Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

Circular economy strategies essential as reuse of resources falls to 8.6%. The Circularity Gap Report 2020 finds that the world’s economy is now only 8.6% Circle Economy’s CEO, Harald Friedl, said: “We risk global disaster if we continue to treat the world’s resources as if they are limitless. are reused.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2022

The lithium battery economy, driven largely by the growing electrical vehicle market, presents opportunities for water and wastewater businesses across the value chain, according to a new report from BlueTech Research. Brine pools for lithium mining. Water reduction.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Despite a strong track record on renewables innovation, Australia may be running out of time to become a clean energy export powerhouse — and further funding for homegrown innovation is now in jeopardy. Australia’s ruling Liberal Party has tried to do away with ARENA in the recent past. billion (USD $1.08

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The effort, which will be running in 27 countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia are on the list), is temporary for now, running from Nov. Over the years, IKEA has made a number of bold commitments to address the impacts of its operations on the environment, outside of its recent circular economy efforts.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Unfortunately, the politics of carbon pricing have been highly poisoned in Australia, despite its popularity in a number of countries with conservative governments, including Britain and Germany. Even Australia’s Labor opposition seems to have given up. It was working as designed. It was working as designed. Carbon pricing elsewhere.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

VIDEO: Award-winning social entrepreneur, author, broadcaster and campaigner highlights important work taking place to build a green economy in Australia - even despite the government. As an author, meanwhile, Dee's business guidebooks on sustainability and energy have shifted hundreds of thousands of copies.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2020

President Moon Jae-in announces climate ambition that sees world's 10th largest economy join growing momentum behind net zero. The plan to build a low carbon industrial economy will help to build "new markets and industries" and create jobs, he said.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2023

Shell Energy Australia is partnering up on – and will connect to the grid – a 500MW/1GWh BESS ( Battery Energy Storage System), to be built on the site of the old Wallerawang Power Station near Lithgow, New South Wales (NSW). The greater Lithgow region has contributed to powering NSW for nearly 70 years,” said Greenspot CEO Brett Hawkins.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

s economy and energy system, finds a new report from Clean Energy Canada, An Uncertain Future. s nascent LNG industry has a number of proposed LNG projects, some of which have not yet been built or even approved, but the business and environmental case for expanding the industry is built on questionable foundations.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

The EV Metals Group acquired the battery materials and technology business of Johnson Matthey in 2022. Saudi Arabia has a strategy, called Vision 2030 , to reduce ‘s dependence on oil and diversify its economy. Now subsidiary EV Metals Arabia has advanced its plans to build a battery material processing plant in Saudi Arabia.

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Low Impact

JULY 5, 2020

Today I’m interviewing Laurence Anderson of Tradeswap – a mutual credit network in Australia. But just quickly, businesses go into a directory, you get an account. First – where are you in Australia? It’s also called reciprocal trade or business barter or a trade exchange. How many businesses in your network?

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2023

Hurricane Ian in Florida, record breaking losses from hailstorms in France, floods in Australia and South Africa, winter storms in Europe and the US, and droughts in Europe, China, and the Americas were all cited as major contributors to the increased losses. Global losses triggered by floods last year were also above average.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Green groups and opposition MPs have responded angrily to news the UK government has agreed to drop binding climate targets from the planned UK-Australia trade deal, accusing Ministers of "a massive betrayal of our country and our planet". Australia is one of the world's biggest polluters and key to the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 22, 2021

million loan, the project is not only providing a source of reliable power to the districts’ under-pressure health clinics, but once completed will have connected almost 80,000 local people and small businesses to electricity for the first time," said Nicole Poindexter, CEO and Founder of Energicity Corporation.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2021

Tara McGeehan, President of CGI in the UK and Australia, argues all businesses need to make climate action core to their long term strategy. For decades, businesses have measured their success on profits and growth, often without consideration of whether these were sustainable or the cost to our planet.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Some of the largest consumers of coal failed to sign the agreement, notably Australia, India, China and the US. The pledge included a commitment to discontinue coal power in the 2030s, for major economies, and in the 2040s for poorer nations.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

Industry Voice: UK Export Finance explains how it helped cheese brand Wyke Farms' secure a £30m General Export Facility with Barclays to support its global expansion plans Wyke Farms is the UK's largest independent cheese producer, exporting around 6,000 tonnes of cheddar every year to countries, including Japan, Australia, South Africa and the USA.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

Narendra Modi’s clarion call for becoming ‘AatmaNirbhar’ in energy sector, DISTRIBUTECH India 2022, together with POWERGEN India and Indian Utility Week, India’s leading Energy Business Platforms, will be organised from 12th-14th October 2022 in New Delhi, India. As a large developing economy with over 1.3

