GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

While environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and water pollution dominate the list of issues that experts say are the most urgent — these are all considered more urgent than they were in 2019 — the perceived urgency of social issues is also on the rise.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The drive to make companies more climate resilient and sustainable started with institutional investors, long aware of climate risk. Now we must marshal its power to encourage the march toward a climate resilient future. Risk & Resilience. Rising demand for sustainable solutions. Pull Quote. Contributors. Ryan Resch. Leadership.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Nature-based urban resilience infrastructure in Milan, Italy. A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges, according to the firm behind it, Isle Utilities. Technology pilots.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 9, 2020

As our society looks to build back better by emerging from the crisis with a more resilient and sustainable system, many industries are planning to integrate circularity into their recovery plans. A strong signal of the circular fashion opportunity: Resale grew 25 times faster than the overall retail apparel market in 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

megawatts/1,113 megawatt-hours in 2019 as a whole and 186.4 One key driver is the decision by California regulators early this year to open up several hundred million dollars of funding for batteries serving resilience in wildfire-threatened parts of the state. energy storage installation topped 522.7 megawatts/364.2

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Residential solar company Sunnova experienced a surge in customers buying energy storage in the fourth quarter of 2019, CEO John Berger said on an earnings call Tuesday. Despite projecting confidence, Sunnova logged another quarter of losses — a trend that’s held in all quarters since the company’s IPO in July 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In August, we published the top 10 utility regulation trends of 2019 — so far. With 2019 wrapping up, we look at the 10 trends and actions that stand out above the rest. In 2019, an increasing number of utilities and regulators considered how DERs can be more fully integrated into the electric power system.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

According to Joshua Davies, sustainability manager for Multiplex Europe, 42 percent of his company’s overall 2019 footprint came from embodied carbon from its suppliers. According to a 2019 Rocky Mountain Institute report, full-scale hydrogen-based steel production would cost 20 to 30 percent more than conventional steel-making processes.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Holly Beale (2019). In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. HY William Chan (2019). Alexandra Criscuolo (2019).

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In the wake of California’s summer of wildfires, blackouts and planned outages, many consumers and businesses are clamoring for more resilient options. Average market prices for battery packs plunged by 87 percent in real terms in the decade to 2019, reports Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). How to value solar plus storage.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

That’s a steep drop from the 291 megawatts of projects installed in the first half of 2019. The first half of 2020 was the slowest for the U.S. microgrid market since 2016, with only 58 megawatts of projects on the books, according to WoodMac’s survey of projects of at least 100 kilowatts in size. and Eastern Seaboard.

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GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

Americans continue to value and demand recycling as an essential public service according to The Recycling Partnership’s 2019 Earth Day survey. It also means continued innovation in the collection, sorting and general recyclability of materials, including the building of flexibility and resiliency to add new materials into the system.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

In 2019, Lance Bottoms and Lyles testified before Congress on Atlanta’s and Charlotte’s steps to create a more climate resilient city. It starts with equality, and it leads to the health and resilience of people and the planet. Like these other mayors, Bowser has pushed for a green and sustainable vision for her city.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

The events of this year have been first and foremost a human tragedy, but they also have served as a catalyst to awakening interest and adoption of these strategies as reasonable approaches to remain resilient during these uncertain times. In 2019, it is estimated that TSMC consumed about 5 percent of the grid’s total electricity output.)

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Project director George Heywood, Servelec Technologies said, “In its strategy documents Ofwat , the regulator for England and Wales, says that water companies need to better understand the condition and resilience of their assets so that they can target maintenance and replacement activity and reduce the risk of service failure.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2021

Both operations closed in 2019, resulting in an economic crisis for these Indigenous nations. Nowhere is this clearer than on territories of the Navajo and Hopi Nations, where for 50 years the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and Kayenta coal mine provided low-cost power to the Southwest, helping it to grow and prosper.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

There are also two highly recognizable minority "non-participating" investors: pop star Katy Perry and media queen Oprah Winfrey, who previously invested in Apeel in 2019. . "I Other "participating" investors are Viking Global Investors, Upfront Investors, Tao Capital Partners and Rock Creek Group.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

million people worldwide working in the sector in 2019, up almost 500,000 from the year before, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Market leader Asia accounted for 63 per cent of the world's total renewable energy jobs in 2019, with China alone accounting for 38 per cent at 4.4 As many as 11.5

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Brazil, for example, recently recorded its highest rate of deforestation since 2008 during the period from August 2019 to July, an increase of 9.5 Mars also generated plenty of headlines in 2020 with its claim of a "deforestation-free palm oil supply chain," an initiative related to the Palm Positive Plan it adopted in September 2019.

