Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In mid August, the leader of the Republic of Sakha, in Russia, told residents not to go outside, and to avoid breathing unfiltered air if at all possible. Wildfire smoke filled the streets of Yakutsk, reducing visibility to less than a block. Smoke spread to the North Pole for the first time ever. It spread across the Pacific Ocean. Fires in California this year stunned forest stewards with their size and intensity.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

DEADLINE 20 SEPTEMBER — please help distribute this! We have five PhD and postdoc positions to fill in the ecological and social sciences. The five job ads can be found on our university homepage. I copy and paste key details of the advertisements here. Details on the project can be found here.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Follow @EngelsAngle. The U.S. connected 6.1 gigawatts of wind power capacity to the grid in the first half of 2021, according to analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The U.S. now has 127 GW of cumulative wind power capacity with a pipeline of 62 GW under development through 2025. Here are the 10 largest wind farm projects completed in the U.S.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Everyday investors, as well as large asset managers and institutions, are flocking to ESG and impact investing. As many as 95% of millennials. The post Seven ways U.S. retail investors can invest and bank sustainably appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Norwegian chemical firm Yara International has developed an autonomous electric cargo ship, which is scheduled to make its maiden voyage with no crew members aboard later this year. Yara, a major shipper of bulk cargoes, created a subsidiary, Yara Marine Technologies, to address toxic emissions from marine diesel engines. In 2017, it began working on an autonomous, fully electric ship that could eliminate emissions altogether.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Summer may be officially over, but mosquito season is showing no sign of abating. If you’re cursing the influx of winged whiners, save some vitriol for climate change, which definitely played a role in exacerbating this year’s mosquitogeddon. It was an unusually warm summer — the hottest summer on record for the contiguous United States — and that has helped mosquitoes thrive.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

With UK energy security making headlines, National Grid has this week announced that its latest 450-mile subsea cable has started commercial operations after six years of development. Clean energy is now being shuttled between the UK and Norway, after the world's longest subsea electricity interconnector was powered up by National Grid and its Norwegian counterpart Statnett earlier today.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Follow @EngelsAngle. The U.S. added 4.8 gigawatts of utility-scale solar capacity in the first half of 2021, a 15% increase from the first half of 2020 and nearly halfway to the total capacity added in 2020, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The U.S. now has 53.7 GW of total solar capacity (including distributed generation).

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 22 – With less than six weeks until the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, global leaders are stirring to (modest) action. The post China pledges to end (foreign) coal financing appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

NIO is finally launching its first vehicle, the ES8, and its first NIO House in Europe — specifically, in Oslo Norway. In the beginning of September, we already had a real-life demonstration of the ES8, an opportunity we took to thoroughly inspect and review the vehicle. If you haven’t read those articles or seen our […].

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Majority of risk experts and the general public in the UK view climate change as the number one threat facing society, ahead of future pandemics and economic instability. Climate change has been ranked by UK risk experts and the British public alike as their number one concern for the next five to 10 years, with global warming more frequently cited as the leading threat, even ahead of pandemics, cyberthreats, and geopolitical and economic instability.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

BT, Thames Water, Co-op, WSP and Nestlé UK among 13 firms demanding government target fully decarbonised grid, as gas supply issues send power prices soaring. BT, Thames Water, Co-op, and Nestlé UK & Ireland are among a raft of companies that have called on the government to phase out gas power by 2035 this morning, as surging gas prices in the UK continue to lay bare the risks of relying on fossil fuel imports for electricity.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Sadiq Khan uses Zero Emissions Bus Summit to confirm new green bus plans, as a fresh approach to season tickets in the north east aims to help customers blend bus and car travel. All new Transport for London (TfL) buses in London will now be zero-emission, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced ahead today's Zero-emission Bus Summit at City Hall. TfL already operates an expanding fleet of hydrogen fuel cell and electric buses, but it will now move to deploy zero emission buses as standard.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In partnership with the Carbon Literacy Project, the university will offer students access to a climate course during their induction. The University of Bath has today announced the launch of a major new carbon literacy training programme, in partnership with the Carbon Literacy Project, that will be available to new and returning students during their induction to the University this month.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Figures published by RenewableUK reveal UK's floating wind energy pipeline is now the largest in the world. More floating wind projects are planned or operational in the UK than anywhere else in the world, according to data published this week by RenewableUK. In a new analysis released on Wednesday, the trade body confirmed there were 8.8GW of floating wind projects in various stages of development in the UK, a figure that represents more than 16 per cent of the total pipeline of floating wind p

