GreenBiz

JANUARY 12, 2023

There was also the fall of indoor ag while Plenty, Infarm, IronOx closed doors and let people go in 2022.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Queensland's north is on track to get its first grid forming big battery, after plans to build a 200MW/400MWh BESS received final approval. The post Big battery gets green light for construction in north Queensland appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Fusion is amazing science but will take decades to become a viable energy source, if it ever does.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Andrew Forrest weighs in on Sun Cable, all but confirming the company's woes lie in a spat with fellow billionaire backer Mike-Cannon Brookes. The post Forrest weighs in on Sun Cable, says $35bn solar export project needs “urgent change” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 12, 2023

Turns out, decarbonizing power is cost competitive for Peninsula Clean Energy in California.

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Renew Economy

JANUARY 12, 2023

Federal Labor's safeguard reforms are a modest step in the right direction, but for carbon intensive businesses to survive there needs to be a bunch of acceleration. The post Safeguard reforms give heavy polluters a small nudge – they need a big kick appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

As interest in green hydrogen intensifies, we must ensure its low-carbon promise isn't used to disguise the risks of its blue and grey cousins. The post Green hydrogen should be a winner from the energy crisis, but reality takes a different shade appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 12, 2023

A great event can have a great impact — it can change how you see a problem, make connections in your industry, and essentially, how you do business. The trouble is, most cities, venues, and event producers focus entirely on the event outputs and not nearly enough on the impact it has on the environment. It’s hard to know where to begin in making an event more sustainable.

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Renew Economy

JANUARY 12, 2023

Australian rooftop solar installations experienced their first annual contraction in seven years in 2022, but latest data promises a much better start to 2023. The post End of year rush to rooftop solar hints at return to boom-times in 2023 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 12, 2023

Supporting Smallholder Farmers on the Way to a More Sustainable Palm Oil Supply Chain. Fri, 01/13/2023 - 10:00. Subheader. By Kate Zerrenner. Type of Content. Blog. Layout. Standard Format. Body. Originally Published On triplepundit.com. Henkel, a global leader in consumer goods and adhesive technologies, and the nonprofit Solidaridad have worked together for almost a decade to scale up sustainable palm oil production and help smallholder farmers improve and diversify their incomes.

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Renew Economy

JANUARY 12, 2023

SwitchDin joins US auto giants and other big names in Rocky Mountain Institute-led peak body formed to guide the "explosive growth" of VPPs. The post Aussie company joins global heavyweights in virtual power plant peak body appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 12, 2023

How ESG Strategy Creates an Advantage for Startups. Thu, 01/12/2023 - 11:30. Type of Content. Blog. Layout. Standard Format. Body. After years of relative stability, new business applications rose sharply across 2020 and 2021. This surge of startups has created competition in certain industries, placing entrepreneurs in a position where they have to work to increase their valuation and attract investors.

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Cisco CSR

JANUARY 12, 2023

As we enter 2023, I’m gratified at what we accomplished with our partners in 2022 and optimistic about the future. Last year IoT continued to transform the world through unprecedented digitization. We saw IoT deliver increased business resiliency, more sustainable working conditions, energy efficiencies, and much more. Regardless of the industry or use case, businesses are turning to IoT to connect and protect what matters most.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 12, 2023

Report Shows Challenges of 2022 Didn’t Slow Action on Global Issues by Consumer Goods Companies. Thu, 01/12/2023 - 13:05. Type of Content. Press Release. Layout. Standard Format. Body. The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF’s) 2022 annual report demonstrates tangible progress in addressing some of the global challenges facing the industry such as food waste, plastic pollution, deforestation and human rights challenges.

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Speaker: Hortense Grouvel

In this new webinar, you will learn firsthand how to set up a sustainable supply chain program that will help meet increasing ESG requirements stemming from regulators, customers, consumers, and investors alike. Hortense Grouvel, ESG expert at IntegrityNext, and Sean Whelan, Global Senior Manager at Halliburton, will look at how ensuring compliance will also help you increase sustainability performance, resilience, and innovation, allowing you to unlock the full potential of your supply chain op

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Utiliity Dive

JANUARY 12, 2023

Nearly a quarter of PJM’s fleet didn’t provide electricity as required, with gas-fired generation making up 70% of the unplanned outages, according to the grid operator’s initial estimates.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 12, 2023

From tiny plankton to massive whales, microplastics have been found throughout the ocean food chain. One major source of this pollution are fibers shed while laundering synthetic fabrics. Although many studies show microfibers are released during machine washing, it's been less clear how hand washing contributes. Now, researchers report that hand washing can drastically cut the amount of fibers shed compared with using a machine.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Nearly 9 out of 10 CEOs believe that progress on global sustainable development goals is at risk due to emerging geopolitical and economic challenges, even as business leaders increasingly see sustainability as a top priority, according to a new report released today by global professional services firm Accenture and the UN Global Compact (UNGC). For the report, Accenture and the UNGC surveyed more than 2,600 CEOs across 128 countries and 18 industries, and conducted over 130 interviews with CEO

