DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the report, researchers examined 293 of the world’s biggest corporations on their policy engagement, including direct lobbying and lobbying through industry associations. Not only are many companies choosing to undermine their own climate commitments by lobbying against climate action, their net zero commitments are simply not credible.”

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

A research project at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is preparing to test, what the group calls, “breakthrough” technology capable of generating solar power in space for use on Earth. ” The project’s first test will occur in early 2023, according to a press release.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 18, 2020

Last month, a team from Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Toyota Research Institute published findings from battery testing aimed at cutting electric vehicle charging times down to 10 minutes. It’s an expensive bottleneck in battery research.”

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Six research teams across the UK will develop new tools and approaches which will help trees and woodlands adapt to climate change and enable the UK to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions, it was announced in early August. million Future of UK Treescapes Programme, involving: Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC).

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The papers summarize about two years of work, including research into using new magnets to contain a fusion plasma — one of the critical challenges in trying to harness the power that fuels the sun and the stars. But the most pressing objective now is to prove out the new magnet, Mumgaard said.

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GreenBiz

JULY 16, 2020

A dozen years later, it’s still a massive problem — although data released this week by Morgan Stanley suggest that shifting consumer mindsets about electronics recycling, refurbishment, repair and trade-in programs could be a catalyst for change. It could be exactly the right time to change the model.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Said to be cheap and non-toxic, they are organic materials that release and absorb heat at different pressures as they change volume. emissions,” said Dr Xavier Moya, who co-founded Barocal based on his research in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. ” The £1.3m

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Grist

JULY 20, 2021

According to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , similar slow-moving, low-pressure storms could become 14 times more frequent in Europe over the next century. It’s a wake-up call, Fowler said, to improve emergency warning and management and to make infrastructure more resilient to the effects of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2019

But the most detailed report of its kind to date has turned theories about the effects of climate change upon birds on their head, says a press release from the RSPB. The researchers called for further research into the long-term consequences of climate change on wildlife to be commissioned urgently.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The vast majority of corporate advocacy promoting carbon capture and storage is misaligned with climate science, new research shows. Celsius or well-below 2°C – the targets established by the Paris Agreement. “Oil The IPCC has made it clear that the pathways with the greatest chance of keeping warming below 1.5

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

While the company didn’t publicly identify projects in its press release about the new commitments, those investments will be for both nature-based and "engineered" solutions. "I I suspect it will be a mix of both," Lesser said, adding that BCG will prioritize "change the game" kinds of solutions. 'The

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 11, 2023

Alliander has announced that it will be opening an ‘AI for Energy Grids Lab’ to coordinate research into Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to enable the digitalisation of the country’s grid. million) in the ROBUST programme, aiming to drive research into reliable AI in the Netherlands. The Dutch grid challenge.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

While Gupta did not communicate the names of Skyven’s current customers, citing sensitivity around publicly disclosing information about manufacturers, he discussed recent press coverage around the Copses Dairy Farms in New York state. Skyven won the $1 million grand prize in NYSERDA’s annual 76West Clean Energy Competition in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Climate scientists and researchers in attribution science have determined that this extreme heat event would have been “virtually impossible” without anthropogenic climate change, which is driven primarily by burning fossil fuels. This lawsuit is about accountability and fairness, and I believe the people of Multnomah County deserve both.

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Grist

MAY 24, 2023

New research finds that the global pact achieved another unforeseen benefit: delaying the melting of Arctic sea ice. The researchers concluded that the protocol is postponing the first ice-free Arctic summer by a decade or more, and entirely due to the phasedown of ozone-depleting chemicals.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 15, 2020

This approach could yield far more detailed and up-to-date information than the self-reporting methods commonly available to governments and researchers today. “Like many AI projects, the tool will continuously improve as the team adds more data and works out more sophisticated algorithms,” the press release states.

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2023

By one estimate , they account for as much as one-third of all microplastics released to the ocean. Research has yet to establish just what this means for human and planetary health. From the moment they’re made, synthetic clothes — like all clothes — release tiny shreds of themselves.

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Fairsnape

JUNE 11, 2020

Embodied Carbon—the emissions released from materials during the construction of buildings and infrastructure—will be responsible for half of the carbon footprint of new structures between now and 2050. For more information, read the full press release here. Download the framework from here.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Or, as Microsoft’s chief intellectual property counsel, Jennifer Yokoyama, observed in the announcement press release: "Addressing climate issues in a meaningful way requires people and organizations to have access to data to better understand the impact of their actions.

