Wed.Aug 03, 2022

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Takeaways from IKEA’s electrification of last-mile deliveries

GreenBiz

Making EVs appealing for corporations starts with laying out details such as evaluating efficient routes, use cases and what a company needs from a charging infrastructure standpoint.

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Uncrewed vessel returns from volcano caldera survey in Tonga loaded with ‘astounding’ data

Envirotec Magazine

Aerial view of the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai (HT-HH) volcano, showing new multibeam depth data overlaid on a satellite image of the islands (deep depths in blue, shallow depths in red). Credit: SEA-KIT / NIWA-Nippon Foundation TESMaP survey team. A plethora of data and imagery obtained using an Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) is filling important gaps in scientists’ understanding of the HungaTonga Hunga-Ha’apai (HT–HH) undersea volcano in the South Pacific, the site of an eruption that

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How climate tech startups can survive and thrive in the downturn

GreenBiz

A bubble-bursting means climate tech entrepreneurs will need to adjust their game plan. They’ll need to adapt, conserve cash, negotiate flat or down fundraising rounds, adjust to rising costs of capital and look at forms of financing outside of venture capital.

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Turning fish waste into carbon-based nanomaterials

Envirotec Magazine

The new synthesis procedure can seemingly convert fish scales obtained from fish waste into a useful carbon-based nanomaterial. The approach uses microwaves to break the scales down thermally via pyrolysis (image credit: Takashi Shirai from NITech, Japan). Group says they have developed a simple, fast, and energy-efficient synthesis method for producing exceptional carbon nano-onions from fish scales.

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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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Destination: Decarbonized Fleets

GreenBiz

The electrification of fleets is emerging as a key tool for corporations to decarbonize and reach net zero goals. But the road to get there looks different for every organization and region around the world. This keynote conversation looks at how Iron Mountain paved their own route, and how the power of corporate partnerships provided direction.

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SEC Plans ESG Regulations

Green Business Bureau

SEC To Require ESG Disclosure of Data. Government agencies and nonprofit organizations all around the world are moving forward with ESG regulations and requirements. The US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has released two proposals this year that would increase government oversight and make information more transparent in matters relating to publicly traded companies and the environment.

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Demand of Silverado EVs on the Rise amongst Fleet Owners

Green Living Guy

Demand for General Motors’ (GM) Chevrolet Silverado EV seems to be building among fleet owners. During the Q2 2022 earnings call, GM CEO Mary Barra shared fleet customers are requesting more than 200 Silverado EV units on average. “The Chevrolet Silverado and the GMC Sierra led the industry in total full-size pickup sales in 2020 […]. The post Demand of Silverado EVs on the Rise amongst Fleet Owners appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

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Electrification for Peace with Senator Heinrich

GreenBiz

Electrification is inherently a more local energy resource. The Chair of the Electrification Coalition of the U.S. Senate talks about the national security imperative for electrifying everything.

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How climate change is muting nature’s symphony

Grist

This story is part of Grist’s Coming to our Senses series, a weeklong exploration of how climate change is reshaping the way we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste the world around us. When Jeff Wells, vice president for boreal conservation at the Audubon Society, first encountered the call of the common loon on a pond near Mt. Vernon, Maine — about an hour and a half north of Portland — he thought he may have heard a ghoul.

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Vendor Selection Checklist: 7 Features to Look For in an ESG Solution

GreenBiz

How to Choose an ESG Platform That’s Right For You As more ESG software solutions enter the market, it can be difficult for teams to know which way to turn. Each platform and vendor offers an array of features and capabilities, making it challenging to compare and contrast solutions. To help you find the best solution for you, we’ve designed a checklist you can use to compare providers, prioritize what you need, and then evaluate if a vendor checks your most important boxes.

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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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ACT to quit gas by 2045, shift to all-electric homes and business

Renew Economy

ACT joins Victoria with a commitment to phase out the use of gas in homes and businesses by 2045, and shift to electrification backed by solar and storage. The post ACT to quit gas by 2045, shift to all-electric homes and business appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Stepping Up Corporate Procurements with Jigar Shah and Madison Freeman

GreenBiz

Corporations have a major role to play in spurring forward new, clean materials. This conversation will challenge you organization to do more to reach deep decarbonization. You think you have it covered, but you're all failing.

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Energy Storage Systems Market Significantly Driven by Rising Popularity and Adoption of Electric Vehicles

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The global energy storage systems market is primarily driven by the surging consumption of energy and burgeoning demand for the efficient and uninterrupted power supply. The global energy storage systems market is driven by rising popularity and adoption of electric vehicles across the globe.

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3 things that can make or break your EV transition

GreenBiz

Sponsored: As companies move toward electric fleets, paying attention to details that might not be on the radar today can ensure success.

