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GRI and SASB are collaborating. Is that good news for companies?

GreenBiz

For years, corporate reporters — those inside companies responsible for creating sustainability reports and reporting environmental, social and governance data to various other organizations — have been frustrated by what many refer to as an alphabet soup of standards and frameworks: CDP, GRI, IIRC, PRI, SASB, TCFD, UNGC and more.

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Examining the Limits of ‘Energy Return on Investment’

GreenTechMedia

At the heart of this debate is one of the most important physical metrics you’ve never heard of: energy return on investment, or EROI. Hall and others, the basic principle behind EROI, also called energy returned on energy invested, is simple: A source of energy is only useful if you can get more energy out of it than what you put in.

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AMD's energy-slashing feat

GreenBiz

Here are some of them: Investments in new semiconductor manufacturing processors (specifically 7 nanometer technology). A large part is the ability to sit down with likeminded organizations," she noted. . Actually getting there took some very specific design changes, outlined in a blog by AMD Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster.

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Is 'net zero' much ado about nothing?

GreenBiz

The "way back when" in this case seems to be around 2014. Companies are being increasingly criticized for investing more into offsets than into actual emissions reductions. It was seen by many as audacious, possibly unachievable, but still a necessary target. Ah, yes: The good old days. Today, "80 by 50" would not pass muster.

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Startup UtilityAPI raises $10M in Series A round

Smart Energy International

UtilityAPI announced the close of Series A funding with a $10 million investment, led by Aligned Climate Capital. Historically, energy efficiency service providers spent dozens of hours compiling and organizing customer usage data in order to propose appropriate technology solutions, the company said in a press release.

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Funding for world-first liquid H2 bunkering facility for ships

Envirotec Magazine

We need to embrace multiple renewable and clean energy solutions to achieve our net-zero ambitions and we need real investment in infrastructure to develop affordable, reliable, sustainable energy in the future.”. The TRIG programme was launched by the Department for Transport in 2014 to foster research and innovation in the sector.

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Using IR to measure TOC

Envirotec Magazine

Instrumenation firm Edinburgh Sensors offers some thoughts on the measurement of Total Organic Carbon (TOC) as a means of assessing water quality, and in particular the relevance of IR-based measurements. Utility companies in England and Wales invested £2.1 There are a variety of approaches for testing water for organic carbon.

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