Unilever threatens to quit trade associations that block climate policy
GreenBiz
MARCH 21, 2024
The company says it will cut ties with groups that obstruct progress on Paris Agreement net-zero goals.
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130+ Organizations Urge Accountability on Forest Protection
NRDC onEarth
MARCH 21, 2024
In a joint statement to international leaders , groups from around the world call for global accountability as essential to delivering on forest commitments.
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Why Bain is going beyond net zero
GreenBiz
MARCH 21, 2024
One of the world’s largest consulting firms is the first company to set a Carbon Integrity Platinum Claim for reductions of current and ongoing greenhouse gas emissions.
Drax Makes a Mockery of International Day of Forests
NRDC onEarth
MARCH 21, 2024
Biomass producer Drax marked today’s International Day of Forests with a report extolling the logging and burning of forests for energy.
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.
Where Plastic Recycling Innovation is Today
CleanTech Group
MARCH 21, 2024
Plastic production is expected to double by 2050. Similarly, plastic emissions from production and disposal are expected to double by 2060. Plastic recycling. The post Where Plastic Recycling Innovation is Today appeared first on Cleantech Group.
Electric vs. Gas Cars: Is It Cheaper to Drive an EV?
NRDC onEarth
MARCH 21, 2024
Are electric cars cheaper than gas cars? Compare cost per mile, maintenance costs and costs to operate electric vehicles vs. gas cars by state. Learn more!
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‘New climate reality’ stretches global freshwater supply
Financial Times: Energy
MARCH 21, 2024
Population growth and industrialisation are compounding the problem, but there is no shortage of solutions
Blenheim Estate project aims to boost reforestation effectiveness
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 21, 2024
Innovative farming methods will be used to help address the affects of climate change, in a new project announced on 21 March by Blenheim Estate. The group will be working in partnership with British climate tech firm A Healthier Earth on the ForestFactory concept. The partnership says the initiative will improve the speed, effectiveness and survival rate of plants, to help mitigate climate change-related land and forestry challenges affecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ohio greenlights massive solar, storage and agrivoltaics project
Canary Media
MARCH 21, 2024
The Ohio Power Siting Board has given the go-ahead to what will be one of the largest solar farms in the United States, despite the opposition of local governments and citizens.
Energy storage helps truck dealerships to electrify
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 21, 2024
Two Volvo Truck & Bus dealers say they have found an innovative solution to overcome one of the biggest barriers the UK faces with the shift to zero emission transport. Volvo Trucks UK & Ireland planned to install high-powered charge points at two of its service workshops for battery-powered HGVs and buses. However, they found that neither site had a high enough import capacity from the grid to power the chargers.
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
No Doubt About It: EVs Really Are Cleaner Than Gas Cars
BloombergNEF
MARCH 21, 2024
As electric vehicles become a bigger part of the global car fleet, a contrarian take seems to surface every few months: are electric vehicles really that clean? The post No Doubt About It: EVs Really Are Cleaner Than Gas Cars appeared first on BloombergNEF.
March Madness: US Energy Transition Edition
Canary Media
MARCH 21, 2024
Ah, March. A time of change, of budding flowers and longer days — and of inescapable amounts of college basketball. Now, here at Canary Media, we don’t cover basketball. We cover the energy transition. But, you know, in a culturally relevant way.
Australia has massive battery opportunity, and it needs to think big and go hard to seize it
Renew Economy
MARCH 21, 2024
We’re a quarter of the way through the 21st century and Australia has yet to materialise the investment strategy to capitalise on its unique competitive advantage. The post Australia has massive battery opportunity, and it needs to think big and go hard to seize it appeared first on RenewEconomy.
A Boston grocery store is bringing community solar to a low-income area
Canary Media
MARCH 21, 2024
This story was first published by Energy News Network. A group of energy-equity advocates in Boston is launching a community solar cooperative they say could be a scalable model for both reducing carbon emissions and building wealth in disadvantaged communities.
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.
Clean Energy Council launches national ad campaign against “nuclear distraction”
Renew Economy
MARCH 21, 2024
CEC launches national advertising campaign against nuclear push as former chief scientist Alan Finkel says pausing renewables for nuclear will set back climate action for two decades. The post Clean Energy Council launches national ad campaign against “nuclear distraction” appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Cologne Orders Hydrogen Solaris Buses for the Fourth Time
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 21, 2024
The public transport operator in Cologne, Regionalverkehr Köln GmbH (RVK), has once again chosen Solaris as the supplier of hydrogen-powered buses. Nine of the buses are Urbino 12 hydrogen buses with a length of 12 meters, while eleven.
Climate change puts pressure on Kenya’s water resources
Financial Times: Energy
MARCH 21, 2024
The country’s storage and supply network is underdeveloped, but simple solutions can bring big benefits
US energy storage market ‘shattered’ previous deployment records in Q4 2023
Energy Storage News
MARCH 21, 2024
According to Wood Mackenzie, energy storage deployment numbers in the US broke records for three successive quarters with previous records “shattered” to finish the year.
