Why you shouldn't go net zero this year
GreenBiz
JANUARY 23, 2024
Sponsored: You want to move the needle on climate change? Stop trying to achieve net zero.
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California solar-plus-storage project with world’s largest BESS fully online
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 24, 2024
The Edwards & Sanborn solar-plus-storage project in California is now fully online, with 875MWdc of solar PV and 3,287MWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity, the world's largest.
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Air pollution and trees study overturns “rough and hairy is good” dictum
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 29, 2024
Surrey researcher Yendle Barwise assembling one of the pollution monitors. If you’re trying to take pollution out of the air, choose evergreen trees with smaller leaves. That’s according to a new study from the University of Surrey. Researchers from Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) tested ten trees beside a busy main road.
Bulky additives could make cheaper solar cells last longer
TechXplore
JANUARY 11, 2024
An insight into preventing perovskite semiconductors from degrading quickly, discovered at the University of Michigan, could help enable solar cells estimated to be two to four times cheaper than today's thin-film solar panels.
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.
International Community Wants Biden to Act on LNG
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 26, 2024
Allies from key countries around the world came out resoundingly in support of the Biden administration's decision to pause permitting of new liquefied natural gas export facilities.
France will jail corporate directors who fail to adhere to new CSRD requirements
GreenBiz
JANUARY 24, 2024
No get-out-of-jail-free-card will save companies that don't comply with this new French law.
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Intel is using hot water to cut natural gas use in its factories
GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2024
Industrial heat recovery is an untapped opportunity that could save an estimated $152.5 billion in annual energy costs globally.
AstraZeneca, Atlassian and Philips: How to convince suppliers to lower greenhouse gas emissions
GreenBiz
JANUARY 29, 2024
Companies are committing to help suppliers set science-based targets and lower emissions. Here’s how pharma company AstraZeneca, software firm Atlassian and healthcare tech maker Philips approach it.
What is transition finance, and why it matters
GreenBiz
JANUARY 24, 2024
Wall Street sees transition finance as a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity for investors.
How 2024 will accelerate New York City's EV future
GreenBiz
JANUARY 2, 2024
New statewide EV infrastructure incentives will give New York City's charging capacity a significant boost.
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
The year ahead in ESG: Assurance, transition finance and natural capital
GreenBiz
JANUARY 3, 2024
3 hot topics for 2024: regulations for ESG assurance; international agreements for transition finance; and new ways to measure investment in nature and biodiversity.
How (and why) to develop a credible deforestation policy in 2024
GreenBiz
JANUARY 11, 2024
Limiting land conversion is a notoriously difficult challenge that requires alignment between companies, governments, farmers and other stakeholders.
How beverage companies can step up their actions to prevent water pollution
GreenBiz
JANUARY 29, 2024
A Ceres report highlights what the beverage industry can do to better mitigate water quality impacts.
The world’s clothing boom is a climate changer
GreenBiz
JANUARY 23, 2024
What will it take to redress the textile industry’s devastating environmental impact?
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.
How EV maker Rivian plans to halve the carbon footprint of its vehicles by 2030
GreenBiz
JANUARY 16, 2024
The company has published its strategy for ‘zero materials waste and zero pollution.
Microsoft will buy enough U.S.-made solar panels to power 1.8 million homes
GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2024
The deal will fund 12 gigawatts from Qcells over the next eight years.
As electric bus market expands in US, manufacturers struggle to keep up
GreenBiz
JANUARY 31, 2024
Fueled by federal funding, the transition to low-emissions public transportation represents a big opportunity for the struggling U.S. electric bus manufacturing industry.
The $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund launches in March: What you need to know
GreenBiz
JANUARY 10, 2024
The 'national green bank' will prioritize underinvested projects and communities to support clean energy projects.
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.
Shopify: 3 lessons from investing $55 million in 40 carbon removal startups
GreenBiz
JANUARY 2, 2024
Shopify’s head of sustainability, Stacy Kauk, shares secrets from four years of investing in early-stage carbon removal.
‘Endineering’ solves a missing link for the circular economy
GreenBiz
JANUARY 12, 2024
Closing the “end gap” once consumers are finished with a product is a big opportunity.
5 years in, how does General Mills’ regenerative agriculture commitment measure up?
GreenBiz
JANUARY 18, 2024
General Mills aims to spur ‘systems change’ and advance regenerative agriculture on 1 million acres of land by 2030.
The commercial building industry faces a milestone year in 2024
GreenBiz
JANUARY 11, 2024
The industry needs to decarbonize much faster in 2024 to achieve global greenhouse gas reduction targets.
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?
What’s up in ESG: DEI mandates, green debt profits, ESG software boom ahead
GreenBiz
JANUARY 10, 2024
2024 will bring controversy over diversity, equity and inclusion strategy, a rush to deploy ESG software and more citizen lawsuits over ineffective climate regulations.
Insurers hope new policies covering carbon credits will restore trust in a battered market
GreenBiz
JANUARY 18, 2024
Cloverly is selling coverage that will compensate carbon credit buyers in the event of fraud or invalidation.
Here are the innovators and startups set to transform the circular economy
GreenBiz
JANUARY 23, 2024
11 circular economy startups have emerged as $1 billion-plus companies since 2020.
H&M is funding offshore wind in Bangladesh to get garment factories off fossil fuels
GreenBiz
JANUARY 5, 2024
H&M will co-invest in a project it hopes will supply 40% of the country’s power.
Which of these 46 sustainability certifications is right for you?
GreenBiz
JANUARY 30, 2024
Here are 46 professional certifications to demonstrate your expertise across 9 subcategories of sustainability.
Israel’s climate tech sector plummeted in 2023
GreenBiz
JANUARY 16, 2024
The war and infighting over Netanyahu’s moves wreaked havoc on the country’s sustainability startups.
4 critical steps to embed sustainability into your organization
GreenBiz
JANUARY 22, 2024
Integrating a sustainability strategy throughout the company can put your ESG goals on the fast track.
3 effective ways social media ‘influencers’ communicate about sustainability
GreenBiz
JANUARY 22, 2024
More ‘influencers’ are talking up sustainability topics to large followings on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and others. They offer examples on how to do it well.
Q&A: Shopify’s sustainability chief on what companies should know about carbon removal contracts
GreenBiz
JANUARY 2, 2024
Stacy Kauk argues it’s worth paying more for credits based on emissions removal than emissions avoidance.
Modernizing the world’s power grid
GreenBiz
JANUARY 29, 2024
Sponsored: A clean energy future will require the transformation of today’s power grid. To get there, businesses, utilities and governments must work together.
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