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Octopus Energy’s business strategy: ‘Regulation and investment follow great ideas’

Smart Energy International

In this week’s edition of Smart Energy’s Power Playbook, Yusuf Latief discusses Octopus Energy’s business strategy, as discussed during the IEA’s 9th Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency and evidenced by their recent $9 billion valuation announcement. Regulation and investment follow great ideas.

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Clean cooking: Gold Standard verifies world's first clean cooking carbon credits in Africa

Business Green

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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? Old nuclear, new-clear #161

Climate Tech VC

The US grid got its first new nuclear power in nearly seven years last week. Plant Vogtle began commercial operations from the first of two new reactors, but the over-budget and years-delayed project could be the last hurrah for big nuclear construction in America. Happy Monday! Not a subscriber yet?

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Global cement and concrete makers ramp up 2030 emissions target

Business Green

Trade group GCCA touts vision of a zero carbon global economy 'literally built with green concrete'. GCCA members account for 80 per cent of the global cement industry by volume outside China, while several large Chinese manufacturers have also backed the new targets. by the end of the century.

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2023 in Images

Planet Pulse

And they closely monitored geopolitical tensions that further intensified as new wars broke out and others carried on. Thousands of buildings collapsed in certain hard-hit cities , and thousands of others damaged will likely need to be knocked down. SkySat • Samil Industrial Co. And every new year appears to usurp the last.

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Soy scandals: Green groups raise alarm over deforestation impact of corporates' soy supply chains

Business Green

Two separate reports from WWF and Greenpeace have similarly highlighted how soy remains a major driver of deforestation, especially in South America, despite the growing number of pledges from retailers and agri-businesses to develop sustainable soy supply chains.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

He/Him/His) Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Cumming Corporation Los Angeles, CA, USA Shorenstein Realty Services (‘15). As an Assistant Project Manager, Trevor Anderson supports his Energy and Sustainability team and their clients on a variety of sustainability consulting services. Ian Champ. (He/Him/His)