Want to fix the climate? Fix the economy
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
As COP26 concludes, there’s a unique window to shape our future climate.
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COP26 – Another Failure For The Planet
Jim Conca
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
The elephant in the room at COP26 was why nuclear power was excluded from the adult’s table. All nuclear applications to establish exhibits at the COP26 "Green Zone" were rejected…but there was plenty of space for the Soroptimists, the The Froglife Trust and The British Dragonfly Society.
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Decarbonizing heavy-duty transportation: Is hydrogen the answer?
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Sponsored: While the world is well on its way to making advancements in electric vehicle technology, there’s one key piece of the decarbonization effort still left to tackle: heavy-duty vehicles.
7 countries vow to end new oil and gas exploration
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Yesterday at COP26, seven countries and one Canadian province joined forces as the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance. BOGA members committed to stop exploring for and producing oil and gas.
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.
These orgs are constructing reuse infrastructure for the built environment
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
The circular economy offers an elegant alternative to the siloed, short-sighted and waste-ridden reputation of the building industry.
Biophilic Belgian Pavilion features futuristic sustainable design
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
The theme of Expo 2020 Dubai is "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future." In line with this, the Belgian Pavilion, called The Green Arch, seeks to be exemplary in the realm of sustainable development. The architects, Vincent Callebaut Architectures and Assar Architects, have used futuristic design through greenery, solid timber construction and passive energy to showcase how developments in architecture will give rise to environmentally-friendly cities.
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Apartment complex celebrates 360 views of the Swiss Alps
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Through an architectural competition, Apropos Architects were selected by a Swiss family wanting to reconstruct a family home. The family was inspired by the potential to create a larger, energy-efficient residence with five apartments.
Circular supply chains need intelligent and distributed manufacturer networks
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Partsimony is an example of a company that is dedicated to building cognitive supply chains and increasing efficiencies.
Best and worst vegan fast food options to try
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Whether you’ve chosen the vegan lifestyle for the environment, animal rights, or health reasons, you know it can be difficult to find food that is void of all animal products. Scrutinizing each ingredient makes going out to lunch feel like a scavenger hunt.
Episode 293: Circularity and COP, lessons from Amazon
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Plus, former President Barack Obama has a message for young climate activists.
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.
European shipping company orders 100 Volvo FM Electric trucks
Charged
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
DFDS, a shipping and logistics firm based in Northern Europe, has placed an order with Volvo Trucks for 100 Volvo FM Electric trucks. The deal is the largest commercial order to date for Volvo electric trucks. Deliveries of the trucks will start in the fourth quarter of 2022 and continue throughout 2023. Volvo Financial Services will provide a financing solution.
Environment-friendly Chiropractic Practice: Ways To Do This
Green Living Guy
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Biologically speaking, a musculoskeletal system comprises bones, muscles, cartilage, tendons, and joints. It’s responsible for supporting an individual’s body, allowing it to move and prevent any infection or ailments in the organs. When a person starts experiencing complications in their musculoskeletal system, they require performing major steps for their spine care.
COP26: Industry calls for action from government and business to address embodied emissions in building construction
altenergymag
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Representatives of Stora Enso, Google, Lendlease, WEB Limited Group, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Green Building Council call on governments and industry to make urgent commitments to tackle climate change and achieve a net zero society.
5 Ways to Prevent Neighborhood Sewage Pollution
Green Living Guy
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Global eco-consciousness is prompting people to search for ways to shrink their carbon footprints and reduce surface-level impacts. Adopting sustainability enhancing techniques and technology is about more than improving one’s personal effects, though. It is about conserving the worldwide ecosystem. Here are five ways to prevent neighborhood sewage pollution and increase environmental conservation.
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.
The Week in impact investing: Consensus
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Going exponential. We tend to overestimate change in the short-term and underestimate change in the long-term. That truism comes. The post The Week in impact investing: Consensus appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Planet’s Earth Observation Data Contributes to Over 1,500 Scientific Publications
Planet Pulse
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Our data has officially contributed to over 1,500 academic publications since 2016. There has been a steady yearly growth in Planet-informed publications released in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, dissertations, and open journals, with over 400 new papers published just in the last year. Notably, in 2021, a study using Planet’s data was published at an average of 1 every 15 hours.
Natural Power expands offshore team with three key senior appointments.
altenergymag
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
In response to market opportunities, the leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has made three new senior appointments in its offshore planning team.
Texas adds battery storage to support grid ahead of winter
Renewable Energy World
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Follow @EngelsAngle. Houston-based Broad Reach Power has added two new stand-alone battery storage projects to the Texas grid. The company announced this week that its North Fork and Bat Cave battery storage projects in Central Texas have been placed into service with ERCOT, each bringing online 100 MW/100 MWh. Broad Reach Power now has 300 MW of dispatchable storage resources in ERCOT.
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?
City Electric Supply to Acquire Solar Distributor Soligent
altenergymag
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Soligent, the largest pure-play solar distributor in the Americas, will lead City Electric Supply’s renewables business.
