GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2023

What would it mean for a company to become truly nature-positive, which opportunities does it present, and is it possible to achieve within the global economy’s constraints? On the other hand, what implications will a company’s supply chain and operations face if it ignores its biodiversity risks and dependencies? Join the conversation to understand what’s behind the biodiversity movement and how your company can respond to this new business imperative.

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Biodiversity 372

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

The Forestry Commission has (on 11 May) urged the public to report sightings of oak processionary moth caterpillars. We are now entering the greatest risk period as the caterpillars emerge between June and August to feed before turning into adult moths. Oak processionary moth, which is a tree pest, was first identified in London in 2006 and has since spread to some surrounding counties in the South East of England.

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Health Government Policy Investment 246

GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2023

CDP expands disclosure platform to include plastic reporting, setting up the plastic credit market for more legitimacy.

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Plastics 447

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Researchers have developed a new way to estimate the age of microplastics found in the upper oceans. The method involves a combination of analyzing plastic oxidation levels with environmental factors such as UV exposure and ambient temperature. The team – from Kyushu University and Asahi Kasei Corporation – applied their new method to estimate the age of microplastics found in nearshore and offshore sites in the North Pacific Ocean.

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Microplastics Plastics Pollution Waste 246

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.

Energy

GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2023

Heavy-duty vehicle electrification has entered a new era, but challenges still exist in engaging utilities and deploying depot charging.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Part of an SU-102 crystal. The dark areas are one nanometer wide pores, the image was taken using an electron microscope (image credit: Tom Willhammar). Researchers have developed porous crystals made from pomegranate extract to capture and degrade pharmaceutical molecules found in local municipal wastewater. The research is published in the scientific journal Nature Water.

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Pollution Organic Health Technology 243

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity, RECOUP, has released its 2023 Plastics Management and Recycling at Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) in the UK report, finding a significant quantity of plastics going unrecycled. The report found that over 120,000 tonnes of rigid and hard plastics are disposed of at HWRCs in the UK annually, almost 3kg per household, but that little of this is recycled.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Waste 243

GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2023

A summary of each startup featured in Climate Tech Rundown in April.

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Startups 391

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

An initiative, called Designer Liner, which could reduce leaks and burst water pipes across the country has today (16 May) received £3.3m in funding from Ofwat’s Innovation Fund. The project is one of 16 solutions being awarded a share of £40 million in the water regulator’s latest innovation competition – the Water Breakthrough Challenge. This is the second phase of the project, with the first receiving funding from Ofwat last year.

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Innovation Resilience Demand Investment 241

Grist

MAY 16, 2023

The American West has always had forest fires — just not like this. Blazes are spreading further and burning longer, incinerating towns and exposing millions of people to noxious smoke. While a century of fire suppression and other land management choices contribute to the severity, climate change is a key factor fueling these fires, roughly doubling the acreage burned over the last 40 years.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Law Global warming 145

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.

Transportation

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

After completing their final assessments, all seven projects have successfully met the criteria needed to take the £30 million ADEPT Live Labs 2: Decarbonising Local Roads programme forward to deployment and procurement. The final assessments came at the end of a three month fully-funded mobilisation phase where project teams developed their proposals into a specified and costed programme of works.

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Innovation Transportation Construction Technology 130

Charged

MAY 16, 2023

Vitesco Technologies has introduced an upgraded version of its electric axle drive platform for main and auxiliary drives that does not use rare earth elements. Vitesco’s fourth-generation Electronics Motor Reducer (EMR4) will be based on a non-permanent magnet rotor. This rotor powers an externally excited synchronous machine (EESM) without rare earths, which decreases rotor costs and eliminates the carbon footprint of mining and processing ores.

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Technology Electricity Innovation Carbon 136

Renew Economy

MAY 16, 2023

Coalition nuclear culture warriors attack the CSIRO in their latest clown show in front of a Senate inquiry. The post Coalition clown show on nuclear on full display in Senate inquiry appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Government 126

Charged

MAY 16, 2023

The EPA is in the process of developing funding programs for electric trucks and charging infrastructure under the Inflation Reduction Act. 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.

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Electricity Technology Construction Government 128

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.

Sustainability

altenergymag

MAY 16, 2023

• Soltec's new algorithm for bifacial modules seeks the optimal position of solar trackers in a photovoltaic plant considering both front and rear radiation. • The estimated economic gain for a 50 MW plant in Spain is €6,200 per year. • This algorithm is added to others from the company, such as TeamTrack or Diffuse Booster.

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Charged

MAY 16, 2023

Motiv Power Systems , a manufacturer of medium-duty electric trucks and buses, has unveiled a pilot of a fully integrated electric refrigerated truck featuring Carrier Transicold’s Pulsor eCool unit , a new refrigeration solution for electric vehicles. Pulsor eCool technology will be fully integrated with Motiv’s drive system, creating “the ideal solution for last-mile delivery and temperature-controlled electrification.

