Business Green

DECEMBER 28, 2022

With biodiversity loss in freefall, central banks and financial regulators must address the sectors most harmful to both nature and the climate, argues Maud Abdelli. 2022 saw pressure build on UK banks and financial regulators and supervisors to take urgent action to integrate climate and nature into financial decision-making.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Download the full report and data (clients) Highlights 💰 2023 investment: Funding in 2023 totaled $32bn, down 30% from 2022, although CAGR remains high since 2020 at 23%. 🚗 Vertical: Transportation and Energy investment declined, but remained on top.   💸 Round size: Average deal size decreased 28%.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

Netze BW GmbH has announced two actions to bolster power transmission in Germany: a strengthening of the power grid in Kusterdingen and the latest biodiverse summation substation for Hechingen-Weilheim. Power line works in Kusterdingen. According to Netze BW, construction is expected to end on 10 September 2022.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This year saw nearly a two-fold increase in abstracts utilizing Planet data through our various Science Programs over last year, with 130 posters and talks covering a huge array of topics, including: Quantifying the extent and drivers of global forest loss using the combined power of PlanetScope and Sentinel-2 Integrating field- and space-based data (..)

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

UKRI offers funding to four major scientific projects across UK exploring net zero cities, agricultural resilience, and biodiversity loss. Currently, the UK is one of the world's most nature-depleted countries, with 40 per cent of monitored species having declined in abundance in recent decades," he said. "We

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Planet has been providing data to NASA scientists and federal civilian agency funded researchers under this program since 2018 and we look forward to continuing to help power this community’s research of our changing Earth. Total data downloaded via the NASA CSDA Program from March 2020 – September 2022 (km2). “As

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. Soil and biodiversity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

New report from Solar Energy UK finds that over half of people support the development of large-scale solar projects near them. That is according to a new report titled 2022: A Bright Future for Solar , published today by industry association Solar Energy UK and Copper Consultancy.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Here are some of the latest commitments, along with perspective on progress so far: Procure most electricity from renewable sources by 2025 and decrease energy usage by 15 percent. Decrease water usage by 20 percent at high-risk sites and 15 percent overall by 2025 (per metric ton of product made).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Mars said it had reached its goal after a concerted effort to trim the number of mills it works with from 1,500 last year, and it expects to be working with less than 100 in 2021 and under 50 in 2022. Business as usual will not drive the transformational change that's needed," Reid said.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the news this week, $7T for fossil fuel subsidies, the summer brings more tropical storms, and Equinor opens the world’s largest floating wind farm… to power oil drilling. for Northvolt to build energy storage, $100M for direct lithium extraction, and $60M for heat batteries. Thanks for reading!

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2023

It is therefore unsurprising that, at the end of 2022, blue carbon was a major topic in global climate conversations. SkySat image of Sanders Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea showing details on mangroves in the region taken on March 12, 2022. Planet image provided by TNC.

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Carbon Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Meanwhile, building decarbonisation and energy efficiency should already be on the agenda of the 900 corporate occupiers with a net zero science-based climate target. This ensures a 'north star' to the mission and expansion of JLL's Energy & Sustainability Services business, broadening and deepening our expertise.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

International biodiversity talks that are underway in Montreal yielded their first signs of progress yesterday, as diplomats delivered the latest update to the draft negotiating text that observers hope will culminate in an ambitious new Treaty to reverse nature loss globally. — Greenpeace Canada (@GreenpeaceCA) December 8, 2022.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hydropower dam proposals have ballooned across the Balkans over the last two decades, as the leaders of some of Europe's poorest regions have looked to tap their abundant natural resources to secure access clean energy. But the picture is much more complicated.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The criteria states that member companies must set an ambition backed by a "science-informed plan" to achieve net zero emissions no later than 2050, alongside ambitious short and medium term goals to contribute to nature and biodiversity recovery by the same date.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A recent report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services states that approximately one million plant and animal species are under threat of extinction worldwide due to human-induced climate change. Schematic of glacier retreat and the emergence of post-glacial ecosystems. Source: Zimmer et al.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

From clean energy and nature investments to phasing down fossil fuels, We Mean Business Coalition's Maria Mendiluce offers her take on what corporate climate leadership should look like over the coming year. If 2021 was the year for setting climate ambition, 2022 was the year of implementation. It also needs to be fast.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

She called for coordinated action from world governments and international agencies to mitigate pollution while also addressing other threats such as climate change and biodiversity loss. exposure from 10 micrograms per square meter to just 5. Now, the researchers say that number has remained virtually unchanged.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

As energy demands increase for heavier and longer-distance transport, the energy efficiency equation for fossil based-fuels becomes harder to displace. So far, electrification and hydrogen-based options have struggled to achieve sufficient energy densities. These lower-carbon fuels are only as good as their ingredients.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Mars said it had reached its goal after a concerted effort to trim the number of mills it works with from 1,500 last year, and it expects to be working with less than 100 in 2021 and under 50 in 2022. “But Mars’ success today also highlights the limits of individual leadership.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn. Energy & industry. Happy Monday!  of dollars put to work.  

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2021

Ending tropical deforestation is critical if climate, nature and sustainable development goals are to be met, given forests' role as critical carbon stores and rich hubs for biodiversity. Yet despite progress in curbing deforestation rates in some countries, the world still lost more 4.4

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Of course, that’s all assuming it goes ahead, and the UK government haven’t ruled out the possibility of a postponement until Spring 2022. But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Coal is also a social issue for China, since the associated power industry “employs a staggering number of people”.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This transition is one driving force behind the serious and rapid reductions in biodiversity, resulting in impacts on water flows and on the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, and other important elements. meters , with even a partial loss of its ice being enough to change coastlines around the world dramatically. .

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available,” Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer, wrote in 1948, “a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.” Shatner, for his part, noted that his brief but powerful space experience “wasn’t anything like the simulation.”. NASA / Joel Kowsky.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

It explained that these include impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs & LCs), biodiversity, pollution, human rights, labour rights, and gender equality. It said it has taken "particular care" to ensure that IPs and LCs have had a "powerful voice" in shaping the CCPs.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Here are some of the latest commitments, along with perspective on progress so far: Procure most electricity from renewable sources by 2025 and decrease energy usage by 15 percent. Decrease water usage by 20 percent at high-risk sites and 15 percent overall by 2025 (per metric ton of product made).

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. The minimum wage is not enough to meet the basic needs of employees – to cover housing, energy, food, and childcare costs.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

And it sees countries back a "phase down" of unabated coal power, after a dramatic 11th hour intervention from India on the conference floor saw the initial "phase out" phrasing weakened. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall.

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Fossil fuels Business Energy Monitoring Methane Building Energy Monitoring 67

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2023

The “Follow the Food” documentaries, which featured a total of 28 episodes over three series, showcase “solutions” to climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and food security in the farming sector. The documentaries were aired between June 2019 and June 2022, predominantly presented by renowned botanist James Wong.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Technology Energy Monitor 92

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2022, the EU took a significant step towards curbing excessive use of antibiotics by banning farmers from giving the drugs to large groups of healthy animals – seeking to achieve further reductions in the use of antibiotics, which has fallen by 53 percent from 2011 to 2022, according to official data covering 25 European countries.

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Building Energy Monitoring Medicine Health Agriculture 106

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. This was coupled with another statement , that of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which also recognized the importance of limiting warming to below 2ºC. C, while the rise will be between 2-6 meters (roughly 6 to 20 feet) if it is limited to 2°C.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040. and Canadian cities.

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