GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

Real-life Lessons for Trucking's Clean Future. Having flown under the radar for decades, the trucking industry more than proved its value during the COVID-19 crisis as hospital, grocery and e-commerce deliveries became critical. With more attention on the industry and its current practices, we want to focus on its future as well. Trucking is ready for a transition to electric vehicles, and that transition is primed to start in the urban and regional-haul segments that’s been so essential for us

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 1, 2020

Berlin-based inventors Martin Binder and Claudio Rimmele believe that parents shouldn’t have to make the choice whether or not to let their children enjoy a playground in a world changed by COVID-19.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

Whether booming off-grid power demand in emerging markets is met with grid extension or distributed renewables will be central to the growth story of the global clean-power sector. As the technological and financial tool kit for providing affordable, reliable, appropriate and clean power to every household and business continues to expand, deployments of off-grid, decentralized, renewable energy systems will take an increasingly larger bite out of present and future power demand on the grid in c

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 1, 2020

Marine mammal conservationists warn of a contagious respiratory pathogen, cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV), that could potentially harm already endangered orca populations. Like the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that is causing the current COVID-19 pandemic, CeMV similarly has high transmission and mortality rates.

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

Offshore wind is one trend where Europe's renewable energy industry has taken an early lead. Corporate PPAs? Not so much. But as corporate onshore wind and solar deals pick up in Europe , the first handful of offshore wind deals are now getting done. Denmark's Ørsted has signed three corporate power price agreements for offshore wind farms in the U.K. and Germany, totaling 154 megawatts.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 1, 2020

As construction of the Lusail International Stadium continues, Qatar, the country set to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, is also beginning to address the impending question of crowd accommodation. The massive number of fans traveling to the Middle East to enjoy the soccer competition will need a place to stay.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 1, 2020

Watershed aggressively reduces its energy and water usage compared to conventional construction of the same size.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 1, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 1 – Agents of justice are agents of impact. The anger in the streets this weekend is an expression of the manifest injustice of police brutality. And the manifest injustice of the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. And the unacceptably slow progress toward, and outright hostility to, an economic and social system. The post Agents of Justice: The social mobilization is on appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

Letter from 206 major firms provides clearest sign yet of widespread support from the business community for an economic recovery plan that prioritises climate action, and suggests taxpayer support should only go to firms that are committed to decarbonisation. More than 200 leading UK companies, investors, and organisations have jointly called for a green coronavirus recovery plan in an open letter today which urges the government to build "a more inclusive, stronger and more resilient" path tow

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 1, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 1 – Addis Adaba-based Roadrunner is a tech platform used by delivery startup Deliver Addis, one of Ethiopia’s leading e-commerce companies. Roadrunner’s tech has helped Deliver expand from restaurant delivery to groceries and other essential goods during COVID. Small business-focused impact investor RENEW has invested a third slug of capital in Roadrunner.

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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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altenergymag

JUNE 1, 2020

The findings, published in Nature Communications, may serve as a model for the United States and worldwide illustrating that decreases in renewable costs may help drive clean energy growth.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

People's Bank of China intends to move its green financing framework closer to global standards by excluding so-called 'clean coal', according to reports. China is set to scratch coal infrastructure from the government's list of projects eligible for green bond financing, according to reports. 'Clean utilisation of fossil fuel' projects were notably absent from a draft list of projects considered eligible for green bond financing published by the People's Bank of China on Friday, according to re

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Solar Power World

JUNE 1, 2020

In this special edition of Contractors Corner, solar inverter manufacturer SMA America talks about the challenges of traditional PV system optimization, and the new solutions available from the company. Listen to the full episode here or on your favorite podcast app. This podcast is sponsored by SMA Solar. The post Solar Spotlight: SMA America on new methods of PV system optimization appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 1, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 29 – Corporación Andina de Fomento’s €700 million, five-year bond is its first social impact bond. Proceeds will support small businesses and women, indigenous, minority, migrant and underserved populations in member countries with COVID economic relief (see, “Countries and companies tap fixed-income market with ‘social bonds’ for COVID relief”).

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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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altenergymag

JUNE 1, 2020

Performance validation will prove crucial to establishing renewable energy as the infrastructure investment of choice as fund managers look to stabilize portfolios

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 1, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 1 – ANDE’s Advancing Women’s Empowerment Fund, backed by USAID and the Visa Foundation, sought innovative ways to bridge the estimated $320 billion annual gap in access to finance for women-led small and growing businesses in developing countries. Eight winning programs, out of more than 180 applicants, will each receive up to $150,000.

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Charged

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s no secret that auto dealerships are a major bottleneck for EV sales. Legacy automakers may cast an envious eye on Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model, but they cannot practically (or legally) cut the dealers out of the equation. Now Volkswagen may have found a way to solve this dilemma, at least in Germany. VW has announced that its German dealerships will not be the primary point of contact for buyers of the new ID family of EVs.

