Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 26, 2021
In the next 15 years, the Amazon rainforest is on track to be a larger source of carbon emissions than it absorbs because of the rapid rate of deforestation.
The Environmental Blog
JANUARY 26, 2021
The global economy of 2020 was primarily shaped by the coronavirus pandemic which greatly affected energy usage, project engagement and investments worldwide. Fortunately, 2021 signals some progression towards normality, and there are hopes that the energy market will follow suit with renewed conviction for renewables. Perhaps one of the most prolific impacts on the energy market in 2020 was the plummeting demand for oil which reached a ground-breaking value of minus $37.63 a barrel.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 26, 2021
A new report has found that the rate of global ice loss is now in line with worst-case scenario predictions. Find out what this means for our planet.
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 26, 2021
European Union countries generated more electricity from renewables than from coal and gas for the first time ever in 2020, according to a report released Monday. But despite the progress, much work is left to do if lofty new climate targets are to be met. Coal power slumped by 20 percent year-on-year while solar and wind power grew 15 percent and 9 percent, respectively.
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 26, 2021
Germany-based design firm WertelOberfell has teamed up with material scientists, material suppliers, end-users and manufacturers to develop ESUB Tracks, a conceptual design for a smart bicycle helmet powered by flat-printed organic photovoltaics.
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 26, 2021
Smart home electrical panel, meet voice-activated home controls. That’s the connection being made by San Francisco-based startup Span.IO with its Tuesday announcement of a $20 million investment, led by Munich Re Ventures’ HSB Fund and joined by previous investors , plus an important new strategic partner — the Alexa Fund. Over the past five years, Amazon’s corporate venture capital fund has been investing in a range of technologies that can integrate with its market-lead
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Impact Alpha
JANUARY 26, 2021
The impact investing industry has matured over the past couple of years, especially when it comes to aligning investors around common standards for. The post The next building block for impact investing: quality impact reporting appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 26, 2021
On the outskirts of the town Villeta in Colombia, Arquitectura en Estudio has completed the Casa 23, a holiday home that relies on passive strategies to save energy and stay naturally cool without air conditioning.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 26, 2021
ImpactAlpha, January 26 — Citi Impact Fund launched last year to invest in companies addressing workforce development, financial inclusion and sustainable energy and. The post Citi Impact Fund backs Black, female and veteran founders appeared first on Impact Alpha.
GatesNotes
JANUARY 26, 2021
The world has an important opportunity to turn the hard-won lessons of this pandemic into a healthier, more equal future for all.
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.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 26, 2021
As we finally put 2020 into hindsight, the road ahead is uncertain. On the one hand, stock markets continue to thrive, and the. The post Obvious’ Andrew Beebe: We have entered the climate decade appeared first on Impact Alpha.
altenergymag
JANUARY 26, 2021
Funding led by energy private equity firm Riverstone Holdings accelerates FreeWire’s international expansion of its battery-integrated ultrafast EV chargers.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 26, 2021
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 26 – Investments aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions have long overshadowed financing for efforts to help communities adapt to climate. The post Accelerating climate emergency spurs innovative financing for adaptation appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Charged
JANUARY 26, 2021
President Joe Biden has announced that he will replace the entire US federal fleet with US-made electric vehicles. “The federal government also owns an enormous fleet of vehicles, which we’re going to replace with clean electric vehicles made right here in America, by American workers,” said the 46th president. The administration has not announced a timeline for replacement, or any other details.
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.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 26, 2021
ImpactAlpha, January 26 — Imperfect Foods has raised $214.1 million since 2015 to help reduce food waste by redirecting foods deemed too “ugly”. The post Imperfect Foods scores $95 million investment for ‘ugly’ produce sales appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Charged
JANUARY 26, 2021
The Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) has released a new report containing recommendations for the adoption of zero-emission transit vehicles. The new report, which was published by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), is the culmination of discussions held by the CTE-led Advisory Panel, which included more than a dozen transit agency general managers, as well as representatives of transit bus manufacturers, all three federal bus testing centers and public transit advocacy
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 26, 2021
ImpactAlpha, January 26 – Kenyan insurance tech venture Pula has facilitated crop insurance for more than four million smallholder farmers in 13 African. The post Pula raises $6 million to expand farmers’ insurance from Africa to Asia appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Charged
JANUARY 26, 2021
Versinetic has introduced a new suite of EV charging solutions for the UK and EU markets. The suite includes product and service modules that allow manufacturers to build custom EV charging solutions to meet their own specifications: MantaRay Smart Charge Point Communications Controller manages charging stations and all aspects of a charge point using Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP).
