March, 2021

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HelloFresh would like to clear the air on meal kits

GreenBiz

HelloFresh would like to clear the air on meal kits. Jeff Yorzyk. Mon, 03/22/2021 - 02:00. Since the world was introduced to the first meal kit over a decade ago, the industry has matured in size and familiarity, but it also has endured notable criticism surrounding packaging and its perceived impact on the environment. Leading sustainability for a meal kit company, I am acutely aware of our weak points and an advocate for the benefits.

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IPG secures strategic investment to continue commercialisation of renewable-fuelled turbine

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Intelligent Power Generation, a British climate-tech company, announces a £2 million first close of their latest funding round. The new capital will support continued development of their turbine technology designed to accelerate the decarbonisation of fuel-based power.

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‘There’s no alternative’: Louisiana’s ambitious plan to stay above water

Grist

Louisiana has never been hard to pinpoint on a map — it’s the only state in the U.S. that looks like a giant boot. At least it did, before the ocean swallowed the carbon emissions belched out by industrializing nations and began to swell. Now, the boot is losing a football field of land every hour to the rising tide. In order to save the state from sea-level rise, the Louisiana state government is embarking on a series of years-long, multi-billion dollar projects to slow the rate of land l

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From Emergent to Permanent: 3 Steps to Transform Cycling Infrastructure Beyond the Pandemic

The City Fix

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, concerns surrounding virus transmission on public transportation led many to choose alternate mobility options – most notably, cycling. Cycling gained popularity for both recreational use and commuting, a trend especially evident in the United States, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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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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African agtech is boosting yields, protecting resources and raising incomes

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 24 – Field drones. Harvesting robots. Big Data-driven farm insights. Innovative technological applications in agriculture can have a profound impact on farmers’ The post African agtech is boosting yields, protecting resources and raising incomes appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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We Are Entering The Biggest Technological Transition In History

Forbes Green Tech

The magnitude of the change required by the United States if it is to reduce its emissions in order to comply with the Paris Agreement is huge… but it is fundamental if we are to have a bright, clean future.

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Solar Industry Sets Records in 2020, On Track to Quadruple by 2030

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For the second year in a row, solar led all technologies in new electric-generating capacity added, accounting for 43%. According to Wood Mackenzie’s 10-year forecast, the U.S. solar industry will install a cumulative 324 GWdc of new capacity to reach a total of 419 GWdc over the next decade.

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Dying oil companies’ parting gift: millions in cleanup costs

Grist

When Weatherly Oil and Gas filed for bankruptcy in February 2019, the company was walking away from several hundred Texas wells. Many hadn’t produced a drop of oil in years. Companies are legally required to “plug” wells that they’re no longer using to extract oil and gas by pouring concrete into all their openings and cracks; this prevents them from leaking fossil fuels or harmful pollutants into the air and water sources nearby.

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'An avoidable tragedy': Government axes Green Homes Grant scheme with four day's notice

Business Green

BREAKING: Surprise update to energy efficiency plans sees government boost funding for local authority upgrade schemes, but scrap the popular Green Homes Grant scheme at short notice. The government has announced it is to axe the embattled Green Homes Grant scheme from 5pm on March 31st, providing households with just a few more days to lodge applications for the popular energy efficiency grant scheme.

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Rivian A16 Concept Is A Futuristic Flatbed Hauler

CleanTechnica

Behance markets itself a social media platform for designers, but it is a wild and lawless place where the laws of physics don’t necessarily apply. Copyright and trademark laws seem to be a bit flimsy there as well, with several iconic designs being re-hashed and repurposed almost daily by aspiring industrial designers hoping their latest […].

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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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Etsy takes aim at shipping and packaging in setting 2030 net-zero goal

GreenBiz

Etsy takes aim at shipping and packaging in setting 2030 net-zero goal. Deonna Anderson. Tue, 03/16/2021 - 05:00. Scope 3 emissions are the hardest emissions for companies to address when setting goals. But often, they are the most emissions to take on. For Etsy, the e-commerce marketplace known for handmade items like jewelry, art and apparel, Scope 3 emissions make up 99 percent of the company's carbon footprint.

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Using urban forestry to fight for environmental justice

GreenBiz

Using urban forestry to fight for environmental justice. Breanna Draxler. Tue, 03/30/2021 - 00:05. The term "urban forest" may sound like an oxymoron. When most of us think about forests, we may picture vast expanses of tall trunks and dappled sunlight filtering through the leaves, far from the busyness of the city. But the trees that line city streets and surround apartment complexes across the U.S. hold great value, in part because of their proximity to people.

