GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. To lessen the impact of current and future Black Swan events, we have Green Swan solutions that are ready to deploy on behalf of preparedness and resilience.

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Incubators Incubators Resilience Innovation 442

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2024

It also explores practical applications in aquaculture, biotechnology, and climate change mitigation, emphasizing brown algae’s potential for carbon capture and ecosystem restoration, while offering valuable insights into enhancing ecological resilience amid climatic challenges.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

Economic estimates predict that the pandemic will decrease global GDP by 3 percent in 2020, and at our current pace, climate change is estimated to decrease the global GDP by anywhere from 2.5 percent to 7.5 percent by 2050. Operational risk factors.

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Climate change Resilience Sustainability Carbon 373

EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

While corporate sustainability might be publicly facing a downturn, the reality of climate change is only intensifying. How companies choose to respond in this moment of quiet will be critical for business resilience and competitiveness. In other words, they innovated.

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Innovation Sustainability Climate change Investment 76

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Farmers could soon be reimbursed for creating water storage ponds or water “batteries” as part of an innovative drought-prevention project that has received funding (on 16 May) from Ofwat’s Innovation Fund.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Innovation Home Energy Monitoring 261

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2022

Ofwat, the economic regulator of water services in England and Wales, has announced a new “open access” competition for innovators, in an apparent widening of the scope of its existing £200m Innovation Fund, and a bid to encourage more diverse ideas to transform water services. Current timeline for the fund.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

The infrastructure sector, long a laggard in embracing innovation, has worked hard to close the technological gap with other industries, and disruptors have transformed the way we design, build and manage infrastructure systems. Attitudes toward the importance of addressing the climate crisis also have changed.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The global NGO will use COP29 to restate its message that we cannot tackle climate change if we don’t fix our broken food system. WRAP advises that countries are missing a golden opportunity to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and increase security of food supplies to their citizens by preventing food loss and waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A planning application was submitted in August, which set out an ambitious sustainability agenda of climate resilience and Net Zero requirements, integrated into the design, including ultra-low carbon emissions, an acute focus on energy efficiency, insulation, on-site energy generation and zero use of fossil fuels in the running of the building. “By

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Resilience Education Fossil fuels Cooling 242

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 9, 2025

This cutting-edge innovation leverages renewable energy technologies to replace traditional diesel generators, providing a quieter, more sustainable power source for remote operations. This process eliminates dependence on fossil fuels while improving resilience in the face of outages or limited grid access.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Hydrogen Resilience 131

Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Overall, the top five best states concerning climate resilience are California, Maine, New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. Each state was ranked based on five environmental factors. These were Carbon Emissions, the Adoption of Green Technology, Landfill Usage, Recycling and Green Policies.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

” A total of €21 million will be awarded across 100 European local and regional governments for “advancing climate change adaptation and resilience”, says the announcement. P2R will also offer the participants assistance as they examine finance mechanisms.

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Climate change Resilience Europe Innovation 264

GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2020

Thriving in the age of climate change pivots around electricity, and that means electric utilities are at the center.

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Cooling Climate change Electricity Wind power 435

CleanTech Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Climate change is here and the longer we leave adaptation, the more expensive and difficult resilience is. The post Adaptation and Resilience: New Innovation & Venturing Opportunities for a 2° World appeared first on Cleantech Group. Because of this, Cleantech Group is.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In retrospect, it also turned out that ESG portfolios contained less financial risk because they had more accurately identified risks from climate change and considered other variables — such as resilience — for which no accepted risk methodology exists. A declining investment rationale for fossil fuels.

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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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Resilience Greywater Climate change Technology 130

GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

That means getting serious about advocating for a recovery plan that helps us build back better from the current pandemic, while tackling another global systemic threat: climate change. . The climate crisis is worsening, and it is playing out in real time as we grapple with COVID-19. that comes down to two basic steps. .

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GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2020

The nonprofit announced Wednesday that it’s partnering with four of the world’s largest financial institutions — Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America — to launch the Center for Climate-Aligned Finance. But one sector provides the lifeblood that powers all the others and that’s finance." .

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

“It’s a race between a changing climate and plant breeders’ ability to produce crops with genetic resilience that grow well in adverse conditions and have enriched nutritional qualities. “We are looking for genes or gene networks that will improve resilience in adverse growing climates.

