Sat.Sep 16, 2023 - Fri.Sep 22, 2023

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Engage Suppliers to Reduce Scope 3 Emissions and Beyond

GreenBiz

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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Onshore wind sector deal “will speed up Scotland’s net-zero ambitions”

Envirotec Magazine

Wind turbines at Ardrossan. Planning time for onshore wind farms set to be halved to 12 months A new deal between the onshore wind industry and the Scottish Government has been signed today (21 September) setting out “how both parties will work together to deliver onshore wind farms quickly, sustainably and to the benefit of both local communities and Scotland’s net-zero target.

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NRDC Stands with Striking Autoworkers

NRDC onEarth

NRDC is committed to supporting the UAW, and we pledge to work with the union to ensure no worker is left behind in the transition to the clean car economy.

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The POWER Interview: Making the U.S. Nuclear Industry Great Again

POWER Magazine

There are many reasons to be optimistic about the prospects for nuclear energy. As a carbon-free energy source, it is a great option for power generation in a world trying […] The post The POWER Interview: Making the U.S. Nuclear Industry Great Again appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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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.

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Go Deeper to Understand Sustainability Data for Decision-Making & Reporting

GreenBiz

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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Net zero by 2050? Too late. Australia must aim for 2035

Renew Economy

It’s time to act on decarbonisation as quickly as humanly possible. Here's how. The post Net zero by 2050? Too late. Australia must aim for 2035 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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A Guide to Six Greenwashing Terms Big Ag Is Bringing to COP28

DeSmogBlog

Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. In the wake of blazing heat, rising food insecurity and devastating floods, COP28 leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda for the conference, which will call for governments to work with industry to find new solutions.

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COP28 will be a make-or-break moment for climate finance

GreenBiz

One thing the finance community really needs to stimulate $100 billion in annual commitments: a better definition for what qualifies as climate projects.

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Chart: The remarkable rise of California’s grid battery capacity

Canary Media

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Grid batteries are the latest crop to flourish in the California sunshine: The state’s energy storage capacity has surged tenfold in just the past three years.

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A Climate Week to Advance Urgent Change

NRDC onEarth

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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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.

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A final blow to fossil fuels? Environment embedded in grid rules

Renew Economy

AEMC sets in motion one of the most important reforms to the Australian energy market in decades, factoring emissions reduction into rule making and decision making. The post A final blow to fossil fuels? Environment embedded in grid rules appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Scope 3 success: Identifying and overcoming challenges to meeting ambitious supply chain targets

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Marathon runners often break down the race into short goals — such as focusing on the next mile. Identifying and honing in on specific Scope 3 challenges can be similarly effective in achieving sSope 3 success.

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Director of Climate Science Denial Group Tony Abbott Reappointed as Board of Trade Adviser

DeSmogBlog

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , a director of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has been reappointed by the government as an adviser to the prestigious Board of Trade. Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch has today announced the 13 advisers who will provide counsel to the Board of Trade – one of the government’s most high profile economic advisory bodies.

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‘Missing half the equation’: scientists criticise Australia over approach to fossil fuels

The Guardian: Energy

Prof Lesley Hughes and others say there is ‘cognitive dissonance’ between Labor’s stated commitment to the climate crisis and its policies The Australian government is “missing half the equation” in acting on the climate crisis by backing a shift to renewable energy but having no plan to get out of fossil fuels, according to an author of a new scientific review.

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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.

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Rooftop solar eats up all demand in South Australia, world’s most renewable grid

Renew Economy

Rooftop solar effectively eliminated grid demand in South Australia on Saturday as it accounted for all but a few megawatts of demand in the world's most renewable grid. The post Rooftop solar eats up all demand in South Australia, world’s most renewable grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How global plastic policies could slash virgin plastic production by 30 percent by 2040

GreenBiz

A new report highlights 15 policies that could drive a major decrease in plastic use around the world — but will governments adopt them as part of a new global plastics treaty?

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Why California is Taking Big Oil to Court — and Why it Matters

DeSmogBlog

“This is a historic moment,” Rob Bonta, California’s attorney general, told reporters on Sunday, as he stood alongside Gov. Gavin Newsom on the opening day of Climate Week NYC. The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change.

