, indoor air, and other related topics. Over the past decade, LPO has closed more than $30 billion in deals across a variety of energy sectors.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. . We can't let these major oil companies that are spending most of their capex on oil and gas run a bunch of advertising pretending they're renewable energy companies.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Renewable Energy Markets™ (REM) will take place on September 9–11, 2020, at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ideally sessions will feature new data or ideas, consider important issues, and most importantly, fresh and informed thinking about where renewable energy markets are headed.

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Energy Energy Policy North America 52

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The initialism “ ESG ” stands for “ E nvironmental, S ocial, and G overnance” Under each category there are a set of standards and goals an organization must meet to be compliant. ESG has recently become a headline topic. In other words, think of ESG as a action-oriented model for corporate sustainability. E : Environment.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 23, 2020

Two weeks ago in Renewable Energy Growth Continues At A Blistering Pace , I highlighted the inability of renewable energy to keep up with overall energy demand: “Even though global renewable energy consumption has increased by about 21 exajoules in the past decade, overall energy consumption has increased by 101 exajoules.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

These categories represent critical questions facing a financial institution that has committed or may be looking to commit its portfolio to alignment with a climate goal. Other tools are more forward looking to support investing that steers portfolios in line with climate commitments over time. Disclosure and reporting. Contributors.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

For starters, they’re responsible for producing oxygen and removing CO2 and other pollutants from the air. Forest Service estimates that trees reduce the energy consumption needed to cool homes in the U.S. They reduce the costs of doing all kinds of other work, including stormwater management, air purification and water retention.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

James Robey, global head of sustainability at Capgemini, has been in post for nearly 11 years, previously holding down other sustainability-focused jobs at the professional services giant. We have a net zero board that meets on a regular basis, includes our CEO and other board members. Carbon calculator.

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Charged

JANUARY 25, 2024

Well, a topic for another day, perhaps.) The most obvious cause of failure from a transient or surge is insulation breakdown (including semiconductor junctions, capacitor dielectrics, etc), but rapid heating from the energy content in a transient or surge—particularly those of longer duration—should not be dismissed as a culprit.

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Michael Grossman

MAY 4, 2022

What’s Redefining A Category? He took two distinct elements and, in the process, created a new category, becoming known as the banjo-playing comedian (and the guy with an arrow through his head). How Redefining Your Category Benefits Your Brand. He became a category of one. It had been around for 100 years.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog. Indeed, it’s the very epitome of greenwashing: act dirty, talk green.”.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 8, 2024

But on the other hand it won’t be worth going to the DOE for a $20m LPO loan.  So budget a year for engaging the DOE or an energy major and expect the process to be orders of magnitude more rigorous than VC diligence.    Other factors. Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, Grok, Prime Impact), NGOs (e.g.

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Charged

JANUARY 31, 2022

The company regularly releases “technology roadmaps” in various industries, including energy, telecommunications, automotive and aviation. When you look to the end results, EnBW won twice in Germany, ranking first in the EMP and the CPO categories. Hakan Ekmen: That’s definitely a future topic for us.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 10, 2020

Product Marketing Manager | Blue Planet Energy Systems | Bay Area, CA. About Blue Planet Energy. Blue Planet Energy is a rapidly growing mission-driven company changing the way we power the world with safe, reliable battery systems. We build premium products that enable renewable energy adoption and energy security.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 10, 2020

Product Marketing Manager | Blue Planet Energy Systems | Bay Area, CA. About Blue Planet Energy. Blue Planet Energy is a rapidly growing mission-driven company changing the way we power the world with safe, reliable battery systems. We build premium products that enable renewable energy adoption and energy security.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The former CEO at US giant NRG Energy has raised $230m and is the market for a climate tech pioneer. Last week, former NRG Energy CEO David Crane joined the frenzy. Crane was instrumental in leading NRG into renewables and other clean energy sectors and was ousted in late 2015 after its stock tanked.

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Better Ventures

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mission-driven companies can attract and retain the best talent because they offer employees something many other companies cannot: meaning and purpose at work. energy savings), and better capital allocation decisions. This is increasingly important to Millennial and Gen-Z workers. McKinsey has a good overview of these here.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 30, 2020

Looking into the future, more and more jobs will fall into the category of sustainability. Engineers focused on urban design can influence the infrastructure of an entire city, and structural engineers can work to design buildings with earth-friendly materials and passive energy systems. You can install solar panels or wind turbines.

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Sustainability HVAC Education Construction 36

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Below we have organized the world’s most popular sustainability certifications into these categories: Corporate sustainability reporting certifications. This helps investors, policymakers and other stakeholders make informed decisions based on reliable performance data. General business sustainability certifications.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 4, 2020

The other focus, creating a green culture, covers employee participation and educating employees about the why’s and the how’s of sustainability, ultimately encouraging engagement and participation. The agenda should include topics such as: The purpose and benefits of a green team. Cultural Value of a Green Team.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Last week, former NRG Energy CEO David Crane joined the frenzy. Crane was instrumental in leading NRG into renewables and other clean energy sectors and was ousted in late 2015 after its stock tanked. Disclosure: Crane is a former GreenBiz editor at large, and you can read his body of work here.) .”

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 5, 2021

We need the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to step up to help renewable developers. The specific reason why this is important for developers is because projects at the border of both RTOs could have an impact on each other’s T plans.

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Construction Organic Electricity Energy 71

Clean Energy Trust

MAY 20, 2021

Insights from Locke Lord and Clean Energy Trust on how to tackle the due diligence process Congrats, you signed a term sheet! Term sheets are almost always non-binding (aside from confidentiality), but you’ve agreed to stop “shopping the deal” to other lead investors. Every data room should have an Index (find an example here ).

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Investment Organic Startups Patents 52

Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

While they're not immune to the forthcoming fiscal challenges, entrepreneurs developing solutions for addressing climate change - from agtech to decarbonization to clean energy and more - are among those proving to be the most resilient. What, exactly, falls under the climate tech category? What's in a successful pitch.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Put simply, a bank’s capital can flow towards fossil fuels or renewable energy, towards local business loans or financing environmentally damaging projects. Or committed a certain percentage of loans and investments for renewable energy projects. Using this simple framework, we see focus group results hit all three types categories.

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Retail Policy Investment Europe 28

GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

It’s also a significant contributor to the climate crisis: Industrial processes — from the creation of raw materials to chemicals — are responsible for more emissions than any other sector, making up a third of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Key pathways to decarbonize thermal energy include: Efficiency.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2021

26 percent Other. So, if you were to pick a certification out of a hat, it might be a pretty safe bet to get GRI or maybe some form of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design series. 2 most popular certification was "Other" or that GRI was the only named certification to get more than 25 percent? 23 percent LEED AP.

Sustainability 543

Sustainability Climate change Construction Organic 543

Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Carbontech, a category of climate tech I'd love to see break through next year. What you are seeing is an accelerating pace of interest and activity," said Nicholas Eisenberger, managing director at Pure Energy partners and co-founder of CCN, who spoke about this topic during a carbontech market update at VERGE 20.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Aviation Transportation 76

Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Land biomass can be divided into four distinct groups suitable for energy production: wood and processing waste, agricultural crops and waste materials, food, yard and wood waste in garbage, and finally animal manure and human sewage. Where at first biomass seemed a winner in the energy transition, now it seems to become a loser.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Agriculture 78

Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

We've always been working very closely with mobile operators around a range of sustainability topics," Alix Jagueneau, head of external affairs at the industry association GSMA, tells BusinessGreen. GSMA's guidance calls on mobile network operators to reduce their emissions by at least 45 per cent between 2020 and 2030. Next steps.

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