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.
Beetaloo gas a “massive sinkhole” for taxpayers, investors
Renew Economy
MARCH 21, 2024
A vast source NT gas up for development could waste billions of taxpayer and investor dollars by being unable to compete with a "glut" of foreign LNG. The post Beetaloo gas a “massive sinkhole” for taxpayers, investors appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Chinese green hydrogen station’s prices are one seventh of those in California
Hydrogen Fuel News
MARCH 21, 2024
The location says that its H2 prices are about the same as are charged for diesel China is the home of the biggest green hydrogen and refueling station complex in the world, and those using the clean energy are able to obtain it for a fraction of the price being paid in California. The complex charges 35 yuan per kilogram At 35 yuan per kilogram (about $4.86 per kilogram), it means that the price of green hydrogen at the station is about the same as what is being paid for diesel.
China’s First Homegrown Hydrogen-Powered Urban Train Completes Test
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 21, 2024
CHANGCHUN (Xinhua)– China’s first independently developed hydrogen-powered urban train completed a test at a speed of 160 kph on Thursday, marking a breakthrough in the application of hydrogen energy in rail.
DOE: US energy storage pipeline up 300% since Inflation Reduction Act passed
Energy Storage News
MARCH 21, 2024
There is a four-fold difference between how much energy storage the US Department of Energy (DOE) forecasted would be deployed by 2040 before the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and how much it now forecasts.
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?
Business Models for Transporting Hydrogen Discussed at Global Meet in Delhi
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 21, 2024
The five-day global hydrogen partnership meeting being hosted by India, held deliberations on business models for transportation, production and storage of Hydrogen and possibilities of international collaborations and partnerships in.
Gotion, Daiwa Securities-backed investor DEI target 1GWh of BESS deployments in Japan
Energy Storage News
MARCH 21, 2024
Gotion High Tech has continued its push into Japan’s battery storage market, forming a partnership with investor Daiwa and renewable energy engineering and O&M firm CO2OS.
First Graphene Announces Breakthrough with Green Hydrogen Production Following Positive Electrocatalyst Results
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 21, 2024
First Graphene Limited (ASX:FGR; “First Graphene” or “the Company”) is pleased to provide an update on commercialization opportunities presented by the development of graphene materials. The Company’s recent development of.
Solar and green steel: A growing symbiotic relationship
Solar Power World
MARCH 21, 2024
The photovoltaic industry is quite literally built on steel. As a crucial component of racking and trackers for solar PV systems, a reliable steel supply is a necessity for the transition to solar-powered energy. And as a material, steel is the most sustainable choice for mounting systems, producing just one-third of the emissions per kilo… The post Solar and green steel: A growing symbiotic relationship appeared first on Solar Power World.
Dutch Group Explores Green Hydrogen Cooperation With Oman
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 21, 2024
Gasunie is currently transforming itself from a gas transporter to an energy infrastructure company. MUSCAT– An official delegation representing prominent European energy infrastructure company Gasunie recently wrapped up a.
Enel Green Power, Mercedes-Benz projects push forward European flow battery efforts
Energy Storage News
MARCH 21, 2024
What is thought to be the largest vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) at a solar farm in Europe has been switched on by Enel Green Power in Mallorca, Spain.
World Fund closes first €300M climate tech fund, seeking to follow on and back hardware
TechCrunch: Climate
MARCH 21, 2024
After a three-year fund-raise, World Fund has finally closed a €300 million first fund, €50 million short of it’s target in 2021, but still a considerable number given a background of war and economic uncertainty. The VC originally emerged from the founders of the Ecosia independent search engine, where search enquiries funded the planting of […] © 2024 TechCrunch.
Zero Petroleum eyes renewables rich South Australia for green fuels plant
Renew Economy
MARCH 21, 2024
Zero hopes to build a commercial-scale production plant combining its technology with green hydrogen, renewable power, and carbon capture. The post Zero Petroleum eyes renewables rich South Australia for green fuels plant appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Farm to Feed is cutting food loss and creating data platform to better farm outcomes
TechCrunch: Climate
MARCH 21, 2024
Globally, a third of the food produced is lost or wasted, and in Kenya, that figure stands at between 20% to 40%. For Kenya, unlike the developed world, food loss, not waste, is the greater problem, with small-scale farmers, who account for 75% of the total agricultural output in the country, facing a myriad of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.
Dairy farm installs huge solar and battery system to milk cows off-peak
Renew Economy
MARCH 21, 2024
A dairy farm in regional Victoria has installed a solar and battery storage system to milk its cows more cheaply in the early mornings and evenings. The post Dairy farm installs huge solar and battery system to milk cows off-peak appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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