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It's time for banks to take the next step on climate risk

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2021

If banks don't integrate climate risk into oversight, expect a banking crisis that could overshadow what happened in 2008.m m crisis reminiscent of the 2008-09 mortgage crisis or worse.

State of the Profession 2022 Report

GreenBiz

APRIL 11, 2022

What wasn’t clear was whether the pandemic would negatively affect corporate sustainability efforts in the same way as during the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis. In early 2020, as COVID-19 began to spread globally, it became clear that this pandemic would not be short-lived.

Politics

Politics Health Sustainability

BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

OGCI claims mobile carbon capture technologies aboard ships could help the global shipping sector reach its current climate target to cut emissions by 50 percent by 2050, from a 2008 baseline — a goal that has faced criticism from green groups for lacking ambition.

Carbon

Carbon Methane Fossil fuels Organic

Edge Environment

GreenBiz

JULY 14, 2021

We were founded in 2008 and our teams are based in Australia, Chile, and the United States. Edge Environment. taylor flores. Wed, 07/14/2021 - 09:37. Edge is an international sustainability consultancy focused on serving clients based in Asia-Pacific and the Americas.

Ethics

Ethics Asia Agriculture Sustainability

Sustainable infrastructure investments can aid the post-COVID recovery

GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

Countries around the globe are set to launch the biggest round of infrastructure investment since the post-2008 financial crisis stimulus measures. Before the shovels hit the dirt, it's worth understanding how the world of 2020 is different from the world of 2008. For example, since 2008, the percentage of U.S.

Investment

Investment Sustainability Resilience Innovation

This acquisition could help make sustainable packaging the norm

GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

When Corbett started Ecologic in 2008, scaling its sustainable packaging was challenging because at that time, only the “diehard” in the green movement were pushing for such solutions, she said. .

Packaging

Packaging Sustainability Plastics Recycling

How will the economic downturn affect PRN prices?

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Whilst not immediately obvious, with the looming recession, the data gives an indication of the likely impact of an economic downturn by looking back to the time of the 2008 financial crisis and the years that followed. For next year, whilst targets are flat, a shortfall this year could see a lack of carry forward PRNs into 2023.

Recycling

Recycling Recycling Packaging Waste

EV subscription service Onto adds 600 Peugeots to its fleet

Charged

JULY 7, 2022

300 of these are e-208 Allure Premium models, and 300 are e-2008 GT models. The larger e-2008 is also powered by a 50 kWh pack, and has a range of up to 214 miles. UK electric car subscription service Onto plans to add 600 new Peugeot EVs to its fleet.

Demand

Demand Batteries Electricity

Meet Justine Bernard, Vallourec’s Hydrogen Storage Technical Manager

FuelCellsWorks

APRIL 18, 2024

Empowering Innovation and Women in Engineering Since joining Vallourec in 2008, Justine Bernard has become an expert in the company’s core business and is now developing low-carbon solutions with the.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Innovation Carbon

The 2008 Silicon Material Crash Led to the Bankruptcy of Photovoltaic Companies Like Suntech and LDK: Will History Repeat Itself?

EnergyTrend

APRIL 29, 2024

The 2008 Silicon Material Crash Led to the Bankruptcy of Photovoltaic Companies Like Suntech and LDK: Will History Repeat Itself? HistoricalReview:InthePhotovoltaicIndustry,JoyComeswithMaterialPriceIncreases,andSorrowwithDecreases."Thelastsiliconmaterialbullmarketbeganin2004anden. Thelastsiliconmaterialbullmarketbeganin2004anden.

The electronic waste collection conundrum

GreenBiz

JULY 16, 2020

The primary reason I started covering the business of sustainability during the 2008 financial crisis wasn’t just because I was laid off from my position as editor of a technology trade publication. The electronic waste collection conundrum. Heather Clancy. Thu, 07/16/2020 - 01:15.

Waste

Waste Waste Recycling Recycling

Niger Delta Oil Spills: Shell Ruled Responsible In Landmark Verdict

Forbes Green Tech

JANUARY 29, 2021

In a historic ruling against the oil giant Shell, the Court of Appeal in The Hague has found in favor of four Nigerian farmers along with environmental activists in an oil spill case that was first filed in 2008.

Innovation

Innovation Energy Energy

Octopus to repay £3bn of Bulb nationalisation costs

Financial Times: Energy

JUNE 20, 2024

Treasury set to recoup almost all of what was forecast to be UK’s costliest bailout since 2008

What UK water can learn from global banking

Financial Times: Energy

APRIL 15, 2024

Ballooning leverage and excessive financial engineering are among the unnerving parallels with the 2008 financial crisis

Let?s get together: Intel?s 2030 commitments include ?shared? climate and social goals

GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

This is a longstanding practice for Intel, something the company has done since 2008. One company can’t solve climate change’.

