Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2025

The crisis-into-opportunity rhetoric has been a mainstay of successive governments, and this new pledge might have been expected to hit an uncomfortable note for those recalling similarly Manhattan-project-esque pronouncements of the past. increase in the housing stock by 2030, in turn adding about 0.2%

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

The importance of supply chain resilience in the water sector was the overarching message from Baroness Brown, speaking at a British Water reception held at the House of Lords this week (end of May). She said, “It is really crucial that everybody in the water sector looks at their supply chain resilience.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 6, 2021

After experiencing a devastating outage, government officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, decided to invest in energy infrastructure that would remain on, even when the grid went down. Severe storms — and extended power outages — can happen anywhere. But instead of waiting for another disaster and grid failure, one community took action.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2024

billion joint investment with the UK Government to transition to high-quality, low-CO2 steel production in South Wales. billion investment, which includes a UK Government grant of up to 500 million, is the largest capital expenditure investment in UK steel production for decades. “The 1.25 ”

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. . History has shown us that government funding of visionary projects can have enormous positive outcomes.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It also supports governments and communities in making informed decisions, whether building resilient infrastructure or improving social and economic opportunities to reduce the vulnerabilities of specific communities. One example of location data being used for improving resilience and creating a mitigation strategy is in Barbados.

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Biden administration’s new National Climate Resilience Framework will help the federal government align decision-making and investments with the need to adapt to climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

million in UK government funding. This could help create an intelligent vehicle fleet charging system that increases grid reliability, resilience and stability and high adaptations to variable loads.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The UK government will invest £25 million in projects that use nature to protect communities from flooding, Environment Minister Rebecca Pow announced on 22 September. The pioneers who already work with nature-based solutions to achieve greater flood resilience give me hope. The project was supported by £275,000 of Government funding.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A new report, ‘Risk & Resilience: The role of cities in tackling the climate crisis’ , argues that climate resilience must be embraced as a guiding principle across urban development, given the extreme exposure of cities to climate risk.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2025

This concern over the impact of supply chain comes as the UK government has reaffirmed its commitment to renewable energy production and infrastructure through its Clean Power 2030 commitment. Much like the government and its Clean Energy 2030, UK businesses remain ambitious in making their energy transitions.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Countries have until February 2025 to submit their NDCs for COP30 and WRAP is calling on all governments to include food loss and waste reduction ahead of the next global meeting. Harriet Lamb, ‘Food, textiles and manufactured products account for nearly 50% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2025

Strengthening circular practices within the built environment, supported by collaboration across industries and governments, will be critical to accelerating the adoption of circular retrofits. Jukka Maksimainen, senior partner at McKinsey, comments: Circularity is no longer optional its the key to transforming the sector.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The 2020 Sustainability Leaders , a GlobeScan- SustainAbility survey of experts worldwide, reveals which companies are perceived to be leaders on sustainability during this challenging time by sustainability professionals representing business, government, NGOs and academia. Over 700 experts were surveyed online across 71 countries in May.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Green gas could also save 22 billion in capital and operating costs in just the next six years in meeting the Governments goal of a clean power system by 2030 – 133 a year for each British household. The net overall saving from using more green gas in the transition to Net Zero is assessed at 298 billion, or nearly 7.5

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Recently, I was asked to participate in a webinar discussion about environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in the wake of COVID-19, and I had to ask myself, "Is the work we’re doing at SASB completely irrelevant or more relevant than ever?" . How can companies adapt to ensure business continuity in such an uncertain environment?

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

.'s largest-ever solar project, received its government planning approvals this week. The developers say they will not seek any government subsidy and will not participate in the contracts for difference (CFD) auction next year. ” Government auction? Some of these markets for ancillary services are now saturated.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

The Electric Vehicle (EV) Energy Taskforce was established in 2018 to make proposals to Government and industry to bring together the auto and energy sectors to ensure that the GB energy system is able to accelerate the mass take-up of electric vehicles while also delivering benefits to the electricity system.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The US Department of Defense Defense Innovation Unit will try out ‘prototype advanced energy systems’ based around LDES technologies.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

UK prime minister’s decision to delay net zero policies is disappointing, but unlikely to deter its battery storage industry.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

The economic fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing governments around the world to come up with policies for stimulating the global economy. The ongoing coronavirus crisis has amplified the growing calls for resilient and adaptable infrastructure that effectively can operate during moments of crisis. Katherine Davisson.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 25, 2021

The Anglo-Dutch firm first announced plans to give its shareholders a direct say over its climate action strategy back in December , in a bid to boost corporate transparency and governance surrounding its drive to reach net-zero emissions for its core business by 2030 and across its entire supply chain by 2039. It also has set up a $1.18

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

billion programme to “strengthen grid resilience and reliability” across the US includes funding for microgrids and other projects that will integrate battery storage technologies.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown. So it's allowed us to reintroduce to the world of the business community this notion of what it means to be resilient, and not just to be agile.".

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

How US government procurement can lead the clean economy. Rob Bailey, director of climate resilience for Marsh & McLennan Companies, offers insights. . Risk & Resilience. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (5:25). What’s a sustainable (and just) business model? It's risky business as usual (15:45). Corporate Strategy.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Policy and regulatory decisions made by states, utilities, public utilities commissions and wholesale market governing bodies determine the clean energy procurement options available to cities and counties. By removing regulatory and legislative obstacles, local governments are creating new pathways to access affordable, clean energy.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are increasingly becoming incorporated across all aspects of organizations, including business strategies, operations and product/service offerings. The drive to make companies more climate resilient and sustainable started with institutional investors, long aware of climate risk.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The government has announced 7.9 Water security is a key part of our national resilience to long-term challenges, including climate change, which can only be fixed with joined-up policymaking and consistent, sustained investment over decades. Ladybower reservoir, in the Peak District, in summertime.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

The paper, which urges government to give local authorities the powers, resources and funding they need to deliver net zero, sets out ADEPT’s position that national targets will only be met through climate change action at the local level. Key to achieving climate change action is behaviour change.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2021

But on the other side of this equation is an opportunity: A world in which electric vehicles actually help make the grid more resilient, and render electricity cheaper for everyone. A world in which electric vehicles actually help make the grid more resilient, and render electricity cheaper for everyone. Missed VERGE Electrify?

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Last week, for example, the UK government proposed mandatory climate risk-related governance by large pension plans, to be disclosed in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures , or TCFD. Risk & Resilience. No gauzy verbiage there about leaving the world a better place.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Huaxin: the what Support: you haven’t been to the community resilience center in your town? And they may also be a key part of climate resilience. “Resilience is not just around surviving a disaster, it’s around thriving in our everyday lives.” The vision Support: this recipe is really good by the way.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. Convergence of transparency and governance.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2021

With the explosive growth of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in recent years, it appears that we may be at or approaching an inflection point. Facility-siting decisions should further account for climate vulnerabilities and the adaptation steps that local governments are taking to address them.

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GreenBiz

JULY 11, 2022

When done well, Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) reporting and management can reduce an organization’s environmental footprint, improve efficiency, and unearth new market opportunities, all while reducing risk and building resiliency.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A new system of eco-labels launched by the UK government is intended to help save consumers money on their energy and water bills, but one industry group says the plan will create confusion and expense. The government has set an ambitious target to reduce the use of public water supply per person by 20% by 2038.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Companies demonstrated the depth of their commitment and a certain financial resilience by shifting production lines to manufacture hand sanitizer and masks or forgoing government aid to demonstrate social solidarity. Recent months have revealed several fragilities and also several strengths as the luxury industry navigates its future.

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