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Emerging leaders weigh in on what's missing from corporate climate action

GreenBiz

Climate action requires listening to and learning from one another. That’s part of the work being done at GreenBiz Group’s annual gathering for sustainability practitioners.

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Stop Worrying About Chernobyl – It’s The Russian Invasion That’s Deadly

Jim Conca

Many more people have already died from the Russian invasion than ever died from the Chernobyl accident in 1986, and more people have evacuated and fled than ever did after Chernobyl.

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Carbon & Beyond: How the Last Decade Can Prepare ESG Leaders for 2030

GreenBiz

A panel of ESG experts will share what they’ve learned from their years of experience working in sustainability and what we can expect from upcoming ESG trends and regulatory changes.

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Business Sustainability Trends to Expect in 2022

The Environmental Blog

The depletion of natural resources is linked to global warming and has many adverse effects, including water shortage and the extinction of plants and animals. More individuals now have a better awareness of this, so they take a step in protecting the environment. Businesses also step forward in supporting this cause. If you want to make your business sustainable, you may be interested in the expected trends in this field this 2022.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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6 stops on the roadmap to net zero emissions for the apparel sector

GreenBiz

These actions can deliver 60 percent of the emissions reductions needed for the industry to stay in line with the Paris Agreement.

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Helping Communities Hit by Climate Change

Green Living Guy

Last year, New Orleans experienced the most severe hurricane since Katrina. Residents lost electricity for at least two weeks, and some areas of the city are still out of power. Environmental researchers predict that the frequency of high category hurricanes will increase as the planet becomes warmer. Communities experiencing severe climate change effects are low-income and […].

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5 Advantages of Green Mortgages

Green Living Guy

Buying a home is a big investment, but it can change your life for the better. Having your own property that you can enjoy and set up just the way you like can be a big relief if you have spent years renting while you saved up money for a new house. For those who […]. The post 5 Advantages of Green Mortgages appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Episode 306: Accountability, the Ukraine war and that IPCC report

GreenBiz

Plus, we chat about Sidecar founder Sunil Paul's new zero-emissions fleet venture, Spring Free EV.

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SES Korea to focus on Li-metal battery supply chain and automotive A-samples

Charged

High-performance Li-metal EV battery developer and manufacturer SES AI (formerly known as SolidEnergy Systems) has incorporated a subsidiary called SES Korea. The business plans to build a pre-production facility in South Korea to expand its battery supply chain and work on its A-sample joint development agreements with automakers. SES Korea expects to have about 50 employees by the end of 2022 supporting its automotive A-sample joint development agreements with GM , Hyundai and Honda.

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Why is composting so hard in the United States?

GreenBiz

Just 27 percent of people in the United States has access to some form of composting service.

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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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New yaw ring repair method makes wind turbine lifetime extension viable

altenergymag

Patented system makes yaw ring repairs economically feasible - Danish company CNC Onsite's method can extend wind turbine life - Repair versus replacement represents a significant CO2 reduction - New tool is portable, compact and separable to allow in-situ uptower repairs.

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Tritium partners with Wise EV to roll out national US charging network

Charged

Charging station manufacturer Tritium (Nasdaq: DCFC) has formed a partnership with Wise EV, a subsidiary of renewable energy service provider Wise Power , to provide DC fast chargers for a new national EV charging network. The new network is expected to start with 25 locations at Florida gas stations. Florida is the number-two US state for EV sales, and received the third largest state allocation under the new National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program Guidance.

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UK-first partnership to deliver affordable energy to those most in need

altenergymag

A pioneering battery and energy storage specialist has teamed up with a national energy supplier to help deliver green power and cut the cost of bills in what is thought to be the first scheme of its kind in the country.

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Orange EV claims to have the most electric trucks operating in the US

Charged

Electric trucks are much in the news these days, but most of the coverage seems to focus on well-known OEMs such as Daimler and Volvo , which are just beginning to deliver e-trucks to US customers, or Tesla , which has delivered none. Meanwhile, Orange EV , founded in 2012, says it has deployed over 370 trucks to some 100 fleet customers in 24 states.

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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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Smart grid solutions delivered to Kansas utilities

Smart Energy International

Smart grid technology company Tantalus Systems partners with Kansas Municipal Energy Agency (KMEA) to help more than 80 of their utilities adopt purpose-built smart grid solutions. The partnership is a promising prospect where Tantalus, who transforms grids to bolster public utility efficacy, joins forces with KMEA, who provide member services across engineering, testing, line maintenance, and rate studies.

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Siemens collaborates with Ford on custom bidirectional charger for F-150 Lightning electric pickup

Charged

Siemens eMobility is working with Ford to develop a custom charger for the upcoming F-150 Lightning. The Ford Charge Station Pro is a UL-certified, “bidirectional-ready” Level 2 charging station that features peak power of 19.2 kW. The Ford Charge Station Pro is required to enable Ford Intelligent Backup Power, a system that allows the F-150 Lightning to be used as a power source during outages.

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Energy Transfer Continued Work After Telling Investors Mariner East Pipeline Was Completed

DeSmogBlog

On February 16, Energy Transfer announced in an earnings call that construction on its long-delayed Mariner East pipeline project, built to carry natural gas liquids across southern Pennsylvania, was “complete.”. Nine days later, a truck arrived at the Tunbridge apartment complex in Middletown Township, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, carrying lengths of uninstalled pipeline, according to photographs, videos and witness accounts obtained by DeSmog.

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Webinar: Fully charge your investment in battery energy storage systems

altenergymag

Maximising opportunities from developing and investing in battery energy storage systems (BESS) is the subject of a free webinar on Tuesday 5 April 2022 (10am to 11am).

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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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Greentown Sector Pitch Day Explores Decarbonizing Existing Buildings?

