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2020 tipped the balance for British renewable energy

Renewable Energy World

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. Conversely, energy produced by fossil fuels fell to just 39.6%, marking the first time that clean energy has consistently outperformed legacy sources. Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. The broader picture. 19 lockdown measures.

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Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space Announce Second Cohort for ACCEL, an Accelerator for BIPOC-led Climatetech Startups

Greentown Labs

These early-stage startups are working on innovations from vertical-axis wind turbines to carbon-negative concrete. Carbon Negative Solutions (Rock Hill, N.Y.) is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Its founder is Andre Gafford. Its founder is Keith Crossland. billion in funding.

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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation. billion in funding.

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Media brief: What are carbon offsets and how can they be used?

Clean Energy Canada

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS? HOW ARE OFFSETS USED?

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The U.S. Maintains Its Natural Gas Dominance

R-Squared Energy

Previous articles provided an overview of this year’s Review, an examination of the data on carbon emissions, and a look at oil supply and demand trends. The net impact of growing natural gas supplies and conversion of power plants has caused natural gas to become the fastest-growing fossil fuel. for oil and 0.9% In 2020, U.S.

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Direct Air Capture and Storage

Energy Innovation

Direct Air Capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere is one set of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategies that may play a role in mitigating climate change, particularly in the mid to latter part of the 21 st century. C report provided four scenarios (P1-P4 in Figure 1) with increasing roles for negative emissions.

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Outdated carbon credits from old wind and solar farms are threatening climate change efforts

Business Green

The carbon credit system needs an overhaul to effectively help in reducing climate change, according to a UCL study. French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of ' carbon neutral liquid natural gas '. Natural gas is, of course, a fossil fuel and so can't itself be carbon neutral.