EDF + Business

JUNE 7, 2023

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s 2023 Agricultural Symposium, “The Changing Geography of Agricultural Production,” explored the factors driving changes in where and how agricultural commodities are produced, disruptions that are leading to further geographical differences, and the role of investments and farm policy in the years ahead.

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CleanTech San Diego

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The program, which offers free business services through a consortium of regional partner organizations to help energy entrepreneurs successfully bring their innovations to market, has since become the flagship initiative of Cleantech San Diego for the past seven years.

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CleanTech San Diego

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The program, which offers free business services through a consortium of regional partner organizations to help energy entrepreneurs successfully bring their innovations to market, has since become the flagship initiative of Cleantech San Diego for the past seven years.

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Front And Centered

MAY 4, 2023

The Washington State Legislature wrapped up the 2023 legislative session in late April. Prior to each session we work with our coalition of community of color organizations across the state to build a legislative agenda that truly represents and is accountable to the needs and solutions offered by frontline communities.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2023

” Christopher Hewitt , director of climate services at the World Meteorological Organization The spotlight No matter where you live in the world, you’ve likely noticed that this summer has been abnormally hot. The vision “We are in uncharted territory.” than any other type of extreme weather. Subscribe right here.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Writing in a blog post , Kate Brandt, chief sustainability officer at Google said the Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change had supported 22 start-ups across North America over the past two years, providing a range of services to promising early stage climate technology providers.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 16, 2023

August 16, 2023, marks the first full year of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and this milestone demands a health check. Just how has the IRA been doing and what’s ahead? At its passage, the IRA was heralded as one of the most important pieces of legislation ever passed by any nation in the fight to combat climate change.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And that is generally correlated with areas that have underserved and disadvantaged communities,” says Benita Hussain, tree equity lead at American Forests , the oldest conservation organization in the U.S. The difference was noticeable, even on the same block. But the benefits of trees are not felt equally.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Climate campaigners reacted with outrage on Thursday to the announcement that the United Arab Emirates’s president has appointed the leader of the country’s national oil company to preside over the 2023 United Nations climate talks, which the UAE will host later this year.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

Research commissioned ahead of London’s Repair Week event (20-26 March 2023) appears to show that the capital’s inhabitants threw away £1.8 billion worth of items last year that could have been repaired. And, says the group, “Repair Week is here to help Londoners join the trend to mend”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Lobbyists from industrial agriculture companies and trade groups have turned out in record numbers at COP28, which this year has a strong focus on tackling emissions from the food sector. This number is up from just 10 in 2022. Meat isn’t the only industry under the spotlight. They are going the opposite way.”

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 28, 2022

The tariff revisions institute an interim Transition Mechanism to organize ISO-New England’s 2022 and 2023 capacity auctions, which will together allow 700 megawatts (MW) of state-sponsored renewable resources to participate without application of the MOPR. The capacity market modifications approved by FERC proceed in two stages.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

When shipping giant Maersk announced last month it would operate a “carbon-neutral” vessel by 2023, the Danish company committed to using a fuel that’s made from renewable sources, is free of soot-forming pollutants — and is currently in scarce supply. The policy is accelerating efforts to test, pilot, and scale up more sustainable fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous, Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding of fossil fuels. So it still issues bonds for oil and gas companies,” she told DeSmog via email.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Eugene City Council approved a process in which they would consider a ban on new gas hookups in the coming months, with the ban tentatively planned to take effect in January 2023. Here we are two years later and we still don’t have an agreement on anything. Negotiations have dragged on since 2019 with little to show for it.

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AutoGrid

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The European Imperative Against a backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty, the imperative for both private and public organizations in Europe is clear: establish a reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy supply chain. Norway leads in electrifying transportation, with 80% of its new car sales in the last year being electric vehicles.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The rideshare company announced Wednesday that it is committing to have 100 percent electric vehicles on its platform by 2030, a move that seeks to get out ahead of new emissions regulations under development in California. "We Lyft is hailing a ride to an all-electric future. New California emissions rules just around the corner.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The phrases laid out below will also be in the back pockets of lobbyists, who doubled in number year on year in 2022 as an analysis by DeSmog revealed , and are expected to show up in force in 2023. The agriculture industry has a lot to be worried about.

