Grist
JANUARY 8, 2021
On December 16, three 40 foot-long wind turbine blades were delivered via truck from a wind farm in Belfast to the Cork Institute of Technology in southern Ireland. For the next few months, civil engineers will subject the blades to a battery of tests as they design and build a pedestrian bridge that uses pieces of them to replace traditional steel girders.
Charged
JANUARY 21, 2021
Most automakers may have rejected hydrogen as an energy storage medium for passenger vehicles ( Toyota is the notable exception), but the technology may yet find applications for industrial processes, and in other forms of transportation such as aviation and shipping. Some envision the lightest element as a medium to store energy from intermittent renewable sources, and others see it as a way for fossil fuel producers to find a market for natural gas reserves that otherwise risk becoming strande
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GreenBiz
JANUARY 11, 2021
Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be. Heather Clancy. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:00. One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions. .
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 11, 2021
The Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), launched by Harvard University scientists, hopes to examine the effects of spraying calcium carbonate (CaCO3) dust into the atmosphere — a sun-reflecting aerosol that may offset the effects of global warming.
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.
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 14, 2021
Read time: 15 mins It seems like nearly every day another hopeful article touts the potential of using hydrogen as a fuel to tackle climate change. What’s known as “green hydrogen” — which relies on renewable power for production — is getting the bulk of that attention.
Solar Power World
JANUARY 19, 2021
In addition to puzzles and alcohol, one product that saw a significant boost in sales during the pandemic was the energy storage system. With more people looking at their homes as sanctuaries in need of reliable electricity, the demand for residential battery backup is on the rise. “In 2020, people’s houses became their oasis. It’s… The post The energy storage market is blowing up in the United States <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-si
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Charged
JANUARY 18, 2021
Ideanomics, which describes itself as “a global company focused on the convergence of financial services and industries experiencing technological disruption,” has agreed to acquire 100% of privately-held Wireless Advanced Vehicle Electrification (WAVE). Founded in 2011, and headquartered in Salt Lake City, WAVE is a pioneer in the field of inductive (wireless) charging solutions for medium- and heavy-duty EVs.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 4, 2021
Keep your eyes on these 9 electric truck and van companies in 2021. Mike De Socio. Mon, 01/04/2021 - 02:00. Last year, a number of automakers announced or advanced ambitious plans to electrify heavy-duty big rigs, semi-trucks, box trucks, delivery vans and more. That article was one of GreenBiz's most popular stories throughout the year. And the demand and interest in this technology is only growing stronger.
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 3, 2021
Sure, 2020 will be remembered as the year of the pandemic, but it was also a vibrant period in transportation’s ongoing revolution, with ambitious entrepreneurs rolling out innovations in electric vehicles, self-driving and sensor tech, and delivery services. Here are the year’s best.
GatesNotes
JANUARY 26, 2021
The world has an important opportunity to turn the hard-won lessons of this pandemic into a healthier, more equal future for all.
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.
Business Green
JANUARY 26, 2021
WWF calls on government to set legally-binding target to eradicate both legal and illegal deforestation from UK supply chains. The government and businesses are facing growing pressure to strengthen efforts to eradicate deforestation from UK supply chains, after a new YouGov survey revealed more than three-quarters of the public do no not want the products they buy to contribute to the destruction of forests overseas.
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 8, 2021
Read time: 7 mins Prominent climate science deniers moved rapidly to spread false and misleading conspiracy theories online during and after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters this week. Some climate deniers, including some with ties to the Heartland Institute and other organizations that have historically helped to create the false impression that there is sizeable scientific disagreement on climate change, also directly expressed support for the attackers and called for more vi
Charged
JANUARY 18, 2021
Commercial EV builder Lightning eMotors has received a $45-million order for its zero-emission powertrain systems from Minnesota-based motorcoach supplier ABC Companies. The order includes new vehicles manufactured by Lightning, as well as new Lightning-developed powertrains that will be upfitted by ABC into customers’ existing vehicles. In addition to Class 8 motorcoaches, the order includes Class 3 Transit passenger vans, Class 4 E-450 shuttle buses, Class 5 F-550 shuttle buses, and Class 7 tr
GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2021
The State of Green Business 2021. Joel Makower. Mon, 01/25/2021 - 02:11. Adapted from the 14th annual State of Green Business report, our annual report card on progress by the world’s largest companies. The report, published in partnership with S&P Global Trucost, is a free download. Now, where were we? A year ago at this time, we looked ahead and confidently saw more engagement, new initiatives and a continuation of the forward march of progress that constitutes a typical year in the world of s
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.
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 29, 2021
Billions of dollars have been poured into research and testing by companies like Waymo, Cruise, Amazon’s Zoox and TuSimple to teach cars and trucks how to drive. Up to now, transit has been an afterthought.
GatesNotes
JANUARY 22, 2021
Congress and the new administration can help put the world on a path to zero emissions.
Business Green
JANUARY 21, 2021
Retailer issues its first sustainability-linked bond aimed at supporting efforts to reduce its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. Tesco has become one of the first major UK corporates to issue a bond linked to its sustainability performance, yesterday announcing a green finance facility which is aligned to the retail giant achieving greenhouse gas reductions against its science-based climate targets.
CleanTechnica
JANUARY 31, 2021
President Biden has announced a number of measures to accelerate EV adoption, including a plan to deploy 500,000 new public charging stations across the US by 2030. However, as long-time followers of the EV scene understand, building a national charging infrastructure that really helps to drive EV adoption will need to involve much more than just allocating funds to roll out a certain number of chargers.
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?
