The EU will provide consultancy and 3 million Euro grant support to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality for the development of sustainable energy projects.

The application of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) to the “European Union (EU for Energy Transformation): Contract of Mayors in the Western Balkans and Turkey Project” within the scope of the “EUforEnergy” program in May 2021 has resulted in a positive result. With the project, the EU will provide consultancy services and technical and capacity support to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality on the development of the “Sustainable Energy and Climate Plan” (SECAP).

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Company is going all-electric and funding a new Yale center for applied research focused on carbon-negative technologies.

FedEx Corp. announced this week that it wants to achieve carbon-neutral operations globally by 2040. The company laid out three key areas it will focus on via a $2B investment: vehicle electrification, sustainable energy, and carbon sequestration.

This includes a pledge of $100 million to Yale University to help establish the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture, which will be focused on developing natural solutions for reducing atmospheric carbon.

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A customizable smart window harnesses and manipulates solar power to save energy and cut costs.

Windows play multiple crucial roles in our homes. They illuminate, insulate and ventilate our spaces while providing views of—and protection from—the outdoors. Smart windows, or windows that use solar cell technology to convert sunlight into electricity, present the additional opportunity to leverage windows as energy sources.

However, incorporating solar cells into windows while balancing the other complex, and often conflicting, roles of windows proves challenging.

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The U.K. government has announced £100 million ($126.11 million) of extra funding for renewable energy projects in Africa. The money will be used to support the Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP), which was set up in 2015 and supported by £48 million in initial funding from the U.K. 

The REPP’s broad goal is to “catalyze the growth” of the renewable energy sector in sub-Saharan Africa by helping developers to “overcome barriers to finance.”

The program currently backs 18 renewable energy projects in countries such as Tanzania, Burundi, Nigeria and Kenya.

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