Climate change

Climate change Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Health

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

In 2008, Exxon made a record $40.6 For years, extracting the black gold from the ground, processing it, then selling gasoline, fuel oil, petrochemicals and other refined products has been one of the most profitable businesses in history.

Fossil fuels

Fossil fuels Natural gas Carbon-negative Organic

Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

BNP Paribas, France’s largest bank, last month pledged to stop financing companies that produce or buy beef or soybeans cultivated on land in the Amazon cleared or converted after 2008. Britain’s Prince Charles in January said he had established the Natural Capital Investment Alliance under his Sustainable Markets Initiative.

Biodiversity

Biodiversity Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Investment

New solar mini-grids in Africa to be powered by Husk Power Systems’ $103M Series D

TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Husk Power Systems, a clean energy company at the forefront of fueling rural electrification since 2008 and that announced plans to launch 500 solar mini-grids in Nigeria over the next five years, has raised $103 million Series D in equity and debt to meet its objectives.

Africa

Africa Energy Energy

Uruguay’s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it’s done

The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Stung by the 2008 oil price spike, Uruguay now produces up to 98% of its electricity from renewables. Can other countries follow suit? It was the 2000s, and fossil fuel prices were rising worldwide. Uruguay imports its oil, so it had a problem. Demand for energy in the country had grown by 8.4%

Fossil fuels

Fossil fuels Demand Energy Energy

Lax Regulation Doesn’t Fully Explain Unsafe Buildings in African Cities: A View from Ghana

The City Fix

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

One study counted 54 building collapse deaths and 122 injuries in Kampala, Uganda, between 2004 and 2008. Another identified 112 cases in Lagos, Nigeria, from 1978 to 2008. Incidents of building collapse are worryingly common in large African cities. Cities in Ghana and Kenya, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

Real Estate

Real Estate Construction Africa

How to value solar plus storage

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Founded in 2008 as California’s first not-for-profit, community choice aggregation program, MCE today serves over 1 million residents and businesses in four San Francisco Bay area counties: Contra Costa; Marin; Napa; and Solano.

Solar Energy Monitor

Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring

Solar installations increasingly take the place of coal mines 2022 Trends in Solar

Solar Power World

JANUARY 7, 2022

As of 2020, there were 551 mines in the United States (out of that group, 37% of them idled operations) compared to more than 1,200 active mines in 2008.… Over the last 13 years, the country has shuttered more coal mines than it has opened.

Solar Power

Solar Power Energy Energy

Advice for thriving amid crisis, from 14 sustainability vets

GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

Tone down the celebration : Though the scale differs, in 2008 people were losing their jobs and afraid for their futures. Immediate vs. restorative : The 2008 financial crisis sparked hopes of a fundamental shift from short-term profits to longer-term values.

Sustainability

Sustainability Law Climate change Resilience

Inside Hewlett Foundation’s plan to electrify all road transportation by 2050

GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2021

Here are some notable learnings from his interview with GreenBiz: The Hewlett Foundation (HF) has been a long-term, large funder in clean transportation since 2008. Since its inception, the focus has been on trying to build strong international policies in favor of green transport.

Transportation

Transportation Europe Electric vehicle Climate change

Legal challenge to exclusion of waste incinerators from post-Brexit emissions trading scheme

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The Government has exceeded its powers under Section 44 Climate Change Act 2008, by which it is able to set up the emissions trading scheme and is required to make rational decisions. The omission of municipal waste incinerators is irrational.

Waste

Waste Waste Law Climate change

Could Bloom fuel cells be a solution for maritime emissions issues?

GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2018, the International Maritime Organization set the goal to halve emissions for commercial ships from 2008 levels by 2050. In that sense, there is a really good partnership that is not in name only, but in values and goals. And the goalposts are high. But by 2030, zero-emissions vessels will need to start being introduced.

Natural gas

Natural gas Hydrogen Technology Transportation

First Solar Settles Shareholder Suit for $350M

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2020

The suit alleged that First Solar executives and officers misled shareholders between April 2008 and February 2012 about the extent of financial damage related to a manufacturing hiccup. Prior to the suit, First Solar had announced the discovery of a defect that impacted 4 percent of the panels it produced between June 2008 and June 2009.

Logging

Logging Construction Investment

Megadeals reshape the US oil industry

Financial Times: Energy

MAY 29, 2024

Also in this newsletter: BHP’s £39bn pursuit of Anglo American collapses, German workers in largest real-terms pay rise since 2008, orange juice producers feel the squeeze

Scotland should follow on-demand bus schemes example of other UK regions, says charity

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, bus travel was in decline, with the number of people using that mode of transport falling by around 100 million since 2008. With many services currently struggling to attract passengers, now is considered the moment to introduce new schemes and assist operators.

Demand

Demand Transportation Health Carbon

Over 600 seals rescued off the coast of the UK in the past 10 years

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

Home to Yorkshire’s only Seal Hospital, Sea Life’s Scarborough’s Seal Sanctuary opened in 2008, while the group’s Hunstanton’s dedicated Seal Rescue Centre and Hospital opened in 1989.