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Climate change Resilience Technology Agriculture 130

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Waves crashing against a sea wall (image credit: Ray-Bilcliff, available on Pexels) A seemingly pioneering research project that aims to strengthen the resilience of sea walls to increased coastal flooding has been launched by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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Resilience Sea level rise Soil Building Energy Monitoring 147

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Farming needs to urgently scale and pace the adoption of nature-based solutions for addressing climate change and biodiversity loss or face an uncertain future, warns the Nature Friendly Farming Network, an independent organisation that aims to unite farmers across the UK. The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Biodiversity Climate change Soil Resilience 246

Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

But fully realizing its promise demands balancing tech innovation with collaboration across industry, says Massimo Muzzì, head of strategy, business development and sustainability at ABB Electrification. With this year’s Earth Day seeing a continued climb in carbon emissions, what will our climate be like on Earth Day 2050?

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 105

GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Indeed, for many of the world’s largest companies, sustainability is seen as key to minimizing risk, increasing resilience, enhancing competitiveness and unlocking new opportunities. That’s changing. At last, sustainability has emerged from the shadows to be considered part and parcel of corporate success.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor Resilience 543

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Anthony Finbow of Eagle Genomics – a firm working at the intersection of biology, data science and bioinformatics – explains, and relates how this knowledge provides a more solid underpinning for sustainable agricultural innovation. Addressing climate change while securing the future of humanity is our biggest challenge.

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Soil Climate change Agriculture Carbon 288

Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

CALGARY — Alberta Ecotrust Foundation , Calgary Climate Hub and Clean Energy Canada announced today that a recent poll shows 63 percent of Calgarians believe Calgary’s future as a vibrant city is at risk if we do not become a leader in addressing climate change. See the dataset of polling results. “It

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Climate change Resilience Health Investment 106

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The effects of climate change are being felt more on the daily. The result of this, however, is a rising demand for smart water systems to integrate into smart city-esque infrastructure to bolster resilience against such events; so states a new research report. billion in 2022 to $11.82

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Resilience IoT 114

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 8, 2024

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $70 million in funding to support research into resilience technologies to reduce risks to energy infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber and physical threats, natural disasters and climate-change fueled extreme weather events. Granholm. “As

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Resilience Energy Energy Innovation 105

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

Cabinet Member for Environment and Civic Pride, Cllr Jo Blackman, said: “Redbridge is seeing the effects of climate change with more frequent bouts of flooding from torrential rain. The sensors are a great example of the innovative ways in which we are working to help reduce flood risks in the most impacted parts of the borough.”

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Companies that are acting on climate are doing so because their climate strategy is a core part of their business strategy, and their leadership knows that acting on climate is necessary for remaining a strong, responsible business in the modern world. The science hasnt changed: delaying action only delays costs.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

The reception, now in its 16th year, was hosted by Baroness Brown of Cambridge, who is chair of the Climate Change Adaptation Committee, which advises UK Government on climate risks and opportunities. We need to take action now and design in resilience from today.

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Building Energy Monitoring Climate change Resilience Energy Monitor 217

CleanTech Group

JUNE 24, 2024

At the beginning of this year, Cleantech Group made an intentional effort to put a stronger focus on innovation for adaptation to and. The post Adaptation and Resilience – Part I appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Resilience Innovation Climate change 88

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

A new project sets out to demonstrate experimentally whether and how trees ‘remember’ past stress conditions and transfer these memories to descendants through epigenetics-based DNA modifications – changes that alter the activity of some genes, without changing the DNA sequence.

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Resilience Government Biodiversity Innovation 130

GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2020

Autodesk is putting considerable muscle behind demonstrative facilities that help companies explore the potential of 3D printing and localized manufacturing, such as the Generative Design Field Lab that is part of the 100,000-square-foot MxD innovation center in Chicago. Innovation. Supply Chain. Technology. 3D Printing.

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Logging Sustainability Innovation Carbon 360

Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Meeting AIs Energy Demands with Innovative Solutions Artificial intelligence has seen explosive growth over the past few years, with generative AI tools like ChatGPT igniting the demand for powerful computing infrastructure. However, the reality is starktraditional energy grids are struggling to keep up.

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Hydrogen Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Demand 94

GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2021

To successfully adapt during this time of rapid change, business leaders must boldly experiment and innovate, embrace — not resist — change, and think broadly about the human dimensions of the energy transition rather than focusing just on technology and markets.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Education 508

Grist

MARCH 6, 2021

The racial and social disparities exposed by the September fire are emblematic of a broader picture: Communities of color, low-income people, and other marginalized groups are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change, according to community activists across Cascadia. But can they?

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Fortunately, many groundbreaking startups are developing technologies for a decarbonized, resilient grid. More Greentown members are innovating in this sector than in any other. More Greentown members are innovating in electricity than in any other sector. Learn about all Greentown members innovating in electricity here.

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