Wed.Jan 25, 2023

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AI has great power in combating the climate crisis. How can it be used wisely?

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Artificial intelligence carries great promise in advancing sustainability and resilience in sectors from agriculture to transportation. But it takes human intelligence to ensure AI solutions deliver positive outcomes

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Decarbonising local roads: Seven new programmes to start in 2023

Envirotec Magazine

A government-funded initiative aiming to accelerate innovation in the roads sector announced funding awards for several new projects on 25 January.

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Water tech catches a wave

GreenBiz

"Water is only going to get more important. Water change is climate change

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Best of GBB in 2022: Green Businesses Leading the Sustainable Business Movement

Green Business Bureau

Our members continue to amaze us with their commitment to sustainability and their innovative green and social responsibility initiatives. They lead by example and demonstrate how business can be used as a platform for good.

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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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Natural capital earns investor interest

GreenBiz

The practical upshot: There is no path to decarbonization without major investments in natural capital

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How Resource Management Can Help Businesses With Sustainability

U.S. Green Technology

Sustainability is more important than ever. A surprising 4 out of 5 people say that they’d rather choose a brand with a positive approach to sustainability, and a further 87% say they want businesses to act now to protect the future of the environment.

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The Environmental Benefits of Investing in Solar Power

U.S. Green Technology

Did you know that solar power is at a tipping point? With the falling price of solar panels and efficiency improvements, the industry is steadily expanding. When you invest in solar power, you’re reaping loads of rewards. But how do you convince yourself to make that leap?

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California logistics firm to add nearly 100 Freightliner electric trucks to its fleet

Charged

Logistics company Schneider has ordered nearly 100 Class 8 electric trucks for its intermodal operations in Southern California.

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How To Verify Carbon Credits

U.S. Green Technology

Carbon credits allow a business or organization to emit carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the primary contributing greenhouse gases (GHGs) to climate change, to a specific limit. Experts agree that a single credit is equivalent to the right to generate one ton of CO2.

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Growing coconuts with dignity in the Philippines

Inhabitat - Innovation

Connie is a single mom of four in a rural area of the Philippines where 85% of the population is unemployed. Celso worked irregular construction jobs, but his passion is tending vegetables and houseplants. Angelita overcame a gambling problem and is now helping to bring medical care to Philippine villages

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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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With $3bn in deals, agrifoodtech startups prove themselves a vital part of climate tech investment

AFN Sustainable Protein

Climate tech investment landed in the spotlight in 2022. While other sectors (e.g., eGrocery, food delivery) saw valuations nosedive and VC dollars dwindle, climate tech investment “hovered at historic highs,” according to PWC’s State of Climate Tech 2022 report.

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LEM’s new UL-certified bidirectional DC meter for fast EV chargers

Charged

The public charging industry is moving towards per-kilowatt-hour (as opposed to time-based) billing, and manufacturers will increasingly be required to incorporate certified DC meters into their charging stations.

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Britain’s protected natural areas are failing to stop biodiversity loss

Grist

In the United Kingdom, some species of bees, ladybugs and spider populations are declining at faster rates in protected natural areas. That’s according to a new study that shows protected areas in the U.K. are as vulnerable to biodiversity loss as their unprotected counterparts.

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Marposs offers a new system for checking pouch cell battery welds

Charged

Marposs , a designer and manufacturer of measurement, inspection and testing products, has announced a new system for checking the welding joints of pouch cell batteries within the production process, consisting of interferometric sensors and the company’s NCG (non-contact gauge) controller.

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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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S-5! Solar Expert Presents at Intersolar North America & Introduces New Product

altenergymag

Attendees are invited to stop by S-5! Booth #2124 to see first-hand the newest addition to its balance of systems lineup, the Module-Level Power Electronics (MLPE) clip. The MLPE clip provides a cost-effective attachment method for various MLPE devices directly to the PV module frame

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J.D. Power sets out to quantify progress towards EV adoption

Charged

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it, as the saying goes. The degree of progress towards full adoption of EVs seems like something that wouldn’t be easy to measure, but if anyone can do it, it’s probably data analytics powerhouse J.D. Power. The J.D.

