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Tory members back stronger green energy policies, as Sunak cools on heat pumps

Business Green

"This could jeopardise new heat pump investments by energy companies like Octopus, badly damaging investor confidence and setting back private sector efforts to make this critical technology cheaper," he wrote in a blogpost today.

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How the Climate Conversation Changed in 2021

Planet Pulse

None of this will be possible without digital technologies, new platforms and new applications in areas like internet connectivity and advanced broadband, remote sensing (including everything from the Internet of Things to satellites); data science and artificial intelligence, cloud computing and enterprise software.

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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts

Grist

As climate change increasingly leaves no city untouched, museums are confronting the reality that rising temperatures and volatile weather threaten their conservation efforts — and they’re turning to new technologies, and, in some cases, challenging conventional conservation wisdom, to stay ahead and minimize their impact.

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AI can significantly improve grid management reports DOE

Smart Energy International

Processing aerial images for remote job-site inspections Informing adoption of grid-enhancing technologies and accelerating interconnection queues to get projects connected to the grid Enabling modelling for distributed energy resource adoption to anticipate distribution system upgrades and implications for load and load shape.

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Report: It’s time for the U.S. to research solar geoengineering

Grist

To avoid the most disastrous sea-level rise, storms, heat waves, and drought, the best available science says that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in the next decade or so and brought to net-zero by the middle of the century. Two possible interventions that could cool the planet involve altering clouds.

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New BU academic tower will be 100% free from fossil fuels

AGreenLiving

The tower, which will be the tallest building on campus , will feature a suite of energy-saving and energy-generating technologies, including geothermal wells, state-of-the-art shading systems and triple-glazed windows. The tower will also be built 5 feet above the city for Boston’s suggested level for sea level rise.

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Greener buildings: How to make offices, warehouses, factories, and shops more climate resilient

Business Green

There are broadly five areas where climate impacts are hurting the UK's built environment, according to Limbert: overheating, flash flooding, water scarcity, storm damage, and the widespread infrastructure changes required to introduce space cooling in buildings. We have to learn new behaviours and new aesthetics."