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The results of the 2022 Futurebrand Index have come out. Perhaps not surprisingly, they show that sustainability has become a key driver of innovation and that climate change is now seen as the biggest threat to business success. Since the start of the pandemic three years ago, PwC’s annual perception study of the top 100…
Bill Gates says that green technologies need to get cheap enough so that every country can use them. Episode 3 of Zero, a new podcast from Bloomberg Green, is now available to listen to. Bill Gates is getting ready to raise a new fund for Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) to support innovative climate startups. This…
The Department of Energy has made it possible for H2 hubs to get money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The US Department of Energy (DoE) is now accepting applications for its $7 billion programme to fund the development and installation of H2Hubs across the country. The H2 hubs are expected to be at the centre…
With a bid of $1.4 billion, FTX US beat out Binance, another cryptocurrency exchange, for the assets of the bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital. FTX beats Binance with a big loan of $1.4 billion for Voyager In July 2022, Voyager Digital filed for bankruptcy because its debts had grown to $4.9 billion because of the…
Spain’s inflation went down for a second month and by more than expected, dropping to less than 10% as the cost of electricity, transportation, and fuel went down. Spain has the fourth-largest economy in the eurozone. Harmonized consumer prices in the European Union went up 9.3% from a year ago in September. This was less…
Scottish Water is improving its sewer network and reducing carbon emissions by using “state-of-the-art” drones and lasers. The high-tech drones have been modified for use in the wastewater industry. They are used to looking for problems in the sewers by flying to parts of the network that humans can’t get to. Scottish Water, its alliance…
LAUNCESTON, Australia, Sept. 29– If there is one thing that both the oil and coal industries can agree on, it is that more fossil fuels are the answer to the current energy crisis. This was the main point of the two industries’ biggest annual meetings in Asia, which took place this week in Singapore for…
Laura Ortman has replaced Bill Fathers as the CEO of Cologix.The company’s board of directors announced that Laura Ortman will become the company’s CEO on October 12, 2022. Laura is the President and Chief Revenue Officer at Cologix right now. Ortman joined the company in 2018. Before that, he was Chief Customer Officer at Equinix and…
Ciara is working with Instacart on a new project that aims to teach people how to shop in a healthy way.The 36-year-old artist has made a digital shopping cart of “feel-good favorites” that customers can buy on their own. This was done in partnership with a company that delivers groceries and household items. The singer’s…
On September 28, 2022, Westport Fuel Systems will host a European Policy Panel titled “Hydrogen Mobility for Sustainable Heavy-Duty Transport” in Brussels. The panelists are Zlatko Kregar, Policy Officer, DG MOVE, European Commission, and David Johnson, CEO, Westport. The moderator will be Cillian Totterdell, Account Director, Energy, Climate, and Transport Team, FleishmanHillard. 28th of September, 2022 …