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Yotta Energy Teams Up with Flex to Manufacture PV-Coupled Energy Storage System

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Partnership will accelerate time to market for cost-effective, panel-level energy storage technology

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Shipping industry emissions keep on climbing, new IMO data reveals

Business Green

New figures show that significant improvements in carbon intensity have been made since 2012, although these have slowed in recent years. Total shipping industry emissions grew by almost 10 per cent from 2012 to 2018, accounting for 2.89 per cent of total global anthropogenic emissions, according to the fourth International Maritime Organisation (IMO) greenhouse gas study, the executive summary of which was published today.

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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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Central banks should adopt explicit net zero strategies, economists argue

Business Green

Research led by LSE and SOAS academics argues central banks hold significant sway over the wider financial system's ability to reach net zero. Achieving net zero emissions is the best way of minimising the risks posed by climate change to the stability of the financial system, and central banks around the world should therefore all have explicit strategies to support the transition, a group of economists argue in fresh research released today.

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Swiss Re plots global exit from coal by 2040

Business Green

Reinsurance giants revs up coal phase-out as it pledges to reduce carbon intensity of equity and corporate bond portfolios by 35 per cent by 2025. Swiss Re has announced it is to phase out thermal coal from its treaty reinsurance by 2040, in a move that has been billed by campaigners as a breakthrough for the global reinsurance industry. The financial services giant, which pledged to achieve net zero emissions across its operations, assets, and liabilities by 2050 two years ago, announced the ne

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'Beyond GDP': UN adopts landmark framework to integrate natural capital in economic reporting

Business Green

UN Statistical Commission formally adopts System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Ecosystem Accounting. The long-running campaign to encourage governments to look beyond GDP and consider economic metrics that better account for environmental costs and benefits took a major step forward yesterday, as the UN formally adopted a new approach for measuring economic progress.

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Key UK financial regulators mandated to consider climate issues

Business Green

Chancellor demands that PCA and FCA take net zero target into account, just weeks after similarly updating key Bank of England regulators' remit. All of the UK's principal financial regulators now have an explicit mandate to consider climate-related risks and trends in their decisions, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer officially updated the remits of the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Committee.

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All rise: Over 120 global faith groups team up to demand tougher climate action ahead of COP26

Business Green

Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and Sikhs from dozens of countries have teamed up on what has been touted as the largest multi-faith day of climate action ever. Bells and gongs will sound at temples and churches on multiple continents today as part of a major day-long campaign mounted by religious organisations around the world that has been billed as the largest multi-faith day of climate action ever.

Demand 101
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Report: Potential for nearly 10,000 green jobs in Cumbria over next 15 years

Business Green

Analysis from local group highlights there is potential for 4,500 green jobs in West Cumbria, the region where controversial coal mine is planned. The argument in favour of building a brand-new coal mine in Cumbria has been delivered a fresh blow this morning, in the wake of research that highlights the potential for green jobs in the area is nearly 10 times larger than the number of jobs promised by the developers of the mine.

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(Not so) green recovery: UNEP and University of Oxford warn world is failing to 'build back better'

Business Green

Analysis of 50 major economies' post-Covid spending programmes concludes policymakers are wasting major opportunity to a build safer world and greener economy in wake of pandemic. The fiscal spending plans of major economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis have fallen far short of ensuring the recovery from the crisis does not exacerbate the ongoing climate and nature crises, with just one in every $40 committed by governments in the wake of the pandemic set to deliver a positive impact fo

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EV start-up Arrival secures record IPO with $13.6bn float on Nasdaq

Business Green

Oxfordshire-based start-up Arrival began trading on the tech-heavy Nasdaq under ticker ARVL at 1:30pm UK time. British electric van and bus start-up Arrival is believed to have delivered the biggest stock market listing of all time by a UK firm, after securing a valuation of $13.6bn when it floated on the Nasdaq this afternoon. Arrival's stock was listed on the index at $22 as the US market opened today, giving the business an overall value of roughly £13.6bn when the deal closed.

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Study: Ten-fold increase in annual CO2 cuts needed to hit global climate goals

Business Green

UK boasts one of the world's best decarbonisation records, but it still pales in comparison to what is required under Paris Agreement. The UK boasts one of the world's best records on decarbonisation since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, yet progress still remains far below the scale of emissions cuts required by countries every year if the world is to reach its climate goals and avoid the most catastrophic impacts of a warming planet.

