Why Bain is going beyond net zero
GreenBiz
MARCH 21, 2024
One of the world’s largest consulting firms is the first company to set a Carbon Integrity Platinum Claim for reductions of current and ongoing greenhouse gas emissions.
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130+ Organizations Urge Accountability on Forest Protection
NRDC onEarth
MARCH 21, 2024
In a joint statement to international leaders , groups from around the world call for global accountability as essential to delivering on forest commitments.
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Where Plastic Recycling Innovation is Today
CleanTech Group
MARCH 21, 2024
Plastic production is expected to double by 2050. Similarly, plastic emissions from production and disposal are expected to double by 2060. Plastic recycling. The post Where Plastic Recycling Innovation is Today appeared first on Cleantech Group.
Ohio greenlights massive solar, storage and agrivoltaics project
Canary Media
MARCH 21, 2024
The Ohio Power Siting Board has given the go-ahead to what will be one of the largest solar farms in the United States, despite the opposition of local governments and citizens.
Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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.
Why businesses should stop planting trees and start protecting forests
GreenBiz
MARCH 19, 2024
Investing in forest protection is the most effective approach to enhancing forest carbon sequestration and supporting biodiversity.
Reducing Food Waste for the Climate, Nature, and People
NRDC onEarth
MARCH 18, 2024
Reducing food loss and waste offers an opportunity to address many of our world’s existential challenges, including combating the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, improving environmental health protections, and fighting racial injustice.
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Market operator explains why the lights won’t go out with wind, solar and storage
Renew Economy
MARCH 19, 2024
The federal Coalition insists the lights will go out in transition to wind and solar. AEMO has now released a video explaining why they won't, following CSIRO's defence of science. The post Market operator explains why the lights won’t go out with wind, solar and storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Unilever threatens to quit trade associations that block climate policy
GreenBiz
MARCH 21, 2024
The company says it will cut ties with groups that obstruct progress on Paris Agreement net-zero goals.
Drax Makes a Mockery of International Day of Forests
NRDC onEarth
MARCH 21, 2024
Biomass producer Drax marked today’s International Day of Forests with a report extolling the logging and burning of forests for energy.
TECO 2030 Receives AIP From DNV for Onboard Compressed Hydrogen Fuel Systems
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 19, 2024
Lysaker, Norway–TECO 2030 is proud to announce that it has received an additional Approval in Principle (AiP) from DNV regarding compressed hydrogen fuel systems. This milestone achievement marks a significant.
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.
South Australia’s world-leading renewable transition is attracting flood of new industry
Renew Economy
MARCH 20, 2024
South Australia expected to double grid demand as new industry floods to the state, lured by low cost clean energy and its accelerated 100 pct renewables target. The post South Australia’s world-leading renewable transition is attracting flood of new industry appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Seven steps to achieving responsible supply chains
GreenBiz
MARCH 19, 2024
Sponsored: The Accountability Framework offers companies a practical approach to managing nature, climate, and human rights risks.
EPA Enters the Clean Car Era
NRDC onEarth
MARCH 20, 2024
EPA’s latest clean car rules will provide over $2 trillion in air quality, health, climate, and economic benefits.
Australia: Construction begins at biggest battery storage project so far
Energy Storage News
MARCH 17, 2024
Construction has kicked off at the largest battery project in Australia to date, with a storage capacity equivalent to the entire country’s fleet of projects in construction at the end of 2022.
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.
Chart of the Day: California surges beyond 100 pct renewables
Renew Economy
MARCH 17, 2024
Wind, water and solar produce more than state demand in California, the world's fifth biggest economy, in nine out of last 10 days. The post Chart of the Day: California surges beyond 100 pct renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
3 key strategies for transforming the beef industry
GreenBiz
MARCH 18, 2024
A growing array of techniques and technologies aims to reduce the supersized environmental footprint of commercial beef production.
Bill Gates’ TerraPower Ready to Build New U.S. Nuclear Power Plant
POWER Magazine
MARCH 19, 2024
A group established by Microsoft founder Bill Gates is preparing to begin construction of a new generation of nuclear power plants in June, according to the company’s chief executive. Chris […] The post Bill Gates’ TerraPower Ready to Build New U.S. Nuclear Power Plant appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Cologne Orders Hydrogen Solaris Buses for the Fourth Time
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 21, 2024
The public transport operator in Cologne, Regionalverkehr Köln GmbH (RVK), has once again chosen Solaris as the supplier of hydrogen-powered buses. Nine of the buses are Urbino 12 hydrogen buses with a length of 12 meters, while eleven.
