Wed.Dec 07, 2022

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Planes, trains and ships: Growing respect for transportation efficiency

GreenBiz

In celebration of the telematics and analytics helping reduce fuel consumption in the transportation sector.

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Scotland’s climate targets are in danger of becoming meaningless, warns advisory group

Envirotec Magazine

Sunrise over Edinburgh. The Scottish Government lacks a clear delivery plan and has not offered a coherent explanation for how its policies will achieve Scotland’s bold emissions reduction targets – so concludes the latest assessment of Scotland’s progress by the Climate Change Committee, the independent non-departmental public body with a brief to advise the UK and devolved parliaments on climate policy.

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The perverse fossil fuels incentives that lead bankers to hate their grandkids

GreenBiz

Is a law, rule, subsidy, compensation package or other action incentivizing the kind of behavior a society needs for let’s say … long-term survival? If not, it may be time to scrap it.

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December in the Arctic is hotter than ever before

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Arctic is way hotter than it should be this month. In Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow), the temperature hit 40 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday. That’s an unwelcome record not only for December but for the entire span of late October to late April.

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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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Can we rewrite the rules of green finance quickly enough?

GreenBiz

The use of ESG analysis in investment decision-making is still routinely conflated with the measurement of sustainable outcomes. We need a sharper lens.

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New European packaging waste regulations must be ‘by material’ says glass industry group

Envirotec Magazine

The European Container Glass industry has cautiously welcomed the European Commission’s declared ambition to promote effective recyclability and reuse of packaging, as outlined in the latest proposal for a Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation , unveiled on 30 November. However, said a statement from the group, the industry is concerned that these measures are not underpinned by material-specific reduction targets to ensure all packaging materials contribute individually, equally and fairly t

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An artist is recording a "time capsule" of the frozen world

Inhabitat - Innovation

Listening to nature's music can teach us a lot about the ecosystem, whether it's a forest or a coral reef. For example, when teeming with marine life, a healthy coral reef system produces a variety of sounds such as whoop, click, clack and pop. The Amazon rainforest also produces rich sounds that can be used to learn more about its biodiversity and even aid in conservation efforts.

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Microvast Wins Contract to Supply 1.2GWh Battery Energy Storage Project in the United States

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Microvast will supply its BESS ME-4300 container solution for a 1.2GWh battery energy storage project co-located with a solar facility in the United States.

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Iberostar hotels set course for sustainable tourism future

Inhabitat - Innovation

Iberostar Luxury Hotels is standing up against wasteful hospitality practices, publicly announcing detailed plans for developing and continuously converting their new and existing hotels into responsible tourism destinations.

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Sponsored Content: Top Tips for Process Optimisation

Envirotec Magazine

Amidst spiralling costs for energy, fuel, chemicals and just about everything else, there’s never been a better time to optimise your wastewater treatment process. Let’s take a journey through a typical site to identify areas where savings can be made. Understanding Trade Imports and Process Headroom. Trade wastes can offer tempting additional revenue, but accepting tankered imports requires careful planning to minimise downstream risk to the treatment works and ensure ongoing compliance.

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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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Microsoft-backed carbon capture startup uses limestone

Inhabitat - Innovation

Scientists estimate that the globe needs to capture between 10% and 20% of the carbon from the atmosphere to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees. The reality on the ground is quite different. While every industry is working to cut emissions, a few players are trying to capture it.

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Upstart Co-Lab’s pipeline of creative economy deals is now an investable impact strategy

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 7 – The “creative economy” of fashion, food, film, video games and other art and culture industries has emerged as a. The post Upstart Co-Lab’s pipeline of creative economy deals is now an investable impact strategy appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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AlUla desert resort in Saudi Arabia features Bedouin design

Inhabitat - Innovation

A resort has been designed by AW2 just 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) from Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hegra.

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Rheinmetall introduces modular curb chargers

Charged

When all or most cars are EVs, cities will need massive numbers of on-street chargers, and innovative designs will be required to minimize intrusion into already-cluttered public spaces. Düsseldorf-based technology group Rheinmetall presented a novel curb charging system at a recent e-mobility conference in Germany. The new charger integrates charging electronics into the curb itself, so it blends into the cityscape almost invisibly.

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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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Energy ministers agree to fast-track big batteries and long duration storage

Renew Economy

State ministers support Bowen proposal for Capacity Investment Scheme and auctions and underwriting for "new renewable dispatchable" capacity. The post Energy ministers agree to fast-track big batteries and long duration storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Geely to license its EV platform to ElectroMobility Poland

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Chinese automaker Geely has signed an agreement to license its Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA) EV platform to ElectroMobility Poland (EMP), an EV manufacturer backed by the Polish government. EMP says it plans to use Geely’s SEA to develop several models for its Izera brand, starting with a compact SUV. It has announced plans for two other models, a C-segment station wagon and a hatchback.

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Last massive turbine goes up at Queensland wind farm – Australia’s tallest

Renew Economy

RES marks installation of the last of Dulacca wind farm's 43 Vestas turbines, said to be the tallest installed in Australia, to date. The post Last massive turbine goes up at Queensland wind farm – Australia’s tallest appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Volvo Cars divests its holding in Aurobay to Geely Holding

Charged

Volvo Cars will divest its 33% stake in engine supplier Aurobay to Geely Holding , in order to put itself in a position to achieve a fully electric lineup of vehicles by 2030. Aurobay was formed as a stand-alone business in 2021 when Volvo Cars’ subsidiary Powertrain Engineering Sweden, was carved out from the Volvo Car Group. During this period of transition to a fully electric future, Aurobay will remain a strategic partner to Volvo Cars, and its sole provider of hybrid and mild hybrid p

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Wind, solar and even rooftop PV are doing beat coal and gas in world’s biggest isolated grid

Renew Economy

Capacity factors for coal and gas fell below wind, solar and even rooftop PV in the month of November in the world's biggest isolated grid. The post Wind, solar and even rooftop PV are doing beat coal and gas in world’s biggest isolated grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Will bidirectional EV charging kill generators? Generac downgraded by stock analysts

Charged

In the wake of the recent hurricanes in Florida, we saw the usual flood of anti-EV articles claiming that it’s better to have a gas vehicle in a natural disaster. Your favorite correspondent also got an article out of the situation, and concluded that on balance, you’re better off in an EV (although a lifted truck does come in mighty handy when streets are flooded).

