DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Despite heavy investment in a marketing campaign called “Origin Green” to brand Irish produce as environmentally friendly, the director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Laura Burke, admitted in 2020 that its green reputation was “not supported by the evidence”. Steep Cuts for Other Sectors.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 20, 2021

In January 2020, Microsoft launched a company-wide focus on sustainability by announcing an? to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they have emitted since they were founded. ambitious goal and a detailed plan ?to Project Highlights.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . Green investments, however, make up just 12 percent of these companies’ portfolios on average based on publicly available figures. A Focus on ‘Net Zero’.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

2019 Sustainability Report confirms oil giant is making progress with a raft of low carbon initiatives, but concerns remain over incremental pace of decarbonisation. Early 2020 has been a time of extraordinary turbulence because of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic," Van Beurden wrote. "It Shell shares this sense of urgency.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

The Jadar mine was regarded as one of Serbia's biggest foreign investment projects, but environmental groups criticised the plan, claiming it risked polluting land and water in the area. Shell takes flak over Canada carbon capture project. EU overachieves on 2020 renewable energy target. It is not a hydrogen production facility.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

Fuels are hydrocarbons, meaning they are long chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms strung together (sometimes along with nitrogen or oxygen). While most fuels are long-chain hydrocarbons, the exact ratio and arrangement of the carbon and hydrogen varies, even within the same types of fuels. Biofuels Bust 1.0

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

To do so, they draw on friendly science, the promise of technological innovation and slick marketing campaigns – which promise “climate neutral” or “climate smart” meat and dairy – to create the idea we can continue eating vast quantities of the stuff while meeting our climate goals. The science shows that for humanity to stay below 1.5C

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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 initial carbon pollution fee of $15 per (tCO2e) in 2020 increases annually by $2/tCO2e plus urban-area inflation.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

The UK government's post-Brexit ambition for a net zero carbon market could be world-leading - but the plans released earlier this month repeat many of the mistakes of the EU system, including a very loose cap on emissions, and a market so complex it would make Rube Goldberg weep. Sources: UK verified emissions were 129m in 2019 (EUTL).

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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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. The key will be making low-carbon fuels without creating new problems. Worried about the climate crisis?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

million on lobbying in 2019 and 2020, according to the latest available data on their lobbying spending from official EU data. In its list of 2030 commitments to support the European Green Deal, CropLife said that it will “invest 10 billion euros into innovation in precision and digital technologies by 2030.”

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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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Why corporate partners are essential for Third Derivative, a new climate-tech support network Heather Clancy Mon, 11/30/2020 – 03:00 Climate tech is more important than ever, but the systemic challenges entrepreneurs face in shepherding these solutions to commercial success is formidable.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2021

An inside look at pricing in the forest carbon market Wilder Person Tue, 03/02/2021 – 00:05 On June 23, Amazon commenced its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund to further endeavors to become net-zero by 2040. In January 2020, Microsoft committed to invest $1 billion over the next four years as part of their Climate Innovation Fund.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Arlene Karidis Wed, 07/15/2020 – 01:00 One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is “clean hydrogen” made from trash. Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand?

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? Jim Robbins Thu, 11/19/2020 – 01:30 This article originally was published on Yale Environment 360. Hydrogen derived from methane — usually from natural gas, but also coal and biomass — was pioneered in World War II by Germany, which has no petroleum deposits.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

” But Sridhar placed even higher expectations on a longer-range plan to adapt Bloom’s solid-oxide fuel cell technology, originally designed to run on natural gas and emit carbon dioxide, to generate electricity from hydrogen, make "green" hydrogen via electrolysis or capture the carbon from "blue" hydrogen made from natural gas.

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Green Roof Technology

MARCH 17, 2020

By Green Roof Expert Extraordinaire Jorg Breuning , March 2020. . In this regard the Green Roof industry is not getting tired in developing a deluge of products and components that are supposed to help with stormwater management, stormwater retention, stormwater detention, stormwater neutralization, and stormwater clarification.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Data for 2020, the target year by which the $100bn goal should have been achieved, will not be available before 2022 due to time lags in official reporting, but the historic rate of annual increases outlined by the OECD suggest it is highly unlikely developed countries will meet their goal. "If within reach.". warming pathway.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This might be the quickest and cheapest way for you to become carbon neutral, without retrofitting your vessels at all. It should be noted that there are many possible ways to reshape the current carbon-intense industry, the below case is but one example. Where exactly will we obtain vast quantities of hydrogen and carbon?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. In 2020, the company ran a large-scale campaign across TV, radio, newspapers, and billboards, insisting that its pigs were “more climate-friendly than you think.” The AAA did not respond when DeSmog asked about its emissions claim.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

It should be noted that there are countless ways to reshape the current carbon-intense industry, this article suggest merely one of many possibilities. The alternative to fossil feedstock, is to replace it with hydrogen and carbon in other sustainable forms. > A source of carbon. Power plants and open-source carbon sinks.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Despite the additional complications posed by the coronavirus pandemic a record 312 institutions participated in Sierra's annual Cool Schools rankings in 2020. Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. The Golden Bears are also retrofitting an art museum into Berkeley’s first zero-carbon building.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise. And What They Deliver.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. But not all offsets are created equal.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

In that sense, the final SDG ties in with a convergence of public opinion around the need for all parties to act urgently on critical sustainability issues, particularly climate change, says Joanne Patrick, investment director at Amber Infrastructure and director of the Mayor of London's Energy Efficiency Fund. "We

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . percent of its GDP.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

92% of S&P 500® Companies and 70% of Russell 1000® Companies Published Sustainability Reports in 2020… here. Alibaba Group Announces Carbon Neutrality Goal by 2030… here. Maersk Seeks $150-a-Ton Carbon Tax on Shipping Fuel… here. WPP makes industry-leading net zero commitment… here.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Here are the climate related excerpts from the ninth Democratic primary debate, that took place in Las Vegas Nevada on Wednesday, February 19, 2020. Invest in battery technology. And I would invest in rail, in rail. The moderator was Lester Holt and he was joined by Chuck Todd, Hallie Jackson, Vanessa Hauc and Jon Ralston.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. As President Biden observed, the IRA "makes the largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change".

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 15, 2020

Here is a comprehensive summary of references to climate change from the CNN/Des Moines Register Democratic debate at Drake University on January 14th 2020. Look, we invested in every part of the economy. It's a transition fuel to where we get to carbon neutral. Climate change has come to America from coast to coast.

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