GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

“The materials you put in the building will be there forever, they cannot be decarbonized,” said Victoria Herrero-Garcia, an engineer who analyzes the carbon used in buildings over their life cycles for Ambient Energy in Denver. In the case of cement, the very chemical reaction at its heart generates massive carbon dioxide.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 12, 2023

Heavy industry represents one of Canada’s biggest sources of carbon. The chemicals and fertilizers sector – which produces many things we use every day including pharmaceuticals and food – emits almost as much carbon as steel and cement combined. Since 2000, demand has outstripped that of other heavy industries.

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Grist

JULY 31, 2020

When Apple announced new climate goals last week, the tech giant revealed that some of its sleek, silvery laptops will include a novel material: “low-carbon” aluminum. Apple is poised to become the first company to include some of this low-carbon aluminum in its products.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 7, 2024

A big part of the problem is that the US is replacing a majority of aging power plants that run on coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, with gas-fired plants instead of carbon pollution-free alternatives. The IEA forecast a peak in global demand for coal, gas, and oil this decade (for all energy use, not just electricity).

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy Pollution 126

Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

New standards for the voluntary carbon market (VCM) released last month are intended to help investors assess the soundness of companies' claims about their contribution to climate goals. The framework and a partnership between two organizations focused on carbon offset integrity aim to combat credibility issues in the VCM.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2021

Despite how crucial water is to business, and to life itself, the risks that come with not having enough of it have often been overlooked by investors, who’ve tended to focus more on carbon. In fact, the analysts estimate that average EBITDA impact from water is three times higher than that of carbon for the sector. Lagging disclosure.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Yet while those transport sectors are advancing towards low-carbon solutions - with promising technologies cultivated by multilateral accords - industrial heat lacks any consensus plan and has a long to-do list to develop low-carbon alternatives. Certifying renewable thermal solutions. The first step? Covering the U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

With this change comes more energy and water consumption, more air and ocean pollution and more carbon emissions. The fashion industry produces approximately 10% of the world’s carbon emissions. Clothing production has approximately doubled since 2000, and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2022

The historic climate, health and tax package cleared by Congress last week could drive catalytic change in the US carbon dioxide removal industry, writes BeZero Carbon's Victoria Harvey. The global carbon removal industry is relatively nascent. The Act has given it a well needed upgrade for both carbon capture and removal.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Carbon emissions driven by the destruction of tropical forests have doubled over the last 20 years and are continuing to accelerate, according to a study which has warned of the failure of existing strategies to halt deforestation. Want to find out more about how the net zero transition will impact your business?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

While new investments must be made in solar, wind and other low-carbon options, the future of existing infrastructure also needs to be considered, Laura Cozzi, the IEA's chief modeler, said at the report's launch. From 2000-2019, solar generation increased by 664 gigawatt-hours from a base close to zero. degrees Celsius.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 22, 2021

Previous articles provided an overview of this year’s Review, an examination of the data on carbon emissions, a look at oil supply and demand trends, and an examination of natural gas trends. Fossil fuels are composed of carbon and hydrogen. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Fast fashion is the term for the high-turnaround, low-cost, trendy clothing and accessories created to maximize profit and meet demand. This has been the common practice for years without consumers blinking an eye; however, trends are shifting and consumers are demanding more ethical goods. The average U.S. Environmental Impact.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

New report raises social cost of carbon estimates, surpassing previous estimates by more than 250%. The Social Cost of GHG: A Brief History Federal agencies began to develop estimates of the social cost of carbon dioxide (SCC) following the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s 2008 decision in Center for Biological Diversity v.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 18, 2021

” Furthermore, said the developer, the Riba-roja is part of the Natura 2000 European network of core breeding and resting sites for rare and threatened species. Neither developer responded to requests for information from GTM. Pumped hydro is going to ease the closing of the nuclear plants.”

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Both projects will reduce demand on regional energy infrastructure and enable Eaton to power its manufacturing plants with more renewables and boost energy resilience for its operations, said the companies in a press release. MWh of battery storage into the facility’s onsite power generation systems.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

California, Oregon, and Washington have all passed laws and enacted policies that require utilities to dramatically cut carbon pollution over the next decade. Out of 425 gas project proposals FERC considered between 2000 and 2021, the agency has rejected only two. percent a year on average through 2050. Credit: Rogue Climate.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Populations shifts could result in opportunities for effective forest conservation, whilst on the other hand could lead to deforestation as greater urban demand and large industrial projects are created. Around the world, 1.6

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Demand 147

Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China is now the world's second largest economy and the largest carbon emitter. Their coal powered economic growth has unleashed a carbon bomb. Overall the country's carbon output tripled between 2000 and 2018, and its CO2 emissions now represents almost one third of the global total.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

New regulations, innovations in recovery technology and shifting market demands are all aspects of the ongoing shift to a circular economy, in which metal recycling is playing an important part. Economic growth has driven ongoing demand for waste metals since 2000. How much is used worldwide?

