Sat.Dec 12, 2020

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Meet The Fiskers, The Billionaire Power Couple Taking On Tesla

Forbes Green Tech

Famed car designer Henrik Fisker is mounting a comeback seven years after his pioneering electric vehicle company collapsed.

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New Youth Climate Lawsuit Launched Against UK Government on Five Year Anniversary of Paris Agreement

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins Three young British citizens and the climate litigation charity Plan B today announced they are taking legal action against the UK government for failing to sufficiently address the climate crisis. The announcement comes on the five year anniversary of the landmark Paris Agreement.

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'China always honours commitments': President Xi enhances 2030 green goals, as world leaders ramp up climate pledges

Business Green

Chinese premier promises to increase CO2 cuts, forest cover, and renewable energy capacity, as scores of world leaders reassert backing for Paris Agreement at Climate Ambition Summit. Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised to ramp up climate efforts in the world's biggest emitting nation over the next decade, announcing new commitments to slash emissions, expands its renewable energy capacity, and increase forest cover at the UN Climate Ambition Summit today.

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Climate Action Is Critical For SMEs Long-Term Success—And SMEs Are Integral To Climate Action’s Success

Forbes Green Tech

It’s not enough for the public sector to spearhead climate change. SMEs have a vital role to play—and to not do so is to ignore the financial sector’s climate-aware signals. Here, Gonzalo Muñoz shares how companies must commit or lose the social license to operate.

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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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Online Event - Solar PV Digitalization Forum

Green Market Oracle

This event will take place on December 10 and 11 2020, Online. This event for anyone interested in solar photovoltaics. It will offer a thorough analysis of digitalization in the solar sector including the latest solar panel design and technology. This solution based forum is designed to increase revenue while reducing operational and maintenance costs and risks through automated data analytics, tools (algorithms, machine learning, and sensors), and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Better Manage Your Stress With This Herbal Supplement

AGreenLiving

Who isn’t stressed these days? The pandemic and environmental crises … The post Better Manage Your Stress With This Herbal Supplement appeared first on Earth 911. More here: Better Manage Your Stress With This Herbal Supplement.

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Earth911 Reader: $150 Billion in Wildfire Damage, Pantanal Wetlands Burn, & Top Plastic Polluters

AGreenLiving

We keep an eye on the news for useful information … The post Earth911 Reader: $150 Billion in Wildfire Damage, Pantanal Wetlands Burn, & Top Plastic Polluters appeared first on Earth 911. See the rest here: Earth911 Reader: $150 Billion in Wildfire Damage, Pantanal Wetlands Burn, & Top Plastic Polluters.

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Webinar - COVID-19 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Market Oracle

This webinar hosted by the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre in collaboration with the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability explores the effects of the pandemic on greenhouse gas emissions. You can catch up below. This webinar features Simon Langlois-Bertrand and Shadnoosh Pashaei in discussion about energy-related greenhouse gas emissions post-COVID19.

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Two planks – and a bridge – to the new economy

Low Impact

This article accompanies and enlarges upon the interview with Dil Green that we published recently, as part of series of articles on a forthcoming book about building a new economy around a mutual credit core. The ‘New Economy’ discussed here is not a proposition for radical discontinuity, and still less an artefact of wishful thinking. Whatever the urgency of a transition to an economy that interacts healthily with the biosphere, no proposition for this transition can succeed that does not pres

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Online Event - Solar PV Digitalization Forum

Green Market Oracle

This event will take place on December 10 2020, Online. This is a not to be missed event for anyone interested in solar photovoltaics. It will offer a thorough analysis of digitalization in the solar sector including the latest solar panel design and technology. This solution based forum is designed to increase revenue while reducing operational and maintenance costs and risks through automated data analytics, tools (algorithms, machine learning, and sensors), and artificial intelligence (AI).

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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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10 Electric Vehicles That Could Cross 100,000 Annual Sales In Europe

CleanTechnica

Last week, I published an article about 4 electric vehicles that could bring on the ICEpocalypse in the USA (ICE stands for internal combustion engine, which is what runs a gasoline or diesel vehicle). How about Europe.

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Top 9 Electric Vehicles Coming to USA in 2021

CleanTechnica

Every year since the mid-2010s has been big for EVs. New models, longer ranges, and lower prices have continuously increased the momentum for electric vehicles, and 2021 will follow suit.

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US Pushes Harder For Electric Vehicle Makeover

CleanTechnica

Fossil energy nightmare resolves to fast-charging, long-range electric vehicle dream in waning days of Trump administration - wait, what?!

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As They Seek To Jump Start Growth, Scooter Sharing Companies Need To Push “Micro-Activism” 

CleanTechnica

Electric scooter companies’ explosive growth in ridership was brought to a screeching halt by the coronavirus pandemic. Ridership is now rebounding, but it’s reflecting the pandemic-driven realities of many people working from home and seeking to avoid crowded public transportation.

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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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Antarctica’s Melting Ice Shelves Are Dangerous

CleanTechnica

As meltwater rushes through the cracks in the Antarctic ice shelves, it can destroy the ice shelves in minutes or hours. This is amplified by the warming atmosphere, and as the warming continues, this phenomenon may happen more often than not.

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Rising To The Challenge 5 Years After Paris Climate Agreement

CleanTechnica

On the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement — December 12th, 2020—countries are coming together for the “Climate Ambition Summit 2020” to commit to new and more aggressive climate actions as required under the Paris Agreement.

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Aptera Reveals Solar Calculator

CleanTechnica

Aptera came through and gave everyone a useful tool to help answer the charging question, even if it is a little simplistic.

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Trump Admin. Drops Green Hydrogen Bomb On Fossil Energy — Just For Starters

CleanTechnica

The green hydrogen economy has been simmering away and is set to boil over in the USA when President-Elect Joe Biden takes office.

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Porsche Taycan Review: “The Best Electric Performance Car on the Market”

CleanTechnica

Last weekend I took a Porsche Taycan for a test drive. The Taycan is the first fully electric car of Porsche and was released end of 2019. I drove approximately 250 km starting from Hamburg, Germany. Find below my review that I structured into five areas: intro, design, driving experience, charging, range, and driver assistance systems.

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Major Department of Energy #FAIL

CleanTechnica

The Department of Energy (DOE) just finalized a “midnight” rule that jeopardizes an important government program that for decades has quietly avoided millions of tons of carbon dioxide pollution while simultaneously collectively saving consumers billions of dollars.

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Kenya’s Challenges To Shift To EVs, & The Solutions

CleanTechnica

According to one article in The Kenyan Wall Street, the government of Kenya has plans to have at least 5% electric car share by the year 2025 — 5% of all vehicles registered in the country, not 5% of new car sales.

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The Nissan LEAF Is 10 Years Old, 500,000+ Sold Worldwide

CleanTechnica

This week, Nissan celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the LEAF. How time flies.