Tue.May 23, 2023

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Pricing nature: Can ‘biodiversity credits’ propel global conservation?

GreenBiz

Backed by the UN, an alliance of conservationists and policymakers is devising new ways to finance the preservation of biodiversity by placing economic values on ecosystems. Some analysts say such schemes have the potential to boost conservation, but others are skeptical.

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Foundations laid for ammonia to hydrogen project

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: Ammogen The foundations have been laid at a green ammonia to hydrogen demonstrator site at Tyseley Energy Park. The project has been developed by the Ammogen Consortium, “a multi-disciplinary and multi-national team dedicated to driving forward hydrogen fuel supply chains in the UK and worldwide” On Wednesday 17 May, consortium partners gathered at Tyseley Energy Park (TEP) to mark the construction milestone for the facility which, once commissioned, “will deliver

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How companies become allies for environmental justice

GreenBiz

It is not a big stretch for corporate policy teams already dealing with community relations to keep track of environmental justice battles in the surrounding frontline communities and speak up as an ally.

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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough residents encouraged to recycle their metal packaging

Envirotec Magazine

(Left to right) Francesca Hawes (MRF Operations Manager, Thalia); Alex Snelling-Day (Waste Policy, Climate and Environment Team Manager, GCSWS); Bryony Rothwell (RECAP Waste Partnership Manager) A new campaign promoting metal packaging recycling has been introduced by RECAP, the waste partnership between Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. In a bid to improve kerbside recycling rates, households across the region are being encouraged to recycle their aluminium wrapping foil and foil trays, food and

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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

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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Google extends AI-enabled Flood Hub to 80 countries

GreenBiz

App provides flood data and forecasts up to seven days in advance to regions where more than 460 million people are exposed to severe flood risk.

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JPMorgan commits $200 million to carbon removal projects

GreenBiz

The U.S. bank is backing multiple carbon removal projects in a bid to address its own operational emissions.

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4 Unique Vegan Dishes You Should Try

The Environmental Blog

Photo by komal G on Unsplash Perhaps you’re a full-blown vegan , or maybe you’re just someone simply who loves exploring new cuisines. The good news is that vegan food has moved beyond just salads and tofu dishes. There are now numerous gourmet and distinctive vegan choices available to amaze you. In this article, we’ve picked four tasty and extraordinary vegan dishes that represent diverse cultures and cuisines from across the globe. #1 Vegan sushi rolls Vegan sushi rolls offe

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Battery-swapping is back in business

GreenBiz

Can the next generation of battery-swapping succeed where others failed?

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FERC and PJM Should Not Bail Out Generators That Failed the “Elliott Test”

NRDC onEarth

As the region faces changing weather and tighter reserve margins, it needs dependable energy supplies. Power plants that fail when needed should be held accountable.

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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

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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Weaving sustainability into the innovation process

GreenBiz

Four ways business leaders can make sustainable innovation a core piece of their business plans.

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Study Shows 14,000 Unplugged Oil and Gas Wells in Gulf of Mexico

NRDC onEarth

Industry has neglected thousands of unused oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico. They will cost an estimated $30 billion to plug and decommission.

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Thermal Energy Storage Innovation is Turning Up the Heat

CleanTech Group

Decarbonizing heavy industries will be one of the toughest nuts to crack for the next decade. Steel, cement, and iron combined account for.

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The Proposed Colorado River Deal: A Short-Term Band-Aid for a Long-Term Problem

NRDC onEarth

The Colorado River conservation proposal from Arizona, California, and Nevada reduces diversions by 1 million acre feet a year. Is this enough to make river management sustainable?

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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 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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UN metrics measure enterprise impact on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

Impact Alpha

Time is running out to meet the ambitious UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set for 2030. There are real concerns that data related. The post UN metrics measure enterprise impact on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Making Electric Vehicle Charging More Equitable Is Key to Our Clean Vehicle Future

NRDC onEarth

Recent federal funding as well as targeted policies and programs can help ensure public charging is accessible for all.

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LevelTen Energy Launches PPA Auctions, Delivering More Speed and Deal Certainty to Renewable Energy Sellers & Buyers

altenergymag

The new offering presents a faster and more secure route to PPA success.

