Is Fusion Really Close To Reality? Yes, Thanks To Machine Learning
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 26, 2020
Fusion is energy's boy who cried wolf. It’s been just around the corner for so long that people can't believe it’s just around the corner now.
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Petersberg Climate Dialogue: Green Covid-19 recovery set to top agenda at global summit
Business Green
APRIL 26, 2020
Conference hosted by the UK and Germany will bring over 30 countries together to discuss green recovery plans and strategies after weeks of coronavirus chaos. COP26 may have been postponed this year, but global climate diplomats still have a very busy year ahead. In the absence of the flagship UN climate summit in 2020, another high-profile global meeting kicking off today could well offer a crucial opportunity to build momentum behind ambitious climate action in the wake of the coronavirus cris
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Tesla prepares to reopen Fremont, Nevada factories
Charged
APRIL 26, 2020
Tesla has told some employees to report back to work at its Fremont factory as early as next week, according to internal messages seen by Bloomberg. Tesla previously told workers that it expected to resume normal production May 4, the day after the Bay area’s shelter-in-place order is scheduled to end. Bloomberg reports that staff working in paint and stamping operations have been asked to return on April 29.
Gasoline Demand Collapses To A 50-Year Low
R-Squared Energy
APRIL 26, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on demand for oil and petroleum products. Last week’s Petroleum Status Report from the Energy Information Administration shows just how dramatic the impact has been on U.S. gasoline demand. For the week that ended 4/03/20, gasoline demand fell to 5.065 million barrels per day (BPD). That number represents a 48% decline in gasoline demand versus the same period a year ago, and is down 24% since last week.
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.
Sustainability, COVID-19, Elon Musk And A Tale Of The Upper And Lower Brain
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 26, 2020
COVID-19 has accomplished more in three months for sustainability than years of intellectual meetings. In the battle between the lower and upper brain, will the result be sticky?
Low oil price could be a boon for net zero
Business Green
APRIL 26, 2020
Historically, low oil prices were bad for climate action, but these are new times, writes ECIU's Dr Jonathan Marshall. Historically, sustained low fossil fuel prices have not been great news for proponents of a low carbon transition. Why, for example, would investors take an interest in renewable energy when the costs of - and therefore returns on offer from - oil and gas are skewed against clean alternatives?
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New decade, new disruptions: Embracing new technology in sustainability
Business Green
APRIL 26, 2020
IEMA fellow Amber Harrison, director of CSR and sustainability at SITA, considers the impact of disruptive technologies on the sustainability profession. With 2020 heralding a new decade, technology seems more present and pressing than ever. Our hands clutch smart phones and wrists vibrate with smart watches, while our homes are connected thanks to smart TVs, digital assistants and even vacuum cleaners.
Online Event - Sustainatopia Virtual Conference Series 2020
Green Market Oracle
APRIL 26, 2020
Sustainatopia Virtual Conferences series 2020 will take place on May 20th, June 23rd, July 22nd and August 20th. This series is focused on accelerating business development and investment acquisition within social, financial and environmental sustainability. Founded in 2009, SUSTAINATOPIA remains one of the leading events in the world of its’ kind. Attendees have participated from more than 60 countries.
Petersberg Climate Dialogue: Covid-19 'green recovery' plans set to top agenda at global summit
Business Green
APRIL 26, 2020
Conference hosted by the UK and Germany will bring over 30 countries together to discuss green recovery plans and strategies after weeks of coronavirus chaos. COP26 may have been postponed this year, but global climate diplomats still have a very busy year ahead. In the absence of the flagship UN climate summit this November, another high-profile global meeting kicking off today could well offer a crucial opportunity to build momentum behind ambitious climate action in the wake of the coronaviru
Online Event - Virtual Momentum Summit: Real Leaders & Resilience How to Lead Before, During, and After A Crisis
Green Market Oracle
APRIL 26, 2020
The Virtual Momentum Summit titled "Real Leaders & Resilience How to Lead Before, During, and After A Crisis" will take place on May 19, 2020 | 12 pm – 5 pm EDT. At this summit more than 200 CEOs will gather virtually and explore how to build more resilient companies. They will share their lessons, experience, and challenges as part of an effort to cope with an increasingly chaotic world in which companies will have to contend with outbreaks, climate disruption, and associated social unrest.
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.
Report: European retailers failing to disclose major chunk of CO2 from food waste
Business Green
APRIL 26, 2020
Planet Tracker argues failure to disclose food loss and waste-related supply chain emissions exposes investors to heightened financial risk. Europe's largest food retailers are failing to fully disclose the carbon footprint of their food loss and waste, both undermining their ability to tackle the problem and exposing their investors to financial risks, a new report from think tank Planet Tracker claims.
Covid-19 has made HR the most important job in sustainability
Eco-Business
APRIL 26, 2020
Since the outbreak started in January 2020, Covid-19’s impact on the world’s economies has been so massive that it has unravelled everything that our corporations and their millions of workers have endured over cycles of global crises.
Redefining "Work" - Part Deux
Mr. Sustainability
APRIL 26, 2020
It was March, 2020. Life was good in those days. I just came back from a perfect holiday which gave me plenty of time to think and write. I argued for a Universal Basic Income and ‘rethinking the way we think’ about work and purpose in life. At the time I believed these were issues discussed only by a select few. I believed my esoteric babble would be high-minded and everything I discussed would be matters that were far away into the future.
