Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

Labour MP Clive Lewis and Caroline Lucas of the Green Party join lawmakers from US, Brazil, EU and Costa Rica in new global climate justice campaign. Leading progressive lawmakers from the UK, USA, Brazil, Costa Rica, and the European Parliament are among those joining forces in a new Global Alliance for a Green New Deal today, in a bid to promote the case for "a rapid and just transition in response to Covid-19 and the climate and nature crises".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

This factsheet is part of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database project. For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. As the climate impact of meat production becomes more publicly known and debated, the meat industry has developed several narratives to portray meat as “part of the solution” and industrial scale farms as potential “heroes in this discussion.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

Former Prime Minister set to take become chair at influential sustainable business group, succeeding former Labour MP Joan Walley. Theresa May has pledged to "champion the business case for decarbonising the UK economy", as she takes up a new role as chair of the Aldersgate Group later this week. The sustainable business group revealed this morning that the former prime minister has agreed to succeed former Labour MP Joan Walley, who has chaired the influential business group since 2015.

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Government Law Policy Sustainability 101

Low Impact

JULY 18, 2021

This is the third part of an interview with Jon Halle of Sharenergy, about the prospects for keeping energy production local and mutualised. Here we talk about community energy, mutual credit and mutualisation of the economy. Here’s Part one and Part 2. I’m interviewing so many great people doing brilliant things in their communities, from social care co-ops and cycle courier co-ops, housing co-ops and IT co-ops, and I’m slightly obsessed with how to knit this new economy together.

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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.

Energy

Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

Delivering the UK's heat pump installation target requires urgent policy action and a clear strategy, explains Laura Bishop of the Ground-Source Heat Pump Association. At the Ground Source Heat Pump Association (GSHPA), we welcomed the Prime Minister's Ten Point Plan target for 600,000 UK heat pumps installations per year by 2028. But as the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has pointed out, it is not possible to deliver our low carbon future simply by wishing it.

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Eco-Business

JULY 18, 2021

Indonesian-South Korean palm oil giant Korindo has been removed from the Forest Stewardship Council after both parties couldn’t come into an agreement on how to verify the company’s compliance.

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Eco-Business

JULY 18, 2021

Indonesia's potential to generate energy from the earth's crust could solve its power problems and fire its ailing economy. But the country needs to do more to lure investors.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

Partnership will see customers leasing electric vehicles from RAC offered a home smart charge points installation and 100 per cent renewable electricity tariff from British Gas. British Gas has teamed up with car insurer RAC to offer electric car leasing customers a new package of benefits, including the installation of a smart home EV charger and a bespoke 100 per cent renewable electricity tariff for battery car drivers, the two firms announced today.

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Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Electricity Electric vehicle 91

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In February last year, the head of a leading global meat industry body gave a “pep talk” to his colleagues at an Australian agriculture conference. “It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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Eco-Business

JULY 18, 2021

Diversion of Muzaffarabad's Neelum river for clean power has raised summer temperatures—and a second river may be diverted too.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

DeSmog approached all 10 organisations for which it added profiles to the Agribusiness Database , as part of an investigation into the meat industry’s “climate-washing” They are: Vion Food Group, Danish Crown, JBS, Tyson, European Livestock Voice, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, Animal Agriculture Alliance, North American Meat Institute, European Roundtable on Beef Sustainability and the International Meat Secretariat.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 18, 2021

In this episode of CleanTech Talk, Travis Allan, Vice President of Public Affairs and General Counsel at FLO, and Zach Shahan, CEO of CleanTechnica, talk about the how, the when, and the where of US President Joe Biden’s target to get 500,000 EV chargers installed by 2030. Several years ago, Travis started focusing on how […].

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). The “Building to Net-Zero” blueprint appears to be quietly gaining momentum within the Energy Department, where a top official has discussed ways to put elements into action using the agency’s existing powers.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 18, 2021

Originally published on EVANNEX. Many observers are forecasting that the world’s transition to electric cars will take place much sooner than expected. Now, BBC is also joining the fray. “What makes the end of the internal combustion engine inevitable is a technological revolution. And technological revolutions tend to happen very quickly … [and] this revolution will […].

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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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CleanTechnica

JULY 18, 2021

The patent is related to the acid-free saline lithium extraction process, which Elon Musk talked about during Battery Day in September, 2020.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 18, 2021

A drumbeat of climate-fueled heatwaves, compounded by water management practices, will likely kill nearly all juvenile chinook salmon in the Sacramento River, California wildlife officials warn. “It’s an extreme set of cascading climate events pushing us into this crisis situation,” California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Jordan Traverso told reporters.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 18, 2021

As wildfires, fueled by human-caused climate change, have grown more extreme, so has the burden on the wildland firefighters, and it’s pushing many out of the job they love, Thomson Reuters reports. “The seasons are longer, and we’re not being treated any better,” Brian Campbell, veteran of nearly two decades of firefighting for the U.S. […].

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CleanTechnica

JULY 18, 2021

A New Program to Streamline the Solar Permitting Process Can Be a Game Changer.

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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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CleanTechnica

JULY 18, 2021

With the current exchange rate and the taxes, delivery charges and on-road costs, a Tesla can cost a lot of money in Australia. The Tesla stretch in Australia is a big one. Recently, I went on a drive with the local Brisbane Tesla club and took the photo included above. It boggles the mind when […].

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CleanTechnica

JULY 18, 2021

The German plugin vehicle market scored over 64,000 registrations last month, with both plugin powertrains rising fast (+312% year over year for BEVs and +191% year over year for PHEVs). As a result, last month’s plugin share ended at 24% (12% BEV), with BEVs outselling PHEVs for the first time this year (33,420 units vs […].

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CleanTechnica

JULY 18, 2021

The Truth About Cars says the Tesla Cybertruck will be a flop. What do you think?

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CleanTechnica

JULY 18, 2021

The Volvo XC40 Recharge is the 2021 CleanTechnica Car of the Year finalist that gets no love — well, not enough love. While the Volkswagen ID.4 and Ford Mustang Mach-E have been grabbing headlines of various sorts, the Volvo XC40 Recharge recently rolled out stealthily in the US and more recently in the UK. The […].

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CleanTechnica

JULY 18, 2021

Rolls-Royce has been one of the familiar names in the very early electric aircraft market. Its fully electric aircraft “Spirit of Innovation” is on the verge of attempting a new top speed record for an electric aircraft. It is aiming to fly 300+ mph (480+ km/h). Rolls-Royce × Jaguar In the … spirit of electric […].

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CleanTechnica

JULY 18, 2021

By David Waterworth The state government of New South Wales is budgeting half a billion dollars to normalise battery electric vehicles (BEVs). As well as generous incentives for the public and businesses to purchase BEVs, they are now planning “driving experience days.” This is similar to an approach taken by the government of the UK. […].

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