GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

With consumers demanding better from companies and consumer packaged goods companies setting sustainable packaging goals tied to 2025 , it seems the right time for this partnership, according to Ecologic Brands founder Julie Corbett. I couldn't think of a better way to really see this technology take off,” Corbett said.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. The price of oil plunged below zero on some days, and customer demand remains at an all-time low. Tue, 06/23/2020 - 01:30. Don't bet against America.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Until very recently, investor demands regarding environmental impact largely have focused on the climate crisis and greenhouse gas emissions. BNP Paribas, France’s largest bank, last month pledged to stop financing companies that produce or buy beef or soybeans cultivated on land in the Amazon cleared or converted after 2008.

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Biodiversity Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Investment 545

GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2021

Here are some notable learnings from his interview with GreenBiz: The Hewlett Foundation (HF) has been a long-term, large funder in clean transportation since 2008. In the past, the strategy was around minimizing pollution through reducing the demand for miles, energy and engine efficiency, and mobility pricing.

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Transportation Europe Electric vehicle Climate change 413

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

While the 100% RE vision has somewhat become mainstream in the renewable energy bubble, the importance of reducing demand for energy is still often overlooked. Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis. Both areas triggered unemployment reduction and stimulated further investments, ultimately reducing costs and increasing demand.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Packaging 82

Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s clear that a dedicated infrastructure is currently lacking, production costs outweigh less-clean competitors, and that government policy shows technology agnosticism is a myth. With hydrogen, we have the technology and the skills needed to give our energy sector the shake-up it needs to meet our goals. Production costs.

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Hydrogen Energy Energy Policy 130

Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

Alder Fuels' proprietary technology comprises the conversion of sustainable forest residues and regenerative biomass into a low-negative carbon "greencrude" for jet fuel conversion. We can now scale up supply to meet the aviation industry's demand.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

We’ve spent decades promoting clean energy technologies. In 2008, Exxon made a record $40.6 COVID-19 constricted commuting, and demand for refined oil products fell fast. 2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun. Hunter Lovins. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 00:15. We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. What happened?

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 13, 2023

Welcome to the first in a series of articles featuring industry insiders highlighting the trends and technologies we can expect to see in 2023. Right now demand is outpacing supply, resulting in longer wait times and higher prices. We’re seeing a new generation emerge, one that is technology-first and resolute in its beliefs.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global Energy Review notes that renewables will be the only energy source to expand in 2020 despite a dramatic nosedive in energy demand worldwide caused by Covid-19's shutdown of economic and public life. The report notes that renewables are the only energy source expected to grow against a backdrop of overall reduced electricity demand.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Mobile giant reveals plans to harness new smart cooling technologies to slash emissions from its data centres. O2 has announced plans to harness smart cooling technology to save energy at its data centres and core network sites to the tune of one million kilograms of CO2 every year.

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Cooling Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon 78

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. Advances in recovery technology.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Recycling Recycling 130

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The leadership instead pivoted to selling the Powerhouse solar roof technology that Dow Chemical had tried and then discarded in 2016. At the time, the technology was a hand-me-down from the space program, and had not reached anywhere near the manufacturing scale to make it an affordable household product. Growth before a fall.

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Technology Solar Power Construction Organic 246

R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In 2008 — his last full year in office — production averaged 5.0 In 2008 gasoline futures averaged $2.45 The biggest impact Joe Biden could make on the oil industry would be to get the pandemic under control as quickly as possible, which would allow demand for oil to rebound somewhat. The year before Bush was inaugurated U.S.

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Natural gas Policy Fossil fuels Electric vehicle 60

Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In a new report the Committee highlights that since the rollout of smart meters was first conceived in 2008 with a planned completion date of 2019, the programme is only a little more than half completed – with 57% penetration as of March 2023. of homes and nearly 69% of small businesses to have them by the end of 2025.

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Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Energy 69

Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

NPV ESG is aiming for mid-double-digit returns from the solar PV infrastructure asset class, and will primarily invest in OECD solar assets and "adjacent technologies" such as energy storage, according to NextEnergy Capital. million cubic metres of fossil gas per year.

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Investment Climate change Fossil fuels Technology 36

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Bill would require the inclusion of emissions from the UK's share of international aviation and shipping in the country's existing 2050 net zero greenhouse gas target, as well as emissions linked to UK supply chains and consumption, none of which currently fall under the 2008 Climate Change Act.

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Climate change Aviation Carbon-negative Government 101

Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2021

That is the conclusion of the latest Lloyds List Intelligence briefing on shipping finance, which predicts more than 10,000 ships will be removed from the global fleet over the next decade while a handful of owners could be at risk of bankruptcy as demand for cleaner ships soars.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

When I see a landfill I see a goldmine," Aquafil Chairman and CEO Giulio Bonazzi told a banker in 2008, pitching his circular vision for using waste materials instead of oil to produce nylon yarn. Today, Aquafil is selling the solvent-free nylon processing technology that it created back to that supplier. Ahead of the times.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Hydrogen, liquified natural gas and technologies geared at improving the energy efficiency of ships are among Shell's proposed solutions to decarbonise its shipping business. This will involve investing in a range of solutions, such as wind assist, air lubrication, advanced engine lubricants and digital optimisation technologies, it said.

