GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Work With Your Suppliers to Accelerate Scope 3 Emissions Reductions and More As reporting regulation and public interest in sustainability continue to grow, more organizations are feeling the internal and external pressure to not only reduce their GHG emissions but also the emissions associated with their value chain. Collecting and reporting Scopes 1 and 2 data is already a challenge for most organizations without the added complication of gathering this information from their suppliers as wel

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Kittiwake in flight at Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm. A new collaborative project tracking seabirds with AI technology has started at Vattenfall’s offshore wind farm off the coast of Aberdeen. Working with Spoor, a Norwegian pioneering AI start-up, the project will trial new technology to document how seabirds interact with offshore wind turbines. Spoor’s ground-breaking AI technology has been developed to track a bird’s 3D flight path throughout a wind farm and in the immediate vicinity of the tu

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

S&P Global Sustainable1's goal is to empower users to navigate sustainability objectives with deep, robust and context-relevant data insights. During this session, thought leaders from across the sustainable finance ecosystem will dive into how S&P Global’s Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) measures a company’s performance on and management of ESG risks, opportunities, and impacts, and more.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The government has lost its bid to scrap nutrient neutrality rules for housing developments , with Labour Lords voting to reject the proposed amendments (to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill) on 14 September. Natural England’s Nutrient Neutrality Principles are intended to ensure that new developments do not add to the existing nutrient impact within ecologically designated sites, for example by releasing nitrates and phosphates into rivers, which reduce water quality and harm wildlife.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Sponsored: As ESG reporting requirements evolve globally, here's what US companies need to know about the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.

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NRDC onEarth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

As the hottest summer on record draws to a close, the next several months could determine whether the world rises to the moment—or blows past irreversible tipping points.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The tool “can be used either to assess an existing package, facilitate the R&D and design process, engage with other parts of the value chain, or prepare for recyclability testing.” ‘Design Check’ tool gives guidance to designers, packaging technologists, customers and suppliers of flexible packaging Packaging initiative CEFLEX says thousands of organisations in Europe and worldwide have embraced its ‘Designing for a Circular Economy’ (D4ACE) guidelines since they were launched in 2020.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Despite a lack of a uniform definition or measurable success, net zero is still part of a meaningful climate strategy. Here’s how.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Satellite observations of one of the world’s biggest ecological experiments on the island of Borneo appear to reveal that replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings can significantly accelerate their recovery. The results were published on 15 September in the journal Science Advances. The experiment was set up by the University of Oxford’s Professor Andy Hector and colleagues over twenty years ago as part of the SE Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP).

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Emerging global megathreats and outdated skill sets could hamper the momentum of sustainability agenda.

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Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Among the initiatives receiving funding, the WET Hogsmill project will reintroduce water voles onto the Hogsmill river, a chalk stream in Southwest London. Natural England has announced (on 14 September) 63 projects across England – “one of the most nature-depleted countries on earth” – that have been awarded a share of £14.5 million Species Recovery Programme Grant Scheme to help recover 150 species nationwide.

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NRDC onEarth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A geographer sees a familiar pattern of government-backed energy projects devastating Indigenous communities and violating tribal sovereignty.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Drainage expert Lanes Group has announced the launch of its fifth Unblocktober campaign, calling on individuals and businesses to take the Unblocktober pledge. The pledge asks the UK public to improve the country’s drain health and reduce the impact that waste is having on the climate and environment. The month-long initiative began in 2019. Over this time, awareness has certainly grown of the fact that pouring the wrong stuff down the drain leads to the formation of fatbergs that are harm

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Canary Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The U.S. needs a lot more power lines to support its transition away from fossil fuels. The good news is that it's made some serious strides toward that goal over the last two years. The bad news is it's not nearly enough to support the enormous amounts of new wind and solar power needed to meet climate goals.

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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A waste collection vehicle. Project STOP Banyuwangi “focuses on delivering measurable impact on the ground” One of Indonesia’s largest Material Recovery Facilities (MRF) was inaugurated on 16 September in Songgon Municipality, in what’s suggested as a significant milestone towards establishing a circular waste management system in the country.

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Energy Storage News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Fastmarkets analysts Muthu Krishna and Phoebe O'Hara look at the potential of solid-state and sodium-ion batteries to scale up and ease the pressure on lithium-ion NMC and LFP battery chemistries, which currently dominate the EV and ESS markets.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The conference takes place on 19 September at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. The ADBA Scottish Conference 2023 will feature opening and closing keynote addresses from – respectively – Maurice Golden MSP, Convener, Cross-Party Group on Circular Economy, the Scottish Parliament, and Sarah Boyack, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Transport and the Just Transition, Scottish Labour Party.