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Solar Industry

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The facility was approved by the Georgia Public Service Commission as part of Georgia Power’s 2019 Integrated Resource Plan and is a standalone storage unit that connects with and charges directly from the grid. ” The company worked with Wärtsilä to provide the EPC services for the Mossy Branch facility.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Triple-digit temperatures in June in the Arctic Circle led to another warmest month on record, tying with June 2019. We can invest in a resilient and inclusive economy that builds jobs, infrastructure, growth and stability for the long term. Through our actions to tackle one crisis, we can avert another. More companies are speaking up.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

“It is a reflection of the growth we achieved during 2019 and the additional trust put in us by many customers, such as Thames Water and Yorkshire Water, who took more services from us during the year. The company also led the drainage industry on key sustainability issues. www.lanesfordrains.co.uk

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

GW but a steady climb from the first quarter of previous years — Q1 2019 saw 757 megawatts (MW) of deals; Q1 2020 included 1.6 Combining energy storage with generation is a smart way to add value to renewable deployments, clean the grid and add resilience. companies reaching just shy of 2 gigawatts of capacity. .

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

The wetland projects will be modelled on Anglian Water’s flagship River Ingol wetland which it launched in 2019. ” The wetland projects will be modelled on Anglian Water’s flagship River Ingol wetland which it launched in 2019. The site, near Ingoldisthorpe, in Norfolk was the first of its kind in England.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

It found that European pension funds’ awareness of, and desire for, action on climate change-related investment risk has surged, with 54 percent of those surveyed now actively considering the impact of such risks in their investment allocations, compared to just 14 percent in 2019. Risk & Resilience. Pull Quote. Climate Change.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Sunrun also reported rapid growth in its battery business, with the company pitching customers on resilient power in the face of California's wildfires and utility power shutoffs. Jurich expects rising customer interest in batteries for resilient backup power. Sunrun expects to grow total solar deployments 15 percent in 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

The report’s analysis identifies the three most critical risks for businesses right now, known as ‘bottom lines’, likely to impact operations this year and beyond: Trade policy restrictions: Global trade restrictions have been on the rise, with approximately 3,000 restrictions imposed, nearly tripling since 2019. percent impact on global GDP.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

This is now affecting the health of the entire planet, making it significantly less resilient to shocks,” says lead author Lan Wang-Erlandsson from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. “Water is the bloodstream of the biosphere. But we are profoundly changing the water cycle.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Increasingly fuel-efficient vehicles likely would reduce the use of refined products, which would lower demand for hydrocarbons, which would decrease oil prices, which would impact the resiliency of the company’s reserves, which would impair the value of the assets on its balance sheet, which finally would put downward pressure on its stock price.

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GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2020

The global 3D printing market was worth about $12 billion in 2019, with a compound annual growth rate of 14 percent predicted from 2020 to 2027. One of HP’s high-profile customers is Volkswagen, which is using its technology in the design of electric vehicles. The seven-year-old company just logged its best first quarter.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 29, 2021

In 2019, HP invested $2 million in a new plastics washing line in Port-au-Prince to support the collection of ocean-bound plastic in the community, which the company buys from a local business to use in its laptops and ink cartridges. It works only if it can transform systems, not reinforce existing ones. .

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. On the bright side, however, the crisis has underlined the resilience of Danone's direct sourcing model, he says, which minimized supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Some of the world’s biggest asset managers have been talking a lot lately about sustainable capital markets, stakeholder capitalism and how improved environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure can contribute to more resilient markets. In 2019 the company agreed to pay $4.2

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

The mass climate protests of 2019 and subsequent outpouring of major corporate climate commitments from the likes of Amazon, IKEA and Kering, among others, seemed to indicate that 2020 would be the year of the E in ESG — when corporate climate action hit critical mass. This is a critical time for corporate sustainability.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

in the last quarter of 2019. As the coronavirus emerges as a potential threat to demand, Wood Mackenzie's solar leaderboard data through Q4 2019 provides a snapshot of the state of play before COVID-19 — and a benchmark against which solar companies’ resilience will be measured after the crisis is over.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

After Hurricane Maria decimated Puerto Rico in 2017, the island endured the largest blackout in U.S. history, with the last home’s electricity finally restored after 11 months of darkness.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The virtual symposium, ‘Ecological extremes in Antarctica, mechanisms of resilience and recovery’, will be held on Wednesday 2 December, following Antarctica Day on 1 December. These, in addition to other out-of-the-ordinary stratospheric conditions at the end of 2019, caused heatwaves across Antarctica in January and February 2020.

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