Smart Energy International

JANUARY 8, 2024

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $70 million in funding to support research into resilience technologies to reduce risks to energy infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber and physical threats, natural disasters and climate-change fueled extreme weather events.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Since the 1970s, one sector of the UK economy which has particularly benefited from government support is finance. Taking climate change seriously offers the UK a way to do just that: diversifying the UK economy and in doing so, shifting the focus from London. Britain's golden goose? I Wei Huang/Shutterstock.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our data, platforms, and services are powerful tools for addressing critical planetary challenges including climate change, sustainable development, human rights, and humanitarian emergencies. He has advised a wide array of governments, NGOs, foundations, startups, and corporations on their sustainability and social impact programs.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The new diagram is intended for use by academics across a range of fields for research and teaching purposes, by government agencies that fund science and landscape management, and in fundamental teaching resources such as textbooks. Critical zones and SDGs: One of the diagrams featured in the paper.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 17, 2022

In this exclusive interview, Daniel Kitwa, Manager – Energy & Climate Change at Intellecap, a Nairobi-based, young Kenyan leader shares his insights into leadership and career change during a pandemic, his opinion on the current energy landscape, and how innovation can play a significant role in funding mechanisms.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

China has cheap access to labor and capital by virtue of its large population and supportive government. Its state capitalist system allows the government to support favored industries by giving land grants to build factories, low- or zero-interest loans for working capital, and subsidies for finished products.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 16, 2023

At its passage, the IRA was heralded as one of the most important pieces of legislation ever passed by any nation in the fight to combat climate change. Progress to Date All told, the IRA earmarks $369 billion to respond to climate change and increase the nation’s energy security. become part of the solution.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 11, 2021

To address the effects of stronger storms, flooding, and extreme heat due to climate change, New York State has adopted bold legislation requiring 70% of the state’s electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030. Mid- to large-scale solar arrays, like the one at the H.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Moving forwards, the report explained that the OWEC Programme's will now explore potential challenges associated with floating wind projects, the impact of coordinated transmission projects, and how to align the government's new Environmental Improvement Plan with its Energy Security Strategy.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 1, 2023

We tend to think of spring’s arrival as something that just “happens,” but the spring awakening in the plant world is governed by the finely tuned relationship between plants, animals, and Earth’s weather and climate. Elevated temperatures are a primary mechanism through which climate change affects crop phenology.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Montreal-based Inerjys said its investments in tidal will equal around 10 percent of a CAD $1 billion fund it is raising from governments, strategic investors, multinational corporations, banks, sovereign wealth funds, angel investors and other wealthy investors. MeyGen is still the world's largest tidal stream array, using four 1.5-megawatt

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

More than nine million hectares of land earmarked for potential palm oil cultivation in Indonesia risks becoming stranded assets if investments and regulations shift towards supporting the global climate goals set out in the Paris Agreement, new research suggests.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Proposals to ban the sale of peat-based compost in the UK from 2024 to help tackle the climate and biodiversity crises have been unveiled today by the government, with Ministers now formally seeking views on mandatory product labelling, enforcement mechanisms, and potential exemptions from the new rules.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 3, 2021

Climate change and water scarcity are front and center in the western U.S. The region’s climate is warming , a severe multi-year drought is underway and groundwater supplies are being overpumped in many locations. As part of a broad climate change initiative, in October 2020 Gov. Brandi McKuin, CC BY-ND.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has suggested a "revolution" in sustainable, climate-friendly transport is already underway in the UK, as he insisted green recovery efforts would be at the heart of the government's plans in the coming months.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 22, 2020

As the impacts of climate change and the loss of nature are felt around the world, organizations of all types are under increasing pressures to act and adapt. In 2018, citing these “sustainability risks,” Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global divested from Halcyon Agri.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

With a vast array of uses for Planet’s data, researchers have explored the full Earth system, publishing pieces ranging from melting arctic ice and natural disasters to revealing insights on walrus colonies or life in medieval times. . Earlier this year, Planet entered into a definitive merger agreement with dMY Technology Group, Inc.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The main subsidy available to the sector has been the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), which was introduced in 2011, but only really started having an impact after some changes were made in 2018, he said. The government said at the time that it would be replaced by a flat rate grant of £4,000 ($5,380), but no details have emerged since.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2024