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Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The historic city of Lahaina, located on the western coast of the Hawaiian island Maui, was devastated by wildfires on August 8 that descended from forested hills into neighborhoods and the waterfront town. At last count, more than 100 people died in a blaze stoked by the winds of Hurricane Dora, with more missing and… The post Solar contractors among first to respond to Lahaina wildfire recovery appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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Energy Storage News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Global system integrator Fluence has been enlisted by developer Tilt Renewables for a 100MW/200MWh BESS project in Victoria, Australia, the first to deploy the full Fluence product ecosystem, it said.

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NRDC onEarth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

As Climate Week NYC begins, governments and companies shouldn't be fooled by industry claims that turning carbon-storing forests into wood pellets will save us.

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Energy Storage News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Flow battery maker Invinity Energy Systems signed a deal for the newest iteration of its product with Everdura at RE+ in Las Vegas last week.

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POWER Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The U.S. Dept. of Defense (DOD), as part of the agency’s climate action plan and its strategy for sustainability, will deploy a prototype microgrid at a military installation in New […] The post DOD Inks Deal with Redflow for Microgrid Repowering at Air National Guard Base appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Scout Clean Energy , a Colorado-based renewable energy developer, owner and operator, has signed a power purchase agreement with Colgate-Palmolive for power from Scout’s 209 MW DC Markum Solar Farm near Waco, Texas. This fall, Scout will begin and manage project construction. Markum will generate enough clean energy for the ERCOT grid to power approximately 32,200 homes. “Virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) are a valuable part of our renewable energy master plan and will help u

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

WaterMeter Corp, WND Mexico and UnaBiz plan to deliver 1 million smart water meters based on Sigfox 0G technology in Mexico in the next 10 years. The memorandum of understanding between the three companies is aimed to “redefine water metering in Mexico and beyond”, they say in a statement. Leveraging WND’s Sigfox 0G network, the collaboration should facilitate efficient monitoring and management of water resources.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

ImpactAlpha, September 18 — The climate discourse by individuals and groups typically involves five narratives about the import and response to climate change. Some. The post From scientific to doomsday, the five climate change narratives shaping discourse and decisions appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

DeepDrive , a Munich-based tech company backed by BMW and Continental , has unveiled a new central drive unit that it plans to deploy in 2027. DeepDrive has developed a dual-rotor, radial flux machine that has an inner and outer rotor with two air gaps to maximize material usage and minimize iron losses, along with a new distributed winding with a slot-filling factor above 80%.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Climate Narratives From scientific to doomsday, the five climate-change narratives shaping discourse and decisions. Some are scientific, others. The post The Brief: Five climate narratives, galvanizing climate solutions, Hawaii’s student housing bond, California takes on Big Oil appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Emporia , a Colorado-based smart home energy management company, has added Intelligent Load Management for Emporia EV Chargers to its portfolio of products. For homeowners with lower-capacity electrical panels—older panels are typically rated at 100 amps—installing a Level 2 EV charger is a challenge. Depending on an existing home’s setup and location, upgrading to a 200-amp panel can cost anywhere from $1,280 to $5,000, Emporia tells us.

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PV Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Nexun, a portfolio company of infrastructure investor Marguerite, has signed a co-development agreement with an unnamed Polish developer for 206MW of solar PV.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The SAE International Hybrid Communication and Interoperability Task Force has completed an extensive revision of SAE Standard J2847/2: Communication Between Plug-in Vehicles and Off-Board DC Chargers. This update is the first step towards the goal of enabling EV and charging station providers to use the same communication code for bidirectional DC charging, including Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and Vehicle-to-Home (V2H) applications.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans is to instal 140,000 smart water meters for residential and business customers. The Sewerage and Water Board has announced that the installation of infrastructure including the wireless base stations for data communication as well as staff training on the new technology is almost complete, which will enable the smart meter rollout to commence.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Dandelion Energy , a residential geothermal company, and Palmetto , a technology company accelerating the adoption of clean energy, will collaborate to expand access to renewable energy solutions by harnessing the complementary powers of solar and geothermal energy. The partnership will begin via a launch program with Palmetto in Massachusetts, where Dandelion expanded services in 2022.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) has announced it entry into the electric vehicle (EV) charging market with GRID Charge, the new business unit of subsidiary company, GRID Telecom. Entrance into the EV charging market illustrates the Greek TSO’s aim to accelerate the uptake of electric mobility in the country. One of GRID Charge’s primary areas of focus will be the ultra-fast charging sector.

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