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Why nature is the next frontier for sustainable business

GreenBiz

Why nature is the next frontier for sustainable business. Erin Billman. Thu, 09/24/2020 - 01:15. It has been encouraging to see company and government commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions coming thick and fast in recent months, even despite the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes announcements from corporate giants Facebook , Uber and Amazon.

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Critical Antarctic glaciers are drifting away

Inhabitat - Innovation

The findings, which follow analyses of satellite imagery, indicate that a natural buffer that prevents the glaciers from breaking away is deteriorating at a rapid rate and could lead to destructive sea level rise.

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4 things corporations should know about urban forestry projects

GreenBiz

4 things corporations should know about urban forestry projects. Jesse Klein. Thu, 09/24/2020 - 01:00. It’s hard to make planting trees political, one reason this climate mitigation strategy has received rare bipartisan support for the past two decades. Corporations have used that to their advantage to become an important part of the tree planting business.

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New Tokyo Toilet Project designs public restrooms to foster inclusivity

Inhabitat - Innovation

Japan-based Nippon Foundation has launched its Tokyo Toilet Project to design and build new, inclusive public toilets at 17 different locations throughout the Shibuya district of Tokyo.

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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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Tech company Rubicon is on a mission to end waste

GreenBiz

Tech company Rubicon is on a mission to end waste. Technology company Rubicon’s business mission is to end waste, in all of its forms. For David Rachelson, chief sustainability officer at Rubicon, and his team, working toward that mission looks, in part, like supporting its customers in the commercial sector — from small and medium-sized businesses to Fortune 500s — as they craft waste reduction and circular economy objectives of their own.

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Indie comic book characters are brought to life as unique cardboard cutouts

Inhabitat - Innovation

After creating a life-size board game out of cardboard, Luanga ‘Lue’ Nuwame has combined his love of cardboard crafting with another passion — rare comic book action figures.

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China plans to go carbon-neutral by 2060

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China, the world’s biggest source of carbon dioxide, is aiming for carbon-neutrality by 2060.

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WoodMac: Energy Sector Faces ‘Darwinian Challenge’ to Tame Climate Change

GreenTechMedia

The world is on course to sail past the recognized "safe" level of 2 degrees Celsius of warming to as much as 3 degrees Celsius, according to the latest Wood Mackenzie Energy Transition Outlook. The Paris Agreement aims to limit warming to “well below 2 degrees Celsius” and ideally to limit it 1.5 degrees. Yet just as efforts toward that goal are finally scaling up — via the EU’s amplified climate targets, China’s new carbon-neutral target for 2060, and other exampl

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The Heimplanet Travel Pack gets a sustainable new upgrade

Inhabitat - Innovation

Adventure luggage and tent company Heimplanet has given its popular travel pack a 2020 upgrade.

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50by40. cecily martine…. Thu, 09/24/2020 - 15:30.

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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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DWS cuts back sustainable investing funds and teams in U.S. shakeup

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 24 – DWS Group, the $869 billion wealth manager spun out of Deutsche Bank two years ago, has cut back its New York-based sustainable investing team and shelved impact funds targeting microfinance institutions and renewable energy in sub-Saharan energy. Team members sent farewell notes to colleagues a week ago. Asad Mahmood, who led.

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Entergy Joins Utility Pack With Net-Zero Carbon Promise for 2050

GreenTechMedia

Utility decarbonization commitments move pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss them. Case in point: One week ago, GTM published a list of the major investor-owned utilities that had not committed to eliminating carbon emissions. Given all the commitments announced over the last few years, we could only find five holdouts, one of which was Entergy.

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These Agribusiness Groups With Ties to Climate Denial are Trying to Influence the US-UK Trade Deal

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 17 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on stories with the theme of 'climate politics'. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. . The ongoing US - UK trade talks have been seen by some lobby groups as an opportunity to strip back environmental and food safety regulations to allow them to sell products – pesticides, hormone-fed meat, genetically modified crops ( GMO s),

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Tesla Battery Day: a raft of tech advances will deliver cost reductions worth waiting for

Charged

We’re used to extremely ambitious (not to say unrealistic) timelines from Tesla—a new Terafactory in a few months, a fleet of Robotaxis before the end of the year—so Elon Musk’s measured, conservative predictions at the long-awaited Battery Day event caught the mainstream press on the wrong foot. “In three years…we can do a $25,000 car that will be basically on par [with], maybe slightly better than, a comparable gasoline car,” said the uncharacteristically cautious Musk.

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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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25 years of Natural Power

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Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, celebrates its 25th anniversary today (24th September 2020).

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Accelerating Recovery for People Through Building Energy Efficiency

The City Fix

This article originally appeared in Energy Efficiency Magazine as part of a series of responses about energy efficiency’s role in global economic recovery from COVID-19. Energy-efficient buildings are an important key to unlocking recovery from the health and economic crises. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Heightened risk of suppliers failing to meet their Renewables Obligation

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Latest forecasts from Cornwall Insight show a potential shortfall in the Renewable Obligation (RO) buy-out fund of approximately half of the £16.94mn mutualisation threshold. Supplier exits to date alone are not expected to trigger the mutualisation process. However, there is a heightened risk that some active suppliers may now be unable to meet their obligation, which could contribute to triggering mutualisation.

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California to Require 100% Zero-Emission Passenger Vehicle Sales by 2035

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

The Governor has issued an Executive Order with sweeping implications for the oil and gas industry and others. By Jean-Philippe Brisson , Joshua T. Bledsoe , Nikki Buffa , and Brian F. McCall. On September 23, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-79-20 , which will have sweeping implications for the oil and gas industry, automakers, low-carbon fuel producers, the logistics industry, and public transit agencies, among others (the Executive Order).

