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.
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Increasing number of local authorities require over 10% Biodiversity Net Gain
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 9, 2024
In advance of the statutory requirement for biodiversity net gain (BNG) for new developments from January 2024, new research appears to reveal a gradual increase in the number requesting in excess of the 10% biodiversity net gain. Law firm Carter Jonas conducted the research, analysing the emergence of BNG policies and guidance within local planning authorities (LPAs) in a series of research from spring 2022.
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Vessel Strike Fatally Wounds Right Whale Calf
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 10, 2024
One of only nine endangered North Atlantic right whales calves born this season has been found with serious injuries caused by a vessel’s propeller.
Chart: The US grid battery fleet is about to double — again
Canary Media
JANUARY 12, 2024
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. The U.S. energy storage industry has its New Year’s resolution ready to go: double the capacity of batteries connected to the American grid.
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.
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.
UK solar targets for 2035 under threat as projects stall
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 9, 2024
A perfect storm of inflation, supply chain disruption, spiralling interest rates and delays in connection to the National Grid means that the swathe of solar farms approved and going through planning permission in the UK are likely to be severely delayed or cancelled undermining any hopes of achieving the Government target of a fivefold increase to 70GW by 2035.
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A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
Canary Media
JANUARY 10, 2024
Hawaii shut down its last coal plant on September 1, 2022, eliminating 180 megawatts of fossil-fueled baseload power from the grid on Oahu — a crucial step in the state’s first-in-the-nation commitment to cease burning fossil fuels for electricity by 2045.
‘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.
Experts welcome the new WEEE consultation
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 9, 2024
Measures that will make it easier to recycle and reuse electrical goods appear in the government’s WEEE consultation , launched on 28 December 2023. The proposals include setting up a new category for vapes, to ensure the additional cost of their disposal is borne by vape producers only. Experts in the WEEE sphere were quick to welcome the consultation, and offer thoughts on what has been going wrong to date, with recycling WEEE.
The Significance of Chevron Deference
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 12, 2024
Two new SCOTUS cases, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. Dept. of Commerce, may impact federal agencies’ ability to perform their duties.
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
Clean electricity is driving down US emissions
Canary Media
JANUARY 10, 2024
America’s electrical grid is increasingly powered by renewable energy, and this helped slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions last year — even as the wider economy grew, according to new estimates by Rhodium Group.
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.
New trial aims to make paper from agricultural waste
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 11, 2024
A new trial aims to create paper-based packaging from ‘second harvest’ materials. According to one of the firms involved – DS Smith – second harvest materials like straw and brewers’ spent grain have the potential to save up to 10% of the virgin fibres used in the papermaking process and therefore present an important and viable means to supplement traditional sources.
2024 Resolution for OSHA: Propose A Workplace Heat Standard
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 8, 2024
OSHA should resolve to get a proposed workplace heat standard out for public comment before 2024’s hot weather starts.
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.
UK government sets out plans for ‘biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years’
The Guardian: Energy
JANUARY 10, 2024
Ministers hope to build fleet of reactors to meet quarter of electricity demand by 2050 but critics highlight long delays and rising costs The government has set out plans for what it claims will be Britain’s biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years, despite concerns about faltering nuclear output and project delays. Ministers published a roadmap on Friday that recommits the government to building a fleet of nuclear reactors capable of producing 24GW by 2050 – enough to meet a quarter of the
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.
Distilling industry wastewater could create green hydrogen
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 9, 2024
Nanoparticles (left) being added to distillery wastewater. Wastewater from the distilling industry could be used to produce green hydrogen using new nanoscale materials that scientists at Heriot-Watt University say they have developed. Distilleries in Scotland alone produce an estimated 1 million litres a year of wastewater from the whisky distilling process.
What’s Great and What Needs Fixing in the EPA’s Proposed Lead Rule
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 8, 2024
The EPA would require most water systems to remove lead pipes within 10 years. That's great, but key improvements are needed.