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Grist

JUNE 14, 2023

The vision “We’ve tried the quiet way before and there haven’t been any changes in 60 years. The plaintiffs in Montana, organized by a nonprofit law firm called Our Children’s Trust , are joining a growing cadre of citizens suing their governments for their failure to act on climate change.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Every few years since its founding in 1988, the group has published a major assessment on the latest climate science — including how climate change is impacting people and nature and what the world can do to mitigate it. It comes ahead of the annual U.N.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A game-changing integration that’s powering up the energy transition As the energy transition gathers pace, power utilities are undergoing a transition of their own. The industry is rapidly becoming technology and data driven. In this environment, integration plays an ever-more important role. Collecting data is critical.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Two years in the making, there were high hopes this would be a comprehensive plan of action. The original National Food Strategy , led by restaurateur Henry Dimbleby and published in July 2021, recommended we reduce our consumption of meat by 30 percent over ten years, while producing and eating more fruit, vegetables and pulses.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

In a bid to cushion farmers from surging energy and commodity costs, the UK government today announced it is to delay planned restrictions on the use of some fertilisers linked to air pollution, while also setting out plans to encourage organic and sustainable agricultural production in the longer term. The costs of war keep adding up.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

Though LPG is used in a specific type of boiler that is not directly threatened by the directive, suppliers and distributors fear a moratorium on the sale of regular boilers will undercut prospects for developing a new generation of “renewable” gases produced from farm waste, organic matter, hydrogen and other sources.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Europe’s leading farming lobby group Copa-Cogeca has used the war in Ukraine as a pretext to push back behind the scenes against flagship EU laws to protect nature, DeSmog can reveal. The findings come as campaigners warn bold proposals to slash pesticide use are in jeopardy. We need to look at the interests behind that.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Sitting on the ocean floor, these prized clusters can take more than three million years to form. By Marta Montojo and Ian Urbina. Few people have ever heard of the tiny country of Nauru. Even fewer ever think about what happens at the bottom of the world’s oceans. But that may soon change.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Visit the Climate Consciousness Summit 2023 to watch the entire interview. Jojo Mehta co-founded Stop Ecocid e in 2017, alongside legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins , to support the recognition and establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court at the Hague.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

The previous year, the city had rejected a land use permit for a company called Zenith Energy, which receives crude oil shipped by rail from as far away as North Dakota. “I didn’t expect it at all,” Nick Caleb, a staff attorney with Breach Collective, an Oregon-based climate justice organization, told DeSmog.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2022

After a pandemic-induced hiatus, auto shows have returned with a newfound focus on the inevitable electric future of the automotive industry, and this year's Paris Motor Show was no different. When you change your organization to become a circular organisation, you have to break your silos. A new model for automotive circularity.

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Charged

JULY 9, 2023

Barnard finds the latest version (June 2023) of the Hydrogen Strategy to be an improvement over the first draft, but writes that it still seems to be aimed more at supporting the fossil fuel industry than optimizing the use of hydrogen technology to reduce emissions.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Check out these five costume ideas that make Halloween (and our clean energy future) less spooky.    This week, the US and China have set the gameboard for a global Catan-like race to acquire metals resources – facing off in a tug of war that spans key technology and climate tech supply chains.    Thanks for reading!

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

This story was co-published with Fast Company. David Peters’s nightmare began on a Monday in the spring of 2016, just before the end of the work day. Peters was the assistant public works director for the city of Stuart, a community of 18,000 on southeast Florida’s tranquil Treasure Coast. Are you prepared for this?” The rest came very quickly.

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Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

The electric road ahead for heavy trucks is not exactly clear, and there are several roadblocks, some obvious and some far less so. Fleets don’t want to go electric at scale until they’ve done years-long pilots, but the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation will artificially constrict that timeframe. Soon they won’t have a choice.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It’s hard to believe, but the new year is right around the corner. Whether you’re looking for a gift or have set a New Year’s resolution to be more organized, having a weekly planner is a great way to keep a record of important dates and documents. In a single year, Blue Sky manufactures about three million planners.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Ahead of the latest crucial round of talks this week at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), green groups are warning proposals are “an empty shell” that will have a negligible impact on the sector’s emissions. ” “To achieve 1.5 “To achieve 2 degrees we need to decarbonize by mid-century.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Sustainable investing strategies have ascended quickly in the last 10 years. The events of this year have been first and foremost a human tragedy, but they also have served as a catalyst to awakening interest and adoption of these strategies as reasonable approaches to remain resilient during these uncertain times.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all global fossil fuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit. Food is set to be a major focus at this year’s annual climate conference, which is hosted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from November 30.

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