GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Work at the Puga Valley geothermal project in Ladakh, India by the the state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has currently been stalled following an incident in 2022 where geothermal fluids flowed into the Puga Stream, prompting complaints from civil society and environmental organizations.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The International Energy Agency (IEA) says global natural gas consumption rebounded by 4.6% in 2021, more than double the decline seen in the gas market in 2020. The strong growth in demand in 2021 was driven by the economic recovery that followed 2020’s lockdowns and a succession of extreme weather events.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

They found that in order to have a 50 percent chance of achieving this target, 58 percent of known oil reserves, 59 percent of natural gas reserves, and 89 percent of coal reserves cannot be extracted. This means that global oil and gas production must decline 3 percent on average every year until 2050. “I degrees Celsius (2.7

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

After all, a substantial fraction of global carbon emissions arise from the production, transportation, and consumption of fossil fuels. Hydrogen is increasingly being viewed as an important tool for reducing carbon emissions, because the use of hydrogen for energy generates no direct carbon dioxide emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

’s power sector will be operating on a negative-emissions basis by 2033 at the latest if the country sticks to its plan to reach net-zero emissions across the economy by 2050, according to system operator National Grid ESO. Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038. actually hitting its targeted carbon reductions.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Efforts by oil and gas companies to build massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities on B.C.’s But in practice much of the discussion was about how to accelerate gas exports to Asia. But as a Vancouver Sun story points out, the organization’s primary function is “to promote natural gas.” .

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. billion (9 billion euros) from 2021. billion (13.3

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 12, 2020

But the metrics that fleet managers care about — total cost of ownership — are becoming more competitive for these lower-carbon vehicles, the GNA report found. Natural gas trucks are big but slowing: There are already 53,000 registered natural gas vehicles in the U.S.,

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

government has a new goal to make it much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. The Carbon Negative Shot is the third program in the Earthshots series. Carbon dioxide removal doesn’t directly cut emissions from any particular industry, like agriculture or aviation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The promise of renewable natural gas is a sustainability win that has been financially and logistically out of reach for even the largest companies. The Massachusetts-based recycler uses anaerobic biodigesters to create renewable natural gas from food waste. The gas can then be used for energy purposes.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

From 2047 onwards, the energy system could then become net negative, absorbing more emissions than it produces through a mix of carbon capture technologies and solutions, which operate on both a standalone basis and while attached to power stations. Systems thinking is critical to delivering a low-carbon economy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. On Saturday, a newly built jetty is due to welcome the Norwegian-flagged Höegh Esperanza, a 280-metre vessel capable of offloading cargoes of natural gas supercooled into liquid form, then shipped across the ocean in specialised tankers.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

European airlines are fully committed to decarbonize air transport and accelerate their efforts to make Europe the world’s first carbon neutral continent by 2050,” the paper says. And when they have nothing left, they say ‘fine — have a law, as long as there are no negative consequences for us if we fail to live up to it.’”.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

The carbon credit system needs an overhaul to effectively help in reducing climate change, according to a UCL study. French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of ' carbon neutral liquid natural gas '. Why the carbon market is growing.

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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. The agency takes credit on its website for 32 media hits criticising heat pumps since June 2021 (described as a ‘snapshot’ of results by the firm).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Increased federal incentives for “carbon management” technologies are catalyzing a surge in proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the United States, from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest to California. use the captured carbon to drill for more oil in a process called enhanced oil recovery.

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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. We're at a tipping point," he said.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

to a carbon free economy by 2050, experts at Bloomberg and Princeton estimate that the US will have to build enough solar and wind farms to fill an area roughly five times the size of South Dakota. COP27, which will be held in Egypt this November, will be different in several key respects from the Glasgow edition that preceded it in 2021.

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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. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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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. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 16, 2022

Now, it’s all eyes on the UK Government and Ofgem, as the regulator looks at ways to protect consumers and deliver a fairer, greener energy system amid record price hikes and increased concerns surrounding natural gas supply from Russia. billion) between 2021 and 2045 – a tangible way to off-set the impact of perpetual price rises.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Unlike a carbon tax, the cap is carried out in four-year windows known as compliance periods rather than as payment due in close alignment with consumption or delivery of fuel. Diverse and innovative approaches help meet emission reduction targets at a net cost lower than a direct carbon tax. Why is this? cent increase in prices.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Unlike a carbon tax, the cap is carried out in four-year windows known as compliance periods rather than as payment due in close alignment with consumption or delivery of fuel. Diverse and innovative approaches help meet emission reduction targets at a net cost lower than a direct carbon tax. Why is this? cent increase in prices.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

gas export projects since the beginning of 2022, a sharp increase on the 1.86 The banks also underwrote 610 million euros of bonds for the projects from 2012-2021, the data showed. “I German banks like Deutsche Bank are funding this export of gas from the United States,” Rolfes told DeSmog. German banks lent 2.17

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The CHIPS and Science Act, a $280bn bill aimed at revitalising the American semiconductor industry, with a quarter of that accelerating the growth of zero-carbon industries. In 2021, the average wait time for a new project to interconnect was about 3.7 electricity grid to 80 per cent carbon free power by 2030.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Projected to open in Spring 2021, the incubator will provide more than 40,000 sq. Greentown Labs is already working closely with the City of Houston to support the goals outlined in its first-ever Climate Action Plan , which includes a commitment of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Householders and businesses, who are already faced with increasing bills as a result of soaring gas wholesale prices, are left to pick up the bill for the cost of these company failures. In the meantime, we need a pragmatic approach to energy security.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

This is vital since half of the US population lives in places where air pollution levels are so high that they can negatively impact public health. Green hydrogen is generated from low-carbon power or renewable energy. This is mostly because it is a clean fuel that produces only water.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is a unique, multi-year program driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO?) New York City, N.Y.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. locations in 2021.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors. The award was accepted by Joel Griffith, DGS and the O Street team.

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