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Statement on Claims of Forced Labor in the Solar Industry

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“The latest reports from the New York Times story are deeply troubling. This is the first allegation we’ve seen directly linking the solar industry to abhorrent forced labor practices, and we take these claims very seriously.

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Why It’s Falling To You—And Not Your Government—To Decarbonize The Food System

Forbes Green Tech

The food system is arguably the largest contributor to greenhouse-gas emissions (details below), and it remains the most neglected.

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Inaugural Frontline Community Fellows Imagine a New Economy, Build Community Learning Cohort

Front And Centered

In 2021, what do a Native artist center, BIPOC food share program, Latinx community agriculture, driver’s union, and community owned real estate and social impact business, have in common? They are part of an inaugural cohort of changemakers who are exploring solutions to the stark lessons learned from the impacts of COVID-19, racial injustice, and economic instability for millions of people.

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China Quits Recycling U.S. Trash As Sustainable Start-Up Makes Strides

Forbes Green Tech

A Virginia based company making to-go boxes is one example of how U.S. made recycling solutions don't need China to take our junk.

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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, Cheap Electric Energy Storage System Like Pumped Hydro but Subterranean

Renewables-Info

Pumped Hydro Compressed Air Energy Storage (PHCAES) is a new system that can deliver stored energy at two to three cents per kilowatt-hour. This cost, far lower than that of lithium batteries, is similar to Pumped Hydro Energy Storage (PHES), a proven technology. Although it has many similarities to PHES, PHCAES has significant advantages over PHES -- including lower capital costs and significantly less land space required.

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Without Carbon Capture And Storage, The World Can’t Meet Its Climate Target

Forbes Green Tech

If the world is to meet its climate goals under the Paris agreement, it must incorporate carbon capture and storage. The good news is that the technologies are getting better and cheaper.

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Front And Centered

Inaugural Frontline Community Fellows Imagine a New Economy. Build Community Learning Cohort. In 2021, what do a Native artist center, BIPOC food share program, Latinx community agriculture, driver’s union, and community owned real estate and social impact business, have in common? They are part of an inaugural cohort of changemakers who are exploring solutions to the stark lessons learned from the impacts of COVID-19, racial injustice, and economic instability for millions of people.

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Five facts about unsustainable waste management in Singapore

Eco-Business

Increased government and corporate accountability, including the full implementation of the EPR law and more investment into upcycling innovations, are equally critical to create a more sustainable waste management ecosystem in Singapore.

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What happened to LETS systems? Sue Bell of Mutual Credit Services

Low Impact

Today I’m talking with Sue Bell, who was involved for many years in Brixton LETS and the Brixton Pound. She’s now part of a group called Mutual Credit Services (MCS), formed to build mutual credit clubs and to federate them together to build a new kind of moneyless trading system. I want to talk about LETS systems and mutual credit – the similarities and differences – and what happened to LETS systems.

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How has container reuse scheme Muuse survived Covid?

Eco-Business

A rent-and-return system for food and drink takeaways has faced an uncertain future after the closure of retailers and fears reusables could spread Covid-19. But COO Jonathan Tostevin says the tipping point for reusables is near.

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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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What Drove Surprise Release Of Tesla Model Y Standard Range?

CleanTechnica

Half a year after Elon Musk said, in July 2020, that Tesla would not launch an under-250-mile-range Model Y Standard Range, the company did just that, rolling out the cheaper Model Y on its website on Thursday, January.

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Does coal still have a role in China’s decarbonising power market?

Eco-Business

China’s new climate pledges have made coal’s phase out seem inevitable, and the country’s power market is struggling to find new roles for its existing coal fleet.

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CATL Putting $3 Billion Into 3 New Battery Factories, LG Chem Doubling Its China-Made Battery Production

CleanTechnica

The two largest EV battery producers in the world, as I recently reported, are CATL and LG Energy Solution (formerly LG Chem). They intend to stay at the top. On the last day of 2020, CATL announced a 39 billion yuan ($5.9 billion) investment into three new battery factories in China. LG Energy Solution, meanwhile, plans to more than double its battery cell production in China.

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Dangerously hotter cities await 2100’s residents

Eco-Business

In the concrete jungle, the most dramatic high-rise could be the mercury. Urban dwellers should expect much hotter cities.

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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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Who Are You?

CleanTechnica

We love our readers. We couldn't exist without our readers. Plus, we seem to have a lot in common.

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Carbon pricing now

Eco-Business

As the world marks both the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement and the arrival of a more climate-aware US administration, the time has come to get serious about taxing or otherwise imposing a price on carbon.

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Comma.ai Could Buy Automaker, Waymo Ditching “Self-Driving,” Xpeng Adds Lidar — Autonomous Driving Updates

CleanTechnica

Stories related to autonomous driving tech have been building up, so I'm going to run through a few of them right here. Comma.ai, Waymo, and Xpeng each have some news to bring to the table.

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WWF Singapore comms manager Janissa Ng joins PR agency Spurwing

Eco-Business

Ng returns to the agency side of communications after more than 4 years with the conservation group.

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Elon Mask, Tesla Alien Technology, Tesla’s Unique Business Model — Top CleanTechnica Stories in 2020

CleanTechnica

It may feel like 2020 just grew a tumor, but we are indeed in a new year. That means it's time to look back and reflect on the big stories of 2020. Well, the big cleantech stories — sort of. Admittedly, CleanTechnica stretched a bit beyond cleantech several times in 2020, and that was reflected in some of the top 20 articles of 2020. Have a scroll below to see them all.

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Elon Musk Talks Zero-Emissions Rockets

CleanTechnica

Zero-emissions vehicles are great for the environment, and Tesla makes a lot of them. Elon Musk also owns SpaceX, so people are naturally going to lump them together in their minds. When someone sees a rocket launch, it's obviously not a zero-emission event. As Jerry Lee Lewis says, "Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!".

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Why I Would Buy A Used Tesla Model 3 Instead Of A New One — Free Full Self Driving!

CleanTechnica

I came up with the idea for this article after I noticed that Tesla is enabling the $10,000 Full Self Driving (FSD) capability on every Model 3 that it is selling used. I spoke to a couple of salespeople and verified that is the case.

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What Is GM’s New Logo & Ad Campaign Actually About?

CleanTechnica

On Friday, General Motors debuted its new “Everybody In” marketing campaign and redesigned GM logo in a private briefing for automotive and advertising reporters as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to convince stakeholders that the company is truly serious about accelerating mass adoption of electric vehicles.