Raising the Bar: India’s Push to Increase Ambition on Climate Finance
NRDC onEarth
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
What does India expect and what to expect from India at the upcoming climate finance negotiations in Baku
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MOFs can capture benzene, says Manchester study
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
When petrol is exposed to air, benzene readily evaporates, contributing to the fumes around petrol stations. A new study shows that metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can be adapted to capture benzene from the air, offering a potential solution to tackling a major health and environment risk. Led by the University of Manchester, the work shows that this kind of ultra-porous material can be modified to capture and filter out significantly more benzene from the atmosphere than current materials in us
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Tesla Megapacks arrive as former coal site transforms into big Queensland battery
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
The first batch of Tesla Megapacks has arrived at the site of one of Queensland’s biggest batteries yet, that is being built at a former coal generation hub south of Brisbane to store excess solar energy and help balance the local grid. The 250 MW, two-hour (500 MWh) Swanbank Battery is being developed by Queensland […] The post Tesla Megapacks arrive as former coal site transforms into big Queensland battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.
New York City’s East 34th Street Heliport plugs into the future with Archer and Joby Aviation
Charged
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
New York City’s East 34th Street Heliport in midtown Manhattan is going electric. The news was revealed when the operator of the heliport, Atlantic Aviation, a fixed-base operator with over 100 locations, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation announced a renewal of the heliport’s five-year lease. The Big Apple will serve as a launch market for both Delta Air Lines and United Airlines as their partnerships with electric aircraft manufacturers Joby Aviation and Archer Aviation , r
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.
From the Biodiversity COP16 to the Climate COP29: Building Equitable Accountability, Alignment, and Adequacy on Finance
NRDC onEarth
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Looking closely at last month's United Nations biodiversity summit gives clues on what to expect at the big U.N. climate conference kicking off in Baku.
A clean power supply for Britain is achievable with significant investment, says NESO report
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Advice from the newly-formed National Energy System Operator (NESO) has concluded that clean power “is a huge challenge but is achievable” for the UK by 2030. The nationalised energy system operator – formed on 1 October following the buyout of National Grid – says its new report provides comprehensive and independent analysis of how to achieve this goal.
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Altilium launches online platform for selling end-of-life EV batteries
Charged
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
UK-based clean technology group Altilium has launched a new online platform that offers businesses a way to sell spent EV batteries. Altilium’s Recell.store provides an online interface for UK businesses looking to sell used batteries for recycling or second-life applications. Users can register their details in Recell.store’s database and get a quote for their battery packs.
Building Capacity to Address Intensifying Heat in Rajasthan, India
NRDC onEarth
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
NRDC and NDMA are continuing a joint initiative to further prepare Indian cities for climate warming.
Google Street View opens doors to Scottish renewable energy projects
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Hydroelectric power station at Loch Lomond. A project which gives Google Street View users an inside view of renewable energy sites launched on 29 October. From a hydropower plant deep beneath a mountain to the top of a wind turbine, Scottish Renewables’ Renewables360 is a global first-of-its-kind. It takes the public behind the scenes of the country’s 42,000-strong, £10 billion a year renewable energy industry.
UK maps out pathways to clean grid by 2030: Three-fold increase in wind and solar, and no new nuclear
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
New pathways to clean power outlined by UK grid operator including three fold increase in wind and solar, and a reduction in nuclear. The post UK maps out pathways to clean grid by 2030: Three-fold increase in wind and solar, and no new nuclear appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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
Study disproves idea that weather-dependent renewable energy systems are more prone to blackouts
TechXplore
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Wind turbines and photovoltaics (PVs) are becoming increasingly widespread worldwide, which could contribute to reducing air pollution caused by fossil fuel emissions. To produce energy, however, these renewable energy solutions rely on specific weather conditions (e.g., the presence of wind and sufficient hours of sunlight).
How Melting Ice Affects People and the Planet
NRDC onEarth
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Across the world, thawing landscapes, seascapes, and freshwater reserves are reshaping environments and lives for the communities that rely on them.
Navigating Great British Energy: Report advises government on getting to cheap and clean energy
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Aberdeen, where GB Energy will be headquartered. The UK Government can secure the future of Great British Energy (GBE) by offering cut-price power and key materials for the UK’s clean energy supply chains, according to a new report from Stonehaven, commissioned by Project Tempo. Sitting as a central recommendation is how GBE can go further when working to invest in domestic clean energy supply chains, boosting energy security and creating skilled jobs.
Oil giant BP is killing 18 hydrogen projects, chilling the nascent industry
TechCrunch: Climate
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The hydrogen industry, which has relied on oil and gas companies both financially and through lobbying efforts, is preparing for a grim outcome. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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.
California voters pass $10B bond to help protect people from climate change
Canary Media
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
California voters appear set to approve a $10 billion bond package to fund key state climate and environmental priorities — a bright spot in what has been a dark election for U.S. climate efforts. Proposition 4 was passing with nearly 58 percent voter approval on Wednesday morning according to the Associated Press.