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Soltec obtains environmental permits for 401 MW in the Spanish provinces of Murcia and Alicante

altenergymag

● Out of the 401 MW, which are distributed amongst sixteen plants, 352 MW are being co-developed with French Giant TotalEnergies ● Soltec, in accordance with Royal Decree-Law 23/2020, has obtained all environmental impact assessments (DIA) due in January 2023

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Group14 Technologies raises $214 million for development of silicon battery tech

Charged

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Microsoft and Qcells announce strategic alliance to curb carbon emissions and power the clean energy economy

altenergymag

-Qcells seeks to supply more than 2.5 gigawatts of solar panels and EPC services to solar project developers in partnership with Microsoft -The first-of-its-kind collaboration is rooted in the companies’ collective commitments to diversify the global energy supply chain and reduce carbon emissions

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The state of impact investing public policy – and opportunities for 2023

Impact Alpha

The past year has been one of both exciting growth and unexpected challenges for the impact investing industry. Amid an uncertain macroeconomic forecast. The post The state of impact investing public policy – and opportunities for 2023 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Southern Housing selects Switch2 as Brighton heat network ESCo partner

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Switch2 Energy has entered into an ESCo partnership with Southern Housing to manage all aspects of heat network operation at the housing association's new Home X residential community in Brighton

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Eurostar merges with Thalys in bid to boost passenger numbers

Business Green

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Young Living Distribution Center to Offset 80 Percent of Energy Use Through SharedSolar Program

altenergymag

The Young Living Essential Oils distribution center in Spanish Fork, Utah, is joining the SharedSolar program from RenewChoice to cut down on energy usage and costs. The communal solar grid helps to generate clean energy in a more accessible way for home and business owners in the area, and subscribing is the latest move in Young Living’s sustainability efforts

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Faraday Challenge: UK's EV battery sector receives £27m jump start

Business Green

The Faraday Battery Challenge has awarded latest wave of funding to 17 UK based firms working on cutting-edge battery innovations The UK's electric vehicle (EV) sector received a jump start today with the announcement that £27.6m

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Extra Space Storage's solar portfolio with Pivot Energy to surpass 15 megawatt milestone

altenergymag

The rooftop solar arrays developed throughout this partnership will produce about 20 million kilowatt-hours of carbon-free electricity each year, an amount equivalent to powering over 2,500 homes

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Economic Development Board appoints Jamie Chan from Singapore Environment Council

Eco-Business

The former National Environment Agency officer joins EDB after a stint with non-profit Singapore Environment Council

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'Don't bank on it': UK banks under fire for financing fossil fuel expansion

Business Green

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War and the environment: UN adopts new principles

Eco-Business

Governments have agreed a set of guidelines to protect the environment during and after wartime, the most significant legal update on the issue in 50 years

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Sustainable Facilities Forum 2023

Green Technology

MAIN PAGE EDUCATION PROGRAM SPONSOR PROFILES WHY SPONSOR ADVISORY BOARD REGISTER Resources Summit Agenda Education Program Leadership Awards Sponsor Profiles Why Sponsor?

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Can a national carbon market help India cut both emissions and costs?

Eco-Business

A robustly designed carbon market, coupled with an integrated policy package and supported by an appropriate regulatory structure, would balance competing interests and trade-offs to ensure optimum coverage, caps, pricing and reporting

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A SAF bet? Conservative MPs urge government to strengthen 'Jet Zero' plans

Business Green

New aviation manifesto from Conservative Environment Network urges government to help accelerate development of UK sustainable aviation fuel industry The UK is at danger of missing its target to deliver a net zero emission aviation industry unless it rapidly accelerates the development of a domestic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry.

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The Brief: Development finance transparency, electric pay-as-you-mow, diabetes care in India, Generate’s latest raise, impact policy lookahead

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! ? Don’t miss next week’s call. ImpactAlpha is on the hunt for proactive strategies in the $4 trillion municipal.

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Untapped hydropower can help Laos, Myanmar and Indonesia safely meet energy demand: study

Eco-Business

New research shows that these three Southeast Asian nations are among the top 20 countries in the world with unused profitable hydropower potential. Strict environmental rules are, however, vital to unlocking this potential

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How to create a cohesive PV preventative maintenance plan

Solar Power World

By Hannah Smith, marketing and business development manager, Day Electric There are a variety of reasons why preventative maintenance is a vital aspect of the sustainability and health of PV solar systems.