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Energy saving innovations dominate Scottish Environment Business Awards

Envirotec Magazine

More than half of the winners cited energy saving as key to their plans for success and a third were named winners for their innovation in becoming more efficient. A new Energy Transition Scotland Award was also added to the categories this year. improvement on energy storage, leading to significant carbon savings.

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From bladder-powered energy storage to a green dishwasher called Bob: The best of clean tech at CES 2022

Business Green

On offer were a raft of clean tech innovations, from the latest smart home gizmos through to the world's most powerful e-bikes and e-scooters. Bladder-power underwater energy storage.

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? $32bn and 30% drop as market hits pause in 2023

Climate Tech VC

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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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

This reporting was made possible in part due to a media briefing sponsored by Beyond Plastics, Inclusive Louisiana, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and The Descendants Project, which included local meals in Louisiana. Part of that strategy appears to be redefining its expanding petrochemical and plastics business as a solution to climate change.

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'Things need to change': From company fines to wet wipe bans, can Defra's Plan for Water turn Britain's pollution crisis around?

Business Green

The strategy also confirms government's plan to move ahead with proposals to ban plastic wet wipes, and restrictions on polyfluoroalkyl substances, sometimes known as "forever chemicals", which are commonly found in firefighting foam, textiles, cleaning products, pains and varnishes.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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. Company profile.

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Against the grain

Envirotec Magazine

“It is likely that the majority of microplastics come from the fragmentation of larger pieces of plastic litter in the environment,” says a 2019 report from the Royal Society,1 and the tendency of discarded litter to degrade or fragment is helped along by things like UV radiation, physical erosion and temperature changes.