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A 3-Day Course on the Applications of Artificial Intelligence Techniques for the Identification and Implementation of energy and process savings in the Industrial and Power Sectors

We offer a three-day course that will provide the participants with essential knowledge and skills to plan for the integration of advanced energy savings solutions in your industry. With this knowledge will learn how to uncover hidden energy savings patterns associated with your processes and utility systems. You will also learn how to use artificial […]

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Renewables Lead Europe’s Answer to Wartime Energy Crisis

BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 18, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – The European Commission has approved a €3 billion Austrian plan to support companies facing soaring energy costs due to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Solar photovoltaic capacity, both large utility-scale and small distributed systems, accounts for two-thirds of this year’s projected increase in global renewable capacity.

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Problematic Chicken Feathers Solve Modern Problems

ZURICH, Switzerland, October 23, 2023 (ENS) – Scientists are finding innovative ways of turning waste into problem-solving products – even the 102 million tonnes of chicken feathers produced globally each year by the industrial processing of chickens for meat. The waste feathers have been sent to landfills or incinerated, but now there are ways to transform them into valuable products from fuel cell membranes to oil spill dispersants.

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Annual AI Power Consumption Rivals That of an Entire Country 

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, October 12, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – The artificial intelligence (AI) industry could consume as much energy as a country the size of the Netherlands by 2027, new research shows. Data centers run 24/7; most are powered by fossil fuels. Today, the world’s data centers account for 1% of the global electricity demand, states the International Energy Agency, and about 4% of all greenhouse gas emissions, more than the aviation industry.

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Youth Leaders Strategize Ahead of Climate Summit COP28

BEIRUT, Lebanon, August 24, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – At a Climate Justice Camp in Lebanon next week, 450 young leaders from nearly 100 countries in the world’s most climate-stressed regions across the Global South will gather to co-create strategies that will advance an equitable climate action framework at this year’s United Nations climate conference, COP28, and beyond.

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Common Plants Cleanse Indoor Air of Toxic Petrol Vapours

SYDNEY, Australia, May 30, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Ordinary indoor plants can efficiently remove toxic gasoline fumes from indoor air new reseach conducted in Sydney has shown. University of Technology Sydney bioremediation researcher Fraser Torpy partnered with international plantscaping solutions company Ambius for the study; researchers from both organizations are excited about how quickly indoor plants can remove petrol vapors from indoor air.

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10 Essential Climate Science Insights for 2022

As world leaders, scientists and diplomats at the United Nations’ annual climate conference, COP27, struggle to agree on how to manage the extremes of climate change, global scientists presented the 10 essential scientific climate insights of the year as guideposts to negotiation.

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Are Droughts A Key Indicator Of Climate Shifts?

Maximpact Sustainability News and Articles, August 27, 2022 – Summer 2022 brought the worst droughts in 500 years. 47% of European countries is in “warning” condition, announcing soil has dried up and 17% are in “alert” showing signs of stress in vegetation. Europe has never seen in this lifetime such droughts.

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Earth Day 2022: Local Investments for Global Change

The environmental movement hasn’t always embraced the language of investment, although it may have depended on donations, which are a type of investment, too. But this year, the Earth Day theme is “Invest in Our Planet,” because, as the Earth Day organization puts it, “a green future is a prosperous future.”

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Mutant Enzyme Debuts at World Plastics Summit

MONACO, April 13, 2022 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – “The plastics pollution crisis is one of the most urgent challenges of our time,” warned Professor John McGeehan as he co-chaired the very first World Plastics Summit last week at the Novotel Monte Carlo Hotel as part of Monaco Ocean Week 2022.

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Monaco Ocean Week Buoys the Blue Economy

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MONACO, March 26, 2022 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – The millionaires, scientists and sailors of Monaco have been laser focused this week on ocean conservation as the heartbeat of the “blue economy.” Just concluded, Monaco’s annual Ocean Week offered, in the words of host HSH Prince Albert II, “a unique framework for exchanges, meetings, experiments and openness.”

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Plastic Medical Waste Floods the Planet

GENEVA, Switzerland, February 16, 2022 (Maximpact.com News) – Medical waste from the coronavirus pandemic is accumulating around the world, threatening human and environmental health, revealing the need to improve waste management, and accelerating planning for a global treaty on plastics.

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Sunny Abu Dhabi Signs Multiple Clean Energy Deals

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, January 26, 2022 (Maximpact.com News) – Clean energy projects are springing up across a vast area of the world – from Eastern Europe and the Middle East, through Central Asia and as far east as Indonesia – founded on the work of Masdar, the renewable energy company based in Abu Dhabi.

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