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After a wave of criticism, what's on the horizon for ESG strategy?

GreenBiz

Against a backdrop of political polarization, the expanding scope of ESG issues is transforming corporate strategy.

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A Case for Climate Neutral and Resilient Villages

NRDC onEarth

The importance of a low-carbon resilient village economy in achieving India's net zero goals.

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Evaluating sustainability software? Here’s 5 smart tips to get started

GreenBiz

So long, spreadsheets. Here’s what you need to know about assessing sustainability software, a $1.2 billion (and growing) market.

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Coming Together to Build Triple-Win Solar Projects

NRDC onEarth

Last week, key utility-scale solar industry stakeholders took two important steps toward a coordinated approach to building the clean energy future we all want.

Energy 148
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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Designing waste to be valuable

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Creatives are revolutionizing our perception of waste by demonstrating its potential value in design.

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A new kind of online tool launches to tackle road runoff pollution

Envirotec Magazine

A new online tool highlights where opportunities exist to install nature-based solutions, such as wetlands, to tackle road runoff pollution before it ends up in London’s rivers. It has gone live today (16 October 2023). The seriousness of UK river pollution has come to widespread notice, especially in the last couple of years. Sources include sewer overflows, littering and misconnected drains.

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Carbon-negative, climate-resilient home unveiled in the Bahamas

Envirotec Magazine

A building described as the world’s first carbon-negative ‘Home for the World’ has been showcased in Nassau, Bahamas, by Partanna Global, a developer of sustainable building materials. The design is underpinned by the substitution of carbon-intensive Portland cement with a proprietary solution, described as a unique blend of natural and recycled ingredients activated by brine. “Partanna’s technology forms chemical compounds that interact with and capture atmospheric CO2.” Said the an

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Wind and solar close to 70 pct of Australia’s main grid as fossil fuels sent to new low

Renew Economy

Wind and solar supply nearly 70 per cent of generation on Australia's main grid, as fossil fuel output pushed to a new low. The post Wind and solar close to 70 pct of Australia’s main grid as fossil fuels sent to new low appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Oxfordshire council wins award for local area energy mapping project

Envirotec Magazine

Oxfordshire County Council’s Team Leader for EV Integration Paul Gambrell, centre, receiving the award from event host Sarah Travers, left, and APSE Chief Executive Mo Baines. Oxfordshire County Council has won a national award for its role in a project that it says could revolutionise the way energy is produced and used in the UK. The council won the award for the best climate action and decarbonisation initiative at the recent Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) Service Awards 2

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How to make space-based solar power a reality

Financial Times: Energy

Concerns over climate change are fuelling breakthroughs in satellite technology that harnesses the sun’s energy

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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EU says 944GW of AgriPV is possible on 1% of European farmland

PV Tech

The statement comes off the back of a report from the Joint Research Centre (JRC) analysing the potential and challenges for AgriPV in the European market.

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Utilities still moving way too slow on clean energy

Canary Media

Very few U.S. utilities are taking the real-world action needed to combat the worst harms of climate change. And with the tens of billions of dollars in clean energy incentives created by last year’s Inflation Reduction Act, utilities have even less excuse for delay.

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German energy giant says all new solar projects to have batteries included

Renew Economy

EnBW will also consider making a similar pledge for all new wind projects, and look into retrofitting existing wind farms with battery storage. The post German energy giant says all new solar projects to have batteries included appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Oman is Investing $30 Billion in Hydrogen Economy

FuelCellsWorks

MUSCAT: The Sultanate of Oman is investing more than $30 billion in the hydrogen economy, with the prime aim to be one of the largest producers in the world by.

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Did big batteries break the fossil fuel cartel on the grid, or did they just join it?

Renew Economy

High priced events on the wholesale electricity market are normally the result of bidding by fossil fuel generators and hydro plants. Now a new actor has emerged, battery storage. The post Did big batteries break the fossil fuel cartel on the grid, or did they just join it? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Diverse mix shortlisted for Scottish Green Energy Awards

Envirotec Magazine

The Scottish Green Energy Awards announced the shortlist for this year’s awards, said to be the UK’s biggest celebration of the renewable energy industry, on 13 October. Wind, solar, tidal and pumped storage hydro projects feature on this year’s shortlist along with community hubs, an eco-farm, one of Scotland’s fastest-growing food brands and individuals nominated by their peers.

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If the first solar entrepreneur hadn’t been kidnapped, would coal have been king?

