Meta’s value chain emissions are rising. Here’s its plan to address that
GreenBiz
AUGUST 29, 2023
The social media company plans to invest in emissions reductions projects that help cut its rising Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.
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Genesis G80 Electrified Test Drive Results
Green Living Guy
AUGUST 29, 2023
Genesis G80 Electrified The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is well underway. So automakers are stepping up their game to offer EVs that rival their internal combustion engine (ICE) counterparts. Especially in terms of performance, range, and luxury. One such contender in the luxury EV space is the 2023 Genesis Electrified G80. This sleek and powerful […] The post Genesis G80 Electrified Test Drive Results appeared first on Green Living Guy.
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How forging effective partnerships can boost influence, impact
GreenBiz
AUGUST 29, 2023
Former U.S. Ambassador Lisa Gable shares insights on how to create exponential social impact through effective partnerships.
Hawaiian Electric says lawsuit is ‘factually and legally irresponsible.’ It blames Maui for the tragedy
Smart Energy International
AUGUST 29, 2023
While the ash is still settling and hundreds of people are unaccounted for, the county of Maui has brought forth a lawsuit against Hawaiian Electric for its role in a wildfire that killed at least 115 people in Lahaina. The lawsuit alleges that Hawaiian Electric failed to properly maintain its system and failed to shut off the power despite a red flag warning issued by the National Weather Service.
Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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.
Peregrine Energy, AB CarVal Ink $700 Million Financing Deal
Solar Industry
AUGUST 29, 2023
Colorado-based Peregrine Energy Solutions LLC , an integrated multi-technology clean energy platform with a focus on utility-scale energy storage, has signed an agreement with funds managed by global alternative investment manager AB CarVal to raise over $700 million of credit, equity and debt to finance Peregrine’s pipeline of over 7 GW of projects, including standalone battery, solar and wind technologies.
British Star Energy acquires Croatian geothermal developer
ThinkGeoEnergy
AUGUST 29, 2023
British energy company Star Energy Group , through subsidiary GT Energy Croatia Limited (GTEC), has acquired a 51% controlling stake in Croatian geothermal developer A14 Energy Limited. The Croatian developer is notably the holder of the exploration license for the Ernestinovo license area in the Pannonian Basin in eastern Croatia via subsidiary IGeoPen.
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Researchers propose standardized criteria and characterization procedures for evaluating radiative cooling performance
TechXplore
AUGUST 29, 2023
In a world experiencing increased heat stress, a zero-carbon-emission cooling technology that consumes no electricity, operating instead by shedding heat directly into outer space, would be a groundbreaking advance. However, poor standardization and a lack of transparency is hampering this promising technology, known as radiative cooling. Best practice guidelines, outlined by KAUST leading radiative-cooling researcher Qiaoqiang Gan, could help set the research field back on track.
Treasury Department, IRS Unveil Proposed Guidance on Inflation Reduction Act
Solar Industry
AUGUST 29, 2023
The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have released proposed rules and FAQs on key provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act to ensure clean energy jobs are good-paying jobs and that the country is preparing a diverse pipeline of workers to maximize the opportunities created by the Inflation Reduction Act’s investments.
Refiberd sews up $3.4M seed round to use its AI to tackle textile waste
TechCrunch: Climate
AUGUST 29, 2023
AI is nothing new in the recycling industry, but Refiberd’s approach appears to break fresh ground both in its application to textile recycling and hyperspectral imagery.
Direct power generation from methylcyclohexane using solid oxide fuel cells
TechXplore
AUGUST 29, 2023
Methylcyclohexane (MCH), a type of organic hydride, is expected to be an excellent hydrogen carrier because it remains liquid at room temperature, is easy to transport, has low toxicity, and has a higher hydrogen density than high-pressure hydrogen.
Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport
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.
