DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Read time: 5 mins By Edward Cavanough. This story originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. The country is paying a deadly price for its conservative politicians’ climate denialism. .
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Australia is embracing "waste-to-energy," which takes everyday trash and uses it to create electricity -- a process that avoids landfills and is considered sustainable energy.
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Business Green
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Accounting giant to both reduce and offset its carbon emissions as part of plans to 'drive long-term, sustainable growth'. Global accounting giant Ernst & Young (EY) is aiming to be 'carbon neutral' by the end of 2020 by both reducing and offsetting its carbon emissions, the company announced on Friday. In a bid to improve environmental performance and drive "long-term, sustainable growth", EY said it planned to cut carbon emissions through a focus on reducing travel, enhancing sustainable p
Unsustainable
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Journalists from the Miami Herald to the BBC have crowned Miami, FL, Ground Zero, for the effects of Climate Change. As a result, this southern flood city has become the spotlighted posterchild of flood prediction and prevention innovations. By Emily Blitstein In Miami, flooding has been a serious development topic over the last decade. In 2017 the city of Miami Beach dove into the second stage of its $400- to $500-million investment project, (which began in 2013), to raise roads and install pum
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.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Transition Pathway Initiative research reveals just 19 per cent of largest, listed industrial companies are cutting emissions in line with a 2C pathway. Less than one in five large industrial companies are committed to reducing their emissions in line with a two degrees pathway as required by the Paris Agreement, new research from the Transitions Pathway Initiative (TPI) reveals today.
Green Market Oracle
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
This impact investing conference will take place on April 30 - May 1, 2020 at the The Great Hall, Kensington Conference and Events Centre, Hornton St, Kensington, London W8 7NX. There will be 200 Delegates and 25 speakers including including UBS, EIF, Big Issue, MoJ and DFID. The issues and themes that will be discussed include: Social Return on Investment (SROI) approach in impact measurement, The future of Impact Investing with Blockchain and AI, How we measure impact through investing in soci
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Green Market Oracle
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Iber-REN will take place on September 22-23, 2020 at the new VP Plaza España Design hotel in Madrid, Spain. Iber-REN unites the entire Iberian renewable energy value chain, offering premium networking experiences with 300 key decision-makers and more than 80 speakers in a 5-star setting. Network with senior level decision makers. Bring your whole team to Iber-REN and maximise your networking opportunities.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
The World Economic Forum cited extreme weather, climate change and natural disasters as the top risks facing the world in 2020, while CEOs cited trade wars, over regulation, and uncertain growth. We live in a world threatened by numerous existential risks that no country or organisation can resolve alone, such as climate change, extreme weather and the coronavirus.
Eco-Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
A report commissioned by a group campaigning against the Batang Toru dam in Indonesia says the dam will do little to connect the few remaining isolated communities in the region to the grid.
R-Squared Energy
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
In December 2015, President Obama signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016. A provision of this bill repealed a crude oil export ban that the U.S. had in place since 1975. This repeal was part of a deal that also extended certain renewable energy tax credits. The shale oil boom had created a glut of light, sweet crude in the U.S. The export ban had made it difficult to ship crude oil to countries other than Canada.
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.
Eco-Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Pension funds are some of the world's largest investors—holding trillions in assets—billions of which are pumped into fossil fuel companies like Shell, BP, and Total.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Government must deliver carbon cutting policies this year to stay on track for net zero and maintain role as climate leader at COP26, think tank warns. The government is not on track to meeting its legal net zero emissions target and must rapidly bring forward new green policies or risk undermining its diplomatic influence and credibility at the crucial COP26 climate summit in Glasgow this autumn, an influential green think tank has warned today.
Eco-Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
The EU's so-called “taxonomy” for classifying green investments should address three important questions. Unfortunately, the Commission's one-dimensional approach disregards two of the three, with potentially damaging consequences.
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
The most popular CleanTechnica stories last week included a top 10 list of the best things about owning a Tesla Model 3 and the worst things about owning a Tesla Model 3. (Many of the items on the lists relate to any EV, and almost all of them relate to any Tesla.) Another top story was Elon Musk's comments in a recent interview that something akin to "alien technology" is coming.
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.
Eco-Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Indigenous groups and local officials have successfully argued that the firm, PT Mantimin Coal Mining, should not have been issued a permit without a full environmental impact assessment.
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Zombie fish — it's just a prelude of what's to come for our waters, once protected, but not more.
Eco-Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
The inaugural Renewable Energy Markets (REM) Asia conference is a unique all-day conference that will bring together leading industry players throughout the global renewable energy markets to meet, network, learn, and plan for the future of the Asia Pacific region.
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Cluno is a German company that helps its customers drive in a cost-effective manner. It's marketed toward those who would rent a car often but don't want to own one. It includes several different electric vehicle models in its lineup.
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?
Eco-Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
The Large-scale Solar Forum is Australia's premier technical large-scale solar event, bringing together industry professionals from the solar sector for a full day of knowledge sharing and networking.
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
There will be at least eight new electric vehicle models coming to Australia's market in 2020, which will add more variety for drivers wanting to cut out their carbon emissions. The new models arriving this year include: the Audi e-tron, Porsche Taycan, Mercedes-Benz EQC, MG ZSEV, Mini Cooper SE electric, and vehicles from Volvo and Polestar. There is also a new local player, EV Automotive.
Eco-Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
This two-day business conference will identify the main areas of opportunity and innovation within the food and beverage industry. We'll assess how business can react to consumer trends and expectations, whilst building sustainable, resilient agricultural supply chains.
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Slowly but surely, we are getting there. We recently shared Kenyan startup GreenSpoon’s move to embrace electric delivery vans and ABInBev’s South African Breweries’ addition of the Mitsubishi Fuso eCanter to its fleet. Well, now, on our travels to Botswana, we came across MyFoodness, which has been using electric scooters on its delivery routes since.
Eco-Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
China’s banks supporting BRI projects should apply environmental risk-management policies and oversight, says Divya Narain.
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Super Bowl ads are the crème de la crème of marketing, yet it seems there is no need for Tesla to pay for Super Bowl ads. Not only is it the best selling EV and the best selling luxury vehicle in the United States — many NFL players agree that it is the "hottest new car in the NFL." In fact, CNBC discovered that the one thing that the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers have in common is their love for Tesla.
Eco-Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Online fundraising has the capacity to deliver a huge boost to charity fundraising, but only when used well.
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
What messages emerge within the Super Bowl teaser ad for the new all-electric Hummer.
Eco-Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Nanotech France 2020, the 6th edition of the international conference and exhibition, brings together leading scientists, researchers, engineers, practitioners, technology developers and policy makers in nanotechnology to exchange information on their latest research progress and innovation.
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
A new study conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) just discovered that the Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it is literally dissolving the shells off of crab larvae. This was expected, sure, but it is happening much earlier than researchers feared that it would.
Eco-Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Join the global community of purpose-led innovators at the leading conference for sustainability and brand professionals: SB'20 Long Beach.
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Mattel, the toymaker that made all those Barbie dolls I use to rip the heads off of and throw at strangers when I was two, has goals that will help benefit our environment. Mattel wants to transition to creating products that are made from 100% recycled products and for these products to be packed in recyclable or bio-based materials by.
Eco-Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Biotech France 2020 Conference will be held in Paris- France from 23 to 25June 2020.
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared in an episode of the Third Row Tesla podcast that went live this week that the company is moving away from the concept of battery modules in future pack designs.
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