GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
One of the biggest environmental impacts is associated with the food for meat-eating pets, a product category that contributed at least 64 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually as of 2017.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
BYD unveiled two new battery-electric heavy-duty trucks, the Gen3 8TT and 6F, at the recent ACT Expo in Long Beach. The Gen 3 8TT is “a versatile vehicle, capable of performing drayage, regional haul, and distribution work,” whereas the 6F “can perform regional haul and distribution work and can also be equipped with a body for refuse collection.”. Both vehicles offer a range of up to 200 miles (for the extended-range versions).
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Ideas 4 Sustainability
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
DEADLINE 20 SEPTEMBER — please help distribute this! We have five PhD and postdoc positions to fill in the ecological and social sciences. The five job ads can be found on our university homepage. I copy and paste key details of the advertisements here. Details on the project can be found here.
Renewable Energy World
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Follow @EngelsAngle. The U.S. connected 6.1 gigawatts of wind power capacity to the grid in the first half of 2021, according to analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The U.S. now has 127 GW of cumulative wind power capacity with a pipeline of 62 GW under development through 2025. Here are the 10 largest wind farm projects completed in the U.S.
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.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Everyday investors, as well as large asset managers and institutions, are flocking to ESG and impact investing. As many as 95% of millennials. The post Seven ways U.S. retail investors can invest and bank sustainably appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Green Living Guy
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
If you have recently noticed some unwanted wildlife or pests inside or around your home, pinpointing how to get rid of them and what to use to do so can feel overwhelming if you have never handled a task like this before on your own. And if you have been implementing habits around your home […]. The post Eco-friendly Ways to Keep Wildlife and Pests Out of Your Home appeared first on Green Living Guy.
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Charged
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Kaluza, an intelligent energy platform, and Flexitricity, an electrical aggregator and demand response specialist, have partnered to provide a new combined grid flexibility service. The companies aim to unlock the energy storage potential of EVs and other in-home devices, providing a valuable balancing resource for the grid which could someday scale to millions of devices.
Grist
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, countries will likely need to set hard limits on the extraction of fossil fuels in addition to supporting the deployment of clean energy. That’s one of the key takeaways of a new study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday by energy and climate modelers from University College London. . The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsi
GatesNotes
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
New breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s diagnostics may someday soon let us substantially alter the course of the disease.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 22 – With less than six weeks until the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, global leaders are stirring to (modest) action. The post China pledges to end (foreign) coal financing appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
With UK energy security making headlines, National Grid has this week announced that its latest 450-mile subsea cable has started commercial operations after six years of development. Clean energy is now being shuttled between the UK and Norway, after the world's longest subsea electricity interconnector was powered up by National Grid and its Norwegian counterpart Statnett earlier today.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Young, companies thrive by embracing sustainability. Here's where to start.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Norwegian chemical firm Yara International has developed an autonomous electric cargo ship, which is scheduled to make its maiden voyage with no crew members aboard later this year. Yara, a major shipper of bulk cargoes, created a subsidiary, Yara Marine Technologies, to address toxic emissions from marine diesel engines. In 2017, it began working on an autonomous, fully electric ship that could eliminate emissions altogether.
Green Living Guy
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
As headlines about extreme weather and climate change continue to dominate the news, many of us are taking a closer look at our family’s daily habits. From the meat-heavy meals we share with our partners to the countless plastic products we buy for our kids, it’s safe to say that we could all stand to […]. The post 8 Ways Your Family Can Be More Eco-Friendly appeared first on Green Living Guy.
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.
Renewable Energy World
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Follow @EngelsAngle. The U.S. added 4.8 gigawatts of utility-scale solar capacity in the first half of 2021, a 15% increase from the first half of 2020 and nearly halfway to the total capacity added in 2020, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The U.S. now has 53.7 GW of total solar capacity (including distributed generation).
Grist
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
At 5 a.m. on December 4, 2017, Jesse Merrick got a text from his roommate. “Hoping your family is OK,” he remembers reading when he woke up. The Thomas Fire had just broken out in Southern California and was quickly growing into a nearly 300,000-acre behemoth. Jesse frantically tried to reach his relatives in Ventura. When he finally got hold of his mom, she was broken.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Majority of risk experts and the general public in the UK view climate change as the number one threat facing society, ahead of future pandemics and economic instability. Climate change has been ranked by UK risk experts and the British public alike as their number one concern for the next five to 10 years, with global warming more frequently cited as the leading threat, even ahead of pandemics, cyberthreats, and geopolitical and economic instability.
CleanTechnica
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
NIO is finally launching its first vehicle, the ES8, and its first NIO House in Europe — specifically, in Oslo Norway. In the beginning of September, we already had a real-life demonstration of the ES8, an opportunity we took to thoroughly inspect and review the vehicle. If you haven’t read those articles or seen our […].
