Sun.Feb 23, 2020

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Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience

Forbes Green Tech

The woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement has called in a new book for political engagement on climate change that goes well beyond the voting booth.

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Heineken cheers CO2, water and clean energy progress on sustainability goals

Business Green

Dutch brewing giant released join financial and sustainability report as it sets sights on developing new 2030 Science Based Targets for CO2. Heineken has toasted further progress against its green goals for carbon emissions, clean energy, and water consumption over the past year while simultaneously boosting profits worldwide. The brewing giant published its latest joint sustainability and financial report on Friday, confirming the Dutch beer brand has cut carbon emissions by volume from its br

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Event - Renewable Energy Markets 2020: Call for Abstracts

Green Market Oracle

Renewable Energy Markets™ (REM) will take place on September 9–11, 2020, at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota. REM™ is seeking abstracts for presentations and panels that are timely, engaging, and informative. Are you a dynamic speaker with compelling story to tell? Presentations/sessions should be as discussion-oriented as possible.

Energy 52
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'Greta effect' boosting demand for climate change careers, RSC claims

Business Green

Survey comes alongside separate research showing surge in support for UK's net zero target. Greta Thunberg may not be a scientist herself, but her passionate calls for world leaders to "listen to the science" on climate change may be rubbing off on young people keen to pursue careers in the subject, the Royal Society for Chemistry (RSC) has claimed.

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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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Fear? Cost? Fame? What’s turning on Asian businesses to renewable energy?

Eco-Business

Companies never buy renewable energy for altruistic reasons, but does that matter? In this interview with Eco-Business, Lionel Steinitz of LYS Energy, talks about why firms go green, and how Southeast Asia can unlock its solar potential.

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Storms signal winds of change for the UK electricity System

Business Green

Wind power benefited during Storms Ciara and Dennis, and more local green energy and storage can build greater grid resilience to outages, argues Kaluza's Conor Maher-McWilliams. With Brendan, Ciara, and last weekend's Dennis, there's been little respite from the raging storms that have swept the UK with 97mph winds and relentless rain. However, amidst the dark clouds, there have been some silver linings.

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'Proven results': Sadiq Khan hails 'bold' London green policies for drop in air pollution

Business Green

Introducing the Ultra Low Emission Zone and rolling out more electric buses have delivered significant drop in pollution, Mayor claims. Efforts to clean up London's chronic air pollution problem appear to be paying off, with City Hall policies helping spur a significant reduction in illegal nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels over the past four years, according to the Mayor of London.

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Greenhouse gases have a puzzling double effect

Eco-Business

Lustier plant growth as greenhouse gases climb should counter global heating and atmospheric carbon build-up. But it’s not quite so simple. Jarle Bjerke of the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research.

Carbon 19
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How to make the Environment Bill investible for business

Business Green

Key amendments are needed to deliver a world leading environmental regime and an investible proposition for business, argues Nick Molho of the Aldersgate Group. Following the General Election, the government re-introduced its Environment Bill on 30 January. The Bill, which comes 25 years after the last Environment Act, is a major piece of legislation which has the potential to put environmental considerations at the heart of Government policy and business decision-making.

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Investors drop demands after Tyson Foods pledges zero deforestation

Eco-Business

Impact investment group Green Century Capital Management has withdrawn a shareholder proposal compelling Tyson Foods Inc, the world’s second-biggest meat processor, to address sustainability in its supply chain.

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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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Event - Circularity 20: Circular Economy Conference

Green Market Oracle

Circularity 20: Circular Economy Conference will take place on May 18-20, 2020 at the May 18 - 20, 2020 at the InterContinental Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia?. This is the largest circular economy conference in the United States. Join 1,000+ thought leaders and practitioners to accelerate the circular economy. Rates Increase Feb. 28. Types: Design & Materials, Next-Gen Packaging, Business Model Innovation.

