Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 3, 2022

Carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 were the lowest in nearly 40 years, according to a 2021 year-end report by the U.S. Since peaking in 2007, however, CO 2 emissions have declined in nine of the past 13 years. Energy Information Administration (EIA). energy-related CO 2 emissions totaled 4.6 billion metric tons, down 11% from 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Aiming to support the development and deployment of technologies that enable energy intensive businesses to transition towards a low carbon future, the programme has committed a total of £500m in grants for UK businesses, with £185m set to be spread across two windows in 2024 alone.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Putting a price on carbon should reduce emissions, because it makes dirty production processes more expensive than clean ones, right? We analysed data for 142 countries over more than two decades, 43 of which had a carbon price of some form by the end of the study period. Emissions tend to fall in countries with carbon prices.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

The “responsibly-produced” oil that will be pumped through Trans Mountain could release 15 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. As early as 2007, Alberta’s provincial government instituted a carbon tax on large industrial emitters, which has raised U.S. But certain facts were left conveniently unstated.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Icelandic company Carbfix has cracked the code on converting liquified CO2 into rock, leading the charge to capture and store excess carbon. Capturing carbon from the atmosphere is quickly becoming a popular venture. But Icelandic company Carbfix has been capturing and storing carbon in rocks for over a decade.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Govan Heritage Trust is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of Govan Old Church – a Grade A listed building on the banks of the River Clyde – and will use the funding to install a new river source heat pump, resulting in a 93% reduction in carbon emissions and a 20% saving in energy costs.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2020

The UK's 'carbon footprint' is an oft-debated topic among green policy and energy wonks. Given the intricacies of the UK economy and its myriad supply chains, drawing up an accurate estimate of the UK's true 'carbon footprint' is an extremely complicated challenge. The overall carbon footprint stood at 772 million tonnes in 2017.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

All carbon pollution is equal: this is a founding assumption of the UN Climate Convention, because the atmospheric effect of a tonne of carbon dioxide emitted from a smoking tropical tree in Mato Grosso is no different from a tonne billowing from a coal power station in Missouri. So far, it is no more than a trickle.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Fresh ONS assessment of UK carbon impact shows that when imported emissions are taken into account UK emissions peaked in 2007 rather than 1972.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012. To help businesses create their individual decarbonisation strategies, Siemens has published a new whitepaper suggesting a range of specific steps towards carbon neutrality. Shift to low-carbon heat.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Carbon pricing works, and this proves it Paul Burke Tue, 09/01/2020 – 00:45 Putting a price on carbon should reduce emissions, because it makes dirty production processes more expensive than clean ones, right? Emissions tend to fall in countries with carbon prices A quick look at the data gives a first clue.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

In that article I divided carbon dioxide emissions into two broad categories: What has already been released into the atmosphere (the legacy emissions), and ongoing releases. There is some potential for removing CO 2 from the oceans as calcium carbonate, but that application is probably limited. Ongoing Emissions. In the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

First established in 2005, the Courtauld Commitment has been updated to introduce more ambitious goals several times, with the latest 10-year programme started in 2015 setting out a range of targets to reduce waste, water use, and carbon emissions across the industry by 2025. billion meals.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Since the peak in 2007, coal consumption in the U.S. Both were aided by legislation aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Power produced from natural gas has lower associated carbon dioxide emissions. Since 2007, consumption of renewable power in the U.S. The Impact on Carbon Dioxide Emissions.

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altenergymag

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The canopy will contribute to MGM’s stated goal of reducing carbon emissions per square foot by 45% by 2025, using a 2007 baseline. Built with U.S.-made made Nucor steel and a proprietary water management system, the 1.382MW solar canopy sits atop the roof deck of the MGM Springfield’s parking garage.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Google announced that it has now invested in enough high-quality carbon offsets to essentially erase its carbon footprint , compensating for all the carbon the company ever emitted. Google first became carbon-neutral in 2007. Microsoft plans to be carbon-negative by 2030. Via BBC Image via Pawe?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In 2006 and 2007, for example, millions of laptops and mobile phones were recalled due to safety fears relating to their Li-ion batteries, and in 2013, a Boeing 787 was grounded following electrical issues with the Li-ion battery in the aircraft’s auxiliary power unit.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In 2007, he was instrumental in making the Volvo plant in Ghent, Belgium, a carbon-neutral automotive plant. Collignon has more than 30 years of international experience in the commercial vehicle industry with GM and the Volvo Group. He has incubated several companies, and held board positions in economic and industry federations.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Carbon pricing is a regular feature of Canadian headlines, as parties and governments clash over the right to impose a price on pollution across Canada. Many of these discussions are centred around whether carbon pricing is genuinely effective at reducing emissions. The carbon price incentivized B.C.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere.

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Charged

AUGUST 25, 2021

For the fossil fuel industry, “one of the obvious problems to be solved is where to distribute fuels while the world is galloping towards a carbon-free future,” says L-Charge. The company tells us that gasoline sales have been declining steadily since 2007, and combined sales of diesel and gasoline peaked in 2017.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

Fossil fuels are composed of carbon and hydrogen. When hydrocarbons are combusted, the carbon forms carbon dioxide and the hydrogen forms water. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. Consumption in 2019 was 35% below the 2007 level in OECD countries. What is meant by that?

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Charged

MAY 10, 2021

Both sources have substantial local environmental impacts, in addition to the carbon cost of shipping the lithium around the world. German-Australian startup Vulcan Energy Resources says it can deliver carbon-neutral lithium, extracted at geothermal power stations. Source: Reuters via autoblog.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Emerging economies on course to 'leapfrog' fossil fuel power infrastructure and move straight to renewables-dominated grids, according to new analysis from Carbon Tracker and India's CEEW. Overall, the analysis expects fossil fuel demand in emerging markets to peak as early as 2025.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The SET plan was introduced in 2007 to guide the region’s energy research and innovation agenda towards a low-carbon future and ensure a unified approach towards achieving the decarbonisation goals. Have you read?

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A Bank of America analyst recently compared the investment opportunity to that of smartphones before 2007. Clean hydrogen—whether made with non-emitting electricity, in combination with carbon removal, or via other innovative technologies—remains a largely unrealized opportunity. VANCOUVER — Hydrogen is getting people talking.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

Carbon emissions from the global power sector fell by two per cent in 2019, the biggest fall since at least 1990, and yet the goals set by the Paris Agreement remain at risk of being missed by a huge margin unless there is a far more rapid shift towards cleaner energy sources. remains "extremely difficult" to meet.

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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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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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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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The Environmental Blog

JULY 31, 2019

The strategy involves sustainable fish production, collaboration between ocean-based industries and the reduction of carbon emissions. In 2007, he served as the international patron of the UN’s ‘Year of the Dolphin’ programme, and is also the head of his own foundation aimed at safeguarding biodiversity and managing water resources.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

The town, and the municipality of the same name that it sits in, is the home to a host of pioneering energy efficiency technologies and innovations, from a carbon neutral manufacturing plant, supermarkets whose waste heat is piped to nearby homes, to the world's longest range electric passenger ferry. But it is not undeserved.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

million campaign Edelman carried out on behalf of the United Arab Emirates from 2007 to 2009. Rewind time to 2007 to learn how it went down. Fossil Fuel Companies Made Bold Promises to Capture Carbon. That figure doesn’t include a $10 billion federal carbon capture tax credit announced during COP28. From the U.S.

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