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?
Charged
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Commercial vehicle and powertrain specialist Lightning eMotors (NYSE: ZEV) has partnered with school bus manufacturer Collins Bus, a subsidiary of REV Group, to manufacture electric Type A school buses. Type A buses are the smallest type of school buses manufactured in North America, and are based on a cutaway van chassis. Each of the all-electric Type A school buses will have a gross vehicle weight of 14,500 pounds, and will feature Lightning’s NMC battery packs.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Sadiq Khan uses Zero Emissions Bus Summit to confirm new green bus plans, as a fresh approach to season tickets in the north east aims to help customers blend bus and car travel. All new Transport for London (TfL) buses in London will now be zero-emission, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced ahead today's Zero-emission Bus Summit at City Hall. TfL already operates an expanding fleet of hydrogen fuel cell and electric buses, but it will now move to deploy zero emission buses as standard.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Figures published by RenewableUK reveal UK's floating wind energy pipeline is now the largest in the world. More floating wind projects are planned or operational in the UK than anywhere else in the world, according to data published this week by RenewableUK. In a new analysis released on Wednesday, the trade body confirmed there were 8.8GW of floating wind projects in various stages of development in the UK, a figure that represents more than 16 per cent of the total pipeline of floating wind p
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
In partnership with the Carbon Literacy Project, the university will offer students access to a climate course during their induction. The University of Bath has today announced the launch of a major new carbon literacy training programme, in partnership with the Carbon Literacy Project, that will be available to new and returning students during their induction to the University this month.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Government plans to introduce legislation this year that mandates all new-builds with car parking space feature plug-ins. All homes and office buildings built in England will soon be equipped with electric car charge points, under proposals designed to ramp up the number of chargers across the country ahead of the 2030 phase out of new fossil fuel vehicles.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
Transport Secretary launches London’s International Shipping Week with an appeal to set more ambitious global decarbonisation targets for the industry. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has called for the international shipping industry to adopt a new 'absolute zero' emissions target for 2050, ahead of today's launch of London International Shipping Week.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Engineering firm said first sets of pioneering blades will go to offshore wind projects owned by RWE, EDF and WPD. A number of fully recyclable wind turbine blades are set to be installed at an offshore wind farm off the coast of Germany, in a move that been heralded as a landmark moment in the drive towards a more circular economy for the booming global wind energy industry.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
New Stourton site is the city’s third park and ride service, but is unique for being entirely powered by solar energy and utilising only electric buses. The first solar powered Park and Ride centre opens this week in Stourton, south Leeds, in a move that should reduce commuting times and costs while curbing congestion and pollution in the city centre.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Major group of investors target group of 1,600 'high impact' companies around the world with calls to align business with climate science. Hundreds of leading investors and lenders from around the world collectively holding over $29.3tr trillion in assets have today called on high impact companies to set science-based climate targets ahead of the upcoming COP26 summit in November.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Al Gore-backed Climate TRACE coalition hails 'new era of radical transparency' as it unveils real-time data captured from satellites and other technology. Greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas production and refining in the world's leading economies could be collectively almost twice as high as official estimates, according to fresh data released today based on real-time satellite observations.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Companies around the world call on G20 leaders to ramp up climate commitments in 'most ambitious' call for policy action yet from businesses. Over 600 businesses including Unilever, Netflix, and Volvo Cars have signed an open letter urging world leaders to strengthen short and long term climate targets, end support for fossil fuels, and ramp up climate finance ahead of crunch talks at the G20 and COP26 summits this autumn.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Green energy industry welcomes 'really good' package for Contracts for Difference Round 4 that promises to accelerate roll out of offshore wind, solar, and onshore wind projects. Up to £265m of support will be up for grabs for renewable energy developers in the next Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction round which is set to take place later this year, the government has today confirmed.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
Ahead of COP 26, many of the UK's biggest companies have today warned Boris Johnson he has a 'limited window' to show genuine climate leadership. Over 80 of the UK's leading businesses, including high profile brands such as Tesco, BT, Santander, and Heathrow, have today urged the Prime Minister to move swiftly to deliver a more coherent climate strategy ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Net Zero Festival: Leading figures from IEA, Carbon Tracker and Ceres unite in calls for more ambitious government action to shift away from fossil fuels. Energy and investment experts have warned that only concrete policy action from governments can prevent huge economic disruption should the 'carbon bubble' burst as economies shift away from fossil fuels in the coming years.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Former PM uses Sam Barker Memorial Lecture to call on Tory colleagues sceptical of the case for decarbonisation to recognise the huge economic and environmental opportunities on offer. Theresa May has urged her Conservative colleagues to unite behind the "golden opportunity" offered by the net zero agenda, hitting out at growing pockets of concern within the Party's ranks over the upfront investment required to drive down emissions over the coming decades.
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