Planet Pulse

JANUARY 4, 2023

From economists to ecologists, our Education and Research Program enables researchers from around the globe to dive into Planet’s datasets and explore a world of near limitless research insights. Our goal is to get Planet’s data into the hands of as many researchers and young scientists from around the world as we can.

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Planet Pulse

MARCH 17, 2022

Adam Smith at Cornell University leverages high resolution SkySat to better understand destruction of cultural heritage sites in areas around the world. The overarching theme is that using Planet data with recent advances in AI is going to result in a much cleaner environment and a more healthy world.”. Sustainable Agriculture.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In all, the investigation identified five factory-scale poultry companies in as many countries that have received financial support from the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), or both since 2003, and that supply chicken to KFC.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 3, 2022

Replace Russian supplies with gas from alternative sources, such as Qatar, Algeria and Azerbaijan. He said Europe is “already a world leader” in renewables and added it could go further by speeding-up the permitting process. Introduce minimum gas storage obligations for European countries to boost system resilience for next winter.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

  Early-Stage   🏠 Ecoworks , a Berlin, Germany-based carbon-neutral housing retrofit platform, raised €40M ($44M) in Series A funding from World Fund, Haniel, ISAI and KOMPAS VC.     COP29 was announced and will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 12, 2024

This can start at Cop29 in Azerbaijan. This began last month with the launch of the Cop Presidencies Troika , ensuring Azerbaijan will be the bridge in decision-making and implementation from the leadership of the 28th summit in UAE through to the 30th in Brazil next year. But it is a stark reminder that meeting 1.5C

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 7, 2024

Environmentalists condemn news of higher forecast production which is also seen as a conservative forecast Azerbaijan, which is hosting this year’s UN climate talks, plans to increase its fossil fuel production by a third over the next decade, according to an analysis shared exclusively with the Guardian.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

UN climate chief says ‘torrents, not trickles’ of public and private finance needed to meet global challenge Governments must not try to pick loopholes in the global agreement to “transition away” from fossil fuels reached last December, the UN’s climate chief has said, as he called for “torrents” of cash for poorer countries to tackle the crisis.

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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. Russia had blocked EU countries and Azerbaijan and Armenia were blocking each other’s bids.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The construction and textiles industries are two of the most targeted industries for creating waste, toxins and carbon emissions. Innovation in both industries move towards a more environmentally-friendly and sustainable focus. i-Mesh is a lightweight, breathable material made in Italy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With renewable energy resources more evenly distributed around the world, the hope is that the net zero economy will result in fewer energy-related geopolitical tensions. Unlike a lot of speculative analysis on this topic in the past, Carbon Tracker's report takes a deep dive into the numbers.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 8, 2024

Vineyard Wind, the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the US, produced power for the first time last week and Orsted received the green light via a final investment decision on what would be the world’s largest offshore wind farm in the North Sea.   Pop-up Wildlife photos of the year are out!

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The COP28 climate talks began with a new fund to address the increasingly severe losses and damage vulnerable countries face from climate impacts and concluded with the first international agreement to tackle climate change’s main driver: fossil fuels. Those bookends to the Dubai summit.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2024

To take just one climate-related issue, the COP29 Climate Summit will kick off in Baku, Azerbaijan on 11th November. We are living through a 'VUCA World' - a period defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, much of which is driven by the environmental and climate breakdown that is the defining meta-story of the age.

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