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Irrational Nuclear Fear Puts Sweden In Danger Of Succumbing To Stupidity

Jim Conca

With 78% of the population supporting nuclear power, Sweden’s plan to prematurely shut down its entire nuclear fleet is bizarre, especially since it will add over 2 billion tons of CO2 emissions, cause the loss of $120 billion in taxes and undermine their grid reliability when it's really cold.

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'Promises are not enough': Campaigners urge Prime Minister to enshrine 2030 nature protection goal into law

Business Green

Stanley Johnson among group of high profile campaigners calling for government to set a legally-binding nature protection target ahead of pivotal COP15 UN nature talks. The Prime Minister is being urged by his own father to establish a target to reverse the decline of species and habitats into law, as part of a major campaign launched this morning geared at tackling escalating rates of biodiversity loss in the UK.

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Steven Chu’s 5 Tips For New Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm: Lead With Questions, Find A Watering Hole.

Forbes Green Tech

New Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm may have to do herself some of the work that normally would fall to staff, said former Energy Sec. Steven Chu.

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Aviva Investors unveils wave of fossil fuel exclusion policies and net zero pledge

Business Green

Insurance giant confirms it will divest from major coal producers without accredited climate plans by the end of next year. Aviva has announced it intends to reach net zero emissions across its operations, supply chain, and investments by 2040, unveiling a number of new exclusion policies that will see the firm distance itself from the most carbon intensive fossil fuel companies.

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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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The U.S. Struggle Over Climate-Change Disclosure Is Coming To A (Hopefully Successful) Head

Forbes Green Tech

Under the Biden Administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission can now finally act on the need for better climate change disclosures. It will be helped by the establishment of the Sustainability Standards Board being proposed by the IFRS Foundation Trustees.

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Black Futures for Black History Month – Yolanda Matthews

Front And Centered

Black Leaders on the Frontlines: Yolanda Matthews Leads Front and Centered Coalition with Integrity and Insight. Photo: Puget Sound Sage. The Front and Centered Community Council leads our growing statewide coalition of community groups. One of the CoLeaders stewarding coalition governance is Yolanda Matthews. When asked about what brought her to this intersectional work for racial and environmental justice, Yolanda remembers how the impetus to get involved grew out of a frustration of being und

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Black Futures for Black History Month – James Parks

Front And Centered

Black Leaders on the Frontlines: James Parks - Retired Sergeant on a Mission to Serve Community Justice. In the heart of Washington, in the Yakima Valley, by way of Fort Lewis and hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, James Parks is a 71-year old retired U.S. military sergeant who has seen the world and tells a story that makes you stand straight and pay attention.

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Budget battlegrounds are further evidence of short-termism

Business Green

The Budget is a prime opportunity to bring some much-needed certainty and direction that can underpin the journey to net zero, writes ECIU's Dr Jonathan Marshall. It is close to five years to the day since the now defunct Energy and Climate Change Select Committee released its report detailing how policy uncertainty was hindering the low carbon transition.

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Black Futures for Black History Month – Kurtis Robinson

Front And Centered

Black Leaders on the Frontlines: Kurtis Robinson, Fighting Wildfires and Planting the Seeds for a Just Transition. Kurtis Robinson is a leader who had an unlikely start as a firefighter putting out wildfires in Eastern Washington, and eventually found himself planting the metaphorical seeds for a Just Transition alongside the BIPOC communities of Spokane Valley.

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Governance Challenges at the Interface of Food Security and Biodiversity Conservation

Ideas 4 Sustainability

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Food security and biodiversity conservation are two key challenges for many countries around the world. The simultaneous provision of food security and biodiversity conservation requires a governance system that can address intra- and intersectoral complexity. However, the two sectors are often treated as separate goals.

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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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Climate legal cases in Asia have risen by 185% since 2018

Eco-Business

There has been rapid growth in climate lawsuits in the Philippines, Japan, and India over the past two years, a report by US-based law firm White & Case has found. As a climate-vulnerable region, why hasn't there been more legal action?

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Burning ambition or crude awakening? How investors view oil giants' growing interest in renewables

Business Green

Tie-ups look set to become a leading trend as oil and gas companies scramble for a piece of the zero carbon pie. Hell freezing over' refers to something that will never happen. But when north Texas freezes over, it not only dominates the news agenda, but tries to hang that agenda on the renewable vs fossil fuel energy debate. Frozen wind turbines were blamed by high-profile Republicans for millions of Texans being left without power (despite wind power only contributing around 10 per cent of the

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Are cities finished?

Eco-Business

Far from rendering cities obsolete, the pandemic has unlocked an ever-broader potential for renaissance – what the economist Joseph Schumpeter famously called 'creative destruction' on an urban scale.

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India Plans Green Hydrogen Auctions

CleanTechnica

India will soon issue tenders for production and procurement of hydrogen from renewable energy sources, India’s minister for renewable energy revealed. According to media reports, minister RK Singh said that his government is exploring the possibility to conduct the first green hydrogen auction over the next three to four months. The minister for new and […].

