GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2020

This is Climate Tech. Precision agriculture and alternative protein. Net-zero approaches to construction. Industrial decarbonization. Alternative fuels and zero-emissions transportation. Carbon capture solutions. These are just some of the intriguing “climate tech” innovations emerging to tackle the long-term crisis of global warming while creating a more sustainable, equitable, regenerative economy — interest has only strengthened amid the far-reaching economic disruption brought on by the coro

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Forbes Green Tech

MAY 3, 2020

Changing the world’s energy map is cheap, especially if we factor in the natural disasters and the cost of treating the diseases it causes. If we simply put a price on the viability of the human species as a whole, it’s clear that pivoting to renewable energy is a no-brainer.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2020

How to Successfully Scale Municipal Fleets. As cities and states march towards aggressive climate action goals, fleet leaders are facing more pressure than ever to electrify, and faster. But there are a variety of decisions and steps required: from working with utilities, to understanding site power capacity required, to determining the optimal schedule to smartly charge electric vehicles.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2020

Distribution network operator pledges to work closely with community energy groups in Midlands, South Wales, and South West England. Western Power Distribution (WPD) has unveiled a 'Net Zero Communities Strategy', which sets out its plan to collaborate more closely with communities and local authorities across its Midlands, South West England, and South Wales base to deliver a green electricity network.

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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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Green Market Oracle

MAY 3, 2020

Virtual Impact Capitalism Summit Smarter Money Focusing on Endowments, Foundations, and Faith-Based Organizations will take place on June 9th, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT Impact Capitalism Smarter Money. At the Summit, world leaders in impact will discuss and chart impact investing’s new role in the age of COVID-19. We hope you are able to join the conversation.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2020

But buy-in from the business community will be critical to accelerate green transport, argues AECOM's Robert Spencer. Something quietly radical is unfolding. And if it achieves what it promises, we could now be looking at a once-in-a-generation chance to make our transport systems and the way people and goods move around substantially more sustainable.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2020

Green and ethical smartphone pioneer reveals plans for latest upgraded model. Fairphone, the ethical smartphone manufacturer dedicated to cleaning up the electronics supply chain, is offering its new Fairphone 3 (FP3) model with the /e/OS operating system pre-installed in place of the phone's default slight variation of stock Android. /e/ CEO Gaël Duval describes /e/OS as a "de-Googled" fork of Android that follows the principles of privacy by design, replacing those elements that phone hom

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Eco-Business

MAY 3, 2020

Manila is projected to produce the most Covid 19-related medical waste, followed by Jakarta, among five major cities surveyed by the Asian Development Bank. Will incineration be an option?

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2020

Extreme weather events are a defining feature of the new, changing climate. The unpredictable nature and the widespread impact of such events pose a myriad of risks to contractual counterparties. States' commitments to combat climate change may also affect contractual performance. As parties traditionally allocate business risks when contracting, these climate change-related risks now more than ever require careful consideration by contracting parties.

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Eco-Business

MAY 3, 2020

As oil markets fluctuate wildly, how can the world economy still be running on a commodity that not only wreaks havoc on the planet when extracted and burned, but is unpredictable and volatile?

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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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Business Green

MAY 3, 2020

Transition Pathway Initiative research finds just two companies – Freeport and Grupo Mexico – are on track to keep warming under 2C by 2050. Most of the world's largest mining companies are on track to miss global climate targets, a fresh analysis warns today, highlighting how far the sector is from an emissions trajectory that is compatible with less than 2C of warming.

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Eco-Business

MAY 3, 2020

As lower levels of coal and gas are burned due to lower electricity demand in Europe, wind and solar reached a record-high share of demand in the past 30 days, offering valuable insights on the road to zero-carbon electricity systems.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2020

IIGC, AIGCC, Ceres, and CDP among major green investment groups urging governments to avoid backing risky, high-carbon projects as part of their coronavirus recovery plans. A coalition of major green investors backed by trillions of dollars of assets under management worldwide have joined growing calls for a green economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, arguing governments "should not lose sight of the climate crisis" as they seek to restart their economies.

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Eco-Business

MAY 3, 2020

An indigenous network says the government is attempting to stop it monitoring forest loss via patrolling and satellite imagery, just when its work is most needed.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 3, 2020

Read time: 8 mins On April 15, Judge Brian Morris nullified water-crossing permits in Montana that were granted for the Keystone XL , a major setback for the long-embattled tar sands oil pipeline. The ruling came just days after Keystone XL owner TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada, obtained billions of dollars in subsidies from the Alberta government as global oil prices plummeted.

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Eco-Business

MAY 3, 2020

The world’s energy markets are in upheaval, as experts report an historic fall in global fossil fuel demand.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 3, 2020

The Mobility Confidence Index for battery electric and self-driving vehicles remains stagnant -- will Tesla help moving forward.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 3, 2020

Passenger auto sales in France fell by 88.8% year on year in April. Though, the second half of the month did show signs of recovery. Plug-in electric vehicles took 7.8% market share, with favorite models being the Renault Zoe, Peugeot e-208, and Tesla Model.

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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

MAY 3, 2020

Volkswagen's quest to build an electric car for less than 20,000 euros has taken a step backward after a decision was made to not pursue a sales strategy for the car in China due to market conditions.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 3, 2020

The handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in many regions, including the US and some European nations, has certainly exposed complacency, mis-truths, incompetence, and bad decisions, to say the least. However, despite Elon Musk's recent loose use of language, the word "fascism" has conventional meanings and associations, about serious topics, most of which are not usefully applied to the current crisis (accepting that raising controversy sometimes provokes needed debates).

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CleanTechnica

MAY 3, 2020

A new study explores the environmental, social, and economic costs of different sources of base metals used in the world's transition away from fossil fuels. The while paper is entitled Where Should Metals for the Green Transition Come From.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 3, 2020

Ford has canceled its electric vehicle (EV) plans with Rivian with regards to a fully electric Lincoln SUV. Last year, Ford invested $500 million in Rivian.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 3, 2020

Or: why Elon Musk is excited about a technology that has been known for such a long time.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 3, 2020

People freaked out a bit at the end of this week when Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted, "Tesla stock price is too high imo.

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