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altenergymag

JUNE 1, 2020

US District Court Filing Seeks to Hold China Based APsystems Accountable for Willful Patent Infringement

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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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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

Council to consider changes to planning application following highly critical report that argued a new coal mine in the UK was not compatible with the country's climate goals. A proposed coal mine project in Cumbria that was controversially greenlit by the government last year is set to undergo further scrunity, after the County Council revealed it would no longer rely on a previous decision made in support of the project.

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altenergymag

JUNE 1, 2020

Below is a statement from Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA):

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

Three day online festival to bring together political and business leaders to explore how the net zero transition will define the decade ahead. BusinessGreen has today unveiled the full agenda for the world's first Net Zero Festival , confirming the inaugural event will now take place as a fully virtual summit this autumn. The Festival will be hosted online across three days from Wednesday 30th September to Friday 2nd October 2020, with each day dedicated to a different theme: Net Zero Leadershi

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 1, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Agents of Justice: The social mobilization is on. Agents of justice are agents of impact. For months, ImpactAlpha has been watching, and waiting, for a broad social mobilization for change, in the understanding that real change means shifting power, that power is surrendered only reluctantly, and that overcoming that reluctance.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

UK Electric Fleets Alliance launched in bid to make the case for faster switch to 100 per cent electric vehicle sales in the UK within 10 years. A corporate coalition calling for a faster shift to electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK has been launched today by green business non-profit The Climate Group in partnership with digital telecoms giant BT. Dubbed the UK Electric Fleets Alliance, the coalition is advocating for 100 per cent EV sales in the UK by 2030, five years sooner than the government'

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altenergymag

JUNE 1, 2020

Carsten Schmidt has more than a decade of experience in the automotive industry, with a focus in electric vehicles. He has held several managerial positions in the field of electric powertrains, including the position of Vice President of Sales in the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Business Unit of Continental AG, as well as Vice President and General Manager DF e-Car Powertrain Systems China at Siemens AG.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

The COVID-19 lockdown has led to reduced pollution and emissions in the UK and around the world , providing a clear indication of how cars affect air quality and carbon emissions. But such a change is only temporary - millions of petrol cars are waiting for restrictions to ease. Then, higher levels of emissions will resume. But what if they didn't? What if all cars switched to electric overnight?

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Charged

JUNE 1, 2020

Tritium , an Australia-based manufacturer of DC fast charging stations, has incorporated Plug & Charge technology into its products. Tritium says Plug & Charge capability is available immediately for charge point operators to deploy on its PK350kW DC High Power Chargers. Plug & Charge, based on the ISO 15118 standard, enables direct communication between an EV and a charger, eliminating the need for a card or RFID tag.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

Legal & General, Aberdeen Standard Investments and Church of England Pensions Board join anti-coal, multi-stakeholder alliance that aims to encourage the phase out of coal by 2050 at the latest. Aberdeen Standard Investments, Legal & General and the Church of England Pensions Board have today officially signed up to the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA), joining a growing number of financial institutions that have pledged to cut off financing to the coal industry and boost investment in cle

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altenergymag

JUNE 1, 2020

A tenfold increase in capacity over existing letter of credit facility reflects the strength of 8minute’s expanded pipeline over the last four years

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

Both economic growth and decarbonisation can be fostered from the current crisis, argues Gilles Moëc, chief economist at AXA Investment Managers. Governments should beware sacrificing global decarbonisation efforts on the altar of economic prosperity, but likewise must not decelerate growth to achieve a cleaner world. Better to find a way to do both.

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Charged

JUNE 1, 2020

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded $7.8 to two lithium recovery projects in the Salton Sea region, where high concentrations of the soft metal are found dissolved in the brine produced by geothermal hotspots. The Salton Sea Known Geothermal Area contains an estimated six million tons of recoverable lithium. However, there are significant barriers to exploiting this resource—the challenges have to do with the harsh chemistry of the brine and the difficultly of developing a low-cos

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 1, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Contact: Ben Schneider, bschneider@edf.org , 202-572-3279. Defend Our Future Issued the Following Statement on the Killing of George Floyd. There are no words to adequately express our horror, our rage and our sadness at the completely unwarranted killing of George Floyd. His death is only the latest to seep into the national consciousness because someone was there to take and post a video of the whole atrocious act.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

Government-backed Natural Environment Impact Fund to support four projects that will explore how private investment can be harnessed to enhance nature. The government has today announced four new nature restoration projects are to receive seed funding to help demonstrate how private investment can be secured to improve natural habitats, curb greenhouse gas emissions, and enhance climate resilience.

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 1, 2020

Solar Stimulus: How Renewables Will Save The Economy & Our Planet Continue reading on Medium ».

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