Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Rising flooding costs on both sides of the Atlantic, Italian wind energy auctions, and the rest of the green business news from around the world this week. European Environment Agency reveals weather extremes cost continent €500bn over 40 years. Study details how US flooding costs set to rise by more than a quarter by 2050.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

All the green business news from around the world this week. Reports: China to accelerate investment in new gird infrastructure. The Chinese government has provided the first evidence that its recent unveiling of a net zero emissions target will trigger a new wave of low carbon infrastructure deployment.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Blackrock makes a half-a-bill bet on Oxy’s DAC plant, Stratos, in a bid to capitalize on IRA’s shiny new credits and put DAC on the fast track.   In other news, project cancellation woes abound with NuScale canceling its first-of-a-kind SMR project.   Can’t get enough deals?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Tough weather patterns are said to have contributed to the depletion of the essential reefs. This is more than all the living coral off the coast of Australia including the great barrier reef. The good news is that, although coral reefs are vulnerable to climate change, they are still resilient.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Scientists can now link specific extreme weather to human-driven climate change. The direct link between climate change and specific extreme weather events has never been clearer. Warming is likely to reach 1.5C within next 20 years.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Sponsorships are especially effective marketing efforts because they get “under the radar and under the skin” more insidiously than regular advertising, says Andrew Simms, co-founder of the New Weather Institute. There’s an atmosphere of benevolence about it,” says Simms. “If It’s so ubiquitous that it’s almost invisible,” he says.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Some evacuated, while others sheltered in place, tracking news reports on wind patterns and the progress of firefighters battling the blaze known as the Cave Fire. She’s compiled a fact sheet with Leah Stokes, a UCSB political science professor, to help citizens and the news media connect the dots between climate change and wildfires.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world. The report came in the same week as a new study from Cambridge University suggested climate change could add around $100bn, or more than 20 per cent, to the global cost of extreme weather events such as floods, heatwaves and droughts by 2040.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The sad irony of these sponsorship deals has been highlighted today by advertising campaign Badvertising and think tank New Weather Sweden in a new report titled The Snow of Thieves - How High-Carbon Sponsors are Melting Winter Sports that has sparked fresh calls for an end to such contradictory sponsorship deals.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

If there is good news, it is this: The pandemic has shown that when our backs are against the wall, incredible things are possible. Unprecedented wildfires raged across Australia and California, with the Australia fires releasing about three-quarters of the CO2 that the country’s industry emitted in 2018-19.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

(I just posted yesterday and I generally only do a couple of posts per month, but there was some big sustainability news that I wanted everyone to know about). He’s getting very close to that level of connection here by pointing out in concrete terms what happens to insurance and bonds in areas hit by extreme weather.

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PV Tech

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Q4 2023 edition of our downstream solar PV journal, PV Tech Power, is now available to download, leading with a focus on solar PV's resilience against extreme weather.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 18, 2024

Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube Kalgoorlie faces a week without electricity amid heatwave due to WA power outages Continue reading. With businesses shut down, the queue for petrol in Kambalda — 50km from Kalgoorlie — stretched dozens of cars long.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 7, 2023

SA Power Networks, a DSO in the state of South Australia, has forecast a trifecta of weather threats, including catastrophic bushfire risk, thunderstorms and wind gusts up to 100kmh, to electricity supply and grid operations in its operating area.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

A new study yesterday from consultancy GHD titled Aquanomics: The economics of water risk and future resilience details how global water-related risks could impose economic costs totalling $1.3tr in key economies by 2030, rising to $5.6tr by 2050. per cent of GDP. "As per cent and 0.6 per cent of GDP, respectively.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. There was good and bad news from the US energy market this week, as evidence emerged on the scale of the economic impact being faced by the clean energy sector, even as new data highlighted the continued expansion of the renewables industry.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

In recent weeks both the Japanese and South Korean governments have announced new net zero targets, while Vietnam and Bangladesh are reportedly considering emulating the Philippines in calling time on new coal projects. Analysts warn Asian net zero pledges could dent Australian fossil fuel exports.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Skarkou adds that businesses influenced or directly dependent on the natural environment or weather patterns will, of course, be most vulnerable to climate impacts. The good news is pockets of climate resilience and adaptation innovation do exist even if they are far from endemic.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 28, 2022

More news from Greenbird. Extreme weather events seem to be getting more regular. 2021 saw plunging temperatures in Texas, a heat dome in the Pacific Northwest of America, and floods in China, Germany, and Australia. More news from Greenbird. If consumers need more power, additional sources of energy are brought online.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