Solar pushes renewables to record share of grid, coal hits new low despite highest spring demand
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Renewables hit new record high of 75.9 per cent, sending coal to a record low despite usually strong spring electricity demand. The post Solar pushes renewables to record share of grid, coal hits new low despite highest spring demand appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Consignment caveats: From liquids to lithium-ion batteries, competent storage requires care
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
A succession of fires in recent years has sharpened people’s awareness of the need to handle lithium-ion batteries correctly. It’s just one of many situations where the storage and handling of a material can’t be left to chance, as Envirotec discovered in conversation with Paul Smith of Emtez, an expert in the area. “Every material that a company stores or handles will present its own set of moral, environmental, and legal obligations”, explains Paul, who describes his own firm as a specialist i
Regulators deliver successive blows to Amazon and Meta’s nuclear power ambitions
TechCrunch: Climate
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
A series of recent rulings from regulators dashed the Big Tech companies' hopes of finding a quick fix for their electricity needs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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.
New York City tests a solar-powered electric-school-bus microgrid
Canary Media
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
New York City utility Con Edison will need to be able to charge about 10,000 electric school buses on its constrained power grid within the next 10 years or so. A $9 million pilot project in Brooklyn could help it figure out how to do that. The project is starting small.
Ausgrid pitches its first big batteries for Newcastle and Sydney
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
Ausgrid want to put two large batteries in Sydney and Newcastle, as part of the company's first foray into big installations. The post Ausgrid pitches its first big batteries for Newcastle and Sydney appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Pathogens which cling to microplastics may survive wastewater treatment
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Wastewater handling in the lab (image credit: Ingun Lund Witsø, CC-BY 4.0 license ). Wastewater treatment fails to kill several human pathogens when they hide out on microplastics in the water, reports a new study appearing in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. Wastewater treatment plants are designed to remove contaminants from wastewater, but microplastics persist and can become colonized by a sticky microbial biofilm.
New electric hydrofoil ferry service offers green travel among Stockholm’s 14 islands
Charged
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
A new ferry line operating electric hydrofoil ships started service on Tuesday in Stockholm. The ferry deployed on this mission by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, or Greater Stockholm Local Transit, is the Candela P-12 100% electric hydrofoil boat. The P-12 seats up to 30 passengers, is 39 feet, 4.1 inches (11.99 m) in length and has a 14-foot, 8.4-inch (4.5 m) beam.
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?
Moment Energy plans to mass-produce grid storage from used EV batteries
Canary Media
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Plenty of visionaries have extolled the benefits of putting old electric-car batteries to work instead of throwing them away. Moment Energy is bringing something new to this concept: large-scale manufacturing. In late October, the startup won a $20 million grant from the U.S.
Nuclear waste management could add billions to electricity supply costs
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Handling and storing nuclear waste could add significant costs to Australia's future energy bills, an inquiry has heard. The post Nuclear waste management could add billions to electricity supply costs appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Pioneering 3D printing project shares successes
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
A 3D concrete printing hub opened at United Utilities’ Wigan Wastewater Treatment Works in June 2024. Leaders of a pioneering project to develop 3D printed infrastructure and components for the water sector will be sharing insights from five years of research. The Water Industry Printfrastructure project has been led by United Utilities in partnership with ChangeMaker3D, Manchester Metropolitan University’s PrintCity and Scottish Water.
Google is opening an AI hub in oil-rich Saudi Arabia
TechCrunch: Climate
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The new AI hub will support research into Arab language AI models and “Saudi-specific AI applications.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
How is clean energy manufacturing playing out in swing states?
Canary Media
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
When I was growing up, during the Clinton and Bush presidencies, American manufacturing was on the wane. The bipartisan Washington consensus accepted the steady outflow of American jobs to other countries in the name of abstract economic theories.
Australia reaches record monthly renewable share of 47.4 per cent
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
Australia's main grid reached a record renewable share of 47.4 pct for October, while in South Australia wind and solar accounted for an average 85.2 per cent of state demand. The post Australia reaches record monthly renewable share of 47.4 per cent appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Persistence is key: Unpacking the PFAS remediation conundrum
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Historic landfills are the most frequent location of PFAS contamination of UK land, in a recent Environment Agency report. Technologies are available to remove and destroy PFAS, the only doubt is whether they can be deployed within budget and in a sustainable way. There is clearly an appetite for new and better ways of doing it. The price tag is unprecedented: remediation costs alone (i.e., to remove PFAS completely from the environment) would exceed global GDP, in one estimation recently aired.
General Motors to invest $625 million in new Lithium Americas JV
Charged
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
General Motors (GM) has entered into a new investment agreement with Lithium Americas to establish a joint venture (JV) to fund, develop, construct and operate the Thacker Pass lithium carbonate project in Humboldt County, Nevada. GM will provide $430 million of direct cash funding and a $195 million letter of credit facility to support the construction of Phase 1 of Thacker Pass alongside a conditional commitment for a $2.3 billion US Department of Energy (DOE) loan announced earlier this year.
Washington voters uphold the state’s pioneering climate law
Canary Media
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
On Tuesday, voters in Washington state decisively upheld a landmark climate law that created a cap-and-invest program that has raised billions of dollars for clean energy and electrification projects across the state.
“Silence not an option:” Teals push major parties to come clean on 2035 climate targets
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Independent MPs are pushing for no further delay on Labor's 2035 climate target, saying voters deserve more than silence from the major parties vying for power. The post “Silence not an option:” Teals push major parties to come clean on 2035 climate targets appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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