Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. Register now for your ticket.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Mingomba could drive further investment in what might eventually become a major copper supplier. Why is this important now? 

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Additional €100bn for renewables, heat pumps, energy efficiency, and biomethane needed as EU faces 'sterner' gas supply test next year, IEA warns. The additional €100bn the IEA said is required to bolster Europe's clean, efficiency energy sources in 2023 amounts to less than a third of that mobilised by EU member states so far this year.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

Agnès Pannier-Runacher, French Minister for the energy transition - who led the negotiations - hailed the agreement on the Fit for 55 package as "a crucial step in attaining our climate objectives". It's been a big week for European climate policy, and the implications are likely to ripple far beyond the EU itself.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Planned legislation covering energy, transport, and a clamp down on environmental protests was unveiled in today's Queen Speech. Energy Security Bill.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The government has announced plans to require trustees to measure and report how their investment portfolios are aligned to the Paris Agreement. The proposals follow industry calls for "methodological flexibility" and the DWP said trustees will be supported with updates to statutory guidance.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. All that is needed is more political urgency, policy clarity, and real world action to mobilise investment, drive clean tech deployment, accelerate the transition.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update for public review and comment. billion funds have been invested into GHG-reducing projects. CARB opts to stay the course on Cap-and-Trade Program. By Joshua T. Bledsoe , Michael Dreibelbis , and Alicia Robinson . To date, $10.5

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JULY 12, 2022

Among the panoply of clean energy-related programs currently being implemented under the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA”), one in particular – for which a solicitation is set to issue soon – will infuse significant capital into the country’s bulk transmission system. In May 2022, the U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. 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.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

In order to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and protect our planet, we will need to creatively redesign and reinvent our underlying energy, agriculture, water, mobility, and economic systems. And as the first state to set a 100% renewable energy goal, our work here can serve as the beacon for other states and countries to follow.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

California regulators have approved a microgrid plan directing $200 million to help communities build networks that can supply power through the state’s extended wildfire-prevention blackouts, a task expected to take years to move from planning to completing its first projects.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The veterinary medicines industry dismisses concerns that it may resist implementation of the new rules, saying it is committed to building on reductions in the use of antibiotics on farms that have already been achieved, while continuing to tackle animal disease. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp.,

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Although the communications industry has mostly sidestepped the kind of scrutiny traditionally reserved for oil and gas companies, the investors’ concerns show calls for climate accountability in the sector are getting louder. million project for an oil and gas lobby called the Canadian Energy Centre.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Although the communications industry has mostly sidestepped the kind of scrutiny traditionally reserved for oil and gas companies, the investors’ concerns show calls for climate accountability in the sector are getting louder. million project for an oil and gas lobby called the Canadian Energy Centre.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

potentially affecting the ultimate fate of millions of abandoned oil industry wells. The wastewater well sits on land that’s owned by ExxonMobil, was drilled by ConocoPhillips, and eventually wound up run by a tiny start-up called Black Elk Energy that specialized in wringing out the last dregs of oil from aging wells.

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Clean Energy Trust

MAY 21, 2020

From mobile phones to computers to electric vehicles, the convenience of on-demand power is driving demand for batteries of all shapes and sizes. Some battery systems for utility-scale energy storage are becoming so large that they need their own buildings for space. Batteries have become ubiquitous in our daily lives.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

Not to mention President Biden also signed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 , putting about $67 billion toward zero-carbon industries and climate research. The #1 thing keeping infrastructure investment dollars on the sidelines is uncertainty. Allume Energy , Transcend ). What We Love: Building Community Capacity.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Photos I shot last year in South Louisiana illustrate the Gulf Coast’s rapidly expanding fossil fuel industry, and the groundswell of frontline community members, environmental advocates, and activists fighting to stop it. While “green” hydrogen fuel can be produced with renewable energy, that process is cost prohibitive for now.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

California regulators and utilities want to build microgrids for communities most at threat from the state’s increasingly deadly wildfires, and the widespread public safety power shutoff (PSPS) grid outages meant to prevent them. Image credit: PG&E).

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing company, is proposing to build a $4.5 billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. Credit: Julie Dermansky Spoonbill in a wildlife management area, next to Lake Maurepas.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Today, there are over 6,000 certified B Corps , in more than 8 countries and over 150 different industries.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The global electric racing championship Formula E has been a huge success by any measure. Automakers like Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Nissan, and Jaguar have embraced the series, which is surely the world’s most prominent showcase for electric vehicle performance. Medeiros told us.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

acquisition is the largest single carbon-management investment since the passage of the IRA and has implications for the carbon capture, utilization, and storage ecosystem. It’s the largest single carbon-management investment since the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), but not quite a true climate tech deal.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

CCUS and clean hydrogen will play a significant role in the Administration’s efforts to address hard-to-decarbonize industries to promote clean US manufacturing. Clean Industrial Sector Fact Sheet. By Janice Schneider , Nikki Buffa , and Kevin Homrighausen. These new initiatives include: Accelerating Clean Hydrogen.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

For a 2050 net-zero future, we’ll need an electricity grid large enough that its untangled cables would be long enough to stretch all the way to the sun. As electricity demand rises to meet population growth and the electrification transition, so does the need to expand and strengthen the grid.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 11, 2021

The program will include a multi-jurisdictional cap-and-invest program and aims to address environmental justice and equity concerns. The draft MOU detailed the cap-and-invest program and outlined model rules that jurisdictions could use to draft their own implementing legislation or regulations. By Jean-Philippe Brisson , Joshua T.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Accelerating the build-out of clean energy will reduce costs and make the UK more secure, write Josh Freed and Isabelle Chan of US think tank Third Way, which released a new policy paper on the topic on 29 September. For example, the UK has the Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Department. Why industrial strategy?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Clerk of the Board | Clean Power Alliance | Los Angeles. Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is Southern California’s locally operated non-profit default electricity provider for 32 communities within Los Angeles and Ventura counties and the 5th largest electricity company in the State of California. Who We Are.

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Grist

MAY 11, 2022

In the rolling hills around San Diego and its suburbs, the rumble of bulldozers and the whine of power saws fill the air as a slew of new homes and apartments rise up. The San Diego County Water Authority has made large investments in “asset management” — the pipes that keep the water flowing. Photography by Ted Wood, courtesy of E360.

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