Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To achieve this it will require an annual reduction in carbon intensity of 9.7%, according to the latest “Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI)” produced by professional services firm PwC. Between 2012 and 2016, peak coal phase-out years, the UK achieved an annual average rate of decarbonisation of 6.9%.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

German car giant aiming to ensure all its passenger vehicles are 'carbon neutral' across value chain by 2039 at the latest. We are proud to reduce global carbon dioxide-emissions in collaboration with our new partner.". Together, we are building an entirely fossil-free value chain all the way to the end customer," he said. "We

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But while solar and wind have an obvious role to play in helping miners control their carbon emissions, the mining industry faces steep decarbonization challenges, analysts say. Cutting mining’s carbon footprint to zero is complicated by the fact that electricity use only accounts for around 40 percent of direct emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 5, 2020

Repsol, like a growing number of European oil companies, is looking to the power market to find low-carbon revenue. While the ultimate 2050 objective is carbon-neutrality, Repsol is using the metric of carbon intensity to gauge its progress. In late 2018 it acquired the retail gas and electricity firm Viesgo.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) in Colombia will hold a public auction to sell 2 million certificates of carbon credits from three hydroelectric plants and one wind farm. A carbon credit is equivalent to 1 ton of CO2 that is no longer emitted into the atmosphere.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Latest Carbon Clean 200 list companies outperformed average benchmark by 47 per cent over the past year. Overall, they calculated that investing $10,000 in the Carbon Clean 200 companies in July 2016 would have seen this investment grow to more than $21,000 by the end of last month.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

UN aviation body ICAO condemned by climate campaigners for controversially changing CORSIA carbon offset scheme rules. Anne Petsonk, international counsel at US NGO the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), accused the global aviation sector of backtracking on its commitment to deliver carbon neutral growth from 2020.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

climate action strategy from the Science Based Targets initiative, as it yesterday unveiled further details of its plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040. Japanese pharmaceutical giant Takeda has become the latest global corporate to secure independent approval for its 1.5C

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

Burberry said the new supply chain target means all its carbon reduction goals were now aligned with the Paris Agreement's more stretching goal of limiting global temperature increases to 1.5C. The firm is also aiming to reduce its power and operational emissions by 95 per cent by 2022 on a 2016 base year.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

Collaboration will investigate uses for hydrogen at Uniper's retiring coal plants as it takes aim at becoming carbon neutral by 2035. Its low carbon power capacity, on the other hand, accounted for just 6MW, split between hydroelectricity and nuclear.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

2030 sustainability vision launched today by the beauty giant includes pledges to use only recycled or biobased packaging by the end of the decade and achieve carbon neutrality across its sites by 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The climate champions who attended were recognised for their individual efforts towards moving Canada to net-zero carbon emissions.”. Under her leadership, Teck has set an objective to be carbon neutral by 2050 as part of our overall commitment to taking action on climate change.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Texas-based utility El Paso Electric has signed an agreement with Mitsubishi Power to develop renewable energy and storage projects that can contribute to the utility’s target of carbon neutrality by 2045. The deal will enable El Paso Electric to achieve its goal of producing 80% of total electricity from clean resources by 2035 first.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

General Assembly that the country is aiming to be carbon-neutral by 2060. It will likely include more details on the first stages of this path to net-zero carbon. Solar-rich Xinjiang Province, in the country’s northwest, saw curtailment in excess of 30 percent in 2016, according to official data.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2023

But she also warned that firms looking to deliver on their climate goals through cheap or low-integrity carbon offset credits should prepare for increasing pressure from stakeholders, noting that the going price for a carbon offset currently is just a slither of the ‘real' cost of carbon.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

"The first fossil-free steel in the world is not only a breakthrough for SSAB, it represents proof that it's possible to make the transition and significantly reduce the global carbon footprint of the steel industry," said Martin Lindqvist, president and CEO of SSAB. "We

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

2019 Sustainability Report confirms oil giant is making progress with a raft of low carbon initiatives, but concerns remain over incremental pace of decarbonisation. The new report also reveals that in 2019 the Net Carbon Footprint fell slightly from 79gCO2e/MJ in 2016 to 78gCO2e/MJ last year. Shell shares this sense of urgency.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The new guides came as industry actors called on the government to do more to support the development of greener buildings, as one analysis warned the £650m of new funding committed in the Spending Review could cover barely a thousandth of the cost of retrofitting UK homes built between 2016 and 2025.

