GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Mon, 03/22/2021 - 00:05. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply. Aviation is plotting a sustainable course. Joel Makower.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 2, 2020

Within the span of a week, major utilities Iberdrola, Uniper and NextEra all made moves into the hydrogen market, in a reminder that the miracle molecule is not the sole domain of the oil and gas sector. Questions about the utility hydrogen model. In the U.S., gigawatt Okeechobee gas plant.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

Cynics made some mileage from the almost The Thick Of It -style title juggling, with the event undergoing a hasty re-christening from “green day” to “energy security day” (as Carbon Brief noted ), as it became clear that future oil and gas exploration remained a key component of the government’s plans. Hydrogen: Not a time to get blue?

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

Tue, 05/11/2021 - 02:11. Is net zero the same as carbon neutral? You can become carbon neutral simply by buying offsets — for a year’s worth of driving or air travel, for example. And there are carbon-free fuels that show great promise, such as blue and green hydrogen , but that are still nascent and expensive.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

Japanese car maker confirms it is to discontinue its pioneering fuel cell model, but insists hydrogen models are still part of its future plans. The hydrogen automotive market received a blow late last week, after Honda announced it is to discontinue its flagship fuel cell model following disappointing demand.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction from politicians, green business figures, NGOs, investors and think tanks to the government's long-awaited Hydrogen Strategy. Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said: "Today marks the start of the UK's hydrogen revolution. It has finally arrived.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

Carbon neutral fertiliser production and use to be discussed at Agri-TechE event on 24 March. They have each developed an alternative approach to generating fertiliser, using renewable energy sources, operating from a shipping container, offering the potential for carbon-neutral production.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 8, 2022

French distribution system operator Enedis has reported the passing of 1 million public and private electric vehicle charging points connected to the country’s distribution network in Q2 of the year – a more than doubling since the start of 2021. Hydrogen propelled space ballooning. Follow Technology Trending.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

Fri, 03/12/2021 - 01:30. The paper identifies five core green policy areas that policymakers should focus on — green energy, low-carbon transport, natural capital, green building upgrades and green research and development (R&D) — and highlights successful green spending programs to date. billion on hydrogen. Cecilia Keating.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Subsequently, Senate Bill 32 strengthened the state’s GHG emissions reductions target to at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and former Governor Jerry Brown’s Executive Order B-55-18 established a second statewide goal to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible, and no later than 2045.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

GreenBiz has released its highly anticipated State of Green Business Report 2021 which details the top 10 sustainable business trends for the year ahead. Major global companies face $284 billion carbon pricing costs in 2025, representing 13% of earnings. Contributors S&P Global Trucost report on progress 2,000 U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A new report argues replacing the gas grid with hydrogen is unrealistic for many buildings in the short term, but net zero heating has few easy solutions. It also announced plans for 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity and systems capable of capturing 10 million tonnes of CO2 by the end of the decade.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

Starting to collect their food waste – to both reduce and recycle it – will be a key step in the pathway to carbon neutrality. 1) The ADBA Biogas Briefing series: Biomethane: fuelling a transport revolution – June 2021. Biomethane and hydrogen: two green gases, one future – August 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. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. Today, more than 95 per cent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The energy industry's interest in low carbon hydrogen is building fast, and the nuclear industry reckons it could yet have a crucial role to play. There is growing confidence that if clean hydrogen can be provided at scale decarbonising economies will find a use for it.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

AUGUST 1, 2021

Our summer 2021 Decarbon8-US investment process is in full swing, with our panel of experts hearing pitches from companies in areas such as light duty EV charging and adoption, infrastructure, rail, and electric recreational boats, among others. Year-on-year revenue for 2021 is tracking towards >3x growth. Having just completed a $1.6M

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. It's targeting €1 trillion of climate action and sustainability investments between 2021 and 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Texas-based utility El Paso Electric has signed an agreement with Mitsubishi Power to develop renewable energy and storage projects that can contribute to the utility’s target of carbon neutrality by 2045. Mitsubishi Power will help El Paso Electric to develop and implement a hydrogen deployment roadmap.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

