Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

Drivers of company cars who opt to go electric will pay no benefit-in-kind (BiK) tax from next week, marking a dramatic drop from the 16 per cent rate in place today. From next Monday, drivers of electric company cars will pay zero benefit-in-kind (BiK) tax, a dramatic decrease from the 16 per cent rate in place today.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 11, 2022

The second phase added 100 MW/400MWh of storage capacity to the facility, bringing its total capacity to 400MW/1,600 MWh. The Phase II project is operating under a 10-year resource adequacy agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Name Project Owner Capacity State Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility, Phase II Vistra Corp.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

From how businesses chose to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic to the escalating outcry over racial justice to the increasing urgency around climate change, there is much for companies to answer for this year. And what could that mean for a corresponding evolution in how companies manage, measure and disclose their ESG risks and efforts?

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

The companies are now exploring how they can jointly produce hydrogen from wind and solar power at the site and then utilise the resulting gas in the region. We have built a great technical team and our ability to close a second fund is a testament to their good work," Eric Toone, BEV's technical lead, told Bloomberg.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 8, 2021

From how businesses chose to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic to the escalating outcry over racial justice to the increasing urgency around climate change, there is much for companies to answer for this year. And what could that mean for a corresponding evolution in how companies manage, measure and disclose their ESG risks and efforts?

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

The study, which draws largely on Google and Apple mobility data, details how the impact of lockdown measures on emissions are proving shortlived and as such temperature projections for 2030 are only 0.01C lower than was previously the case. Under the plans the tariffs would then rise in the second year to 40 per cent and 30 per cent.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This month, we’re highlighting some of the energy and climate provisions in the infrastructure bill, touching on what the international climate conference COP26 was and wasn’t, highlighting the potential impact of corporate buyers coalitions, giving a round of applause to the progress the company NET Power has made, and more!

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

This article is taken from Bloomberg. Hard to measure, hard to play down Unlike other areas of the planet, the Arctic is so inaccessible that there’s very little data to predict with precision how the ice cap will change under rapid warming. The company now navigates it, deploying nuclear icebreakers for nine months of the year.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. ⚡ Bonnet , a London, UK-based EV charging subscription service company, was acquired by OVO for an undisclosed amount.    Can’t get enough deals?

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Larry Fink’s 2020 Letter to CEOs , where he explicitly named climate risk as a “defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects,” was followed by an avalanche of climate commitments across industries throughout the year (see Microsoft , Shell , Unilever , and on ). Planet ); deriving insights from climate data (e.g. Silviaterra ).

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Better Ventures

MARCH 4, 2020

Renaissance in Data Science Meanwhile, the second big trend contributing to the rise of our Continuous Health future is the maturation of data science, particularly machine learning, convolutional neural networks and deep learning algorithms, fueled by new sources of patient data from the devices described above. It’s garnered over $1.8

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Over the past five years, charities distributing clean cookstoves have hit on a major new vein of funding: carbon offsets, which see individuals or companies invest in projects to compensate for their own carbon footprints. Nor was this just a result of flaws within the specific design of JI.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Shareholders in publicly traded companies have the right to vote on certain corporate matters. As most people cannot attend companies’ annual meetings, corporations offer shareholders the option to cast a proxy vote by mail or electronic means. First, some background.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

The group penned a second letter in February, this time to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, calling for the fracking ban to be lifted, according to the Telegraph. In August 2021, NZSG chair Craig Mackinlay told Bloomberg that his new parliamentary group would use GWPF research for its campaigning. The GWPF also contributed to the report.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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. We then deliver an 8-step process to track, measure, and report the GHG emissions associated with your business and related operations.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 15, 2024

In 2022, Bloomberg moved Canada up three spots—from fifth to second place in its global ranking of countries’ overall lithium-ion EV battery supply chain potential, citing, in part, our mineral resources and large hydropower capacity in addition to other competitive factors.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Yet, as Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) warns in its latest must-read outlook for the global EV market, the journey towards zero carbon road transport the world over remains very long indeed, with many twist and turns ahead. No room - nor time - for complacency on the EV push.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 20, 2023

