Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

For most of its life the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) has been plagued by a massive surplus of allowances - something we've been highlighting (under Ember's previous guise as Sandbag) since 2008. This could include putting a carbon price on gas for heating, shipping, or fugitive methane emissions, to name a few.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure would rely on a robust investment program to achieve the remaining 20 million tCO2e. California’s Climate Investments ?

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2022

The report notes that the UK has over-achieved against both its first and second carbon budgets, which covered the periods of 2008-2012 and 2013-2017, respectively, and was on track to deliver on its third, which spans the years between 2018-2022.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. and regulators in different drilling regions face different issues.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

Our recipe to support large-scale deployment of clean hydrogen technologies by 2030 consists of investment, a supportive regulatory framework, and fostering partnership between industry, governments and civil society.” These include power generators, shipping and heavy transport vehicles such as buses. New ammonia analyser.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 19, 2014

The examples she gave of incubator graduates was mind-boggling: An irrigation system based on the structure of a giraffe’s neck, a way to eliminate pharmaceuticals in water, crystal nanotubes that reduce EV charging time to a couple minutes, plastics made from methane. Apparently, the sky’s the limit. The problem?

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Hydrocarbons are made from carbon and hydrogen and range from methane — the simplest hydrocarbon — to complex, long-chain hydrocarbons that are solids are room temperature. In the years leading up to 2006, refineries had to invest billions of dollars into equipment to remove the sulfur to meet the new ULSD standards.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Billions have been invested by Wall Street into Impossible Foods and other companies such as Beyond Meat. There is still much to be learned in this growing sector, making it a tasty and attractive business to invest in. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use.

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Solar Energy Monitor Organic Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In the weeks and months after Russia’s invasion, global crude oil prices rose to levels only seen once before, in 2008. ” The combined investments are aimed at putting the U.S. The bill represents the single biggest climate investment in U.S. That disruption had a number of cascading effects. Soaring energy prices.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When you look back on 2008—when U.S. ESG investing hits a speed bump Environmental, social and governance (ESG) is an investing strategy that has led to a significant boost in investments in clean technologies like renewable energy and electric vehicles. ” In a closely related story, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Positive feedback loops — such as growing investment in pollution control, or public pressure for environmental regulation — averted a “crisis” in their “augmented” model. He died in 2008. In one document in his archives, Böttcher described Shell as the “godfather” of his “CO2-project”, as he labeled his climate work at the time.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Fracking’s fiercest front man, McClendon spent his career championing methane molecules (the primary component of natural gas), as he ran Chesapeake Energy through wild booms and at least one staggering bust. Shale gas could change all that, McClendon argued, by making methane supplies abundant. 56% of new U.S. 37% was wind.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Sleipner and Snøhvit Projects Operator: Equinor (Statoil), 1996-present; Snøhvit since 2008 Location: Offshore (North Sea Sleipner West field), Norway Stated maximum capacity: Sleipner 1 million tonnes of CO2/year Stated maximum capacity: Snøhvit 0.7 government’s Clean Coal Power Initiative, receiving $407 million in federal subsidies.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 3d 1172 (9th Cir. 2016), [link].

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

In that sense, the final SDG ties in with a convergence of public opinion around the need for all parties to act urgently on critical sustainability issues, particularly climate change, says Joanne Patrick, investment director at Amber Infrastructure and director of the Mayor of London's Energy Efficiency Fund. "We

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Conference Buyers Guide: An Introduction to Purchasing Carbon Offsets (Workshop):Offsets can help companies reduce their carbon footprints and drive much-needed investment to projects that lower emissions or draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But not all offsets are created equal. Yet forest projects come with challenges.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

But in the absence of strong government support or regulation, the oil industry might not have the will to invest enough. Its self-help projects, which include reducing methane leaks and improving energy efficiency, would have amounted to a reduction of 11 million metric tons per year—less than 10% of Exxon’s current direct emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Last year's COP27 Climate Summit and COP15 Biodiversity Summits secured historic commitments from industrialised nations to set up a new Loss and Damage Fund, a flurry of proposals to harness carbon markets to mobilise more investment in forest protection, and a global pledge to reverse nature loss and step up funding for nature restoration.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Its officials insist that methane burns cleaner than coal, and they echo a common argument in claiming that it provides a tidy bridge between coal and truly renewable energy. In Kingston, mismanagement of the plant’s massive coal ash landfill resulted in a notorious billion-gallon spill in 2008.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Its officials insist that methane burns cleaner than coal, and they echo a common argument in claiming that it provides a tidy bridge between coal and truly renewable energy. In Kingston, mismanagement of the plant’s massive coal ash landfill resulted in a notorious billion-gallon spill in 2008.

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Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The last decline in CO2 emissions was during the 2008 recession. The Trump administration has weakened rules limiting venting or flaring of methane from oil and gas production on public lands and requiring reporting of methane emissions from most oil and gas production.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. As President Biden observed, the IRA "makes the largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change".

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