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13 big deals that made COP26 the ‘Business COP’

GreenBiz

Amid a controversial climate summit, a baker's dozen of initiatives that will affect the private sector for years to come.

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Rivian becomes one of the world’s most valuable automakers—with no revenue

Charged

Are investors farsighted or foolhardy? A little of both, in our view—but there’s no question that Wall Street believes in an electric future. EV startup Rivian went public last week, raising nearly $12 billion to give the company a valuation of around $77 billion. Since then, RIVN stock has soared, making the company one of the world’s most valuable automakers.

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COP26: Countries reach historic agreement to tackle fossil fuels and accelerate climate action

Business Green

After a day of high drama governments sign off on a precedent-setting text that calls on countries to accelerate efforts to phase-out unabated coal power and strengthen decarbonisation plans to deliver on 1.5C goal. In the dramatic final moments of COP26, governments have this evening approved the Glasgow Climate Pact, backing plans to strengthen national climate action plans again next year and accelerate "efforts towards the phase-down of unabated coal power and phase-out of inefficient fossil

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Why Smarter Is Better: Using a Smart Card Scanner

U.S. Green Technology

The business world is rapidly embracing new technological advancements, and smart card scanners are no exception. Here are some of the key reasons you should be using scanner cards in your business today. To Standardize Business Processes Card scanner technology has been shown to standardize business processes in several different ways. Whether used for expense.

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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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Glasgow Climate Pact: Green economy reacts to final COP26 agreement

Business Green

The gavel has come down, and despite last-minute drama at COP26, a landmark agreement to accelerate climate action has been brokered in Glasgow by all 197 parties to the Paris Agreement. Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies.

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Li-Cycle & Atlis Motor Vehicles Partner To Recycle Lithium-Ion Batteries

CleanTechnica

Atlis Motor Vehicles, a startup mobility technology company, announced this week that it has entered into an agreement with Li-Cycle. Li-Cycle is focused on recovering and recycling lithium-ion batteries and is the largest battery recycler in North America. Atlis is focused on developing a fully electric vehicle platform as well as proprietary battery cells and […].

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Electric Cars Could Fully Recharge In Under 5 Minutes with New Charging Station Cable Design

CleanTechnica

Article courtesy of Purdue University. WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana — Purdue University engineers have invented a new, patent-pending charging station cable that would fully recharge certain electric vehicles in under five minutes – about the same amount of time it takes to fill up a gas tank. Today, chargers are limited in how quickly they can […].

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COP26 Live Blog: Crunch talks spill into extra time

Business Green

BusinessGreen brings you the latest news, announcements, and reaction from the pivotal climate talks in Glasgow. After a long Friday for negotiators and observers at COP26 - which has now overrun into an additional day in Glasgow - new drafts of the crucial cover draft decision texts are being published on Saturday morning in the hope of pushing talks closer towards a deal.

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The Road to Solid-State EVs — Part 4

CleanTechnica

The Mastering of the Electric Power That Controls the Batteries and Motors of Electric Vehicles.

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COP26: Row ignites over loss and damage as latest draft texts released

Business Green

Presidency hopes to deliver deal later today, but late dramas expected on plenary floor as divisions remain over key parts of the draft text. The COP26 Climate Summit entered its dramatic final stretch this morning, with observers predicting the negotiations will go to the wire later this afternoon as countries clash over key components of the draft text.

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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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Evolution Of Battery Technology & Manufacturing — Panasonic Video

CleanTechnica

Panasonic shared a video earlier this year that documents its evolution in battery technology and manufacturing. Hosted by Shawn Watanabe, Head of Energy Technology and Manufacturing, the video covers Panasonic’s contribution to the battery industry and the evolution of battery technology and manufacturing. Diving in, Watanabe started with Panasonic’s history.

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XPRIZE & Musk Foundation Announce 23 XPRIZE Carbon Removal Student Award Winners

CleanTechnica

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk along with his foundation are funding the XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition, which is aimed at fighting climate change and rebalancing our planet’s carbon cycle. This week, XPRIZE announced that $5 million of that prize has been awarded to 23 student-led teams, with 18 of those teams receiving $250,000 to […].

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Solar PV & PV+Storage Costs Keep Dropping, New NREL Reports Show

CleanTechnica

Costs Continue to Fall for Residential, Commercial, and Utility-Scale Solar and Energy Storage Systems.

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