The Many Uses of Hydrogen: Exploring its Products
Hydrogen Fuel News
AUGUST 29, 2023
Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, has a broad range of applications across different industries. From fuel cells to agriculture, space exploration to water treatment, power generation to renewable energy storage, hydrogen plays a crucial role in advancing technology and sustainability. This article will delve into the many uses of hydrogen and explore its diverse products for hydrogen and its uses.
How Crop Robotics Can Make Our Food System More Sustainable
CleanTech Group
AUGUST 29, 2023
In all but the poorest countries on Earth, the number of people working in agriculture is trending downward. This has implications not just.
Chemical fertilizer is a climate disaster. Can high-tech biology fix it?
Canary Media
AUGUST 29, 2023
Canary Media’s Eating the Earth column explores the connections between the food we eat and the climate we live in. Almost everything about synthetic fertilizer sucks. It sucks for the climate, generating 2.5 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, more than global aviation.
7 founders explain what fusion power needs to go mainstream
TechCrunch: Climate
AUGUST 29, 2023
If the 2020s are going to be the decade of AI, then the 2030s could be the decade of fusion power. That is, if the sector’s startups are able to deliver.
AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities
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.
Virginia may ditch a regional carbon cap-and-invest program
Canary Media
AUGUST 29, 2023
This story was first published by Grist. After a blazingly hot stretch of summer in early July 2022, the skies broke open over Buchanan County, Virginia. Floodwaters damaged almost 100 homes and destroyed miles of road in the rural, predominately low-income mountain towns that dot the region.
Redwood Materials raises $1B to expand US battery supply chain
TechCrunch: Climate
AUGUST 29, 2023
Redwood Materials, the battery recycling startup founded by former Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel, has raised over $1 billion in a Series D round at a post-money valuation of over $5 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter. The raise brings Redwood’s total equity capital to $2 billion.
Clothing manufacturers aim to get fashionable with greener practices
TechXplore
AUGUST 29, 2023
Clothes made from recycled textiles are emerging in Europe, highlighting new business opportunities that also reduce the industry's environmental footprint.
‘Brought to you by big oil’: US billboards call out companies for record heatwaves
The Guardian: Energy
AUGUST 29, 2023
Fossil Free Media, a non-profit media organization, installed the ads in cities rocked by heatwaves including Phoenix and Austin Drive down the highways of Phoenix, Arizona; Austin, Texas; or Fresno, California, this week and you may see an unfamiliar advertisement, thanks to a group of climate activists. The non-profit media organization Fossil Free Media has unveiled a series of billboards calling out oil and gas companies for their role in fueling climate disasters.
How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular
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?
EU imports record volumes of liquefied natural gas from Russia
Financial Times: Energy
AUGUST 29, 2023
Belgium and Spain are world’s second and third-biggest importers of Russian LNG this year
China continues coal spree despite climate goals
The Guardian: Energy
AUGUST 29, 2023
World’s biggest carbon emitter approving equivalent of two new coal plants a week, analysis shows China is approving new coal power projects at the equivalent of two plants every week, a rate energy watchdogs say is unsustainable if the country hopes to achieve its energy targets. The government has pledged to peak emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2060, and in 2021 the president, Xi Jinping, promised to stop building coal powered plants abroad.
The future of road freight transport is electric, says report
TechXplore
AUGUST 29, 2023
The availability of a broad-scale and well-performing charging network by 2035 offers potential to increase new registrations of battery electric trucks to 100%. The key entry point for ensuring the market success of zero-emission drive technologies is the rapid and targeted rollout of a charging infrastructure for heavy-duty commercial vehicles. Greenhouse gas emissions from road freight transport will then decrease significantly, particularly post-2030, reaching zero in 2045.
EU fossil fuel burning for electricity fell to lowest on record in 2023, data shows
The Guardian: Energy
AUGUST 29, 2023
Drop in first half of year driven by fall in demand and some growth in clean power, study says The European Union is stoking its power plants with fewer lumps of coal and barrels of oil and gas than it has ever recorded, data shows. The 27 member states burned 17% less fossil fuel to make electricity between January and June 2023 than over the same period the year before, a study from the clean energy thinktank Ember found.
