How (and why) to develop a credible deforestation policy in 2024
GreenBiz
JANUARY 11, 2024
Limiting land conversion is a notoriously difficult challenge that requires alignment between companies, governments, farmers and other stakeholders.
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Increasing number of local authorities require over 10% Biodiversity Net Gain
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 9, 2024
In advance of the statutory requirement for biodiversity net gain (BNG) for new developments from January 2024, new research appears to reveal a gradual increase in the number requesting in excess of the 10% biodiversity net gain. Law firm Carter Jonas conducted the research, analysing the emergence of BNG policies and guidance within local planning authorities (LPAs) in a series of research from spring 2022.
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Driving Ambition, Action, and Equity at COP28 (Part 2)
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 9, 2024
At COP28, countries, companies, investors, and other decision-makers sent a clear signal to spur greater action now and increase ambition this decisive decade.
Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho Took Donation From Climate Science Denial Funder
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 11, 2024
Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho accepted a £2,000 donation in January from Lord Michael Hintze , a funder of the UK’s leading climate science denial pressure group, DeSmog can reveal. The donation, which was registered on 4 January and declared on the MPs’ register of interests this week, was to aid Coutinho’s local East Surrey Conservative association with its campaigning activities.
The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing
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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
Canary Media
JANUARY 10, 2024
Hawaii shut down its last coal plant on September 1, 2022, eliminating 180 megawatts of fossil-fueled baseload power from the grid on Oahu — a crucial step in the state’s first-in-the-nation commitment to cease burning fossil fuels for electricity by 2045.
UK solar targets for 2035 under threat as projects stall
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 9, 2024
A perfect storm of inflation, supply chain disruption, spiralling interest rates and delays in connection to the National Grid means that the swathe of solar farms approved and going through planning permission in the UK are likely to be severely delayed or cancelled undermining any hopes of achieving the Government target of a fivefold increase to 70GW by 2035.
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UK government sets out plans for ‘biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years’
The Guardian: Energy
JANUARY 10, 2024
Ministers hope to build fleet of reactors to meet quarter of electricity demand by 2050 but critics highlight long delays and rising costs The government has set out plans for what it claims will be Britain’s biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years, despite concerns about faltering nuclear output and project delays. Ministers published a roadmap on Friday that recommits the government to building a fleet of nuclear reactors capable of producing 24GW by 2050 – enough to meet a quarter of the
Multi-day energy storage to be demonstrated in California
Smart Energy International
JANUARY 7, 2024
Form Energy has been awarded a $30 million grant from the California Energy Commission to deploy the state’s first multi-day energy storage system. Form Energy, a pioneer of iron-air energy storage, is to deploy a 5MW/500MWh system at the site of a Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) substation in Mendocino County. The project, which is expected to come online by 2025, is aimed to demonstrate the effectiveness of multi-day energy storage to help California meet its renewable energy and zero carb
Experts welcome the new WEEE consultation
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 9, 2024
Measures that will make it easier to recycle and reuse electrical goods appear in the government’s WEEE consultation , launched on 28 December 2023. The proposals include setting up a new category for vapes, to ensure the additional cost of their disposal is borne by vape producers only. Experts in the WEEE sphere were quick to welcome the consultation, and offer thoughts on what has been going wrong to date, with recycling WEEE.
Vessel Strike Fatally Wounds Right Whale Calf
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 10, 2024
One of only nine endangered North Atlantic right whales calves born this season has been found with serious injuries caused by a vessel’s propeller.
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.
Rishi Sunak’s woes mount with oil bill rebellion, byelections and asylum row
The Guardian: Energy
JANUARY 6, 2024
Parliament returns for election year with a resignation over North Sea drilling and a fight over the Tories’ Rwanda plan Rishi Sunak is facing a backlash in parliament this week over plans to allow more oil and gas exploration in the North Sea, as Tory troubles pile up on multiple fronts in the run-up to a general election expected this year. MPs return to Westminster on Monday after the Christmas break with all parties gearing up for what will inevitably be a bitter election battle that could e
Big boon for US solar supply chain as Microsoft places 12GW module order
Renew Economy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Microsoft places huge solar order with QCells designed to drive large-scale production of US-made PV modules. The post Big boon for US solar supply chain as Microsoft places 12GW module order appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Bottled water has up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously thought
Grist
JANUARY 9, 2024
At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a bacterial cell. But the problem is much worse than previously known: It turns out that bottled water harbors hundreds of thousands of even tinier pieces of the stuff. A paper published Monday used a novel technique to analyze one-liter samples of bottled water for plastic granules, going down to just 50 to 100 nanometers in length — roughly the width of a
Pebble Mine: SCOTUS Denies Original Review of EPA Veto
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 8, 2024
In the latest defeat for the embattled Bristol Bay mining scheme, the Supreme Court unanimously rejects the Dunleavy Administration’s motion for review.
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.
UK Lays Out Fourfold Nuclear Power Expansion in Comprehensive Roadmap
POWER Magazine
JANUARY 11, 2024
A roadmap released by the UK government on Jan. 11 aimed at quadrupling the country’s nuclear power capacity by 2050 sets out a series of goals and actions that could […] The post UK Lays Out Fourfold Nuclear Power Expansion in Comprehensive Roadmap appeared first on POWER Magazine.
LACI ANNOUNCES LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK & SEVEN OTHER CITIES REPRESENTING 55 MILLION AMERICANS TO JOIN INAUGURAL CITY CLIMATE INNOVATION CHALLENGE TO ADVANCE ZERO EMISSIONS DELIVERY; PARTNERS INCLUDE C40 & CLIMATE MAYORS
LA CleanTech Incubator
JANUARY 9, 2024
First of its Kind City Challenge is Designed to Help Cities Pilot and Scale Innovation to Reduce Congestion & Emissions from Exploding E-Commerce and Goods Movement Los Angeles, January 9, 2024 – The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)–in partnership with Climate Mayors and C40–announced the selected cities for the inaugural City Climate Innovation.
