Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

Negotiations for a new UN Treaty to protect two thirds of the planet have ended without conclusion at the UN Headquarters in New York, meaning that a further meeting will be required, the High Seas Alliance reported on 18 March. Anything less is a failure.”. “As said Fabienne McLellan, Managing Director at OceanCare.

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Charged

MAY 7, 2024

Q&A with HummingbirdEV CEO Rakesh Koneru. The commercial EV market is hot—a bit too hot for some. Over the past decade, we’ve seen dozens of startups come and go. Many of these built promising vehicles, but starved out while waiting for customers to place volume orders. Customers include vehicle OEMs, upfitters and startups.

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Many things stand in the way of change, but one particular hurdle is fundamental, particularly in the western world: the idea that a company has one goal — to maximize short-term shareholder returns (with the corollary assumption that sustainability is a drag on earnings, which is often wrong, and is always un-nuanced).

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Charged

APRIL 9, 2024

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Move would cost less than $5bn and cut toll of deaths from power outages and lack of supply, Cop28 delegates will hear All healthcare facilities in poorer countries could be electrified using solar energy within five years for less than $5bn, putting an end to the risk of life from power outages, experts will argue at Cop28 this month. “I

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2024

This fact has been proven by the scientific community; the world is faced with a catastrophe. In a landmark hearing at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, legal experts and campaigners argued that businesses, such as the fossil fuel and agriculture industries, have legal duties to stop climate-related human-rights breaches.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2024

The widespread diffusion of these devices throughout the Italgas network of users will give a strong boost to the use of renewable gases, opening a new frontier in Italy and around the world.” Italgas has reported completion of the rollout of the first 20,000 units of its new next generation hydrogen ready gas smart meter. Have you read?

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Grist

MAY 10, 2024

The new report, the first comprehensive assessment of how the world is governing its forests in 14 years, offers some good news — global deforestation rates have slowed down slightly, from 32 million acres a year in 2010 to 25 million in 2020. What is the value of a tree? The result?

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 23, 2024

‘When a commodity becomes strategic we see a trend towards resource nationalism’ says Carole Nakhle The World Energy Council was issued a warning about the impacts of ‘resource nationalism’ on energy security yesterday. Photo: WEC Critical minerals is a theme running through the first couple of days of the World Energy Congress in Rotterdam.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

Even in the face of the “anti-ESG” movement — a very American phenomenon — there are vanishingly few large organizations around the world that really question the need to address environmental and social issues. Need to explain the “why” of climate change action? Here’s a three-part framing to convince businesses and their leaders to respond.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

degrees Fahrenheit) warming target by the end of the decade and surpass the 2 degrees C target by 2050. The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Photo by VCG via Getty Images By 2030, transportation and electricity around the world will be far greener than it is today, according to the latest forecast from the International Energy Agency. Renewables make up half of the world’s electricity mix. Imagine 10 times more electric vehicles on the road.

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Charged

MARCH 22, 2024

At the end of 2023, we had around 54,000 public charge points for electric vehicles at Shell forecourts, on streets and at locations such as supermarkets. Shell obviously thinks so: “We have a major competitive advantage in terms of locations, as our global network of service stations is one of the largest in the world.

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Grist

MAY 7, 2024

They were basically trematode [parasites] that had commandeered snail bodies for their own ends. When Chelsea Wood was a child, she would often collect Periwinkle snails on the shores of Long Island. “I I used to pluck them off the rocks and put them in buckets and keep them as pets and then re-release them,” Wood said. And that blew my mind.”

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Fairsnape

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The Ego Eco phases are somewhat self explanatory, and Seva, taken from Sanskrit ‘serving others without reward’ is used as ‘doing the right thing because we are part of nature, not apart from’ This week I came across a brilliant Medium post from Ed Gillespie “ The End of ‘Saving the World’ ? Or rescued.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 30, 2024

At the end of 2023, the UK government released the long-awaited Future Homes and Buildings Standards consultation, which aims to introduce measures ensuring all new-build housing is ‘net zero ready’ by 2025. As we inch ever closer to 2035 and 2050 net zero targets, there is increasing pressure to decarbonise high-emitting sectors.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Much has already been opined on the outcome of COP28, and while the world’s foremost climate conference is known for spawning tension and frustration, this one seemed especially fraught. It’s not surprising. This is the first COP where we are face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5C And this year’s COP finally looked it in the eye.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

Meanwhile, global LNG export capacity is anticipated to increase by 43% by the end of the decade, just as many of B.C.’s Meanwhile, global LNG export capacity is anticipated to increase by 43% by the end of the decade, just as many of B.C.’s VICTORIA — Expanding LNG in B.C. comes with risks to B.C.’s s intended export markets.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

Acknowledging that the world at the end of 2023 is an increasingly challenging one, Eric Dresselhuys of ESS Inc. The year 2023 was a record-setting year for investment and growth in clean energy, with the International Energy Agency projecting over 500GW of new renewable capacity to come online by year-end globally.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Senior HSBC executives disavow Stuart Kirk's comments last week complaining that throughout his career there had always been 'some nutjob telling me about the end of the world'. According to the FT , Kirk was suspended over the weekend pending an internal investigation, although HSBC has declined to comment.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A solid-state transformer features “an active front end” that can smooth out voltage and power levels, helping renewable generators and EVSE function more efficiently. The scale of what people are contemplating to deploy in the world with EV charging creates the largest market for transformers.”

