GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

Thanks for reading, and keep crushing that carbon. ~ Another change of pace from Big Oil in the coming years, especially from the national oil companies, would go a long way to meeting the carbon limits set out in the Paris Agreement. Find me on Twitter @jk_parnell if you want to say hi. It’s 2007. BP’s big pivot.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 9, 2020

was the first major economy to enshrine a net-zero carbon goal in law, and in the recent election parties on all sides pledged support to a green industrial revolution to one extent or another. cable company win offshore wind contracts in Europe in 2012 and 2014. Last November UKEF guaranteed a 9.2

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Wood pellets were considered to be renewable energy because replanted forests could recapture carbon lost in the clear cutting and burning process. As more and more science came out about the industry… it became clear that this is not the green and carbon neutral energy it was made out to be,” Zucchino said.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Under the Emissions Trading System (ETS) all major polluters must submit an annual report declaring how much carbon dioxide they emitted that year. OCCRP found records showing that the ownership of four energy assets associated with Kovachki, including Brikel, were transferred to the Seychelles in 2011 and 2012. million and €32.2

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2012 she tweeted that “climate change policies are pushing up domestic gas & elec prices” and wrote a Telegraph article that year headlined “Green policies are costing Britons the earth” making the same point and citing IEA research. Let Them Eat Carbon’. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

Last month, a Netherlands court ordered Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 45 percent by 2030, and in April a German court ruled that the country’s climate targets were insufficient and therefore partly unconstitutional.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

It requires upfront investment to build and maintain the technology required to produce clean hydrogen, such as electrolyser systems, pipeline modifications, and carbon-capture capabilities. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2020

Despite the UK having become the first major economy in the world to set in law a target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the survey suggests there is limited understanding among most of the British public of what 'net zero' actually means.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The report suggested that one such transformative proposal would be for the government to make its commitment to a 68 per cent reduction in carbon emissions on 1990 levels by 2030 a binding obligation on all public sector organisations and agencies for all their spending, programmes and projects.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. billion smart grid investment plan that included a 4.2-million

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

Cases could also be grounded in domestic climate change framework laws, arguing that government actors are failing to comply with relevant duties established under these laws. This includes a need to understand legislative developments holistically, rather than focusing on individual measures in isolation".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For its natural gas business, it will adopt a new net zero by 2050 goal that includes upstream methane and carbon emissions related to purchased gas and downstream carbon emissions from customers' consumption. "As

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

Our first post on this topic discusses CARB’s ultimate selection of the third scenario, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045 instead of 2035, as the best among the four. The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. Abuleif is Saudi Arabia’s chief negotiator at COP26, a position he has held since 2012.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

Sometimes described as the 'lungs of the planet', the Amazon is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and is also a major store of carbon, which is released into the atmosphere when the rainforest is burned, further exacerbating climate change. Meat and dairy account for around 14.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

Since 2012, an estimated 55 coal, oil, and natural gas projects have been proposed for the Pacific Northwest — encompassing Oregon and Washington, as well as British Columbia. If all had gone forward, the Pacific Northwest would have added more than 2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. Crude oil trains. Portland, Oregon.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

In 2012, for instance, a British project to reflect the sun with water droplets was canceled due to conflict-of-interest concerns over patents. Solar geoengineering, after all, isn’t a true climate change “solution”; it doesn’t suck CO2 back out of the sky or reverse the long-term trajectory of warming.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Between 2010 and 2012, Finley earned a total of $713,138 for the 40 hours per week he worked for the IPTA, which is registered as a non-profit, tax-exempt organisation. Finley and Strode would not confirm whether he had received any income from the organisation since 2012 or provide DeSmog with the most recent tax returns.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

New research from Global Witness has shown that Brookfield Asset Management, of whom Mark Carney was recently made Chair, was responsible for deforesting an area the size of 11,000 football pitches, across eight Brazilian farms it owned between 2012 and 2021. million flights between London and New York.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

New research from Global Witness has shown that Brookfield Asset Management, of whom Mark Carney was recently made Chair, was responsible for deforesting an area the size of 11,000 football pitches, across eight Brazilian farms it owned between 2012 and 2021. million flights between London and New York.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Forests are so unhealthy they are now emitting more carbon than they produce, according to recent s tudies. At the same time, California is counting on its forests sucking up lots of carbon from cars, factories, and power plants to meet its goals to slash carbon emissions. “If But either way, the result is more carbon emissions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

As Professor Rebecca Willis, a leading opponent of the mine, observed on Twitter this afternoon: "the untold story of this mine is the absolute failure of govt (both central and local) to help the local area and community develop a vibrant, zero carbon economic strategy".

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. Evidence from California’s carbon market emissions data 2012-2017 (2020).

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. Evidence from California’s carbon market emissions data 2012-2017 (2020).

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

The Natural Capital Committee, a body set up in 2012 to advise the UK government how to manage England's natural capital efficiently and sustainably, produced one of the first templates for companies to develop their own accounts. Ultimately, Business for Nature would like to see corporate natural capital accounting underpinned by law.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.) California has done exactly that.

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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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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? It was about five square miles of trees’ worth of oxygen production or carbon sequestration required to set up one building. Demonizing carbon?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Wood pellets were considered to be renewable energy because replanted forests could recapture carbon lost in the clear cutting and burning process. As more and more science came out about the industry… it became clear that this is not the green and carbon neutral energy it was made out to be,” Zucchino said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

We're behind the Germans on heat-pumps, insulation and building retrofits, the French on EV charging infrastructure, and the US on operational carbon capture and storage projects - despite the UK's North Sea advantage. We're Even before we get into the growth possibilities of emerging tech, like Carbon Capture and Storage."

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. The industry claims that forests that are felled sustainably — for construction, say, or for burning to produce electricity in utility-scale power plants — can provide jobs and energy, stimulate the economy, and even reduce society’s net carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Then, in November 2012, a deadly explosion rocked Black Elk’s West Delta 32 platform off Louisiana’s coast, an incident that would ultimately lead to Black Elk being convicted of eight felonies and a misdemeanor. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7

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Grist

MAY 24, 2023

Set in the Gulf Coast, this 2012 fantasy-drama is the only Oscar-nominated film to acknowledge climate change (despite being hailed as a climate film, Don’t Look Up actually handles it metaphorically). Last week, the Hollywood Reporter hosted a panel on the carbon costs of production. Beasts of the Southern Wild.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. It’s your own Checkoff working against [you],” Meyer told DeSmog. Every word, every dollar is the government.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In the same survey last March , which saw more than 1,850 people interviewed for their views on climate and energy issues, only around 52 per cent of respondents claimed to have awareness of the net zero concept, despite the UK having set a target to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 in law nine month's prior.

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