Several campaigners also point to Truss' role in the recent trade deal with Australia as further eroding the UK's position in the run up to COP26. Industry across the world is shifting and the wave of extreme weather events we are seeing every month ought to make people really scared. That's a failure of leadership.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Australia vows to cut methane emissions, the US ratifies the Kigali Agreement, and all the other green business news from around the world this week. The European Parliament and European Council reached an agreement this week, confirming plans to end the sale of new internal combustion engine cars and vans across the bloc by 2035.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 8, 2024

  …We hope you didn’t miss our tax credit coverage ;) New year, new IRA guidance on hydrogen, domestic manufacturing, and SAFs. In other news, a major $11bn HVDC line between New Mexico and Arizona, new EV battery sourcing rules reduce eligible models, and BYD surpasses Tesla in EV sales. 

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2022

John Doerr delivers record donation to support development of new school, as Europe enjoys a record increase in wind power capacity and a battle wages for control of Australia's leading coal power company. John Doerr donates $1.1bn to support launch of new Stanford University climate school.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 15, 2024

Recent global conflicts, characterised by high and fluctuating oil and gas prices, have exposed the limitations of the current renewable energy market, where weather-dependent green energy sources must coexist with fossil fuels for heating and for stabilisation of the electricity grid. 18 th NZ Geothermal Workshop. Proceedings Dean T.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Produced by Pure Hydrogen (ASX:PH2), the hydrogen fuel cell prime mover truck, “Taurus”, is the first of its kind in Australia and is now available for sale on the commercial market, marking a major milestone for the Australian hydrogen company. Can hydrogen trucks operate in extreme weather conditions?

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

☀️ Okra Solar , a Sydney, Australia-based solar home systems provider for electrifying off-grid households, raised $12M in Series A funding from At One Ventures, Susquehanna Private Equity Investments, King Philanthropies, FMO, and Autodesk Foundation. Share new deals and announcements with us at hello@ctvc.co

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

💨 sensand , a Melbourne, Australia-based carbon credit and MRV platform for farmers, raised $4M in Seed funding from Robert Costa. Share new deals and announcements with us at hello@ctvc.co In the News The EU narrowly passed a nature recovery law. The USDA wants to better quantify carbon emissions of regenerative ag.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

⚡ EVOS Energy , a Brisbane, Australia-based EV fleet management and charging platform, raised $5M in Seed funding from Autostrada. Share new deals and announcements with us at hello@ctvc.co In the News Canada’s wildfires, which have scorched 20 million acres and filled Canadian and U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The decade has been marked by extreme weather including deadly hurricanes and heatwaves. Extreme weather events have dominated headlines in the last decade and this was especially true in 2012 , 2013 and 2015. Then there were the unprecedented bushfires that ravaged Australia at the end of 2019 into 2020.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

⚡ Infravision , a Sydney, Australia-based drone-enabled power line upgrades platform, raised $23M in Series A funding from Energy Impact Partners, Equinor Ventures and Edison International. Share new deals and announcements with us at hello@ctvc.co In the News The U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

☀️ Allume Energy , a Melbourne, Australia-based solar sharing solution for multi-family dwellings, raised $2M from Elemental Excelerator and Schmidt Family Foundation. Share new deals and announcements with us at hello@ctvc.co In the News The U.S. Pop-up What’s the weather?

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

  In other news, China hopes to woo back foreign investment with new ESG requirements, Singapore mandates at least some SAFs in the mix for all flights from 2026, and the UK follows European peers in walking out on a treaty often used by fossil fuel companies to sue against climate reforms. Can’t get enough deals?

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

There’s a number of challenging fronts that we’ve got and obviously, worsening weather tomorrow that will cause a lot of problems with these fires and potentially new ones. A lot of them are not easily contained. Some of those fires have been burning for quite some time.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

More recently, he’s been working on a crisis response tool for wildfires and extreme weather impacts, such as flooding. Transform Program Leader, Fight Food Waste Co-op Research Center; Brisbane, Australia. The project is personal: his childhood home in Santa Rosa, California, burned in the 2020 Glass Fire. Heather Clancy.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 29, 2020

Climate change also exacerbates bizarre weather patterns like the polar vortex bringing frigid air to temperate parts of the world. Extreme weather events like powerful hurricanes, extended drought and prolonged wildfire seasons are also associated with and worsened by climate change. That’s less than 20 years away.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As catastrophic fires spread across the world and large swathes of land are flooded by extreme weather events or threatened by sea-level rise, outright denial is no longer the most effective strategy, or these days, the most common. would cost swing-states households around $75,000 in the first year,” as Fox News described.

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