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Why 5G Standalone is a key ingredient in enabling the UK's net zero transition

Business Green

Crucially, it's 5G-enabled technologies (those that can connect to the network) that could be a powerful ingredient in the UK's net zero strategy - and what's even more significant, is it's available to us now. Harnessing 5G broadly across UK wind farms could generate enough additional clean energy to heat 2.4

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Interview – Singapore, Asia’s newest emerging geothermal market

ThinkGeoEnergy

In September 2023, the Energy Market Authority (EMA) called for proposals for a nationwide non-invasive survey in Singapore , signaling increased interest in geothermal exploration. Indicative use cases for geothermal energy based on temperature and depth The geometrical extent of the potential hot rock remains unknown.

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Visionary water projects celebrated by Lighthouse Awards

Envirotec Magazine

In 2011, water issues reached a critical level in the region. In 2020, AB InBev successfully restored more than 4km; throughout 2021, they have completed restoration of another 10km, which is currently generating more than one million cubic meters per year in the Rimac basin, a critical potable water source for the Lima and Callao regions.

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How to stop runaway deforestation? Look at Indonesia.

Grist

Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. In 2011, the government of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that it would stop handing out forest land for palm oil plantations. Palm oil is a dirty word for many environmentalists.

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Bonn Challenge: Land restoration pledges reach 210 million hectares worldwide

Business Green

Launched by the German government in 2011, the Bonn Challenge centres on a global goal to encourage national and regional governments around the world to together bring 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land into restoration by 2020, rising to 350 million hectares by 2030. We have put the building blocks in place," he said.

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Bayer Joins Greentown Labs’ Corporate Partner Network

Greentown Labs

Greentown Labs has a decade-long track record of supporting climatetech entrepreneurs as they scale technologies, and sees meaningful opportunities to advance agtech innovation around food and soil, digital tools and monitoring, and farmer resilience and equity. Learn more about them here. ###. billion in funding. billion euros.

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Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them

Grist

Lead can get into particulate matter when a fire burns forest trees or other plants that have taken it up after it was released into the air or deposited in the soil, usually as a result of decades-old car emissions or industrial processes. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example. A new lead crisis?

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