Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

As demand for fossil-fuel free heating grows, policymakers and industry need to work together to prep the installation workforce for a major roll out of electric heat pumps, writes Panasonic's Enrique Vilamitjana. Across the UK and Europe, government strategies for heating and energy supply aim to drive decarbonisation.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

“The main driver of this government's energy policy is fortifying the state's position in the market,” said Brian Gaylord, principal analyst for Latin America and Southern Europe at Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. Later events have proved them wrong.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

billion) — to take over the company’s global strategic media buying in 2024. billion) — to take over the company’s global strategic media buying in 2024. Further, these are far from being the Bolloré Group’s only connections to the fossil fuel sector. billion euros (around $2.49 billion euros (around $2.49

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2022

A group of more than 100 CEOs from many of Europe's top businesses have this week written to European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, urging her to accelerate the bloc's green transition plan in response to the energy security posed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

Goals include strengthening the country’s energy sovereignty by reducing its dependence on imported fossil fuels, developing its carbon-free electricity production capacity and relocating key components of the value chain for the technologies of the future. Europe’s grid is receiving record levels of investment.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

We are excited to implement the customer centric demand response solutions tailored to demand types and capable of sub second reaction which we have experience of in Europe, USA and Australia. A capacity mechanism which will go live in 2024 after initial advance auctions from 2020. Image: GridBeyond. Demand side measures.

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AutoGrid

JULY 24, 2023

Traditional solutions to short-term supply shortages – such as fossil fuel peaker plants – may meet the immediate need for capacity but also help accelerate climate change due to high emission rates. Our progress report for summer 2024? This cycle is undeniably vicious. So far, so good in avoiding massive outages.

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Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

The geologic epoch had reigned for 11,700 years, ever since the sprawling ice sheets covering North America and Europe began melting rapidly, and Crutzen thought its time was up. on Mar 11, 2024. The scientist Paul Crutzen grew tired of the Holocene 24 years ago. degrees Celsius) and counting.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The initial focus on companies with ambitious low carbon infrastructure investment plans follow claims of 'greenwashing' that have dogged previous UN climate summits, including last year's COP25 event in Madrid which faced criticism from climate campaigners for securing sponsorship from fossil fuel giants Repsol and Endesa. "I

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Spain has delivered the lowest prices ever seen for onshore wind in Europe," said Giles Dickson, CEO at trade body WindEurope, highlighting bids from onshore wind developers that ranged from €20/MWh to €28.89/MWh. The European wind industry continues to reduce costs through innovation, scale and learning effects.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Set against a 1990 baseline, the new target marks a slight uptick in ambition from the EU's current 55 per cent goal, and is a further sign of the bloc's accelerated shift towards cleaner sources of energy in the wake the war in Ukraine which has exposed Europe's reliance on Russian fossil gas. Europe is staying the course.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A 6GW pipeline of green hydrogen projects is being primed in the UK and Europe over the next two years, but experts fear key pieces of the policy puzzle still need putting in place. Fossil fuel firms are broadly focusing on 'blue' hydrogen, which produces hydrogen from fossil gas and then captures and stores the resulting carbon emissions.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The strong growth in demand in 2021 was driven by the economic recovery that followed 2020’s lockdowns and a succession of extreme weather events. Last year closed with record high spot prices for gas in Europe and Asia, as the natural gas supply remained constricted. Have you read? Price squeeze in the global gas market.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle officially opens its doors today, with a performance by British band Coldplay and a series of special events throughout the weekend. Amazon said in a blog post that it is aiming for the arena to "set a new sustainability bar for the sports and events industry". Quebec bans fossil fuel exploration.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

New analysis reveals Net Zero Banking Alliance members funnelled $33bn towards expanding oil and gas production over past year, but banks insist they are working to reduce their exposure to fossil fuels. science-based climate goals covering "all key sectors", including those involved in extracting and consuming fossil fuels. "In

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Sporting bodies are a billboard for high carbon living, and we are calling on sporting bodies and authorities in the run up to the Olympics to stop accepting sponsorship from fossil fuel companies and high carbon products and services," Simms says. Petrol engine cars and aviation are the main offenders.".

