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Making waves: Tech firm debuts ocean-based carbon removal protocol

GreenBiz

Planetary Technologies shares a new measurement approach that it hopes will allow purchasers to buy ocean-based carbon removal credits with confidence.

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Solar installers: Add EV charger installation to your services now Bidirectional EV charging will soon upend the solar + storage installation market.

Solar Power World

The clean energy market is constantly evolving, and solar installers are used to adapting. Solar hot water installs were quickly overtaken by the shift to rooftop PV. Threats to net metering and more utility shutdowns have required contractors to get comfortable with installing batteries alongside more advanced solar layouts. Just as the industry receives a… The post Solar installers: Add EV charger installation to your services now <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weig

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We are no longer in transition. The climate change future is here for food, ag and nature

GreenBiz

For the land, water and farming sectors we are already living in the climate crisis. Are you still talking about transition risk?

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Toyota to build PHEVs and batteries in Turkey

Charged

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Türkiye (TMMT) in Sakarya, Turkey will build the second-generation Toyota C-HR, which will be available in hybrid and plug-in hybrid versions. TMMT will also establish a 75,000-unit-per-year battery assembly plant alongside its car manufacturing line. Plug-in hybrid battery assembly will begin in December 2023, producing 60 skilled jobs.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Mobilizing the missing tool in the climate fight

GreenBiz

Shared mobility presents an opportunity to decarbonize transportation and create a more equitable and accessible network.

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CATL adopts use of Toyocolor conductive carbon nanotube battery materials

Charged

Chinese battery-maker CATL has chosen to use Japan-based Toyocolor ‘s Lioaccum conductive carbon nanotube (CNT) dispersion for its high-capacity Li-ion batteries. The batteries will be installed in mass-produced vehicles beginning in 2024. According to Toyocolor, its Lioaccum dispersion CATL contributes to expanded battery capacity and energy density through adoption of highly conductive CNTs.

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Taylor ZLC container handler to use Rocsys autonomous charging system

Charged

Container handler manufacturer Taylor Machine Works will implement a robotic charging system from Rocsys for its second-generation ZLC electric container handler. Rocsys says robotic charging of EVs provides charging at scale around the clock without the need for human interaction at the vehicle, enabling dependable, fast charging with reduced wear and tear on charging cables and connectors.

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Rooftop solar set to eclipse coal as installations reach more than 20GW

Renew Economy

Rooftop solar installed on Australian homes and businesses will generate more power than the nation's remaining coal plants when Liddell closes in April. The post Rooftop solar set to eclipse coal as installations reach more than 20GW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Electric school buses from Thomas Built Buses and Proterra log one million miles of operation

Charged

Thomas Built Buses and Proterra (NASDAQ: PTRA) unveiled their Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley electric school bus back in 2018 , and there are now more than 300 units on the road. Now the companies have announced that the Jouleys have driven more than one million miles for school districts across North America. This may be just the beginning. School buses, with their light duty cycles and predictable schedules, are often cited as an ideal use case for electrification, and unprecedented amounts of federal

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Sensing and Satellite Technology Advances are Unlocking Carbon Markets for Farmers

CleanTech Group

Agriculture has a compelling role to play in decarbonization, as it has the potential to both emit and capture carbon. Agricultural activities, such.

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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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ImpactAlpha Open: Impact in real estate + BIPOC-led climate startups

Impact Alpha

Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome back to ImpactAlpha Open, your weekly dose of news, trends, deals and people moves in the impact economy. ?. The post ImpactAlpha Open: Impact in real estate + BIPOC-led climate startups appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Could zebra stripes steer birds clear of offshore wind turbines?

Renew Economy

A flickering black and white effect could further reduce bird collisions with offshore wind turbines. The post Could zebra stripes steer birds clear of offshore wind turbines? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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AVANGRID’s Lund Hill, Washington State’s Largest Utility-scale Solar Farm, Achieves Commercial Operation

altenergymag

The solar farm developed by AVANGRID delivers 150 Megawatts of clean electricity to Puget Sound Energy (PSE).

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AGL chair repeats “lights will go out” coal threat as gas lobby goes into overdrive

Renew Economy

How do you know when the tide is turning on climate and renewables? When the fossil fuel scare campaign lurches back into gear. The post AGL chair repeats “lights will go out” coal threat as gas lobby goes into overdrive appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Belonging Spotlight: William O’Neal on Philosophy, Linguistics, and Star Trek

Planet Pulse

This month, I sat down with William O’Neal, Planet’s Content Strategy Lead working with our Product Design, User Research, and Content Strategy team, to learn a little more about his career journey. With a nose ring and trendy transparent rimmed glasses, William is the type of person that strikes you as the most interesting person in a room – turns out that may have been by design and his interesting perspective on personal education.

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“Not climate justice:” Greta Thunberg joins call to tear down two huge Norway wind farms

Renew Economy

Climate activist Greta Thunberg joins protesters calling for removal of two wind farms found to have interfered with indigenous rights. The post “Not climate justice:” Greta Thunberg joins call to tear down two huge Norway wind farms appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Six trust-based practices to help investors shift power to communities

Impact Alpha

Often within the impact investing landscape, “impact” is defined by who we invest in and what we invest in. To truly create systems. The post Six trust-based practices to help investors shift power to communities appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Forrest says Australia will miss green hydrogen bus as projects, capital and people head to US

Renew Economy

Australia in danger of missing massive opportunity in green hydrogen as capital, projects and people flee to US because of tax and production incentives. The post Forrest says Australia will miss green hydrogen bus as projects, capital and people head to US appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Britain breaks 'green grid' record with latest 100 per cent clean power milestone

Business Green

Update from Imperial College London reveals the UK grid ran on 100 per cent clean electricity for 25 hours during December, setting yet another record The UK's electricity grid ran on 100 per cent clean power for 25 hours during December, setting a new monthly record and providing further evidence that the energy system can enable a zero-emission grid.