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2021

This goal is what all nations committed to in the Paris climate Agreement and is now supported by thousands of influential businesses. It will signal to business that it's time to go all in and transform every part of every industry into thriving, decarbonised operations providing the products and services we need for a net-zero world.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Agreement announced today paves way to tariff-free trade with Australia after 15 years which farmers and green groups warn will undermine UK standards. But Johnson today hailed the deal as a "new dawn in the UK's relationship with Australia, underpinned by our shared history and common values".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

All the green business news from around the world this week. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry issued a statement on Tuesday setting out a new goal to deliver 10GW of capacity by 2030, before then building out 45GW of capacity by 2040. Alliance of leading truckmakers pledge to switch to zero emission models by 2040.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

CeraPhi and Greenvale completed a geothermal study in Longreach, Australia. Element Resources signed a new Memorandum of Understanding to develop hydrogen economy infrastructure in Lancaster, CA. Stepwise won the 43North prize and received an investment of $1M from 43N and Empire State Development to build its business in Buffalo, NY.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 18, 2021

The UK government has today (Tuesday 17 August) unveiled its long-awaited strategy for developing a hydrogen energy economy. The government has launched a public consultation on a preferred hydrogen business model which is built on a similar premise to the offshore wind CfDs.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Australia looks set to ditch its climate-laggard global status after voters strongly backed more ambitious green policies – but can the change in government help reignite global climate action, as geopolitical challenges escalate?

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

From storing, processing and analyzing the data needed to power any online service, data centres are the backbone of the growing digital economy, but have been notorious to be energy-guzzling facilities. Lessons from the region: How Australia distributed their grid. Why data centres and sustainability have often been at odds.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

The research was published yesterday by the WEF across two new reports titled Markets of Tomorrow Report 2023: Turning Technologies into New Sources of Global Growth and Jobs of Tomorrow: Social and Green Jobs for Building Inclusive and Sustainable Economies , which are set to be debated at the group's Davos Summit next week.

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Low Impact

JANUARY 24, 2021

I have a contract to produce a book about growing a new economy ‘in the cracks in capitalism’, with mutual credit at the core. Chelsea Green : publishers; employee-owned company, and therefore part of the new economy described in the book. New economy : introduction to the kind of new economy outlined in the book.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Have you read: Transmission line issues volatilise Australia’s power market Future energy grid laboratory launched in Australia Under the final rule, the Market Price Cap, representing the price ceiling in the wholesale electricity market, will increase from the current AUD$16,600/MWh ($10,889/MWh) to AUD$22,800/MWh ($14,957/MWh) by July 1, 2027.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The new company brings together Siemens' gas turbines and power transmission units as well as Siemens Gamesa, which was formed when Siemens merged its wind turbine business with Spanish rival Gamesa in 2017. ” The service order backlog for Siemens' legacy gas and power business stands at a whopping €35 billion.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The report, produced by the Expert Group of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy – a group of 14 heads of state and government – provides the first ever comprehensive, quantitative analysis into the role that ocean-based solutions can play in the fight against climate change. “Our gigatonnes of CO2e annually by 2050.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

After a hugely dramatic year, the green economy faces a uniquely challenging few months as the opponents of climate action prepare to ramp up their opposition to the net zero transition. It is hard to believe that the close of the COP26 Climate Summit, with all its high stakes drama and carefully caveated optimism, was just a month ago.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2021

Reports suggest UK poised to offer Australia timeline towards tariff and quota-free trade, despite concerns over impact on British food, farming, and environmental standards.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The summit’s official “blue zone” includes large corporate-style pavilions run by some of the world’s leading producers of oil, gas, and coal, including the United States, Australia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Germany, and Qatar. South Africa, Australia, UK, and Germany. Greenwashing’. Partial Exceptions.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

Military alliance announces target to cut emissions 45 per cent by 2030, Australia explores carbon pricing plans, and all the big green stories from around the world this week. Australia confirms plan to introduce new emissions trading scheme. There is a fervent debate about the merits and methods of sustainable business.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In the early months of COVID-19, for example, electricity demand dropped , as many businesses closed and factories either halted or drastically scaled back their operations. the United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany and Australia. Economic and decarbonization benefits of targeted stimulus. ” For the U.S.,

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2022

British climate tech companies could be linked up with businesses in Australia and New Zealand working on green solutions through a new 'matchmaking' and advice project launched by the UK's Department for International (DIT) yesterday. There are huge opportunities for businesses to lead the change and support growth.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The main problem is that the solutions generated will assume that no fundamental changes to the economy are required. Attempting to maintain business as usual (which is the only type of solution that will be debated at COP 26) will only make things worse. We can’t solve a problem within the system that caused it. Your fridge?

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