Grist

OCTOBER 18, 2020

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Restoring natural landscapes damaged by human exploitation can be one of the most effective and cheapest ways to combat the climate crisis while also boosting dwindling wildlife populations, a scientific study finds. If a third of the planet’s most degraded areas were restored, and protection was thrown around areas still in good condition, that would store carbon equating to h

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Having worked in the environmental field for 30 years, I’ve watched the situation get worse every year, to the point that it might already be irreversible, and we don’t know what damage it’s going to do to us, exactly. That’s pretty insane, and so as the cause of the environmental damage is the human economy, I’ve been trying to connect the environmental world with the economic, to give an ecological rationale for building a new economy to replace this one.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

New socio-economic research from Oxford Brookes focused on an Aberdeen offshore wind farm suggests developer underestimated the value the project would have for local and Scotland-wide economies. A new study suggests that offshore wind developers could be underestimating the scale of the economic benefits projects can deliver for local communities. Researchers from Oxford Brookes have found that an offshore wind farm in Aberdeen bay owned by Vattenfall could generate more than £5m a year f

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 18, 2020

This event will take place on December 2-4, 2020. Society has reached a crossroads, and we’re facing some critical decisions. Join world leaders, policymakers, activists and innovators online as they sketch out the future we want to see, and discuss the best way to get there. This is the world's fastest-growing technology event and it will bring together top decision-makers from the tech industry, including founders, CEOs and leading innovators.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

VIDEO: Gavin Esler talks to UNDP's Cassie Flynn; the UK government's Minister for Climate Change and Corporate Responsibility Lord Callanan, Jen Austin from the High Level Climate Champions for COP25 and COP26, and E3G's Shane Tomlinson. Labelled by some as the summit to save the world, the COP26 UN climate change summit is widely regarded as the most critical moment for the Paris Agreement since it came into being in 2015, with global governments now under pressure to come forward with more amb

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 18, 2020

There will be 43 per cent more solar output by 2040, partly due to new analysis showing that solar power is 20 to 50 per cent cheaper than thought, found the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2020.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Three weeks after China told the world it is aiming for carbon neutrality, an important study outlines a roadmap to that goal, and challenges along the way.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Industry, environmental stakeholders and government must work together to tackle the challenges posed by overlapping demands for seabed space, writes The Crown Estate's Huub den Rooijen. Some fifty miles offshore, a drone whirrs up alongside a wind turbine tower, its cameras surveying the jumbo-jet sized blade. The delicate surface is recorded in minute detail and the data is fed into sophisticated algorithms, telling the maintenance engineers where to focus their efforts in keeping these blades

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The risks of a 'spillover' of deadly pathogens into people is growing as deforestation and fires put animals on the move, researchers warn.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

VIDEO: Founder and CEO of UK's second largest energy supplier talks to Lucy Siegle about consumer behaviour change, new subscription models for home energy, and zero carbon aviation. Stephen Fitzpatrick founded OVO Energy in 2009 with a stated mission to make to make energy 'cheaper, greener and simpler' for everyone. Since then the company has enjoyed a remarkable decade.

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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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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Fossil fuel companies continue to hang onto an in-your-face stance that the global energy demand for oil will rebound after covid-.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Morten Nilsson explains why the BTPS is aiming to be net zero on carbon emissions by 2035, and how it plans to get there. At the end of September, the BT Pension Scheme (BTPS) set an ambitious 2035 net-zero goal for our £55bn investment portfolio. As if to underline our message, the weather service Copernicus published data on the same day we made our announcement which revealed that September 2020 was the warmest September on record globally and that Arctic sea ice was at its second-lowes

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 18, 2020

This past week, Fisker announced that its upcoming Ocean electric SUV would be built by none other than Magna — a move that offers Fisker access to Magna's global supply chain and gives the latest iteration of the Danish-born designer's eponymous car brand real, instant street cred.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Analysis published by We Mean Business coalition recommends policymakers reject traditional stimulus programmes that focus on VAT reductions and boosting household spending in favour of targeted support for green technologies and solutions. In the latest addition to the library of studies that has underscored the benefits of a 'green recovery' to the coronavirus pandemic, economists have today published a new research detailing how stimulus packages that invest in low carbon technologies and inf

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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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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 18, 2020

There are rumors out there that Tesla has now completely disbanded their PR department, because the company no longer responds to press inquiries.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Gavin Shoebridge, the creator of Kiwi EV Adventures on YouTube, has a goal to convert a 1982 Lada Niva into an EV. He has his eye on one and is using ebook sales and the extra help from supporters through his GoFundMe to raise the funds to purchase it.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Norway just hit 82% plugin vehicle new car sales in September 2020. This raises the question: "Why are 18% of the purchases non-plugin vehicles?" Let's investigate this question.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The question on everyone’s lips right now is, will Joe Biden expand the Supreme Court to counter Trump’s court blocking plan? The answer is, of course he is. He would be an idiot now to.

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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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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The Tesla Owners Club of New York State (TOCNYS) landed a victory during the late hours of October 14th. A Special Use Permit (SUP) was granted at the Tesla Henrietta location, providing ability to become a gallery. This will allow Tesla to show potential customers its products at the location for both test drives and educational purposes.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Renewables are the primary choice for new electricity generation in Vietnam, Australia, and the US and the pace of adoption is accelerating.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 18, 2020

What the heck is an anode and cathode in a battery, and why is that important.

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