Mon.Nov 30, 2020

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement. Michael Holder. Mon, 11/30/2020 - 01:00. As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis.

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5 Green New Year Resolutions for Business

The Environmental Blog

The beginning of the year is always a good opportunity for businesses to make positive changes, much like people make New Year’s resolutions each year. This year, there should be a focus on reducing environmental impact as it is clear that every business should be finding ways to reduce their impact and, and when everyone starts to pull their weight is when positive change happens.

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Why corporate partners are essential for Third Derivative, a new climate-tech support network

GreenBiz

Why corporate partners are essential for Third Derivative, a new climate-tech support network. Heather Clancy. Mon, 11/30/2020 - 03:00. Climate tech is more important than ever, but the systemic challenges entrepreneurs face in shepherding these solutions to commercial success is formidable. Most have incredibly long R&D lead times, while the systems that typically support startups cater to ones promising shorter-term payoffs.

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Climate Change Hits Asia Hardest

Jim Conca

McKinsey&Company's Climate risk in Asia report indicates that Asia gets hit hardest by climate change, which shouldn’t be surprising. Asia has more people in coastal cities than all other cities in the world combined, so sea level rise and severe weather will be worse there than anywhere else.

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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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Introducing … GreenFin 21

GreenBiz

Introducing … GreenFin 21. Joel Makower. Mon, 11/30/2020 - 02:11. The world of environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting and investing has ramped up significantly over the past couple years, even more so during 2020, when social risks and reporting became front and center for many companies and investors. Combine that with the growth of related finance products and services — sustainability-linked loans and bonds — and you can find sustainability sitting squarely on Wall Street.

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Conference programme announced for Plastics Recycling Show Europe virtual event

Envirotec Magazine

Organisers have confirmed the full conference programme for the Plastics Recycling Show Europe Virtual Event taking place 9-11 December 2020. Participation in all elements of the online event is free of charge and registration is open at: www.prseventeurope.com. The PRSE Virtual conference will examine the latest developments in plastics recycling, practical solutions for the sustainable use of plastics, dealing with plastic waste and better design for recycling.

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Australasian water programme creates opportunities for European technology companies

Envirotec Magazine

A programme developed by the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) for the Australian and New Zealand water industries will create opportunities for innovative, European technology companies. A Technology Roadmap has been created by the Australian and New Zealand water sectors through W-Lab – a WSAA initiative delivered by technology and business consultancy Isle Utilities (Asia–Pacific), and change-making consultancy ThinkPlace.

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Green Hydrogen in Natural Gas Pipelines: Decarbonization Solution or Pipe Dream?

GreenTechMedia

Can carbon-free hydrogen augment, or even replace, the fossil natural gas running through pipelines to fuel furnaces, boilers, stoves and other building applications today? Or, will the effort bog down in challenges related to pipeline safety and upgrade costs, loss of energy density, the long-term cost discrepancies compared to electrifying natural gas-fired heat and appliances in buildings, or the pressure to direct green hydrogen to hard-to-decarbonize sectors?

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Research creates hydrogen-producing living droplets, suggesting a route to possible future energy sources

Envirotec Magazine

Electron microscopy image of a densely packed droplet of hydrogen-producing algal cells. Scale bar, 10 micrometres (credit: Prof Xin Huang, Harbin Institute of Technology). Scientists have built tiny droplet-based microbial factories that produce hydrogen, instead of oxygen, when exposed to daylight in air. The findings of the international research team based at the University of Bristol and Harbin Institute of Technology in China, were published in Nature Communications on 25 November.

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Solar Software Provider Aurora Raises $50 Million in Series B

GreenTechMedia

Solar software start-up Aurora Solar raised $50 million in its latest funding round, a significant chunk of change for the solar software space. Investment firm ICONIQ Capital led the Series B. Energize VC and Pear Ventures, funders that pitched into Aurora’s Series A , supplanted ICONIQ’s funding, along with real estate-focused venture capital firm Fifth Wall.