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?
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 26, 2021
Read time: 12 mins New regulations were announced by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ( PHMSA ) in July 2020 allowing the transportation of liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) by rail. That same month, PHMSA released the interim report for its LNG -by-rail task force. It concluded: “The task force did not identify any new safety gaps related to the transportation of LNG in tank cars.”.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 26, 2021
Featured: Accelerating climate emergency spurs innovative financing for adaptation. The post The Brief: Climate adaptation, impact reporting, insuring smallholder farmers, imperfect food, student-centric finance, decarbonization opportunities appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 26, 2021
The world invested unprecedented amounts in low-carbon assets last year, from renewables to cleaner transport, energy storage to electric heat,” says BloombergNEF. The world committed a record $501.3 billion to decarbonization in 2020, despite the economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 26, 2021
ImpactAlpha, January 26 — MPower works with 350 universities and colleges in the U.S. and Canada to provide loans for international and DACA. The post MPower raises $25 million to help international students pay for a U.S. education appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
JANUARY 26, 2021
WWF calls on government to set legally-binding target to eradicate both legal and illegal deforestation from UK supply chains. The government and businesses are facing growing pressure to strengthen efforts to eradicate deforestation from UK supply chains, after a new YouGov survey revealed more than three-quarters of the public do no not want the products they buy to contribute to the destruction of forests overseas.
The City Fix
JANUARY 26, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic did not break the world, but rather revealed a world already broken. COVID-19 and the climate crisis exposed the fragility of economies and societies, upending the lives of people worldwide and, in particular, harming vulnerable communities and countries already facing. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
altenergymag
JANUARY 26, 2021
Alectris delivers asset care innovation for the global solar industry. With integrated suite of operations, maintenance and asset management services, award-winning software and retrofit technologies, Alectris empowers owners with full control of their portfolios to realize worry-free, high performing solar assets.
Business Green
JANUARY 26, 2021
Environment Minister Pow argues delay to landmark legislation does not diminish government’s environmental ambition, but green groups have panned the move, claiming it is at odds with Ministers repeated promises to deliver a 'green Brexit’. The Environment Bill has been hit with a fresh round of delays after an 11th hour move late yesterday evening from the government to remove the landmark legislation from the current Parliamentary session's agenda.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 26, 2021
Regenerative agriculture may be in vogue, but in many ways, it’s as old as agriculture itself, as practiced by our ancestors and to. The post Retool finance to rebuild soil health appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
JANUARY 26, 2021
US planemaker says development of engines able to run solely on sustainable aviation fuels could deliver significant emissions savings. Boeing has announced plans to begin producing commercial aircraft capable of flying on 100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by the end of the decade. The US plane manufacturer said the development of planes that can run entirely on SAFs would be critical if the carbon-intensive aviation sector is to meet its climate goal of cutting carbon emissions by 50
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 26, 2021
Previously, most of Proterra’s battery packs have gone into public transit buses, school buses or delivery vans. This will be the Burlingame, California-startup’s first application for off-road construction vehicles.
Business Green
JANUARY 26, 2021
Poll of 1.2 million people through mobile gaming networks highlights that 64 per cent of people view climate change as a global emergency. The consensus that climate change is a global emergency is more broad in the UK than any other nation in the world, according to the results of a major new poll that is being touted by the United Nations as the largest ever survey to explore public opinion on climate action.
Renewable Energy World
JANUARY 26, 2021
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is asking for public input on the draft Environmental Impact Statement for the North Alabama Utility-Scale Solar Project in Lawrence County. In January 2019, TVA announced that it holds a two-year purchase option on 3,000 acres in Lawrence County to study the feasibility of building a large solar farm in order to continue reducing its carbon footprint.
Business Green
JANUARY 26, 2021
The voluntary carbon market can offer the scale, demand, market infrastructure and technologies to deliver for the climate, argues SustainCERT CEO Marion Verles. More than 30 years after the first offset project was initiated by a US electric power company in Guatemala, the voluntary carbon market finds itself at the dawn of a new era. We see three converging factors that are expected to drive significant growth and institutionalisation of the market: namely the momentum on corporate net zero co
Renewable Energy World
JANUARY 26, 2021
Shell, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Vattenfall and municipal company Wärme Hamburg are exploring a plan to jointly produce hydrogen from wind and solar power at the Hamburg-Moorburg power plant site and utilise it in its vicinity. To this end, the four companies have signed a letter of intent. In addition to the construction of a scalable electrolyser with an initial output of 100MW, the further development of the site into a so-called “Green Energy Hub” is planned.
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