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Business Lobby Reaches Record High at UN Biodiversity Talks

DeSmogBlog

Representatives of business and industry groups more than doubled at the UN’s latest biodiversity summit, DeSmog has found, sparking fears over the growing influence of powerful private sector bodies. The rise in industry delegates was proportionally higher than the increase in overall attendees, which rose by 46 percent.

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Renewable energy for remote Amazon village

Smart Energy International

Remote Vila Restauração in northwest Brazil now has 24/7 power, thanks to the installation of a solar plus storage microgrid. Previously the 750-inhabitant village relied on a diesel generator providing three to four hours of power per day. As such, the delivery of the solar and other equipment required careful logistical planning.

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Synterex: Clinical Service Provider That Gives Back to the Environment and Society

Green Business Bureau

Synterex has achieved Gold-level certification status at the Green Business Bureau , and as such, stands as a valued and model green business. The medicines that Synterex writes about come from a wide variety of therapeutic areas such as allergy, cancer, vaccines, nervous system disorders, and rare diseases.

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Construction of geothermal heating plant in Turek, Poland set to begin

ThinkGeoEnergy

Drilled to a depth of 2169 meters, PGKiM President Micha? The energy from the well will be enough to supply about 40% of the heat demand in the city, subsequently reducing heating costs for the residents. The city also plans to use geothermal heat for recreational and medicinal purposes.

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Bay Area CCAs Solicit 30MW of Distributed Batteries to Weather Grid Outages

GreenTechMedia

Community-choice aggregators representing three San Francisco Bay Area counties have launched a 30-megawatt behind-the-meter battery solicitation aimed at protecting vulnerable customers and communities from the massive fire-prevention power outages of bankrupt utility Pacific Gas & Electric.

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UK Government Launches Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Green , and James Bee On 17 January 2024, the government launched the Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy (the strategy), which aims to safeguard UK supplies of goods including medicine, minerals, and semiconductors. Latham & Watkins will continue to monitor developments in this area.

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CO2 imaging

Envirotec Magazine

Researchers in Madrid have used a novel near-infrared-light imaging technique to capture the first cross-sectional images of carbon dioxide in the exhaust plume of a commercial jet engine. Adequately capturing the exhaust from a commercial airplane engine requires imaging an area up to 1.8 Kaleidoscopic input. m in diameter.