Grist

JULY 20, 2021

Scientists warn the catastrophic floods that devastated western Europe last week are a glimpse into the future for the region, as climate change fuels more intense, slower-moving storm systems that can hold vast amounts of precipitation. According to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , similar slow-moving, low-pressure storms could become 14 times more frequent in Europe over the next century.

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Charged

JULY 14, 2021

Calgary-based Exro Technologies is a developer of power electronics for electric motors and batteries. Exro’s motor control technology, the Coil Driver, is designed to enable intelligent optimization of electric powertrains for efficient energy consumption. Exro has announced a strategic development agreement with Linamar, a global Tier 1 auto parts manufacturer, to develop a new eAxle integrated electric drive solution, using Exro’s Coil Driver technology to improve the cost and performance of

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Green Living Guy

JULY 10, 2021

Let’s hear it Ford Motor Company. I mean expanding the Mustang family?! Wow. I mean making the famous pony into the electric age with Mustang Mach-E. For it’s definitely an all-new, all-electric SUV. Now born of the same all-American ideals that inspired the best-selling sports coupe in the world. So I test drove it and Continue reading "Test Drive Results 2021 Ford Mustang Mach E".

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 23, 2021

PowerGen, a developer of on- and off-grid distributed energy said this week that it has secured long term project financing to connect 55,000 people to electricity in rural Nigeria from CrossBoundary Energy Access with construction financing provided by Oikocredit, Triodos Investment Management (Triodos IM) and EDFI ElectriFI (the EU-funded Electrification Financing Initiative).

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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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Planet Pulse

JULY 22, 2021

We’re excited to announce that NASA has expanded our contract with their Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program to provide access to PlanetScope imagery for scientific research use for all U.S. Federal Civilian researchers and National Science Foundation funded researchers, including their contractors and grantees – roughly 280,000 eligible users.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 8, 2021

ImpactAlpha, July 8 – Small business loans. Digital payments. Free remittances. Venture investors looking for deals in Africa are stocking their pipelines with. The post Inclusive fintech is the first stop for impact venture capital in Africa appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Charged

JULY 7, 2021

Moscow boasts the largest fleet of electric transit buses in Europe. By the end of 2021, there will be 1,000 e-buses on the streets of the Russian capital. Now the Moscow transit authority reports that it will generally buy no more diesel buses. “Starting this year, by the decision of the Mayor of Moscow, we will not buy diesel buses, except for transportation in a special mode,” said Makim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport.

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GatesNotes

JULY 27, 2021

Ten years ago, our foundation challenged the world to reinvent the toilet, sparking hundreds of amazing sanitation solutions.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Asda pledges to stop stocking certain canned products following investigation revealing links to illegal Amazon rainforest destruction. The global meat industry is once again under fire over its links to rainforest destruction, with a major investigation today revealing that beef supplied by companies linked to illegal deforestation in Brazil may have ended up on the shelves of several leading British supermarkets, and even in food products supplied to the NHS.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 31, 2021

I recently wrote about a senseless law in Tyler, Texas, that banned residents from getting solar if the panels were visible to the public. Well, we have great news! That law has been changed. The Tyler Morning Telegraph reported on July 28 that the City of Tyler removed its restriction on solar panel installations. The city […].

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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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Charged

JULY 8, 2021

Three of Europe’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers— Daimler Truck , the Volvo Group , and the Traton Group (owner of the Scania , MAN and Navistar brands)—have signed a non-binding agreement to build a public charging network for battery-electric heavy-duty long-haul trucks and coaches across Europe. The agreement lays the foundation of a future joint venture, which is to start operations in 2022.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2021

The O2 tidal turbine in Orkney is expected to generate enough electricity to power 2,000 homes as well as supplying an onshore green hydrogen electrolyser. An innovative 2MW tidal power turbine has started generating electricity off the east coast of Orkney as part of a pioneering renewable energy project to produce green hydrogen and supply predictable power to the UK grid, Orbital Marine Power announced today.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

North Yorkshire power plant once dependent on 10 million tonnes of coal annually now produces 12 per cent of UK’s renewable electricity, according to Drax Group. The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire, once the largest coal power station in Western Europe, has slashed its emissions by 90 per cent in less than 10 years and can now claim to be a "purely renewable power generator", according to its owners.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2021

New LV= Electric Car Cost Index calculates that EVs can deliver cost savings compared to their internal combustion engine counterparts. Can electric vehicles (EVs) already undercut petrol and diesel models on cost? That is the question prompted by the latest edition of the Electric Car Cost Index from insurance giant LV= General Insurance, which suggests that on a total cost of ownership basis EVs are already the most cost effective option.

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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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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

Global climate goals at risk without more ambitious support for wind power from G20 countries, CEOs warn. CEOs of the world's leading wind energy firms and turbine manufacturers have warned G20 leaders that they must urgently raise their national wind power ambitions and work to unblock "policy and regulatory bottlenecks" if the world is stand a chance of meeting climate targets.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

Labour MP Clive Lewis and Caroline Lucas of the Green Party join lawmakers from US, Brazil, EU and Costa Rica in new global climate justice campaign. Leading progressive lawmakers from the UK, USA, Brazil, Costa Rica, and the European Parliament are among those joining forces in a new Global Alliance for a Green New Deal today, in a bid to promote the case for "a rapid and just transition in response to Covid-19 and the climate and nature crises".

