6 ways banks can drive EV adoption — and grab a big slice of the growing industry pie
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MAY 7, 2024
Accelerating the growth of the electric vehicle market requires capital to fund manufacturing, infrastructure and innovation.
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Colorado Legislative Roundup: 2024
NRDC onEarth
MAY 9, 2024
This legislative session, Colorado once again solidified its place as a climate leader by taking on new and innovative approaches to reduce emissions and protect the environment.
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How plasma technology can reduce the environmental impact of disposable vapes
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 9, 2024
David Deegan is CTO at Tetronics. Disposable e-cigarettes or vapes are big business, they are also a big problem for the environment. David Deegan of Tetronics suggests a solution that’s based on plasma technology. Single-use, disposable e-cigarettes or vapes are a big problem for the environment, one that is toxic. Since their introduction in 2003, initially as a ‘healthy’ alternative to tobacco, they have created a whole new contaminated e-waste stream.
Queensland quadruples size of Stanwell Tesla battery to make it biggest in the state
Renew Economy
MAY 8, 2024
Queensland quadruples storage capacity of Stanwell battery to make it the biggest in the state as it seeks to lock in renewable transition. The post Queensland quadruples size of Stanwell Tesla battery to make it biggest in the state appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
Ikea is guiding its customers toward sustainable consumption. Here’s how
GreenBiz
MAY 6, 2024
The giant furniture retailer is using its procurement clout and in-store promotions to nudge millions of customers toward lower-emissions products.
Unveiling Big Oil's Campaign of Lies
NRDC onEarth
MAY 10, 2024
An explosive hearing held by the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget has unveiled more details of Big Oil’s campaign to block climate action.
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Batteries are taking on gas plants to power California's nights
Canary Media
MAY 9, 2024
California spent the last decade building up a massive fleet of batteries to help clean up its electrical grid. This spring, those storage plants passed a major threshold, and now are visibly reshaping the state’s power grid — just as clean energy advocates said they would.
28 courses to boost your ESG, sustainable finance skills
GreenBiz
MAY 9, 2024
Whether you want to learn how to make more sustainable investment choices or improve your company’s ESG performance, these 28 courses can help.
New York State Legislature Strikes A Blow Against Plastic Pollution
NRDC onEarth
MAY 10, 2024
Going, going, almost gone! Just-passed New York State legislation would prohibit the sale and distribution of fossil fuel–based, water-polluting polystyrene foam ice chests.
Flood risk proven by groundwater monitor
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 9, 2024
The OTT ecoLog 1000 water level logger in situ. West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC) in the UK recently refused a planning application on the grounds of flood risk. The proposed development included the construction of just a single dwelling within the village of Standlake. However, local campaigners were able to argue against the proposal with the benefit of groundwater level data provided by a continuous level logger that had been installed in the garden of an adjacent property.
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
Chart: Renewables generated a record 30% of global electricity in 2023
Canary Media
MAY 10, 2024
For the first year ever, renewable energy sources generated 30 percent of the globe’s electricity in 2023 — driven by a decade of consistent, spectacular growth in solar and wind power.
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Highlighting Composting Successes from Food Matters Partners
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MAY 6, 2024
In honor of International Compost Awareness Week , here are some examples of NRDC's Food Matters partners expanding composting throughout their municipalities.
$3.7m crop lab will create food for ‘tomorrow’s atmosphere today’
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 9, 2024
Professor Tracy Lawson examines the plants being grown in the vertical farm (image credit: University of Essex). A new $3.7m facility at the University of Essex aims to make it possible to adapt plants for a hotter drier climate, preventing threats to food security, according to the group behind it. It incorporates a vertical farm, an indoor field that replicates real environments anywhere in the globe, and suites that imitate a warming world – with researchers able to raise CO2 concentration an
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.
Making batteries takes lots of lithium: Almost half of it could come from Pennsylvania wastewater
TechXplore
MAY 10, 2024
Most batteries used in technology like smartwatches and electric cars are made with lithium that travels across the world before even getting to manufacturers. But what if nearly half of the lithium used in the U.S. could come from Pennsylvania wastewater?
Tailwinds build for sustainable aviation fuel
GreenBiz
MAY 6, 2024
As the aviation industry lobbies for sustainable jet fuel, new tax breaks could help lower the carbon footprint of business travel.