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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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Greenhouse gases hit record levels despite COVID-19 lockdowns

Inhabitat - Innovation

Contrary to the expectations of many, the amount of greenhouse gases has been on the rise in 2020.

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Ditch Nuclear And Save $860 Million With Grid Flexibility, U.K. Told

Forbes Green Tech

The U. K. could save money, reduce the risk of blackouts and more quickly achieve net zero carbon emissions by abandoning plans to build more nuclear power plants and instead invest in a flexible electricity grid, new analysis has found.

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Arctic explorer tests the RIKR recycled plastic backpack

Inhabitat - Innovation

Explorer Robert Swan tested the RIKR backpack to prove the durability of recycled materials.

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Volvo Trucks wins $22-million grant to deploy 70 Class 8 VNR e-trucks in California

Charged

Volvo Trucks North America has won $21.7 million in grants to deploy 70 VNR Electric trucks in Southern California for regional freight distribution and drayage. The EPA’s Targeted Air Shed Grant Program will provide $20 million, and the South Coast Air Quality Management District will add $1.7 million for charging infrastructure. Volvo Trucks will deliver the e-trucks to Southern California fleet operators starting in 2021, following the official launch of the VNR Electric truck model later thi

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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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The best eco-friendly gifts for your grandparents

Inhabitat - Innovation

These gifts will show how much you care for your grandparents and the planet!

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Lotus to launch pure electric SUV in 2022

Charged

The Geely brand Lotus plans to launch a luxury electric SUV in 2022. The vehicle, code-named Lambda, has been in development since 2016, and was originally planned to be a hybrid, but the growing market for EVs, especially in China, inspired the company to make it an all-electric model. According to Autocar, the new Lotus will have a dual-motor powertrain, and will be offered in two variants: a base model with up to 600 bhp of power; and a higher trim with 750 bhp.

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Aurora Solar raises $50 million to digitalize solar energy

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 30 — The San Francisco-based software startup helps solar installers plan installations remotely. Usage has increased amid COVID, as solar companies.

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‘Major Hurdle’ Cleared As Youth Activists Advance Historic Climate Case

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 4 mins An unprecedented climate lawsuit brought by six Portuguese youths is to be fast-tracked at Europe’s highest court, it was announced today. The European Court of Human Rights said the case, which accuses 33 European nations of violating the applicants’ right to life by disregarding the climate emergency, would be granted priority status due to the “importance and urgency of the issues raised”.

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Lawsuit against Candide Group dismissed in latest setback for private prison operator

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Nov. 30 – A California judge dismissed a defamation suit brought in March by Nashville-based CoreCivic, one of the largest private prison.

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NASA’s Plutonium Tours U.S. Before Heading To Mars

Forbes Green Tech

The plutonium-238 that powers NASA’s rovers on Mars crisscrosses the United States first on a tour of national laboratories.

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Canada’s TELUS commits $45 million to corporate social impact fund

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 30 — The telecommunications company launched the fund to invest in local and international impact startups focused on improving health, agriculture,

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C2 Energy Capital Diversifies Portfolio with Acquisition of California’s Largest Floating Solar Project

altenergymag

C2 Energy Capital announces its ownership of California's largest floating solar system. The project was purchased from Ciel & Terre®, a global leader in PV floating systems. Located in Windsor, the 1.78-MW installation uses Ciel & Terre's patented Hydrelio® technology to float a grid of 4,959 high-performance solar modules on a recycled storage pond, powering the town's wastewater treatment facility and saving $4M in electric costs over the next 20 years.