As Indonesians leave the cities for the countryside, how ready are farmers for the novel coronavirus?
Eco-Business
APRIL 26, 2020
The movement of millions of Indonesians from the virus hotspots in the cities to the countryside threatens the lives of farmers and their families.
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.
Tesla Model 3 Sales Demolish Ford Mustang & Dodge Charger Sales
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
Looking at how the Tesla Model 3 compares on lists of the top selling cars in the USA is always a bit odd. The other top selling cars are a class or three below the Model 3. The most comparable vehicles on the list are the iconic Ford Mustang and Dodge Charger, which do not match the Model 3 in several major categories (sometimes by a gigantic margin) but are at least in the "sporty affordable cars" category.
It’s a galloping goodbye to Europe’s coal
Eco-Business
APRIL 26, 2020
Europe’s coal has powered it for centuries. But with gathering speed it is now turning its back on the fuel.
Tesla’s Computer Vision Tech Rockin’ It, Tesla Ventilator Donations — CleanTechnica Top 20
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
Perhaps society is rolling back toward normality after all — the most popular articles on CleanTechnica last week were once again led by a few Tesla stories, including two about Tesla vehicles! Yes, one COVID-19/ventilator story still slipped into the top 3, and a few coronavirus-related stories hit the rest of the top 20. because cancelling society comes with some major side effects.
Sustainability Reporting – 19 August 2020
Eco-Business
APRIL 26, 2020
About the course Sustainability reporting is a listing requirement on many stock exchanges, and increasingly becoming a standard expectation. But producing a report is only one part of the process, to do so companies are expected to have put some key steps in place in order to communicate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance to investors, customers, business partners & regulators.
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?
Coronavirus: Good News, Bad News, Bad News, & Maybe Good News
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
I try to stay away from coronavirus coverage here because. it's not cleantech. But strange times require strange rhymes. I do spend a lot of time reading about the coronavirus, COVID-19, and the economic results, and when it seems something is underreported or deserves extra amplification, I cannot pass it up.
Sustainability Reporting – 11 November 2020
Eco-Business
APRIL 26, 2020
About the course Sustainability reporting is a listing requirement on many stock exchanges, and increasingly becoming a standard expectation. But producing a report is only one part of the process, to do so companies are expected to have put some key steps in place in order to communicate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance to investors, customers, business partners & regulators.
Tesla Q1 Earnings Call On April 29th — Here’s Where To Get “Front-Row Tickets”
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
The past few months have been quite a roller-coaster for everyone and we have yet to see how far along we are on this ride or whether we take the world for a second round. In March, the Dow Jones and the NASDAQ lost more than 30% of their value.
Junior Registry Manager
Eco-Business
APRIL 26, 2020
Over the last 12 years, South Pole has delivered over 170 million carbon credits and over 140 thousand renewable energy certificates. Management of our accounts in the carbon credit and REC trading registries, as well as our inventory in our internal tracking tool is a key aspect of both the supply and sales side of South Pole's business.
Heat Pump Water Heaters — Game Changers In Efficiency
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
On the journey to making our homes money savers and climate champions, water heating has always been a stumbling block. While there are easy ways to use hot water efficiently (like the low-flow shower heads we featured in this Go Zero Hack), it’s a challenge to heat water without polluting.
Faced with a crisis, airlines seek delay on climate measures
Eco-Business
APRIL 26, 2020
The aviation sector deserves support to recover from Covid-19, but that doesn’t mean a free pass on climate.
Oil Tankers Lurk Off The Coast Of California
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
Oil tankers — 27 of them — have been spotted lurking off the coast of southern California. The footage was taken by the U.S. Coast Guard, as the Coast Guard is monitoring the "increased presence" of oil tankers that are hanging out in the seas near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Sweden Shutters Last Coal-Fired Generating Plant 2 Years Early
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
The last coal-fired generating station in Sweden has been taken offline two years ahead of schedule.
The Bajaj Chetak Is Finally Back As An All-New, All-Electric Scooter
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
One of the most anticipated new bikes of the last few years is back -- meet the all-new, all electric Bajaj Chetak that's set to take on Vespa in Asia!
SoftBank-Backed SB Energy & EDEN Bag 900 Megawatts Of Solar In India
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
A 2 gigawatt solar power tender received very a encouraging response amidst uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak.
Tesla May Need To Adjust Prices To Qualify For New EV Incentives In China
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
Just as Tesla raised prices for its least expensive Model 3 in China, the Chinese government announced a 10% cut in its EV incentive program.
Predictable Renewable Power Tender In India Oversubscribed
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
A tender issued by Solar Energy Corporation of India for the supply of uninterrupted renewable energy was oversubscribed handsomely.
Failed Federal Government Has States Considering Articles Of Confederacy
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
In the absence of federal leadership, 17 states have formed partnerships to manage their response to the coronavirus. Could those pacts presage a new approach to governing such a diverse country as the United States?
India Extends Relief To Renewable Energy Projects Affected By COVID-19 Lockdown
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
Barely days after announcing that renewable energy project developers would be allowed to exercise force the majeure clause to seek extension of commissioning deadlines, India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has expanded the scope of this relief.
Starlink Private Beta Testing To Begin In 3 Months, Public Beta Testing To Follow
CleanTechnica
APRIL 26, 2020
With 422 Starlink satellites in orbit and 120 more due to launch soon, Elon Musk says private beta testing of the network will begin in about 3 months.
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