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FreeWire’s Boost Charger Becomes First Battery-Integrated EV Charger to Achieve UL Certification, Enables Ultrafast Charging Without Grid Upgrades

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FreeWire Technologies, a leader in EV charging technology, achieves a first-of-its-kind safety milestone for its next-generation ultrafast electric vehicle charger.

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California Governor issues order to ban the sale of new fossil fuel vehicles by 2035

Charged

California Governor Gavin Newsom has issued an executive order requiring all new passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035. Some 15 countries have announced proposals to phase out legacy vehicles (and the UK recently brought its proposed ban forward to 2030), but California will be the first US state to do so. The California Air Resources Board will develop regulations to mandate that all sales of new passenger cars and trucks be zero-emission by 2035.

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MacArthur Foundation commits $25 million to COVID recovery and election integrity

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, September 24 – MacArthur Foundation has made grants totaling $10 million to organizations supporting Black, Native and other under-represented groups disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Recipients include: Cultural Survival, Native Voices Rising, and the Chicago Racial Justice Pooled Fund. Another $15 million in grants went to organizations strengthening voter education and fighting voter suppression, The post MacArthur Foundation commits $25 million to COVID recovery and

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How the UK became a 'bright spot' in the battle to tackle the world's food waste mountain

Business Green

Action is being coordinated by campaign group WRAP, whose Food Waste Reduction Roadmap has helped save around 180,000 tonnes of food - worth £300m - from becoming waste since it launched in 2018. The UK is leading progress to tackle the world's food waste mountain and has already covered half the distance towards meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goal to halve global waste by 2030, according to the latest report from campaign group WRAP and analysis from the action on food waste coalition C

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ChargePoint Plans NYSE Listing To Expand Its Network As EV Sales Grow

Forbes Green Tech

The Silicon Valley-based operator of charging stations is going public via a SPAC merger that will list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange and raise about $493 million to expand its network.

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TÜV Rheinland "All Quality Matters" Solar Congress 2021 Launch Ceremony Held in Shanghai

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All Quality Matters Solar Congress 2021 will be held in Hangzhou next April

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Government opens £6.9m fund for energy efficiency skills training

Business Green

Funding opens in support of the government's Green Home Grants Voucher Scheme to support low carbon retrofitting of fuel-poor building stock. Businesses and organisations that offer low carbon home retrofit skills training can now apply for a portion of £6.9m funding designed to bolster the workforce ahead of the launch of the government's Green Homes Grant scheme, it announced today.

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Climate Hustle 2: Showcasing a Thinning Roster of Climate Science Deniers

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 11 mins When written histories remember 2020 as the year that America’s anti-science obsessions completed their evolution from dangerous to deadly, the premier of Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy will be deserving of at least a footnote. The film, produced by CFACT , the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow , and starring Climate Depot’s Marc Morano , was originally set to be released on April 21, before the coronavirus pandemic shut down theaters and much of American l

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Limejump wins trading contract for Scotland's first subsidy-free wind farm

Business Green

The Shell-owned company is set to trade the power generated at the 46MW Crossdykes project through National Grid's Balancing Mechanism. Shell-owned energy tech company Limejump has secured a contract to trade the electricity produced by Scotland's first subsidy-free wind farm, it announced yesterday. A joint development between Muirhall Energy and WWS Development LLP, the 46MW onshore wind farm at Crossdykes in Dumfries and Galloway is the largest wind power project to enter Limejump's generatio

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MaKo 2020: Signature and Encryption are Now Required for Schedule Data Exchange with German Partners

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There is a week left to upgrade your email security infrastructure to meet the "Market Communication 2020" requirements if you work with the German energy sector. The new Energy Module from Zertificon allows email exchange in compliance with guidelines.

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Green Finance Institute spearheads drive to scale up national green banks worldwide

Business Green

UK's Green Finance Institute and US NGOs to develop Green Bank Design Platform in order to help governments set up financial vehicles to support climate and environmental solutions. The UK's Green Finance Institute has teamed up with US environmental groups the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Rocky Mountain Institute in a bid to help governments attract private investment for low-carbon, climate-resilient solutions by establishing green banks.

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Reinsurance firm Africa Specialty Risk Group launches with backing from Helios

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, September 24 – Reinsurance firm Africa Specialty Risk Group launches with backing from Helios. Africa Specialty Risk Group, or ASR, will offer reinsurance—insurance for insurers—to encourage new business and investment activity for Africa’s COVID recovery. Insurance, critical to business and investment activity, is supported by insurers’ ability to mitigate their own risks through reinsurance.

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Why are small businesses key to success on climate?

Business Green

The SME Climate Hub can help smaller firms play their part in the climate fight, write We Mean Business's Maria Mendiluce, Majda Dabaghi of the International Chamber of Commerce and Johan Falk from the Exponential Roadmap Initiative. It's not news that business has a huge role to play in ensuring we halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Or that this 2030 milestone is critical to avoid runaway climate change.

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A new warning bell for Wall Street, as wildfires rage out West

EDF Voices

The message is stark: Climate change poses serious risks that, if ignored, will undermine the financial system’s ability to support the American economy.

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McDonald's and McCain offer climate resilience funding for potato farmers

Business Green

Fast food giant working with McCain and Prince's Countryside Trust to help farmers improve soil health and boost resilience to climate change and Brexit. McDonald's has teamed up with frozen potato firm McCain and the Prince's Countryside Fund in a bid to boost the resilience of Britain's potatoes and livestock farming against the growing risks of climate change and environmental degradation.

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Solex Energy Science to tackle energy challenges of tomorrow, today

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New heat transfer technology company leverages bulk solids expertise to support development in the renewable energy sector

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