Medicine

Medicine Education Health

Paul Polman: 'Businesses cannot succeed in societies that fail'

GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

For example, Polman pointed to the 2008 financial crisis in which the U.S. In addition to discussing government leadership, Polman said corporate leaders must show courage. That leadership needs to be moral and human, he said, in order to not repeat the mistakes of the past.

Organic

Organic Government Climate change Sustainability

Hydrogen | Patent and Technology Portfolios Resulting from R&D Funding

Energy Central

JANUARY 14, 2024

Portfolios Resulting from HFTO R&D Funding PNNL updates the hydrogen patent portfolio annually (by calendar year) • Since 2008, PNNL has searched and recorded over 7,000 patents and 60,000 patent applications related to hydrogen and fuel cell technologies • PNNL links IP to technologies resulting from HFTO R&D funding.

Patents

Patents Technology Hydrogen

Why can’t the EU power ahead with green subsidies like Biden’s? It isn’t just political procrastination | Yanis Varoufakis

The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

After the demise of Lehman Brothers in 2008, a group of policymakers gathered in Washington to ponder the relevant question: “How do we bail out the bankers to stop them consuming us?” It is also because of their motivated tendency to ask themselves the wrong questions, and thus head slowly but inexorably to self-harming policy solutions.

Politics

Politics Policy Europe Energy

Shipping industry emissions keep on climbing, new IMO data reveals

Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

The analysis also confirms that while total emissions have grown, the carbon intensity of shipping improved between 2008 and 2018 - both for international shipping as a whole and for most ship types.

Carbon

Carbon Transportation Government Energy

What Were Europe’s Oil Majors Doing When GTM Launched in 2007?

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

The firm had 370 megawatts' worth of wind farms in operation with a target to build this up to 1 GW by the end of 2008. Trina Solar at this stage had a fully integrated manufacturing capacity of 150 MW and was on target to grow this to 350 MW in 2008. Solar was where the search for a silver bullet was focused.

Solar Energy Monitor

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Carbon-negative

The unmasking of Corporate America

GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

traded stocks, were filled by women in 2019, up from just 12 percent in 2008 — racial diversity has not. . And while gender diversity has improved significantly over the past few years — according to Institutional Shareholder Services , 45 percent of new board positions among the Russell 3000, representing 3,000 of the largest U.S.-traded

Investment

Investment Sustainability Pollution Organic

Insect decline more extensive than suspected, says large-scale biodiversity study

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In a large-scale biodiversity study, an international research team headed by scientists at TUM surveyed a large number of insect groups in Brandenburg, Thuringia and Baden-Württemberg between 2008 and 2017. Since 2008 they measured a decrease of approximately 40 percent in insect biomass in the forests they studied.

Biodiversity

Biodiversity Agriculture

Polluting vehicles predominate in car insurance enquiries, says survey

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Figures reveal that the most enquired about car in the UK, the 2008 Volkswagen Golf, is rated C for CO2 and D for NOx. The study combines insurance enquiry volumes for car makes and models with data from the AIR Index, which ranks vehicles from A (most environmentally friendly) to E (least environmentally friendly).

Pollution

Pollution Carbon Electricity

The Brief: Systemic impact investing (audio), China’s plant-based meat, CDFI merger, WorldRemit buys Sendwave, U.K. jobs bond, agri-tech trends in India

Impact Alpha

AUGUST 27, 2020

Investors have been talking about systemic risks at least since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. Featured: Agents of Impact Call Replay Rooting out racism as a systemic risk (audio). More recently, climate change, income inequality and, suddenly, pandemics have been recognized as systemic risks as well. The current discourse on.

Investment

Investment Climate change

Call No. 22 replay: Rooting out racism as a systemic risk (audio)

Impact Alpha

AUGUST 27, 2020

27 – Investors have been talking about systemic risks at least since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. ImpactAlpha, Aug. More recently, climate change, income inequality and now, suddenly, pandemics have been recognized as systemic risks as well.

Climate change

Climate change Policy

China braced for rise in air pollution deaths

The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 4, 2024

Concerns about air pollution and athlete health overshadowed preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games and required industry and traffic shutdowns to clean the air during the event itself. Now, a team of researchers at Chinese, German and Canadian universities have tracked the impacts of deteriorating air at that time.

Pollution

Pollution Health Energy Energy

Cleaning up a dirty industry

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The API2000 standard (also known as ISO28300:2008) was the first to require testing for leakage and correct calibration, including the specification of a maximum allowable leakage rate, when Edition VI was published in 2008. Certification is a particular area of weakness where breather valves are concerned.

Pollution

Pollution Aviation Education Investment

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. . Back to normal is not an option. History has shown us that government funding of visionary projects can have enormous positive outcomes.

Incubators

Incubators Incubators Resilience Innovation

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