Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

In September 2023, New Zealand-based battery material developer CarbonScape announced an $18 million investment, signalling the company’s plans to commercialise its biographite production in Europe and the US, enabling cleaner lithium-ion batteries for EVs and grid-scale energy storage. They hired me as an energy analyst. We love it here.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

Our dedication to the environment therefore expanded to forest management in 2003 with the establishment of Natural Water Sanctuaries, aimed to nurture quality groundwater around our production sites in Japan. To do this, a healthy and rich ecosystem is imperative and requires long-term commitment and investment. Biodiversity.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Here are three I still hold a flame for: Industrial Symbiosis: in 2003, I stumbled on some WBCSD projects involving something called Industrial Symbiosis – the idea of one industry’s waste being seen as the raw material for another. But what about the opposite? What about those great ideas which have faded away?

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In 2003, journalist Rick Wartzman was overseeing the business section of the Los Angeles Times. His team produced a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of. The post Walmart workers are ‘Still Broke’: The limits of socially conscious capitalism (Q&A) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 12, 2021

System change investing: High impact, high return Frank Dixon Wed, 05/12/2021 – 01:30 The sustainable/responsible investing (SRI) market is over $30 trillion and growing faster than traditional investments. It uses investing to engage the financial and corporate sectors in the most important sustainability issue.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 14, 2020

Weather-related outages alone cost Americans $18 billion to $33 billion each year between 2003 and 2012, according to the Department of Energy. The calculations show the investments pay back faster for commercial customers, as the economic impacts of shuttering businesses are easier to quantify. And they’re expensive.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

A 2003 study on victims of the coronavirus SARS found that patients in regions with moderate air pollution levels were 84% more likely to die than those in regions with low air pollution. So cleaning up the streets is a basic investment for a healthier future.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In all, the investigation identified five factory-scale poultry companies in as many countries that have received financial support from the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), or both since 2003, and that supply chicken to KFC.

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Charged

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Ever since Tesla’s 2003 founding, industry observers (and even the company’s own execs) have been predicting that the giant global automakers would respond to the new company’s challenge, produce their own compelling EVs, and surpass (or perhaps even acquire) the upstart. Two decades later, that scenario seems more unlikely than ever.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The LowCVP was established in 2003 as a public-private partnership working to accelerate the uptake of lower carbon vehicles and fuels. In 2020, over 10 per cent of all new cars sold were ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs), surpassing the target set out at the LowCVP's inception in 2003.

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Transportation Electric vehicle Europe Electricity 59

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Elsewhere, a Scottish-government-backed body called Wave Energy Scotland has invested £7.7 AW-Energy was founded in 2003, and CorPower has been around since 2009. million ($10 million) to help local developers Mocean Energy and AWS Ocean Energy, both of which are preparing demonstration devices for launch in the coming months.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Judith Clayman joined in 2003 as Axion’s first employee responsible for the project management of a novel recycling project dealing with brominated flame retardants in plastics. However, it is particularly satisfying to see the business growing and we are processing more material each year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In Cameroon, where the conflict is rooted in unequal access to fossil fuel resources , we have witnessed the government respond with increased investment in military and security forces. Evidence and our experience show that women and girls are among those disproportionately impacted by climate change.

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Charged

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Media observers noted that Volkswagen has announced 80 billion euros of investment in its tentative EV efforts, and that Tesla has burned through many billions since its 2003 founding and, despite the phenomenal success of its brand, has yet to achieve consistent profitability. In 2017, Dyson said it had committed some $2.7

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 4, 2021

This month it landed an undisclosed investment from major utility technology provider Accenture to expand to broader markets. If it’s not stabilized, it can force cascading outages, even on power grids with plenty of rotating mass, as during the 2003 blackout that affected about 50 million people across the Northeast U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to an independent study, commissioned by Clim8 Invest, climate change is the number one concern for 61 per cent of UK consumers. However, the European Commission has estimated that achieving the current 2030 climate and energy targets will require €260bn of additional annual investment, equal to about 1.5

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

At some point, life dragged us to Kula in 2003. I started working in Kula Municipality in 2003. In recent years, the textile sector has started to invest in the district and the number of migrations has started to decrease according to 2022 data. How did the geothermal adventure in Kula begin and how did it come to this point?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As far back as 2003, an organization called Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation hatched a plan to produce renewable energy in the Sahara for export to European markets. led renewable energy developer Nur Energie to propose investing in Saharan concentrated solar power (CSP) capacity instead. That hasn’t happened.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

In January 2003, Tropical Cyclone Delfina dropped heavy rains over Malawi and Mozambique, causing devastating flooding. She said the dam breaks documented by the study also underscore the need to invest in our infrastructure. The floods lasted 47 days, killing 23 people and displacing some 400,000.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Backed by a £3m investment in the new strategy, Enginuity has embarked on a hiring spree to prepare itself for its role shaping the modern workforce. Enguinity has existed as SEMTA since 2003, but has acted as a training board for the UK's engineering sector since the 1960s.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Today's report, titled Sweat not oil: Why sports should drop advertising from high carbon polluters , draws parallels between the sports sector's deals with polluters and the "once common and now-disgraced" sponsorship deals that used to be routine between sports clubs and tobacco companies, which were outlawed in the UK in 2003.