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

By law, California must have 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045, and an executive order signed by former Governor Jerry Brown calls for economywide carbon-neutrality by the same year. After all, if oil demand in California remains strong, crude from outside the state will simply fill the void.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If Exxon had back then used its vast political and financial power to aggressively push for a national carbon tax to be adopted in major economies around the world, global emissions might have already peaked by now. The surge in capital spending mitigates the impact on the economy after the year 2000,” Imperial learned. .

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

We often look at sustainability in tech through the lens of hardware, focusing on how to make hardware more carbon-efficient," said Asim Hussain, green cloud advocacy lead at Microsoft and executive director of the Green Software Foundation, in an email. Carbon-aware applications that change behaviour to minimise carbon emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 4, 2022

Established in 2000, Doteasy is a Canadian web hosting company specializing in domain name registration and sustainable web hosting solutions. Data centers are notorious for their high carbon footprint. This means, that for a website that has 10,000 monthly page views, a carbon footprint totaling 60kg C0 2 per year is racked up.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Hydrogen Scaling production Scaling renewable hydrogen production to industrial volumes starts with developing a supply chain that can meet global demand and deliver thousands of megawatts of electrolyzer capacity needed every year. The new production line occupies some 2000 m2. It is therefore key for our future.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The surge in illegal deforestation devastates crucial habitats and carbon sinks, while depriving developing economy governments of tens of millions of dollars in lost revenues, Chatham House said. The influential think tank estimates more than two thirds of recent tropical deforestation has taken place in breach of local laws and regulations.

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Logging Biodiversity Law Government 69

Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

The IPCC report on climate change has been called a “code red” for humanity, with its finding that temperatures rose more in the past 50 years than any time over the past 2000 years, and is continuing to rise more rapidly than expected. These dire scenarios tell us that we all need to get serious about eliminating carbon fuels from our lives.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Large customers have also developed a variety of power-purchase agreement (PPA) structures that have become the fastest-growing source of voluntary clean power demand, according to NREL data, reaching about 42 million MWh of sales last year. The emergence of community-choice aggregators has also been pivotal. utilities offer them.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon emissions from energy stayed the same in 2019 despite expectations of further growth, latest International Energy Agency data indicates. The data lays bare the rapidly declining importance of coal power in advanced economies, where the use of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel fell almost 15 per cent last year.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2022

In the National Association of Home Builders 2021 edition of “What Home Buyers Really Want” , the national survey showed that the demand for green homes is primarily driven by the desire for lower utility costs. energy use is roughly the same as it was in 2000 despite a 30% boost in economic growth. Show Them the Numbers.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Fast fashion is the term for the high-turnaround, low-cost, trendy clothing and accessories created to maximize profit and meet demand. This has been the common practice for years without consumers blinking an eye; however, trends are shifting and consumers are demanding more ethical goods. The average U.S. Environmental Impact.

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Fashion Waste Waste Retail 78

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

gigawatts of green hydrogen electrolyzer capacity might be deployed between now and 2025, a 1,272 percent increase on the 253 megawatts installed from 2000 to the end of 2019. And the first one, which yields what's called "blue" hydrogen, is not inherently carbon-free, Irena noted. Neither option is cheap, though.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Hydrogen 100

Low Impact

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

First up – efficiency improvements: the lie that aviation can become carbon-neutral via ever-greater aircraft efficiency, reducing the need for fossil fuels. As climate demands are raised, the aviation sector is redoubling its greenwashing efforts, pointing to improbable technological step-changes for ‘greener’ flights.

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Aviation Carbon-neutral Technology Fossil fuels 80

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The company's most optimistic outlook sketches out a net zero scenario, which would see global carbon emissions from energy use fall by 95 per cent by 2050, broadly in line with efforts to keep warming below 1.5C. Oil demand has likely peaked. In two of the study's three energy scenarios, oil demand already passed its peak in 2019.

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy Demand 64

GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

The analysis models out to 2040 the costs and economic and carbon impacts of creating an interstate grid operator for the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The carbon emissions improvements would not be as strong, however, at only one-third of the RTO scenario.

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Energy Energy Natural gas Policy 130

Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Our emissions crisis is often defined in simplistic terms, often focusing on the more obvious carbon-intensive sectors of oil and gas production, shipping and aviation or the ‘carbon footprint’ of the individual. tonnes of carbon are emitted. By David Stent — Climate Council Digital Producer & Content Manager.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2023

A UK government agency has provided billions of pounds worth of financial support to the high-carbon aviation sector since the Paris climate agreement was adopted in 2015, DeSmog analysis shows. Airlines already benefit from paying no duty on their fuel, and most of the emissions from flying attract no carbon costs.

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