Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Production Gap report reveals governments still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C. The third edition of the report concludes that despite the impact of the coronavirus pandemic the fossil fuel 'production gap' remains largely unchanged.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed an executive order that sets the city on a path to electrifying its entire municipal vehicle fleet by 2040. EV manufacturers need the demand push that large cities can provide. The Big Apple is already a leader in electrification.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

The key solutions today are biofuels, only displacing a mere fraction of fossil fuels-based jet fuel, and offsets. Last year, Neste delivered its first batch of sustainable aviation fuel via pipeline for airlines refueling at San Francisco International Airport to use.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

The study, published in the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) journal The Geographical Journal , highlights that global demand for sulphuric acid is set to rise significantly from ‘246 to 400 million tonnes’ by 2040 – a result of more intensive agriculture and the world moving away from fossil fuels.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Population growth will plateau after 2030-2040, causing energy demand to stabilize and decline afterwards. The current overcapacity in the oil markets will ensure a lasting shift in fossil markets. The energy markets, broadly taken to be fossil fuels and renewables, have seen significant changes over the past years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Aviva has announced it intends to reach net zero emissions across its operations, supply chain, and investments by 2040, unveiling a number of new exclusion policies that will see the firm distance itself from the most carbon intensive fossil fuel companies.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

The move shows the efforts that Amazon is willing to go to eke out carbon emissions across its vast network of planes, vehicles and distribution centers that deliver on-demand goods across the globe. Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Carbon Tracker deep-dive into the risks facing oil and gas investments is corroborated by study in Nature that warns overwhelming majority of fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground to cap global temperatures in line with global goals. If they want to align with a 1.5C

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

As it stands, blue and gray hydrogen derived from fossil fuels are cheaper than using renewable-energy-powered electrolyzers to produce green hydrogen from water. And Wood Mackenzie's research indicates that the cost of green hydrogen will fall by 64 percent by 2040 as the market scales up.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

LDES also supports decarbonizing high-temperature industrial manufacturing, which currently relies on burning fossil fuels to produce heat.  Providing energy storage beyond ten hours can enable remote mines, data centers, and other off-grid industrial operations to run on 24-7 carbon-free power.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

The company said it was targeting a fully zero emission parcel pickup and delivery (PUD) fleet by 2040, a push that will be accomplished by gradually phasing out its existing fossil fuel fleet. By 2025, half of all FedEx Express global PUD vehicle purchases would be electric, rising to 100 per cent by 2030, it said.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The IEA in a new report points to signs that grids are becoming a bottleneck to clean energy transitions and that delayed action means prolonging reliance on fossil fuels. This means adding or refurbishing a total of over 80 million km of grids by 2040, which is the equivalent of the entire existing global grid.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities. billion Euros in bonds to the fossil fuel industry, Milieudefensie says. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

Professor Duncan Gregory, chair in Inorganic Materials at the University of Glasgow’s School of Chemistry, said: “Battery technology is going to play a hugely important role in our transition away from fossil fuels. million per year by 2040, using a combination of both wild and cultivated seaweed.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Alongside the significant expenditure over the next two and more decades, the report finds that federal and household spending on energy in both countries will experience a substantial decline as the countries move away from fossil fuels. by 2050, driven by the inherent efficiency of renewables.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 30, 2024

Reducing these emissions is crucial to the EU’s objectives of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 and lowering demand for imported fossil fuels. CO2 emissions from large trucks and buses will have to be reduced by 90% as of 2040.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

French TSO RTE has proposed investments prioritising developments of its network of the order of €100 billion by 2040. RTE estimates that by 2040 the new connections could include up to 100GW of onshore wind and solar, 25GW of offshore wind, 6.5GW of new nuclear, 15GW of industrials, 5GW of data centres and several GW of energy storage.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, countries will likely need to set hard limits on the extraction of fossil fuels in addition to supporting the deployment of clean energy. The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 18, 2021

That said, other parts of our economy also benefit from the transition: in the IEA’s scenario, demand for critical minerals such as copper, cobalt, and manganese—all of which Canada has in abundance—grow seven-fold by 2030 in order to supply the production of clean technologies. .” RENEWABLES AND CLEAN TECHNOLOGY.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

