Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Innovation was front and center like never before. In a variety of conversations it became clear to me that to some degree, regardless the outcome of COP negotiations, undrilled oil will soon become stranded assets,” Director of Innovation, Mobility & Innovation Gabriel Scheer shared.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The 2020 Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) will take place on October 5, 2020 in Kunming, Yunnan, China. The theme of this event is ecological civilization, which is rooted in the Chinese vision of an ecological civilization and draws inspiration from traditional and new eco-innovations.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The call for speakers encompasses eight of the nine show-floor theatres that focus on offshore wind, marine renewables, future talent, hydrogen and energy storage, community and local energy, innovation, built environment decarbonisation, and heat and transport.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Rosberg took a particular interest in electric and autonomous vehicles, taking regular trips to Silicon Valley, and going on to invest in a number of green start-ups and innovations. Because 15 years' ago, a COP would not have been like that. All the world's leading decision-makers are here. That in itself gives a lot of hope.

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Forbes Green Tech

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A South Dakota sheriff and a highway patrolman have filed suit against the state over Amendment A, approved earlier this month, allowing adults to use marijuana.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Is the COP27 Summit that kicks off in Sharm El Sheikh this weekend the most important COP meeting yet, and therefore one of the most critical gatherings in the entire history of humanity? It is, by the admission of the Egyptian hosts, an "implementation COP". If COPs did not exist you would need to invent them.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Announced today, the new UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI) will see new innovation hubs established in Leeds and London to support companies working to commercialise products that can 'green' global finance, the government said. It's a net zero COP. Doing so will create public goods and unlock innovation.".

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Global Renewable News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The technology developed by UCLA with support from the California Energy Commission (CEC), and if approved, potentially by SoCalGas' Research, Development, and Demonstration Program, is part of o.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The UK government’s Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT) has funded the project, with support from the British Embassy in the UAE. COP 28 – the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference – will be hosted in Dubai this November and December.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Spearheaded by the US and United Arab Emirates (UAE), Aim4C will be showcasing $13 billion-worth of joint projects (or “innovation sprints”) which feature many high-tech “climate-smart” solutions that are favoured by industry, and include some dubious technologies unproven at scale. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

The RHI is essential for innovation in the supply of low carbon industrial heat at the required scale and pace. Green investments on processing sites will decarbonise the supply chain while boosting local economies, creating green jobs and new skills.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

Al Jaber has served as the UAE's Special Envoy for Climate Change since 2010, and has participated at 10 previous UN COP Summits. Rachel Kyte, Dean at Tufts University, Fletcher School and a former advisor to the World Bank, said the UAE's position as one of the world's leading petrostates meant the "incoming COP president has a dilemma".

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2024

Europe’s DSO labour and skills shortages identified Emma Pinchbeck: ‘We need an energy workforce that looks like the population we serve’ “As the world emerges from COP with a clear focus on phasing out fossil fuels, as well as tripling renewables in six years, every company in every sector is fully aware that change is coming fast.”

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Offsetting is a cop-out,” said Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO. “By We will have to question everything, innovate and look to exponential technologies as we design towards zero.”. By pushing ourselves to create a completely climate-neutral car, we are forced to reach beyond what is possible today.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The only way up is clean and efficient energy, transport, industry, and a world-beating financial and services sector that can manage, measure, account for, and innovate new financial tools and products for the new economy. We must double down amid the recession and with living standards going down.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Regardless of how interesting face-to-face meetings with heads of state may be, their speeches still are nothing more than empty words as they follow one another to the podium during the first formal plenary session at COP climate talks. This year is no different from past COP climate summits. What do we need for a successful COP?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With greater scrutiny over emissions from meat and dairy companies, it is not surprising they are stepping up their game to head off any COP outcome that might hinder their operations,” Ben Lilliston, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy told DeSmog. Pesticide company Syngenta’s Foundation came with Ukraine.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

The Swedish EV innovator revealed the goal in its first annual review, at which it also revealed plans to publish the full carbon footprint of its latest Polestar 2 vehicle. Swedish electric car innovator Polestar today announced a "moonshot goal" of creating the "world's first" truly climate neutral car by 2030.

