DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2020

Read time: 9 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. While time feels distorted these days, it was only seven months and a lifetime ago that millions around the globe, led by school children, were marching in the streets, passionately demanding action and investment to match the sc

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Forbes Green Tech

APRIL 19, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic shows that companies and the economy can respond quickly and globally to natural threats, said a leading expert on organizational change, but also that we need to better prepare for climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2020

Read time: 9 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2020

Discussions are ongoing between the two companies, and a final agreement is expected by mid-2020. Michelin has inked a deal with Scandinavian tyre recycler Enviro that will see the company scale up the deployment of an energy-efficient technology that uses pyrolysis, or heating without air, to recycle tyres. The global tyre giant, which produced 200 million tyres in 2019 alone, intends to buy a 20 per cent stake in the Swedish firm in a deal worth SEK32.5m (£2.6m), making it the largest st

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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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Ideas 4 Sustainability

APRIL 19, 2020

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : The southwest of Ethiopia is home to a rich variety of animal and plant species – many of them endemic or threatened. These species, in combination with intense human pressure on land, make the region a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot and thus highly relevant for conservation.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2020

Financial giant acquires 36 per cent share in one of UK's largest green heating developers. Legal & General (L&G) has snapped up a 36 per cent stake in one of the UK's leading ground source heat pump developers Kensa Group for an undisclosed fee, as the multinational financial giant continues to expand its British green investment portfolio.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2020

Energy giant offering grants of £100,000-£500,000 for non-profit and social impact organisations with clean energy ideas. Centrica has launched a not-for-profit social impact scheme offering grants of between £100,000 and £500,000 to support organisations with innovative ideas for developing affordable, accessible, and reliable clean energy, the energy giant announced today.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 19, 2020

Harnessing Digital Solutions to Improve Product Sustainability and Supply Chain Transparency will take place on Tuesday April 21, 2020. Online events brought to you by EL and EMT. Registered attendees receive exclusive access to slide decks and/or custom white papers (provided by most clients). This webinar to understand how digital transformation can enable an organization to address these complexities through cross-functional collaboration, process optimization, and a management systems approa

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2020

Green businesses can lead the recovery and also equip others to create a more sustainable future, argues Forum for the Future's Hannah Pathak. At the moment, as the urgency of the Covid-19 crisis mandates immediate action to save lives, we're seeing some decisions that contradict the environmental agenda - such as plastic bags now being used again by supermarkets for deliveries.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

Environmentalists lauded BlackRock's move in January to reduce investments in coal, but say it’s not enough. They are calling for the company to divest from its wood-burning power plant, stating that burning biomass is more polluting than burning coal.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2020

Energy Systems Catapult survey reveals high concern over climate change among the public, but less understanding of CO2 sources. While the majority of Britons see climate change as a major threat that both individuals and the government have a responsibility to tackle, many remain unaware of some of the most effective means of cutting carbon emissions from their daily lives, a major new survey suggests.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

Indonesia and Malaysia are looking to shore up demand domestically and in China, with the EU having changed course away from biofuels.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 19, 2020

The Fisker Ocean Force-E is a hunky, chunky offroader designed to appeal to search and rescue services and fleet operators who need a rugged electric SUV. It will go head to head with the Tesla Cybertruck in 2022.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

Climate Assembly UK, a group of 110 British citizens that have been tasked with creating new recommendations for tackling the climate crisis in the United Kingdom, is expected to submit to the government over the summer how the country should cut its climate-heating emissions to net zero by 2050.

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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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CleanTechnica

APRIL 19, 2020

Researchers at Northwestern University say they have a devised a new way of storing hydrogen and other gasses at lower pressure and less cost.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The 11th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning builds upon a series that started in 2003 in Skiathos, Greece, followed by other meetings in Bologna (2005), Algarve (2007), Cyprus (2009), New Forest - home of the Wessex Institute, UK (2011); Kos, Greece (2013), Istanbul (2015), Penang (2016), the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK (2017) and Siena (2018).Planners, environmentalists, architects, engineers, policymakers and economists have to work together t

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 19, 2020

Earlier this month, Ford was planning to restart production at its Hermosillo Assembly Plant. Other Ford plants that are closed due to COVID-19 were supposed to reopen on April 14. For now, Ford has announced that several of its North American production facilities have closed indefinitely.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The International Conference on Urban Growth and the Circular Economy was held for the first time in 2018 in Alicante. Following its success, it was decided to reconvene the event in Bilbao, Spain, in 2020.The quest for the sustainable city has until recently focused on the efficient use of resources with the application of technical advances giving rise to the definition of SMART Cities.

