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GRI and SASB are collaborating. Is that good news for companies?

GreenBiz

GRI and SASB are collaborating. Is that good news for companies? Joel Makower. Sun, 07/12/2020 - 17:56. For years, corporate reporters — those inside companies responsible for creating sustainability reports and reporting environmental, social and governance data to various other organizations — have been frustrated by what many refer to as an alphabet soup of standards and frameworks: CDP, GRI, IIRC, PRI, SASB, TCFD, UNGC and more.

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DOE: slightly more CCS chargers than CHAdeMO in the US

Charged

At first glance, the Department of Energy’s latest stats on public fast chargers indicate that we’re in the midst of a thrilling standards war, with the two competitors running neck-and-neck. There are two competing DC fast charging standards in the US (aside from Tesla’s proprietary Supercharger): CHArge de MOve (CHAdeMO), favored by Japanese and Korean automakers; and the SAE Combined Charging System (CCS), championed by the American and German brands.

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Return of the Bomb Trains

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins On July 6th Reuters published an article on the potential for a resurgence of moving crude oil from the Bakken region of North Dakota across the country by rail, due to a judge’s decision to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline over permit issues. July 6th also was the 7th anniversary of the disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec when a train full of Bakken oil from North Dakota derailed and exploded — resulting in 47 fatalities and the destruction of much of downtown Lac-Mégantic. .

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Rivian raises $2.5 billion in new funding

Charged

Investors are pouring money into EV companies—as shares in Tesla, Nio and newly public Nikola soar, Rivian , which has attracted loads of media attention for its planned electric pickup and SUV, has raised $2.5 billion in new funding in a round led by T. Rowe Price. The company has raised about $6 billion in funding so far. CEO Robert Scaringe said in June that Rivian has no plans to go public at the moment, but is open to more funding to support its aggressive growth plans.

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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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Defund and divest: Banks, investors, and pension funds urged to stop bankrolling meat and dairy

Business Green

‘Big Livestock’ is just as damaging to the planet as the fossil fuel industry, campaigners warn, yet UK banks continue to be among the sector's largest creditors, pouring tens of billions into carbon-intensive companies fuelling deforestation. Investment firms, banks, and pension funds have spent hundreds of billions of dollars supporting "destructive" global meat and dairy companies that are failing to take adequate action on carbon emissions and deforestation, a new report has warned.

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Mercedes announces partnership with battery cell manufacturer Farasis

Charged

Mercedes-Benz has launched a strategic partnership with the Chinese battery cell manufacturer Farasis Energy , and taken an equity stake in the company. Key elements of the agreement include the development and industrialization of advanced cell technologies as well as goals for cost competitiveness. The technological focus is on significant increases in range through advances in energy density and charging time reduction.

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Protected: The roadmap to sustainable e-commerce

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This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: The roadmap to sustainable e-commerce appeared first on EDF+Business.

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EKO Instruments Launch MS-90 Plus+ Solar Monitoring Solution

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NEW Cost-Saving Package Measures DNI, DHI, and GHI

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Virtual Event - Sustainability Week 2020 Disruption as a Catalyst for Action

Green Market Oracle

Sustainability Week 2020 Disruption as a Catalyst for Action will take place on October 5th - 9th 2020 1pm - 3pm BST (8am - 10am EDT). This virtual event will feature 10 hours of curated content over 5 days. Some of the topics that will be covered during Sustainability Week 2020 include: Scaling action on sustainability amid covid-19 / Can bold policies save the world?

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GRI and SASB are collaborating. Is that good news for companies?

AGreenLiving

GRI and SASB are collaborating. Is that good news for companies? Joel Makower Sun, 07/12/2020 – 17:56 For years, corporate reporters — those inside companies responsible for creating sustainability reports and reporting environmental, social and governance data to various other organizations — have been frustrated by what many refer to as an alphabet soup of standards and frameworks: CDP, GRI, IIRC, PRI, SASB, TCFD, UNGC and more.

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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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The plastic pandemic

Eco-Business

Plastic may have helped to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the Covid-19 crisis threatens to stall progress made in tackling plastic pollution, writes Jacob Duer of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste.

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Aldi pledges to halve plastic packaging by 2025

Business Green

Aldi said it would work with suppliers to remove the equivalent of 2.2 billion single items of plastic of its shelves within the next five years. Aldi has committed to halve the volume of plastic packaging it uses in the UK by 2025, a move it estimates will prevent 74,000 tonnes of plastic packaging from reaching supermarket shelves. In plans revealed late last week, the UK's fifth-largest supermarket said it would work to meet its new goals by reducing unnecessary packaging and replacing plasti

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As fog clears on benefits of forest protection, excuses for failure wear thin

Eco-Business

Scientists are producing stronger evidence on the economic and environmental value of keeping tropic forests standing.

