GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 9, 2020

will supply enough electricity for 14 breweries in Western Europe. As we welcome the new European Green Deal, we now ask our consumers, customers, colleagues, business partners and fellow companies to join us in shifting towards renewable power," Jason Warner, president for Europe, AB InBev, said in a statement.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

Apple committed on Tuesday to becoming carbon-neutral by 2030, pushing its ambitions far beyond its own corporate walls — already 100 percent powered by renewables — to include its vast supply chain and the lifecycle of all its products. Apple will increasingly rely on carbon-removal programs. Europe and Latin America.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

A direct air carbon capture facility currently under development in Scotland has signed up Virgin Atlantic as a prospective customer, with the airline agreeing a memorandum of understanding for the purchase of "permanent and verifiable" CO2 removal credits from the facility once operational.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

There is a growing urgency in Europe and globally to identify solutions that address the negative consequences companies and institutions face due to climate change," said Reid Steadman, global head of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 14, 2021

More Bioenergy news: Carbon-negative bioenergy project underway with Chevron, Microsoft and Schlumberger Australian firm partners with French giant to reduce carbon emissions in Japan. These accounted for nearly half of the state’s total renewable electricity generation last year, according to the EIA.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The wind sector remains strong, despite a drop in the market share to 30% in 2022 from 42% in 2019 but the new wind action plan should help to accelerate permitting, improve auction systems across the EU and strengthen the supply chains. Join Enlit Europe in Paris. Register now

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

While Nitrogen Dioxide is primarily produced by cars(EPA USA, 2016), other pollutants like Carbon Dioxide were on the fall too, with reduced global air travel reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions in the US by 17% ( Zogopoulos , 2021). Positive and Negative Impacts of the Pandemic on the Environment. Source:Rume, T. and Islam, S.,

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

The renewable hydrogen would be combined with captured carbon from emission sources around Copenhagen to create hydrocarbon fuels — specifically, methanol for shipping and e-kerosene as a jet fuel replacement. A string of green hydrogen and carbon capture proposals have been announced in Northern Europe in the past year.

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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). These results are based on today’s electricity generation mix in Europe. “If

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

Despite its long-time leadership in wind and solar energy, Germany still had 44 gigawatts of coal plants running at the end of 2019, and parts of the country remain economically reliant on coal. Hard coal plants, or those burning more carbon-dense and less-polluting types of coal, by contrast, will be closed via least-cost tenders.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

Launched in 2019, the deal embraces virtually every policy area. 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. But in Europe, only 0.1% The fossil fuel industry spent nearly €60m in 2019 lobbying for hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

ClientEarth submitted a complaint against BP’s advertising in 2019, before the company decided to withdraw its “Possibilities Everywhere” campaign. But while the ad shows Exxon scientists hard at work developing “ algae farms ” and technology designed to suck carbon dioxide from the air, its business activities tell a different story.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

On the anniversary of its pledge to become a 'carbon negative' company, Microsoft has provided a snapshot of its decarbonisation progress to date, revealing it curbed its absolute emissions by six per cent last year while purchasing 1.3 million metric tonnes of carbon removal credits through its first offset tender process.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 19, 2021

government’s recently released hydrogen strategy—a thoughtful plan to create and use clean hydrogen—contains an implicit acknowledgement: the world is moving away from fossil fuels and toward low-carbon alternatives. is already a global leader in the direct air capture of CO2 through companies such as Squamish-based Carbon Engineering.

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Business Green

APRIL 11, 2021

YouGov survey across seven European countries suggests restrictions on flights during Covid-19 crisis has had little negative impact on businesses' operations and has proved beneficial for many executives' working lives. European business travellers are adopting new ways of working, which means less travel," he added.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Those are the stark findings of two separate report published today, which - less than 100 days ahead of the crucial COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow - together provide a stark assessment of the potentially carbon intensive nature of the global economic recovery. Only around 10.6 Only around 10.6 per cent this year and by 2.5

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

An interview with CEO Peter Carlsson, who urges Europe to quickly build on its own battery knowledge. Northvolt Ett, or Northvolt 1, has been under construction there since October 2019. A Time For Growth The need to reduce carbon emissions has enormous consequences for Europe, explains Carlsson. million jobs, vulnerable.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The investigation assessed the employment history and affiliations of 565 bank directors from the boards of major retail banks in the UK, US, Canada, Europe, South Africa, China and Japan. Banks are increasingly saying they will decarbonise by 2050, yet a large number continue to finance fossil fuels, the primary source of carbon emissions.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 29, 2020

Europe just gained its second and third coal-free countries. “With Sweden going coal-free in the same week as Austria, the downward trajectory of coal in Europe is clear,” Kathrin Gutmann, campaign director for Europe Beyond Coal, told PV Magazine. Statistics from the U.K.-based ” Image via Steve Buissinne. .

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

According to the 2019 BP Statistical Review of World Energy , U.S. as well as a surge of renewable capacity aided by legislation aimed at curbing carbon dioxide emissions. as well as a surge of renewable capacity aided by legislation aimed at curbing carbon dioxide emissions. Victims of Their Own Success.

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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. One incident of unplanned flaring in 2019 lasted for six days and led to more than 900 complaints.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Energy expert Professor Martin Freer puts the UK’s ‘glacial’ uptake of heat pumps – the lowest in Europe – in part down to a lack of clarity for consumers.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The next frontier is "connected chemistry," extending the internet of things to "the internet of natural resources," Beck said in 2019. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Company profile. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

The government must now address the market for all the low carbon energy technologies of the future, including hydrogen and CCUS, argues Siemens UK & Ireland CEO Steve Scrimshaw. The public want to see the government take even bolder steps to move the UK towards net zero carbon. I n the energy transition, there is no one silver bullet.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

In fact, 2019 was the warmest year on record at the end of the warmest decade in recorded history. The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. Top Carbon Emission Contributors.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

With airlines looking at an annus horribilis in 2020, planes could follow coal plants as Europe's next stranded asset, writes Vlerick Business School's Professor David Veredas. That is the highest concentration of carbon dioxide in 800,000 years. per cent in 2019 from 2018. Unfortunately, however, that is not the case.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

And the negative impact of climate change on habitat and diversity are far more profound than that caused by the wildlife trade. Opportunities from a zero carbon economy. A growing number of multinational corporations, local governments and countries have committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

The Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed claims from ClientEarth that then-Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom acted unlawfully in granting Drax's proposed 3.6GW gas plant in Selby planning permission in 2019, when she overruled contrary advice from the UK's planning authority.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. The more carbon in the soil, the more fertile it is. Makes sense.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

The two new stations - one in Warrington, which it claims is the largest in Europe, and another in Northampton - are together capable of refuelling over 1,000 trucks a day, more than doubling the firm's existing renewable biomethane refuelling capacity in the UK.

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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. A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

There is a strong link between economic activity and global carbon dioxide emissions, due to the dominance of fossil fuel sources of energy. This coupling suggests we might be in for an unexpected surprise due to the coronavirus pandemic: a slowdown of carbon dioxide emissions due to reduced energy consumption. Andy Rain/EPA.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

The carbon price has risen more than 200 per cent since the start of 2021 and in fact, both solar and wind energy have become cheaper than any fossil fuel source. Similarly, in 2019, a study by Cambridge Associates found that from a business standpoint, using sustainability as a guide for better investment decision-making made sense.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

In fact, 2019 was the warmest year on record at the end of the warmest decade in recorded history. The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. Top Carbon Emission Contributors.

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