Greentown Labs

Decarbonizing the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors will require collaboration across the climatetech ecosystem, with climate finance, policy, and justice leaders working in concert with technology entrepreneurs to scale solutions. That’s why we convene our startups, partners, and investor network four times a year for our Sector Pitch Day series, each time exploring innovation areas and opportunities present in a particular sector.

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World’s largest green hydrogen project unveiled in Texas, with plan to produce clean rocket fuel for Elon Musk

Energy Central

The 60GW Hydrogen City project, announced by local start-up Green Hydrogen International, will be powered by wind and solar, with an on-site salt cavern for H2 Join Hydrogen for America Professionals Group [link].

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Peers Urged to Sell Shares in Russian Fossil Fuel Companies

DeSmogBlog

Campaigners are calling on British peers to ditch their shares in Russian oil and gas as Vladimir Putin’s bloody invasion of Ukraine stretches into a second week. Politicians in both Houses of the UK Parliament have been united in condemning Putin’s actions, which have created over a million refugees. Hundreds of civilians and thousands of soldiers on both sides are reported to have died in the conflict. .

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Cutting the cord: Tony Blair Institute sets out plan to halt Europe's dependency on Russian gas

Business Green

Snap analysis explores how Europe could rapidly curb Russian oil and gas imports and tap into long term energy security and environmental gains. The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) has today published a new paper detailing how Europe could bring an end to imports of Russian Gas in direct response to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Titled Cutting the Cord: Ending Europe's Energy Dependency on Russia argues that the EU and its partners, including the UK, could drastically curb its reliance on Rus

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Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station Attacked by Russian Forces

Energy Central

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station Attacked by Russian Forces via @djysrv and @NucNetNews Note to Readers: This is a fast moving story so this update is necessarily a snapshot in time posted at 8:00 AM EST. Follow Neutron Bytes on Twitter via @djysrv for breaking news. Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station Attacked by Russian Forces; Radiation Readings Normal.

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February delivers another 'bumper month' for UK electric vehicle sales

Business Green

But trade body SMMT warns pace of chargepoint rollout continues to lag behind growing demand from EVs. Electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to go from strength to strength in the UK, hoovering up a near 18 per cent share of the entire car market last month, according to the latest figures released today by trade association SMMT show. Around 10,400 new battery electric cars were sold in February, which in addition to 4,700 plug-in hybrid sales and 6,900 hybrid electric vehicle sales, means that

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A Stronger Grid in the Face of Wildfires • 7/13/22

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

July 13, 2022. 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST. Virtual Event. Register Here. A panel of grid experts explaining why grid resiliency matters and how to mitigate events like wildfires in the era of climate change. Standard ticket: $15. This event is complimentary for all WCS members. No promo codes needed. Refer to the membership options here. B ecome a member here.

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Palm oil buyers pledge to fund social and enviornmental projects in 'priority' sourcing regions

Business Green

ASD Impact Fund to pool resources from a range of corporates to support smallholder farmers, landscapes, and communities. A raft of major palm oil buyers have agreed to fund a scheme that aims to generate positive environmental and social outcomes in an undisclosed region where they source the raw material. The corporate coalition - which includes chemicals company Croda International, consumer goods firm GSK Consumer Healthcare, cosmetics giants Estee Lauder Companies and Natura & Co, and c

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Save the Date: A Stronger Grid in the Face of Wildfires • 7/13/22

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

July 13, 2022. 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST. Virtual Event. More Info Coming Soon. The post Save the Date: A Stronger Grid in the Face of Wildfires • 7/13/22 appeared first on Women in Cleantech & Sustainability.

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'Haven't got a clue': Lords slam government over 'critical gaps' in net zero plans

Business Green

Lords Committee warns government still have not provided the policy clarity required to mobilise investment in crucial low carbon infrastructure. The government has today faced the second highly critical report of its Net Zero Strategy from a parliamentary committee inside a week, after the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee followed the Commons' Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in accusing Ministers of failing to plug significant gaps in its decarbonisation plans.

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Climate Science And Financial risk: Forging A Path To More Climate-Resilient Businesses

Energy Innovation

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Research Director Julie A. Vano , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link].

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BoD Introduction: An Analogy to Understand Cybersecurity Jargon – Cyber Risk

Energy Central

BoD and C-Level executives have a lot on their minds today with everything that's going on. We, the cybersecurity professionals community, must do our part to help our leaders understand the inherent risks with cybersecurity threats, but we must do this without diving into confusing jargon, or by explaining our jargon in a way that non-cybersec people will understand.

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US energy transition in 2021 a ‘beacon of hope’ for the future – report

Smart Energy International

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 was a record-breaking year for investment in the energy transition and the deployment of renewable power, battery storage, and sustainable transportation, according to the 2022 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook published by BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE). This growth was fueled by strong consumer demand, unprecedented injection of new capital into companies, technologies, and projects, and a wave of supportive n

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If you are buying carbon off-sets from a forest and it burns, what is the legal impact on your company of that fire?

Energy Central

Anyone know the answer, Carbon offsets. If you are buying carbon off-sets from a forest and it burns, what is the legal impact on your company of that fire? Is it defined? Is it consistent globally? Does it impact prior years? -no agenda here, purely looking for answers after 3 or 4 hours of reading on the internet, without finding any firm answers only many.

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Japanese giants Sony and Honda create strategic EV partnership

Smart Energy International

Sony and Honda have agreed to establish a joint venture to develop and commercialize high value-added battery electric vehicles (EVs) and mobility services. The aim is to realize and align a new generation of mobility and services with users and the environment. Kenichiro Yoshida, Sony’s Representative Corporate Executive Officer, Chairman, President and CEO, comments: “Through this alliance (…) we intend to build on our vision to ‘make the mobility space an emotional one,’ and contribute to the