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Three sustainable fuels that could be the future of green aviation

Corporate Knights

Here’s what could be an eco-friendly power source on your next flight: Animal fats and cooking oils. Oils and fats are currently the most accessible option, according to Bradley Saville, a professor at the University of Toronto in the school’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry.

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Why the push to sell LNG as a climate solution is full of hot air

Corporate Knights

In fact, LNG Canada’s Phase 1 project in Kitimat, British Columbia, with a price tag of $40 billion , is the largest private sector project in Canada’s history. With big oil and gas companies exerting their influence via lobbying, advertising and misinformation campaigns, governments need to listen to the science.

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Meat rendering company employs Gorman-Rupp pumps

Sustainability Matters

From this material, the company manufactures nutrient-rich protein meal and tallows/oils. The pumps are also capable of pumping solid materials such as rags, ear tags, gloves and other debris. Rendering is the hygienic treatment of high moisture material from the meat industry that is not sold for human consumption.

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Workforce Transition in the Energy Industry

Cisco CSR

Today’s oil & gas industry is experiencing serious challenge s attracting the workers they need. The 2022 Global Energy Talent Index identifies that 20% of the workforce is above the age of 55 and 82% of workers would consider leaving oil & gas for another energy industry. Trend Overview . Increased Digitization.

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New tracking tool helps companies prove their supply chains aren’t harming biodiversity

Corporate Knights

Saunders’s idea for NatureHelm came from a decade of working with her other for-profit company, Wildlife Drones , which sells aerial drones that can track radio-frequency wildlife tags. This is one of the appeals for the company Aluan, which produces virgin organic coconut oil from Indonesia and is an early partner of NatureHelm.

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Baker Hughes Presents- The Global Methane Pledge: Challenges and Opportunities for Emissions Management

3BL Media

Georges Tijbosch is Chief Executive at MiQ, a not-for-profit climate tech foundation undertaking cutting-edge work to reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas sector. Georges Tijbosch | Chief Executive Officer, MiQ. He holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

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Cracks showing in Mark Carney’s net-zero financial alliance

Corporate Knights

I’d guesstimate that only 50 to 60% of the $100-plus trillion in sustainable assets under management claimed by the PRI could reasonably be called ‘sustainable’ by any remotely rigorous definition of the term,” says Kiernan, who co-founded Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, which became part of the massive ESG rating service of MSCI.

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