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Business Green

APRIL 11, 2021

Developer secures planning permission for major redevelopment of Staffordshire site that aims to provide 'tangible articulation of the whole transition to zero carbon'. It is one of our main economic objectives in our new corporate plan and will help us realise our ambition to be a carbon neutral district by 2030.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

The pension provider is also aiming to slash the carbon emissions in its default pension funds in half by 2030, covering around £10bn of assets.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

Qatar, whose natural-gas exports trail only those of Russia, will host the FIFA World Cup in 2022 and has pledged to make the event carbon-neutral. Total acquired energy storage manufacturer Saft in 2016. The first 350 megawatts will be operational next year with the full project scheduled for completion in 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Between 2016 and 2020, Australia’s “big 4” collectively provided $32.41 In addition, ANZ CEO and executive director Shayne Elliot spent 20 years working within Citigroup, the world’s second largest funder of fossil fuels, which has channelled over $200 billion worth of financing into fossil fuel projects since 2016.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The fresh targets from ASOS come in the same week as rival fashion retailer Primark unveiled a new sustainability strategy , pledging to halve its carbon footprint to introduce more "durable" clothing that will last longer and prevent clothing going to waste.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

By planting varied crops, by not tilling, and by actually encouraging wild plant and animal life, she believes that we can restore the land to its natural balance while sequestering carbon. Join us for a discussion of innovation in agriculture and advocacy facilitated by Climate Solutions' Gregg Small.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Wood pellets, pictured below, are used for co-firing with coal at power plants, helping utilities and major end-users meet their carbon targets. The business moved ashore to an office at the marina in 2016 after director Andrew Ly joined the company.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In this role, she coordinated energy and water audits, contributed to the university’s climate neutrality strategic plan, worked on environmental justice advocacy and fostered corporate and community partnerships. 2016 – Elizabeth Turnbull Henry. 2016 – Jenny McCulloch. 2016 – Jaxon Love. The William K.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

So, in 2016, we set an ambition to have global climate neutral manufacturing operations by 2025. So , last year, at the launch of our first fully electric vehicle, XC40 Recharge, we stated our intention to become a climate neutral company by 2040. In short, climate action is critical to our future success.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2021

The chief sustainability officer tells BusinessGreen how the Indian business group is steering more than 150 companies behind a 2040 carbon neutrality goal. However, the more energy efficiency you do and the more renewable energy and planet-friendly technologies you adopt, you reduce your carbon footprint and modify your processes.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

It is close to five years to the day since the now defunct Energy and Climate Change Select Committee released its report detailing how policy uncertainty was hindering the low carbon transition. Does this annual circus risk killing effective carbon prices in other sectors before they even start? For now though, nobody knows.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2020

Cement production costs are forecast to rise by 61 per cent as the industry is forced to invest in nascent carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to cut emissions from the CO2-intensive sector, according to analysis yesterday by Redburn, which has been seen by the Financial Times.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

Since debuting in 2016, Honda has sold just 1,900 units of the hydrogen sedan worldwide, according to a report from news agency Nikkei Asia. Now, with a commitment to carbon neutrality by 2050, Honda has set a target to make 100 per cent of our vehicles sales battery-electric (BEV) or fuel cell electric (FCEV) by 2040," the company said.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

ING maintains that it is making progress in its transition towards a lower carbon portfolio and says it strongly believes that engaging with its clients is where it can make the most impact, as opposed to exiting certain clients or sectors — though it has parted ways with several coal firms over this issue. billion to the sector.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2022

The tracker found that 158 financial players have committed to carbon neutrality in their investment portfolio by 2050 by joining the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero , a coalition launched last year for financial institutions to accelerate the transition to net-zero. Just last year, fossil fuel financing reached $185.5

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

In March 2016, OES Oilfield’s executive chairman Richard Upshall wrote that: “Having recently met with James Wharton MP, the Minister for the Northern Powerhouse and some other members of Parliament, including Boris Johnson, who have declared themselves as part of the ‘out’ camp, I can see the opportunities ‘Brexit’ can bring.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

In 2016, he presented the social media coverage of the company’s Make the Future London festival. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018. The claim of ‘carbon neutral’ engine oil is ludicrous,” said Professor Trencher.

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