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Grist

AUGUST 20, 2021

That’s a sharp change from the last comparable study in 2004, when researchers discovered that more than half of articles treated dissenting opinions as equally valid. Some 64 percent of Americans now say that reducing the effects of climate change is “a top priority,” according to Pew Research polling.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is to release research showing solar panels could be landfilled safely amid growing concern over the disposal of renewable energy components. company called Recycle PV Solar to “to quickly ramp up a nationwide management of … discarded solar panels,” a press release said.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

The all-cash transaction is expected to close in early 2021 and will create a “complete electric utility solution from generation to metering,” according to Emerson’s press release. billion market for their software offerings.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A report released from the London Flood Review concluded the capital’s Victorian sewage system can’t handle the extreme weather events. Some water companies have even admitted that their sewage storage facilities may not be compliant and are being investigated for releasing unpermitted sewage into water bodies. Ofwat, 2022).

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Some of the researchers behind that earlier study have now analyzed what accounted for the extraordinary savings. They found that by far the biggest factor was work on research and development, particularly in chemistry and materials science. The research was supported by the Alfred P.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

At the G20 summit in Indonesia earlier this week, the world's 19 biggest economies released a statement that largely reaffirmed the climate commitments agreed in the Glasgow Climate Pact at COP26 a year ago, and the three ministers today argued COP27 should build on these ambitions. warming limit goal.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2022

But the survey was commissioned by Net Zero Watch (NZW) – the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – which last week released a paper calling for renewable energy from wind and solar to be “wound down” completely and for coal-fired power stations to be kept open. Denial Campaign.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Emergency officials ordered 19,400 people to evacuate from the NCAR fire, named for its proximity to the National Center for Atmospheric Research, known for its climate science. I feel exhausted by all of this, and I just feel like enough as far as these fires and disasters,” Boulder County resident Alicia Miller told the Associated Press.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 3, 2021

NY Green Bank – a division of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) – announced this week a $314 million transaction in its first private capital raise to support clean energy project financing.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Danish brewer reveals research prototypes for the ‘Green Fibre Bottle’ – containing beer for the first time. The Danish beer firm unveiled two new research prototypes of its Green Fibre Bottle, which are said to be the first ‘paper bottles’ to contain beer. Two new prototypes.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Suggest campaign and angle ideas for coverage, releases, speaking, awards, bylines, and other tactics for exposure. Press Releases. Convert a release idea into a media hook. Write and edit press releases. Draft pitches for releases, or review those drafted by other team members. Media Relations.

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Charged

APRIL 11, 2022

The Royal Automobile Club Foundation (RAC), a transport research organization and EV advocate, sponsored a study to assess the validity of this trope, which has been showing up in the anti-EV media for some time. This press release has been cited in many an anti-EV rant.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

“All of us want to save the only planet we have but this should not be by means which impoverish poorer people in richer countries and hold poorer countries back,” he said in a GWPF press release today. “We

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 17, 2020

A free report release webinar titled "Vision for NSF Earth Sciences 2020-2030: Earth in Time," will take place on Tuesday, May 19th from 2-3pm EDT. It will explore the contents of the NSF Earth Sciences report which identifies priority research questions as well as the initiatives and partnerships required to answer them.

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Grist

APRIL 18, 2023

The Atacama trench in the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Peru and Chile is one of the deepest places in the world and researchers found that a globally banned toxin exists there –– tens of thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface. In the ocean, as on land, they still pose a threat to living organisms.

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Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

The atmospheric chemist had won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for demonstrating how humanity was destroying the ozone layer, just one of the many ways people had radically altered the planet, from urbanization to releasing greenhouse gases. Crutzen, along with the diatom researcher Eugene F.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 9, 2020

The analyst firm was forced to update green hydrogen figures released in a report last October following an avalanche of new project announcements. Wood Mackenzie’s research shows the extent which corporate interest in green hydrogen is growing. Wood Mackenzie puts the project’s electrolysis capacity at 760 megawatts.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 12, 2023

This new industry builds on historical links between space technology and the development of solar power as a clean energy source, said a press release from the government. “It

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