GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That includes a recommitment to reaching its 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions below 50 percent of their 2007 levels, potentially ahead of schedule.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Update to region picker aims to make it easier for customers to switch to the lowest carbon regions for their Cloud computing services. Earlier this year, we published the carbon characteristics of our Google Cloud regions ," he wrote. A simple leaf icon will signal which regions have the lowest level of emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google on Monday pledged that by 2030 it will run its entire business on carbon-free energy — every hour of every day of the year. West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. Europe and Chile.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

Google yesterday announced the latest breakthrough in support of its goal to utilise zero carbon power at all times, unveiling a new Carbon-Intelligent Computing Platform that matches data centre energy use to peaks in renewable power generation. Early results demonstrate carbon-aware load shifting works," Radovanovic said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Mike Barry is a veteran of the UK's sustainable business movement, having played a steering role in the creation and implementation of Marks & Spencer's ground-breaking Plan A sustainability programme back in 2007.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Partnerships and carbon free energy are key to Google's decarbonisation plans, according to the tech giant's sustainability officer Kate Brandt. And a cornerstone pledge to operate 24/7 on carbon free energy by 2030 was it "biggest moonshot yet," she added. In 2007, Google was first major company to commit to carbon neutrality.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 13, 2021

As Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained, the company is aiming to run a 24/7 carbon-free operation worldwide by 2030; it’s been carbon-neutral since 2007. Meeting audacious goals with meaningful change. But real change, Pichai explained, happens when such actions spread outside the company. .

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 16, 2022

This is why it’s vital to consider every emission scope during the carbon reporting process of a business. A study by McKinsey showed that data centers have been known to emit a massive 80 megatonnes of carbon dioxide each year. The carbon footprint of data centers can be reduced by: Accurately measuring and tracking use.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Latest Carbon Clean 200 list companies outperformed average benchmark by 47 per cent over the past year. Overall, they calculated that investing $10,000 in the Carbon Clean 200 companies in July 2016 would have seen this investment grow to more than $21,000 by the end of last month.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2021

The chief sustainability officer tells BusinessGreen how the Indian business group is steering more than 150 companies behind a 2040 carbon neutrality goal. However, the more energy efficiency you do and the more renewable energy and planet-friendly technologies you adopt, you reduce your carbon footprint and modify your processes.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The airline has been carbon neutral since 2007, however, the decision to go all-electric is not just an environmental decision, it is also good for business. The company expects the planes pay for themselves in the coming years. They plan to start flying passengers once they get their certification sometime around 2022.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As a company, Google claims to be carbon neutral since 2007 and has set a goal to be carbon-free by 2030. Green Building Council. Google has made headlines multiple times for its efforts to lean into environmentally-friendly practices.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

THE IMPORTANCE OF CARBON FOOTPRINTS. Businesses today need to know and understand their carbon footprint in order to make progress toward becoming a more sustainable and eco-friendly business. You can also use it to determine the amount of carbon offsets to purchase in order to get to carbon neutral. .

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 21, 2020

In 2007, it became the first carbon-neutral college in the U.S. For the fourth year in a row The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME, earned the top spot. The school was founded in 1969 to focus on on the relationship between humans and the environment. It has since committed to becoming a fossil fuel-free campus by 2030.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2022

From this year, Google Maps will offer eco-friendly routing: defaulting to the route with the lowest carbon emissions when the estimated time of arrival is similar to the fastest route. We estimate that this change alone could save over one million tons of carbon emissions per year - the equivalent of taking 200,000 cars off the road.

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Unsustainable

JUNE 17, 2020

Their processing and manufacture is also nearly carbon neutral. It provides a secondary income to growers and is environmentally neutral. Like banana fibers and Piñatex, cocona is made from waste products – activated carbons derived from coconut shells mixed with volcanic sand (a by-product of water filtration industries).

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

According to recent reporting by The Narwhal, LNG Canada could increase British Columbia’s annual carbon emissions by 13 megatonnes, more than 20 percent above current levels — making it one of the largest fossil fuel expansions in recent Canadian history. The Bolloré Group as a whole reported company-wide carbon emissions of 34.8

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Analogue switch off of broadcast television began in 2007 and was completed in October 2012. A hot topic with the recent COP26 conference is of course “net zero”, and one impact of the rapid switch to carbon-neutral supplies will be the increased demands on the electricity grid. Technology changes at a rapid rate.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Google has made investments in sustainability both at home and abroad , and has been carbon-neutral since 2007. With so many people these days concerned about the carbon footprint of their internet use, data centers like Google’s are a focus of ongoing efforts to be as sustainable as possible. But it doesn’t end there.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The company, they said, aims to gradually decarbonize its investment portfolio to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. And starting this year the company says it has also “gradually started withdrawing insurance support from the world’s 10% most carbon-intensive oil and gas production” to be completed by 2023.

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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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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The study from Princeton University's ZERO Lab is the first analysis of the grid impact of 24/7 carbon-free electricity procurement, which is growing in popularity among corporate and governmental energy buyers. In 2020, Google reached 67% carbon-free energy globally on an hourly basis. Princeton University ZERO Lab.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Senior figures in charge of the Church of England’s investments have close current or past ties to high-carbon companies including Shell, Drax and BP, DeSmog can report. He oversaw the company’s expansion into highly polluting oil sands before his retirement in 2007.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As the climate crisis accelerates, so, too, do efforts by the fossil fuel industry to derail steep reductions in carbon pollution by mid-century, in part by promoting false solutions. An Industry Push for CCS The fossil fuel industry will paint carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a climate solution during this year’s conference.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. In this scenario, a zero-carbon electricity system would drive wholesale power costs of about $90 per megawatt-hour on average. trillion pathway to a zero-carbon U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

RMI defines hourly load matching as "where a buyer attempts to procure sufficient carbon-free energy to match a given facility's load in every hour.". Google, for example, has been carbon-neutral since 2007 through carbon offsets, and was one of the first companies to purchase renewable energy directly through PPAs in 2017.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 14, 2021

In 2007, wind energy was about as welcome in America as alien spacecraft, with all kinds of objections blocking project approval. Any company engaged in reducing its carbon emissions knows that no single product is going to solve the problem. Lessons from wave one. How did ‘alternative’ energy like wind become mainstream?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Google prides itself on having been carbon-neutral since 2007, with data centers that use 50% less energy than is typical. But you should expect the unexpected from Google. In Georgia, when you flush your toilet, you might just be helping to cool a data center!

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2021

And a peer-reviewed study published last year in the journal Geophysical Research found that climate models dating back to the 1970s through 2007 have proved remarkably accurate . It’s also a way of talking that also lets ExxonMobil leave out any description of what, exactly, is being put at risk, the paper notes.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) recently reviewed by DeSmog show that from 2007 to 2009, Edelman carried out a $6.4 Masdar officials selected Edelman to run the campaign in part because Chris Deri, a renewable energy advisor to former Vice President Al Gore, was a key member of the Edelman team, according to an October 2007 PR Week article.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

One of the hottest trends in corporate clean energy procurement is 24/7 carbon-free electricity: An hour-by-hour match of an entity's energy consumption throughout the day, instead of the traditional method of buying clean energy credits based on annual consumption. Follow @EngelsAngle. What is CFE? CFE in practice.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2020

Following the sold-out success of “I Am Not a Plastic Bag” in 2007, designer brand Anya Hindmarch has launched a new product, called “I Am a Plastic Bag”, aimed at recycling single-use plastic and leaving behind a net-zero carbon footprint from production.

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