But with limited time, it’s in the hands of scientists to check the science fiction, as our CDR outcomes hang in measuring the balance. Years of investigations by publications including The Guardian , Bloomberg Green , and ProPublica have exposed major faults in the VCM.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Today marked the start of our second annual conference and we were thrilled to virtually host almost 6,000 attendees from over 140 countries, representing 16 verticals and markets. . No commercial Earth observation company has ever before offered data with such consistency, accuracy, and scale.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

deal on Thursday, ExxonMobil acquired Denbury , a Texas-based energy company focused on carbon capture and storage (CCS) and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) that controls the largest network of CO2 pipelines in the US. CCS is basically the only path for an O&G company to decarbonize while continuing its fossil fuels business.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Gulf Coast typically receives much of the attention for the LNG rush , the Pacific Coast of Canada is home to multiple proposed LNG export projects, as energy companies scramble to export fracked gas from northeast British Columbia. LNG company, and before that, a director at Enron. The companies did not offer additional detail.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The calls come the day after lead EU negotiator Franz Timmermans told reporters that the bloc supported "any call to phase out fossil fuels" and the UK is also said to be in support of the measure. The stone age did not end because the world ran out of stones, and the oil age will not end because we run out of oil," he added.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

I met Travis and his wife Nicole Dardar on March 17, before attending an air quality permit hearing held by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) in Cameron for another proposed LNG export project by Commonwealth LNG , a Texas-based company. Flare at Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility. “The U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink has warned companies that they face increased scrutiny of their carbon-cutting plans and US president Joe Biden has outlined $2tr of commitments in support of climate action at a time when thousands of businesses and scores of national governments are unveiling net zero strategies. Net Zero alignment.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

degree goal," Gutteres said, adding that he was calling on all governments, private companies, and local authorities to take three specific steps to end their reliance on coal power. The second part of the three point plan would see an end to the international financing of coal plants and a shift in investment to renewable energy projects. "I

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Climate Liability Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Companies Make Key Advances. A pair of climate cases from opposite sides of the country appear to be the closest yet to holding fossil fuel companies accountable in court. Federal courts continue rejecting fossil fuel companies’ bids to keep climate cases out of state courts.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2021

Citi — represented by CEO Jane Fraser — ranked second with $237 billion. A full 100 percent of the directors of JPMorgan Chase, for example, had ties to polluting industries, including “multiple affiliations to companies funding or associated with hydrocarbon extraction,” DeSmog’s investigation found. That same day, Judge Roland B.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

US climate envoy John Kerry has urged nations and companies worldwide to unite in the urgent battle to drive down emissions just as many did to secure victory in World War Two, as he highlighted the private sector's "outsized role" in driving the net zero transition. "I And that's not going to come from a government Treasury.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In many parts of the world, you’ve overbuilt wind, you’ve overbuilt solar,” one Goldman Sachs executive told Bloomberg TV. power supply was dominated by coal, which historically pumped out the cheapest — and, by many measures , the dirtiest — electricity around. This August, Bloomberg declared “the era of cheap natural gas is over.”.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

If LaBarge had gone ahead, it would have been one of the largest carbon-capture projects operated solely by Exxon, making up almost 20% of the company’s new emission-reduction efforts out to 2025 (2 million metric tons). The company put the total cost of construction at about $260 million, 1% of its capital budget for 2020.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

She has developed a vendor sustainability scorecard for a Fortune 100 company, consulted with a national brand to improve impact measurement and reporting, and quantified the carbon emissions of an industry association. He/Him/His) Executive Director, Corporate Strategy, Consumer Energy Jackson, MI, USA Bloomberg (‘10).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

New report from Planet Tracker warns booming ETF market is supporting soybean companies driving mass deforestation in Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The paper proposes a number of measures that ETF sponsors and index providers should take to prevent the ETF market from enabling deforestation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

However, Michael Bloomberg, UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Climate Ambition and Solutions and Founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies, expressed confidence the US would be able to deliver deep emissions reductions over the coming decades. EU steps up push for fossil fuel phase out.

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