GreenBiz

APRIL 8, 2021

Climate accountability reaches the CFO suite. Emily Chasan. Thu, 04/08/2021 - 02:00. Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. It started with intangibles. I spent about a decade of my life writing about corporate accounting before I began focusing on sustainability and sustainable finance. In between all the conversations on accounting for stock options and leases, one megatrend in corporate accounting beat them all: the rise of intangible assets.

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Climate change Sustainability Patents Policy 376

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Hydrogen fuel dispenser at a transport refueling station in Aachen, Germany in January 2020 (image credit: Alexander Kirch / Shutterstock.com). A unique private infrastructure fund dedicated to delivering clean hydrogen infrastructure projects at scale has been launched. The group behind the FiveT Hydrogen Fund suggest it will play a major role in the decarbonisation of the global economy.

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Hydrogen Investment Transportation Policy 259

Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 8, 2021

Non-fungible tokens (or NFTs) are the newest players in the cryptocurrency market, and their environmental impact may surprise you.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Leighton Buzzard station has installed two of the Pavegen walkways: (Left to right) Jack Bowers (CBC), Cllr Steve Dixon (CBC), Martin Heeley (Ringway Jacobs), Hannah Bartram (ADEPT), Cllr Ian Dalgarno (CBC), Laurence Kemball-Cook (Pavegen), and Sanjay Patel (Ringway Jacobs). The first installation at a UK transport hub of a system to utilise kinetic energy from commuters’ footsteps has been launched by Pavegen and Central Bedfordshire Council at Leighton Buzzard train station.

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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

Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 8, 2021

New research published in the journal Nature Communications shows that the deepest parts of the Great Lakes are warming up.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Following a lead set by firms in industries like food and fashion, Polestar has produced a product sustainability declaration. Swedish performance EV firm Polestar has declared a “moonshot goal” to create “the first truly climate neutral car by 2030.”. The Polestar 0 project will aim to cut carbon emissions by changing the way that cars are made, says the firm, rather than using traditional processes and then planting trees to offset CO2e.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Asynt high pressure reactor ‘in use’ at the Centrale Lille Institute Labs. Working closely with researchers at the Centrale Lille Institute in Lille, France, laboratory equipment firm Asynt says it has developed and supplied two custom high-pressure reactors to assist them in their development of new advanced catalysts for biomass transformation. Dr Robert Wojcieszak said: “Our new CatBioInnov project aims to develop catalytic processes for the conversion of C1 to C6 lignocellulosic molecu

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Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 8, 2021

Artist Hugo McCloud, known for using unusual medium choices such as aluminum sheeting, tar paper, scrap metal and solder, spent his quarantine in Mexico, layering together tiny pieces of plastic bag waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

The River Esk flows under Wha House Bridge in Upper Eskdale, Cumbria (image credit: Mick Knapton ). United Utilities has launched a new grant scheme aimed at helping charities to improve their local river catchment for the benefit of the community. The CaST Account will help to encourage partnership working, says the utility, bringing together different people, ideas and interventions to create multiple benefits for society.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

The experiment sounded innocuous. Early this summer, a group of researchers from Harvard University would fly to Kiruna, a small town of 22,000 in the northern reaches of Sweden. There, with the help of a Swedish space company, they would launch a balloon carrying an instrument-laden gondola into the stratosphere, some 12.5 miles above the Earth’s surface.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

A two-component potting compound from WEVO-CHEMIE GmbH has now been granted drinking water approval by the internationally recognised Water Regulations Advisory Scheme (WRAS) and can therefore be used in the production of drinking water filters and for protecting electrical and electronic components used in the fields of drinking and process water. According to Germany’s Federal Statistical Office, each individual in the country consumes around 123 litres of water per day.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 8, 2021

ImpactAlpha, April 8 – A pair of Cairo-based venture capital funds are supporting entrepreneurs tackling transportation, financial services, market inefficiencies and other regional. The post Egyptian startup funds put North African tech innovation on the map appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Startups Innovation Transportation Africa 118

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

PET plastic bottles collected at a recycling plant. Specialist PET (polyethylene terephthalate) recycler Enviroo has had its planning application approved for its first plastic recycling facility in the UK. The firm says the facility will be able to re-use 100% of the PET it takes in and help recycle some of the 4.9 million tonnes of plastic waste created in the UK annually.

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altenergymag

APRIL 8, 2021

Following its expansion into home power solutions, Spruce collaborates with sonnen to bring safe, long-lasting home batteries to solar customers

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Batteries Energy Energy 122

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.

Sustainability

Charged

APRIL 8, 2021

Loop Energy and Rheintal-Transporte have announced an agreement for the development and supply of heavy-duty hydrogen fuel cell range extension solutions for electric trucks in Europe. As a part of the agreement, Rheintal will use Loop’s eFlow fuel cell modules to expand the range of electric trucks. Rheintal anticipates orders of eFlow fuel cell modules for more than 20 hydrogen-fueled trucks and trailers over the next 24 months.

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altenergymag

APRIL 8, 2021

Fast Growth for Fast Charging Network, with 38 New Fast Charging Stalls at Latest Ten Sites Across 6 States and D.C.

