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Climate fatigue, efficient carbon capture and solar storage breakthrough
- Climate fatigue
- Business investment bounces back
- Consultation on natural climate solutions launched
- Lithium hoard discovered in Arkansas
- Carbon capture breakthrough
- Storing meaningful solar for months
Forest fire emissions up 60% in 20 years, 1.5 still possible and NZ cities AWOL for sustainable tourism
- Forest fire emission increase 60% in 20 years
- 1.5 still possible
- Do we need unified carbon accounting?
- NZ cities absent in sustainable tourism list
- Mercedes closes loop on EV battery recycling
Land-based absorption at zero, frequent flyer taxes and CEP hits the right notes
- 2023 land-based absorption at zero
- CEOs demand higher carbon prices and energy efficiency subsidies
- Climate change tops risk list
- Greenwashing’s repeat offenders
- IPCC authors holding mixed views
- 2024 is year of peak emissions
- Optimism bias jeopardising net zero attainment
- Earthquake resistant offshore wind
- Frequent Flyer Tax
Ocean warming doubles in 20 years, home energy support works and cable-less EVs
- Ocean warming doubles in 20 years
- Renewables unstoppable
- WEF launches Responsible Renewables Infrastructure Coalition
- Earth’s vital signs on life support
- Deforestation still increasing
- Home energy support works
- Cable-less EVs
Auckland most accessible, intermittent-free renewables and shifting borders
- Climate change shifts borders
- Efficiency remains main contributor to climate goals
- Renewables jobs increase 18%
- Electricity jobs in Oz to double (or quadruple) in 5 years
- Is your net zero plan credible?
- SDGs delivering a competitive edge
- Auckland tops the region for sustainable accessibility
- Nighttime solar
- Renewables without the intermittency (aka hedging your bets)
Back for the future, can we thicken the ice sheets? And the end of an era
- Three Mile Island is back
- Net zero commitments still rising among large companies (1)
- Net zero commitments still rising among large companies (2)
- New electricity lifecycle emissions factors
- End of an era
- AI – Artificial Ice
- Sustainability professionals suffering burnout
- Dead tree emoji for business, yeah or nah?
Decarbonising reaps rewards, global power alliance launched and green skills in demand
- Global Clean Power Alliance launched
- Global South hit by US$675bn double whammy
- Decarbonisation stalling but reaps rewards
- Green skills in high demand
- EVs still charging ahead – in some markets
- Self-charging mobiles using transparent solar cells
Energy transition key to prosperity, we can grow to zero and methane rising at an increasing rate
- Energy is key to economic prosperity
- NZ’s largest companies lauded and shamed on climate reporting
- Methane emissions growing at accelerating rate
- 92% of companies can grow while reducing emissions
- 36% of B2B customers prepared to switch suppliers on sustainability
- SMEs accepting the challenge
- ICC considering declaring ecocide a crime
- Volvo back-tracks
Cheap, safe hydrogen storage, 90% energy self-sufficiency at -45C and fashion’s faux pas
- A 19th Century solution to a 21st Century problem
- The timber building that’s 90% energy self-sufficient at -45C
- More efficiency support across the ditch
- Fashion not on trend
- Another largest wind turbine (for now)
SBTi for buildings, AI to save billions and world’s biggest heatpump
- Science Based Targets for Buildings
- China hits target early
- What about others?
- AI to save billions in generation
- World’s biggest heatpump unveiled
- The latest refrigerant gas is …… air
- Non-electric heat transfer breakthrough
E-fuel setback, preventing battery fires and revolutionary process heat and cooling advances
- Electrifying process heat – a new innovation
- New circularity index for the bioeconomy
- Built environment becoming more sustainable
- Fresh cooling and heating breakthrough
- Preventing battery fires
- Ozzies ahead on targeting efficiency
- E-fuel setback
Nobel Laureates up in arms, EV heat pumps and 50% HVAC savings
- Nobel Laureates up in arms
- Strong ESG shown as a positive valuation influence
- Climate change triples chance of extreme wildfires
- The march of the heat pump
- Easy air conditioner retrofit cuts energy use by 50%
- Solar highway potential