Charged
JANUARY 15, 2021
Commercial truck OEM Dennis Eagle’s electric 26-ton refuse collection vehicle has gone into service with customers around the UK, and early customers are giving it glowing reviews. The eCollect is based on Dennis Eagle’s Elite 6×2 rear-steer chassis with Olympus 19-cubic-meter body and Terberg automatic split bin lift. This is the company’s best-selling vehicle configuration, so it’s already familiar to most drivers, operators and maintenance teams.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 29, 2021
This acquisition could help make sustainable packaging the norm . Deonna Anderson. Fri, 01/29/2021 - 00:30. In Manteca, California, a small company is pioneering the creation and production of paper bottles for brands such as L'Oreal and Seventh Generation. Across the U.S. in St. Petersburg, Florida, a manufacturing giant is strategizing on design, development and packaging services for the likes of Apple, Cisco Systems and HP Inc.
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 25, 2021
The results are in: last year, for the first time, renewables generated more electricity than fossil fuels across the EU, spurred on by new solar and wind power projects.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 4, 2021
4 alternative protein trends to watch in 2021. Jesse Klein. Mon, 01/04/2021 - 01:30. It is highly probable your children will be vegans eating a Christmas ham Dec. 25, 2050. Alternative proteins will be the norm very soon and we might look back at this decade as the time when real shift in diets occurred. . Don’t believe me? Here are a few stats. Venture capital invested $1.5 billion in alternative proteins in 2020.
Business Green
JANUARY 19, 2021
In a move that aims to emulate the success of the London Olympics, the government is calling on the public to volunteer to help host the high profile COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this November. Applications are now open for volunteers interested in taking part in the COP26, the pivotal climate conference set to take place in Glasgow this autumn that is being billed as one of the biggest global events the UK has ever hosted.
Business Green
JANUARY 21, 2021
Audit by conservation group finds six out of 10 fish stocks in UK waters are being overfished or are already in a 'critical state'. More than six out of 10 the UK's most popular fish species are being overfished in UK waters with populations of cod, herring, crabs, scallops, and whiting already in a critical state in much of the North Sea and English Channel.
Business Green
JANUARY 6, 2021
The Marine Stewardship Council warns that a growing population and increased demand for seafood are set to place even greater pressure on the world's ravaged fish stocks. Over-fishing is robbing the world's poor of sufficient protein to feed 72 million people, a new study published today by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has warned. The report estimates that, if adopted globally, sustainable fishing practices would generate enough additional protein to feed the populations of the UK and Ir
Business Green
JANUARY 4, 2021
Supermarket claims to have met its pledge to remove one billion pieces of plastic, working with suppliers to remove unnecessary and excessive packaging of products. Tesco claims to have made significant headway last year in cutting back on the plastic stocked on its shelves, after working closely with more than a thousand of its suppliers to meet its annual goal to slash the amount of excess material wrapped around its products, it announced last week.
Business Green
JANUARY 24, 2021
Environmental Audit Committee calls on central bank to align its corporate bond purchasing programme with global climate goals. The Bank of England (BoE) is facing pressure from MPs and campaigners to take urgent action to clean up its investments before the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, amid fears that vast sums of public money invested in high-carbon industries could damage the UK's international reputation and derail its climate goals.
Business Green
JANUARY 11, 2021
Heir to the throne touts 'comprehensive roadmap' for sustainable recovery to 2030 backed by Unilever, BP, BlackRock, Heathrow Airport, and others. The Prince of Wales has today launched a 10-point pandemic recovery charter that challenges businesses to "put nature, people and the planet at the heart of global value creation" over the next decade, in a move backed by scores of major corporates high profile names such as including Unilever, BP, and BlackRock.
Business Green
JANUARY 25, 2021
New report argues circular economy strategies could slash emissions across the global economy, reducing waste and climate impacts across the housing, mobility, and food sectors. Circular economy strategies have the potential to slash global greenhouse gas emissions by 39 per cent, saving 22.8 billion tonnes of carbon and helping to avert climate breakdown, according to a new report launched this week by Dutch non-profit Circle Economy.
Business Green
JANUARY 6, 2021
Electric vehicle market goes from strength to strength even despite Covid-19 pandemic, with UK sales making up more than one in ten new car registrations in 2020. Electric vehicles delivered record sales figures in the UK last year, as battery and plug-in hybrid cars and vans seized more than 10 per cent of total market share amid plunging petrol and diesel sales, according to the latest industry figures released today.
Business Green
JANUARY 14, 2021
Water UK becomes first trade body to join as official partner of UN campaign, which aims to rally ambitious corporate climate action ahead of COP26. Water UK has become the first industry trade body to join the UN's Race to Zero campaign as an official partner today, having last year drawn up a strategy to deliver net zero emissions water supplies across the UK by 2030.
Business Green
JANUARY 6, 2021
Starbucks, Walmart, McDonalds and Nescafe among more than 150 coffee retailers and producers to join collective pledge to invest in forestry protection and smallholder farm efficiency. A global coalition of over 150 major coffee producers, traders, roasters, and retailers have collectively pledged to slash their CO2 emissions by "at least" 1.5 gigatonnes by mid-century, unveiling a plan to ramp up investment in smallholder farms and tropical forest restoration.
Business Green
JANUARY 22, 2021
BBC reports Nissan has concluded Brexit deal has secured long term future for Sunderland factory. Nissan has confirmed it will continue to invest in its Sunderland plant and will move additional electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing production to the region, following months of speculation that any failure to secure an effective post-Brexit trade deal with the EU would put the future of the giant factory at risk.
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