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Plant-based fast food: Beyond Meat inks deals for McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut

Business Green

Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC, and McDonald's are gearing up to expand their plant-based lines amid surging demand for sustainable food. Plant-based meat is poised to become standard fare at a number of fast food chains, with alternative proteins brand Beyond Meat having secured major supply deals with McDonald's and the owner of KFC and Pizza Hut. Both McDonald's and Yum!

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Banks have a key role to play in net zero - but there are no quick-fix solutions

Business Green

Achieving net zero is crucial to the long-term success of our customers, our communities and our economy, writes NatWest Group chief executive Alison Rose. As we begin to emerge from the most challenging and disruptive period in recent memory, and as societies reopen and economies rebuild, leaders across the world are grappling with the same era-defining challenge; to ensure a more sustainable, resilient and greener path is forged.

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UK's first consumer-owned wind farm secures green light and fresh funding

Business Green

The Graig Fatha wind farm will be owned by an initial 675 households who have signed up to Ripple Energy's platform. The UK's first ever consumer-owned wind farm is set to be built in Coedely, south Wales, after owner Ripple Energy announced it has received £1.1m in Welsh government funding in support of the project. The funding will enable the wind farm to be completed in autumn 2021, Ripple said.

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UK carbon emissions trading scheme to launch in May

Business Green

Government confirms auction calendar for the UK's post-Brexit carbon trading market following its exit from the EU's ETS. The UK's domestic emissions trading scheme (ETS) is finally poised to launch in early summer, with the first auction of carbon allowances for since Britain's exit from the European Union's carbon market earmarked for 21 May, the government has confirmed.

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Green heat: How can the UK drive mass heat pump adoption in the 2020s?

Business Green

The UK must ramp up heat pump installations at least 25-fold by 2028 to meet current goals, but governance, incentives, and funding support are lacking, a new report argues. Efforts to solve the UK's heat decarbonisation conundrum are at present comparable to a rudderless ship: the expertise and cargo are all on board, yet navigating any clear sense of direction remains a major challenge.

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EDF to close 2GW West Burton coal power station in 2022

Business Green

The closure would leave Uniper's 2GW Ratcliffe facility as the UK's last remaining coal-fired power station. EDF's sole remaining coal power station at West Burton in Nottinghamshire will close for good in September next year, the French energy giant has confirmed, bringing the end of coal-fired electricity generation in the UK a significant step closer.

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HSBC pledges to cut off coal financing by 2040 following investor pressure

Business Green

Banking giant commits to ending support for coal by 2040 after reaching compromise with shareholders. HSBC's board has today agreed to phase out all coal financing within 20 years, in a major victory for shareholders who have been piling pressure on the bank to set out how and when it will reduce its significant exposure to fossil fuel assets. The move comes after a $2.4tr coalition of major investors - including asset management giant Amundi and publicly-traded hedge fund Man Group - filed a cl

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Victory for climate campaigners as government calls in controversial Cumbrian coal mine

Business Green

BREAKING: Government confirms Communities Secretary will now intervene and review plans to build UK's first coal mine in 30 years. The government has belatedly decided to call in plans to build a controversial coal mine in Cumbria, bowing to intense pressure from campaigners who have argued the project is inconsistent with the UK's climate goals and could damage its reputation as a climate leader ahead of the crucial COP26 Summit this autumn.

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New private sector coalition launched in bid to reverse biodiversity loss

Business Green

Named the UK Business and Biodiversity Forum, the new group will support British businesses as they try to tackle worsening biodiversity impacts and risks. A new coalition of British businesses launching today has pledged to work to reverse biodiversity loss and strengthen natural ecosystems in the areas in which they operate. Backed by the UK's International Chamber of Commerce (ICC UK), the UK Business and Biodiversity Forum aims to bring the UK private sector deeper into discussions on biodiv

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Water Day: Prince of Wales kicks off water-focused climate finance drive

Business Green

Water Aid-led Resilient Water Accelerator launched as UN-backed Race to Zero campaign urges water utilities around the world to commit to net zero emissions. The Prince of Wales has today launched a new initiative geared at fast tracking finance for improving water services in water-stressed regions in Africa and South East Asia. Dubbed the Resilient Water Accelerator, the programme aims to select six locations for support by September this year, before then starting work in January 2022, accord

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'Beyond GDP': UN mulls adoption of green prosperity measure

Business Green

UN Secretary-General António Guterres urges nations to consider the costs of economic profit against damage to the environment. Could the world be about to move 'beyond GDP'? A "ground-breaking" economic framework to incorporate environmental and human wellbeing into traditional measurements of prosperity is currently under consideration by governments and could be adopted as soon as Friday by the UN's Statistical Commission, the international agency announced yesterday.