Wed.Mar 22, 2023

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An Allbirds shoe with no footprint?

GreenBiz

The materials that make up the "M0.0NSHOT" design were carefully curated to serve the Allbirds moonshot goal of creating a shoe with no carbon footprint

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Ofwat and the EA must go further: Lords’ report on sewage pollution welcomed by river observers

Envirotec Magazine

How might the water industry be better regulated to reduce the sewage pollution that floods waterways in England and Wales? A report from the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee published on 22 March offered a number of recommendations.

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Diving into water restoration? What it takes to prime a project

GreenBiz

Corporations including Meta and P&G have vowed to replenish the water consumed by their operations in water-stressed regions, but finding appropriate, “shovel-ready” projects takes connections and patience

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Decarbonise UK public buildings ‘five times faster’ to meet Net Zero targets, report warns

Envirotec Magazine

Analysis of public building energy usage appears to find government risks missing its 75% CO2 emission reduction target – by 101 years.

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

Join Ayesha Choudhury, Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium, to learn why we need eFuels in the carbon neutrality mix, how eFuels are produced, and how Infinium globally scales eFuel production to benefit society

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ESG in retirement: On vetoes and getting votes

GreenBiz

Pesident Joe Biden vetoed a Republican-led joint resolution to nullify a Department of Labor rule that will allow retirement plan fiduciaries to incorporate ESG information in investment decision-making.

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London event will coach public on repair skills

Envirotec Magazine

Research commissioned ahead of London’s Repair Week event (20-26 March 2023) appears to show that the capital’s inhabitants threw away £1.8 billion worth of items last year that could have been repaired.

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Q&A: Delivering sustainable solutions to solve water challenges 

Envirotec Magazine

Stephen Kennedy is head of digital and innovation at MWH Treatment, a firm offering end-to-end treatment projects for water and wastewater.

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Riparian Forests: How California Farmers Can Protect Waterways

NRDC onEarth

California can work with growers to scale up riparian forest buffers along farm and rangelands to help sequester carbon, protect waterways, and improve biodiversity

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EP Cube residential energy storage system unveiled at Key Energy in Italy

altenergymag

EP Cube is an integrated residential energy storage system. The system integrates a hybrid inverter and modular lithium iron phosphate batteries, allowing users to manage energy production, consumption, and storage at home in a smart manner

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Smart Housing Policy Is a Climate Strategy for Colorado

NRDC onEarth

Today, Governor Jared Polis announced legislation to reform housing policies statewide, in an effort to expand housing availability, improve housing affordability, and ensure housing development advances climate goals.

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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 Carbon Zero, Circular Economy, is easily the most profoundly important result of digital transformation. Industry 4.0 has a massively cumulative impact on dematerialization (in all forms) and resultant decarbonization (both emissions and embodied) throughout the economy. Join panelists Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Jimmy Jia, Fabienne Durand, and their moderator Roger Strukhoff as they discuss how bending the carbon/GHG heavy linear economy to the circular is one of the hidden benefits of digital disruption.

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Greentown Go Energize 2022 Startups and Corporates Advance Low-carbon Hydrogen Solutions

Greentown Labs

With the announcement of the Department of Energy’s Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs program, new tax credit opportunities under the Inflation Reduction Act, and global investment tailwinds, low-carbon hydrogen is on a trajectory to potentially become a significant component of a low-carbon future.

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Establishing a National Healthy Riverscapes Initiative

NRDC onEarth

NRDC is advocating for policies to protect and restore wetlands, increase public investment in nature-based solutions, and strengthen our natural infrastructure

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IVECO BUS wins a tender for 120 electric buses in Italy

Charged

IVECO BUS has been awarded a public tender to supply 120 E-WAY electric city buses to the Italian public transport company Autoguidovie Group. The vehicles will be deployed in the various areas served by Autoguidovie, and deliveries will begin in the second half of 2023.

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Wetlands Are Imperiled—But the Clean Water Act Can Protect Them

NRDC onEarth

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers need to use the full measure of their authority under the law to prevent wetland loss

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

Join our amazing panelists, Nik Gowing, Founder at Thinking the Unthinkable and International Broadcaster; Brenda Laurel, PhD, Principal, Neogaian Interactive; Sheridan Tatsuno, Principal, Dreamscape Global; Archie Kasnet, CEO, Regenerative; and Bruce Armstrong Taylor, The Climate 4.0 Project, to discuss how today's AR/VR and related AI-enabled technologies can be effectively applied, using data from such sources as NASA and NOAA, to both improve and accelerate urban sustainability planning and design.

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Pesticide Giant Criticised for ‘Greenwashing’ Partnership with French Influencer

DeSmogBlog

Bayer , the world’s second largest crop chemicals company, sponsored a French influencer to create and share pro-pesticides content with over 300,000 followers on her Instagram account, an investigation has revealed.

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Let’s Protect More Wetlands with FEMA Funds

NRDC onEarth

NRDC’s new report underscores the importance of wetlands to the health of our planet, its people, and its wildlife.