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Assuming a world in which countries also meet their current goals to zero out net carbon emissions in the coming decades, temperatures will still increase about 2.5 The landmark Paris climate agreement called for nations to keep global temperature increase to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, with an aspiration of limiting it to 1.5

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

” Plug, no stranger to the world of automotive giants, is well-versed in collaborations with industry pioneers like BMW, Daimler, Honda, GM, and Stellantis. ” Plug, no stranger to the world of automotive giants, is well-versed in collaborations with industry pioneers like BMW, Daimler, Honda, GM, and Stellantis.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

Top executive bemoans that there is always 'some nutjob telling me about the end of the world', but the bank insists his views 'do not reflect the views of HSBC Asset Management nor HSBC Group in any way'. Kirk said: "I completely get that at the end of your central bank career there are still many, many years to fill in.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

Researchers from a dozen universities around the world found that, for every 1 percent increase in the amount of plastic a company uses, there is an associated 1 percent increase in its contribution to global plastic litter. The more plastic a company makes, the more pollution it creates. Volunteers across 84 countries collected more than 1.8

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

At a panel discussion held at the 24th World Petroleum Congress, Shaikh Nawaf Saud Al-Sabah, deputy chairman & CEO of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, estimated that more than a billion people will die if all new oil and gas investment is stopped. You’re going to have an extremely rough transition between now and then,” he said.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2024

Even if the world starts to rapidly decarbonise, climate impacts are likely to knock 19 per cent off projected per capita incomes and 17 per cent off GDP by mid-century. That is true, but such a modest reduction in projected incomes is based on the world getting onto a decarbonisation trajectory that keeps temperature increases below 2C.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Last year was one of the worst on record for climate change-related disasters, yet Canada’s federal government spent $18.6 billion supporting the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry. That level of support could have fully funded every major wind and solar project in Canada from 2019 to 2021 12 times over,” said Levin. “It

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Only UN-accredited individuals – world leaders, country representatives, media and NGOs – are permitted in the area. The UAE is a major producer of oil and gas and has the world’s largest oil expansion plans. billion debt of the Barclay brothers, their current owners. billion debt of the Barclay brothers, their current owners.

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Charged

MAY 6, 2024

million cars by year end. Sponsored by Parker Lord. The demand for electric vehicles continues to increase, with EV sales growing faster than any other major category of automobile. According to an article in Forbes, 2023 was the first time more than 1 million EVs were sold in the U.S. in one calendar year, reaching between 1.3 million and 1.4

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Charged

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

A recent study indicates that the real-world emissions of some PHEVs may be much higher than advertised—shades of Dieselgate , aka the Dirty Diesel Debacle , a scheme under which automakers conspired to defraud auto buyers and regulators. Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) don’t get much respect in the EV industry these days.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The world's top diplomat used a speech today at the UN headquarters in New York City to deliver a characteristically stark warning of the impending climate and biodiversity crises facing the world, noting global warming risks "hurtling past" the 1.5C threshold without urgent action this decade. Your core product is our core problem.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

There is no industrialized economy in the world operating that way because they need base load,” the premier said. There are five countries in the world that run on 100 percent wind-water-solar (WWS) alone with zero batteries, zero nuclear, and zero fossil fuels. Many in the audience enthusiastically responded ‘yes.’

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Canada is the world’s second leading source of public funding for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, according to a new report, even though many experts say CCS is a greenwashing cover to pump more oil. It is, therefore, both an energy and money drain on our economy that is unnecessary for most of the energy services we require.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The conference was originally scheduled for the end of October of 2023. Morial Convention Center, a small but dedicated group of environmental activists affiliated with Sunrise Movement New Orleans protested the start of the 20th edition of the Americas Energy Summit & Exhibition. They’re destroying our coastline. It’s not new.”

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Now that the dust has settled, these are some of the biggest decisions made in Dubai that could determine how we power our world in the future. The beginning of the end for fossil fuels? The beginning of the end for fossil fuels? Alas, countries still aren’t facing the root of the problem.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

To date, most studies have tended to base calculations for future economic damages on the national impacts that are expected to result from anticipated increases in average annual temperatures through to the end of the century. The truth is no one knows for sure. But today's report takes a much more granular and empirical approach.

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