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MSC Confirms Orders to Fincantieri for Two New Hydrogen-Powered Ships to Join Explora Journeys’ Fleet

FuelCellsWorks

Deal completes total investment in six luxury ships for Explora Journeys worth €3.5 billion The ships will employ the newest technologies the world has to offer including hydrogen powered fuel.

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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?

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“Lies and fantasies:” Bowen puts $387 billion price tag on Dutton’s nuclear plans

Renew Economy

Bowen releases costings of the Coalition's nuclear push, saying that it flies in the face of economics and reason, and climate science. The post “Lies and fantasies:” Bowen puts $387 billion price tag on Dutton’s nuclear plans appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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What US companies need to know about the EU’s CSRD

GreenBiz

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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US Hydrogen Guidance: Be Strict or Be Damned

BloombergNEF

BloombergNEF’s view is that strict guidance is justified to maximize the emissions reductions achieved by using clean hydrogen, although with a transition period to help the industry grow. The post US Hydrogen Guidance: Be Strict or Be Damned appeared first on BloombergNEF.

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Siemens Mobility Completes First Test Runs With Hydrogen Train in Bavaria

FuelCellsWorks

Mireo Plus H hydrogen train reduces CO2 emissions on routes around Augsburg Passenger service starts in mid-2024 Siemens Mobility has completed the first test runs with the Mireo Plus H.

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Enormous Golden Plains wind turbine blades land in Geelong

Renew Economy

The second of 22 shipments has arrived in Geelong with the first delivery of turbine blades for the 1.3GW Golden Plains wind farm. The post Enormous Golden Plains wind turbine blades land in Geelong appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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6 things Starbucks learned from its reusable cup experiments

GreenBiz

Starbucks is testing reusable cup models in more than 25 markets and plans to start a reusable cup program by the end of 2025.

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The US is building power lines faster, but not fast enough

Canary Media

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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FERC, NERC Reveal Disturbing Details from Winter Storm Elliot Inquiry

POWER Magazine

Incremental unplanned generation outages triggered during Winter Storm Elliot spiked to 90.5 GW—significantly more than the 61.8 GW during Winter Storm Uri in 2021—representing 13% of the U.S. portion of […] The post FERC, NERC Reveal Disturbing Details from Winter Storm Elliot Inquiry appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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How South Australia’s biggest gas plant sat idle during summer blackouts

Renew Economy

Federal Court finds Pelican Point gas plant breached energy market rules during controversial South Australia blackouts – at the time pinned on renewables. The post How South Australia’s biggest gas plant sat idle during summer blackouts appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How climate policy advocates are 'getting off the sidelines'

GreenBiz

A new report from InfluenceMap praises 'trailblazer' companies lobbying for bolder climate action, but warns too much of the business community remains 'on the sidelines' in the public climate policy debate.

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Long-duration storage gets big boost with $325M from DOE

Canary Media

On Friday, the Department of Energy announced that it has selected nine proposals for long-duration energy storage test projects to receive a collective $325 million in funding.

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Anti-Net Zero Groups Welcome Sunak’s Green U-Turn – As Civil Servants Left in Disarray

DeSmogBlog

Anti-net zero campaigners and climate science deniers are claiming credit for the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s weakening of UK green policies, as a senior official told DeSmog that civil servants were left “scratching their heads” after being ignored by Sunak this week. After the BBC revealed on Tuesday that Sunak was considering weakening a number of the government’s net zero commitments, the prime minister today gave a speech in Downing Street confirming the report.

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Rooftop solar smashes records, sends coal and demand to new lows as it reshapes the grid

Renew Economy

Updated: Rooftop solar continues to have major impact on the grid, meeting nearly half of all demand and sending black coal output and operational demand to record lows. The post Rooftop solar smashes records, sends coal and demand to new lows as it reshapes the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Why 'net zero' still matters

GreenBiz

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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EEP confirms 25 MW at Aluto Langano geothermal project in Ethiopia

ThinkGeoEnergy

State-owned Ethiopian Electric Power company reports that drilling and testing of 6 of the planned 10 wells to be drilled at the Aluto Langano geothermal project has been concluded. According to the Director of the Board, Mr. Mesay Lekadu, the remaining four holes will be tested until December 2016 [this is 2023, yet 2016 after Ethiopian calendarr our calendar].