Friday, October 25, 2019
Recycling, Renewables and Sustainable Business 6
1 How To Kick The Hydrocarbon Habit
https://www.woodmac.com/news/the-edge/how-to-kick-the-hydrocarbon-habit/
Let’s start with the good news…
The power sector is already being transformed, with renewables on an explosive growth path, propelled by the precipitous fall in wind and solar costs. Renewables’ share of the global power market rises from 7% today to 25% by 2040. Some markets are also looking to build in grid-edge technologies such as energy storage and EV charging.
2 Can The Energy Industry Rise To The Challenge Of Climate Change?
https://www.woodmac.com/news/feature/can-the-energy-industry-rise-to-the-challenge-of-climate-change/
What about the Paris Agreement? The statement above from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the central aim of The Paris Agreement, ratified at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21).
3 Glacial rivers absorb carbon faster than rainforests, scientists find
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/25/scientists-glacial-rivers-absorb-carbon-faster-rainforests
In the turbid, frigid waters roaring from the glaciers of Canada’s high Arctic, researchers have made a surprising discovery: for decades, the northern rivers secretly pulled carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a rate faster than the Amazon rainforest.
4 P&G to double recycled plastic packaging in Europe by 2020
https://www.packagingnews.co.uk/news/markets/household-products/pg-double-recycled-plastic-packaging-europe-2020-24-10-2019
Fairy, Flash and Viakal will increase the use of recycled plastic to 9,000 tonnes of post-consumer resin and post-industrial resin, replacing virgin plastic in the supply chain. In total, 300 million bottles across P&G’s European household cleaning brands will be converted annually to either 100% recycled or partially-recycled plastic. Additionally, all surface cleaning wipes will be made of 100% recycled fibre.
5 Climate risk leads Kuwait to consider reducing production targets
https://www.worldoil.com/news/2019/10/24/climate-risk-leads-kuwait-to-consider-reducing-production-targets
Kuwait, OPEC’s fourth-biggest member, is considering cuts to its oil production capacity targets, in large part because mounting concern about climate change will constrict demand for fossil fuels.
6 Factbox: Climate targets – the devil’s in the detail
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-shipping-factbox-idUSKBN1X21JK
Amid a groundswell of public pressure for climate action, companies, sectors and countries worldwide have trumpeted new pledges, from setting net-zero emissions targets to declaring carbon neutrality in specific timeframes.
7 The Best Thing About The Death Of Coal
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Best-Thing-About-The-Death-Of-Coal.html
This isn’t another tired story about how kicking the coal habit will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That would be like kicking a dead horse. Instead, there is a massive new benefit to ditching the dirty: Doing so will free up billions of gallons of water.
8 Why Big Oil faces court cases that echo the litigation against Big Tobacco in the ’90s
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/exxon-shell-climate-change-court-new-york-attorney-general-litigation-documents-1.5331228
How much did the oil industry know about the impact of fossil fuel emissions on the climate? When did they know it? And what did they do with that knowledge? Those are the central questions in a series of court cases attempting to hold companies accountable for their role in climate change.
9 Blockchain technology applied to plastics traceability and sustainability
https://www.plasticstoday.com/sustainability/blockchain-technology-applied-plastics-traceability-and-sustainability/51580656461743
Resin suppliers Domo and Covestro are teaming up with transparency start-up Circularise in a collaborative project for circularity in the plastics industry through the use of blockchain technology. The newly-formed Circularise Plastics project group aims to set up an open standard for sustainability and transparency within this field. At K 2019, Domo and Covestro discussed the project with customers and looked for new partners to join them on this pathway towards full circularity.
10 The Billionaire Battle For EV Dominance
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Billionaire-Battle-For-EV-Dominance.html
The neck-to-neck race to dominate the electric vehicle space continues between Elon Musk’s Tesla and Warren Buffet’s BYD. But it’s a much larger story than just EV sales — with both companies being leaders in global sales of battery packs used in EVs and energy storage, and Tesla ready to enter BYD’s home market of China. Two other elements of the story include a decline in EV sales in both the U.S. and in China, and the next trend in electric buses and commercial vehicle global sales.
