There are so many more delivery trucks crowding
streets these days. Ecommerce has grown at a
healthy rate before the pandemic, and COVID has further fueled
society’s shift to online shopping. Those commercial trucks are a major source of
the emissions and pollutants that contribute to global warming. Tesla have begun to bring electric cars into
the mainstream, but the revolution has yet to take
hold in commercial trucking in western countries. Volta (Sweden, France & UK based) has launched Zero as their first purpose-built, full-electric,16 ton commercial truck, designed specifically for freight distribution in city centers. https:/
The world now has about a decade
left to stop global heating. We are currently on track for temperature increases
above pre-industrial levels of up to 4.5 degrees Celsius. When more than 190
signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, they dearly wanted no more than 2 degrees of
heating, preferably 1.5 degrees. The only way to meet that aim is by
adopting a reasonably safe carbon budget at COP26. All nations must work
together to live within that budget. See why this is vital and how we can set a
reasonably safe carbon budget and save the planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-exuQBnuFw&t=183s
#methane | "Reducing methane going into the atmosphere is the most cost-effective way to reduce climate change today. We don't need major changes in technology, we don't need to find places where we can stick the methane deep into the earth, we can solve a lot of these problems right now, by just simply mapping where things are leaking and fixing it today."https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/methane-emissions-higher-than-previous-estimates/13561978
The latest thoughts from leading Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) funds investing in innovation to decarbonize their respective industries.Whereas traditional venture capital funds are purely financially oriented, CVCs’ objectives often bifurcate into prioritizing strategic and financial returns. In a world of corporate net zero commitments, CVCs have bolstered their mandates to invest in accelerating climate technologies. Startups are considered to be bad at scaling, and corporates bad at innovating - so the upsurgence in CVCs’ investment into climate startups is exciting for their partnership potential to scale climate innovation. I'd love to see some Aussie success stories here.image credit: ClimatechVChttps://climatetechvc.substack.com/p/-corporate-climate-venturing
Wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has
announced the launch of the “world’s first” recyclable commercial
turbine blade. Wind turbines generate electricity without using fossil fuels or
producing particulate matter pollution, but they do create waste: they can last as long as 25 years, and up to now turbine blades could not be recycled, piling up in landfills
at the end of their life. However, now the Spain-based renewable energy company
Siemens Gamesa says it has finally designed a recyclable wind turbine
blade.https://www.fastcompany.com/90674645/this-giant-wind-turbine-blade-can-be-recycled