That was, until, in 2018, when academics, government agencies, nonprofits, and local communities came together to restore them with a novel approach developed over years of testing and refinement. These sea groves are populated primarily by branching, arborescent coral sprouting from the reef star arrays in the coastal shallows.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The move is driven by environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, as well as consumer support, opportunities for value creation, evolving state clean energy mandates, and potential federal legislation. Leading the IT Industry in Combating Climate Change – Cisco Achieves 100% Renewable Energy in U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Wednesday revealed construction has started on a 2.3MW solar array at the Defence School of Transport in Leconfield, Yorkshire, the first of four pilot plants planned as part of an accelerated renewable energy drive across the army estate.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

He said the creation of the new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero was "a pretty clear guide or indication" the government would be moving ahead with plans for a Great British Nuclear (GBN) agency to help identify new sites for nuclear power plants and support their development, adding that an announcement was likely in the coming weeks.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I think it's up to each individual firm and management team to make their own decision and judgements for whether their agency believes a company is going fast enough or acting seriously enough to tackle the climate crisis," he said. Climate Strategy. This is where advertising is a great driver of competition and innovation.".

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JULY 20, 2020

Over the past few weeks, our most urgent duties have changed dramatically. Instead of showing up to work each morning eager to install solar arrays on high school rooftops or at underused fields on small family farms, we’re now staying home to ensure healthcare professionals have the space and resources they need to fight coronavirus.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

That is the hypothesis advanced in a new report published today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The authors predicted the package could enable litigation multiple fronts.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

If we don't fix agricultural supply chains, the world will continue to fail on tackling climate change, alleviating poverty, safeguarding human rights, argue Oxfam's Fatema Z. For real and meaningful change, stepped-up action is required from business, government and civil society. Sumar and Mars' Barry Parkin.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Indian government officials speaking to the newswire said the incentive programme could be officially announced in the country's upcoming 2023/24 budget, due to be unveiled on 1 February. World Bank seeks to re-align its focus to climate change. kg - to produce in India.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Hyperspectral imaging offers a vast array of spectral insights as it divides the spectrum across a multitude of spectral bands, enabling analysts to review phenomena in many differentiated colors that are typically beyond human visual perception.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2020

The UK needs a far more holistic approach to flood risk and resilience, argue Sara Mehryar, Viktor Roezer and Swenja Surminski from LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. New flood protection announcements are welcome but not enough on their own.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From the Canada Team Meet the ‘Extreme’ Atlas Network Groups Fighting Canada’s Oil and Gas Emissions Cap By Geoff Dembicki Within hours of Canada’s federal government announcing key details of its plans to cap greenhouse gas emissions within the oil and gas sector, an array of attacks against it started popping up.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 21, 2022

A new report by Reality Team, a nonprofit digital marketing group, suggests that social media ads can help reach people who aren’t closely watching topics like climate change or vaccine science and are often targeted by disinformation campaigns. Putting up a Fight. ” – Debra Lavoy.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Recent studies from from the world’s top climate modeling groups suggest that high clouds that shade the Earth during the day may burn off as the world warms increasing global warming. These threats are not new, in 2015 it was clear that climate change was real and demanded urgent action. to 12.6 ° F) by the end of the century.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Wednesday revealed construction has started on a 2.3MW solar array at the Defence School of Transport in Leconfield, Yorkshire, the first of four pilot plants planned as part of an accelerated renewable energy drive across the army estate.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

But a later book of his — "The Fifth Risk" — best explains why we were unprepared for the current pandemic and why we need a different approach to deal with threats such as climate change. . Lewis’s thesis is simple, but profound: Dealing with catastrophic risks is the purview of government. In particular, the U.S.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. Convergence of transparency and governance.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

Construction will soon begin on the UK's biggest solar farm , which was approved by the government in May last year. As the government and businesses continue to turn net zero commitments into tangible actions, it's difficult to imagine a scenario where solar doesn't feature heavily in the mix.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2021

The two banks, which are among the world's largest funders of fossil fuels, both cited the need to use their significant influence to tackle climate change. JP Morgan CEO and chairman Jamie Simon said the bank was "committed to doing its part" in delivering a low-carbon economy.

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