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Create and conserve: Joining spray foam roofing with solar power on commercial buildings

Solar Power World

By Dave Feitl, VP Global Roofing and Western USA SPF Sales, Huntsman Building Solutions As the move toward both energy independence and the decarbonization of buildings pushes forward, builders, contractors and owners of commercial structures are all looking for effective ways to optimize their facilities. Not only are environmental impacts top of mind, but so… The post Create and conserve: Joining spray foam roofing with solar power on commercial buildings appeared first on Solar Power Wo

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Updating investment ‘exclusion lists’ for deeper social and environmental impact

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Nov. 24 – Cluster bombs and hazardous chemicals. Tobacco and firearms. Child labor and corruption. “Exclusion” lists have for decades helped investors keep.

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Renewables revolution powers UK to top of decarbonisation league table

Business Green

New report finds that the UK has decarbonised its electricity system twice as fast any another major economy. The UK has halved the carbon intensity of its electricity system over the past decade, decarbonising twice as fast as any other major economy, according to figures contained in a new report from Drax Insights. The switch has been powered principally by the UK's move away from coal to renewable energy sources such as wind and biomass according to the the analysis, which was conducted by a

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Why do we believe lies?

GatesNotes

In the third episode of our podcast, we talk to Yuval Noah Harari about humanity’s relationship with the truth.

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Monolith Materials Receives Investment from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to Support Clean Hydrogen Production

altenergymag

Investment from global leader in manufacturing and engineering is latest vote of confidence in U.S.

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New tool promises to help shippers choose the greenest services

Business Green

Designed by French start-up Searoutes, new tool uses route data and vessel characteristics to calculate CO2 emissions. A new tool promises to help firms cut emissions from their supply chains and shippers maximise their contribution to tackling the climate crisis by choosing shipping services that emit the least CO2. Named Searoutes and designed by a French start-up, the system uses actual route data and vessel characteristics obtained from Automated Identification Systems (AIS) data to calculat

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What Can Energy Storage Get from President Biden? [GTM Squared]

GreenTechMedia

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New guides aim to accelerate shift towards net zero buildings, but challenges remain

Business Green

New guidance and rating systems aim to help property developers and managers green their buildings, but an analysis warns Spending Review commitments could cover barely a thousandth of the total cost of making UK buildings net zero compatible. A raft of new guidance and rating systems for delivering net zero buildings in the UK was launched last week, as the construction and property management sectors gear up to tackle one of the biggest obstacles to achieving a net zero economy.

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LONGi supplies 273MW of its solar modules for Southeast Asia's largest solar plant, Phase I of the Xuan Thien Ea Sup Project in Dak Lak, Vietnam

altenergymag

With nearly 2 million solar panels, 500 kV / 1,200 MVA transformer station and 22.2 km of 500 kV line, this is so far the largest solar power plant in Southeast Asia. The plant, which has been set up at an estimated cost of 20,000 billion dong, has been commissioned five months earlier than the scheduled date of completion due to joint efforts by the developers, logistics partners and equipment suppliers including LONGi.

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Can the government deliver on its 'climate-friendly farming' promises?

Business Green

As Ministers announce fresh details on the biggest shake-up in agricultural policy in 50 years, questions remain as to how effective promised subsidy reforms will prove. The government has today set out its much-anticipated roadmap for delivering "the biggest change in agricultural policy in half a century", as it seeks to gradually replace the EU's farming subsidy framework over the next seven years with a system that rewards farmers for enhancing the environment and protecting the climate.

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GM Isn’t Taking Stake In Nikola But May Still Supply Fuel Cells And Batteries For Its Trucks

Forbes Green Tech

Nikola is canceling the Badger electric pickup that was at the center of the equity tie-up.

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Zero Emission Vehicle Transition Council: Governments pledge to move green auto industry into fast lane

Business Green

Ministers from many of the world's largest auto markets team up to collectively advance transition to zero emission road transport. The UK government has hosted the first formal meeting of the newly-formed Zero Emission Vehicle Transition Council, which aims to bring together Ministers from some of the world's largest and most progressive car markets to explore how to accelerate the shift to electric and fuel cell vehicles.