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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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Since 2018, climate legal cases in Asia have risen by 185%

Eco-Business

There has been rapid growth in climate lawsuits in the Philippines, Japan, and India over the past two years, a report by US-based law firm White & Case has found. As a climate-vulnerable region, why hasn't there been more legal action?

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Atlantic Ocean Circulation Weakest In A Millennium

CleanTechnica

Atlantic Ocean circulation underpinning the Gulf Stream is weaker than at any point in the last 1,000 years largely due to climate change and could cause disastrous sea level rise along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, according to new research published Thursday in Nature Geoscience. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) forms something of a 10,000-mile conveyor […].

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Asian banks are the biggest backers of the coal industry—and their support for the dirtiest fossil fuel is growing

Eco-Business

Asian banks were responsible for 61 per cent of total lending and underwriting for the coal trade 2019. In 2020, this figure increased by 5 per cent.

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Tesla To Host HBCU Virtual Info Session On March 3

CleanTechnica

Tesla is hosting its second Historically Black College and University (HBCU) info session on March 3rd at 3:00 pm Eastern Time. Tesla is keeping its commitment to students attending HBCU colleges and is inviting both HBCU students and alumni to join the virtual informational session on Wednesday. The session will include learning opportunities about full-time […].

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Luxury housing plans threaten Cambodia’s Bokor National Park

Eco-Business

Bokor National Park is a refuge for many threatened plants and animals, but conservationists warn its habitat is under threat from the development of luxury residential estates that are planned to occupy 19,000 hectares inside the park.

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Indian Renewable Developer Proposes $570 Million Investment In Solar Modules, Lithium-ion Battery Plant

CleanTechnica

One of India’s leading renewable energy companies has secured approval to set up production facilities for solar cells and modules and lithium-ion batteries. ReNew Power had submitted proposals to set up a solar cell and module production facility with 2–4 gigawatts per annum capacity and another facility to produce lithium-ion batteries. These proposals, submitted to […].

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Five ways to tell if a solution to the climate and nature crisis is genuine

Eco-Business

It’s good news that so many people are proposing solutions for the crises in climate and nature. Bill Gates is one among many, and with so many contenders, what criteria will help us prioritise investment choices?

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Cleantech Media Survival & Value

CleanTechnica

We recently noted that cleantech media giant Greentech Media is closing down shop. It’s a big loss to the industry, and thus to the world. Being in this industry for more than a decade, and running CleanTechnica for most of that time (since mid-2010), I thought I could offer some perspective on this, some words […].

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Community Microgrids — “Cornerstone of Future Energy Operations”

CleanTechnica

NREL To Play a Major Part in Microgrid Innovation for American Communities.

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Will Tesla Hit Elon’s 20 Million Vehicles/Year By 2030 Target?

CleanTechnica

One of the bolder and perhaps more surprising targets announced by Tesla CEO Elon Musk last year was the target of reaching a 20 million-vehicle-per-year production capacity before 2030. That followed a statement forecasting that the broader auto market will hit 30+ million vehicles per year in 6–7 years. “Seven years for sure to 30M+ […].

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Getting Electricity From Our Bodies

CleanTechnica

I saw a tweet recently that got me to thinking (a dangerous pastime, I know). Yes, there’s energy everywhere, and the human body has a lot of it. By putting little push gears under the sidewalk, they figured out how to make electricity from people walking. Everyone will use a few more calories walking by, […].

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Houston Chronicle Says Texas Failed To Build In Energy Efficiency To Plan For Climate Extremes

CleanTechnica

Home weatherization and modern super-efficient heating technology are powerful tools that can ease the stress on the electric grid and help Americans stay safe and comfortable in today’s increasingly extreme climate.

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Indian Wind Generator Plans $600 Million Green Bond

CleanTechnica

Indian wind energy generator Continuum Wind Energy is planning to issue its first green bond with backing from the International Finance Corporation. According to media reports, Continuum will issue a green bond to raise $500-600 million. The bond will be listed at Singapore Exchange. IFC has announced that it will invest $75 million in the […].

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India Renewable Energy Giant ReNew Power Preps For Nasdaq Listing

CleanTechnica

Ending years of speculations about its listing at stock markets, one of India’s leading renewable energy companies — ReNew Power — has announced plans for listing at Nasdaq. According to a press release, ReNew Power will merge with RMG Acquisition Corporation II which is already listed at Nasdaq. ReNew Power has signed an agreement with […].

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GreenPower Ramping Up Electric Commercial Vehicles, Electric School Buses, Autonomous Transit …

CleanTechnica

I recently spoke with Fraser Atkinson, CEO and Chairman of GreenPower Motor Co. (NASDAQ: GP), following a stream of recent announcements. The company has been on our radar at least since 2015, but it’s had a little flurry of activity in the past year, and very recently landed a major contract that could lead to […].

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Electric Vehicle Sales Bonanza — 20 Charts & Graphs

CleanTechnica

Thanks to a recent suggestion from a CleanTechnica reader, I’ve gone ahead and created a page that I’m putting in our sidebar and will keep updated as we get new electric vehicle (EV) sales stats, charts, and graphs. At the moment, it pulls together 20 top charts and graphs on EV sales around the world. […].