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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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CleanTechnica

APRIL 19, 2020

New Jersey startup Triton says its Model H Performance electric SUV will tow up to 26,000 lbs and sprint to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds -- assuming it ever gets built.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The 14th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability addresses all aspects of the urban environment aiming to provide solutions leading towards sustainability. The Sustainable City 2020 conference follows a series of very successful meetings that started in Rio (2000), followed by Segovia (2002), Siena (2004), Tallinn (2006), Skiathos (2008), A Coruña (2010), Ancona (2012), Kuala Lumpur (2013), Siena (2014), Medellin (2015), Alicante (2016), Seville (2017) and Valenc

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 19, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic will have an enormous impact on global trade, upsetting economic relations between nations in unpredictable ways.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

FRIAR 2020 is the seventh conference of this successful series. The conference started at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London 2008 and was reconvened in Milan in 2010, Dubrovnik in 2012, Poznan in 2014, Venice in 2016 and A Coruna 2018. Since 2012 a parallel seminar on the Design, Construction, Maintenance, Monitoring and Control of Urban Water has taken place which is now an integral part of the conference.The meeting aims to attract researchers, academics and practitioners actively in

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 19, 2020

In the first half of this interview for our CleanTech Talk podcast series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, sits down to talk with Ed Dolan, economist, writer, and Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, about climate change communication and action across political divides.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

Following the success of the first conference in the series which took place in the New Forest, UK (2018), the conference has been reconvened in 2020. The aim of the meeting is to review and discuss ways in which urban agriculture can contribute to achieving sustainable cities.As urban populations continue to increase it is essential to consider ways of reducing their impact in terms of use of natural resources, waste production and climate change.The increasing number of people in cities requir

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 19, 2020

Cities all over the U.S. are closing down streets to traffic during the coronavirus pandemic in order to encourage people to stay home.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

Water Pollution 2020 is the 15th International Conference in the series of Monitoring, Modelling and Management of Water Pollution. The conference, which has always been very successful, provides a forum for discussion amongst scientists, managers and academics from different areas of water contamination. The wealth of information exchanged in this international meeting continues to be of great benefit to all involved with water pollution problems.The environmental problems caused by the increas

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 19, 2020

A new wave energy device that resembles a jellyfish achieves sustainability trifecta: carbon capture, clean power and renewable formic acid.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The 15th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability addresses all aspects of the urban environment and aims to provide solutions leading towards sustainability. The Sustainable City 2019 conference follows a series of very successful meetings that started in Rio (2000), followed by Segovia (2002), Siena (2004), Tallinn (2006), Skiathos (2008), A Coruña (2010), Ancona (2012), Kuala Lumpur (2013), Siena (2014), Medellin (2015), Alicante (2016), Seville (2017), Valenci

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 19, 2020

I recently received a set of Tesla Model 3 sunshades/heatshields from EV Annex to review. I thought I was just getting a front and back sunshade/heatshield, but it turns out they provide the full Iron Man body armor for every little window in the car. So, if you really want to block out the sun (and the view), EV Annex has you covered (bad pun, I know).

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

Energy and Sustainability 2021 is the 9th International Conference in a very successful series which started in the New Forest, UK, home of the Wessex Institute in 2007; followed by meetings in Bologna (2009); Alicante (2011); Budapest (2013); Kuala Lumpur (2014); Medellin, Colombia (2015); Seville (2017) and Coimbra (2019).The world's economy is fuelled by energy.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 19, 2020

Endangered species scored a win against the Keystone XL pipeline on April 15th when a federal judged tossed out a permit that the pipeline would need in order to cross hundreds of waterways — rivers and streams.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

New Forests (www.newforests.com.au) seeks a qualified candidate for the position of Associate Director, Investments (US). In this role you will be primarily responsible for the identification of potential investment opportunities, undertaking due diligence, and executing on transactions for New Forests' timberland and forest carbon investment strategies in the United States.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 19, 2020

Tesla has opened an online store on Alibaba's online marketplace. On Thursday, Tesla's Tmall store went online and it plans to start sales of Tesla car parts and related merch on April 21. Tmall is Alibaba's B2C (Business to Customer) platform, a spinoff from Taobao, to sell brand-name goods. This is also Tesla's first third-party store in China. .

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