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Smart Energy Finances: Badger acquires smart water solutions & TE Connectivity’s smart grid win

Smart Energy International

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances leads with two stories on smart energy acquisitions, specifically Badger meter’s acquisition of Syrinix and TE Connectivity’s acquisition of Kries’ grid monitoring portfolio. Learn more: [link] pic.twitter.com/UbAIDqBu25 — Badger Meter (@Badger_Meter) January 5, 2023.

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Global cement and concrete makers ramp up 2030 emissions target

Business Green

Major cement and concrete manufactures around the world have agreed to accelerate the shift towards greener production methods, this week jointly pledging to slash CO2 emissions by a further 25 per cent by the end of the decade as part of efforts to deliver a net zero emission industry by 2050. by the end of the century.

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Less air pollution leads to higher crop yields, says study

Envirotec Magazine

The analysis, published on 1 June in Science Advances , uses satellite images to reveal for the first time how nitrogen oxides – gases found in car exhaust and industrial emissions – affect crop productivity. North and South America generally had the lowest NOx exposures.

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Chile approves exemption of shallow geothermal from existing concession law

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Chamber of Deputies in Chile has ratified the proposed changes to the current regulations on geothermal energy concessions with a vote of 134 in favor and 4 abstentions. In the context of the new regulations, a “shallow geothermal system” is defined as being less than 400 meters depth and at temperatures below 90 °C.

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Welcome to the Pyrocene

Grist

Siberian fires moved north of their home territory and flared beyond the Arctic Circle. The Pantanal wetlands in central South America burned. Where fires were not visible, the lights of cities and of gas flares were: combustion via the transubstantiation of coal and gas into electricity. Even Greenland burned.

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Soy scandals: Green groups raise alarm over deforestation impact of corporates' soy supply chains

Business Green

Two separate reports from WWF and Greenpeace have similarly highlighted how soy remains a major driver of deforestation, especially in South America, despite the growing number of pledges from retailers and agri-businesses to develop sustainable soy supply chains.

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Clean cooking: Gold Standard verifies world's first clean cooking carbon credits in Africa

Business Green

The new project will help African families to switch from unsustainable wood-based fuels to zero-emission electric cooking Ugandan social enterprise UpEnergy has announced it has issued the world's first ever carbon credits linked to emissions savings from the use of electric and clean cooking devices which will be verified by The Gold Standard.

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