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What post-Covid communities could look like, if enough of us want it

Low Impact

Here’s a little story for anyone who’s noticed that things aren’t going too well in our communities. Small businesses are going under, unemployment is on the rise and money’s becoming scarce. This story is about how it could be instead, based on an imaginary community in the North of England in a few years time – maybe five, maybe ten, maybe twenty (or maybe never, but let’s be optimistic).

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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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Indonesian lawmakers to probe pulpwood firm’s dispute with indigenous group

Eco-Business

Members of the Indonesian parliament want to question pulp and paper company PT Arara Abadi about its dispute with an Indigenous community in Sumatra that resulted in a member of the community being jailed on dubious charges.

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Volkswagen’s Top Software Guy Is Dropped

CleanTechnica

It is no secret that Volkswagen Group has been struggling with what is truly an enormous challenge. Now rumor is that the company is dropping its head honcho on software and is replacing him with.

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Mark Your Calendars: Tesla Shareholder Meeting & Battery Day Scheduled For September 22

CleanTechnica

Tesla has set September 22 as the date for its annual shareholders meeting and the long awaited Battery Day.

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Tesla Won’t Produce Model Y Standard Range, But Will Add Model Y RWD

CleanTechnica

Elon Musk has shared several nuggets of information about the Tesla Model Y this evening on Twitter. We've got all the details below and will add more if Musk returns to Twitter to share more information.

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Azure Power & SoftBank Planning Asset, Stake Sale In Indian Solar Businesses

CleanTechnica

Leading Indian renewable energy developers are facing a liquidity crunch due to the COVID 19-induced nationwide lockdown and increased competition from emerging players. The country’s debt-ridden discoms are unable to pay off their dues to the generating companies. This has resulted in sharp increase in the sale of operational assets from various large renewable energy generators in the past few months. .

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Sweden At 26% Plug-in Vehicle Market Share

CleanTechnica

Sweden remains an odd plug-in vehicle market in which plug-in hybrids heavily outweigh full electrics. Part of that may be because Volvo Cars only sells plug-in hybrids so far, and Volvo is sort of popular in Sweden.

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Whoosh! Wind Power Wins, Pipelines Implode In Fossil Fuel Week From Hell

CleanTechnica

New wind power project sails ahead while fossil fuel stakeholders come to grips with record breaking heat and a fresh round of COVID-19 lockdowns.

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Born & Raised In Sawdust: How Race Affected A Journey To Science & Engineering

CleanTechnica

Dr. Lewis Thigpen's memoir includes commentaries on how racial barriers exist in education and science prevent many people of color from achieving their potential.

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India Looking To Strengthen Domestic Solar Manufacturing, Reduce Dependence On China

CleanTechnica

With the resurgence of a border dispute with China, the Indian government is now looking to reduce dependence on Chinese imports, including solar cells and modules. India is considering multiple efforts to discourage developers to import Chinese equipment and encourage investors to develop domestic manufacturing facilities.

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“All Energy Matters,” US Energy Secretary Tells Global Conference

CleanTechnica

At an international conference this week, US Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said the US advocates for less government regulation and more acceptance of all fuels, a variation of the trite "let the market decide" concept promoted by conservatives since Ronald Reagan was in office.

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Debunking Manhattan Institute’s “The ‘New Energy Economy’: An Exercise In Magical Thinking” — Part One

CleanTechnica

I was discussing the dramatic drop in coal use in the US and the dramatic rise in renewable energy production and one of my many conservative friends* referred me to this report to explain why physics proves that there is no way we can transition to renewable sources affordably, that all the innovation is coming on the fossil fuel side, and that renewables have hit a brick wall and won't be improving much at all.

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Can A Government Be Held Accountable If Climate Legislation Is Violated?

CleanTechnica

If you think about the goal of the Paris Agreement to halve global carbon emissions in the next 10 years to keep the world on track to limit temperature rise to 1.5C, it in itself might seem, and frankly might actually be, impossible. But you don't get points for not trying, we are all in this together, and the sooner a small country like Denmark can show concrete results from functional climate legislation, larger countries just might follow.

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Blockbuster Sunrun/Vivint Merger Challenges Tesla Solar Ambitions

CleanTechnica

Sunrun has acquired Vivint Solar to become the largest roof top solar company in America.

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France’s Recent Order Liberalizing Retrofits Of Old ICE Vehicles Supercharges Phoenix Mobility’s Ambitions For Mass EV Conversions

CleanTechnica

We just love hearing about EV conversions. This is an industry that promises to play a major role in accelerating the transition to electromobility. At the right scale and when applied to the right segments best fit for the target markets, what was once a niche product for collectors’ items such as restored classic cars and a badge of honor for a merry band of hobbyists could be a game changer.