‘Greener, cheaper, much warmer’ – heat pump owners laud their new system
The Guardian: Energy
JANUARY 7, 2024
Report finds users even in Victorian properties and older rural homes are noticing cheaper bills and warmer homes Gillian Woodward, 50, says her house has been “completely transformed for the better” by installing an air source heat pump. Woodward, a community nurse in north Wales, was “astounded” to discover that she was eligible for a government-backed means-tested grant that covered the whole cost of insulating and installing a heat pump in her home.
2024 Resolution for OSHA: Propose A Workplace Heat Standard
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 8, 2024
OSHA should resolve to get a proposed workplace heat standard out for public comment before 2024’s hot weather starts.
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?
2023 in review: Australia nears half-way mark to 82% renewables
Renew Economy
JANUARY 7, 2024
Renewables combined to supply an average share of nearly 40% across Australia's main grids for the year. We look back at the stats and records. The post 2023 in review: Australia nears half-way mark to 82% renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Clean electricity is driving down US emissions
Canary Media
JANUARY 10, 2024
America’s electrical grid is increasingly powered by renewable energy, and this helped slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions last year — even as the wider economy grew, according to new estimates by Rhodium Group.
ThinkGeoEnergy’s Top 10 Geothermal Countries 2023 – Power Generation Capacity
ThinkGeoEnergy
JANUARY 8, 2024
With this article, we are releasing our annual Top 10 Geothermal Countries based on Installed Power Generation Capacity as of year-end 2023. While behind on some of our plans on the release on additional research on our site, we have expanded capacity and are glad to have installed a Research Manager , who is pushing ahead in the updating of our databases, planning of our research offerings and publications, as well as supporting clients.
UK unveils LDES support plan: cap-and-floor, 6-hour-plus duration, and lithium-ion excluded
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 10, 2024
The UK government has launched its consultation on its proposals for kickstarting investment into long-duration energy storage (LDES), which includes a cap-and-floor mechanism and excluding lithium-ion from being eligible.
As Earth records hottest year, Coalition digs in against climate action and renewables
Renew Economy
JANUARY 9, 2024
As the world takes in the horrifying data on the world's hottest year on record, the federal opposition is gearing up to fight 2035 emissions targets and rally against renewables. The post As Earth records hottest year, Coalition digs in against climate action and renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Chart: The US grid battery fleet is about to double — again
Canary Media
JANUARY 12, 2024
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. The U.S. energy storage industry has its New Year’s resolution ready to go: double the capacity of batteries connected to the American grid.
Hyundai’s Massive 500 Hydrogen Fleet Launch Marks a Milestone in China’s Clean Energy Drive
FuelCellsWorks
JANUARY 8, 2024
Hyundai has delivered a vast fleet of around 500 fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to Guangzhou, China, marking one of the world’s largest hydrogen mobility projects to date. This initiative, undertaken.
How Microsoft found a potential new battery material using AI
The Verge: Energy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Samples of the new solid electrolyte discovered by Microsoft AI and HPC tools. | Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft. Artificial intelligence (AI) and large-scale cloud computing is speeding up the search for new battery materials. An AI-enhanced collaboration between Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has already produced one promising new material, which the two are sharing publicly today.
“Irreparable injury:” Courts order dismantling of wind farms in US, France
Renew Economy
JANUARY 8, 2024
Two separate court rulings highlight the importance of wind farm developers securing all necessary approvals, including environmental and social. The post “Irreparable injury:” Courts order dismantling of wind farms in US, France appeared first on RenewEconomy.
UK Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho Meets And Praises Climate Science Denier Reform Candidate
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 12, 2024
The UK government’s most senior climate minister has publicly celebrated a petrol campaigner who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims “man is not responsible for global warming”. In a post from her official X account on Tuesday, Claire Coutinho, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), endorsed the “persistence” of Howard Cox , director of the FairFuelUK lobby group that campaigns against charges on motorists.
MIT Researchers Outline a Path for Scaling Clean Hydrogen Production
FuelCellsWorks
JANUARY 8, 2024
New paper shows how policymakers could encourage the nascent clean hydrogen industry without indirectly increasing its carbon emissions. Hydrogen is an integral component for the manufacture of steel, fertilizer, and.
Hydrogen is back. At least, CES 2024 suggests it is
TechCrunch: Climate
JANUARY 11, 2024
Hydrogen vehicles never really caught on, and yet at CES 2024 fuel-cell vehicles of all sizes litter the show floor. What gives? © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Another big battery joins South Australia pipeline in race to energy storage
Renew Economy
JANUARY 8, 2024
Epic Energy adds yet another big battery to South Australia's development pipeline as the state seeks to manage its huge renewables supply. The post Another big battery joins South Australia pipeline in race to energy storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.
PJM Urges Delayed Retirement of 840-MW Fossil Fuel Power Plant, Citing Reliability Impacts
POWER Magazine
JANUARY 10, 2024
PJM has urged Talen Energy to delay its deactivation of two of four units at the 840-MW coal, oil, and gas–fired Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station in Maryland until transmission […] The post PJM Urges Delayed Retirement of 840-MW Fossil Fuel Power Plant, Citing Reliability Impacts appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Volvo Group Accelerates Hydrogen Research With PhD Scholarships for the Internal Combustion Engine
FuelCellsWorks
JANUARY 12, 2024
GOTHENBURG, Sweden— Volvo Group is further developing the internal combustion engine with hydrogen as a propulsion technology by initiating PhD scholarships dedicated to hydrogen combustion engine technology. Two PhD students will be.
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