World leaders are missing the opportunity to achieve deep cuts in emissions by adopting circular economy strategies that reduce demand for resources, it warns, and it identifies a roadmap that it says could help them meet the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. billion last year. of materials cycled. Gt of materials. ”

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. of warming.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

WoodMac's report finds that peak energy demand will have to arrive in 2023. By 2040, total primary energy demand will be 25 percent lower compared to WoodMac's base case. Meanwhile, "the versatility of green hydrogen is remarkable, with three times the energy content compared to fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

There is currently twice as much installed hydro as there is solar, but PV could grow three times faster from now till 2040. If existing fossil-fuel-based power infrastructure continues to operate as is, global warming would be locked in at 1.65 But solar will set a succession of annual deployment records from 2023.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 21, 2024

On the other hand, GM has set a target to achieve full carbon neutrality in both its products and operations by 2040. This partnership between the two companies serves as a significant step towards these goals, underlining the potential of hydrogen fuel cells in creating a future devoid of emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

San Antonio municipal utility CPS Energy wants to replace aging fossil-fueled generation with more than a gigawatt of solar, energy storage and flexible capacity, and it’s asking for ideas on how to get there. CPS serves more than 840,000 electric and 350,000 natural-gas customer accounts, amounting to approximately 1.9

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2022

Government confirms plans to begin phasing out new fossil fuel trucks from 2035 before ending sales completely by 2040. The government said ending the sale of new, non-zero emission HGVs before 2040 was "vital if we are to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and achieve net zero".

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Streets of the Future insight outlines a range of opportunities for communities, including: Smart technology helping people to use less energy and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. A critical component to transforming our streets is a national effort to improve the energy efficiency and reduce energy demand across the UK’s homes.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Power grids globally must be upgraded by 2040 to keep the lights on. While COP28 agreements to transition away from harmful fossil fuels and triple our collective renewable energy production by 2030 are noble, it will take intentional and strategic goalposts to help us get there.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

The NortH2 consortium hopes to eventually develop electrolyzer capacity requiring 3 to 4 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity, perhaps growing to 10 gigawatts by 2040. To compete with fossil fuel-derived hydrogen, the electricity going in must be close to free and utilization rates have to be very high.

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Hydrogen Batteries Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels 245

AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Its electricity demand reached an all-time demand peak of 223 gigawatts (GW) this past June, and projections indicate it could hit 340 GW by the decade’s end. To put that into perspective, the electricity demand for Germany in 2022 was 200 GW. Asset Diversity: As is the case in the U.S.

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Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 80

Business Green

JUNE 1, 2021

Campaigners welcome AGM vote but warn bank's commitment must be followed up by robust framework for delivering global 2040 coal financing phase out. The bank is the second largest funder of fossil fuels after Barclays in Europe and undertakes extensive work with the coal sector in Asia. targets that cover all financing.

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Fossil fuels Policy Asia Carbon 95

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2019

New York recently announced its target of 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040, joining California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington in passing substantive clean energy targets. Demand for energy resilience will spread across the country as the effects of climate change become more acute.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Electric vehicles for “demanding and heavy long-haul operations” will follow “in this decade,” says Volvo. Some of these will be battery-electric, and some will be fuel cell-powered. Volvo Trucks aims to make its entire product range fossil-free by 2040.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020. Net-zero commitments may have ricocheted across banking sector over the last 18 months, but big banks' attestations of climate concern did not stop many from expanding financing for the world's top fossil fuel firms during the pandemic year.

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Fossil fuels Policy Climate change Investment 412

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“Membership will grow from both demand and supply sides.” ” The Green Hydrogen Catapult said it aims to align the production and use of green hydrogen with a trajectory that displaces fossil fuels at a rate consistent with achieving net-zero global emissions by 2050, and limiting global temperature increases to 1.5

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, the increasing costs of fossil fuels and gas have triggered significant adoption of electrical automobiles, propelling market enlargement. The researcher’s predictions, they state in a release, suggest a sizeable global Li-Ion battery demand increase, skyrocketing from over 700GWh in 2022 to approximately 4.7TWh by 2030.

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Batteries Lithium Electric vehicle Demand 59

Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

It provides direct advice to governments and its annual World Energy Outlook reports, which offer projections for future energy sources and demand, have provided the bedrock for major energy investment and policy decisions that help shape the trajectory of the global market. The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels.

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