Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Jeff House at Baxi, commented: “While we know hydrogen is not a silver bullet when it comes to emissions, it does present a great opportunity as it is carbon-free at the point of use and requires minimal changes inside consumer’s homes. On top of all of this – it is 100 per cent green, with water being the only by-product.

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Financial Times: Energy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At COP this year, a commitment must be made to rapidly phasing down the use of all fossil fuels

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The Treasury should set in stone a new fiscal rule for an annually-increasing carbon price in the UK, argues SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies. Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow I think it's imperative the Treasury installs a new fiscal rule: the need for an annually increasing carbon price.

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Financial Times: Energy

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Ministers waffling at COP summits would do better to create a cross-border trading scheme to provide those magic numbers

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2021

A new report from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab calls it “halfway to zero” -- meaning we are already halfway to a zero-carbon grid. What will it take for the Biden team to stitch it back together before COP negotiations this fall? This week: why the path to net-zero may surprise us once again.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

I attended this COP, my first, to learn more about how businesses can accelerate the transition to net zero and to share the findings of a new report, published today, that is a step-by-step playbook for companies to use to turn net zero pledges into progress.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

To be sure, the agreement is a powerful symbol of the direction of COP - the poorer nations of the Global South, who contribute only insignificantly to global carbon emissions, suffer the most violently from the impact of climate change and have been demanding climate justice for thirty years.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 5, 2020

This would deliver a 6% reduction in total UK greenhouse gases emissions, specifically within the hard-to-decarbonise sectors of heat, transport, waste management and agriculture, and 30% of the reduction needed by 2030 to meet our legally binding carbon budget. million homes.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Thus far we have not really laid the groundwork for the difficult balancing acts that will go into the diplomacy of the COP. What we will be bringing to the COP table as our ambition will be critically dissected by all these cats whilst they are being herded.

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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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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The post Who’s to blame for the climate COP out in Glasgow? There are other proven techniques such as volunteering people for, say, a sustainability presentation or getting them to experience the reality of climate change (more difficult), but the essential element is they have to sell Sustainability to themselves.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

UN Secretary General and COP Presidency warn progress on funding for addressing climate-related damage is critical to success of pivotal climate talks kicking off this Sunday. That is the best guarantee for this COP process to survive and achieve its objective.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

COP28 President hints at UAE's priorities for Summit in maiden speech, as core principles for controversial plan to use voluntary carbon markets to bankroll energy transition are unveiled. We are determined to make COP28 a COP for all, and a COP of action.". Let's keep our focus on holding back emissions, not progress.".

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

I feel ashamed and frustrated that our government doesn’t seem to grasp the urgency of the climate emergency, and we see it repeatedly rowing back on net zero targets and perfectly workable carbon-reduction initiatives.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Campaigners are hopeful next week's summit could further expand the coalition of nations that are working to deliver an ambitious new international accord in Kunming that would see all governments commit to giving 30 per cent of land and oceans protected status by 2030 and bolster natural carbon sinks in support of the world's climate goals.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

One answer is for executives to offset their airlines’ emissions through carbon mitigation and sequestration projects. While offsets are often seen as a cop-out for industries that don’t want to tackle their own pollution, airlines are clearly uniquely limited in their climate pollution mitigation options.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

But at the same time, as O'Neill hinted, the government's failure to properly engage Nicola Sturgeon, as well as those with direct COP experience (think Gordon Brown, Ed Miliband, and Amber Rudd) remains an example of political tribalism at its worse. There have been plenty of steps forward in recent months and more will surely follow.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The company says that more oil will mean less emissions; however — provided the industry builds enough facilities to capture carbon dioxide (CO2), the main gas causing the climate crisis. “We The statement was widely interpreted as a pitch for carbon capture. Energy Information Administration and other sources.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A whopping 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the near term, nitrous oxide emissions account for 46% of GHG emissions from agricultural soils, largely from soil and nutrient management such as tillage and fertilizer application.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

About 200 countries are presently convened for the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 25 in Madrid. The Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP) is tasked with making sure the agreements under the Paris Climate Accord are met. degrees above if possible. and EU declined. A key driver in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Decarbonising steel requires innovation in the fields of renewable energy, hydrogen technology, and carbon capture and storage, said the authors. Steel production is the world’s second biggest emitter of carbon dioxide after concrete, with an average of 1.85 tonnes of CO2 emitted for every tonne of steel produced worldwide.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Commentators were concerned about the decisive role seemingly prepared for carbon removal technologies. remains viable will require total commitment to a range of far-reaching measures, including full fossil fuel phase-out, massive investment in nature, transformation of global food systems, and carbon removal on a massive scale.”

