DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2024

billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at their Genesee Generating Station, claiming it is “technically viable but not economically feasible.” Julia Levin, associate director of National Climate with Environmental Defence, characterized the cancellation as yet another failure for carbon capture.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

The waste management sector bears an essential role in the EU’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the group explained in a statement in early February. It is likely to trigger more landfilling of non-recyclable waste and more use of fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Media Authorship. Anheuser-Busch. Anheuser-Busch.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

A UK-Canada event last week praised 26 “exceptional individuals actively working to move Canada to net-zero emissions”, five of whom work for companies and investors involved in the fossil fuel industry, including the Canadian oil sands. British Commonwealth] government’s Climate Solutions and Clean Growth Advisory Council.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The initial 50 MW phase will produce 9,000 tons of green hydrogen per year, enough to displace 20 percent of the refinery’s existing fossil-fuel derived hydrogen. By 2030 BP hopes to have 10 percent of the clean hydrogen market in “core hydrogen markets” as it chases carbon neutrality by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But while solar and wind have an obvious role to play in helping miners control their carbon emissions, the mining industry faces steep decarbonization challenges, analysts say. Cutting mining’s carbon footprint to zero is complicated by the fact that electricity use only accounts for around 40 percent of direct emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

Renovating a building to reduce its energy consumption makes little sense if there is no control of the carbon-intensive materials and components used for the renovation, and if these are transported over long distances.”. There is a lot of embodied carbon in a building structure, especially in the concrete and steel.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

The shipping industry is charting a new route toward cutting fossil fuel use in ocean-going vessels: ammonia. To date, no ammonia-fueled ships have been built, but that’s not stopping companies including Equinor, MAN Energy Solutions and Wärtsilä from rushing to help bring ammonia-fueled ships to market.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google on Monday pledged that by 2030 it will run its entire business on carbon-free energy — every hour of every day of the year. West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. Europe and Chile.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Nor is it the only link between the fossil fuel industry and the Bolloré family’s global business interests, which encompass multi-billion-dollar logistics operations servicing major oil companies, including Shell. Further, these are far from being the Bolloré Group’s only connections to the fossil fuel sector.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In 2018, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that the three largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions were transportation (28 percent), electricity (27 percent), and industry (22 percent). The only cost to the customer is a newly lowered fuel cost amount, he said.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Though there is some domestic demand for wood pellets for electric utilities — particularly in the Northeast — the majority of wood pellets manufactured in the region are exported to the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), to fulfill global commitments to mitigate climate change by reducing reliance on fossil fuels. .

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry. The boards of Australia’s banks should be extremely sensitive to fossil fuel industry cheerleaders holding back action that would allow the bank to minimise its exposure to the massive financial risks climate change poses,” Bertolus said. Fossil Finance.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

A Pathways’ advertisement on a Bixi docking station read “Le captage du carbone est une étape importante vers des activités d’exploitation carboneutre,” or “Carbon capture is an important step towards carbon neutral resource extraction.” Toronto’s subways and streetcars run on electricity.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

The Green Agenda is Causing Havoc’ Susan Hall has called for the UK’s net zero targets to be “delayed” and has supported new fossil fuel extraction through the overturning of the UK’s ban on fracking for shale gas. Hall tweeted: “Carbon neutral by 2030 promises [London Mayor Sadiq] Khan.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The global peak in oil consumption may already be past us, according to a new report from Carbon Tracker — and China and India's rapid transition to low carbon transport is the reason why. Credit: Carbon Tracker). The situation in India is a little more complicated, Carbon Tracker's Bond noted.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The two firms have already been working together for several years, having announced an EV battery development collaboration in 2018, in addition to co-developing some EVs, such as the Honda Prologue car that is set for launch in 2024, and working together on hydrogen storage technologies since 2013. "GM

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Analysis of the carbon performance of the 72 largest listed industrial companies, which include cement, steel, paper, and aluminium firms, reveals just 19 per cent are currently have strategies that are aligned with a 2C pathway. pledges having doubled since 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

million, although that number has not increased singificantly from 2018. For comparison, in the fossil fuel sectors women make up around 21 per cent of the workforce. Global Wind Energy Council chief executive Ben Backwell, meanwhile, urged policymakers to reconsider their support to the fossil fuel sector.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Mining giant unveils strategy for 'climate neutral' growth over the next 10 years as it invests in developing zero carbon aluminium. Moreover, the firm's growth overall between now and 2030 "will be climate neutral", Rio Tinto said, underpinned by $1bn of climate-related spend over the next five years.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. The task force’s members include the Pennsylvania director of the American Petroleum Institute, the most powerful fossil fuel lobby group in the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

By 2025, Ørsted will be carbon-neutral. billion of profit in 2018. In 2018 BP produced 1.4 Alongside petrochemicals and supplying the tail end of demand with those hard-to-replace fossil fuels, BP also wants to underpin freshly electrified sectors. In 2017 Dong sold its last oil and gas assets to U.K.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As a result of these fossil fuel expansions, there is a very real chance that Suncor will completely fail to meet the aggressive climate targets that it’s been promoting at COP27 through the Pathways Alliance: “Planned growth projects to meet global energy demand may increase Suncor’s absolute emissions in the next decade.”.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Burning trees to reduce our carbon footprint is oxymoronic.” Carbon Debt.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Graham Jones, Labour MP for Hyndburn and Haslingden until 2019, told DeSmog: “Ms Britcliffe has accepted a large cash donation from a company promoting the use of fossil fuels whilst at the same time trying to sell her net-zero environmental credentials. “I

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

The town, and the municipality of the same name that it sits in, is the home to a host of pioneering energy efficiency technologies and innovations, from a carbon neutral manufacturing plant, supermarkets whose waste heat is piped to nearby homes, to the world's longest range electric passenger ferry. But it is not undeserved.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Senior figures in charge of the Church of England’s investments have close current or past ties to high-carbon companies including Shell, Drax and BP, DeSmog can report. In 2018, the Church of England’s (C of E) General Synod’s voted to divest from all oil and gas companies that are not in line with the Paris Agreement by 2023.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

carbon budget if left unchecked. UK airports have increasingly argued that they are already carbon neutral, or close to being so, but these claims exclude emissions from aircraft, which account for the majority of airports’ climate impact, and often rely on disputed offsetting schemes.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Prior to the Platform on Sustainable Finance’s report, in July 2018, the European Commission established a Technical Expert Group (TEG) to develop the taxonomy’s screening criteria. This science-based threshold — considered necessary to achieve emissions targets by 2050 — excluded all fossil fuels from being in the taxonomy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The group instead recommends replacing petrol and diesel with carbon-neutral equivalents called “reFuels”, which it describes as “CO2 neutral synthetic fuels” that can be blended with fossil fuels, and are aimed at reducing emissions from road transport until electric vehicles (BEVs) have developed further.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

Beginning in late 2018 and stretching into 2019, she created a global movement, spoke truth to power , and collected more than 10 million followers on social media. But companies also told CDP about an upside: trillions in potential markets for low-carbon tech. The climate protest movement explodes. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

By working with its drivers to transition to EVs, Lyft said it had the potential to avoid tens of millions of metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade, in addition to delivering huge cost savings for drivers by negating the need to buy more than a billion gallons of fuel.

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