Low Impact

JUNE 27, 2021

Today I’m talking with Shaila Agha of the Sarafu Network about ‘chamas’ and mutual credit , and how they’re changing Africa. Really nice to talk with you Shaila. Thank you – happy to be here. I recently interviewed the founder of Grassroots Economics , Will Ruddick, so I’ll link to that interview in the description. But if I say that the Sarafu Network is a mutual credit network that allows trading without conventional money, that includes 50,000 households across Kenya and did

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

Consortium featuring L’Oréal, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo, and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe tout major plastic recycling breakthrough. Food-grade plastic bottles produced entirely from waste material broken down and recycled using enzymes have been manufactured for the first time by a consortium including consumer goods giants L'Oréal, Nestlé, and PepsiCo, as they gear up to launch the first industrial enzymatic recycling facility by 2025.

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Charged

JUNE 27, 2021

ITECH Electronics has introduced the IT7900 regenerative grid simulator, a programmable grid simulator and 4-quadrant AC source. The IT7900, which is designed to test grid-tied inverters, includes a built-in RLC anti-islanding load, a grid simulator and a power meter in one unit. Users can configure parameters such as RLC, active power and reactive power of each phase to simulate linear and non-linear grid loading.

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Energy Monitor 55

Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association touts potential to create 60,000 jobs and slash UK emissions in support of the net zero goals. The UK biowaste-to-energy sector has pledged to make the "greatest possible contribution" towards achieving the nation's net zero targets, claiming anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas alone have the potential to slash the country's overall greenhouse gas emissions by as much as six per cent by 2030.

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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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Eco-Business

JUNE 27, 2021

Translating the outputs of climate-change models into specific potential impacts, and gauging the financial materiality of climate hazards, presents challenges for both businesses and investors.

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Climate change 17

Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

New coalition includes the likes of Mastercard, BBVA, and FNZ and has already won backing from the UN. A corporate-led green consumer behaviour campaign that is aiming to encourage one billion people around the world to take everyday actions to enhance biodiversity and climate efforts has been launched today by a host of leading financial firms, including Mastercard, FNZ, and BBVA.

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

Businesses left in dark over the future direction of the UK economy thanks to lack of industrial strategy, BEIS Committee argues. The government's decision to scrap its Industrial Strategy has left many businesses unclear about the future of the economy, and risks widening the gap between Westminster and the industries crucial to delivering post-pandemic growth and the UK's net zero target, MPs have today warned.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 27, 2021

In his new position at the management consultancy, Charlton will be responsible for embedding the latest developments in sustainability into business solutions for clients sitting in Asia Pacific, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

Broad-based environmental tax reform can drive changes needed to put the economy on a pathway to net zero, writes Bright Blue's Sam Robinson. Like so many of his appearances, Rishi Sunak's debut on GB News last week was - for the most part - cool and controlled. But the interview laid bare one of the government's weak spots: meeting the cost of net zero.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 27, 2021

Many Chinese cities and provinces are working on plans to hit peak carbon before 2030. Shanghai, China’s most developed city, is set to lead the way.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

VIDEO: Director of digital deposit return recycling scheme firm pitches his Reward4Waste service to top investors as part of BusinessGreen's Technology & Investment Forum. Last month saw 15 of the UK's most exicting clean tech entrepreneurs pitch their prospective businesses to investors at BusinessGreen's Technology & Investment Forum, which was hosted online this year in association with Innovate UK.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 27, 2021

Tuan joins to help 'humanise' the NGO's brand.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 27, 2021

Originally published on RMI.org. By John Matson The world leaders of the Group of Seven, better known as G7, released a long communique following their recent meeting in Cornwall, detailing their plans to address the COVID-19 pandemic and “build back better.” In a departure from the previous G7 meeting in 2019, which ended with a briefer list of agreements, […].

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 27, 2021

Originally published on NRDC Expert Blog. By Mohit Chhabra The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) adopted a decision to acquire 11.5 GW of mostly carbon-free electricity over the next five to seven years. This decision firmly places the state on course to getting to zero carbon electricity and a carbon neutral economy by 2045 for two reasons: (1) […].

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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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CleanTechnica

JUNE 27, 2021

When Tesla unveiled its new Plaid Model S earlier this month, it took the world by storm, fueling dreams of speed, racing, and fun. In the sense of a grand finale to Tesla’s event, another event was talked about in the weeks following. That event was the annual race to the summit of Pikes Peak. […].

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 27, 2021

It’s been a few months since we looked at electric vehicle market share trends in several top markets, so it’s time for another deep dive. Six static charts are included in this article with commentary before them, to examine EV market share changes from 2020 compared to the first 5 months of 2021. On the […].

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 27, 2021

I just published a report on the 30 best selling electric cars and SUVs across 10 European countries. The model races and rankings are always fun, but there’s more to explore and compare than just models. As we all know by now, some companies have focused on a small number of models (sometimes out of […].

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 27, 2021

The top 30 pure electric vehicles in 10 European markets that publicly report the data are shown in the charts and table below. In the first chart and table, you can see the top sellers in the first 5 months of the year. In the second chart, you can see May’s top sellers. After the […].

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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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CleanTechnica

JUNE 27, 2021

Here on planet Earth, summer is becoming the worst season. Instead of looking forward to sunny days lazing around on beaches, we find ourselves annually playing a game of climate roulette, with continuously worse odds, and megafires, off-the-chart smoke levels, and category 5 hurricanes, the outcomes of unlucky rolls. This weekend, in my formerly mild, […].

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 27, 2021

Originally posted on EVANNEX. by Charles Morris Clayton Christensen, the author of the 1997 classic The Innovator’s Dilemma, is said to have coined the term “disruptive innovation.” He defined this as “a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses.” The Dilemma is that, while the incumbents may be perfectly […].

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