Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The world's top climate scientists have updated their guidance on carbon removals technologies, arguing they are likely to prove essential to stablising global temperatures, but only if they are developed judiciously.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

Aviation giant has partnered with US low-carbon fuel company Alder Fuels and will test its SAF in its planes. Aerospace giant Boeing has announced it is to team up with US low-carbon fuel specialist Alder Fuels in a new partnership with a view to expanding production of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) around the world.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Arizona Public Service released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050 , with multiple options to balance the costs and carbon benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables, batteries, distributed energy resources and as-yet-untested technologies. million-customer utility, said in a Tuesday interview.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Labour’s energy spokesperson has said he stands “completely” with biomass giant Drax, despite admitting that its use of wood pellets in its North Yorkshire power station is not carbon neutral. The speakers at the panel event, “How Can the UK Build a Zero Carbon, Lower Cost Energy Future?” Completely With Them’.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ). John Bello (2018). We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2020

How on-demand food delivery apps could encourage low-carbon food Anna Zhang Mon, 06/08/2020 – 02:00 The COVID-19 crisis has affected most aspects of daily life, including how we get our food. Adopting these habits has the potential to reduce carbon emissions by 66 gigatonnes CO2-equivalent, according to Project Drawdown.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2020

How on-demand food delivery apps could encourage low-carbon food Anna Zhang Mon, 06/08/2020 – 02:00 The COVID-19 crisis has affected most aspects of daily life, including how we get our food. Adopting these habits has the potential to reduce carbon emissions by 66 gigatonnes CO2-equivalent, according to Project Drawdown.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 9, 2020

At the end of 2018, AB InBev agreed a 15-year, 100-megawatt deal with Lightsource BP to supply its U.K. Others have not had the right regulatory framework in place for corporate PPAs, and demand has been slow to build. Altogether, it's sufficient power to brew “enough beer for 18 Oktoberfests,” according to BayWa r.e.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Josh Burke at LSE's Grantham Research Institute navigates the costs, opportunities, advantages and disadvantages of different carbon capture and negative emissions technologies. Net negative emissions are achieved when gross negative emissions match or exceed gross positive emissions. Why negative emissions?

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Across the European Union, the average quarterly wholesale electricity price rose by almost 20 euros per megawatt-hour between the fourth quarter of 2015 and the same period in 2018, according to European Commission data compiled by Bach. But over the same period, the share of renewable resources in gross electricity consumption rose from 28.8

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The falling cost of wind and solar power significantly reduces the need for carbon capture and storage technology to tackle climate change, a new paper has argued. In the near-term, the additional demand for clean electricity is met predominantly by solar PV, which provides over half of additional renewable generation in 2030.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. Below we’ve detailed eight tips on how to reduce the negative environmental and social impact of your fashion brand company. Synthetic fabrics such as polyester – which accounted for 52% of global fiber production in 2018 – take hundreds of years to biodegrade.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In 2018 BlackRock held around 6.3 Peabody’s annual report points glumly at the negative sentiments of sections of the financial community. ” Peabody warns that such moves could reduce demand for its products, increase its cost of borrowing and deflate its share price (which is down more than 70 percent in 2020).

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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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Clean Energy Trust

APRIL 23, 2020

Energy efficiency is the largest clean energy sector and bore the majority of the job losses; advanced transportation was particularly hard hit, likely amplified by the drawback in electric vehicle (EV) sales (after growing more than 80% in 2018 in the US, EV sales fell slightly in 2019). How much does this impact the energy transition?

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

In fact in many states, the wholesale cost of electricity moves into negative prices in the middle of the day when rooftop solar system generation peaks. There are other non-financial factors that we need to consider when assessing the demand for battery storage systems. State-based Solar Battery Rebates.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

In one 2018 experiment researchers attached a small device to a shower to show people how much hot water is used; a display showed a little polar bear standing on an ice floe. Have you read: PG&E implements behavioural Energy Efficiency Programme National Grid – Scaling demand response with behavioural outreach.

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Econaur

MAY 6, 2020

million sq meters of green building space and this statistic is from the end of 2018. The “Green Building” approach ensures minimal negative impacts on the natural environment of the space as opposed to traditional construction that have been exploitative and wasteful. This adds up to more than 24.81

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

The outlook for carbon capture and storage, both with gas and bioenergy, also appears to have improved significantly over the past four years. But the encouraging outlook for gas power with carbon capture and storage (CCS) is arguably more surprising. The most polluting energy source has become an irrelevance.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thanks to growing interest in environmental social and governance (ESG) funds, investors are rapidly moving into the sector, keen to improve the green credentials of their portfolios while also capitalising on the burgeoning financial opportunities provided by sustainable timber and carbon offsetting schemes.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. In 2018, two years after announcing the financing deal, UKPF revealed it had become a supplier to KFC in Kazakhstan. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

While it is expected fossil fuel demand will rise, the broad consensus amongst most outlooks is that the growth will eventually plateau due to energy efficiency and developments in renewables. Though hard to predict, most outlooks expect energy demand to rise by about 30% by 2030. What is up with the world?

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The virus has caused a 17 percent reduction in atmospheric carbon during parts of this year and may decrease CO2 emissions by 4.2-7.5 Negative values can be seen in 1982, 1992 and 1996. The negative index values in 1982 reflect the demise of the Soviet Union. percent in 2020 compared to 2019. There was a 2.6 ppm less than that.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 25, 2022

Positive (+) feedbacks reinforce changes, while negative (-) feedbacks dampen them. The constructed model compares four idealized policies: three different carbon tax policies and one generic policy of performance standards. Ultimately this led to the Low Energy Demand Scenario, represented by P1 in Figure 4. Public support.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Driven by demand thanks to the U.S. This severe deforestation has undermined biofuels’ sustainability credentials, as these tropical forests are key absorbers of carbon dioxide. The versatile oil can be converted to biodiesel, or hydrotreated to make renewable diesel, as Total was doing in its French plant. A powerful economic driver.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

In 2018, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned we have just 10 years to prevent global temperatures going beyond the 'well below' 2C threshold let alone the safer limit of 1.5C mandated by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Collectively these actors now cover nearly 25 per cent of global CO2 emissions and over 50 per cent of GDP.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Ultimately, how fast these markets rev up depends on demand from fleet buyers. One reason for all this: Batteries continue their journey down the price-experience curve, where increased demand lowers prices, further pumping up demand. Amazon continued its aggressive EV buying plans , as did both Walmart and IKEA.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

Consider this: In April, Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest companies in the world, announced its intent to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. No doubt Shell is counting on some miracle like carbon capture to preserve its adherence to a century-old business model of selling oil. And who could blame it? What happened?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Following a decade of red ink — capped by a devastating 2020 when oil prices briefly went negative — fracking-focused companies finally made some money this year. Yet a new analysis from earth scientist David Hughes, writing for the nonprofit Post Carbon Institute , suggests that the industry’s future may not be nearly so bright.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

When it comes to the net zero emissions target, the UK is not starting from scratch, having cut its emissions by around 44 per cent between 1990 and 2018, with the economy growing by about two thirds in that period. Third, government policy should encourage low-carbon innovation to be carefully joined up with digital innovation.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. This could happen to my son any day of the week," she said. "I

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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. per cent from 2018, UKERC said. million units installed in British homes, a rise of 1.8 Electrical systems could provide a significant share of future heat supply," it states.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Global average levels of carbon dioxide reached 407.8

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This includes measures that work to reduce an entity’s carbon footprint , effectively manage waste , prevent pollution and conserve resources. Meeting the demands of ESG criteria means disclosing the impact your business has on the environment. For instance, at the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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