Government plans watered-down nutrient pollution rules in bid to ramp up housebuilding
Business Green
AUGUST 29, 2023
Government unveils plans to dilute EU-derived nutrient neutrality rules in a bid to accelerate development of hundreds of thousands of new homes in England, as Labour touts planning reform vision
Major Indian companies push for climate action in letter to G20
Financial Times: Energy
AUGUST 29, 2023
Big polluters and clean tech companies join to call for urgent steps to deal with the ‘unforgiving’ effects of global warming
'Climate safe banking': New guide targets indirectly financed emissions from cash holdings
Business Green
AUGUST 29, 2023
New Greening Cash Action guide details how firms hold 'major lever' that could ensure banks use companies' cash to support wider climate goals and accelerate the green finance transition
Direct power generation from methylcyclohexane using solid oxide fuel cells
Science Daily: Renewable Energy
AUGUST 29, 2023
Methylcyclohexane is very promising as a hydrogen carrier that can safely and efficiently transport and store hydrogen. However, the dehydrogenation process using catalysts has issues due to its durability and large energy loss. Recently, researchers have succeeded in using solid oxide fuel cells to generate electricity directly from methylcyclohexane and recover toluene for reuse.
New Google tools to map rooftop solar potential and air quality
Business Green
AUGUST 29, 2023
New Google Maps functionality harness AI and aerial imagery to help businesses and cities plan solar deployments and tackle air pollution
Lithium-rich Chile, already a global renewable energy leader, proposes a new strategy
Energy Transition
AUGUST 29, 2023
Despite its historic ties to fossil fuels and copper mining, in recent years Chile has accelerated its energy transition. With a population of just under 20 million, Chile is now targeting 80% renewable electricity by 2030 and a 100% zero emissions power grid by 2050. Last year wind and solar overtook coal as renewables now dominate the local energy sector.
Powerledger launches public blockchain for energy sector applications
Smart Energy International
AUGUST 29, 2023
The Powerledger Chain is intended for the development of solutions to overcome the challenges of integrating renewable energies into the grid. The Powerledger Chain is the third generation blockchain from the company, which was one of the pioneers of the technology in the energy sector, and is designed to facilitate the development of scalable decentralised apps that are able to handle thousands of transactions per second at low cost.
ImpactAlpha Open: Investing in resilience in Maui + wither anti-ESG
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 29, 2023
Hi there, Agent of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter of top news and opportunities in impact investing. The post ImpactAlpha Open: Investing in resilience in Maui + wither anti-ESG appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
On Sustainability, there’s always a (stupid) excuse to do nothing
Terra Infirma
AUGUST 29, 2023
Today there are two big environmental stories in the UK news. The first is the suggestion that the Government will relax the ‘nutrient neutrality’ rules on new housebuilding which prevent any housing development which will add to the nutrient load in our overloaded waterways. The housebuilding representative I heard interviewed in the press made the argument that nutrients from housing developments were minor compared to those from farming.
Wisconsin agency issues $185 million social bond for affordable homeownership
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 29, 2023
Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha has partnered with HIP Investor to highlight upcoming bond issues with social and/or environmental significance. Disclaimer: Nothing in this post or on. The post Wisconsin agency issues $185 million social bond for affordable homeownership appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Swiss Geo Energy to launch geophysical campaign in Eclépens region
ThinkGeoEnergy
AUGUST 29, 2023
Swiss Geo Energy (SGE) has announced the imminent launch of its geophysical campaign as part of the GeoCogen Eclépens project in the Eclépens region of Switzerland. The campaign will take place between September 20 and October 9, 2023, in the area defined by its surface research permit of 104 km². This sector includes 32 municipalities in the Jura-Nord, Morges, and Gros-de-Vaud districts.
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