Business Green

APRIL 18, 2021

Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change calls on banks to back their net zero pledges with moves to halt support for fossil fuels and activities that drive deforestation. With fossil fuel financing increasing since 2016, the time to act is now," she said. Net zero commitments must drive real change.".

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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Energy Central

JANUARY 27, 2024

UNECE | Hydrogen The analysis from the Pathways Project (2020) indicated that the countries from the UNECE region will need both to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels from over 80% to around 50% by 2050 and to achieve significant negative carbon emissions to stay on a pathway consistent with the Paris Agreement and to maintain its economic trajectory. (..)

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Policymakers met with fossil fuel and biomass producers nine times as often as with their renewable energy counterparts, DeSmog can reveal, raising fresh concerns over the depth of the government’s commitments to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Drax Access.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2022

A raft of leading concrete and construction firms have joined forces to launch a major new initiative that aims to deliver 100 per cent net zero emission concrete by 2050, with signatories pledging to meet a series of decarbonisation goals within the coming decade.

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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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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.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2021

Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change calls on banks to back their net zero pledges with moves to halt support for fossil fuels and activities that drive deforestation. With fossil fuel financing increasing since 2016, the time to act is now," she said. Net zero commitments must drive real change.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

A new report from McKinsey predicts global fossil fuel demand 'will never return to its pre-pandemic growth curve', but warns the world is still on track to badly miss its climate goals. The oil industry has been particularly badly hit.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Arizona Public Service released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050 , with multiple options to balance the costs and carbon benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables, batteries, distributed energy resources and as-yet-untested technologies. Long-range tradeoffs: Carbon reduction vs. costs.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

Less than one per cent unabated fossil fuels and at least 80 per cent wind and solar in the power mix required to meet UK climate targets, according to Ember's Tom Harrison. This year's edition updates its predecessor's pathways to reaching economy-wide net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Zero carbon power by 2035.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

After all, a substantial fraction of global carbon emissions arise from the production, transportation, and consumption of fossil fuels. Hydrogen is increasingly being viewed as an important tool for reducing carbon emissions, because the use of hydrogen for energy generates no direct carbon dioxide emissions.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun Hunter Lovins Thu, 08/13/2020 – 00:15 We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. . Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. .

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

IMO member states are meeting this week for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 percent compared to 2008 levels. It is a dynamic that has left environmental campaigners increasingly frustrated. .

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

Shell has become the latest oil major to join the net zero club, yesterday pledging to strengthen its previous climate goals in a bid to deliver net zero emissions across its business and value chain by 2050. So just how serious is Shell about decarbonising its business and reaching net zero by 2050? warming pathway.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

The waste management sector bears an essential role in the EU’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the group explained in a statement in early February. It is likely to trigger more landfilling of non-recyclable waste and more use of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Investment in clean energy from fossil fuel majors saw a marked uptick during the pandemic in 2020, research suggests. Well, there are a growing signs that some may be at least starting to quietly plot their future beyond fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

have been shelved by the developer Drax, highlighting the challenging economics of converting coal-fired power to a cleaner, but still fossil-fuel-fired, alternative. It plans to add carbon capture and storage to the biomass plants, taking them to a negative-emissions status. Plans for a new 3.6-gigawatt MW of capacity.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

The UK was the world’s first major economy to sign-up to “net zero” by 2050, while the EU’s Green Deal is based on “net zero” by mid-century. For instance, Drax, the UK’s biggest polluter and world’s biggest tree burner , claims it wants to become carbon negative by 2030. However, “net zero” is not real zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In its Net-Zero Emissions scenario the IEA expects demand to increase fivefold from 2020 to 2050. Consisting of one nitrogen and three hydrogen atoms, the ammonia molecule (NH3) has the potential to support the hydrogen fuel economy in all three domains. Making hydrogen competitive. The result is curtailment.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

What could the UK's energy system look like in 2050, once offshore wind energy is the backbone of the electricity grid, fossil fuel vehicles are increasingly scarce, hydrogen fuel has gone from vision to reality, and energy efficiency is an everyday consideration for families and businesses alike?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

I’d argued that regenerative grazing could cut emissions from beef production , helping reduce the outsized contribution cattle make to food’s carbon footprint. You can imagine a future in which some beef, probably priced at a premium, comes with a carbon-negative label. That’s around a decade of global fossil-fuel emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

The renewable hydrogen would be combined with captured carbon from emission sources around Copenhagen to create hydrocarbon fuels — specifically, methanol for shipping and e-kerosene as a jet fuel replacement. At that point, it is estimated that 30 percent of the fossil fuel use at Copenhagen airport could be displaced.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The falling cost of wind and solar power significantly reduces the need for carbon capture and storage technology to tackle climate change, a new paper has argued. In the longer term, offshore wind emerges as a key source of low-carbon electricity, meeting 45-60 percent of the demand increase in 2050.”. The Right Kind of CCS’.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A growing number of oil companies in the past year have announced targets to achieve “net-zero emissions” by mid-century, seemingly signaling a monumental shift in the history of the oil business towards low-carbon solutions. Fossil fuel companies have taken a variety of approaches when it comes to climate change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

Group of 117 institutional investors file resolution urging bank to phase out fossil fuel financing in compliance with the Paris Agreement. As shareholders supporting this resolution, we recognise the imperative and urgency for establishing targets and a timeline towards emissions reductions.".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A growing number of oil companies in the past year have announced targets to achieve “net-zero emissions” by mid-century, seemingly signaling a monumental shift in the history of the oil business towards low-carbon solutions. Fossil fuel companies have taken a variety of approaches when it comes to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Blue hydrogen has been marketed as a climate-friendly fuel since the production process aims to capture most of the associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It adds: “Our innovative LCH [low carbon hydrogen] technology is ready to go and allows for high purity and clean hydrogen to be produced from natural gas at scale.”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

But the good news is more and more countries are signalling they will raise their climate ambition to phase out greenhouse gases to net zero by 2050. Moreover, by homing in on 2050 neglect these fossil fuel majors neglect their historic pollution footprint.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Although fossil-based natural gas tends not to be low enough in carbon intensity to remain a primary energy source in our decarbonized future, the U.S. If produced, distributed, and used responsibly, RNG can play a critical role in the net-zero carbon economy. . is not ready to abandon it entirely. What Is Renewable Natural Gas?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Energy firm announces it will not develop new gas fired power at its site in North Yorkshire as it looks to focus on biomass and carbon capture plans. Our carbon intensity is one of the lowest of all European power generators. We aim to be carbon negative by 2030 and are continuing to make progress.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

The Planning Inspectorate had opposed the project, warning it could lock-in high carbon infrastructure at the expense of the UK's climate goals, marking the first time it had opposed a major project on such grounds. It also argued wind and solar power would be more cost-effective for bill payers compared to new gas power capacity.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

Our current fossil fuel economy has reached its limit,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a press conference. InfluenceMap looked at 216 industry associations that submitted feedback to the European Commission’s public consultations on both the 2030 and 2050 climate targets.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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