GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
The climate crisis needs climate leadership from businesses now. Maria Mendiluce. Tue, 09/29/2020 - 01:00. As the world grapples with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequality and more, the impacts of climate change cannot be ignored. Most weeks bring fresh headlines of wildfires, droughts and rapidly melting ice caps. They’re a reminder that climate action cannot wait for calmer times. .
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Europe must not repeat the same mistakes it made with solar manufacturing in the emerging hydrogen sector, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned. A string of European research institutes and pioneering companies developed much of the technology still in use in PV panels today. But as solar began to scale in multiple international markets, coordinated national and regional support allowed Chinese manufacturers to steal a march on their rivals.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
This is the moment to reimagine public transportation. Amanda Eaken. Tue, 09/29/2020 - 00:21. Back in April, the city of Seattle temporarily closed off nearly 20 miles of streets to most vehicular traffic in order to let residents bike, walk, jog and skate at a safe social distance during the height of the city’s COVID-19 pandemic. Seattle’s Stay Healthy Streets program was designed to encourage people to travel to essential services and small local businesses — or just to get outside for exerci
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Located at the top of a mountain in Colombia’s Calandaíma River Valley, Casa Volcanes is a stunning home that promotes indoor-outdoor living and natural materials.
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.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
After raising $660 million from private investors, electric vehicle charging company ChargePoint is taking a crack at going public through the same method that a half-dozen EV makers have taken so far this year: a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. But unlike some of the EV makers taking the SPAC route so far — some without revenue and with questionable pathways to meet outsized growth projections — ChargePoint is promising to expand existing revenue
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
A new island destination is in the works in Malaysia, and it's set to put the spotlight on sustainable development.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Every purchase of Proud Pour wine helps restore oyster and bee habitats, save sea turtles and plant baby coral reefs.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
The U.K. offshore wind pipeline has surpassed 50 gigawatts with the latest award of seabed rights revealed on Monday. The Crown Estate, which manages the leasing process in England and Wales, has handed out extensions to a raft of existing projects that could accommodate a further 2.8 GW of power generation. The U.K. government is targeting 40 GW of installed capacity by 2030 with 10 GW already operational.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Sixty-four world leaders have signed a new Leaders' Pledge for Nature. But some key players are notably absent in promising to slow environmental ills.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Data Analytics Solutions Provider Increases Electriq Power’s Capabilities for Virtual Power Plants
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
They have become the first plant species in California to be granted protection from climate change.
The City Fix
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Cyclone Amphan slammed into countries surrounding the Sea of Bengal this May. The storm was the second most powerful the region has seen in two decades, affecting over 12 million people in four countries. In Bangladesh, the water surged up to 4. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Ideal for training personnel on automatic and manual operation of Russelectric switchgear
Forbes Green Tech
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Grand projects like these certainly exist in developed nations, but the developing world hosts its own share of greenfield smart city aspirations.
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.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Analysis shows $100 billion in stimulus investment would add to California’s gross state product, increase tax revenues, create millions of jobs, and deliver savings to consumers
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Impak Battles, an ImpactAlpha series with impak, a Montreal-based impact ratings agency, assesses the positive and negative impact of corporate operations. Each month, the agency uses its impak Score rating methodology in a head-to-head assessment of two representative companies. Earlier editions: Nestlé vs. Danone, Engie vs. Enel and Novartis vs Sanofi.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
-Polaris and Zero Motorcycles have signed a 10-year exclusive partnership agreement in off-road vehicles and snowmobiles -Transformative partnership combines Polaris’ industry leadership with Zero’s proven technology in electric powertrains -Co-development is underway with the first of several electric vehicles to debut by the end of 2021 rEV’d up aims to position Polaris as the powersports EV leader and offer customers an electric vehicle option within each of its core product segments by 2025
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Read time: 5 mins A new campaign targeting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its lobbying on climate change issues published a report today criticizing the pro-business lobbying and advocacy group for continuing to push for pro-fossil fuel policies despite recognizing that climate change is real. For years, the Chamber opposed action to slow climate change, prompting activists to dub the organization the “Chamber of Carbon.”.
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?
