Tag: energy
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Amazon Opens $2 Billion Climate Investment Fund
Retailing and web services giant Amazon plans to invest $2 billion in sustainable technologies to meet the company’s goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2040.
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Start-Up Gains Hydrogen Fuel Technology Funds
A spin-off company from a university engineering lab received funds to build a device that efficiently splits water and creates hydrogen for fuel cell cars.
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Energy Employees Not Ready for Office Return
A survey shows a large majority of energy industry workers prefers to continue working remotely than return their regular offices during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Institutional Investors Factoring in Climate Change
A survey of institutional investors shows these money managers for financial institutions are starting to take climate change impacts into their investment decisions.
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Proteins from Bacteria Generate Power for Wearables
A collaboration of engineers and biologists created a way of producing electric power from humidity in the air with fine wires made of proteins from bacteria.
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Waste Plastic-to-Energy System Unveiled
A company developing waste-to-energy conversion systems revealed a version of its product that converts waste plastic to heat and electric power.
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Microsoft Launches $1 Billion Climate Fund
Microsoft Corp. plans to invest $1 billion over the next four years to create technologies for removing carbon from the atmosphere.
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Infographic – More Data Show a Warming Planet
A chart posted on Friday by Statista provides yet another sign our planet is getting dangerously warmer.
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Infographic – Australia’s Wildfires Eclipse Others
Statista put together a chart this week comparing Australia’s fires in size to other recent wildfire outbreaks, our infographic for this weekend.
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Climate Action Cost Accounting Standard Proposed
A new paper proposes an accounting standard that would require private companies to spell out their costs of meeting net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.