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

Hotter temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns, as well as extreme weather events, are already placing stress on farms and imperiling our ability to grow certain crops in certain places. For some 200 years, humans have been burning fossil fuels, spewing planet-warming carbon dioxide into the air.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Meanwhile, the horrifying Russian atrocities coming to light in Ukraine are reigniting calls for more robust sanctions to be imposed on the Kremlin, including a full ban on energy exports to Europe. What about fossil fuels? Could this be the week the much-trailed Energy Security Strategy is finally released?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At the demonstration event Kaluza's head of flexibility Conor Maher-McWilliams emphasised how the flexibility platform has been designed to solve the twin challenge of decarbonising the power sector while at the same time preparing it for a surge in electricity use. Whereas here, its a very open market.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In 2024, the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (STCC), based in Sweden with rounds in Norway, will become the first national racing series in the world to compete with electric touring cars. For city events, with head-to-head racing, the format is slightly different, and less energy is used.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Next month, the energy price cap had been set to rise above £3,500, up from just under £2,000 at present, and almost entirely because of expensive fossil gas. Without these barriers, renewables will outcompete fossil fuels. "In

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Compared with CIM’s previous analyses, the current clean investment boom indicates a disproportionately positive impact on underserved and historically fossil fuel-dependent communities. for a new fund that focuses on digitization and decarbonization investments in Europe.   Equity.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Europe As the annual United Nations climate conference — known as COP28 — kicked off in Dubai on Nov. This case has been strengthened by authoritative statements from expert sources, such as the International Energy Agency, emphasizing that new fossil fuel development is inconsistent with the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Needs will shift over time as the clean energy transition, evolving regional demand, and increasingly extreme weather events must all be accommodated by the future power grid. Join Enlit Europe in Paris. Don’t miss out on the most important energy transition conversations.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 18, 2022

Increasing access to EVs also protects Canadians from rising fossil fuel prices while supporting our burgeoning EV manufacturing and battery industry,” said Joanna Kyriazis, clean transportation manager at Clean Energy Canada. “As Anna Schuett Manager, Communications & Events, Electric Mobility Canada 514-787-2757.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 18, 2022

Increasing access to EVs also protects Canadians from rising fossil fuel prices while supporting our burgeoning EV manufacturing and battery industry,” said Joanna Kyriazis, clean transportation manager at Clean Energy Canada. “As Anna Schuett Manager, Communications & Events, Electric Mobility Canada 514-787-2757.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

Subscribe Now 📩 Submit deals, announcements, events & opportunities, or general curiosities for the newsletter at hello@ctvc.co. Update : The company broke ground on a commercial-scale facility this week that will be the first in the country to make alternative jet fuel from CO2 and grid power once production begins in mid-2024.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

  In other news, China hopes to woo back foreign investment with new ESG requirements, Singapore mandates at least some SAFs in the mix for all flights from 2026, and the UK follows European peers in walking out on a treaty often used by fossil fuel companies to sue against climate reforms. 

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

John Allaire, a former environmental engineer in the oil industry, photographed with fossil fuel infrastructure behind. Entire sections of wetlands are being filled in and paved over to build LNG export terminals, which will ship fracked gas to Europe and Asia. 29th, 2024, U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It is a major contribution to Europe's role leading the way toward decarbonisation and a green, resilient and socially inclusive economy," EIB President Werner Hoyer said in statement. Global development banks deliver landmark climate pledge, but duck fossil fuel financing phase out.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 11, 2024

Companies will be required to disclose capitalized costs, expenditures expensed, charges, and losses incurred from severe weather events and physical climate risks. After divesting €15bn from fossil fuels in 2021, ABP now anticipates cutting its portfolio company investments roughly by half as a result of this monumental shift.  

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Subscribe Now 📩 Submit deals, announcements, events & opportunities, or general curiosities for the newsletter at hello@ctvc.co. sold in Europe during the first half of the year. The company is expected to expand across Asia, Australia, and Europe and is also pushing into Latin American markets. Thanks for reading!

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

The assessment, published on Monday by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), found that the US government could lose about $2tr annually in revenue by the end of the century due to floods, fire, drought, and other extreme weather events caused by climate change. But clearly, in view of events, we need to increase our pressure further.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The focus in the short-term will likely remain squarely on the topics du jour, fossil fuel phaseouts and grand hopes for a swift renewables transition. 30 shipping industry leaders signed a Joint Commitment to enable the use of renewable hydrogen-derived shipping fuel within this decade [Read more about maritime decarbonization here ].

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

Inflation, supply chain problems, the first war in Europe in 80 years, and much more came together to challenge us all. We experienced climate-change-driven extreme weather: with record heat waves in Europe , India, and the earth’s poles ; sprawling fires in the U.S.; For example, VW said it will only make EVs in Europe from 2033.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

  However, the agency has delayed the much anticipated Hydrogen Tax Credit Rule clarifications that were expected by the end of this year to as late as March 2024. Heat stress caused income loss equivalent to 4% of Africa’s GDP , when 2022 losses in Europe and North America were just 0.1%   A somewhat bright spot?

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2024

The global economy is currently defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, but ahead of what is set to be a hugely eventful year there are some certainties green businesses can cling to I am a big fan of all the articles and Twitter threads offering predictions for the year ahead. 2024 will indeed be a high-variance year.

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