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Where women lead, money follows

Corporate Knights

The glass ceiling at Canada’s greenest companies is getting pretty thin, and the women at the top have their sights set on climate change. “I I personally don’t know of any senior leaders in Canada that don’t think [climate change] is a risk, and I couldn’t say that five years ago,” says Laura Zizzo, CEO of Manifest Climate.

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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. It is a complicated place.

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New heights for CCS

Envirotec Magazine

Danish researchers say they have demonstrated that it is possible to remove most of the carbon dioxide (CO2) from the emissions of a waste incinerator. By demonstrating the viability of the process, a key technology in the fight against climate change is surely awaiting deployment, they suggest.

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Breakthrough technology for lithium manufacture

Envirotec Magazine

As global effort to fight climate change intensifies, the challenge for battery manufacturers and their supply chains is to find ways to meet the rapidly growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs). Overdosing is also undesirable because it would result in a waste of process chemicals.

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Comment: The Energy sector will continue to thrive through HPC, even as Moore’s Law comes to an end

Envirotec Magazine

With the impact of climate change adding urgency to reducing energy use and energy waste, the energy industry is accelerating innovation to drive impact and outcomes at scale. Energy suppliers are working on the development of new technologies that can more sustainably generate, store, and transport energy to consumers.

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How gas leak detection will help the world keep its methane reduction promise

Envirotec Magazine

If successful, the pledge will make a major contribution both to reducing one of the major causes of climate change and eliminating methane-induced factors such as extreme heat and smog that are increasingly posing a risk to human health. Test results are manually entered in reporting systems, adding more time to the process.

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How do you monitor a tidal river?

Envirotec Magazine

If water samples are taken from a river at 9am on consecutive days, it is reasonable to be able to directly compare analytical results, unless the water at the sampling location is tidal. This is enabling them to treat greater volumes of sewage, which reduces the need for CSO discharges.