GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In 2021, how a company performs on all factors — including ESG factors — on a strategy executed within its rapidly shrinking carbon footprint, not just reporting data, should determine investment decisions. Remember the mess at NRG in 2017 ? But reporting numbers is less important than the performance score.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

’s power sector will be operating on a negative-emissions basis by 2033 at the latest if the country sticks to its plan to reach net-zero emissions across the economy by 2050, according to system operator National Grid ESO. actually hitting its targeted carbon reductions. Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

But look for future updates and essays on this topic, such as the one digitally penned recently by Jarami Bond (named in 2017). And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Devin Carsdale (formerly Kleinfield-Hayes) (2017). Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ).

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

While most changes have been negative–canceled or delayed surgeries, intensive care units filled to maximum capacity, and provider burnout–the rise of telemedicine, virtual care, and remote monitoring is considered a silver lining by many patients and healthcare providers alike. The carbon footprint savings range between 0.70-372

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Most people seem to believe some form of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be necessary, although many are stil sceptical of an arguably “unproven” and ambitious technology. In 2018 Carbon Engineering founder David Keith – a physicist at Harvard – explained how it could be done for $94 to $232, writing in the journal Joule.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Now is the time for real action to ensure societies stop wasting resources with all the related negative consequences. They maximize captures of high quality, high carbon-intensity material while reducing litter. of all beverage containers returned for recycling by the end of 2017. More information is available at: [link].

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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. The IPCC has said it is “unequivocal” that human influence has caused “unprecedented” global warming.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Given the Paris Accord’s aspirations, the climate challenge facing humanity can be expressed in simple terms: halve annual carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions by 2030, halve them again by 2040, and again by 2050. 2017, Faulk, 2019). Here we focus on some aspects of land-use and negative emission technologies (NET) dependent on the land.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

It said it would achieve this new goal through working with suppliers, supporting the development of new carbon removal technologies and making its facilities as efficient as possible. It confirmed it was on track to deliver a 75 per cent reduction in emissions against a 2017 baseline.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Insect protein developer has created a patented process for cultivating mealworm to produce low carbon feed for fish, pet and livestock. In addition, the firm said the new facility in France would be carbon negative, and use a circular economy model than generates zero waste.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

The company’s key verticals include carbon-negative biomanufacturing, also called carbon capture and utilization (CCU), biomining, and subsurface biomanufacturing. In 2017, he co-founded Cemvita Factory with his sister, Tara Karimi. “I The climate impact? percent of global emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

enjoyed a boom period for large-scale solar between 2013 and 2017, rivaling Germany as the hottest market in Europe. But the policy program underpinning that success closed to new solar projects in March 2017, and just 385 megawatts of solar projects larger than 5 megawatts have been connected since. “The problem with U.K.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The myth of the “long tailpipe”—the notion that EVs generate just as much carbon emissions as ICE vehicles do—has been debunked by dozens of scientific studies (see below for a partial list). Contrarian studies cited by the anti-EV brigade include a non-peer-reviewed Swedish study from 2017 and a 2019 study from a German research institute.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In 2017, it pivoted to software to dispatch grid assets more profitably in competitive markets. 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. Going digital, going global.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. As with the financial divestment movement, there is a valid debate about whether engagement with high-carbon firms that are working to reduce their emissions is more effective than simply severing ties. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4 Pull Quote.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

These days, hardly a week goes by without the announcement of another big corporate renewables deal, as companies move to lock in competitive energy prices while lowering their carbon footprint. So far this week, Amazon has announced three new solar projects totaling 329 megawatts in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

DeSmog analysed examples of more than 100 influencers being paid to promote fossil fuel firms worldwide since 2017, from the US to Malaysia, in campaigns that have reached billions of people. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Last month, there was a backlash in The Sun and The Daily Mail on the cost of replacing gas boilers with low carbon alternatives. Indeed, recent surveys consistently list cost as the greatest barrier for consumers in switching to low carbon forms of heat, including the latest from consumer group Which?

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Whether it’s a new build or a retrofit (also referred to as greenhabbing , or green rehabbing an older building to be more eco-friendly), the real estate industry is moving towards sustainability because a low-carbon building is proven to have lower operating costs, improved resale value and higher occupancy rates. Lower carbon footprint.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 11, 2021

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. in response to the Covid-19 pandemic — which negatively impacted gas prices — but the U.S. The Middle East’s proved natural gas reserves at the end of 2017 were 2.8

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

Restore, Restory, Restord, On a dreary wet Brussels day in 2017, I walked from the city hotel over to the COST offices for the inaugural meeting of our COST RESTORE ‘action’. Georgia Elliott Smith launched a new campaign video for her legal challenge of the UK Government over incineration pollution and carbon emissions.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Anaerobically digested sludge releases residual methane and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere – methane emissions from sludge treatment make up 75% of the diffuse CO 2 -equivalent emissions ( Gärtner 2017 ). Vacuum degassing is a process where a vacuum extracts residual gas from a media, in this case digested sludge.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

Three researchers at Oxford University looked at the link between firms’ environmental, social, and governance practices (ESG) and GDP between 2002-2017. Build carbon-capture-and-storage infrastructure around large industrial clusters ? There is new evidence in support of green economic recovery policies. They are: ?

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

In order to do this we must not fall back into the trap of our pre-Covid world by continuing to reinforce carbon-intensive structures. To begin with, our post Covid-19 recovery plans must avoid unconditionally propping up and bailing out carbon-heavy industries. First, we need a global price on carbon. It has to be green.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 29, 2020

based think-tank Carbon Tracker show that 40% of EU coal plants ran at a loss in 2017. Stockholm Exergi CEO Anders Egelrud told PV Magazine he hopes the utility will eventually go carbon-negative. Statistics from the U.K.-based In 2019, it cost almost 100% more to run a coal plant than to rely on renewable options.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 17, 2020

In 2017 Amazon committed to go 100 percent renewable. On September 19 Amazon announced that they would be participating in The Climate Pledge and promising to zero out carbon emissions by 2040. Consistent with the pledge Amazon has launched a new website that reports on its carbon footprint and other sustainability metrics.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

Directors were found to have a wide range of experience in high carbon sectors, including in polluting energy, aviation, mining, manufacturing, and banks and investment companies known to support the fossil fuel industry. Ties to companies that work in or serve high-carbon industries were most pronounced in the U.S. In the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

Could Denmark deliver a carbon neutral farming sector by 2050? Whether you have a stake in Denmark's farming sector or not, the findings of the technical report, entitled A Pathway to Carbon Neutral Agriculture in Denmark , are significant. This carbon sequestration potential would cover the majority of the projected 4.4

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Without a clear and ambitious government plan zero carbon home heating by 2050 remains a pipe dream, a new analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre warns. Moreover, many of these upgrades were not carried out to net zero standards. Electrical systems could provide a significant share of future heat supply," it states.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. To prove this is possible, the Commission claims that between 1990 and 2017 Europe’s CO2 emissions decreased by 22% while its economy grew by 58%. It’s not just the energy lobby.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

The figure to the right highlights some of the major developments in the world, taken from IRENA 2017. Not taking into account the negative externalities. Source: IRENA, Rethinking Energy 2017. The cheapest energy comes in the form of solar in Middle Eastern countries, where a price of below $ 1.8

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2021

Operated by ExxonMobil, the ethylene plant was named in the Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory as Scotland’s third biggest carbon polluter by the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) – with emissions doubling during 2019. The same report also found that emissions from Shell’s LNG site reached a record high in the same year. “The

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