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Growing Climate Solutions Act, supported by climate advocates and farmers alike, was devised to get the nation’s growers to adopt climate-friendly practices by encouraging their participation in the carbon market. croplands to soak up 250 million metric tons of carbon per year, or about 4 percent of what the country emitted in 2020.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Interest in carbon markets is currently booming and with increased activity comes increased attention and, of course, familiar criticism. A high-integrity carbon market can help companies and countries increase their ambition on the pathway to net zero by mid century. Kelley Kizzier, VP, Global Climate, EDF. Work on the supply side.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Is the COP27 Summit that kicks off in Sharm El Sheikh this weekend the most important COP meeting yet, and therefore one of the most critical gatherings in the entire history of humanity? It is, by the admission of the Egyptian hosts, an "implementation COP". If COPs did not exist you would need to invent them.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“Rich countries are forcing an agreement full of escape hatches: carbon markets, nature-based solutions and ‘net zero by the middle of the century’ are all ways for them to get out of making the real emissions cuts we need to prevent climate catastrophe.”. Carbon trading. Carbon capture. What can be done with the captured CO2?

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

The Swedish EV innovator revealed the goal in its first annual review, at which it also revealed plans to publish the full carbon footprint of its latest Polestar 2 vehicle. Swedish electric car innovator Polestar today announced a "moonshot goal" of creating the "world's first" truly climate neutral car by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Regenerative Agriculture Often accompanied with: carbon storage, no till, crop rotation With host country the UAE spearheading a new “Regenerative Landscapes” project in close partnership with the likes of Pepsico, Nestlé and fertilizer giant Yara, the term “ regenerative agriculture ” is likely to be a hot topic at COP28.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

Undermines Government ambitions to deliver Carbon Net Zero and to ‘build back better’. The RHI is essential for innovation in the supply of low carbon industrial heat at the required scale and pace. Renewable energy projects in the agri-food sector excluded from BEIS’s RHI Covid-19 Extension.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

Nesta’s report focuses on carbon reduction, and you can’t argue with the fact that ripping out fossil-fuel heating and replacing it with cleaner, greener heat pumps will reduce the UK’s carbon footprint. For the low carbon sector to thrive, quality is key – happy customers in warm homes that cost less to run.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bellwether coal firms saw shares slide on Monday, while EU carbon prices leapt to a record high of over €66 a tonne. Meanwhile, European carbon prices leapt to a new record high, yesterday clearing €66 a tonne for the first time. There is a general feeling that carbon markets come out of the COP process reinforced," he said.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do the next best thing and read our COP reflections.  Last COP featured the conference’s first nuclear-themed pavilion, and this year boasted eight. Fuel shortages, rising energy costs and carbon commitments are driving renewed enthusiasm. For now, the swirl of COP nuclear activity represents a dip of the toe.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2024

During last year’s COP climate conference, the world agreed to triple its renewable capacity by 2030. While the prospect of minimising energy bills and lowering carbon emissions makes self-generated green energy highly attractive, the great disadvantage of any off-grid tech is that it’s output and consumption can be unpredictable.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Chevron copped a $40 million offset bill due to failures of the Gorgon CCS to meet emissions storage targets in its first year of operation. The post Australia’s only large-scale CCS project operated at half-capacity in first full year appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It was the first time in COP history that the Built Environment had a dedicated day, alongside Cities. For the building and construction sector, COP26 in Glasgow marked a crucial moment to bring consensus around systemic change in the industry. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

We also saw important technical advances, with new rules agreed for reporting emissions and on international carbon trading, and multiple initiatives and sector deals. Low carbon prices are effectively a subsidy. The UK continues to hold the COP Presidency for the next year, until COP27 in Egypt. The UK’s international role.

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