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Climate change triples death rate, Auckland 67th riskiest and kale getting KO’d
16/07/2025
- Climate change triples death rate in Europe
- Efficiency at home – the real answer to energy hardship
- Data centres at risk
- Emissions targets still lacking integrity
- Kale losing its nutrients
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Just transition could add 21% to GDP, the art of generation and happy birthday Sir William
11/07/2025
- Just transition could deliver 21% GDP growth
- AI to save 5bn tonnes a year
- Offset demand already outpacing supply
- The art of generation
- Lightning + air = ammonia
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NZ ranks 18th, EU moves the goalposts and redefining coffee
04/07/2025
- NZ ranks 18th
- EU moves the goalposts
- Asia warming at double the average
- 30% discount on batteries across the ditch
- At a glance indicators updated
- Historic law of physics shattered
- Redefining coffee bricks
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Carbon credits still under scrutiny, clean energy at risk and a global grid
27/06/2025
- Carbon credits still under scrutiny
- Clean energy at risk
- A global grid
- Biodegradable, passive cooling
- Congratulations to the Hutt
- Toyota on the turn
- G&T under threat
- Did you know ……
NZ MIA on efficiency, green premiums a reality and sweating paint
19/06/2025
- NZ missing in action on efficiency
- Tenants willing to pay premium for green homes and offices
- Bonn focused on adaptation and finance
- Sweating paint improves cooling
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Dairy can cut methane by 80%, the shady world of lobbying and carbon emitting rivers
12/06/2025
- Tech giants lagging in reporting
- The shady world of lobbying
- Dairy sector can cut methane by 80%
- District heating review
- Consolidated heating, cooling and charging
- Microgrid in a box for your home
- Sports carbon calculator launched
- Mining, sequestering microbes
- England mandating solar on new builds
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Half the world getting an extra month of extreme heat, Auckland and Wellington A-listed and yet more on cephalopods
05/06/2025
- Half the world suffers an extra month of extreme heat
- Auckland and Wellington A-listed - again
- $1 in adaptation yields $10.50 in benefits
- Air conditioning in the news
- Adaptive insulation
- Guide to aligning financial and transition planning published
- Did you know …..
Efficiency spend trending up, EU on track and penguins helping out
29/05/2025
- 84% of companies expecting to increase efficiency investment
- EU close to emissions pathway
- Tropical forest destruction hits all time high
- Small businesses struggling with net zero
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Protecting the economy, methane stupidity and under-hydro hydro
23/05/2025
- Risk managing agriculture under climate change
- 70% of industrial methane emissions avoidable
- Corporates looking for assurance on sustainability reports
- Cheap, flow batteries for the home just around the corner
- Less than half of young people feel equipped for green jobs
- Smaller, lighter and 100% more efficient cooling
- Storage under pressure
- Carbon removing storage
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Lat(t)e to act, 92% of condemned EV batteries repairable and next gen heat exchangers
16/05/2025
- 92% of “failed” EV batteries repairable
- Next generation heat exchanger delivers 27% increase in power
- Lat(t)e to act
- Carbon capture gigafactory to offset 27 million cars
- Taking the p***
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Solar installations surge, the dangers of fast charging and biofuel breakthrough
09/05/2025
- Solar installations surge
- Careful what you wish for on EV charging
- Energy hunger outweighs climate ambition
- Biofuel breakthrough
- Climate adaptation to be a lucrative business
- Wealthiest doing most harm
- Investors deserting carbon capture
- Rooftop panels to be mandatory
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New guidelines for resilient cities, dealing with Scope 3 and another new renewable
02/05/2025
- Global electricity demand to increase 75%
- Scope 3 Code of Practice launched
- Resilience guidelines for cities
- Natural catastrophe costs through the roof
- Energy Security Summit concludes
- Tilted landscape for windmills
- Power from rain – without a turbine
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