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Green news- AI threatens Big Tech’s clean energy agendaElectricity emissions surged at Amazon, Google and Microsoft in 2025, signaling new hazards for the corporate clean power movement. The post AI threatens Big Tech’s clean energy agenda appeared first on Trellis.
- Why Meta is betting on long-duration energy storage and ‘space solar’Blair Swedeen, global head of net zero and sustainability, says the social media company is prioritizing ways to build on past renewable energy investments. The post Why Meta is betting on long-duration energy storage and ‘space solar’ appeared first on Trellis.
- Why The Nature Conservancy’s chief scientist says our climate theory of change was always brokenHope, not alarm, is what actually moves boards and employees to act. The post Why The Nature Conservancy’s chief scientist says our climate theory of change was always broken appeared first on Trellis.
- Beyond ‘permanence’: A buyer’s guide to managing carbon credit reversal riskA range of mechanisms already exists to manage reversal risk, and a wave of innovation is filling in the gaps. The post Beyond ‘permanence’: A buyer’s guide to managing carbon credit reversal risk appeared first on Trellis.
- Diversity of corporate climate action revealed by new scoring frameworkThe Climate Contribution Framework goes beyond emissions to include supplier engagement, low-carbon products and other forms of climate efforts. The post Diversity of corporate climate action revealed by new scoring framework appeared first on Trellis.
- AI threatens Big Tech’s clean energy agenda
Yearly Archives: 2012
Home Solar Systems: Worth the Cost?
Humanity has acknowledged the power of the sun since prehistoric times, awed by the glowing orb whose presence creates day and whose absence plunges the world into darkness.
For all our advances in science and technology, most of the power from the sun still eludes us. NASA reports that we use only one ten-thousandth of the sun’s energy.
Photovoltaic (PV) solar electrical systems offer new and ever-changing ways to harness that energy. The term “photovoltaic” literally means light-electricity.
In 1839, French physicist Edmond Becquerel discovered that sunlight could produce an electric current. Another century would pass before scientists fully understood that this process happens at the atomic level. Albert Einstein’s only Nobel Prize was awarded for his work on the photoelectric effect. By 1958, the space program was using solar cells. Continue reading
Small enterprises: Shift to green economy underway, but not at full speed yet
According to the Eurobarometer survey on “SMEs, resource efficiency and green markets”, 37% of EU SMEs have at least one full or part-time green employee. Green jobs are largely created in SMEs as opposed to large firms: In 2012, 1 in 8 employees of small and medium-sized firms had a green job or almost 13% of all SME jobs.
In large firms it was only 1 in 33 equivalent to 3% of all large company jobs. Green jobs in SMEs are also estimated to expand dynamically with a rate of 35% in the next 2 years. Continue reading
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EU to keep carbon tax on airlines, but for how long?
The European Union will maintain its carbon tax imposed on airlines operating in its airspace, despite retaliatory trade measures by China.
As long as an international policy on carbon emissions by airlines is not found, the “EU will stick to its own ETS system”. The carbon tax imposed on airlines by the European Union came into effect on January 1, but carriers will begin receiving bills only in 2013 after this year’s carbon emissions have been assessed. Continue reading
Solar pannel from plants. Is it possible?
In a mashup of biology and electronics, researchers said they’ve made progress in making low-cost solar cell from plants.
A paper published in Scientific Reports describes an improved method for making electricity-producing “biophotovoltaics” without the sophisticated laboratory equipment previously needed. Researchers said custom-designed chemicals could be mixed with green plants, even grass clippings, to create a photovoltaic material by harnessing photosynthesis. Continue reading
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