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Fortescue looks to build 9.2GW wind and solar green hydrogen project in Egypt

Renew Economy

Andrew Forrest strikes another MoU for a massive green hydrogen project, this time with Egypt in the lead up to the UN climate talks. The post Fortescue looks to build 9.2GW wind and solar green hydrogen project in Egypt appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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India surpassed their past ruler, UK, to become fifth largest economy in the World

U.S. Green Technology

India, which was once dominated by Britishers and Britain when our natural and human resources were abused for their own country’s development, has now surpassed the UK to become the world’s fifth largest economy. A decade ago, India was ranked 11th among large economies, while the United Kingdom was ranked fifth. However, according to IMF.

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Should King Charles speak his mind on climate action, or just ugly buildings?

Renew Economy

Should King Charles speak out on climate change, as he has done as prince? Of course he should, says Albanese. The post Should King Charles speak his mind on climate action, or just ugly buildings? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Businesses must use their voice to grow the green economy

Business Green

It is time for meaningful, practical and sensible engagement with government to ensure the Environment Act into the right green policies, writes the EIC's Guto Davies. The appointment of a new Prime Minister is a timely reminder that policymaking is an ever shifting environment. While we wait to see how the former Environment Minister will approach our sector, the fundamental issues facing us will not change - we are still living with an urgent and timely need for meaningful action on climate ch

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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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Philippine leading lender BDO Unibank imposes stricter conditions for coal-related financing

Eco-Business

The country’s largest bank pledged that it will reduce its coal exposure by half by 2033, though it qualifies that this does not include short-term working capital “that companies will need to transition out of the coal business”.

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Zoom in on Net Zero - with Bryt Energy's Chris Curry and David Taylor

Business Green

VIDEO: Top figures from the energy supplier sit down with BusinessGreen to discuss the energy crisis, new technologies and the net zero transition. In only six years since it was founded, Birmingham-based Bryt Energy has been making waves with impressive growth in the UK, where it supplies customers with 100 per cent renewable electricity from wind, solar and hydro power.

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Why Rooftop Solar Power Investments Are Worth It, & Why California Solar Net Metering Might Not Be Fair — Competing Op-Eds

CleanTechnica

We have some of the most informed readers in the world, but that doesn’t mean they agree on everything. In fact, sometimes they have feverish yet well informed debates that genuinely use logic (rather than ad hominem attacks and other logical fallacies) to discuss different technology or policy approaches. I was just reading through the […].

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People Want EVs In Popular Vehicle Segments & SAIC Is One Of The Companies Answering The Call In A Big Way

CleanTechnica

Despite some big players in the auto industry saying there is no demand for electric vehicles, a lot of people actually want electric cars and want them as soon as practically possible. One company that is answering the call for EVs in a big way is SAIC. SAIC Motor, China’s largest automaker, is bringing EVs […].

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Sunshine State Accelerates the Drive to Electric!

CleanTechnica

Queenslanders are being surveyed about what incentives they need to move to an electric vehicle. When I bought my Tesla Model 3 three years ago (with no government incentives), my major reason was to help reduce the impacts of climate change. Since driving an EV, I have discovered that it is a lot of fun […].

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Domestic Halloysite To Help Automakers With US Electric Vehicle Tax Credit

CleanTechnica

Electric vehicle makers in the US may struggle to qualify their customers for a federal tax credit under new rules set by the Inflation Reduction Act. Topping the list is a supply chain makeover focusing on domestic sources. That could mean a new market for halloysite, and if you don’t know what that is, we’re […].

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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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BMW Getting Cylindrical Batteries From CATL

CleanTechnica

It’s all about the batteries. Succeeding in the electric vehicle market in which there’s far more consumer demand for electric cars than there is supply often comes down to having enough batteries. The more batteries, the more sales, the better one looks. BMW got the memo (perhaps) and just confirmed a battery supply agreement with […].

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Low-Income Households In Belgium To Get Financial Benefit From 400,000 Solar Panels

CleanTechnica

Helping two birds with one hand, a new program in Belgium is looking to help cut emissions and provide a little financial boost to lower-income households. Thousands of social housing units will be receiving 400,000 solar panels via a €150 million investment. Actually, we should say that this helps three birds — given the conflict […].

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Electrify America Has A Plan To Simplify EV Charging (With Video)

CleanTechnica

Electrify America is applying the lessons learned from its first years of operation to improve the charging experience for its customers.

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Scientists Grow Lead-Free Solar Material With Built-In Switch

CleanTechnica

Breakthrough offers industry sustainable alternative without compromising performance.

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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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How to Cut Steel Industry’s CO2 Emissions & Climate Threat

CleanTechnica

RMI reveals product-level carbon accounting guidance, giving corporations and steel companies the power to accelerate decarbonization of a sector contributing ~7 percent of global greenhouse gases. RMI’s Climate Intelligence has released guidance for steel companies to report and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions impact of their products, giving them a competitive advantage as the preferred suppliers to corporations with […].

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Identifying Undocumented Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells

CleanTechnica

Multiagency effort aims to identify and characterize lost wells, including methane emissions and other environmental impacts.

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Sunrun & Tesla Solar Roofs & Batteries Saving The Day In California

CleanTechnica

The heatwave that’s been hitting California and other states in the West has been a beast of a problem. It’s crippling grids, which even has utilities and governments asking people to not charge their electric cars, turn down their AC, and wear dirty clothes rather than do the laundry*. What’s really needed, though, is more […].