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Stacey Higginbotham

JANUARY 12, 2023

Want to bring an IoT company back from the dead? Or understand the technical and business challenges associated with building an IoT product? Then this story by Kevin Chung is for you. Kevin and I have left CES 2023 behind, but we had plenty of of things to talk about on this week’s show, starting with our sense of disappointment after the show.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Global carbon and environmental commodities market infrastructure platform Xpansiv announced today that it has closed a capital raise of $125 million, with proceeds aimed at supporting growth in the company’s service offerings and technology platforms. The capital raise follows a $400 million capital raise in Xpansive last year, led by alternative asset manager Blackstone.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

New research by the University of East Anglia highlights the risks of countries relying on nature-based solutions to achieve net zero. National climate strategies set out how countries plan to reduce emissions, for example by phasing out fossil-fuel use, to get to net-zero in 2050. The study found, once the bulk of emissions have been reduced, countries plan to ‘cancel out’ the left-over difficult to decarbonise emissions, such as those from agriculture, by using forests and soils to remove carb

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ESG Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Clean energy solutions provider Qcells, a subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, announced today that it will invest more than $2.5 billion to build a complete solar supply chain in the U.S., marking both the company’s largest investment and the largest investment in the U.S. solar industry to date. In its statement announcing the investment plans, Qcells cited the passage of the Solar Energy Manufacturing for America Act within the Inflation Reduction Act as providing certainty f

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

A landfill site in Glasgow has been served with a civil penalty of £6,200 by SEPA for a breach of its environmental permit resulting in an offensive odour that affected local communities for eight days in June 2021 and 138 complaints. The Variable Monetary Penalty (VMP), the first in Scotland served by SEPA , was issued to Paterson’s of Greenoakhill Ltd due to offensive odour issues at the site between 8 and 15 June 2021.

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Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

ESG Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Zurich-based Direct Air Capture (DAC) startup Climeworks announced today the delivery of the first-ever third-party certified carbon dioxide removal (CDR) for corporate customers, including Microsoft, Shopify and Stripe. The carbon removal was performed at Orca, Climework’s Iceland-based Direct Air Capture facility, and currently the world’s only commercial DAC and storage plant, with capacity to remove 4,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 12, 2023

Centrus has achieved B Corp certification after scoring 35.7 points over the accreditation pass mark, earning a total of 115.7 points in the impact assessment process, setting a benchmark for Financial Services. The post Centrus Achieves B Corp Certification appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Computer software company MathWorks announced today that it will be able to address 100% of its Scope 2 emissions – those resulting from purchased electricity, heat and cooling – with wind power, from a newly signed 12-year agreement with Enel North America. Under the new virtual purchase power agreement (VPPA), MathWorks will purchase approximately 50,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of wind electricity and associated renewable energy certificates (RECs) annually, generated from Enel’s 25 Mile Creek wi

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 12, 2023

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Scaling Impact Indispensable growth factor for impact funds, strategies and fund managers: catalytic capital. Impact investors often use. The post The Brief: Catalytic capital for scaling, billion-dollar climate funds, diverse asset managers, grid-scale battery storage, costs of the ESG culture wars appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.

Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 12, 2023

The USA, Europe, and Latin America are the top regions utilizing Gamesa Electric's new Proteus inverter. The post Gamesa Electric Experiences 182% Increase in Solar Orders appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 12, 2023

A new DNA-collection approach allows scientists to capture genetic information from wildlife without disturbing the animals or putting their own safety in jeopardy. The protocol, tested on elephant dung, yielded enough DNA to sequence whole genomes not only of the elephants but also of the associated microbes, plants, parasites and other organisms -- at a fraction of the cost of current approaches.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JANUARY 12, 2023

The US drive to decarbonize is at an inflection point. Critical actions could accelerate the transition while enhancing energy affordability and supporting inclusive economic growth.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

Instrumentation firm OTT Hydromet has launched a new water level sensor, the OTT PLS 500, which combines robust reliability and accuracy with the advantages of smart sensor technology. Building on decades of experience, the redesigned PLS 500 retains key elements of the trusted, robust, and reliable OTT PLS, while enhancing the sensor to be intuitive and user friendly, says the company.

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Throughout Climate Week, a feeling of urgency on tackling the climate crisis was palpable. Yet, questions continue to linger about corporate progress. Are we truly moving the needle or are we stuck in a cycle of empty statements and a flood of reports and guidelines? In the latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Libra Edition , we use Climate Week outcomes to explore how brands can communicate progress credibly.