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 29 – Innovation in climate finance is critical; with a global COVID pandemic raging, it’s doubly so. Eight new financial solutions to be showcased today by the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance “address the climate emergency while providing much-needed sustainable recovery opportunities for overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic economic shock,” says Barbara Buchner.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Trials of the zero carbon HydroFLEX train kick off today in the Midlands as part of a government-backed project. The first hydrogen-powered train to run on the UK's mainline is set to roll out onto the tracks today in Warwickshire as part of a series of trials of the technology part-funded by the government, which hailed the milestone as a "big step forwards in the UK's net zero targets".
Forbes Green Tech
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
The Detroit-based automaker says talks over an alliance continue. Founder Trevor Milton has been accused of lying about Nikola’s technology and misleading investors.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
As many as 11.5 million people now work in renewable energy worldwide, but IRENA warns strong policy action essential to sustain growth in the wake of Covid-19. Job opportunities in the renewable energy continue to surge worldwide, with 11.5 million people worldwide working in the sector in 2019, up almost 500,000 from the year before, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
Mr. Sustainability
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Summary - Shore power for vessels is going offshore. Maersk and Ørsted will test a prototype buoy in one of Ørsted’s offshore wind farms by 2021. The buoy can act as both a mooring point and a charging station for vessels, enabling vessels to turn of their engines when laying idle. Ørsted intends to make any intellectual property generated in designing the integration of the buoy into the offshore wind asset publicly available to maximize the uptake potential of this carbon reduction innovation
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
UK retailer raises the steaks with major plan to scale up vegan and vegetarian alternatives across its stores over the next five years. Tesco is plotting a major increase in plant-based meat products in its stores over the coming years in order to capitalise on the growing trend towards vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets, as it today became the first UK retailer to set a sales target for meat alternatives.
GatesNotes
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
A powerful tool for understanding clean energy and climate change.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
French oil major takes over Source London EV network after acquisition of Blue Point London from the Bolloré Group. Total is set to take over operation of London's largest electric vehicle charging network, after today announcing it has completed the acquisition of Blue Point London, the EV charging arm of French transportation firm Bolloré Group.
Low Impact
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
From herbs to moss and more, we share a first instalment from our friends at Ethical.net about sustainable alternatives to garden lawns. Most gardens will have at least some lawn. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but few of us stop to consider whether there might be better alternatives. A lawn can be practical, but there are many more arguments for replacing it with something preferable.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
ImpactAlpha Sept. 29 – S&P Global dropped companies generating more than 5% of their revenues from thermal coal from its environmental, social and governance, or ESG, index. Among those delisted: Duke, Dominion, American Electric Power, Xcel, WEC Energy, DTE Energy, PPL, and CMS Energy. “Thermal coal companies may now be counted among this lowest common.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
VIDEO: The energy company has been trialling ground-breaking CCS technology at its biomass power plant in a bid to achieve negative emissions. For the past two years, energy firm Drax has been piloting ground-breaking carbon capture technology at its biomass power plant in North Yorkshire, in a bid to deliver negative emissions - which means removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than it produces.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
ImpactAlpha, September 29 – Bank of America has issues a $2 billion bond to advance racial equity. Proceeds from the five-year bond will be used to invest in initiatives having a positive impact on Black and Brown communities. Projects will include affordable housing development, mortgage lending, health facilities and medical practices, minority-owned depository institutions, as.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Construction company outlines plan to achieve zero carbon across its own operations and its building developments by 2030 without the use of carbon offsets. Construction giant Willmott Dixon has today unveiled a set of sweeping new sustainability goals, promising that all its new building and refurbishment projects will be operationally zero carbon by 2030, alongside an goal for all its supply chain partners to also reach zero carbon by 2040.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
ImpactAlpha, September 29 – Save the Children, best known for its humanitarian aid work, has reached a $6 million first close for an impact fund to invest in social enterprises addressing humanitarian challenges. Australian insurance firm QBE and Save the Children Australia invested in the fund Save the Children launched the impact fund in January. The post Insurer QBE backs Save the Children’s impact fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Top figures from the leading banking group - formerly RBS - join BusinessGreen deputy editor Michael Holder to discuss NatWest's ambition to become a 'climate positive' bank by 2025. Major changes have been underway at NatWest in 2020. At the start of the year parent company the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced a rebrand to bring the entire banking group under its NatWest brand umbrella, at the same time as unveilng a suite of industry-leading climate goals.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
404 
Let's personalize your content