Renew Economy

As the argument goes, we owe fossil fuels for supercharging development. But what if there was a viable alternative, sabotaged by fossil interests from its very inception? The post If the first solar entrepreneur hadn’t been kidnapped, would coal have been king? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The road to nowhere? World Road Congress highlights conflicting challenges and an uncertain route to the future

Envirotec Magazine

The 27th World Road Congress took place in Prague in early October, as University of Birmingham researchers report. A cross-cutting theme of the Congress was the need to align road infrastructure management and development with efforts to address several complex and intersecting global development challenges. The timing of the congress was auspicious, coinciding with the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals adopted in September 2015.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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America’s ‘original’ solar manufacturers look to grow with IRA

Solar Power World

The Inflation Reduction Act’s domestic manufacturing tax credits have led to many solar panel manufacturing announcements in the last year. Global companies like Canadian Solar, Trina and Longi are starting 5-GW solar panel factories in the United States — gigantic facilities for a country that considered 400-MW sites to be the giants of manufacturing just… The post America’s ‘original’ solar manufacturers look to grow with IRA appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Urgent need to increase awareness of e-waste amongst young people, says new report

Envirotec Magazine

A new campaign calls for multi-sector collaboration to tackle the e-waste crisis and drive behaviour change amongst young people. New research published on 12 October highlights an urgent need to increase awareness of the value of the materials in our phones and electrical devices. Despite a growing e-waste crisis, 45% of young people have never recycled a phone.

Waste 130
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Get an offer for any used EV battery pack on Redwood Materials new pricing portal

Charged

Redwood Materials , the EV battery recycling firm headed by Tesla alum JB Straubel, has created a new web portal that’s designed to enable auto recyclers to quickly and easily get an offer for a used EV battery pack. A registered supplier can enter the vehicle year/make/model, VIN, or Battery Part Number, and describe the battery’s current condition.

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Offshore pipeline reuse for hydrogen fuel transportation could happen before decade’s end

Hydrogen Fuel News

New research shows that there is a possibility existing offshore gas pipelines can be reused for H2. Findings from a new study conducted by Guidehouse and Enersa have determined that existing offshore gas pipelines have potential for reuse for hydrogen fuel transportation. According to the research, the NGT and NOGAT infrastructure can be reused to transport H2.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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California to require new school buses to be electric by 2035

Charged

California governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that will require all new school buses in the state to be zero-emission vehicles. The new mandate will take effect in…wait for it…2035. If that sounds like an unusually timid goal for the Golden State, that’s because it is. Four other states—Connecticut, Maryland, Maine and New York—have already mandated electric school buses, and New York’s requirement is set to take effect in 2027.

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CEFC makes first Rewiring the Nation investment with loan for NSW push beyond coal

Renew Economy

CEFC announces first investment in the $19 billion Rewiring the Nation program, a $100 million loan to provide finance for renewable infrastructure projects in NSW. The post CEFC makes first Rewiring the Nation investment with loan for NSW push beyond coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Perch Energy secures US$30 million to expand ‘equitable’ clean energy business

PV Tech

US community solar service provider Perch Energy has secured US$30 million from investment company Nuveen.

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Infinity Fuel Cell and Hydrogen, Inc. Announces New Patent

FuelCellsWorks

WINDSOR, Conn.– Infinity Fuel Cell and Hydrogen, Inc. announced today it has been awarded a key new patent, US 11,777,114 B2, entitled “Cascading Stack Electrochemical Fuel Cell” covering its core.

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Apple has an edge over its competitors in the fight against climate change

The Verge: Energy

Apple CEO Tim Cook talks to an employee at a solar farm in Hanstholm, Denmark. | Photo by Christoph Dernbach / picture alliance via Getty Images A new report compares climate initiatives by Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Microsoft, and Nvidia. Apple’s far from perfect, but so far, it’s ahead of the pack, according to today’s report. It’s the only company among the six tech giants that has set targets for its suppliers to switch to renewable energy.

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EXMAR Hits Milestone to Equip Gas Newbuilds With Ammonia Dual-fuel Engines

FuelCellsWorks

Antwerp, Belgium– EXMAR LPG BV, a joint venture between EXMAR and Seapeak, is going ahead with ammonia asfuel fortwo Midsize Gas Carriers(MGCs) on order at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South.

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The Brief: Scaling employee ownership, water bonds in Texas, water kiosks in India, independent media in Poland, Ozempic’s economic impact

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! ? Connect with ImpactAlpha. This week, catch ImpactAlpha’s Jessica Pothering at Financial Inclusion Week, Dennis Price and Cesar Chávez. The post The Brief: Scaling employee ownership, water bonds in Texas, water kiosks in India, independent media in Poland, Ozempic’s economic impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Engie and Posco Collaborate on Massive Pilbara Green Hydrogen Initiative for Sustainable Steel Production

FuelCellsWorks

ENGIE, a world leader in the renewable energy transition and POSCO Holdings, a leading provider of eco-friendly materials for a greener and sustainable future, have signed an agreement to conduct.

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Powering ahead securely: Why EV charging stations need better protection

Smart Energy International

Jeff Hutchins, president and chief technology officer at EOS Linx, writes on the electric vehicle (EV) landscape and how its booming growth necessitates, now more than ever, a renewed focus on cybersecurity measures. Electric vehicles are the future. As governments, companies and drivers accelerate the transition away from gas-powered cars, EVs are realizing exponential growth.

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SJVN to develop 100MW solar project in Indian state of Rajasthan

PV Tech

Rajasthan Urja Vikas Nigam Limited has granted a letter of award to power company SJVN to develop a 100MW solar power project in the state.