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Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes

GreenBiz

Skyven Technologies, founded in 2013, is a company with a unique proposition for companies in the industrial sector — a way to save money through decarbonizing. In order to manufacture products, companies in the industry sector must burn fuel, typically natural gas, to create heat. Myisha Majumder. Wed, 09/16/2020 - 01:30.

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We, Sofidel. Our Passions Fuel Our Future

3BL Media

These 13 were read and interpreted by photographer Pietro Paolini, founder of the “TerraProject Photographers” collective and winner of the World Press Photo in 2012 and the Marco Pesaresi Prize for contemporary photography in 2013. The Sofidel Group is one of the leading manufacturers of paper for hygienic and domestic use worldwide.

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China’s PV plants are booming, but is that good news for the fight against climate change?

Renewable Energy World

The factory is only one of many others expected to be constructed in the coming year, as part of China’s globally-leading PV manufacturing scheme. For the past decade and a half, China became the dominant player in the PV manufacturing field, after the sector received critical help from government subsidies back in 2004.

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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

In St John River Forest in Maine (US), The Nature Conservancy bought 75,000 hectares from the pulp and paper manufacturer International Paper. Notice that compliance and voluntary carbon markets have interlinked movements, as seen in the 2013 drop in both voluntary and compliance credits. People respond to incentives.”

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink "grill-stache." and Canadian cities.

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How China's energy transition engine is driving change in the Global South

Corporate Knights

Engineered by a state-owned Chinese manufacturer, with Chinese-made lithium phosphate batteries charged by a Chinese-built solar farm, the 70-seat train is an example of the kind of power wielded by one of the key drivers of the global energy transition. But zoom out and another picture snaps into view. With the U.S.