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ICMA Annual General Meeting and Conference 2020

Eco-Business

Long established as one of the key events in the financial market calendar, the event features influential speakers from governments, regulatory authorities, central banks and financial institutions, and consistently draws a large audience of around 1,100 from ICMA's international membership, the wider financial community, the authorities and financial press.

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Why are governments failing to act on climate change?

Rinexii

56% of Americans think climate change is something that should be addressed right now, according to a CBS news poll. 1 A more in-depth survey poll conducted by ABC news, Stanford, and the RFF found that 68% of Americans think the government should be doing a lot to stop climate change. 2 Similar polls have found that the majority of Australians, 3 the UK 4 , and Canada 5 feel the same way.

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Food and packaging waste: A circular future, or talking in circles?

Eco-Business

Eco-Business, with the support of FairPrice Group, will be organising Food and packaging waste: A circular future, or talking in circles? on 23 June 2020.

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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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Perovskite Solar Cells … Toyota Driving Off A Hybrid Cliff … The Boring Company’s 1st Vegas Tunnel — #CleanTechnica Top 20

CleanTechnica

The most popular CleanTechnica stories last week involved perovskite solar cell research and projections (a hot topic for the past few — or several — years), Toyota's continued focus on hybrids (considered by many to be a death knell for the hybrid leader and 100% electric laggard), and The Boring Company's first of two Las Vegas tunnels.

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Tesla Model 3 Humbles Honda Civic With Chimney On Drag Strip (Video)

CleanTechnica

Yes, that is a freakin' chimney on a modified fifth generation Honda Civic shamelessly emitting clouds of smoke. Making breathing more difficult for every living being on this planet surely means toughness, right? Ummm, we'll see.

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5 Strategies That Achieve Climate Mitigation & Adaptation Simultaneously

CleanTechnica

Climate actions have often fallen into one of two strategies: mitigation efforts to lower or remove greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, and adaptation efforts to adjust systems and societies to withstand the impacts of climate change. The separation has led to the misinformed view that addressing climate change means pursuing either mitigation or adaptation.

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Tesla Cyberbubbles — Another Fun Idea For Elon Musk

CleanTechnica

Cyberbubbles are a fun new idea for the Tesla Cybertruck and could be a fun way to safely "bubble roll" diesel vehicles on the road.

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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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Ideal US Cities To Survive Climate Change

CleanTechnica

Climate scientists have shared where they think would be an ideal place to live in the United States in order to avoid natural disasters. An article, published by Business Insider, posed a question to 12 climate scientists and they gave us a few cities that they thought would be safest.

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Solar-Powered Vehicles From Solarolla

CleanTechnica

"I’m part of a grass roots solar vehicle production company in Ashland OR, called Solarolla (www.solarolla.com)," Daniel & the Solarolla team wrote.

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Why The Dealership Model Is Anti-American

CleanTechnica

In a new video, Sean Mitchell explains why he thinks the US auto dealership model is anti-American.

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Super Duper Supercapacitors Could Accelerate Electric Car Revolution

CleanTechnica

Supercapacitors offer exciting new possibilities for electric vehicles. Here are two stories about advances in supercapacitor technology.

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Australians On Climate-Related Anxieties

CleanTechnica

Australians shared their climate-related anxieties 10 years ago in a recently published study. The study found that rural Australians are most concerned about "suffering under climate change." They were concerned about suffering financially. They were concerned about suffering environmentally. They were concerned about health problems and even social challenges.

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Tesla Cyber Sedan Concept (Video)

CleanTechnica

A Tesla Cyber Sedan is the latest work of creative engineering inspired by the Tesla Cybertruck. This work of art and engineering is brought to life by YouTuber Inspire Automotive, who has an idea for Tesla for a Cyber Sedan.

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Takoma Park, Maryland Debates Fossil Fuel Ban

CleanTechnica

The city of Takoma Park, Maryland is debating a ban on fossil fuels as part of its sustainability plan. Not everyone supports such an idea.