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Today’s EV engineering virtual conference schedule: Monday, April 19

Charged

Charged is hosting a virtual conference on EV engineering that’s free to attend and it starts today. The conference includes live webinar sessions with interactive Q&As and on-demand webinars. View the daily session schedule online here. All of the live sessions will be recorded and available to view after the broadcasts. You can access the recorded videos on each session’s registration page.

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How to make a breakthrough in your solar career through NABCEP

Solar Power World

By Morgan Altizer, Aurora Solar Getting NABCEP certified is a great way to grow your career in the solar industry. Whether you are new to solar or an established pro looking to improve your professional reputation, NABCEP offers accreditations to help you gain knowledge and skills. Many people think getting a professional solar certification takes… The post How to make a breakthrough in your solar career through NABCEP appeared first on Solar Power World.

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The Greenwashing Files: Fossil Fuel Giants Accused of ‘Deceptive’ Advertising

DeSmogBlog

Fossil fuel companies could face legal challenges over their misleading advertising, after a DeSmog investigation uncovered the extent of their “greenwashing” Environmental lawyers ClientEarth have put companies on notice with the publication of the Greenwashing Files. The analyses, which use DeSmog’s research, show how adverts of major fossil fuel companies and energy producers continue to over-emphasise their green credentials, giving the public a misleading impression of the

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Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics

Low Impact

I’d like to introduce Will Ruddick, who set up the Grassroots Economics Foundation in Kenya around ten years ago, that runs a very successful mutual credit network (called the Sarafu Network) there. Hello Will. Really nice to talk with you. Hi Dave. I think you have something like 40,000 trading members, with $2.5 million worth of trade last year. Is that right?

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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WePower- Innovation combining renewable energy and the world of crypto

Renewables-Info

Most of you know about the bitcoin and the basics of the crypto story. But you may still wonder what crypto and renewable energy have in common. Well the answer is plenty if you take a closer look at the innovative approach offered by WePower. This is platform connecting energy suppliers, corporate buyers and energy producers for easy, direct green energy transactions.

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Investors managing $11tr of assets urge banks to curtail fossil fuel financing

Business Green

Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change calls on banks to back their net zero pledges with moves to halt support for fossil fuels and activities that drive deforestation. A coalition of major investors managing a combined $11tr of assets worldwide is calling on the banks to boost their 2050 climate goals by curtailing financing of activities that contribute deforestation, land-use change and fossil fuel expansion.

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A beginner's guide to corporate CO2 reporting

Business Green

Businesses need a robust emissions reporting system in order to draw up effective strategies to decarbonise, writes WWF UK's Seán Mallon. With the COP26 summit closing in, forward thinking companies are hard at work on their climate strategies, looking to set themselves apart in a year of climate action. Meanwhile, there are also calls from NGOs and environmental organisations for more ambition from businesses to deliver, and a hunger for practical guidance on how to achieve these goals.

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South Korea faces public scrutiny for financing coal plants in Indonesia

Eco-Business

South Korea is financing the expansion of the Suralaya facility to be built by Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction. Activists view it as an attempt to prop up the ailing firm and boost ties with Southeast Asia amid tensions with China.

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Zoom in on net zero - with HSBC's Farnam Bidgoli

Business Green

VIDEO: Head of ESG solutions at the banking giant talks to BusinessGreen's James Murray about the evolving net zero trend in the financial sector. Farnam Bidgoli is head of ESG solutions at HSBC, and one of that rare breed who has spent her entire financial career involved in sustainability and environmental issues, rather than transferring over from more conventional reaches of the industry.

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Indigenous people in Bangladesh oppose resort on ancestral land

Eco-Business

As a five-star hotel and amusement park are built in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, locals are fearful of losing water sources and say traditional livelihoods of 10,000 residents will be harmed.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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'Net zero commitments must drive real change': Investors urge banks to stop financing fossil fuels

Business Green

Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change calls on banks to back their net zero pledges with moves to halt support for fossil fuels and activities that drive deforestation. A coalition of major investors is calling on the banking sector to boost their 2050 climate goals by curtailing financing of activities that contribute deforestation, land-use change and fossil fuel expansion.

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WWF Singapore hires Swati Mandloi from Blue Planet for climate action role

Eco-Business

She joins WWF's market transformation team to work with companies in Southeast Asia on their decarbonisation plans.

