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Panasonic Photovoltaic Module Achieves World's Highest Energy Conversion Efficiency of 23.8% at Research Level

By : sustainabilityo..., Mar 3, 2016

Panasonic Corporation today announced that it has achieved a photovoltaic module conversion efficiency*1 of 23.8%*2 (aperture area*3: 11,562 cm2) at research...

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Boeing, Aeromexico, Mexican Government Collaborate on Sustainable Aviation Biofuel Research and Development

By : sustainabilityo..., Feb 26, 2016

Aeromexico and Mexico's Airports and Auxiliary Services (ASA) will collaborate with a biojet program supported by Mexico's Sector Fund for Energy Sustainability (SENER-CONACYT) to advance...

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NTPC arm ties up with German institutes for solar power research

By : sustainabilityo..., Feb 22, 2016

NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance (NETRA), the research and development arm of the public sector power generator, said on Thursday that it is collaborating with two German institutions...

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Subject Tags: Research , solar power

World's richest 10% produce 50% of CO2: Report

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 3, 2015

The richest 10 % of people produce half of the Earth's carbon emissions, while the poorest half-most threatened by droughts and super stroms linked to climate change--contribute a mere 10%, British charity Oxfam said in a study released on Wednesday.

The richest 10%...

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Subject Tags: Emissions , Research

Climate change study centre to come up Aurangabad

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 29, 2015

With the state facing drought conditions following a rainfall deficiency of 40 per cent this monsoon, Maharashtra’s disaster management cell has proposed to set up a climate change study centre in Aurangabad in Marathwada, the region worst hit by the drought.
Earlier...

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Trucost Research Points to $10B #BusinessCase for Circular Economy for Electronics

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 28, 2015

Last month, the Green Electronics Council (GEC) unveiled new research carried out by Trucost that highlights the importance of advancing best circular-economy practices throughout the electronics sector.

The GEC engaged Trucost in order to better understand the...

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Utility Scale Solar’s Impact On The Land

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 28, 2015

The joint study from Stanford University and UC Riverside reads like a report card. The authors recognized that “solar energy has one of the greatest climate change mitigation potentials” of all renewable energy sources. It can play a leading role in helping the United States...

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Subject Tags: Research

Study reveals US doublespeak on emission cuts

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 8, 2015

America has for long sought to shift the greater onus of battling climate change on the developing world. But a new study seeks to remind the richest nation on the planet to first practice what it preaches. Indian think tank, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), has...

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Berkeley Researchers Developing Artificial Leaves to Produce Carbon-Neutral Fuel

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 7, 2015

Researchers at UC Berkeley have created a synthetic leaf that uses water, sunlight and carbon dioxide to make liquid fuels such as methane, butane and acetate — and releases oxygen into the air, The Los Angeles Times reports.

Lead researcher on the project, Peidong...

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