The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Guerrilla leader turned president says, faced with having to reduce their carbon consumption, upper classes fear ‘the barbarians are coming’ Middle-class fears of losing a high standard of living because of green policies is driving the rise of the far right across the world, the president of Colombia has warned. In a wide-ranging interview with the Guardian at the Cop28 UN climate summit, Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first leftwing president, said the world had to find carbon-free ways of being pr

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Hydrogen fuel is often hailed as a game-changer in the pursuit of clean energy and a sustainable future. Its potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change is undeniable.  The United Kingdom, with its significant capabilities and potential for innovation, possesses a promising opportunity to assume a leading role on the global stage in the field of hydrogen technology.

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TechCrunch: Climate

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Nth Cycle is one of the few startups tackling the cleantech's carbon-heavy supply chain and building a cleaner infrastructure for the sector. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Financial Times: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

EU ministers criticise Opec over attempts to switch emphasis to emissions as tensions mount at climate talks in Dubai

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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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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Climate activists likely to be concerned by another fossil fuel-reliant country taking over summit presidency Azerbaijan has been announced as the host of next year’s climate summit after fraught negotiations. Under UN rules it was eastern Europe’s turn to take over the rotating presidency but the groups need to unanimously decide on the host. Russia had blocked EU countries and Azerbaijan and Armenia were blocking each other’s bids.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 9, 2023

While some truckers say it gives them more power and range, the tech still lags behind battery electrics. As the transport industry in California works to decarbonize to meet climate goals, truckers are looking to alternatives to conventional diesel engines and are finding hydrogen fuel cells increasingly appealing. The technology remains new and there isn’t much in terms of a refueling network yet.

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Financial Times: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Summit president Sultan al-Jaber’s plans to reduce climate goals’ gap ‘not good enough’, warns energy agency’s chief

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

But country’s climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, would not say whether it would support phase-out wording in climate deal Cop28 live – latest updates China would like to see nations agree to substitute renewable energy for fossil fuels, the country’s chief climate official has said, as nations wrangled over the weekend on the wording of a deal on the climate crisis.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 10, 2023

There's some debate over the materials and mining requirements for the green energy transition. The requirements for copper alone for electric vehicle and truck motors and for wind turbine generators are daunting. The debate is about the magnitude of mining expansion that will be required. On one side of the debate are those who feel it will be very large.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Within hours of Canada’s federal government announcing key details during COP28 about its plans to cap greenhouse gas emissions within the oil and gas sector, the country’s top conservative think tanks started sounding the alarm. “Capping the energy sector’s emissions would deprive Canada of over $6.0 billion a year,” declared a media release from the Quebec-based Montreal Economic Institute, which was soon quoted extensively by the media outlet Business in Vancouver.

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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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Financial Times: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

South Africa’s Secunda plant has higher emissions than Portugal but investors are piling on pressure for change

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

The prospect of halving demand for coal is a goal worth striving for, but governments must stay the course In the past week almost 120 global leaders have pledged to triple the world’s renewable energy capacity before 2030 in a bold attempt to slash the global consumption of fossil fuels. As the second half of the Cop28 UN climate conference in Dubai unfolds in the week ahead, more countries may join the calls for a global target of 11 terawatts (TW) of renewable power by the end of the decade,

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FuelCellsWorks

DECEMBER 10, 2023

On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron is set to call on manufacturers to expedite the exploration of natural hydrogen, or "white hydrogen," in France.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Saudi Arabian electric utility company and NEOM subsidiary ENOWA has announced development of a blueprint for a high-voltage smart grid “that has never been built in the world.” This is according to ENOWA’s CEO Peter Terium, who in a video interview with Arab News on the side of COP28 said the blueprint will be applied to the NEOM region, a new urban area planned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to be built in its northwestern Tabuk Province.

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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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Financial Times: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Lifting of annual production cap fuels demand for the commodity, despite crisis in China’s property sector

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2023

High Ambition Coalition of nations is continuing to push for a commitment to 'phase out' fossil fuels, but fierce opposition from OPEC has fuelled fears a compromise deal could prove elusive

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Australia’s climate minister says summit must aim to keep 1.5C goal alive so Pacific countries are not ‘swallowed by the seas’ The Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has told nearly 200 countries at the Cop28 summit that the use of fossil fuels in energy systems must end. This came as the president of the Cop, Sultan Al Jaber, convened a majlis – a meeting in the traditional form of an elders’ conference in the United Arab Emirates – between all countries late on Sunday in an attem

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Eco-Business

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The COP28 presidency on Saturday issued a joint statement on climate, nature and people that underscored the need to urgently address climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation together "in a coherent, synergetic and holistic manner, in accordance with the best available science".

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Financial Times: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Prices of nuclear commodity at 15-year high as governments scramble to secure sources of fuel for power stations

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The Dubai talks have forced a confrontation of the misplaced belief that efficient, affordable emissions abatement is around the corner, argues Ashden CEO Ashok Sinha

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Tesla Autopilot continues to confound federal regulators who cannot decide what to do about it, if anything. The post Washington Post Asks Why Tesla Autopilot Can Be Used In Places Where It Shouldn’t Be appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Sultan Al Jaber voices frustration at negotiations' sluggish progress on contentious issues such as fossil fuels, finance, and climate adaptation

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2023

It has been exactly a year since countries agreed to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030 - but is the breakthrough achieved in Montreal impacting negotiations in Dubai?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Sidelines of Summit deliver wave of pledges to boost the sustainability of food systems, but green groups voice frustration that action to tackle agrigultural emissions remain off the menu in the formal negotiations

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Nations at COP28 are at risk of greenlighting carbon trading rules that 'lack any meaningful oversight or transparency', observers warn

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Financial Times: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

How a shadow fleet undermined the price cap

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Financial Times: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

The technology remains years away from commercialisation but it has industry backing

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Environment Secretary Steve Barclay defends UK's record on nature protection at COP28, as Defra confirms list of commodities targeted by proposed rules to combat deforestation in supply chains

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 10, 2023

COP 28 has some good news stories to go with the bad. Prominent among the good news was the Double. [continued] The post What Do COP 28 Double Down, Triple Up & Nuclear Commitments Mean? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Will a fight over language derail COP28? China may have a way out of the linguistic thicket in Dubai as COP28 comes to an end. The post COP28 Slug Fest Over Language Heats Up appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Ford is dipping into the European market for heavy duty fuel cell trucks through its holdings in the Turkish firm Ford Otosan. The post Clearly Ford Did Not Get The Fuel Cell Truck Memo: F-MAX Is Ready To Roll appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 9, 2023

When companies first started offering unattended rental scooters, it was kind of chaotic. After watching Uber worm its way into. [continued] The post Winterthur, Switzerland Shows One Way To Keep Rental Scooter Quality High appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Ford and Resideo Technologies recently unveiled their collaborative project, the “EV-Home Power Partnership.” This joint simulation initiative will look at. [continued] The post Ford and Resideo Partner To Show How EVs and Homes Can Work Together appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Electrify America and Kia America recently announced a special deal for the buyers of Kia’s new EV9 SUV, offering a. [continued] The post Kia EV9 To Get Limited Free Charging From Electrify America appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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