DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2020

Tags: carbon capture natural gas carbon tax biofuels ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Imperial Oil Covering Climate Now Another popular strategy for the industry is to push certain climate “solutions” — often with slick advertising campaigns — that sound good in theory but are not viable in practice.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

The programme, funded by the Scottish government funded advisory group Zero Waste Scotland and delivered in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, involves the use of RFID tags. These have already been used in Europe and in some other parts of the UK.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2020

Tags: Dentons EJM Associates AFL-CIO IBEW International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers U.S. Unlike those calling for a Green New Deal, though, this alliance supports increased fracking for oil and gas, as well as other controversial technologies that critics say prop up fossil fuels.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 29, 2022

Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with Aclymate to bring the GBB members a carbon footprint calculator and carbon offset marketplace. GBB and Aclymate are working together to help businesses become greener and measure their progress via the GBB EcoScoreCare and Aclymate Carbon Footprint. What gets measured, gets managed.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As interest and scrutiny involving the use of carbon credits toward net zero goals intensifies, resources from Shopify, Frontier Climate, and Ecosystem Marketplace have some answers for corporate buyers. Shopify's carbon removal buying guide. Thursday, the commerce technology company Shopify released " Buying Carbon Removal, Explained."

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

It argues the costs of removing emissions from the power system are likely to rise over the coming years as policymakers plot how to deliver firm and flexible low carbon generation capacity that can oust unabated fossil fuel power from the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Duke Energy has detailed the various paths its utilities in the Carolinas could take over the next 15 years, a choice that will determine how quickly Duke cuts its carbon footprint and how much it will cost. gigawatts under its carbon policy case — and up to 16.4 ” Looking at the price tags.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Sharing the findings on Twitter , BNEF's head of sustainable materials Julia Attwood described the estimated $278bn price tag for decarbonising a sector responsible for some seven per cent of global emissions was a "bargain". Meanwhile, 45 per cent of the steel market would be produced in electric furnaces from recycled scrap.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Honda has revved up its commitment to a carbon neutral future by announcing it will leave Formula 1 before 2022, citing the need to accelerate the auto industry's move away from the internal combustion engine (ICE). Move aligns with Honda's commitment to reaching full electrification across Europe by 2025. The sport currently uses 1.6

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Fresh analysis warns plans for UK's largest BECCS facility in North Yorkshire could prove more expensive for billpayers than Hinkley Point C, but developer Drax rejects calculations and insists carbon capture technology is likely to prove a crucial component of the net zero transition.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

The effects of the climate crisis could cost Canadians some $700 per year by 2025—a price tag that is expected to double or triple by 2050. Canadian electricity is, on average, more than twice as clean as America’s, meaning that many goods and services produced here are accordingly lower carbon.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

ICVCM said the new Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) have been developed using input from hundreds of organisations throughout the voluntary carbon market and will set out fundamental principles for high-quality credits which deliver real, verifiable emissions reductions based on the latest science and best practices.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The moves to support the transition to EVs are also set to be accompanied by sweeping new plans to accelerate the development of clean energy capacity, energy efficiency programmes, carbon capture and storage and hydrogen projects, and nature protection initiatives.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

The report analyses the top eight industries with the most carbon-intensive global supply chains, which it estimates together account for more than half of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions. Similarly, producing a zero carbon pair of jeans or a basket of groceries might add just €1 onto the price tag, according to the report.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The costs associated with carbon emissions are diffuse and deferred, the costs associated with deploying clean technologies may be lower, but they are concentrated and front loaded. Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs. warming pathway by 2030. Again, it sounds like a lot but it is equivalent to around 1.3

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. But while Neom’s $500 billion price tag prompts questions about whether it will go ahead exactly as planned, the hydrogen effort doesn’t depend on the megacity’s overall success. Carbon targets? Hydrogen targets!