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Hydrogen Natural gas Carbon-neutral Technology 101

Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

Now, Duke Energy, one of the state’s vertically integrated investor-owned utilities, has worked with stakeholders to create a program that addresses winter peaking with a combination of solar, time-of-use rates, smart thermostats, and soon additional technologies that will likely include battery storage.

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Solar Energy Monitor Policy Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 102

Business Green

JULY 19, 2020

To mark a year since the UK's 2050 net zero emissions target was written into UK law we gathered the views of a raft of industry experts to debate the technologies, investment and policy needed to reach net zero, and the role business will play. Can lessons from the past help shape our net zero future?

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Policy Technology Demand Electric vehicle 76

Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As has been widely expected, energy-related emissions are projected to decline significantly in 2020 as a result of declining energy demand, which the IEA says is set to fall five per cent overall compared to last year. The era of global oil demand growth will come to an end in the next decade," Dr Birol said. "The

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Fossil fuels Demand Government Policy 91

Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Canada’s oil and gas patch is partying like it’s 2008, though most Canadian drivers are not enjoying the festive mood. Sales of gas-powered cars already peaked in 2017, and global automakers are racing to meet electric-vehicle (EV) demand. But historically, prices go back up, and the cycle repeats. And the U.S.

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Fossil fuels Government Demand Natural gas 52

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

‘Our Future Planet’ will focus on ways of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through controversial Carbon, Capture and Storage (CCS) technology and nature-based solutions, as part of a programme of events leading up to the COP26 UN climate summit in November.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Carbon Technology 142

Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Launched in July, the strategy - which focuses on how new technologies could be harnessed to slash carbon emissions - was widely criticised by campaign groups who argued its reliance on technologies that do not yet exist mean it does not represent a credible plan for delivering on the UK's legally binding climaye goals.

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Government Aviation Climate change Demand 41

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

The global stampede to develop clean energy sources has prompted a demand for ammonia analysers from the developers of engines that will be capable of using ammonia as a fuel. In response, Signal Group has developed a new ammonia analyser, the S4 Nebula, which employs tunable diode laser spectrometry (TDLS). New ammonia analyser.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Demand 246

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

‘Our Future Planet’ will focus on ways of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through controversial Carbon, Capture and Storage (CCS) technology and nature-based solutions, as part of a programme of events leading up to the COP26 UN climate summit in November.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Carbon Technology 141

Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

The High Court has granted the environmental campaign group a hearing over its push for a Judicial Review of the Net Zero Strategy, which Friends of the Earth argues breaches the Climate Change Act 2008 for failing to quantify how or by when its policies would reduce emissions in line with binding goals.

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Government Climate change Fossil fuels Law 69

Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

While there is broad consensus that zero emission deep sea trade vessels must be commercialised by the end of this decade if the sector is to stand any chance of reaching its 2050 climate goal of halving emissions compared to 2008, the low carbon fuels and technology solutions required for shipping decarbonisation remain in their infancy.

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Carbon Logistics Hydrogen Technology 65

Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

At a virtual meeting held this week, the UN Agency's Marine Environment Protection Committee approved a series of amendments to international shipping pollution regulations which set out how the sector's goal of reducing carbon efficiency of fleets by 40 per cent compared to a 2008 baseline will be enforced.

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Carbon Pollution Innovation Europe 100

Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

While countless reports have highlighted the clear cost and carbon savings that can be delivered by delivering a mass green home retrofit, the steep upfront costs of many of the technologies required to make the UK's housing stock compatible with the country's climate goals remain a major barrier to progress. Very few do.".

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Brazil, for example, recently recorded its highest rate of deforestation since 2008 during the period from August 2019 to July, an increase of 9.5 Other companies shy away from outright termination and advocate the notion of big companies using their buying power to inspire and demand change deep down into supply chains.

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Policy Organic Sustainability Agriculture 544

Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Carbon prices on the European Union's emissions trading scheme (ETS) have topped €50 per tonne for the first time, according to reports, as tightening climate policies and growing demand from investors continues to push the cost of pollution to record highs.

Carbon 87

Carbon Fossil fuels Europe Pollution 87

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

We've dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, supply issues, government policy u-turns, Minimum Import Pricing, and now we're proving our salt in the midst of a global pandemic. We are in the midst of an artificial demand shock. To work in solar, you need to be resilient, adaptable and committed to acting on climate science.

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Fossil fuels Construction Africa Policy 50

DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

EU officials have said they are eager to avoid repeating the same mistakes made during the 2008 financial crisis, when billions of euros of public money was used to bail out fossil fuel companies.

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Fossil fuels Hydrogen Politics Europe 98

Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

While countless reports have highlighted the clear cost and carbon savings that can be delivered by delivering a mass green home retrofit, the steep upfront costs of many of the technologies required to make the UK's housing stock compatible with the country's climate goals remain a major barrier to progress. Very few do.".

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Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels Energy Energy 69