Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees a new study from BDEW and CapGemini detail how sustainable transformation and decarbonisation purchasing are more important than ever for Austrian and German utility Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals. ESG for utilities: decarbonisation on the up. Microgrid debt financing.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

More and more water resources are being polluted, overexploited, and dried up by humans, sometimes with irreversible consequences. Only 3% of farmland is equipped for irrigation, and only 5% of that area uses groundwater, compared to 59% and 57% respectively in North America and South Asia. Strengthen environmental regulations.

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Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 6, 2017

Air pollution is becoming a global threat as 90% of urban populations breaths polluted air. In December 2016, the Chinese government reported the highest air pollution and the red alert was implemented in 23 cities in northern China. Examples of those harmful pollutants are nitrous oxides, ozone and particulate matter.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2021

While floating solar on inland water bodies is currently experiencing something of a boom worldwide, the obvious challenges of building and operating PV systems at sea mean that offshore solar has so far remained an experimental rather than commercially practicable prospect. But that could be set to change.

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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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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Below he discusses the issue of water pollution in the fashion industry. The fashion industry is reliant on water. Startlingly, the fashion industry is now the second largest generator of pollution on Earth after the oil industry, which is driven by the snowballing effect of ‘fast fashion’.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

A contaminant whose importance appears to have grown significantly in recent years, poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) present a challenge to pollution management given their apparent toxicity – although a clear picture is still emerging – and persistence. As regulations tighten, the topic seems to be growing more urgent.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Greenpeace investigation reveals textile waste from global brands such as Nike and Ralph Lauren is ended up being burned at sites in Asia. In addition, burning garments in kilns causes local air pollution and exacerbates the carbon footprint of clothes destined for Europe and the US. This is rank hypocrisy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Another airport investor, Spanish transport giant Ferrovial, owns a 25 percent stake in Heathrow, already the second most polluting airport in the world , despite having had its business plans approved by the Science Based Targets initiative, another UN-backed scheme. carbon budget if left unchecked.

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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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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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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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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In Part I of my interview with James Rockall, the CEO of the World LPG Association , we discussed the major global problems associated with indoor air pollution caused predominantly by cooking. Rapier: What are countries doing to encourage LPG, and how is LPG usage growing? In Asia, it was just over 6%. Rapier: Last question.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But as promising as chemical recycling and next-generation plastics may sound, experts also say some of the most realistic solutions to plastic pollution involve eliminating it from packaging as much as possible. Aspergillus oryzae is found in Asia a lot of the time in food management because it is used for fermenting rice,” Armstrong says.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

While bioenergy remains the world’s largest source of renewable energy, there is still at this point a sense that there might not be enough to go around, to meet the demands of aviation. Between 2006 and 2021, these kinds of usage fell precipitously as more and more of this material went into making biodiesel (mostly for vehicle transport).

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

Companies planning to build new coal-fired power plants will no longer be able to get financing from BNP Paribas, following the banking giant's introduction of a string of new policies aimed at eliminating its exposure to coal-fired electricity projects.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

The G7 nations may be facing mounting calls this weekend to accelerate their decarbonisation efforts, but a new analysis reveals this week that new climate policies could serve to build upon an encouraging track record of emissoin reduction in recent years. IEA warns surge in developing nations' renewables deployment urgently needed.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

African green hydrogen plans, new coal-to-clean energy deals, and worsening climate impacts. And it pledged to halve the amount of single-use plastic in catering, in response to high expectations, particularly from athletes and consumers, to reduce plastic pollution. Michael Bloomberg announces $242m clean energy investment push.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Gulf Coast typically receives much of the attention for the LNG rush , the Pacific Coast of Canada is home to multiple proposed LNG export projects, as energy companies scramble to export fracked gas from northeast British Columbia. By investing in LNG now, we are going to be locking in climate pollution for 25 to 40 years.”.

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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. Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole. The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. GreenBiz Editors. Mon, 05/17/2021 - 00:01.

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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. The same logic stands for individual businesses, Teytelboym argues.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

The power lines had been replaced four times in the past two decades. “It Allaire spent more than three decades as an environmental engineer in the oil industry, working for Amoco and then BP, after the two companies merged in the late 1990s. Department of Energy (DOE) revises its review process. “I had a house right over here.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Decarbonized buildings. Zack Angelini, 29 Senior Environmental Stewardship Manager, Timberland; Malden, Massachusetts LinkedIn Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. Planet-healing fast food. Circular outdoor gear.

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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 will that 100th company be? What do we look for in a startup?

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The botnet Akamai analyzed makes use of the computing assets and electrical energy supply of contaminated machines to mine the Monero cryptocurrency. The system is secure as long as sincere nodes collectively control more CPU energy than any cooperating group of attacker nodes.

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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. But such rapid industrial and economic growth has come at a price.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Analysts saw demand for LNG in Asia rising in both a steady and unrelenting fashion, expanding for years or even decades into the future. The industry gave the greenlight to 71 billion tonnes per annum (mtpa) of new LNG capacity in 2019, an all-time record. Credit: BC Gov Photos. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Credit: The White House.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

"Let me remind you that between last year and the end of this year China will bring 80 models of electric cars to the international market," EU vice president Frans Timmermans told MEPs. We don't want to give up this essential industry to outsiders." The country's National Energy Administration said renewables accounted for 47.3

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