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

Here at Planet, we capture snapshots of our world everyday. All of yesterday’s growth and fun came with a steep price tag. Each stage is often associated with some degree of harm, whether its oil spills , pipelines built across protected land , or the planet-warming carbon pumped into the atmosphere. A lot of them.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 4, 2021

Aether takes carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere and turns it into beautiful, precious stones. Workers synthesize the captured carbon into a usable hydrocarbon raw material that is suitable for growing diamonds in reactors. As carbon atoms align into crystalline form, the diamonds grow one fractal at a time.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Not so long ago, the development of the many critical green technologies that could provide viable alternatives to high carbon incumbents and deliver a net zero transition was regarded more in hope than anticipation. Suddenly, an enormous untapped market could be willing to buy (and pay for) more sustainable products," the report states.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Separately, the government today confirmed that companies that applied to the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) tariff guarantee scheme before June 29 will have an extra 14 months to get their low-carbon heat generators up and running. The only thing Rooseveltian about this plan is that it belongs in the fossil fuel age," he said.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. But while Neom’s $500 billion price tag prompts questions about whether it will go ahead exactly as planned, the hydrogen effort doesn’t depend on the megacity’s overall success. Carbon targets? Hydrogen targets!

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 31, 2022

Further, CATL presently has eight factories under construction at a price tag of over $14 billion, underscoring the investments China is making toward securing continued market control. Mr. Egan told me that his company’s technology can capture ~90% of the lithium in the brine. But there are other efforts underway in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule. Carbon is everywhere. Carbon atoms flow through all living organisms, from the atmosphere to the earth to the oceans and back again. But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. Birds and plants, and forests’ important carbon stores, are being damaged by this industry.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

But it is also true that an effective near-term energy security strategy would have dampened the impact of soaring bills, provided assurance to the public and businesses that the government had a grip on the crisis, and reduced the price tag of the multi-billion bailout the Treasury is now going to have to provide.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 5, 2024

But let’s chit-chat about something that often tags along with investing: dividends. USD, is exploring advanced technologies like carbon capture and hydrogen to help meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impacts. You’re probably eyeing those green stocks, and I hear you. Let’s dig in.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Labour's Party Conference kicked off yesterday, with the new tag line 'A Fairer, Greener Future' on prominent display, and the opening policy announcement coming in the form of a commitment to deliver a net zero emissions power system by 2030, a full five years earlier than the government's current 2035 target date.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

However, in light of the significant energy security and gas price crisis facing the UK, the Government should also be looking at introducing supplementary measures to drive greater investment in energy efficiency and low carbon heat in homes. Heat pumps and solar panels will then help to power our homes in an effective, low carbon way.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

acquisition is the largest single carbon-management investment since the passage of the IRA and has implications for the carbon capture, utilization, and storage ecosystem. Regulators miss another deadline on deep-sea mining rules, and the US is digging into the carbon removal benefits of regenerative agriculture.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This is inherently wasteful and it comes with a price tag of emissions. Although it’s not geothermal, I think it’s important that we move forward quickly with Carbon Capture and Storage. It is critically important for us to decarbonize the atmosphere by getting carbon emissions out of the air and into the ground.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Previous unconfirmed reports have estimated a price tag for the Sizewell project of between £16-20bn. Meanwhile, Ministers maintain that the new approach will promote innovation and growth by providing long term certainty for investment in low carbon technologies.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

It should be noted that there are countless ways to reshape the current carbon-intense industry, this article suggest merely one of many possibilities. The alternative to fossil feedstock, is to replace it with hydrogen and carbon in other sustainable forms. > A source of carbon. Power plants and open-source carbon sinks.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This might be the quickest and cheapest way for you to become carbon neutral, without retrofitting your vessels at all. It should be noted that there are many possible ways to reshape the current carbon-intense industry, the below case is but one example. Where exactly will we obtain vast quantities of hydrogen and carbon?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

I have been calling the carbon capture CO2 pipeline buildout plan a “publicly-funded sewer system for the fossil fuel industry” for some time. In fact it’s their only lifeline, and in the meantime it’s also really good for greenwashing and TV ads. A reality check is in order. President Gerald R.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 17, 2021

Retrofits offer the cost-savings and health benefits of eco-friendly homes without the large price tag of newly-built green homes. Retrofits are traditional homes that have been renovated to include sustainable materials and to be more energy- and water-efficient. Sustainable homes also help address water scarcity.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 15, 2024

Geothermal energy accounts for less than 1% of today’s global renewable capacity despite its enormous potential as a carbon-free, continuous source of heat and electricity (IRENA, 2023). This reflection data is captured by specialised sensors (receivers) and processed to create detailed images of the subsurface.

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