How organizations are planning for a carbon credit supply crunch
GreenBiz
JULY 7, 2022
Sponsored: Demand for carbon credits is expected to outpace supply, leaving corporate carbon credit buyers at risk of not meeting their climate commitments.
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UK’s biggest CCU plant opens
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 4, 2022
Presented as a key milestone in the UK’s race to meet its net zero targets, a new Carbon Capture and Usage (CCU) plant has been opened in Northwich, Cheshire by Tata Chemicals Europe. Liquid CO2 storage at the new CCU facility. The £20 million plant is set up to capture 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year – the equivalent to taking over 20,000 cars off the roads and reduces TCE’s carbon emissions by more than 10%.
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Challenges and Developments in Wind Energy Market
altenergymag
JULY 8, 2022
The growth of global wind energy market is attributed to the growing installation of wind turbines. Wind energy is used to create power from locomotive energy. Wind energy is converted into power-driven energy by the wind turbine, which is subsequently converted to electrical energy by the generator.
Sustainable Event Planning: Getting Started Guide for Small Businesses
Green Business Bureau
JULY 8, 2022
The importance of sustainable event planning. The time is now for event planners to host eco-friendly events using an effective sustainable event planning strategy. Organizations that hold or manage large events such as conferences, business meetings, concerts, fairs, weddings, or any large get-together need to consider the impact these events have on the planet. “ The typical conference attendee produces more than four pounds of waste and nearly 400 pounds of CO 2 emissions a day. –
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.
How AI can help the finance sector advance toward climate solutions
GreenBiz
JULY 6, 2022
In a keynote conversation at GreenFin 22 last week, Andrew Zolli discusses how artificial intelligence can help the financial sector accelerate progress on climate solutions.
Is biochar suitable as a construction material?
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 4, 2022
Biochar is a porous material made from the pyrolysis of wood and other plant material. Diksha Pandey writes. Biochar performs well on humidity control. It might help avoid interiors becoming too dry, reducing indoor air pollution, attractive in countries like India. Biochar has applications in soil improvement, waste management, geo-engineering and climate mitigation.
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Sustainable Fashion Guide: 8 Tips to Kick-Start Your Sustainable Fashion Brand Company
Green Business Bureau
JULY 4, 2022
Build a resilient fashion brand company using sustainable fashion. Sustainable fashion has come to save the fashion industry. Today, the fashion industry is widely regarded as the second most polluting industry in the world, releasing 1.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. This means fashion accounts for 10% of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally, using more energy than both air travel and shipping combined.
Clean tech drives record-breaking energy investment, IEA report finds
GreenBiz
JULY 4, 2022
A recent report predicts global energy investment will rise eight percent this year, driven by surging investment in clean energy infrastructure.
Solar panel recycling market to be worth billions by 2030, say researchers
Renew Economy
JULY 6, 2022
As solar PV waste grows to tens of millions tonnes a year by 2040, researchers say the recycling market will boom – as will demand for recycled components. The post Solar panel recycling market to be worth billions by 2030, say researchers appeared first on RenewEconomy.
GEOTHERMAL DE-RISKED. GEOTHERMAL SOLVED.
altenergymag
JULY 8, 2022
DTS Technologies' DGS system is 5+ gigaton technology that makes 25MW geothermal wells anywhere with above average geologic heat. DGS eliminates all problems preventing geothermal's becoming the major clean energy source, namely the excessive costs and risks of exploration, drilling, seismicity, and water use.
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.
A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change
Grist
JULY 5, 2022
In early May, a woman in her 90s was hospitalized in Connecticut with a strange assortment of symptoms: confusion, nausea, chest pain, chills, and fever. Two weeks later, on May 17, she died. The culprit was a blacklegged tick, a minuscule arachnid about the size of a sesame seed when fully grown. Blacklegged ticks, commonly known as deer ticks, carry a wide range of illnesses.
How the financial system can — and must — account for climate risk
GreenBiz
JULY 7, 2022
During a keynote conversation at GreenFin 22 last week, Sarah Bloom Raskin discussed how the financial regulatory system can — and must — account for climate risk.
Schaeffler launches new 4-in-1 e-axle
Charged
JULY 8, 2022
Electric drivetrain manufacturer Schaeffler has introduced a new 4-in-1 e-axle. “Such highly integrated complete systems are attractive for both established automobile manufacturers and new players,” says the head of Schaeffler’s E-Mobility business division, Dr. Jochen Schröder. The e-axle’s 4-in-1 layout combines the electric motor, power electronics, transmission and thermal management system into one unit.
Renewables supply nearly half of German power demand in first half 2022
Renew Economy
JULY 5, 2022
New data shows renewable energy supplied roughly half of Germany’s electricity demand for the first half of 2022, boosted by more wind and solar. The post Renewables supply nearly half of German power demand in first half 2022 appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
Siemens and NVIDIA to enable industrial metaverse
Smart Energy International
JULY 4, 2022
Siemens and NVIDIA have announced an expansion of their partnership to enable the industrial metaverse and increase use of AI-driven digital twin technology to hopefully augment industrial automation. As a first step in this collaboration, which has functionalities across sectors, including energy, the companies plan to connect Siemens Xcelerator, the open digital business platform, and NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform for 3D-design and collaboration.
Recognizing 11 servant leaders in sustainability
GreenBiz
JULY 8, 2022
This year’s Women in Sustainability Leadership Awards honorees represent a more diverse range of industries than ever, from consumer products and aviation to climate tech and green buildings.
IEA’s Global EV Outlook 2022 is packed with market info
Charged
JULY 5, 2022
Each year, the International Energy Agency releases a report that assesses the state of the EV market. The latest edition notes that EV sales “powered through 2021 and have remained strong so far in 2022,” but cautions that “ensuring future growth will demand greater efforts to diversify battery manufacturing and critical mineral supplies to reduce the risks of bottlenecks and price rises.”.