Carbon markets need strong demand signals to avert a carbon removal crunch
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
The COP26 global climate summit wrapping up this week in Glasgow has called attention to how close we are to a climate tipping. The post Carbon markets need strong demand signals to avert a carbon removal crunch appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Soltec builds first Solarfighter photovoltaic plant in Murcia
altenergymag
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
• The plant, located in Los Martínez del Puerto, is the first distributed generation facility built by Soltec • Solarfighter is the first complete kit comprising both the product and a comprehensive service for commissioning of photovoltaic projects • The project was supported by the Investment Acceleration Unit (UNAI) of the Regional Development Agency of Murcia (INFO)
Taking the positives from COP26
Business Green
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
COP26 has already delivered a series of big wins for the global net zero transition, as well as some worrying setbacks. The negotiations at COP26 are rumbling towards extra time with fears growing that the talks could yet end in deadlock. But at the same time attention is already turning to how any deal will be regarded and the signals it will send to the public and the business community.
Where are we on the path toward a carbon-free energy system?
Renewable Energy World
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Destination 2050 is focus of DISTRIBUTECH / POWERGEN conference and leadership summit. By 2050, if all of the climate-change related pledges and regulations take effect as currently planned, we should be living in a clean-energy powered world with a fully carbon-free electricity system powering fully electrified transportation , industrial and building sectors.
Scientists Find Appalachian Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Put Endangered Species at Risk Thousands of Times
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
In the heart of West Virginia, somewhere along a 22-mile stretch of the Elk River, swims one of the world’s rarest fish, the diamond darter. This tiny partly-translucent fish buries itself beneath grains of sand and gravel in the river-bottom during the day, just its black eyes peeping out as it perhaps hunts or hides from predators itself. The darter’s silvery sides sparkle when it emerges in the evening, giving rise to its gem-inspired name.
ERCOT Standalone Energy Storage: Q CELLS Acquires Its First Battery Energy Storage Project - One of The Largest Under Development in Texas
altenergymag
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Q CELLS USA Corp. announced the acquisition of a 190 MW standalone storage facility, Sputnik Energy Storage development project, from Belltown Power. The project, located in Hunt County, TX, will be one of the largest operating battery storage projects in Texas.
UK firm Connected Kerb installs 10,000 public chargers in 2021
Charged
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
UK charging infrastructure specialist Connected Kerb is rolling out on-street chargers at an impressive pace. The company has installed 1,000 chargers so far this year, and expects to have 5,500 installed across the UK, with contracts secured for 30,000 more, by the end of 2022. By 2030, the company hopes to have 190,000 chargers installed. EV ownership in the UK is skyrocketing—pure EV sales are up by 88 percent year-to-date compared to 2020, and one in four UK households say they intend to go
Tatenda Furusa, ImaliPay
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NOVEMBER 12, 2021
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SES builds a pilot production line for solvent-in-salt electrolyte production
Charged
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Battery supplier SES has built a pilot production line capable of scaling up high-concentration, solvent-in-salt electrolyte production. The pilot line is capable of synthesizing SES’s proprietary solvent and manufacturing a high-concentration solvent-in-salt electrolyte formulation designed for SES’s hybrid Li-metal automotive batteries. The facility is currently capable of producing 5 tons of electrolyte per year, and the company says this can be expanded to 250 tons to meet projected future d
COP26 Live Blog: Fresh draft texts published as Glasgow Summit enters final stretch
Business Green
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
BusinessGreen brings you the latest news, announcements, and reaction from the pivotal climate talks in Glasgow. After a long night for COP26 negotiators, new drafts of the crucial COP26 cover texts were published just past 7am this morning. Along with the rest of our colleagues in Glasgow, we'll be spending the morning poring over the text and debating the intricacies of UN legalese, ahead of the crunch meetings later today that will aim to thrash out the unresolved issues and push the Summit t
Allison Transmission to invest $42 million in Jing-Jin Electric’s IPO
Charged
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Allison Transmission will participate in the initial public offering of electric motor, inverter and propulsion system supplier Jing-Jin Electric (JJE), making a strategic investment of approximately $42 million. FAW Group will also participate as a strategic investor in the IPO. Allison’s investment in JJE follows a recently announced strategic partnership between the two companies, and an earlier debt financing commitment by Allison that will directly support JJE’s North American commercial el
Nokia pledges to source 100 per cent renewable electricity
Business Green
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Company joins calls to accelerate deployment of digital technologies in support of climate efforts, as it announces new environmental goals. Nokia has today announced it aims to secure 100 per cent of its purchased electricity from renewable sources by 2025, strengthening its current target to ensure 60 per cent of its power comes from renewables. In 2020, just 39 per cent of the company's purchased electricity came from renewable sources, but the technology giant has today revealed it intends t
Recent Deals – 13 November
CleanTech Group
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Looking for insight into the latest deals in cleantech? Interested in the future of innovation? Our recent Deals brings you a summary of.
COP26 goes into 'extra time' as row over loss and damage rumbles on
Business Green
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
The talks have cruised past their scheduled close with reports indicating that key groups of countries remain divided on a number of crucial issues. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's prediction earlier this week that COP26 Climate Summit may need to stretch into "extra time" has come to pass, with the negotiations cruising past their scheduled close of 6pm this evening.
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