Tue.Mar 14, 2023

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5 key facets of a strong sustainability strategy

GreenBiz

Sustainability strategy can be complicated. Here are five key elements to creating a successful one

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Ecobat to build new battery recycling facility in Arizona

Charged

Battery recycling company Ecobat is building its third lithium-ion battery recycling facility and its first in North America.

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Battery electric or hydrogen? We’ll need both, and more, to decarbonize heavy transport

GreenBiz

Battery electric, fuel cells running on green electricity or green hydrogen, and the trusty internal combustion engine have the potential to decarbonize the transport industry

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itselectric raises $2.2 million in funding for its behind-the-meter curbside EV chargers

Charged

Brooklyn-based startup itselectric has raised $2.2 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. The company will use the new funding to focus on the deployment of pilot programs in major cities across the US in 2023.

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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

Join Ayesha Choudhury, Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium, to learn why we need eFuels in the carbon neutrality mix, how eFuels are produced, and how Infinium globally scales eFuel production to benefit society

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Delta’s new sustainability strategy prepares for takeoff

GreenBiz

The airline's sustainability plan brings solid interim targets, but is the aviation industry going fast enough

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How charge management can reduce OpEx and CapEx for EV fleet projects

Charged

Charge management software optimizes charging based on the available power, the schedules of the vehicles and the cost of electricity—from the rudimentary systems built into chargers to highly sophisticated systems that integrate with micro-grids or depot management.

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Inobat and Gotion partner to develop EV battery cells and packs

Charged

European battery manufacturer InoBat and Chinese battery manufacturer Hefei Gotion have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore joint venture opportunities to develop EV battery and energy storage technologies.

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Climate change is supercharging floods and droughts, new research shows

Grist

Droughts and floods are already intensifying as the world warms, putting solid observational data behind a trend scientists have long predicted and one that’s becoming increasingly visible to ordinary people.

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NanoGraf raises $65 million in Series B financing to scale production of silicon anode products

Charged

Battery materials company NanoGraf has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round that was co-led by Volta Energy Technologies and CC Industries. NanoGraf had previously raised a total of $27 million from a mix of funding sources.

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European Renewable Energy Developer IbVogt Chooses Nextracker’s Terrain-Following Solar Tracker

altenergymag

Ability to adapt to uneven terrain and go light on land is crucial to Europe’s demand for solar power to meet growing energy needs

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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 Carbon Zero, Circular Economy, is easily the most profoundly important result of digital transformation. Industry 4.0 has a massively cumulative impact on dematerialization (in all forms) and resultant decarbonization (both emissions and embodied) throughout the economy. Join panelists Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Jimmy Jia, Fabienne Durand, and their moderator Roger Strukhoff as they discuss how bending the carbon/GHG heavy linear economy to the circular is one of the hidden benefits of digital disruption.

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Climate change is supercharging floods and droughts, new research shows

Grist

Droughts and floods are already intensifying as the world warms, putting solid observational data behind a trend scientists have long predicted and one that’s becoming increasingly visible to ordinary people.

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The Brief: Elevar’s strategy for low-income customers, water infrastructure in Africa, green bond in Jordan, biomass to biofuel, ImpactAssets 50

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Emerging Markets From India to Latin America, Elevar Equity invests in better livelihoods and products for low-income customers.

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Emerson Selected by Lodestone Energy to Automate New Zealand's First Large-Scale Photovoltaic Solar Power Project

altenergymag

Unique renewable energy project will support the national effort to decarbonize New Zealand's energy sector

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B.C.’s move to lower fossil fuel emissions signals a more sustainable, competitive direction for the province’s economy

Clean Energy Canada

VICTORIA — Mark Zacharias, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to new B.C. government rules to lower emissions in the fossil fuel sector and create a new Clean Energy and Major Projects Office: “Today’s announcement signals a new direction for B.C.’s

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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

Join our amazing panelists, Nik Gowing, Founder at Thinking the Unthinkable and International Broadcaster; Brenda Laurel, PhD, Principal, Neogaian Interactive; Sheridan Tatsuno, Principal, Dreamscape Global; Archie Kasnet, CEO, Regenerative; and Bruce Armstrong Taylor, The Climate 4.0 Project, to discuss how today's AR/VR and related AI-enabled technologies can be effectively applied, using data from such sources as NASA and NOAA, to both improve and accelerate urban sustainability planning and design.

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Aqua Metals produces high-purity lithium hydroxide directly from recycled Li-ion batteries

Charged

Battery recycler Aqua Metals has demonstrated the recovery of high-purity lithium hydroxide from lithium-ion battery black mass at the company’s Li AquaRefining recycling facility in Nevada.

