Why Unilever’s downshift on sustainability is good news
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Environmental and social commitments are aligning more closely with tangible financial goals, a sign of sustainability’s maturity in business.
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£36m award will use waste heat from data centres to heat homes in London
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
The Mayor of London’s development corporation, OPDC has been awarded £36 million from the government’s Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) to harness waste heat from the cooling of several data centres. The innovative project is the first of its kind to secure GHNF support and will provide low carbon heating captured from data centres into buildings. It forms part of a wider £65m award from the GHNF to five projects across the UK.
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Colorado: A National Leader in Transportation and Climate
NRDC onEarth
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
New analysis shows Colorado’s remarkable clean transportation progress—and a need for greater transit investment
China Will Guarantee Financial Support for Coal-Fired Power Plants
POWER Magazine
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
A government agency in China announced that operators of coal-fired power plants will receive guaranteed payments based on the installed capacity of their units, part of a program to ensure […] The post China Will Guarantee Financial Support for Coal-Fired Power Plants appeared first on POWER Magazine.
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.
Unilever CEO signals radical shift in sustainability agenda
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Under new Unilever CEO Hein Schumacher, sustainability will become part of a composite score by which brand managers will evaluate performance.
Generating electricity from sewage: Awards for Nottingham startup
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
A biofuel cell technology for generating electricity from wastewater has secured two national engineering awards for a team of researchers at the University of Nottingham. The team met in 2020 as PhD researchers at the university via the Young Entrepreneurs Scheme. Now, their early-stage cleantech startup, Pipeline Organics, is seeking further support.
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Germany agrees tax subsidies for industry worth up to €28bn by 2028
Financial Times: Energy
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Deal to help shield country’s manufacturers from high energy costs likely to draw criticism from Brussels
Emissions keep rising among world's biggest meat and dairy producers
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Urgent policy is needed to combat this trend, according to an analysis led by the FAIRR investor network.
The sins of omission: A cool reception for the King’s speech
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
The King’s Speech on 7 November seemed to put little wind in the sails of those seeking to address environmental problems. Commentators noted an absence of material on sewage spilling into rivers, or raising energy efficiency standards in rented accommodation, or providing the support for local authorities to implement Simpler Recycling – to name a few concerns whose omission seemed to provoke comment.
Problem Plastics Are Poisoning People and Polluting the Planet
NRDC onEarth
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Plastic polymers, chemical additives, and plastic products that pose the greatest hazards and/ or are unnecessary should be phased out.
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
‘Hot mess’ as Earth heads for warmest year on record in 2023
Financial Times: Energy
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Temperature peak in October follows four months in succession of exceptional weather
Master class: Planning your transition for later career and life
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Here's how late-career sustainability professionals can effectively navigate the transition and identify priorities and interests.
Q&A: Gearing up for smart meter mass rollout
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Andrew Welsh is water utilities director at Xylem UK. Smart meters are prominent in water companies’ 2025-2030 business plans, in line with regulatory expectations for large-scale rollouts. In this Q&A, Andrew Welsh, discusses the sector’s readiness, and how the company is gearing-up for a rapid increase in demand. What are the key benefits of smart meters for utilities and their customers?
Batteries Can Be a Game Changer for the Power Grid If We Let Them
NRDC onEarth
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
What is the value of battery storage, and what do we need to get more of it on the grid soon?
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.
Kauai became a clean energy leader. Its secret? A publicly owned grid
Canary Media
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
LIHUE, Hawaii — It’s hard to find anywhere in the United States that has greened its electricity supply as quickly as verdant Kauai.
Finding the right message for taking the sustainability movement mainstream
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
How to use the power of advertising for the fight against climate change.
Researchers create the most water-repellent surface ever
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
An artist’s depiction of the liquid-like layer of molecules repelling water droplets (image credit: Ekaterina Osmekhina/Aalto University). A revised method to create hydrophobic surfaces has implications for any technology where water meets a solid surface, from optics and microfluidics to cooking Researchers have developed a new mechanism to make water droplets slip off surfaces, described in a paper published in Nature Chemistry.
