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Online Event - 2020 International Climate Action Challenge

Green Market Oracle

This kick off event will take place on August 26 & 27, 2020. This initiative will help you jump-start your environmental or community initiative in 90 days. The action-packed two-day FREE Kick-Off Event will give you tips for launching your initiative. You can meet the mentors and connect with fellow challengers. This event is for anyone interested in participating in the Challenge.

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Why The World Needs More Nuclear Power

R-Squared Energy

Two weeks ago in Renewable Energy Growth Continues At A Blistering Pace , I highlighted the inability of renewable energy to keep up with overall energy demand: “Even though global renewable energy consumption has increased by about 21 exajoules in the past decade, overall energy consumption has increased by 101 exajoules. Increased fossil fuel consumption made up most of this growth, with every category of fossil fuels showing increased consumption over the decade.”.

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NHS estate hails renewables, LEDs and energy efficiency progress

Business Green

NHS Property Services, responsible for around 10 per cent of the health service's estate, claims efforts helped cut CO2 by more than 40,000 tonnes last year. Efforts to decarbonise the UK's National Health Services (NHS) bore yet more green fruit last year, with a combination of renewable power contracts, LED lighting, and building energy efficiency all helping to slash emissions across more than a tenth of its estate, according to NHS Property Services.

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Writing a Custom Essay

Bidgely

A custom made essay is a version of the conventional essay structure. It does not require a thesis statement, but since it’s designed to be used for an assortment of different functions, but it does require an introduction and conclusion. Moreover, you need to be knowledgeable about the principles of punctuation and grammar as a way to use other resources such as graphs and charts that will assist you build your own essay.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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.

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A green recovery would give young people the sustainable future they crave

Business Green

Young people have been hit disproportionately hard by the Covid-19 crisis, but a green recovery offers them a brighter future, writes ECIU's Jess Ralston. Young people have had a rough few months. Premature ends to school and university terms, a summer in solitude and the chaos of exam results has only added to their woes. Becoming increasingly apparent is that younger people are also being disproportionately affected by coronavirus related unemployment.

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Human-Nature Connectedness in Changing Landscapes

Ideas 4 Sustainability

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : All over the world, landscapes are changing – some rapidly, some hardly noticeably. Processes like abandonment and intensification result in structural simplification of landscapes which represents a key threat to terrestrial ecosystems.

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Corporations’ hunger for renewables to drive clean energy deployment in Taiwan

Eco-Business

Corporate appetite for green power in Taiwan is growing in the wake of a major liberalisation of the country’s electricity market and the government's increasingly ambitious renewable energy agenda, according to experts.

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Dixons Carphone becomes first tech retailer to join EV100

Business Green

British firm aims to switch all 300 of its light duty vehicles and half of its 500 medium duty vehicles to run on electric by 2030. British electronics and telecoms retailer Dixons Carphone has become the latest household name to sign up to the global EV100 initiative, as last week pledging to switch its entire road fleet to electric vehicles within the next decade.

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Doubts over green bonds’ impact in Asia’s low-carbon transition

Eco-Business

A new study has uncovered scant disclosure by green bond issuers of their environmental impact, and a lack of social safeguards to protect communities from unintended consequences of financed projects.

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Biodiversity loss is driven by economic growth: Prof. Julia Steinberger

Low Impact

Dave Darby talks with Julia Steinberger, professor of ecological economics at the University of Leeds and a member of the IPCC, about her work and the links between biodiversity loss and economic growth. Today I’m talking with Julia Steinberger, professor of ecological economics at the University of Leeds and (tell me if this is right) a member of the intergovernmental panel on climate change – the IPCC.

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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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Climate fund for poor nations vows to drive green Covid recovery

Eco-Business

Green Climate Fund backs host of new projects including strengthening buildings to withstand hurricanes in Caribbean.

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8 Best New Electric Cars In 2020

CleanTechnica

We've been covering what I consider to be a lot of exciting electric cars that are about to hit the market or that just hit the market. As a result, it crossed my mind to highlight in listicle format what I think are the 8 best new electric cars in.

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Restoring forests can reduce greenhouse gases

Eco-Business

There is one straightforward way to reduce greenhouse gases: by taking better care of the world's natural forests.

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1 Year With Tesla Model 3 SR+, $0 Charging

CleanTechnica

It is now one year since we got our Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus (SR+), so it seemed like a good time for another review of the car.

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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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Tesla Model 3 & Hyundai Kona EV Have 54% Of South Korean EV Market

CleanTechnica

Two models — the Tesla Model 3 (31%) and Hyundai Kona EV (23%) — account for 54% of the Korean EV market, according to EV Volumes. While Europe has dozens of electric vehicle models on the market (thank you, EU leadership), South Korea, like the US (especially outside of California), is a wasteland.

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E-Motorcycle Webinar Recording & Recap

CleanTechnica

Miss the electric motorcycle webinar co-hosted by Forth and CleanTechnica on August 19? We’ve got you covered with a YouTube recording here.

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Fight Climate Change With Your Undies — A Hang Drying Manifesto

CleanTechnica

August 24–28 is “Hang Dry For Climate Change Week.” Join the nonprofits Solar Oregon, African American Alliance for Homeownership, and Electrify Now and post a picture of your clothes with the hashtag #hangdry.

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Uber, Lyft, And The Gig Economy — Do Employees Matter?

CleanTechnica

Uber and Lyft are willing to spend $100 million on a campaign to classify their drivers as independent contractors rather than use that money to provide them with benefits regular employees receive.

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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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EAG Reveals Hybrid Electric Airplane Concept

CleanTechnica

Earlier this month, EAG, a UK-based engineering and development company, presented what appears to be the world’s first hybrid electric airplane for regional fleets. It's called the HERA, and with its ultra-low operating cost, whisper-quiet running, and room for up to 70 commercial passengers, the new concept promises to reinvigorate the sustainable mass transportation market.

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So Much For Saving Coal Jobs: More Offshore Wind Jobs Waiting In The Wings

CleanTechnica

The US offshore wind industry is gearing up for a sea change in federal policy -- and more green jobs -- after the November 3 elections.

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11% EV Market Share In Germany! Let The Disruption Begin!

CleanTechnica

Plugin vehicles (fully electric vehicles as well as plugin hybrids) scored an amazing 36,000 registrations in July, which not only a new record, but is 85% above the last record, made last March.

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Digging Into Less Conventional Lithium Mining Options

CleanTechnica

A few weeks ago, one of our writers wrote up a story on the company Standard Lithium and its plan to get lithium for EV batteries in a new, innovative way. Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded on Twitter that he thought the approach had "a lot of potential.".