We Need Electric School Buses, And We Need More Students Walking and Biking to School
The City Fix
JULY 5, 2022
As our colleagues have covered previously, there are clear health and environmental benefits to adopting electric school buses instead of their diesel counterparts, which account for more than 90% of the U.S. school bus fleet and result in harmful exhaust. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
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?
The Greatest Crisis Facing the Nation May Not Be Climate Change
Energy Central
JULY 7, 2022
American democracy is broken. What good are answers if the system can’t implement them? Senate Minority Leader McConnell and Chief Justice Roberts are telling us something We the People need to consider as we vote in 2022 and 2024 Before climate change or any other issue of the day is adequately dealt with, the political system must be repaired.
Accelerating to Net Zero: The Business Imperative
GreenBiz
JULY 6, 2022
Many companies are making net zero pledges, but few have developed comprehensive implementation plans, and even fewer have made meaningful progress on delivering results.
Volkswagen presents new electric sedan concept in China
Charged
JULY 4, 2022
For better or for worse, new EVs from global automakers increasingly seem to be making their debuts in China. That’s where Volkswagen recently chose to present the ID. AERO electric sedan, which the automaker calls a “close-to-production concept car.”. “The future model will be positioned in the premium mid-size sedan segment,” says VW. The production version for China is expected to go on sale in the second half of 2023, and a European version is expected to go into production at VW’s Emden pla
“We’re not there yet:” Bowen says capacity design needs flexibility and emissions goal
Renew Economy
JULY 5, 2022
Chris Bowen says capacity market not finalised, and needs to allow for flexibility and emissions. And, unlike his predecessor, he promises to visit wind and solar farms. The post “We’re not there yet:” Bowen says capacity design needs flexibility and emissions goal appeared first on RenewEconomy.
UAE smart city deploys smart strategies to become living lab
Smart Energy International
JULY 8, 2022
Saudi Arabian city Alnama is planning to become a smart zero carbon destination through its smart grid strategy and technologies. The end goal is to become a living lab to continuously improve upon its smart capabilities. The project is being led by URB – a smart city developer based in Dubai, which provides master planning, landscape design and architecture services – and aims to leverage a variety of smart technology and strategies to bolster the standard of living experienced by i
Regrow partnership with food giants aims to scale regenerative agriculture
GreenBiz
JULY 6, 2022
Regrow Agriculture has partnered up with some of the biggest food companies in the industry to bring immense monitoring capabilities to sustainable farmers.
Brookhaven researchers describe benefits of electrolyte additive
Charged
JULY 6, 2022
A team led by researchers at DOE ’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has investigated the benefits of a lithium difluorophosphate additive for electrolytes in lithium batteries with nickel-rich layered cathodes. According to Brookhaven, the possibility of high-energy-density cells composed of nickel-rich layered cathodes and lithium metal anodes is limited by processes that reduce their capacity.
Stunning low prices for offshore wind in UK bode well for Australian plans
Renew Economy
JULY 7, 2022
Offshore wind projects dominate the biggest and cheapest renewable energy auction run by the UK government to date. And it is good news for Australia. The post Stunning low prices for offshore wind in UK bode well for Australian plans appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Project BATRAW – raw material recovery from EV batteries
Smart Energy International
JULY 7, 2022
The Horizon Europe funded BATRAW project has been launched to create new raw material processing from used electric vehicle (EV) batteries. The four-year project, which has its roots in reducing Europe’s dependence on mostly imported critical raw materials and establishing supply chains to meet the expected future demand for EV batteries, should lead to improved recycling of batteries and the more sustainable use of materials.
Carney: Real data, not estimates crucial to net-zero followthrough
GreenBiz
JULY 7, 2022
Mark Carney, the United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, said “hard granula data” is critical for delivering on net-zero pledges.
VW’s Elli and Mitnetz Strom launch pilot for smart grid/EV integration
Charged
JULY 6, 2022
Elli, a brand of the Volkswagen Group, and German grid manager Mitnetz Strom have launched a pilot project to test the integration of EVs with a smart electrical grid. The Innovation Impulse for Future-Proof Grid Integration of E-Mobility project is intended to provide insight into what a practical implementation of smart charging could look like. In the first phase, 20 drivers of Volkswagen models ID.31, ID.42 and ID.53 will charge using green electricity from the local region.
Renewables supply nearly one-third of US electricity in April
Renew Economy
JULY 7, 2022
Renewables provided more than a 25% share of US electricity demand in the first four months of 2022, peaking in April and outpacing both coal and nuclear. The post Renewables supply nearly one-third of US electricity in April appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Electric Bus Commitments in Mid-sized Colombian Cities Are Adding to National Momentum
The City Fix
JULY 7, 2022
Cities are increasingly trying to discern what post-pandemic resilience will look like, especially in terms of mobility and public transport. And in Colombia, cities are known for their innovations in public transport systems — like Bogotá’s bus rapid transport and. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
GreenFin 22: GreenBiz Studio feat. Matt Handford (EY)
GreenBiz
JULY 8, 2022
This video is sponsored by EY. Matt Handford discusses financed emissions and the progression of ESG frameworks and standards.
Marposs offers new optical system for measuring stator hairpins
Charged
JULY 5, 2022
Measurement, inspection and test technology company Marposs has announced a new optical inspection system for stator hairpins. The company says, “Traditional contact systems, or use of reference profile masks/jigs, can easily deform the intended shape.” The new system is available in a manual-loaded test bench version for workshops and labs or in a version that can be integrated into an automated production line.
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