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

Energy Innovation is extremely pleased to announce Mary Anne Hitt and Rekha Rao will join the firm’s Climate Imperative project, which aims to avoid the worst impacts of climate change through focused, effective policy design. plays a leadership role tackling the climate crisis at home. Rekha brings deep knowledge of the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 5, 2020

The industry would directly create 30,000 green jobs and become a leading exporter of innovation, technology and professional expertise. funding for innovation. In the run-up to COP 26 this year, what we now need is a commitment to roll-out the world’s first zero-carbon gas grid.”.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Unfortunately, as the economic effects of COVID-19 cause government debts to rise sharply, there is now much less public money available for activities like climate protection or ecosystem restoration — this should sharpen our appetite for innovation. How then to make the shift to a net-zero, nature-positive economy within the decade?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

led AIM for Climate coalition, which has publicised industry-friendly “climate-smart” innovations at COP27. This list includes some of the world’s most destructive companies, and they should only be included at COP with extreme caution,” she told DeSmog. In Somalia, record drought is expected to force more than 6.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

From the hallways of COP27, the NDC Parnership's Pablo Vieira reflects on the innovative ways developing countries are working with private financiers to cut emissions and adapt to climate change. How to achieve this is the focus of the conversations throughout COP. We must step up our response.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges. Al Jaber as Chairman of Alterra, and also host of COP28, has already stirred controversy due to his role as President of ADNOC and rumored intention to broker fossil fuel deals during COP. Happy Monday!  Execution questions marks.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2021

"But we also need governments to make the necessary policy commitments, which is why we're challenging world leaders and COP negotiators with our open letter. "We It is a key focus for us and is what keeps us excited for future innovations and delivering long lasting change.".

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Decarbonising steel requires innovation in the fields of renewable energy, hydrogen technology, and carbon capture and storage, said the authors. Chris McDonald of the Materials Processing Institute, who co-authored the report. However, the scale of the challenge in decarbonising the industry remains significant.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The net zero innovation and technology centre has also called for the creation of a new carbon monitoring, reporting, verification, and accounting regulator that would work with industries where emissions are hard to measure, such as agriculture.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

pathway, the new fund did highlight renewed international collaboration and prove that the COP process can work to find consensus. No one leaving this year's COP can deny that collaboration is key to finding solutions to tackle the climate crisis. International collaboration. Business engagement.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Tripling the world’s renewable energy production to 11,000 GW by 2030, coupled with doubling energy efficiency, is the most impactful action to rapidly decarbonize this decade, as highlighted in the pre-COP report by the GRA, the COP28 Presidency and IRENA. The strategy focuses on Finance, Policies, Innovation, Training, and Standards.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. What do businesses want to see from the governments that's being discussed at COP? Why we're really at the COP with the businesses we work with is to call for an increase ambition to achieve the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5ºC.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

"We believe there is a real opportunity here for Scotland to be at the forefront of rapidly developing innovation," said Malin Newbuild director Ben Sharples. The project recently secured a £33m grant through the Strength in Places Fund run by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). "It

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Lisa Williams , former chief product officer, becomes head of innovation, design and merchandising. has a new chief sustainability and social impact officer, Ellen Jackowski , who has led there for 12 years as global head of sustainability strategy and innovation. That brings former VP Jenna Johnson up to CEO of Patagonia, Inc.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Making COP26 sound more like COP-OUT26, the report furthermore states that, “Current emissions are incompatible with the Paris Agreement and immediate and deep cuts are absolutely mandatory.”. Not by innovative billionaires like Bill Gates and Elon Musk. No thanks, COP26.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Nearly $370b in tax credits, clean energy incentives, and investments in green innovation are intended to dramatically accelerate domestic decarbonization in sectors from energy to manufacturing. Finally, there was a lot of discussion at ClimateWeek and UNGA about the “other” COP – COP15, which is convening in December in Montreal.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Less than 48 hours after flooding caused commuter chaos across parts of London and the South East, the government is launching a 'pioneering' new fund to deliver investment in flood risk management schemes proposed by 27 innovative nature-positive projects.

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