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Not right to tell youths 'they are the ones to solve all the world’s problems': climate activist Melati Wijsen

Eco-Business

The 23-year-old activist got single-use plastic banned in Bali through Bye Bye Plastic Bags, which she co-founded at the age of 12. But we "do not need every single young person to create their own project" to drive change, she says

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Perovskites: Finding a Foothold for Thin Film Solar

CleanTech Group

The Global Solar Challenge Solar PV plays a key role in the decarbonization of the energy sector. To meet 2050 net-zero goals, the. Energy & Power Solar Energy decarbonization ev charging perovskites Solar solar pv thin film thin film solar

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Singapore sustainability sector salary survey: who's paid most?

Eco-Business

Bank sustainability chiefs are paid the most, NGO execs the least. Sustainability salaries in Singapore are growing but the level of salary increment is levelling off as the talent pool starts to mature, according to recruiter Michael Page

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The unexpected arboretum: CSUSM benefits from sustainable approach to water and environmental management

Green Technology

An arboretum is a living museum of trees and plants. It’s a specialist botanical garden, a space designed for appreciating the wonder of nature, where scientists can conduct research and visitors can learn about tree care and maintenance.

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The mining industry gets ‘too much bad press’: Philippines’ Chamber of Mines representative

Eco-Business

Efforts by the industry to make improvements are not well-publicised, while the reporting of 'unfortunate' incidents skews the views of the public, said mining lawyer Patricia Bunye, in the wake of anti-mining protests in the archipelago

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'Digital Boiler': Deep Green debuts pool-heating data centre technology

Business Green

UK start-up launches new technology that harnesses waste heat from data centres for re-use by local leisure centres and businesses UK start-up Deep Green has today unveiled a new technology that promises to capture waste heat from cloud data centres and provide it free of charge to local businesses and public swimming pools.

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‘Win-win’ for Ant Group and climate as it secures Asia’s biggest ESG-linked loan: group treasurer Charles Cao

Eco-Business

Ant’s group VP and treasurer says the $6.5 billion deal allows the fintech company to raise capital at a cheaper cost to meet green goals. There are, however, concerns about the lack of transparency behind sustainability-linked structures

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Spring Budget: Chancellor touts plans to make UK a 'science and tech superpower'

Business Green

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What are the ‘wrong’ sort of EU Taxonomy estimates?

GreenBiz

European financial regulators shed light on the use of “equivalent information” under the EU Taxonomy

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Research: Renewables and nuclear help Britain avoid £15bn in winter energy costs

Business Green

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Carbon-laden estuaries can spew potent climate-heating gas, study shows

Eco-Business

A dangerous mix of airborne carbon dioxide and upstream chemicals can cause coastal seawater to acidify so much that microbes start emitting high levels of nitrous oxide, which warms the Earth quickly and stays in the air for a century

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The ImpactAssets 50 – er, 163 – is the biggest and most diverse ever

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 14 – This year’s showcase of impact investment fund managers highlights bigger funds and increasing diversity as well as a focus. The post The ImpactAssets 50 – er, 163 – is the biggest and most diverse ever appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Impact Investing Signals

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Government promises £4m boost through forestry innovation funds

Business Green

Defra seeking applications for funding from projects that can enhance tree planting stocks, boost woodland resilience, and create new forestry markets The government has this week announced it is seeking applications for funding from two innovation funds designed to boost the sustainability and resilience of the forestry sector.

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The mining industry gets 'too much bad press': Philippine mining lawyer Patricia Bunye

Eco-Business

Efforts by the industry to make improvements are not well-publicised, says Bunye, who is also a member of the legal committee of the Philippines' Chamber of Mines, in the wake of anti-mining protests in the archipelago

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British International Investment and Metito Utilities to invest in water infrastructure in Africa

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 14 — One-third of Africans lack access to clean drinking water; two-thirds lack access to basic sanitation services. Urbanization and climate. The post British International Investment and Metito Utilities to invest in water infrastructure in Africa appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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New concessions to greenlight large-scale exploitation of Indonesia’s marine resources

Eco-Business

Key changes have raised concerns among some marine conservationists and defenders of artisanal fishers’ rights, who say the new regime is oriented mostly toward the large-scale exploitation of Indonesia’s marine resources when more than half of fishing zones in the country are already “fully exploited.”

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Jordan’s first green bond secures $50 million from IFC

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 14 — Jordan Kuwait Bank issued Jordan’s first green bond to finance clean energy projects, low-carbon transportation, energy efficient real estate. The post Jordan’s first green bond secures $50 million from IFC appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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The chief sustainability officer: To hire or not to hire?

Eco-Business

For a business that wants to improve both its environmental impact and resilience, hiring someone to achieve that objective would on the face of it, seem like the most logical decision to make.

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From India to Latin America, Elevar Equity invests in better livelihoods and products for low-income customers

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 14 – In a volatile global economy, Elevar Equity has found a safe, or at least safer, harbor: low-income customers. There. The post From India to Latin America, Elevar Equity invests in better livelihoods and products for low-income customers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.