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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam

Mr. Sustainability

Summary - Over 20% of all Dutch emissions are coming from the Port of Rotterdam, of which the production of grey hydrogen from fossil feedstock is one of the main culprits. Transforming this fossil feedstock and the industry behind it requires an immense amount of green hydrogen, in the very least 2GW of renewable energy coming from a windfarm like IJmuiden Ver.

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Once a large ship starts to turn towards change, large change can happen Copy

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

March 2021 Member of the Month: Yuko Masuda. How did you hear about WCS and what prompted you to join? My company Marubeni Corporation sent me to New York from Tokyo for a few years, and then to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2018. I didn’t have a local network when I moved so I was looking to join a diverse group in cleantech. I heard about WCS at a big ISO conference and joined right after that.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam

Mr. Sustainability

Summary - Over 20% of all Dutch emissions are coming from the Port of Rotterdam, of which the production of grey hydrogen from fossil feedstock is one of the main culprits. This article explores what is needed to build such a green hydrogen refinery. It provides an overview of the existing fossil infrastructure and fuel consumption, which technologies are required to transform, how much it would cost and who are actually working on it.

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Volkswagen Reveals the ID.6 CROZZ and ID.6 X

CleanTechnica

The “Auto Shanghai 2021” auto show season is here from the 19th to the 28th of April, which means brands are showing off new EVs for the Chinese market. Volkswagen officially revealed the ID.6 for the Chinese market with a prerecorded livestream on the 17th of April. Although, its pictures where leaked ahead of time. […].

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CleanTechnica Pro — Support Global Cleantech Obsession, Get More Content

CleanTechnica

What kind of job do you recommend to someone who wants to get rich? Probably lawyer, banker, investor, software engineer, journalist, or doctor, right? Wait, one of those doesn’t belong. Indeed — you don’t go into media to become a multimillionaire, or even a millionaire, or even a thousandaire. You go into media out of […].

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Secretary Granholm Shows The Joe Biden Administration Is Focused On Core Electric Vehicle Matters That Matter

CleanTechnica

We cover every angle and every corner of the electric vehicle market. We’ve done so for years. I’ve been calling the 2020s the decade of batteries and the decade of autonomy, because I think these are the two most important portions of the transportation market in the coming years. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has emphasized […].

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Tesla Autopilot Is Just Better Cruise Control — Anyone Who Thinks It Should Be Banned Is Acting Stupid

CleanTechnica

Tesla has produced well over a million cars. Some of those cars get into accidents. As it turns out, a much smaller percentage of them get into accidents each year than cars in the overall US fleet do. Though, without a doubt, the attention Tesla accidents get from national and international press is orders of […].

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Tesla Quarterly Sales Trend & 2021 Forecast

CleanTechnica

Following the release of Tesla’s 1st quarter production and delivery numbers, I wanted to take a closer look at Tesla’s long-term delivery trends. To make it a little more fun, though, I’m going out on a thin limb and also creating charts forecasting quarterly Tesla deliveries for the remainder of the year. Have a look […].

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Zero-Emission Trucks: Industry & Environmentalists Call for Binding Targets for Infrastructure

CleanTechnica

Originally published on Transport & Environment. By Eoin Bannon This press release is available in English, Italian, and Polish. Truck makers and environmentalists have joined forces to push for the deployment of 11,000 charging points for electric trucks across the EU by 2025, rising to 42,000 by 2030. The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) and Transport & […].

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How BlackRock & Vanguard Can Advance the Net-Zero Emissions Movement

CleanTechnica

Originally published on WRI’s Resource Institute Blog. By Giulia Christianson, Ariel Pinchot, and Yili Wu The movement to achieve net-zero global greenhouse gas emissions, is gaining traction and coherence, especially in the world of finance. In late March, BlackRock and Vanguard — the two largest asset managers on the planet — joined a growing coalition of investors in the Net […].

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Ford Mustang Mach-E Tech & Cargo Space (vs. Tesla Model Y Tech & Cargo Space)

CleanTechnica

It was Ford Mustang Day yesterday, and that helped me to finally get through video editing of some of our Ford Mustang Mach-E footage from February, when we had the Mustang Mach-E visit us for 7 days on the Florida Suncoast. This is not a super pro-quality video, but it may interest some people who […].