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Rooftop Solar Powers Toyota Dealership's Sustainability Drive

altenergymag

Innovative funding solution enables Arlington Toyota to install solar with no upfront costs while retaining full ownership of the system

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How the State of Wyoming is Using Planet Data to Preserve Western Rangelands

Planet Pulse

The sagebrush biome of the Western U.S. covers approximately 150 million acres, touches 13 states, and is home to 350 rare, threatened, and endangered species. But, this rich ecosystem has seen dramatic degradation and loss of sagebrush grasslands. A main culprit? Invasive species.

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Holcim US and TotalEnergies Partner to Drive Clean Energy Services at Colorado Cement Plant

altenergymag

15-year Power Purchase and Storage Agreement drives large-scale solar power solution to propel Holcim's transition to 100 percent renewable US operations

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Canada must act now to remain competitive

Clean Energy Canada

This post originally appeared as an advertisement in the National Post and the Hill Times. As the world rapidly moves towards a net zero economy, Canada has a generational opportunity to position itself for success in the 21st-century sustainable economy.

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Credable raises $2.5 million to accelerate embedded finance in emerging markets

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 22 – A raft of tech-enabled companies are delivering essential goods and services, such as food supplies and transportation, to low-income. The post Credable raises $2.5 million to accelerate embedded finance in emerging markets appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Competence greenwashing: Are questionable ESG credentials putting climate goals at risk?

Eco-Business

Former Monetary Authority of Singapore sustainability chief Darian McBain and recruiter Paddy Balfour tell the Eco-Business podcast why people are exaggerating their ESG expertise and why that's a problem in Asia Pacific

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Verod-Kepple Africa Partners secures $43 million to invest in tech businesses in Africa

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 22 – Verod-Kepple Africa Partners is a partnership between Nigerian private equity firm Verod Capital and Kepple Africa Ventures, a Japan. The post Verod-Kepple Africa Partners secures $43 million to invest in tech businesses in Africa appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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‘Premature’ to posit loss and damage donors, recipients: Singapore environment ministry on youth group statement

Eco-Business

Climate group Singapore Youth for Climate Action had asked the government to clarify why it had said the city-state could be a “potential claimant” to a new climate fund being negotiated globally

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Impact Reporting: Frequently asked questions (and answers!) from impact investors

Impact Alpha

Impact fund managers are increasingly expected to provide their investors (i.e., institutional investors and allocators) with reporting that offers visibility into their portfolio’s. The post Impact Reporting: Frequently asked questions (and answers!)

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Good Energy debuts new smart export tariff for solar generators

Business Green

Power for Good' tariff to offer households with solar panels 10p per kWh for power exported to the grid Good Energy has today launched a new smart export tariff for households with solar panels, offering to pay 10p per kWh for power provided to the grid.

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The Brief: Metrics and mood music in impact reporting, embedded finance in emerging markets, urban resilience in Africa, social cost of carbon, electrify everything

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Next week’s Call: Metrics Madness. In partnership with the Southern Reconstruction Fund, ImpactAlpha is identifying key metrics for assessing.

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Drax pauses £2bn BECCS scheme, as it awaits 'firm' government policy framework

Business Green

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Metrics and mood music in impact reports from Founders First, Mercy Corps Ventures, Upstart Co-Lab and ALIVE

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 22 – One fund tracks the number of informal-economy jobs its portfolio companies have formalized. Another firm reports how its investments improve.

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'Decarbonisation isn't optional': Chemical firms urged to end reliance on fossil fuels

Business Green

ShareAction issues statement calling on Europe's largest chemical companies to ramp up decarbonisation efforts European chemical companies are this morning facing fresh calls to end their reliance on fossil fuels in order to meet climate targets.

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Which President Oversaw The Largest Changes In U.S. Oil Production?

R-Squared Energy

In the previous article , I reviewed gasoline prices under the past four presidents. I only went back that far because gasoline prices were pretty stable prior to 2000. Today, I want to look at the evolution of oil production over the past 120 years.

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Swiss Re reveals global cost of climate impacts as losses from natural disasters top $275bn

Business Green

Insurer warns industry's insured losses from natural disasters topped $100bn for the second year in a row A surge in climate-driven natural disasters resulted in global economic losses of $275bn last year, of which $125bn were covered by insurance, according to the latest report insurance giant Swiss Re.

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Building the Vanpowers City Vanture E-bike

CleanTechnica

If you've ever related to those bumper stickers that read, "built, not bought," Vanpowers has the e-bike for you! Bicycles Clean Transport Electric Bikes cleantechnica DIY diy electric vehicle E-bikes electric bike reviews

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How rampant greenwashing of food and drinks is poisoning the sector's reputation

Business Green

Analysis of climate claims being made by major food and drink producers concludes that greenwashing has become a 'major business risk' for the sector Greenwashing is rife across food packaging and advertising, misleading consumers, undermining companies that are genuinely embracing sustainable practices, and putting investors at risk.