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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£147 million deal will double Scottish energy storage capacity
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 25, 2024
The facility at Blackhillock: how it will look. Construction has commenced on a new energy storage facility in Scotland, part of a drive to maximise the efficacy of renewables and reduce the cost of wasted wind to consumers. The facility, Kilmarnock South, is the third major investment of a large programme of battery storage assets provided by Zenobē, a specialist in fleet electrification and battery storage. “The portfolio of assets will enable the country to become a world leader in rene
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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.
The biggest solar-plus-storage project in the US just came online
Canary Media
JANUARY 25, 2024
The largest combined solar and energy-storage project in the U.S. is now online and operating in California’s Mojave Desert. The sprawling megaproject stretches across 4,600 acres in Kern County and is located on private land as well as the Edwards Air Force Base. It’s the biggest public-private partnership the U.S.
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.
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.
Navigating Europe’s restriction on microplastics
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 25, 2024
Legislators in Europe seem to be keeping a closer eye on microplastics, with the introduction of European Union (EU) Regulation 2023/2055 in September being a recent milestone. HingWo Tsang, a Connectivity & Product specialist at testing and certification firm SGS, looks at the issues surrounding microplastics and the impact the new restrictions will have on business.
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Chart: Is LNG worse for the climate than coal?
Canary Media
JANUARY 26, 2024
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Conventional wisdom has long been that it’s better for the planet to burn fossil gas for electricity than it is to burn coal.
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.
Growth in UK plastic packaging recycling being shipped abroad, including to non-OECD countries
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 24, 2024
By Tom McBeth, Policy & Infrastructure Manager with plastics resource efficiency group RECOUP New data reveals an increase in the amount of plastic exported for recycling in 2023, and significant quantities are now going to developing, non-OECD* countries. Year-on-year, despite increases in material being recycled in the UK, quantities of plastic waste exported for recycling from England have increased by more than 10% to just over 600,000 tonnes.
Fossilized Finances: Oil and Gas Subsidies in the Permian Basin
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 24, 2024
A new NRDC report shows how, despite the need to curb fossil fuel production, outdated tax giveaways incentivize further extraction in the country's largest oil and gas region.
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
Big electric-truck charging depots are coming soon to California
Canary Media
JANUARY 26, 2024
California leads the U.S. in the push to swap out diesel-fueled trucks for electric — and in the buildout of the electric truck stops and depots those new trucks will depend on.
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.
Comment: “A move away from ‘fabric first’ is a step in the wrong direction”
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2024
Paul Spence is Technical Manager with heatly, a firm developing an app for the heat pump sector. Paul Spence calls for caution when it comes to promoting the idea that heat pumps should be installed regardless of a property’s energy efficiency credentials. Following a new report from Nesta (“Insulation impact: how much do UK houses really need?
Transportation Funding Gets a Potential Boost
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 24, 2024
A new bill from Congressman Hank Johnson could help secure desperately needed operations funding for transit agencies across the country.
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 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.
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?
£8m project aims to deliver first retrofit E-CTV with offshore and onshore charging
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 24, 2024
A seemingly groundbreaking project aims to deliver the world’s first retrofit electric crew transfer vessel (E-CTV) – retrofitting a diesel CTV to be fully electric while also developing infrastructure to charge the E-CTV onsite directly from a wind turbine. The design and engineering phase of the project is being undertaken by Tidal Transit, a supplier of purpose-design crew transfer vessels for the offshore wind industry.
First-ever Regional Offshore Wind and Wildlife Science Plan Released
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 25, 2024
The research plan identifies data needs to efficiently scale up offshore wind responsibly.
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.
Battery storage now dominates system services market for main grid
Renew Economy
JANUARY 24, 2024
Battery storage is now confirmed as the dominant player in the provision of key services to the grid, as batteries and demand management nudge out fossil fuel generators. The post Battery storage now dominates system services market for main grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
As cities and systems scale up, does waste scale accordingly?
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 24, 2024
The study explores how three types of waste production — municipal solid waste, wastewater, and greenhouse gas emissions — scale with city size (image credit: Elisa Heinrich Mora). A recent study attempts to predict the future state of urban ecosystems, and suggests the need for a new science of waste. Living systems have evolved to reconstitute waste — creatures like dung beetles fill an ecological niche of breaking down other organisms’ faeces — but waste is a problem that still plagues human
New Policy Boosts Access to EV Charging
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 22, 2024
The federal action will improve access for millions of Americans.
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?
Solar farms and native grasses create pollinator havens and boost biodiversity, study funds
Renew Economy
JANUARY 22, 2024
Solar farms can play a significant role in restoring insect habitats that could mitigate ongoing conflicts over farming land use change. The post Solar farms and native grasses create pollinator havens and boost biodiversity, study funds appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
A bundle of tech can replace gas boilers and help millions of homes go off-grid, says study
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2024
Destined for the dumpster? The researchers say the proposal offers “a pragmatic approach to achieving zero-energy homes by harnessing wind and solar power”. Inefficient UK homes, which were built decades ago, can do away with their gas boilers and get all their energy needs off-grid by retrofitting a combination of existing renewable energy technologies, new research seemingly shows.
Scientists Discover the World’s Largest Deep-sea Coral Reef Habitat
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 23, 2024
The U.S. Southeast’s Blake Plateau is a biodiversity hotspot and a world-class treasure in our own backyard.
Rio Tinto signs contract for Australian grid’s first gigawatt scale solar project
Renew Economy
JANUARY 23, 2024
Rio Tinto signs contract to buy all the output for what will be the biggest solar project on Australia's main grid, and will help power its smelters and refineries. The post Rio Tinto signs contract for Australian grid’s first gigawatt scale solar project appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
Trials identify “five key ingredients to successful reuse systems”
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2024
The impact and learnings from six reuse projects, funded by over £1.4 million from the Bring It Back Fund are published in a new report (on 23 January) and provide insights which could help boost reuse and return systems across the country, says charity group Hubbub, which oversees the fund alongside Starbucks. The trials which include city-wide returnable takeaway packaging; electronic tagging of reusable alternatives and doorstep packaging collections, involved over 100 food and drink business
What DC Water's Boil Advisory Fumble Teaches Us About Lead
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 23, 2024
DC Water put customers at risk. Safeguards being considered by the EPA for the new Lead and Copper Rule could help—if the agency gets it right.
Why battery freight trains could boost resilience for Australia’s storm battered economies
Renew Economy
JANUARY 21, 2024
Battery freight trains could provide huge amounts of mobile storage to boost the grid and provide resilience to Australia's storm battered economies. And cut the need for new transmission. The post Why battery freight trains could boost resilience for Australia’s storm battered economies appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The Reusies awards celebrate communities, innovators and activists
GreenBiz
JANUARY 26, 2024
Companies advancing product and packaging reuse business models compete for recognition at the awards in May at Circularity 24 in Chicago.
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