The battle for the future of car manufacturing: Toyota takes on Tesla’s gigacasting
Financial Times: Energy
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
Japanese carmaker is working on new approach as it aims for big increase in EV production
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.
FERC decides if LNG facilities benefit the public. Is it doing its job?
Canary Media
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Sometime in the next few weeks, a government agency that most Americans know little about could approve a new fossil-fuel project that would have lasting consequences for the climate.
Listen up, utilities: The EV industry is telling you what it needs
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Utility queuing challenges, standardizing charging equipment and improving financing mechanisms are driving the conversation on EVs.
Comment: how accessible carbon credits can drive progress towards Net Zero
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
“Many carbon credits will be created through the protection of forestry.” By Mike Edwards, Chairman of Ora Technology PLC (Ora), a company focused on carbon trading, and attempting to facilitate the process of buying, selling, and retiring carbon credits in the voluntary carbon market (VCM). The aim to limit global average temperature increases to no more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels is a threshold that we are in imminent danger of crossing.
BlackRock set to invest $550mn in Occidental direct air capture project
Financial Times: Energy
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Move is a sign of support for the world’s largest venture deploying nascent climate technology
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?
Chart: Clean energy attracting nearly twice as much investment as fossils
Canary Media
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. To deal with the climate crisis, the world needs to build a lot of carbon-free energy. And to build a lot of carbon-free energy, the world needs to spend money — a ton of it.
How Unilever uses AI to cut petrochemicals out of laundry soap
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Unilever used AI to identify replacement ingredients for its laundry and cleaning products five times faster than previously possible.
Review finds half of Britain’s “crown jewels of nature” at risk of extinction
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Nothophantes horridus (image credit: (c) John Walters). A new report by conservation charity Buglife appears to find that half of the UK’s most special species are at risk of global extinction. The report brings together knowledge on twenty invertebrate species which are endemic to Great Britain. Endemic species are those which are only found in Britain, and nowhere else in the world – they are the crown jewels of our biodiversity.
Former fracking site could lead UK’s renewable revolution
The Guardian: Energy
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
Final testing being done in project to give North Yorkshire site new life as source of geothermal energy A former fracking site in the North Yorkshire village of Kirby Misperton, once a lightning rod for environmental protests, may soon be a new frontier in Britain’s clean energy revolution. For the first time in the UK, an abandoned gas well could begin a second life as a source of geothermal energy.
Gas industry reached for tobacco playbook after science showed that gas stoves are harmful
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The gas industry was told by science in the 1970s that gas stoves were harmful to health, so it reached into the tobacco industry's playbook of denial. The post Gas industry reached for tobacco playbook after science showed that gas stoves are harmful appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Why leading VCs are rethinking their food investments
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Funding for innovation in food and agriculture systems is due for a reality check after years of startup overvaluation.
Conveyor drive technology boosts energy efficiency of Lapland mine
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
LKAB is running a conveyor system that carries 15 million tons of iron ore every year. LKAB has awarded ABB a contract to install two ABB Gearless Conveyor Drives (GCDs) on the existing conveyor belt system at its Malmberget mine near Gällivare, Norrbotten County, Lapland, the most northern province in Sweden. The existing setup already carries up to 15 million tons of iron ore every year, using a 2,800kW wound rotor induction motor (WRIM) with gearbox to drive the conveyor.
Millions of US homes are so overheated they open their windows in the winter. Why?
The Guardian: Energy
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Nineteenth-century technology is finally being phased out in New York City, but its past is deeply entwined with American history Until recently, my girlfriend and I lived in a steam-heated apartment in Manhattan. A creaky former tenement building, it had no radiators, just scalding-hot cast iron pipes that punched through the units like fire poles.
ARENA reports “unprecedented” interest in community batteries
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 4, 2023
ARENA receives applications request for $1.3 billion of community battery proposals, more than 10 times the $120 million available under its funding program. The post ARENA reports “unprecedented” interest in community batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Filling this 'forgotten element' of the energy transition is critical to net zero
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
The pipeline of investable renewable energy and low carbon infrastructure projects in developing nations needs to be up to nine times larger, warns the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
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