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Humiliated ESB reacts badly to its policy rejections, industry wants it shut down

Renew Economy

ESB has not reacted well to its latest policy humiliation. Critics say it should be wound up. The post Humiliated ESB reacts badly to its policy rejections, industry wants it shut down appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canada’s new green procurement standards can drive down emissions while boosting Canadian industry

Clean Energy Canada

TORONTO — Ollie Sheldrick, clean economy program manager at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government’s new green standards for major government contracts. “Clean Energy Canada welcomes the announcement made today by Minister Fortier and Minister Guilbeault on new federal clean procurement standards. “Government procurement accounts for 13% of Canada’s GDP and up to one third of the market for construction materials.

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French NGOs Sue BNP Paribas, Europe’s Largest Financier of Fossil Fuel Expansion

DeSmogBlog

French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous, Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding of fossil fuels. The lawsuit is part of a burgeoning movement to pressure financial institutions to end their funding of the fossil fuel sector due to the climate emergency.

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A new alliance for ‘high quality’ carbon removal highlights tensions within the industry

Grist

Eight years ago, the field of carbon removal amounted to a handful of academic lab projects and a few fledgling companies working on a novel concept: sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. That was when Giana Amador, an undergrad at the University of California, Berkeley, founded a nonprofit called Carbon180 with another student, Noah Deich. They hoped to convince policymakers and the climate community that reversing carbon emissions — in addition to reducing them — was essential to limiting the

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The Brief: Trust-based investing practices, upskilling in Chicago, soil wealth, blockchain impact

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Inclusive Economy Six trust-based practices to help investors shift power to communities. “Impact” is often defined by who. The post The Brief: Trust-based investing practices, upskilling in Chicago, soil wealth, blockchain impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Diesel and agriculture push emissions higher despite falls driven by wind and solar

Renew Economy

Australia experiences slight rise in emissions, as increased use of diesel and jumps in agriculture emissions offset gains from use of wind and solar in the grid. The post Diesel and agriculture push emissions higher despite falls driven by wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Of birds and boats: Offshore wind developers step up efforts to curb environmental impacts

Business Green

New research projects aim to minimise disruption to seabirds and decarbonise operations vessels The offshore wind industry is already the backbone of the UK's clean energy system, but that has not stopped it redoubling efforts to further reduce its environmental impact. This week saw progress on two major research projects that are seeking to minimise the impact of offshore wind farms on seabirds and slash emissions from the industry's operations and maintenance vessels.

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Antaisolar Showcases Latest Tracking and Distributed Mounting System at GENERA in Madrid, Spain

altenergymag

Antaisolar's flagship solar tracking system, TAI-Space, gained attention for its advanced design and multiple-drive technology.

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Your Friendly Reminder That Pipelines Are Safer Than Rail

R-Squared Energy

When a pipeline accident happens, it gets a lot of press. That leads people to believe that pipelines are more dangerous than they really are. But consider that there are about 3 million miles of natural gas pipelines and about another 200,000 miles of petroleum and petroleum product pipelines in the U.S. For perspective, that’s nearly 70 times the length of the U.S. interstate highway system.

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Green New Deal: MPs urge government to devolve power to deliver net zero

Business Green

Report from MPs and peers argues that unless government devolves significant powers and cash to a local level, national climate targets will not be met Local authorities will have to take a more central role in delivering green projects such as clean energy infrastructure and improved public transport if the UK is to meet its overarching target of net zero emissions by 2050.

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Unlocking the Potential of Green Hydrogen

Energy Central

Green hydrogen has been identified as a critical pathway in the global transition to sustainable energy and a decarbonized civilization, however it is still not economically competitive compared to fossil-fuel-based hydrogen and renewables like solar. Nevertheless, many countries are racing to develop their own green hydrogen industrial base, and emerge as leaders in this new fuel sector.

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Net Zero Tourism: Report warns global collaboration required for 'climate-ready' travel

Business Green

New study urges tourism and transport sectors to unite to accelerate the development of green travel services It will require a global effort, involving policy makers, investors, and collaboration between the tourism and transportation sector, if the tourism industry is to deliver on its goal to achieve net zero emissions. That is the headline conclusion from a new report published today called Envisioning Tourism in 2030 & Beyond , which has urged the tourism and transport sector to work mo

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Budget 2023 recognizes B.C.’s generational economic opportunity, but a clean industrial strategy is needed to realize it

Clean Energy Canada

OTTAWA — Mark Zacharias, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the release of B.C.’s 2023 budget. “B.C.’s new budget takes important steps toward transforming its economy to better compete in a cleaner, low-carbon world, though a clean industrial strategy remains the key piece missing to realize this vision.

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Interactive Hydrogen Infrastructure Map

Energy Central

Interactive Hydrogen Infrastructure Map With the Foundation of the European Hydrogen Bank and the need to link supply with demand the community may find this interactive mapping tool produced by @Entsog of interest? Feel free to join with the community of experts: Hydrogen Networks [link].