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Pollution Carbon Health Automotive 77

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 12, 2021

The fundamental disconnect stems from Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order 2003, created in the same year, that allows independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission coordinators (RTOs) to make new generation developers responsible for the costs of upgrades needed to interconnect their projects to the transmission grid.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

“In an area that has been devastated over the past 12 months by two back-to-back hurricanes, flooding events and a winter freeze, we need responsible and respected companies like Sempra LNG to continue investing in our region,” reads the letter submitted by Sen. Between 2003 to 2017, the company avoided paying $3.1

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

In January 2003, Tropical Cyclone Delfina dropped heavy rains over Malawi and Mozambique, causing devastating flooding. She said the dam breaks documented by the study also underscore the need to invest in our infrastructure. The floods lasted 47 days, killing 23 people and displacing some 400,000.

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Sea level rise Policy Investment Health 67

Better Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2020

One investment theme we’re increasingly excited about is synthetic biology, due to its potential to replace carbon emitting production methods for a number of products reliant on fossil fuels, from food and materials to therapeutics and petrochemicals. We’ve made two recent investments in this space?—?in

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

Elected to the House of Commons in his mid-30s in 1992 after a career as an investment banker, Ainsworth used his first speech to the House of Commons to voice his concerns about the impact the extension of the M25 would have on the countryside landscape, and press the need for better hedgerow protection.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Investments in software and data, as well as building deep relationships with utilities, will be key to helping fleets navigate this daunting ecosystem. The city of Oakland in California has a long history of setting climate and sustainability goals, and in 2003 adopted a green fleet policy. that fit fleets' needs. City of Oakland.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2023

In 2003, a devastating European heat wave killed at least 15,000 seniors in France. ” The roundup also recommends investing in the social infrastructure that is often one of the most important resources in crisis times — check on your neighbors! Especially if you know that they might be particularly vulnerable to heat.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Warning signs were dismissed, as they have been elsewhere: consider the Northeast’s heat-triggered cascading grid outages in 2003, grid failures resulting from hurricanes Katrina (2005), Sandy (2012), and Maria (2017), California’s rolling summer blackouts, and countless related incidents.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 4, 2021

Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address. Since then, billions of dollars have been invested in an attempt to realize this vision. Hydrogen was thrust into the spotlight as a promising clean energy source by President George W. Hydrogen’s appeal is obvious.

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Grist

DECEMBER 3, 2019

People were not as invested in the future as they were in the present. Las Vegas today is serving 40 to 50 percent more people with less water than it was in 2003. Fleck : The short-term incentives were always to pretend that there was more water so everybody can build the stuff they wanted to — dams, canals, cities, and farms.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

In 2000, he joined the Finance Department of EDF Group in Paris where he prepared the 2001-2003 agreement between the French state and EDF group that paved the way to the future IPO and was involved in the preparation of the latter successful IPO of EDF.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Stark reasons that resilience and adaptation are seen by politicians as less-glamorous cousins to exciting net zero missions and clean tech investments, while the long-term planning required falls outside typical election cycles, leading to limited political pressure for the government to act.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

IMIL’s global links will come as little surprise to Lula, who has been squaring off against the think tank since his first stint as president from 2003-2011. #newflame #liberdade #freedomfighters @Freer_UK pic.twitter.com/7E9yg1NJpX — Liz Truss (@trussliz) April 12, 2018. Pedro Allemand, a Ph.D.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 14, 2020

Bush touted the potential for a “hydrogen economy” in his 2003 State of the Union address. Billions of dollars have been invested in the attempt to realize this vision. Since hydrogen produces minimal pollutants when combusted, it is envisioned by many as a core component of a cleaner energy future. President George W.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2021

Our dedication to the environment therefore expanded to forest management in 2003 with the establishment of Natural Water Sanctuaries, aimed to nurture quality groundwater around our production sites in Japan. To do this, a healthy and rich ecosystem is imperative and requires long-term commitment and investment.

Biodiversity 28

Biodiversity Health Soil Sustainability 28

AGreenLiving

AUGUST 14, 2020

Weather-related outages alone cost Americans $18 billion to $33 billion each year between 2003 and 2012, according to the Department of Energy. The calculations show the investments pay back faster for commercial customers, as the economic impacts of shuttering businesses are easier to quantify. And they’re expensive.

Construction 28

Construction Resilience Energy Energy 28