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Charged

APRIL 8, 2021

Bidirectional charging is the technology of the hour. It enables vehicle-to-grid—or should we say, vehicle-to-anything (V2X)—applications, which promise to greatly facilitate the integration of EVs and renewable energy into the grid, to offer opportunities for fleets to offset their electrification costs, and to allow other handy capabilities, such as backup power.

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Electric vehicle Electricity Technology Energy 111

Impact Alpha

APRIL 8, 2021

ImpactAlpha, April 8 — A Reinventure Capital impact venture fund, led by Edward Dugger III, received a “catalytic commitment” of $5 million from. The post MassMutual backs Reinventure Capital fund for diverse founders appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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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?

Carbon

Green Living Guy

APRIL 8, 2021

From the Hasting on Hudson Village web site with the following description: National Drive Electric Day, April 17, 9:30-11:30am, in person (no registration required) Come check out the new affordable EVs on the market in your price range, and learn about recent rebates and discounts. Hear from experts on why EVs make most sense, and learn tips from those who’ve gone electric.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

Inspired by the Paris Agreement, the Accord aims to secure commitments right across crypto and fintech sector ahead of COP26. A major UN-backed initiative aimed at tackling the growing climate impact of the burgeoning crypto currency industry has been launched today, in bid to encourage all of the world's energy-intensive fintech blockchains to run on 100 per cent renewable power by 2025 and achieve net zero by 2040.

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altenergymag

APRIL 8, 2021

Two Winners To Share $75,000 Prize Pool

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

Former colleagues and friends have paid tribute to former Conservative frontbencher Peter Ainsworth, who played an integral role in pushing conservation and climate action into the political mainstream. Prime ministers, campaigners, and green business leaders have paid warm tribute to former Conservative MP and environmental advocate Peter Ainsworth, who died this week aged 64, hailing both his courteous nature and the integral role he played in pushing environmental issues up the political agen

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 8, 2021

ImpactAlpha, April 8 — Boston-based Clean Energy Ventures invests in clean energy technologies that can eventually displace 100 million tons of CO2 emissions. The post Two battery tech startups secure seed funding from Clean Energy Ventures appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

Partnership will explore whether SSE's under-construction Keadby 2 gas-fired power station could be ‘progressively decarbonised’ through hydrogen blending. SSE and Equinor have unveiled plans for a 'clean power hub' near Scunthorpe, comprised of a blue hydrogen-fuelled power station alongside a fossil gas power plant equipped with carbon capture technology, with the energy giants aiming to store the resulting CO2 under the North Sea.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 8, 2021

By Diane Kim , USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences ; Ignacio Navarrete , USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences , and Jessica Dutton , USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea. Giant kelp, the world’s largest species of marine algae , is an attractive source for making biofuels.

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Low Impact

APRIL 8, 2021

Are you a remote worker dreaming of pastures new? WWOOFer Imogen shares how her experience of WWOOFing as a digital nomad enabled her to combine making a living with meaningful volunteering. With the Covid-19 now over a year old, some aspects of life that have been transformed by the pandemic may turn out to be permanent, or more longer-lasting than we might have thought this time last year.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 8, 2021

ImpactAlpha, April 8 – In his 66-page annual shareholder letter, the JPMorgan chief lays out his views on the economy (get ready for. The post Jamie Dimon calls for a carbon tax, the end of the carried interest loophole and a modern-day Marshall Plan appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

Energy supplier strikes power purchase deal for 100 per cent of the electricity generated from the 90MW Irish Sea wind farm. OVO Energy has struck a major deal to buy all of the electricity generated by Ørsted's 90MW Barrow offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea, the two firms announced today. The Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) forms part of OVO's aim to increase the amount of electricity it supplies to customers which is directly backed by renewables capacity to almost 40 per cent by the en

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altenergymag

APRIL 8, 2021

Game-changing companies recognized for their leadership in transformative technologies

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

UK workplace pension schemes watchdog plans to issue guidance to help industry meet stricter climate risk disclosure rules coming into force later this year. The UK's workplace pension schemes watchdog has called on scheme trustees to "act now" to protect retirement savers from climate risk, as it unveiled its enhanced climate strategy for the next four years.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 8, 2021

BMR Energy, a Virgin Group company and developer, owner, and operator of clean energy projects in the Caribbean and Latin America, announced today that it is starting construction of the 6.4-megawatt (MWp) Donoe Solar farm on St. Thomas. The facility is expected to be completed and enter service in the fourth quarter of this year and will sell the power it generates to the Virgin Island Power and Water Authority (VIWAPA) under a newly negotiated 25-year Power Purchase Agreement.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

The public-private Energy Research Partnership warns all new decarbonisation incentives must include 'behaviour change enabling plans' for corporates and the public. Achieving net zero will require a "cultural revolution" of information-driven decision making, visible peer pressure and strong government policies that encourage behaviour change towards lower emission lifestyles.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability 79

GreenTech Gazette

APRIL 8, 2021

For years, the talk of the use of batteries to power just about everything we use has focused on the development of lithium batteries. However, a new ‘next generation’ lithium-metal battery developed by GM could be a complete game-changer. The latest joint venture that is associated with this new battery prototype could, in time, become a major building block for a new form of battery that promises to be the best option yet.

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