Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

Ørsted has become the first energy company to top the Corporate Knights' Global 100 rankings of the world's most sustainable businesses, a decade after the Danish power firm began its pivot from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated. the spokesperson stated.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The government recently concluded a consultation on how the aviation sector could reach net zero emissions but did not recommend any policies to cut demand. Charlie Kronick, a senior climate campaigner at Greenpeace, said the findings raised “really serious questions” for initiatives like PRI.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 2, 2021

Krüger’s reservations are understandable, as Volkswagen’s demands do not favor BMW. Back in 2006, he posted his first Master Plan, which involved the creation of electric cars that are so compelling for car buyers; the behemoth that is traditional auto will start shifting its efforts to electric mobility.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 19, 2019

. • Cal ISO Today : an app including features that allow users to monitor electricity prices and view real-time demand of electricity. Since the enactment of the ITC in 2006, the solar industry has skyrocketed, growing by more than 8,600%, creating thousands of jobs, and fueling the U.S

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

For context, 100GW is more than the UK's entire current electricity capacity, which stands at around 75GW from both clean and fossil fuel sources. Masdar was first established in 2006 and has for most of its existence been wholly-owned by the Mubadala Investment Company - essentially the UAE's sovereign wealth fund.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Many of our customers – such as those in the automotive sector – increasingly demand components and materials with much lower embodied carbon. This demand helps to create significant opportunity all along the value chain. Here, hydrogen replaces fossil fuels used in conventional reduction processes. Raw materials.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, that inaction or delayed action on climate will create immense risks and costs,and populations across the world demand leaders to respond - and to respond now. Back in 2006, the Stern Review estimated that unmitigated climate change could incur costs equivalent to wiping as much as 20 per cent off global GDP every year.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 16, 2021

Just try to visit the park without coming home with dozens of photos of this iconic bridge , the longest steel span in the western hemisphere, that had the honor of representing the state on a 2006 quarter. Nowadays, with demand for renewable energy on the rise, West Virginia’s coal industry looks more precarious.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

There’s no clear long-term demand for SAF as yet, and without that, investors will be reluctant to finance what’s needed to scale production, so it remains a niche product. The question of where the feedstock to produce these fuels should come from also seems contentious and complex. tonnes from 2021 to 2030.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

I want the Net Zero Review to be seen in future like the Stern Review [on the economics of climate change in 2006], so that we can say '10 years ago, Mission Zero set out this long-term perspective, and we bought into it'.". Fossil fuel dilemmas. Securing Rishi Sunak's support. I couldn't agree more.".

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature.

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GreenTech Gazette

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

While a small minority in Congress is calling for green alternatives to carbon-producing energy products like coal and oil, the reusable energy market is still in its infant stages and nowhere near replacing fossil fuels. National Demand Expected to Grow.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

The meat industry is increasingly viewed as a sector where greenhouse gas emissions cuts can and should be made, just like the fossil fuel industry Livestock accounts for a third of total global emissions of methane, a potent gas that traps heat about 80 times more effectively than carbon dioxide but breaks up more quickly in the atmosphere.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 30, 2021

Wood Mackenzie estimates that at least $50 trillion in investment will be needed to reduce fossil-fuel and other greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 if we are to meet the goals set out in the Paris climate accord. Since 2006, Michael has led Clairvest’s investments in seven waste management platform companies.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In step with rising global demand, meat production has more than quadrupled in the past sixty years. A study published in Science last year found that even if emissions from fossil fuels ceased right away, projected eating habits would make it impossible to keep global average temperature rises to 1.5C.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For instance, a 2020 report by Carrots and Sticks gives three interesting insights: The total number of voluntary and mandatory provisions in different countries has increased significantly since 2006. Therefore, the demand for ESG investments is pressing. Europe has the largest number of reporting provisions, with 245. ESG Benefits.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 14000 is in high demand as corporate CEOs, business leaders, and green teams recognize the seriousness of sustainability for business viability, but struggle to take action. The burning of fossil fuels to power vehicles releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and sulfur dioxide. People are demanding better.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. iv] Medical students in Canada are joining the climate strikes, demanding stronger climate action to address public health issues. [v]. November 2006. xii] [xiii]. billion in health-related costs per year.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

At a heated April meeting of this program’s oversight commission , Commissioner David Levy demanded to know why the Freshwater City disposal well was plugged before actively polluting oil and gas wells. If those funds are misspent, they warn, they could even wind up promoting more fossil fuel production and undermining climate goals.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Access to affordable, quality healthcare keeps employees healthy, making sure they’re able to come to work and meet work demands.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Sierra has been ranking the environmental performance of colleges since 2006. In May, the Cornell Board of Trustees announced a moratorium on fossil fuel investments, following more than a decade of student and faculty activism.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Polyester renewal technology , or PRT, which involves taking waste polyesters from landfills and other waste streams and transforming them back into a raw material that the company claims is indistinguishable from polyester produced from fossil-fuel feedstocks. The company adapted to, and prospered from, the changing times.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. billion metric tons of CO2 each year from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

In 2006, major tobacco firms were convicted of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in litigation brought by the DOJ. He and other senators have previously written to the DOJ and President Joe Biden requesting an investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s climate deception. degrees C (2.7

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

Polyester renewal technology , or PRT, which involves taking waste polyesters from landfills and other waste streams and transforming them back into a raw material that the company claims is indistinguishable from polyester produced from fossil-fuel feedstocks. The company adapted to, and prospered from, the changing times.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The gathering comes as Rishi Sunak’s government – which is already off track to meet the UK’s climate commitments – pursues new fossil fuel extraction, and prominent figures in the right-wing media continue to cast doubt over net zero policy. It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all.”

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

If approved by the EU's 27 member states, the coal ban would mark the first coordinated embargo from the bloc to tackle Russia's fossil fuel exports. It warned that emissions of the short-lived greenhouse gas were roughly 15 per cent higher in 2021 than in the period between 1984 and 2006.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Like many other banks, HSBC has pledged to step away from its funding of fossil-fuels interests and other high-carbon industrial activities with a pledge to achieving net-zero financed emissions across its customer portfolio by 2050. (It million people find jobs since 2005.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The book documents how today’s prevailing anti-regulatory and anti-government postures that deride Big Government and cheer for Big Business did not arise simply from grassroots demands. 4 The notorious Global Climate Coalition, a network of fossil fuel producers and users that in the 1990s successfully prevented the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

“Vertical” in this context means that growth will max out at 100 percent of new annual global energy demand, whatever that amount may be each year. As shown in the chart below, 75 percent of new demand is already coming from renewables. electricity demand in 2019, up from 0.6 percent of U.S. Figure 4: U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The subpoena that House Democrats sent on Monday to Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer and key figure in the Ukraine scandal, included demands for records of Perry’s trip, and any communications DOE may have regarding the phone calls between Trump and Zelensky at the heart of the impeachment investigation. In a Tuesday letter , Sen.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The fossil fuels industries still receive various subsidies and incentives. “Currently solar is already an existential threat to wind power’s gross demand levels here in the United States.” residents show support for immediate action on the crisis.

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