Steel produced using hydrogen at HYBRIT plant in Sweden delivered to Volvo which is set to produce its first vehicles using the material by the end of 2021. In April, Volvo committed to producing its first vehicles using fossil-free steel by the end of 2021 with small scale production starting next year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Delivered through the Department for Transport and Innovate UK, the 2021 First of a Kind (FOAK) competition is inviting applications from projects that can help make the network cleaner, greener and more passenger-friendly. Our railways will underpin this country's economic recovery and help realise our ambitions of a carbon-neutral future.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

AUGUST 1, 2021

Our summer 2021 Decarbon8-US investment process is in full swing, with our panel of experts hearing pitches from companies in areas such as light duty EV charging and adoption, infrastructure, rail, and electric recreational boats, among others. Year-on-year revenue for 2021 is tracking towards >3x growth. Having just completed a $1.6M

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

As a part of the national statement delivered at the 26 Conference of the Parties (COP 26) in Glasgow in November 2021, the Prime Minister announced the landmark commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2070. As a large developing economy with over 1.3 ABOUT DISTRIBUTECH INDIA.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

In April, for example, the fossil fuel giant released a five-part YouTube series hosted by ex-BBC presenter Dallas Campbell, which touted the net zero benefits of hydrogen and featured one-on-one interviews with two Shell executives. On Instagram , Campbell encouraged his followers to watch his “Hydrogen powered adventure!”

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Charged

JULY 24, 2023

In 2020, Toyota predicted that its “game-changing solid-state battery” would debut in 2021. In June of this year, Toyota said it was accelerating its development of solid-state batteries , and touted plans for a 1,000-mile EV (it also heavily hyped hybrids and hydrogen). Toyota’s noise about SSBs strikes me as a typical brownie tactic.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While there are positive trends, such as the 50% increase in the roll-out rate of wind and solar in the EU in 2022 compared to 2021, from raw materials to key intermediate components and final clean energy technologies, the region is becoming more dependent on imports from third countries, the report finds.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

The UK is committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and this year's edition of National Grid ESO's 'Future Energy Scenarios' shows that a 2035 clean power sector driven by a massive expansion of renewables is now the benchmark for the UK if it is to reach this goal. Future Energy Scenarios 2021. Credit: Ember.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

I asked Otto Waterlander, Chief Commercial Officer at TES , how green hydrogen and green gas can both support European energy security in the face of the sanctions on Russia, while also taking a lead to support the EU meet its climate change obligations. The original plan was that by 2045 TES would supply 100% green hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Regenerative Agriculture Often accompanied with: carbon storage, no till, crop rotation With host country the UAE spearheading a new “Regenerative Landscapes” project in close partnership with the likes of Pepsico, Nestlé and fertilizer giant Yara, the term “ regenerative agriculture ” is likely to be a hot topic at COP28.

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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. Another mining behemoth, Anglo American, will only use renewable energy for its Chilean operations after 2021. Growing demand for low-carbon supply chains.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Although flying is one of the most carbon intensive activities a person can do, and despite growing focus on polluting behaviours in recent years, emissions from aviation have more than doubled since 1990. One solution for decarbonising this sector in the shorter term is by using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Germany has set a target to become carbon neutral by 2045 with preliminary targets for cutting emissions by at least 65% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, and 88% by 2040. To reach this goal the German market for EVs would need to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 35% to 2030, according to GlobalData.

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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. It also argued that despite a temporary rebound in 2021, global coal demand is set to slow down from this year onwards.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Arlene Karidis Wed, 07/15/2020 – 01:00 One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is “clean hydrogen” made from trash. ” Today, more than 95 percent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The overarching ambition of the Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy is to slash greenhouse gas emissions from UK industry by two-thirds within 15 years, as part of plans to develop the "world's first" low carbon industrial sector that creates and supports up to 80,000 jobs by 2050.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Our first post in this series discusses CARB’s Proposed Scenario to achieve the state’s GHG targets, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045. The Draft Scoping Plan states that CARB will initiate a rulemaking on the LCFS to ensure it continues to support low-carbon fuels that will displace petroleum fuels. [1].

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