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.
Big boon for US solar supply chain as Microsoft places 12GW module order
Renew Economy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Microsoft places huge solar order with QCells designed to drive large-scale production of US-made PV modules. The post Big boon for US solar supply chain as Microsoft places 12GW module order appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The Body Shop achieves 'world first' Vegan Society-certified product range
GreenBiz
JANUARY 8, 2024
The company is the first global beauty brand to feature fully Vegan Society-certified skin care, body care, hair care, makeup and fragrance product
From nuclear decommissioning to drone design, engineers are taking inspiration from nature
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 12, 2024
Dandelion seeds’ ability to remain airborne is being mimicked by one project, Dandidrone, which hopes to overcome the challenges involved in using airborne sensors to investigate disaster sites. Bio-inspired Engineering has grown in profile in recent years, and is being used to address traditionally intractable problems, as Envirotec discovered. Engineers have been borrowing ideas from nature for a long time.
Losing (More) Ground: Updated Severe Repetitive Loss Data
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 9, 2024
Updated data show that the nation is falling further behind in addressing risk to the most repeatedly flooded homes.
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?
As Earth records hottest year, Coalition digs in against climate action and renewables
Renew Economy
JANUARY 9, 2024
As the world takes in the horrifying data on the world's hottest year on record, the federal opposition is gearing up to fight 2035 emissions targets and rally against renewables. The post As Earth records hottest year, Coalition digs in against climate action and renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Business action on energy efficiency could save $2 trillion a year, new research claims
GreenBiz
JANUARY 9, 2024
A World Economic Forum and PwC report sets out a host of energy efficiency actions it claims are 'doable today, at attractive returns with no need for new technology.
Accounting for plastic persistence can minimize environmental impacts
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 9, 2024
The research has developed a sustainability metric for the ecological design of plastic products, like cup-lids, recognizing and quantifying their propensity to break-down more quickly in the environment (image credit: Bryan James/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution). Researchers have developed a sustainability metric for the ecological design of plastic products that have low persistence in the environment.
Bottled water has up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously thought
Grist
JANUARY 9, 2024
At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a bacterial cell. But the problem is much worse than previously known: It turns out that bottled water harbors hundreds of thousands of even tinier pieces of the stuff. A paper published Monday used a novel technique to analyze one-liter samples of bottled water for plastic granules, going down to just 50 to 100 nanometers in length — roughly the width of a
Hydrogen is back. At least, CES 2024 suggests it is
TechCrunch: Climate
JANUARY 11, 2024
Hydrogen vehicles never really caught on, and yet at CES 2024 fuel-cell vehicles of all sizes litter the show floor. What gives? © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
How mounting demand for rubber is driving tropical forest loss
GreenBiz
JANUARY 12, 2024
The growing market for rubber for is a major and overlooked cause of deforestation, and the transition to electric vehicles could accelerate rubber use.
Green ammonia could decarbonize 60% of global shipping when offered at just 10 regional fuel ports
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 9, 2024
Image credit: IOP Publishing. A study published on 9 January appears to find that green ammonia could be used to fulfil the fuel demands of over 60% of global shipping by targeting just the top 10 regional fuel ports. Researchers at the University of Oxford looked at the production costs of ammonia which are similar to very low sulphur fuels, and concluded that the fuel could be a viable option to help decarbonise international shipping by 2050.
Can ‘water batteries’ solve the energy storage conundrum?
Financial Times: Energy
JANUARY 8, 2024
Portuguese plant aims to show pumping water up a mountain can be part of energy system driven by renewable power
How to get people to kick fossil fuels out of their homes
Canary Media
JANUARY 8, 2024
To cool the planet, homes will need clean energy makeovers.
What you need to know to access the $14 billion from the EPA’s National Clean Investment Fund
GreenBiz
JANUARY 11, 2024
The 'national green bank' will prioritize underinvested projects and communities to support clean energy projects.
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