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The Brief: Investing in the creative economy, overheard at Mission Investors Exchange, small-business loans in Colorado, reducing plastic waste in Latin America

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Overheard at Mission Investors Exchange Upstart Co-Lab’s pipeline of creative economy deals is now an investable impact strategy. The post The Brief: Investing in the creative economy, overheard at Mission Investors Exchange, small-business loans in Colorado, reducing plastic waste in Latin America appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Theben choses AVSystem’s device management solutions for their Smart Metering gateways

Smart Energy International

Theben, one of the major producers of Smart Meter Gateways for the digital Energy Transition in Germany, chose AVSystem’s Device Management solution for their CONEXA 3.0. With this partnership, Thebens’ Gateway will be enabled to provide Lightweight Machine to Machine device management capabilities. Theben has teamed up with AVSystem to deliver a top solution for the German Smart Meter Rollout.

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Net-zero extinctions: New EPA to play “tough cop” on emissions – but not all of them

Renew Economy

Labor promises "no new extinctions" with tight new environment standards and an independent federal Environment Protection Agency. But not everyone's convinced. The post Net-zero extinctions: New EPA to play “tough cop” on emissions – but not all of them appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Peak US Oil Production Looms as the Domestic Shale Boom Ends

DeSmogBlog

It appears that the U.S. fracking boom is ending far earlier than many industry experts and CEOs predicted. After an understandable dip in 2020 due to the pandemic, oil production still has not regained the record levels achieved in 2019, and predictions that the industry would set new records this year have not materialized, despite 2022’s high oil prices.

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Construction begins on WA’s first pumped hydro renewable microgrid

Renew Economy

Construction begins on first pumped hydro project that will help form a local microgrid and boost reliability for a township in the south of the state. The post Construction begins on WA’s first pumped hydro renewable microgrid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Importance of Community Education and Outreach for People, the Planet and Business

Green Business Bureau

What is Community Education and Outreach? Community Education and Outreach (E&O) refers to the provision of resources and services of a specific expertise to people who may otherwise lack access to them. Community E&O aims to raise awareness around a particular issue and equip community members with the knowledge and skills to make well informed decisions, make improvements and build community resilience.

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Adani taps little known Melbourne start-up to help deliver “world’s cheapest” green hydrogen

Renew Economy

Melbourne-based company says it signs "significant" deal to develop electrolyser technologies with Indian energy giant's green hydrogen subsidiary. The post Adani taps little known Melbourne start-up to help deliver “world’s cheapest” green hydrogen appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Alfa Chemistry Demonstrates Ability for Surface Analysis to Facilitate Materials Testing for Alternative Energy Industry

altenergymag

The US-based chemical supplier Alfa Chemistry never forgets its mission to bring the most cost-effective yet high-quality chemicals and materials to customers worldwide. Its newly launched sub-website specially offers a wide array of alternative and renewable energy materials.

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Agri-FoodTech Can Have Critical Impact. Here’s How.

CleanTech Group

It has been seven years since the United Nations established its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aimed at making “a better and more.

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New B.C. mandate letters recognize the strategic importance of building a clean economy

Clean Energy Canada

VICTORIA — Mark Zacharias, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the swearing in of B.C.’s new cabinet and the release of its mandate letters : “We would like to congratulate all of B.C.’s new and returning ministers, and we look forward to working with them to build a cleaner, more affordable, more sustainable economy for the province.

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Fluorinated boosters: Enhancements for dielectric fluids in EV batteries

Charged

In the near future, the number of electric vehicles on roads across the globe will increase dramatically. This growth is being driven by new regulations, increased public demand for greener transportation and, ultimately, the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, according to the UN Climate Change Conference, the global automotive fleet will be composed of more than 30% EVs by 2030.

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Siemens Grid Software podcast: coding the future of energy

Smart Energy International

With the podcast ‘decoding the future of energy’, Siemens Grid Software shows that the energy transition can be fun and conveys positive visions of the future. Brace yourself for a surprising mix of fiction and reality: Which utopias do we pursue when we think about the power grid of the future? What technologies will we need? What role will software play?

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Marposs announces system for electrical testing of prismatic battery cells

Charged

Marposs , a provider of measurement, inspection and testing products, has released a new system for testing prismatic battery cells. According to the company, this machine can be easily reconfigured to adapt to different cell sizes, and is suitable for end-of-line control or verification and grading at the beginning of a module assembly line. Originally designed as a turntable system, it can be loaded manually by an operator or through automation.

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'Totally unacceptable': Anger as government approves first UK coal mine in 30 years

Business Green

Government argues coal mine would be compatible with net zero goals, but MPs across political spectrum condemn move as a 'backward step' for UK climate action. "Absolutely indefensible", "a ridiculous and dreadful decision", and a move that "further cements Rishi Sunak as an out of date fossil fuel PM in a renewable age". Those were just a few of the initial reactions this evening from across the political spectrum to the government's decision to grant planning approval to controversial proposal