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The Brief: Appalachia as a climate refuge, the science of circular materials, community ownership in California, 2X’s gender-smart mobilization, measuring enterprise impact on the SDGs

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Climate Resilience Appalachia emerges as a climate refuge – and its community infrastructure feels the strain. With its. The post The Brief: Appalachia as a climate refuge, the science of circular materials, community ownership in California, 2X’s gender-smart mobilization, measuring enterprise impact on the SDGs appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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The Green Power Market: An Overview of the Growing Demand for Sustainable Energy

altenergymag

As the world becomes increasingly concerned about the impact of human activity on the environment, the demand for renewable energy sources is growing at an unprecedented rate. One of the fastest-growing segments of the renewable energy market is green power, which includes sources like solar, wind, and geothermal power. The estimated value of the worldwide green power market in 2021 was US$ 47.41; by 2030, it is anticipated to reach US$ 126.7 billion, with a CAGR of 11.54% from 2022 to 2030.

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Funders commit $10 million to combat California’s housing crisis with community ownership

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 23 – Nearly 30% of America’s homeless live in California. Among the state’s extremely low-income households who are housed, nearly 80%. The post Funders commit $10 million to combat California’s housing crisis with community ownership appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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EVgo explains how good rate design encourages deployment of public charging

Charged

Regular Charged readers are familiar with demand charges —fees that utilities charge commercial customers when power draws exceed a certain level. These charges can be shockingly high, and they hit operators of DC fast charging stations very hard indeed. Lindsey Stegall, Manager of Market Development and Public Policy at charging operator EVgo , writes in a recent blog post that the cost of electricity is by far the largest operating cost for a DC fast charging station, and that energy costs, es

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CCC: Net zero can deliver 725,000 net jobs increase for the UK

Business Green

But Committee warns a 'hands-off approach will not work' as it urges government to grasp green growth opportunity in face of increasing competitive threat from US and EU

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Encore Renewable Energy secures equity investment from SUSI Partners to develop and build out gigawatt-scale portfolio of solar and energy storage projects

altenergymag

This significant capital commitment will support the company's continued growth and ongoing transformation into an independent power producer

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Appalachia emerges as a climate refuge – and its community infrastructure feels the strain

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 23 — With its mountainous terrain, water resources and ecological diversity, the Central Appalachia region across West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina. The post Appalachia emerges as a climate refuge – and its community infrastructure feels the strain appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Strengthen Power Plant Carbon Standards for Greater Climate Benefit

NRDC onEarth

Expanding the standards to cover a greater portion of gas-fired power plants and accelerating compliance timelines can achieve better climate outcomes.

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Deforestation found in RGE supply chain as paper and palm oil giant linked to mega mill in Indonesia: NGO report

Eco-Business

RGE-owned Asia Symbol sourced wood from prime orangutan habitat, a new report alleges. Environmentalists have also found ties between RGE and a new pulp mill in Kalimantan, which they say will put pressure on natural forests in Indonesia.

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A Climate Strategy for India Scales Up

NRDC onEarth

With the formation of its affiliate in New Delhi, NRDC rises to meet the sustainability challenges of the world's fastest-growing economy.

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Wind over solar, gas over coal: Tracking key changes in Vietnam’s 10-year power plan

Eco-Business

Several changes to the country’s power development strategy had been made in a span of two years. The regional manufacturing hub has agreed to ditch coal by 2050, and is looking to feasibly make up for the shortfall with renewables and gas.

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3 ways FSM software can help solar businesses increase uptime and reduce inefficiencies

Solar Power World

Backed by government investment and increasingly popular among younger, energy-conscious generations, solar is having a moment. A moment that is unlikely to wane in the coming years as the technology becomes cheaper and more accessible. Rising with the demand for clean solar energy is the need to install, operate and maintain the infrastructure. To manage… The post 3 ways FSM software can help solar businesses increase uptime and reduce inefficiencies appeared first on Solar Power World.

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ADB’s bid to expand private sector financing for climate goals reignites worries about lack of social safeguards

Eco-Business

Watchdog representatives point to the multilateral lender’s wanting track record in ensuring that project-affected communities are adequately consulted when private sector players are involved.

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Community Science Is Changing How People Can Fight Pollution

NRDC onEarth

Grassroots groups are collecting their own pollution data to increase accountability and demand environmental justice.

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Fossil fuel firms should pay trillions in reparations for impending climate chaos: Study

Eco-Business

Climate calamity will cost US$99 trillion in loss and damage by 2100, and the fossil fuel industry is responsible for US$70 trillion of that wreckage – so should pay US$23.2 trillion in reparations by 2050, a groundbreaking new study finds.