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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

My Green Lab's intention to address systemic issues by creating an ecosystem of programs echoes the approach taken by the ILFI, which was initially considered aspirational by many in the mainstream building establishment yet has been embraced by the likes of Microsoft and Google and making headway in Asia and Europe.

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Why investor Green Century has taken an active interest in fighting deforestation

GreenBiz

Jessye Waxman: We started working on deforestation in 2012. A palm oil plantation in Southeast Asia. Julie Nash: Green Century has been engaging companies on deforestation risks for many years. When did this work begin and how has the firm’s strategy evolved over the years? Deforestation. Sponsored Article. Shutterstock. Rich Carey.

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2024 Honda Prologue: Japan’s most American brand gets serious about EVs

Charged

That left Honda severely behind in the global race toward long-range electric vehicles that Tesla kicked off in 2012 with its Model S. In Asia and Europe, the company has had its subcompoact Honda e three-door hatchback on sale for a few years. None of those were battery-electric vehicles, however.

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Global wind industry reached nearly 100 GW of new installed capacity in 2020

Renewable Energy World

GW higher than the country’s previous record in 2012. GW in Europe and 863 MW in Africa and the Middle East, while Asia Pacific accounted for 57.3 This was 77% more than in 2019 and 2.6 GE supplied 57% (9.4 GW across 14 U.S. Total onshore wind additions in 2020 were 19.4 GW in the Americas, 12.6

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New Plans Reveal How China’s Grid Is Prepping for Net-Zero Carbon

GreenTechMedia

GW in 2012 to 130 GW in 2017, according to data from the Asia Europe Clean Energy Advisory. Solar-rich Xinjiang Province, in the country’s northwest, saw curtailment in excess of 30 percent in 2016, according to official data. That solar surge saw the country’s cumulative installed PV capacity go from 6.5

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More than 75% of global insect species not adequately protected

Grist

Insects fared better in the Amazonian region, Africa, Western Australia, and Eastern and Central Europe, while achieving less protected area coverage in North America and South and Southeast Asia. There are more than 200,000 protected areas around the globe , including marine protected areas.

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SparkMeter Closes $12M Round to Expand From Metering Minigrids to Analyzing ‘Broken Grids’

GreenTechMedia

From its start in 2012 as a spinout of a nonprofit group bringing power to Haitian towns and villages, the company has expanded to more than 22 countries and more than 100,000 meters sold. SparkMeter, a Washington, D.C.-based based startup, has made it its mission to provide a metering platform to meet these atypical operating conditions.