DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixable,” according to a newly published report. In addition, vast quantities of carbon and methane pollution are released into the atmosphere. This article was originally published by Gas Outlook.

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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. Welch, 2019).

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints. Through certification and education programs, My Green Lab enlists scientists and facilities professionals to clean up the carbon impact of labs. That includes moving toward 100 percent renewables and a fully electric fleet.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions. Currently, carbon emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation (often referred to as land-use change) are offset, in part, by new reforestation and regrowth.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Paul-Frederik Bach, a former transmission system operator executive, started tracking European wholesale electricity prices on his blog in 2014. That’s despite the fact that renewable generation is increasingly contributing to low or even negative pricing on spot markets. He used a colored map for different price bands.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference. A definitive body of research has documented the negative effects of rising CO2 on crops. Scientists have found that carbon emissions deprive plants of nutrients and lead to droughts and heatwaves that wreak havoc on natural ecosystems.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Last year, the company announced two major initiatives: Carbon renewal technology , or CRT, which breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. We knew that the circular economy and being a lot more efficient with carbon was a good idea.".

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

as well as a surge of renewable capacity aided by legislation aimed at curbing carbon dioxide emissions. This slowdown had a negative impact on fossil fuel demand. Meanwhile, renewables may see a small negative impact from the pandemic in the short term – but the move toward green energy may gain momentum as the COVID-19 threat fades.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

It said it will take action to slash its emissions and neutralise any remaining emissions with "additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets" in order to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040, which is 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement targets of 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The goal of these pairings is to make battery plants, and clean energy plants more broadly, more profitable and efficient in power markets, thereby hastening the acceleration of a lower carbon power grid. Sometimes that means pulling out of markets , to avoid committing to negative pricing. Going digital, going global.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The Capacity Market was introduced in 2014 to reduce the risk of future blackouts as the grid becomes more reliant on intermittent renewable power sources such as wind and solar. The auction cleared at £18/kW, meaning new gas power is subsidised with public money at the rate of £18 per installed kW per year, Ember said.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

In 2014, with local community support, Devon Wildlife Trust and a partnership including the University of Exeter, Clinton Devon Estates and the Derek Gow Consultancy, successfully secured a license from government which would allow the beavers to stay and be studied over a five-year period.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

It is the first such report published by the UN body since the Paris Agreement was signed, with the fifth assessment cycle wrapping in 2014. per cent of global GDP by 2050, but was in some circumstances more economically attractive than maintaining the carbon-intensive status quo.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

These factors have resulted in one of the world's most low carbon economies, substantial inward investment, and a fast growing community of clean tech start-ups. It is a price point that significantly undercuts the price of carbon on emissions trading markets, as well as many rival carbon capture technologies.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

A study by McKinsey & Company uncovered that in 2014 the average person owned 60% more clothes than the average consumer in 2000, but only wore them for half as long. Rather than dosing wastewater with chemicals, the water percolates through a carbon-based media which the organic pollutants ‘stick’ to.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Dolphins and sharks are just two other marine species that could be negatively affected by seismic surveys through behavioral changes to get away from the noise. In its defense, the oil giant claimed communities had been consulted in 2014, at the time Impact Africa was granted the license.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The oil and gas industry has had a rough ride since the oil price downturn of 2014. If global oil demand peaks, as a result of legislation designed to reduce carbon emissions, and more specifically an electrification of the transportation fleet, then the oil industry may follow the steep decline the coal industry has experienced.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. More than 100 gigatons of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, must be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. Newswise — New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., July 16, 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In recent months, China and Japan have announced long-range goals to reach net-zero carbon emissions. policy on climate,” said Alan Yu, director of international climate policy at the Center for American Progress, who served as the Department of Energy’s director of Asian affairs from 2014 to 2018. As the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The study comes as the EU Commission is also facing criticism this week from green groups for including carbon sinks in its updated 55 per cent emissions reduction target for 2030 - raising fears it could undermine the effectiveness of moves to strengthen the bloc's medium term emissions targets.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The National Grid aims to switch the UK securely and efficiently to a 100 percent low-carbon grid led by wind and solar energy by 2035, and expects to have stints of fully carbon-free UK electricity as early as 2025. Fossil fuels are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions warming the planet, according to the IPCC.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is a unique, multi-year program driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO?) New York City, N.Y.,

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Economics are a primary concern in a well-designed strategy to reduce carbon. The potential ways to reduce carbon emissions vary dramatically on an economic basis. The amount of carbon abatement that a given method can accomplish also has limits in scale. Some items are shown as negative cost. Intro to MAC Curves.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. Recent wildfires in the northern territories were reported to have acute and long-term negative impacts for mental and emotional well-being. Download this brief here. [i]

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

Records show that the company has lobbied during the past three years on California’s climate strategy, toxicity provisions, low carbon fuel standards, as well as its oil and gas production policies. Of the states WSPA represents, California produces the most crude oil by far.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Credit: Beyond Plastics One such community is Convent, a majority Black town in St.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

“And then we’re going to create a carbon offset by plugging and abandoning that well, so it never leaks methane again.” stock and bond capital investment according to Morningstar, up from just 1 percent in 2014. “We wouldn’t be able to give them enough volume off of Platinum only,” he said.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

Video conferencing and web collaboration software is changing how companies operate their business while lowering their carbon footprint. On the 11th of June 2014, London grounded to a standstill. million tons less of carbon dioxide than it did before COVID-19. Disruptive Software That Fights Climate Change.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. For the first time in history, oil prices were negative. Carbon Tracker states that the world is “witnessing the decline and fall of the fossil fuel system”. The transition is among us.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

As well as enabling 95 per cent of human food production, soils are potentially huge stores for carbon dioxide, have a key role in filtering water to boost water cleanliness and guard against flooding, and provide critical habitats for nature, the report notes.

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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 is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

And now, as Reuters reports, many are trying to sell-off “dozens of oil and gas fields and refineries worth more than $110 billion to curb both their ballooning debt and their carbon footprints.”. BP gets to tell investors it's reducing carbon impact. Industry’s Clean Getaway On Land.

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