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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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LG Energy Solution Aims to Achieve RE100 in All Global Production Sites by 2025

altenergymag

-The initiative was introduced in the ESG Report 2021 published today -The company to focus on "Carbon Negative" after achieving carbon neutrality across the entire value chain by 2050

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The Grid We Need to Electrify Everything with Jesse Jenkins

GreenBiz

Electrifying everything will require substantial updates to the electrical grid to ensure electricity is clean, accessible, and affordable. Jesse Jenkins know what it will take to get there.

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Ministers to put environment back into energy market rules in landmark move for renewables

Renew Economy

Energy ministers are poised to put environment back into the national electricity market objective, removing a massive roadblock that has stymied the switch to renewables. The post Ministers to put environment back into energy market rules in landmark move for renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Electrify, Equitably

GreenBiz

All-electric buildings are safer, healthier, cleaner and cheaper. But the upfront costs to transform buildings can be costly, and not all communities have equal access to new technologies. In this conversation, the leaders of PG&E and Blocpower discuss the innovative partnerships and programs helping ensure better access to an all-electric future, and how utilities are preparing to transition existing gas infrastructure to ensure vulnerable communities aren't stuck with the bill.

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Electric Vehicle Market Major Challenges and Developments

altenergymag

One of the factors supporting the growth of global electric vehicle market is rising prices of fuel and diesel. An electric vehicle is adopted on a large scale due to high price of fuels.

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Finding your match in the carbon economy

GreenBiz

The Department of Energy’s new carbon matchmaking tool helps identify the carbon capture, storage and end-product supply chain.

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Quantum computing to advance solar PV materials

Smart Energy International

British quantum software company Phasecraft is to lead a project modelling new perovskite-silicon materials for solar photovoltaics. The project, in collaboration with perovskite PV pioneers Oxford PV and academics at University College London, is aimed to support the development of quantum computing to simulate “currently intractable problems” in PV materials modelling, according to a statement.

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Green and growth — can we have both?

GreenBiz

There is no reason theoretically that we can’t achieve “absolute decoupling,” while sustaining economic growth.

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Electric School Buses Win Big in US State Legislative Sessions

The City Fix

Electric school buses are experiencing rapid growth in the United States, with a nearly 10-fold increase in commitments by school districts and fleet operators in the past year. Thirty-eight states have now committed to procure more than 12,000 electric school buses. In.

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Electrified Supercut

GreenBiz

Many all-electric technologies are already here today, and they are beautiful.

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Lithium Titanate Batteries Market Size to Hit USD 120 Billion by 2030

altenergymag

The global lithium titanate batteries market is expected to hit around USD 120 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 15.4% from 2022 to 2030, according to Vision Research Reports.

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Plugging into Industrial Decarbonization

GreenBiz

Industry is responsible for some of the most stubborn emissions on earth. Many materials don’t yet have clean, competitive alternatives — and that will have to change quickly if we are to meet our climate goals. Industry expert Rebecca Dell dives into the role of electrification in reaching deep decarbonization for heavy industry, and what needs to happen to get where we're going.

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Massive new Victoria wind farm and battery awaits assessment after environmental checks

Renew Economy

Plans for a huge wind farm and big battery in Victoria’s south west have resurfaced, as developers await development approval following environmental effects statement. The post Massive new Victoria wind farm and battery awaits assessment after environmental checks appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Plugging into Industrial Decarbonization

GreenBiz

Industry is responsible for some of the most stubborn emissions on earth. Many materials don’t yet have clean, competitive alternatives — and that will have to change quickly if we are to meet our climate goals. Industry expert Rebecca Dell dives into the role of electrification in reaching deep decarbonization for heavy industry, and what needs to happen to get where we're going.

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Climate target will soon be law, the task now is to go hard to catch up with science

Renew Economy

Passage of the climate bill is important but largely symbolic. Now it's time to go in hard and make sure it matches the science. The post Climate target will soon be law, the task now is to go hard to catch up with science appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Organizer's Welcome: Where's My Jetpack?

GreenBiz

We have the technology today that sci-fi novels dreamed of. Now all we have to do is put it to work for a better, brighter future. Chair of VERGE Electrify kicks off the program filled with content focused on identifying the biggest challenges and solutions in deep decarbonization through electrification.

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Australian property manager goes 100% renewable with major wind and solar PPA

Renew Economy

PPA signs Charter Hall up to a seven-year contract to buy 151GWh of renewable energy a year from Engie – enough to power roughly 26,000 homes. The post Australian property manager goes 100% renewable with major wind and solar PPA appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Buildings: High Voltage Transmission

GreenBiz

GreenBiz's buildings analyst explains why buildings are the lynchpin of our climate future.

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Customer-centric demand response a key solution for Japan’s energy transition challenges

Smart Energy International

Japan’s electricity sector is facing the triple challenges in the energy transition of energy security, cost and decarbonisation , writes James Tedd from GridBeyond. Since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the nuclear power generation fleet has had its output been effectively mothballed with output below 20% of earlier levels. While there has been growth in the solar sector, most generation is provided by gas and coal.

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Transport: High Voltage Transmission

GreenBiz

GreenBiz's transport analyst lights the road to electrifying transportation.