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Greenbacks in the bank, stick beats carrot for sustainability action and fishy air-con
12/07/2024
- Greenbacks in the bank
- Legislation biggest sustainability driver and climate tops challenge list
- Planes, trains and trends
- Carbon offsets take more flack
- Air codnitioning (not an error, just a poor pun)
- Cool roofs way to go
Cooking the books, a 50-year EV battery and Net Zero Standards on the way
05/07/2024
- Cooking the books
- Net Zero Standards on the way
- 83% of cities facing climate hazards
- Greenwashing is rife
- 50 year EV battery
- Catan goes green
Denmark shows us the way, liquid renewables from solar beyond the lab and lots on lithium
27/06/2024
- Danes show the way
- The dangers of lithium – Part 1
- The dangers of lithium – Part 2
- Lithium – A potential NZ resource?
- Where does lithium stand?
- Solar liquid fuels at industrial scale
Carbon capture adding decades to oil fields, Victoria building efficiency and plankton to save the planet
21/06/2024
- Victoria building efficiency
- Biggest southern wind farm
- Carbon capture = an extra 84 years of oil extraction
- Advertisers getting house in order
- Nothing (materially) new from G7
- Cheaper and more efficient industrial heat pumps
- Plankton to save the climate
EVs hit price parity, cooling without refrigerants and a nod to Global Wind Day
14/06/2024
- EVs hit price parity
- Self-installing wind turbines
- SAF getting tantalisingly nearer
- Is big beautiful?
- Magnetic cooling
- Olympic emissions
Carbon markets down 56%, why free electricity is worrying and solar recycling breakthrough
07/06/2024
- Carbon markets down 56%
- Why free electricity is worrying Europe
- Renewables investment unstoppable
- Bonn 2024
- Mega solar
- Is solar recycling coming of age?
- Common sense or poor taste?
- Jaws 99
Has China peaked? The world’s most sustainable protein and zero-carbon cement is here
31/05/2024
- Has China peaked?
- Voluntary Carbon Markets getting straight
- Nature-based Carbon Credits following the lead
- The world’s most sustainable protein?
- Zero-carbon cement is here
- Self-cleaning, energy efficient glass alternative
How many bison does it take to solve a climate crisis?
24/05/2024
- Electricity – Utility or Commodity?
- Only 19% more for net zero
- Carbon credit crunch looming
- Words and deeds
- The cost of poor decisions
- How many bison does it take to solve a climate crisis?
Highest CO2 spike in 50,000 years, volcano storage solution and the world’s smartest city is ……
17/05/2024
- Highest rate of CO2 increase in 50,000 years
- And still on the up
- Clean energy boosting economies
- Volcanoes may provide storage solution
- 95 tonnes
- And the smartest city in the world is ………
Solar on target, heavy trucks stalling and Venezuela hits sad milestone
10/05/2024
- Solar and batteries on target
- Energy transition exposed to mineral access risk
- The cost of delay
- Heavy trucks stalling
- Venezuela hits sad milestone
- New sustainability reporting guidance issued
- San Francisco cleanest again
Power sector dominates lithium battery demand, G7 commitments and 24/7 solar
03/05/2024
- Power sector dominates lithium-ion demand
- EV sales hit 20%
- Half full or half empty? G7 commitments
- Red Sea avoidance costs millions
- 24/7 solar
- Innovative hydro update
- Electricity from CO2
The 100% club, supply risks highlighted and NZ misses out
19/04/2024
- The 100% club
- Transition supply risks highlighted
- Blown away by wind uptake
- NZ misses out
- Smarter cities
- Former PM appeals to World Bank and IMF