Day: 22 September 2022

American Airlines Continues Its Efforts To Diversify the Flight Deck With a $1.5 Million Donation to the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals

Stuart Mitchell

American Airlines has announced a donation of $1.5 million to the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals (OBAP) Luke Weathers Flight Academy during the organization’s 46th annual conference, held Aug. 10–12. American served as the title sponsor of OBAPs 46th annual conference, which included several notable industry speakers, aerospace professional development workshops and networking opportunities. “Our strength lies in having a team, especially pilots, that represent the diverse communities we serve,” said American CEO Robert Isom. “We must expose young people to careers in aviation, provide relief to financial barriers and…

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Downing LLP partners with Yorkshire Water to develop 28 new solar sites

Stuart Mitchell

Investment and asset manager, Downing LLP, is pleased to announce it has been selected by Yorkshire Water to develop, design, build and operate a portfolio of 28 solar sites across Yorkshire. The first phase of solar deployments, an investment worth around £25 million, will generate a total capacity of approximately 21MW. This represents Downing’s second successful tender award from a UK regulated utility company. Yorkshire Water provides water and sewerage services to over five million people and 100,000 businesses in the Yorkshire region. The construction of the solar panel arrays…

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Optimism about pace of energy transitions declining, reveals World Energy Council’s latest ‘World Energy Pulse’

Stuart Mitchell

The World Energy Council has released results from its August World Energy Pulse, which polled nearly 600 leaders from across the global energy community. The latest World Energy Pulse shows that leaders’ optimism about the pace of energy transition has decreased rapidly, with 27% more leaders indicating that they believe the process will slow compared to April when the first Pulse was conducted (44% vs 35%).  The shift comes as energy security increasingly reframes affordable climate security actions. At the same time, 18% more respondents are seeing greater fragmentation in…

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British Smart Tech Firm Cal International Partners With Market Leading Reforestation Drone Technology To Tackle Climate Change

Stuart Mitchell

British engineering and smart tech firm CAL International have teamed up with Australian green tech start-up AirSeed Technologies to embark on a ground-breaking climate change initiative, which will see the aerial platform technology aim to plant 100 million trees by 2024.  The ground-breaking Anglo-Australian project and technology will not only tackle deforestation but also help in the major fightback against global warming. CAL International working in partnership with AirSeed Technologies has designed and engineered a seed pod delivery system that sits as “the engine” of AirSeed’s unique tree-planting aerial drone technology.  Over the past…

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Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and University of California Berkeley, to develop technology converting air to sugar

Stuart Mitchell

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), the world’s largest Coca-Cola bottler, has announced a collaboration, through its innovation investment platform CCEP Ventures, with the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) to develop scalable methods of converting captured CO2 into sugar. CCEP Ventures’ initial investment with UCB will support the Peidong Yang Research Group on foundational research which will focus on enabling the production of sugar from CO₂ on site and at an industrial level, with expectation of future investments to drive scale – from lab to pilot phase. This investment demonstrates the role…

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