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Government plans to introduce legislation this year that mandates all new-builds with car parking space feature plug-ins. All homes and office buildings built in England will soon be equipped with electric car charge points, under proposals designed to ramp up the number of chargers across the country ahead of the 2030 phase out of new fossil fuel vehicles.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Major group of investors target group of 1,600 'high impact' companies around the world with calls to align business with climate science. Hundreds of leading investors and lenders from around the world collectively holding over $29.3tr trillion in assets have today called on high impact companies to set science-based climate targets ahead of the upcoming COP26 summit in November.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Transport Secretary launches London’s International Shipping Week with an appeal to set more ambitious global decarbonisation targets for the industry. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has called for the international shipping industry to adopt a new 'absolute zero' emissions target for 2050, ahead of today's launch of London International Shipping Week.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Engineering firm said first sets of pioneering blades will go to offshore wind projects owned by RWE, EDF and WPD. A number of fully recyclable wind turbine blades are set to be installed at an offshore wind farm off the coast of Germany, in a move that been heralded as a landmark moment in the drive towards a more circular economy for the booming global wind energy industry.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

New Stourton site is the city’s third park and ride service, but is unique for being entirely powered by solar energy and utilising only electric buses. The first solar powered Park and Ride centre opens this week in Stourton, south Leeds, in a move that should reduce commuting times and costs while curbing congestion and pollution in the city centre.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Al Gore-backed Climate TRACE coalition hails 'new era of radical transparency' as it unveils real-time data captured from satellites and other technology. Greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas production and refining in the world's leading economies could be collectively almost twice as high as official estimates, according to fresh data released today based on real-time satellite observations.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Companies around the world call on G20 leaders to ramp up climate commitments in 'most ambitious' call for policy action yet from businesses. Over 600 businesses including Unilever, Netflix, and Volvo Cars have signed an open letter urging world leaders to strengthen short and long term climate targets, end support for fossil fuels, and ramp up climate finance ahead of crunch talks at the G20 and COP26 summits this autumn.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

New travel service to operate five electric trains and charge passengers as little as £15 to get from London to Edinburgh. Leading transport operator FirstGroup will today launch Lumo, a new electric train service running between London and Edinburgh, that will from October seek to challenge the market for short haul domestic flights between England and Scotland.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Analysis by E3G and Global Energy Monitor calculates pipeline for pre-construction coal plants has plummeted 76 per cent since 2015. The beginning of the end for the global coal power industry may soon be in sight, with the pipeline for new projects around the world having shrunk by 76 per cent since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, according to a new analysis today.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Ahead of COP 26, many of the UK's biggest companies have today warned Boris Johnson he has a 'limited window' to show genuine climate leadership. Over 80 of the UK's leading businesses, including high profile brands such as Tesco, BT, Santander, and Heathrow, have today urged the Prime Minister to move swiftly to deliver a more coherent climate strategy ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Green energy industry welcomes 'really good' package for Contracts for Difference Round 4 that promises to accelerate roll out of offshore wind, solar, and onshore wind projects. Up to £265m of support will be up for grabs for renewable energy developers in the next Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction round which is set to take place later this year, the government has today confirmed.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Net Zero Festival: Leading figures from IEA, Carbon Tracker and Ceres unite in calls for more ambitious government action to shift away from fossil fuels. Energy and investment experts have warned that only concrete policy action from governments can prevent huge economic disruption should the 'carbon bubble' burst as economies shift away from fossil fuels in the coming years.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Influential band confirms it is to trial decarbonisation methods on its next tour and work with Ecotricity to help music venues procure renewable energ. British band Massive Attack has today launched a roadmap for Super Low Carbon Live Music, which has been developed with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, a partnership of universities that aims to develop responses to the climate crisis.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Former PM uses Sam Barker Memorial Lecture to call on Tory colleagues sceptical of the case for decarbonisation to recognise the huge economic and environmental opportunities on offer. Theresa May has urged her Conservative colleagues to unite behind the "golden opportunity" offered by the net zero agenda, hitting out at growing pockets of concern within the Party's ranks over the upfront investment required to drive down emissions over the coming decades.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Engineering giant's zero emission milestone comes as British Airways completes chartered London-Glasgow flight partly powered by sustainable aviation fuel. An electric aircraft currently being developed by Rolls Royce with a view to breaking speed records has successfully completed its maiden flight above Wiltshire, the engineering giant announced last week.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

At 5 a.m. on December 4, 2017, Jesse Merrick got a text from his roommate. “Hoping your family is OK,” he remembers reading when he woke up. The Thomas Fire had just broken out in Southern California and was quickly growing into a nearly 300,000-acre behemoth. Jesse frantically tried to reach his relatives in Ventura. When he finally got hold of his mom, she was broken.

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