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Electricity Fossil fuels Cooling Batteries 120

Renew Economy

MAY 16, 2023

IRENA report says lessons learned from scaling up wind and solar to become cheapest options for new electricity generation must be applied to emerging technologies. The post Like solar and wind, batteries and green hydrogen need low-cost finance – and lots of it appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hydrogen Batteries Technology Electricity 104

Charged

MAY 16, 2023

GM’s investment arm GM Ventures is leading a $50-million Series B financing round in Energy Exploration Technologies ( EnergyX ) and will develop the company’s lithium extraction and refinery technology. EnergyX’s direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology can make lithium metal directly from brine, potentially in anode-ready form for EV batteries—enabling cost-effective and sustainable lithium recovery.

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Lithium South America North America Batteries 120

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?

Carbon

Greentown Labs

MAY 16, 2023

Two sneaker enthusiasts met in a Clubhouse chat room. One of them said: “People should learn through shoes.” The rest, as they say, is history. Michael Fletcher and Kristeen Reynolds are bringing their passion for sneaker culture, circularity, and community engagement to the pavement with DrinKicks —a startup turning food waste and recycled materials into shoes with 89 percent lower carbon emissions than their cow-leather counterparts.

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Education Startups Recycled materials Recycling 104

Charged

MAY 16, 2023

The debut edition of VOLTS (Vehicle Interoperability Testing Symposium) recently took place in Long Beach, California. This interoperability testing event, funded by the California Energy Commission and organized by the Charging Interface Initiative (CharIN), brought together 38 e-mobility companies to test their equipment. Some 34 e-mobility experts spoke on a range of interoperability and reliability topics, including Plug and Charge, V2X, cybersecurity, and other features enabled by the ISO 1

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North America Organic Investment Electricity 117

Greentown Labs

MAY 16, 2023

The partnerships-focused accelerator is accepting applications from startups with innovations for carbon utilization, storage, and traceability Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, May 16, 2023 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech incubator in North America, and Shell , a global energy leader, are now accepting applications for Greentown Go Make 2023.

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Startups Incubators Incubators North America 101

Renew Economy

MAY 16, 2023

Federal Labor promises a leg-up – and a home base – to businesses seeking to manufacture clean energy technologies and other climate solutions in Australia. The post Labor announces specialist “growth centre” to nurture Australian made renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Technology Energy Energy Government 101

Planet Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

With advances in artificial intelligence and analytics, we are just beginning to see the full potential of how Planet’s robust datasets can be used to track dark vessels globally and uncover illicit supply chain routes. Overlaying machine learning algorithms on our frequently captured satellite data enables government bodies , coast guards, border security, and intelligence agencies to monitor ports and coastlines, detect and track vessels, and uncover suspicious activity in contested waters.

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Natural gas Government Technology 98

Renew Economy

MAY 16, 2023

Labor's retrograde pandering to the tax-avoiding multinational gas cartel is almost as counterproductive as the "gas-led recovery" brain-fart of the previous government. The post Developing new gas projects is 100 per cent the wrong answer appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Government 101

Impact Alpha

MAY 16, 2023

More than one billion people around the world live in urban areas without formal access to basic infrastructure such as potable water, sewage, The post Reimagining slums: The business case for infrastructure investments in informal settlements appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Investment 98

Renew Economy

MAY 16, 2023

Queensland may be trying to revive a rule change killed by the Supreme Court in 2019, to have electricians install all solar panels in the state. The post Queensland seeks to change rules so only electricians can install solar, fix EVs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Government Electricity 100

altenergymag

MAY 16, 2023

A TotalEnergies solar and battery storage solution to bring 130-year-old Lompoc industrial site into new era of sustainability and smart energy management

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Batteries Sustainability Energy Energy 99

Renew Economy

MAY 16, 2023

Orchid Energy says it is investigating the feasibility of building a multi-gigawatt portfolio of offshore wind farms off the coast of Far North Queensland. The post Brisbane company weighs offshore wind projects off Queensland coast appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Energy Energy 100

altenergymag

MAY 16, 2023

Earlier this month, Alfa Chemistry announced the launch of its lithium-ion battery testing service, in a hope to support the growing demand for alternative energy sources. The service newly released is designed to provide reliable and accurate testing for lithium-ion batteries.

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Lithium Batteries Demand Energy 90

Renew Economy

MAY 16, 2023

Proposed rule change could provide breakthrough for wind, solar and storage projects threatened by huge delays and extra costs over grid connection process. The post Wind, solar and storage developers pray for breakthrough in connection delays appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Government 100

altenergymag

MAY 16, 2023

The world is moving towards a sustainable future, and renewable energy is at the forefront of this transition. With the use of artificial intelligence (AI), renewable energy systems are becoming smarter and more efficient. Technology is playing a vital role in revolutionizing the energy sector. AI has proven successful in learning and analyzing a vast amount of data.

Energy 84

Energy Energy Sustainability Technology 84

Renew Economy

MAY 16, 2023

Snowy Hydro has failed to meet many of the 125 environment conditions placed on its massive pumped hydro project, with audits finding a growing list of problems. The post Snowy 2.0 “failing” on environmental basics, says withering new report appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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altenergymag

MAY 16, 2023

Under the agreement, AES can send damaged or retired solar panels to SOLARCYCLE’s advanced, high-recovery recycling facility in Odessa, Texas to be responsibly recycled and repurposed.

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Recycling Recycling 74