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EU Digital Product Passports aim to track items through the product life-cycle

Envirotec Magazine

The unprecedented quantity of Extended Producer Responsibility legislation that has been greenlighted so far this year – across Europe – no doubt signals a new level of environmental awareness on a governmental, rather than merely social level. What are Digital Product Passports and should we care?

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Everledger and Ford release EV battery passport pilot for material recycling

Smart Energy International

Digital transparency company Everledger has launched what they tout as a world-first battery passport pilot with automotive manufacturer Ford Motor Company to ensure responsible recycling of EV batteries. EV battery tracking. It can provide transparency of the battery supply chain as well as the lifecycle of the finished product.

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Should Climate Tech Companies Pay For Twitter Subscriptions?

Michael Grossman

Pew's analysis from June-September 2021 of over 1,000 Twitter users supported the earlier survey by showing the most active 25% of Twitter users produced 97% of all tweets. Only 14% of the most active 25% of tweeters produce original content. Everything else is a retweet or response. Let’s call them the ‘elites.’

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Green Dividend Stocks: The Comfort Food of Investing in a Sustainable Future

Hydrogen Fuel News

But let’s chit-chat about something that often tags along with investing: dividends. They are currently working on producing trucks with a hydrogen combustion engine. It allows investors to champion ecological responsibility while aiming for the fruits of financial gain, all without putting all their eggs in one basket.

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. million from 2002-2004.

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'Sensible incentives' and 'plumbing reforms': Leading figures mull pathway from Covid-19 crisis to net zero economy

Business Green

For one, Nick Charter, professor of behavioural science at Warwick Business School, suggests the government introduced a 'carbon pound' tagged to all goods and services that would alert consumers to the environmental impact of their purchases and activities.

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In the hot seat: Solar Energy UK's Chris Hewett on how solar can help deliver net zero buildings and businesses

Business Green

One way to give the sector the long-term certainty it needs would be to extend the Public Sector Decarbonisation scheme right through to 2030 and introduce a separate scheme for private homeowners to replace the ill-fated Green Homes Grant, he suggests. But at the same time, the industry still faces major challenges.

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