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?
It is now cheaper to run a fully electric home and EV in NZ than to use fossil fuels
Renew Economy
MARCH 18, 2024
New Zealand is one of the first countries in the world to reach an electrification tipping point, as high petrol and high gas costs make electric homes and EVs more affordable than fossil fuelled alternatives. The post It is now cheaper to run a fully electric home and EV in NZ than to use fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The week in climate policy: 5 updates you need to know
GreenBiz
MARCH 22, 2024
Court pauses SEC’s climate-disclosure rule, the DOE publishes the positive economic impact of its loan programs office, and more.
Japan Could Be Nearing Restart of World’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant
POWER Magazine
MARCH 17, 2024
The world’s largest nuclear power plant, among the facilities taken offline after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, could be nearing a restart. Japanese media reported that on March 14, […] The post Japan Could Be Nearing Restart of World’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Shell to divest 1,000 retail locations, and also expand EV charging. Coincidence?
Charged
MARCH 22, 2024
Oil giant Shell has announced plans to divest 1,000 retail sites over the next two years, and also says it plans to expand its public EV charging business. Is Shell shutting down gas stations in order to replace them with EV charging hubs? Well, that’s what several media reports implied, but that’s not quite what the company said. Shell’s “ Energy Transition Strategy 2024 ” mentions electric vehicles at least 30 times (accompanied in almost every case by a mention of biofuels), and concedes that
Rooftop solar ducks would eat nuclear’s lunch. So will Coalition slow PV or pay to store it?
Renew Economy
MARCH 18, 2024
In a grid reshaped by wind and solar, and rooftop PV in particular, there is a lot of space for fast and flexible "firming" capacity, but not for baseload technologies like nuclear. The post Rooftop solar ducks would eat nuclear’s lunch. So will Coalition slow PV or pay to store it? appeared first on RenewEconomy.
This week in climate policy
GreenBiz
MARCH 18, 2024
In the week ahead, a Senate hearing about PFAS hazardous chemical designations, a House hearing on the DOE’s 2025 budget request, and more.
China Plans to Build More Than 1,200 Hydrogen Refueling Stations by 2025, More Than the Current Total Worldwide
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 22, 2024
China’s boom in the promotion of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is generating increasing demand for hydrogen refueling stations (HRS), which has resulted in them being included in government plans and.
US energy storage market ‘shattered’ previous deployment records in Q4 2023
Energy Storage News
MARCH 21, 2024
According to Wood Mackenzie, energy storage deployment numbers in the US broke records for three successive quarters with previous records “shattered” to finish the year.
New bifacial solar technology generates more power at much reduced cost
Renew Economy
MARCH 18, 2024
Researchers claim new bifacial solar technology offers greater efficiency than traditional solar at significantly less cost than existing solar panels. The post New bifacial solar technology generates more power at much reduced cost appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Newly announced EPA tailpipe emissions rules: What you need to know
GreenBiz
MARCH 20, 2024
A tightening of emissions standards is expected to create an EV boom in the next 10 years.
Nikola Celebrates Grand Opening of First Hyla Refueling Station in Southern California
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 22, 2024
Ontario-based station marks a significant step forward in establishing comprehensive hydrogen refueling network for Class 8 trucks. PHOENIX– Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emissions transportation and energy supply.
US BESS installations ‘surged’ in 2023 with 96% increase in cumulative capacity, ACP says
Energy Storage News
MARCH 18, 2024
The operating capacity of battery storage in the US grew by 7.9GW last year, bringing the country’s total cumulative installed base to 17GW by the end of 2023.
“Prohibitive:” Australia’s biggest energy consumers and producers say no to nuclear, but is Coalition listening?
Renew Economy
MARCH 17, 2024
The biggest utilities and the biggest energy consumers say they don't want nuclear. So who does the Coalition expect to pay for it? The post “Prohibitive:” Australia’s biggest energy consumers and producers say no to nuclear, but is Coalition listening? appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Why Renewcell failed
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H&M and Levi’s wanted the company’s revolutionary reused cotton product — but the industry couldn’t handle it.
China’s First Homegrown Hydrogen-Powered Urban Train Completes Test
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 21, 2024
CHANGCHUN (Xinhua)– China’s first independently developed hydrogen-powered urban train completed a test at a speed of 160 kph on Thursday, marking a breakthrough in the application of hydrogen energy in rail.
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