Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

What we do know is that, while mass electrification will be key to achieving our net zero goals, having a gas network will remain an important part of the low carbon puzzle from both a practical and cost-effective perspective – especially when it comes to supporting the intermittency of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 3, 2020

So this year I’m giving myself a whole decade to get these behind-the-meter energy system predictions mostly right. But adding batteries to a PV system increases the cost and confuses the energy savings calculations. Cellphone apps are the standard for customer system monitoring. No standard energy system interface.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Contributed by Shuli Goodman, executive director of LF Energy . Global warming is dangerously close to spiraling out of control, a U.N. In 2020, over 56 million developers worked on the 140 million projects listed on GitHub, the leading platform for open source collaboration.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

C present-day global warming relative to pre-industrial times. As a result, in 2021 countries signed the Global Methane Pledge, committing to reduce methane emissions by at least 30% of 2020 levels by 2030. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, contributing about 0.55°C

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

And as the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted , emissions pathways that limit global warming to 2°C or below generally assume that some form of carbon dioxide removal, such as CCS, is necessary, alongside reducing emissions. Gorgon is led by U.S. Its target was 80 percent. .

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

The year 2020 will be remembered as a year in which humanity weathered a dangerous and fast-spreading disease, costing companies and governments billions in management and recovery. WSP, a London-based engineering consulting firm, conducted a study regarding the actual footprint of this work-from-home alternative (WSP, 2020).

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Transition Deal echoed the fossil fuel lobby by emphasising the importance of hydrogen power and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to the green transition. The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2021

CFCs have a high chlorine content and have been linked strongly to ozone depletion and global warming. HCFCs were considered an improvement when they were first introduced, as they have lower chlorine and make a lesser contribution to ozone depletion and global warming. a refrigerant). Green hydrogen. About the author.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. Hopes that energy-related emissions could peak in the next few years feel more fragile than ever.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We have observed a steady stream of record breaking warming and 2020 is expected to set another heat record. GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report. The impacts of GHGs are being felt here and now.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

Nearly three-quarters of Brits underestimate the contribution of British homes to global warming, research conducted by Citizens Advice in partnership with the Energy Saving Trust has found. million UK households - said they had done nothing to lower energy use.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. emphasis added) [4].

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We need to look no further than the steady stream of record breaking warming. Last month was the warmest November on record, and 2020 is expected to be one of the hottest years on record. These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report. gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e). A total of 33.1

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2020

But everything, apparently, is worse in 2020, including the climate toll of this year’s Arctic fires , which makes 2019 seem like a warm-up. Toward the end of the month, daily levels of “fire radiative power,” a measure of the fires’ heat output, far eclipsed those seen in 2019.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 2, 2021

Investors in the energy sector are increasingly opting for companies with a green profile. Moreover, the non-fossil energy companies such as Ørsted have structurally outperformed traditional companies such as Exxon-Mobil. In 2020, BP wrote off $17.5 There is a massive difference in the value of ‘Old and New’ energy companies.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The global net zero transition risks being "delayed by decades" unless there is far greater collaboration between governments and businesses to accelerate the roll out of the key low carbon technologies required to deliver deep cuts in emissions before 2030, a major UN-backed report today warns.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. E-commerce is expanding globally. In 2020, global e-retail sales increased by 27.6% The Need for Sustainability.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

The company, which manages £13.7bn of real estate assets and owns £10.3bn of land, yesterday said it was targeting a 51 per cent cut in its Scope 1 and 2 emissions between 2020 and 2030. million square feet of floor space. million square feet of floor space.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

The move will see AstraZeneca accelerate its plans to cut carbon, with the firm promising yesterday to double energy productivity, use 100 per cent renewable energy, and reduce total energy consumption by 10 per cent from a 2015 base, all by 2025.

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Charged

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In the near future, the number of electric vehicles on roads across the globe will increase dramatically. In fact, according to the UN Climate Change Conference, the global automotive fleet will be composed of more than 30% EVs by 2030. Arkema’s booster is a fluorinated fluid with a very low global warming potential.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. In 2015, developed countries committed to coming up with $100 billion per year by 2020 to tackle climate change in developing countries. Energy transition.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

The rapid growth of Vietnam’s population in urban areas is resource intensive and leads to increased energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) Index ranks Vietnam as the 89 th least ready to adapt to climate change. Image source: The Hound. Temperature. Image Source: Saigoneer.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Governments and energy companies should look beyond carbon dioxide and ensure their climate plans include drastic action to reduce the methane emissions from fossil fuel operations, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned today.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Looming Crisis and Awakening Opportunity 2020 was a brutal year and 2021 has been off to a rough start. While there’s reason to have hope for the future with multiple vaccines promising the end of the pandemic, we unfortunately have an arguably larger global crisis looming.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Supporters of the natural gas industry continue to gaslight the public about the role it plays in climate change by labeling it as a clean energy source.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Data centers utilize different information technology (IT) devices to provide these services, all of which are powered by electricity. households (U.S. households (U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in August that such extreme weather events will become a more regular occurrence if global warming continues. However, there is a growing recognition that every industry, across the global market, needs to play its part in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The report found that governments and charities spent a total of $5.72bn dollars on projects tackling air pollution between 2015 and 2020, which Clean Air Fund warns is not enough to beat the problem that causes 4.2 million deaths every year and a 153 per cent increase in deaths in aid recipient countries in the past 30 years.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As explained by Julio Friedmann, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy, "We have to create an industry the size of the oil and gas industry that runs in reverse. If we could do that over 200 years, I’d be a lot more relaxed," (Kramer, 2020). C may already be "out of reach" (Hood, 2020).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Despite drops in energy usage during the pandemic, coal power use only declined by four percent in 2020, according to a new report. While coal used for power generation dropped 20 percent in both the U.S. GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. electricity consumption was 2.5

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2021

Time is running out to protect our tropical forests from irreversible loss and limit global warming to 1.5C.". John Kerry, US special presidential envoy for climate, said the coalition was a "ground-breaking example of the scale and type" of collaboration needed to achieve global climate goals.

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

Although the event was exceedingly abnormal — a 1-in-1,000-year event in today’s climate, according to some estimates — researchers say that without global warming it would have been at least 150 times rarer and several degrees cooler. This allows more sunlight to reach the ground and exacerbate warming.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

In its most recent report , Walmart concluded it avoided 186 million metric tonnes of emissions through Project Gigaton in 2020. Ten pharmaceutical companies have joined forces with Schneider Electric to accelerate renewable energy adoption and emissions reductions. Does Costco know more than we think?

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2020

By any measure, 400 million tons is a significant chunk of heat-trapping gases that will get mixed into the atmosphere, fueling more global warming. on Jan 10, 2020. But in New South Wales, this year’s wildfire emissions are off the charts. It’s a great example of a positive feedback of climate change,” Hughes said. “It

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Sailing through ice faster than ever before On a sparkling day in May, the nearly 300-meter-long tanker Christophe de Margerie set sail from the northern Russian port of Sabetta. But Rosatom won’t wait for global warming to run its course. 29, 2020. This article is taken from Bloomberg. For the original, click here.

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