Proptech Weekly - Latest Innovation in Real Estate News – Climate Tech Edition
Amy Polvado
Chairwoman, US Proptech Council | Host, Proptech Genius Podcast | Founder & CEO, Facilimax - driving sustainability in data center operations | Two-time winner of a Congressional Award
Climate Week has kicked off in NYC! - https://www.climateweeknyc.org/
Climate Week NYC kicked off and our very own event is happening today being lead by our Climate Tech Forum Chairs, Christine A. McHugh and Umair Surani.? This event is our kick-off event for our Climate Tech Forum and going forward will be a group of climate leaders focused on thought leadership and standards adoption.
?Other climate news:
New tech can make air-conditioning less harmful to the planet. The key is energy efficiency. ?-The Economist. ??
In many parts?of the world, the cool blast of an air-conditioner on a hot day is nowadays seen as a luxury rather than a necessity. Climate change is tipping the balance. Average global temperatures are now roughly 1.2°C higher than they were before the Industrial Revolution: by mid-century they are projected to be about 2°C higher. Air-conditioning (AC) use, correspondingly, is set to soar. By one estimate, the number of room-cooling?ACs could nearly triple between now and 2050.
These additional units will save lives, make cities liveable and stave off losses in economic productivity. The?Lancet, a medical journal, estimates that access to air-conditioning averted nearly 200,000 deaths worldwide among people aged 65 or older in 2019, for instance, cutting the cohort’s heat-related mortality by 37%. But expanding those benefits more widely will come at a cost. The electricity needed for air-conditioning is already responsible for more carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions than the entire aviation industry. And as the laws of physics unhelpfully dictate that a single degree of cooling becomes more energy-intensive as the outside temperature rises, additional cooling will require more power per unit, risking a great deal more planetary heating.
Private firms are driving a revolution in solar power in Africa. Unreliable grids and falling costs are persuading companies to go off-grid.? -The Economist
Photograph: IMAGO
Jun 18th 2024|CAPE TOWN
?African poverty?is partly a consequence of energy poverty. In every other continent the vast majority of people have access to electricity. In Africa 600m people, 43% of the total, cannot readily light their homes or charge their phones. And those who nominally have grid electricity find it as reliable as a Scottish summer. More than three-quarters of African firms experience outages; two-fifths say electricity is the main constraint on their business. If other sub-Saharan African countries had enjoyed power as reliable as South Africa’s from 1995 to 2007, then the continent’s rate of real?GDP?growth per person would have been two percentage points higher, more than doubling the actual rate, according to one academic paper. Since then South Africa has also had erratic electricity. So-called “load-shedding” is probably the main reason why the economy has shrunk in four of the past eight quarters.
Solar power is increasingly seen as the solution. Last year Africa installed a record amount of photovoltaic (PV) capacity (though this still made up just 1% of the total added worldwide), notes the African Solar Industry Association (AFSIA), a trade group. Globally most solar?PV?is built by utilities, but in Africa 65% of new capacity over the past two years has come from large firms contracting directly with developers. These deals are part of a decentralised revolution that could be of huge benefit to African economies.
?
First electric concrete mixer truck begins trials in Australia. ?– Joshua S. Hill, The Driven.
The first electric concrete truck mixer in Australia is currently undergoing trials in Melbourne, and is expected to deliver significantly lower operating costs than diesel options, and a lot less noise and emissions.? Holcim, the world’s leading global construction materials and solutions company, says the?vehicle is the first Australian Design Rules (ADRs) approved and road registered 100% electric concrete truck mixer in Australia, and was launched under the Sany brand, supported by Putzmeister.
Read more: https://thedriven.io/2024/09/18/first-electric-concrete-mixer-truck-begins-trials-in-australia/
领英推荐
Here are 3 innovations helping to create the buildings of the future. -World Economic Forum
As the world looks to accelerate efforts to combat climate change, innovative buildings and construction materials will play a critical role in meeting both climate and sustainable development goals.
According to the World Green Building Council, “buildings are currently responsible for 39% of global energy-related carbon emissions:?28% from operational emissions, from energy needed to heat, cool and power them, and the remaining 11% from materials and construction.”
The three innovations are:
1.????? Sustainability by design
2.????? Retrofitting existing buildings
3.????? Innovative building materials
Other Climate Tech Conferences?
Verge 24, October 29-31, 2024, San Jose, CA - https://trellis.net/events/verge/?utm_content=google-search-v24&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwo8S3BhDeARIsAFRmkOPOcE2RzVgAj01mPiccX0YLuAKHBMEl2caC3RujG5kM65EHol5YX1kaArcfEALw_wcB
Energy Transition North America, December 4-5, 2024, Houston https://events.reutersevents.com/energy-live/energy-transition?utm_source=google%20ads&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwo8S3BhDeARIsAFRmkOPCJmvs701VAHb8nCvjeVUly19d2j_2NkqiZ4LniRxK5qvABWoVan8aAjmUEALw_wcB
Hack Summit, December 12-13, 2024, New York https://www.hacksummit.co/
Top 30 Climate Tech Conferences of 2024 https://channelvmedia.com/blog/climate-tech-conferences-to-attends/
USPC Updates
Upcoming Events
10/22: Optech USPC Member Happy Hour 5-7 pm
11/11 - 11/12: 2-Day Startup Hackathon as part of NYC Real Estate Tech Week
3/9: Proptech Americas SXSW
To join or for more info: www.proptechcouncil.com