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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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The City of Lancaster will supply guaranteed feedstock of recyclables, and will save between $50 to $75 per ton in landfilling and landfill space costs. It not only solves our air quality and climate challenges by producing pollution-free hydrogen. The facility will process 42,000 tons of recycled waste annually.

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COP27 Ends – How can Smart Energy Management for EV Charging Help?

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As the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 came to an end, we found ourselves thinking about the role smart EV charging energy management has to play in protecting the planet. Smart energy management can also integrate grid power supplies with onsite renewable energy — typically solar panels — and local battery storage.

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Caterpillar Foundation awards $12.5M grant to World Resources Institute (WRI) for sustainable cities initiative; focus on key urban centers in China, India and Brazil

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Poorly-planned, sprawling cities have the potential to undermine efforts to sustain economic growth, improve energy efficiency, curb greenhouse gas emissions, and secure clean water supplies. We are grateful to Caterpillar for their support to significantly expand our ability to develop sound solutions and achieve these goals.

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Rolls-Royce consortium secures funding for mini nuclear reactors

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Each power station can supply enough reliable low carbon power for around one million* homes, or be used to power net zero hydrogen and synthetic aviation fuel manufacturing facilities, desalination plants or energy intensive industrial sites. billion per unit dropping to £1.8

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Global CO2 emissions stalled for the third year in a row

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Other main findings include: In 2016, China, US, EU28, India, Russia and Japan, the world’s largest emitters in decreasing order of CO 2 emissions, accounted for 51% of the population, 65% of global Gross Domestic Product, 67% of the total primary energy supply and emitted 68% of total global CO 2 and circa 65% of total global GHGs.

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EEA: Water Use Unsustainable in Many Parts of Europe

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The balance between water demand and availability has reached a critical level in many areas of Europe, the results of over-abstraction and prolonged periods of low rainfall or drought ,” reads the report, which was launched at the Fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul, Turkey, in the run-up to World Water Day (22 March).

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PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

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—Leo Johnson, Partner, Sustainability and Climate Change, PwC. The risk to business is that it faces more unpredictable and extreme weather, and disruptions to market and supply chains. Resilience will become a watch word in the boardroom—to policy responses as well as to the climate. —PwC report.