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The energy transition is underway: 10 charts tell the story

Renewable Energy World

The renewable energy transition promises to reduce carbon emissions, but it’s happening at different speeds around the world. Read on for some key insights from BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2019, which provides a detailed road map to the future.

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Peat use must be banned to hit zero-carbon targets, says Veolia

Envirotec Magazine

4M tonnes of peat-free compost available on our doorsteps can replace peat. It’s time to stop excavating our precious peatlands says Veolia , “the UK’s largest peat-free composter” The damaging practice has continued to grow despite national targets to phase it out. In 2011 the Government called for retailers to reduce peat use by 2020, but industry has shown lack of commitment to embrace these ambitions.

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Announcing the Inaugural Global Solutions Forum (GSF)

Sustainable Development Network

We are excited to announce the first annual Global Solutions Forum, an international event where experts in science, tech, and public policy will gather to share progress, highlight victories, and inspire one another to keep moving forward. We all know that progress surrounding the SDGs can often be slow and incremental. But all over the planet, brilliant people are implementing local initiatives and scalable solutions that hold more than just the promise of measurable impact.

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Life-Size Hologram for Speakers, Educators, and Entertainers

Daniel Burrus

We’ve seen it in sci-fi movies, television series, and the music and entertainment world. Now, you’re going to see it on the lecture circuit and more! With the help of holographic telepresence pioneer ARHT Media , I now offer the opportunity for organizations worldwide to have a life-size 3D hologram of myself beamed in anywhere in the world to deliver a live presentation, interacting with the audience via monitor as if I were physically there while being in an ARHT Media studio.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Europe’s wind potential is 100 times higher, could power the world

Renewable Energy World

Europe can potentially generate 100 times the current amount of energy generated, and produce enough power to power the world until 2050, if it were to maximize land use for onshore wind capacity.

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Threat to terrestrial ecosystems and food security detailed in IPCC land use report

Envirotec Magazine

Land is under growing pressure from human activity and climate change is adding to these pressures, according to a report released by the IPCC on 8 August. The effects include water scarcity, desertification, soil erosion, declining crop yields and wildfire damage, with the prospect that these will only worsen unless urgent action is taken. Improvements to land use are one pathway to tackling these problems.

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Softbank invests $110M in new energy storage system

Renewable Energy World

Energy Vault, the creator of a new way to perform utility-scale energy storage, announced that SoftBank Vision Fund (Vision Fund) invested $110 million in its Series B funding round. Energy Vault will use the funds to accelerate global deployment of its technology, which enables renewables to deliver baseload power for less than the cost of fossil fuels 24 hours a day, said the company.

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ARENA to provide $40 million funding for South Australia’s first pumped hydro plant

Renewable Energy World

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), on behalf of the Australian government, has announced up to $40 million in funding towards the deployment of a pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project in South Australia.

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Gap signs PPA for 90 MW of wind

Renewable Energy World

Global apparel retailer Gap Inc. announced that it has signed a 90-MW virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for the Aurora Wind Project with Enel Green Power North America, marking one of the largest offsite renewable energy contracts by an apparel retailer.

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What is the future of the utility?

Renewable Energy World

Many of us are somewhat familiar with what an electric utility does. Our house receives electricity, and we get a bill in the mail each month for it. Here in North Carolina, that bill is likely coming from Duke Energy. In other parts of the country it may be PG&E or Dominion Power. For at least a century, these utility monopolies have built power plants, installed transmission and distribution lines, billed customers for their electricity use, and the utility made a predictable margin for their

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Mastering Supply Chain Sustainability: Where Does ESG Fit In?

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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Stanford researchers develop technology to harness energy from mixing of freshwater and seawater

Renewable Energy World

A new battery made from affordable and durable materials generates energy from places where salt and fresh waters mingle. The technology could make coastal wastewater treatment plants energy-independent and carbon neutral.

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Net zero carbon emissions ‘impossible’ without hydrogen says UK energy alliance

Renewable Energy World

The UK’s North West Hydrogen Alliance (NWHA) is calling for government investment in hydrogen projects to meet ambitious carbon reductions targets in Britain.

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London finds no easy answers after once-in-a-decade blackout

Renewable Energy World

When two U.K. power plants shut down almost simultaneously in London’s first major blackout for a decade, it triggered a storm of questions about how to avoid another failure.

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BNEF says corporate energy market is strong

Renewable Energy World

Coming on the heels of Gap’s announced 90-MW PPA with Enel Green Power, BloombergNEF released its 2H 2019 corporate energy market outlook in which it said that corporations signed contracts to purchase 8.6 GW of clean energy in 2019 through July, up from 7.2 GW at the same time last year.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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U.S. announces changes to implementing regulations of the Endangered Species Act

Renewable Energy World

U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt has unveiled changes to the implementing regulations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that Interior says is “designed to increase transparency and effectiveness and bring the administration of the Act into the 21st century.”.

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Who will benefit from the surge in behind-the-meter battery installations?

Renewable Energy World

The electric utility industry has been buffeted by two recent trends that threaten to upend the profitability, and in some cases the future viability of, those companies that are slow to adapt to a new, rapidly changing landscape. Specifically, in the past decade, the industry has had to grapple with both waning demand and the growth of distributed energy generation.

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Vattenfall combines wind, solar, batteries in Netherlands energy park

Renewable Energy World

According to Vattenfall, the project will help provide less pronounced energy peaks and an overall more efficient use of energy infrastructure.

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On the brink of blackouts, Texas makes case for power plant boom

Renewable Energy World

It may be time to start building power plants in Texas again.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

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.

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EV charging stations outnumber fuel stations, less than 100 years after the first petrol pump was installed

Envirotec Magazine

There are now almost 1,000 more public places to charge electric cars than there are forecourts to pump petrol in the UK – 9,300 EV charging locations compared to 8,400 fuel stations, according to a press release from EV manufacturer Nissan. The crossover happened more than a year before Nissan’s 2016 prediction of August 2020 – a sign of the accelerating adoption of EVs (electric vehicles) amongst UK motorists.

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First major US offshore wind farm delayed by government

Renewable Energy World

The Trump administration cast the fate of the nation’s first major offshore wind farm into doubt by extending an environmental review for the $2.8 billion Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts.

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