Big batteries leap to new charging record on Australia’s main grid
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MAY 5, 2024
The recent addition of a number of new big battery projects is being felt on the grid, with a big leap in the record for battery charging over the weekend. The post Big batteries leap to new charging record on Australia’s main grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Endotoxin detection technology drastically cuts time for assessing water quality, says group
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MAY 9, 2024
An important advance is claimed for a technology that allows water quality to be assessed in a matter of minutes. The new Bacterisk technology was developed by Molendotech ([link] a spin-out from The University of Plymouth. It gives an accurate running water quality assessment in the field, seemingly for the first time, with results available in 15 minutes.
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.
BP and Shell ‘Shaped’ UK Carbon Tax Proposals, Private Emails Show
DeSmogBlog
MAY 8, 2024
Fossil fuel giants BP and Shell were given “ample opportunity” to privately influence proposals for taxing oil and gas companies that were later backed by the government, new documents reveal. Internal BP emails show that its UK executives were reassured by a controversial oil industry group that they could “shape [the] internal thinking” of a 2018 report on carbon taxes produced by the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange.
Corporations buy into sustainable fuel certificates to address air travel emissions
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More companies are purchasing certificates to offset their Scope 3 emissions, a tactic that critics see as a potential new landscape for greenwashing.
How long does it take to build a nuclear reactor? We ask France
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French regulators finally give permission to fuel up the country's first nuclear plant in decades, some 12 year late and more than four times over budget. The post How long does it take to build a nuclear reactor? We ask France appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Hazer and FortisBC Advance With $160M Hydrogen Facility in Canada
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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?
A $100 million carbon-removal competition enters its final stage
Canary Media
MAY 8, 2024
Over 1,000 companies and research teams are now working to remove carbon dioxide from the sky or ocean and permanently lock it away — up from just a handful of ventures a decade ago.
The great corporate decarbonization derby is on
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Labor caves in to fossil fuel cartel as it locks in gas beyond 2050 amid deepening climate crisis
Renew Economy
MAY 8, 2024
On the same day that scientists warned of a deepening climate catastrophe, Labor declares gas is good and announces a plan to "lock it in" beyond 2050. The post Labor caves in to fossil fuel cartel as it locks in gas beyond 2050 amid deepening climate crisis appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Solaris at Next Mobility 2024 in Milan Presents a Hydrogen Bus
FuelCellsWorks
MAY 9, 2024
During the international trade fair Next Mobility, taking place from May 8-10 in Milan, Solaris Bus & Coach is showcasing the Urbino 12 hydrogen bus. Public transport operators are increasingly opting for hydrogen technology, and the model on display is currently.
Forest Carbon Diligence: Breaking Down the Validation and Intercomparison Report
Planet Pulse
MAY 9, 2024
Mapping trees from space is a technically challenging endeavor. It may seem straightforward at times — what’s so hard about counting all those round green things in satellite images? It may also seem like a solved problem, since the foundations of forest monitoring were established in the 1980s. But like the history of most technologies, the story of mapping forests from space is the story of uncovering layer after layer of complexity in the patterns we find.
Business should take these 3 actions to bolster the global plastics treaty
GreenBiz
MAY 10, 2024
Fresh from the treaty talks in Ottawa, two new reports outline a path forward in the fight against plastic pollution.
From solar to EVs: Five green tech supply chains that could deliver $215 billion boost to Australia
Renew Economy
MAY 7, 2024
BZE report says Australia could reap $215 billion if it moved into supply chains and manufacturing for solar, wind, batteries, heat pumps and commercial EVs. The post From solar to EVs: Five green tech supply chains that could deliver $215 billion boost to Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.
H2PowerBox Pty Ltd Launches Pioneering Hydrogen Power Solution
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Scoresby, Victoria– In a significant advancement for renewable energy technology, H2PowerBox Pty Ltd is proud to announce the launch of its revolutionary H2PowerBox. This innovative product was unveiled in the.
Mycocycle uses mushrooms to upcycle old tires and construction waste
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MAY 8, 2024
The startup's fungi use their mycelium to consume oil-based rubbers and plastics, creating new bio-based materials in the process. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Biomass, captured carbon and plastic waste can help 'defossilize' chemicals, report says
GreenBiz
MAY 8, 2024
Policy briefing sets out how industry can move away from fossil fuel feedstocks and embrace low carbon and sustainable alternatives
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