Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus crisis gripping the global economy has forced clean energy analyst BloombergNEF (BNEF) to downgrade its expectations for the solar, battery, and electric vehicle (EV) markets, in one of the first signals that the escalating pandemic could undermine urgent efforts to combat climate change.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Who's news. Stewart also launched and ran research and development at BSR.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis? If not sooner.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

Iberdrola, among the world's largest wind power generators, plans to streamroll its way through the coronavirus crisis, with CEO Ignacio Galán announcing plans this month to increase investment in renewables projects and continue adding jobs as soon as the public health crisis is over.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

The new project will help African families to switch from unsustainable wood-based fuels to zero-emission electric cooking Ugandan social enterprise UpEnergy has announced it has issued the world's first ever carbon credits linked to emissions savings from the use of electric and clean cooking devices which will be verified by The Gold Standard.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Every major tire manufacturer globally is raising its game — not only in terms of performance in the face of bigger, heavier electric cars but also in terms of environmental impact. Location: “Hevea trees are primarily grown in Southeast Asia,” he says, “while guayule is grown in the Southwestern US.” Chief among them?

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Cleaner Electricity Grids Equal Longer Life Expectancy By Nils Frenkel, Sales Director, North America When I was working with the City of San Antonio’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan a few years ago, I learned about a shocking statistic in the city I call home. Peaker Plants Are Located Throughout the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

Today's letter from over 200 top businesses calling on the UK government to deliver a coronavirus recovery plan that accelerates the transition to net zero emissions - in full. Dear Prime Minister, Please accept our support during these unprecedented times.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In the first wave of venture green technology investing, firms sunk billions of dollars into companies whose success depended on replacing entire industrial ecosystems. Think thin-film solar and biofuels, the two “big bad bets” that Shayle Kann, partner at Energy Impact Partners, identified in a 2020 Interchange conversation.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Rapier: What are countries doing to encourage LPG, and how is LPG usage growing? In Asia, it was just over 6%. About half of LPG in the world is domestic, but a big proportion of LPG is industrial or commercial. And on the back of that infrastructure, you can build the domestic market. So, it’s not a barrier.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If a widespread power outage hit Phoenix during a heat wave and lasted for days, it could kill thousands and send half the city to the emergency room, according to a recent study. And more heat will come, bringing parts of Mexico’s coasts and more of South Asia into the danger zone. In arid conditions, sweat evaporates very quickly.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Common constraints include the high costs of building and powering processing facilities, the purchase of expensive chemicals, and the challenge of reliably sourcing materials uncontaminated with food scraps, dyes, or other types of plastic or garbage. “We Everybody around me is like, ‘You can’t do that.’ Do we all need to do more?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald’s, Netflix Elsa Wenzel Wed, 10/07/2020 – 02:01 Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in South Asia in the form of erratic rainfall patterns predicted by climatologists. There are already more than 880 million people living in informal settlements worldwide, with limited access to shelter, electricity, clean water, sanitation and employment.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 20, 2020

Through this challenge, The Incubation Network aims to discover solutions to address the lack of data across Asia's plastics value chains as well as support and enhance the market for plastic waste and recycling innovations with a focus on South and Southeast Asia. Applications are currently open and will close on 13 March, 2020.

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Business Green

JULY 10, 2022

In a northern suburb of Osaka, a brand new community development is aiming to be the first in Japan to derive all its electricity from renewable sources. A centralised IT platform visualises, monitors and optimises the town's energy and water use, ensuring that rain water is captured and reused.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Flanders moves to ban gas boilers, GFANZ launches new Asia-Pacific network, and New Zealand steps up efforts to tackle agricultural emissions. A new league table has highlighted how the global electric vehicle market is continuing to rapidly expand, with China seeing sales of zero emission models top three million units last year.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

All eyes were on the Asia-Pacific region as Planet gathered the Earth observation community from key global industries with leading experts, research innovators, and industry disruptors from all parts of the world in Planet On The Road 2023. These differences can make all the difference in this rapidly changing world.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 21, 2020

Last week, short-term blackouts rolled across an overheated California after the grid operator said there wasn't enough power to meet demand. Then, coal power generation in the United States plunged 30 percent in just the first half of this year. But what about Asia, where 80 percent of coal gets burned now? Learn more.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Decarbonized buildings. We’d like to express our appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and Net Impact for helping to cast a global net for this year’s nominees. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Proponents hailed it as one of the most important environmental projects undertaken by the oil and gas industry in recent U.S. Veolia would design, build, operate and maintain the facility under a 10-year agreement in return for more than $255 million, Antero said in 2015. In April, the District Court reduced the amount of damages.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

Which countries could be the green economic powers of the future? The current havoc being wrought by price wars and the coronavirus crisis on the oil industry could even serve to further hasten a shift of capital away from high carbon industries.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our portfolio companies are working on everything from expanding access to solar power in frontline communities and slashing methane emissions by feeding cows seaweed to deploying portable water quality sensors and mapping equity into street infrastructure. What do we look for in a startup? What do we look for in a startup?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

APRIL Group - or Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd, to give it its full name - is a massive manufacturer of wood pulp and fiber, the basis of myriad everyday products from office printing paper and packaging to tea bags and viscose fabrics.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Decarbonized buildings. We’d like to express our appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and Net Impact for helping to cast a global net for this year’s nominees. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This blog reveals why we are addicted, and provides a possible methadone that is needed to transform the transportation, buildings and industry sector. This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below.

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