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

New investor-backed project will harness artificial Intelligence analysis to help identify climate risks and hold firms' environmental targets to account. A new initiative promises to bring together data from satellites and AI technology to help 'green' the finance industry, its backers have claimed. The Spatial Finance Initiative - part of the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI) - launched a report last week into the current use, and future potential role, for rapidly advancing

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

Former Prime Minister set to take become chair at influential sustainable business group, succeeding former Labour MP Joan Walley. Theresa May has pledged to "champion the business case for decarbonising the UK economy", as she takes up a new role as chair of the Aldersgate Group later this week. The sustainable business group revealed this morning that the former prime minister has agreed to succeed former Labour MP Joan Walley, who has chaired the influential business group since 2015.

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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

JULY 15, 2021

Climate finance commitments must be met, net zero targets enhanced, and the Paris Agreement finalised, developing countries warn. The world's developing countries have urged rich nations to move faster to tackle climate change and meet and exceed their commitment to deliver $100bn a year in climate finance ahead of the vital UN climate talks this autumn.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

Government company's plan includes requirements for contractors that it argues could make road maintenance and construction 'near zero' emission by 2040. Highways England has laid out its route for delivering net zero emissions across road travel, construction, and maintenance over the next 30 years, alongside a suite of new measures to decarbonise its own operations by the end of the current decade.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Emerging economies on course to 'leapfrog' fossil fuel power infrastructure and move straight to renewables-dominated grids, according to new analysis from Carbon Tracker and India's CEEW. Fossil fuel electricity generation has now peaked worldwide, as emerging economies increasingly seize the economic and societal benefits of low-cost renewable energy sources, according to influential think tank Carbon Tracker and India's Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Following feedback from staff on its company car offering, the supermarket said it would ensure only electric vehicles are leased to employees by 2025. Asda plans to switch its entire fleet of over 600 company cars to electric vehicles over the next four years, in a move expected to save over 2,400 tonnes of CO2, the supermarket chain announced yesterday.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Detailed and joined-up policies, behaviour change, 'whole system' infrastructure investment, and holistic energy market reform are all critical to achieving net zero emissions, report warns. The latest edition of National Grid ESO's Future Energy Scenarios (FES) 2021 predicts there are a number of ways that power generation in Britain could become emissions net negative by 2034 helping to put the UK on track to become a net zero emission economy by mid-century.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2021

Net Zero Insurance Alliance is fourth major net zero focused alliance launched in the financial sector over the last two years. Eight of the world's largest insurers have this afternoon launched a net zero initiative for the insurance sector, pledging to align their underwriting activities with the 1.5C warming pathway set out in the Paris Agreement by mid-century.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2021

Campaign launched to urge pension providers to deliver new net zero strategies. Switching pension investments to a green offering is 21 times more effective at cutting carbon footprints than the combined effects of giving up flying, becoming vegetarian, and swapping to a renewable energy provider, new research has found. Joint analysis by Make My Money Matter (MMMM), Aviva, and Route2 found savers have "pension power" in the fight against climate change, describing "greening your pension" as one

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Led by Accounting for Sustainability, the Net Zero Statement of Support marks first time a number of funds have pledged to bring investments in line with 1.5C pathway. The chairs of 14 major UK pension firms collectively managing £267.9bn of assets have come together to form a new net zero alliance, pledging to align their investment portfolios with the Paris Agreement's more stretching target of capping global warming at 1.5C.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Cement and concrete sector joins forces with World Economic Forum to try and accelerate efforts to deliver net zero emissions. The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has teamed up with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to launch a new collaborative coalition today aimed at guiding the industry's path towards delivering 'carbon neutral' concrete by 2050.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

The talks between Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel late last week may have proved somewhat fraught, with the UK and EU remaining at loggerheads over the post-Brexit enforcement of the Northern Ireland protocol the UK government signed up to last year. But there was a significant source of agreement between the two leaders, as they teamed up to publicly back a new £1.4bn project to connect the UK and German energy markets for the first time.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2021

New tracker from MSCI warns that based on current emissions world's publicly listed companies will burn through carbon budget before the end of the decade. The avalanche of net zero commitments from the world's largest companies is yet to translate into deep and sustained decarbonisation, according to a sobering new report from investment research firm MSCI.

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2021

CEO Elon Musk confirms plans on Twitter to begin allowing access to rival EV brands at its US supercharger network later this year, with global network to follow suit. Tesla plans to open up its global charging network to allow rival brands of electric vehicles to power up their batteries in future, the company's CEO Elon Musk has confirmed. From later this year, Tesla plans to begin opening up its US network to allow all brands of battery cars to use its charging points, with the rest of the EV

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2021

Leading supermarket announces plans to slash its own emissions 80 per cent by 2030 and work with suppliers to develop ambitious decarbonisation strategies. Lidl GB this morning became the latest supermarket to announce ambitious new decarbonisation goals, pledging to make its operations 'carbon neutral' by 2022 before slashing its direct emissions by 80 per cent against 2019 levels by 2030.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

None of England's nine water and sewerage firms achieved all environmental expectations between 2015 and 2020, watchdog reveals. England's water industry continues to face serious questions over its environmental record, with many firms still failing to live up to their regulatory responsibilities governing sewage spills and pollution incidents, according to the Environment Agency's (EA) latest assessment of the sector today.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

COP26 host to join select group of cities that have agreed to pilot ways to deliver a just transition for local communities. Glasgow has marked the start of the 100-day countdown to the COP26 Climate Summit by announcing it will take part two-year pilot project run by the Thriving Cities Initiative that will see it develop and test innovative ways to tackle climate change and environmental degradation in a way that is fair to its citizens.

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