GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

The companies said the jet fuel will be made from agricultural waste fats and oils (such as used cooking oil and inedible fats from beef processing). Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030. A drop in the fuel tank.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Most H2 is produced using fossil fuels like natural gas, but can the right methods make that green? The term “clean hydrogen” doesn’t have a specific official definition, but on the whole, it tends to refer to H2 that is produced in a way that doesn’t generate carbon emissions.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 30, 2020

Electric boilers fuel Diageo’s carbon-neutral whiskey distillery dream Jesse Klein Thu, 07/30/2020 – 00:30 Even whiskey is going electric. But Diageo’s new 72,000-square-foot distillery is designed to be completely carbon-neutral. The facility is under construction, with completion slated by mid-2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Despite popular belief, electrification does not always lead to a reduction in carbon footprint. According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. Tom Christensen writes.

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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. "Far

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. in reach — Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) October 23, 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

A sustainable housing development is to be developed in Bristol, featuring innovative low-carbon heating. With completion expected in Spring 2021, works have commenced on site by developer Wilmott Dixon, with the aid of UK ground source heat pump specialists, Kensa Contracting, undertaking the heat pump system installation.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2021

The paper comes ahead of this November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland and amid proliferating pledges from polluting corporations and governments to achieve what they claim is carbon neutrality — increasingly via dubious offsets — by some distant date, often the year 2050.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Latest Carbon Clean 200 list companies outperformed average benchmark by 47 per cent over the past year. Overall, they calculated that investing $10,000 in the Carbon Clean 200 companies in July 2016 would have seen this investment grow to more than $21,000 by the end of last month.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

To be sure, a completely separate report published by a different environmental group last week casts some doubt on Apple’s recent carbon neutral claims. Most power grids don’t have enough solar and wind farms online yet to fulfill companies’ goals of becoming carbon neutral.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Policymakers met with fossil fuel and biomass producers nine times as often as with their renewable energy counterparts, DeSmog can reveal, raising fresh concerns over the depth of the government’s commitments to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Drax Access.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

Less than one per cent unabated fossil fuels and at least 80 per cent wind and solar in the power mix required to meet UK climate targets, according to Ember's Tom Harrison. Future Energy Scenarios 2021. This year's edition updates its predecessor's pathways to reaching economy-wide net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. We are working across a range of engineering and commercial activities that reflect the UK in microcosm. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

But federal records newly reviewed by DeSmog reveal that the group’s co-founder has personally donated to the Conservative Party of Canada, whose leader Pierre Poilievre is campaigning to abolish the country’s most prominent climate policy, a nationwide tax on carbon emissions, saying it brings “misery and suffering on the Canadian people.”

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2022

It said the investment would transform its Crewe plant, which has manufactured vehicles since 1946, into an industry-leading certified carbon neutral facility that would help it achieve its goal of becoming a carbon neutral company by 2030.

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Business Green

JANUARY 8, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week including China's ETS, Japan's fossil fuel car ban, and Enel's African green power push. China launches world's largest carbon market for power sector. Japan aims for ban on fossil fuel car sales by 2035.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities. billion Euros in bonds to the fossil fuel industry, Milieudefensie says. “We

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

as a global climate solution, with some industry boosters even going so far as to call Canada’s supply of the fossil fuel the “cleanest in the world.” C is to stop building new fossil fuel projects. Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. Burning all that gas could release 13.7

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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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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

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. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. .

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

Carbon capture and separation technology pioneer pulls in backing from oil and gas giant Equinor in second major funding round. UK-based carbon capture specialist Carbon Clean Solutions Limited (CCSL) has today announced that it has closed a new funding round, pulling in $22m of investment from Equinor Ventures and ICOS Capital.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

Fri, 03/12/2021 - 01:30. For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer-focused spending program. Cecilia Keating.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

As such, the rules require new cars to emit 55 per cent less emissions and new vans to halve emissions during the period between 2030 and 2034, against a 2021 baseline. E-fuels, sometimes called synthetic fuels, can be produced with zero emissions using clean energy and captured carbon.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 25, 2022

A 2021 report by Natural Capital Partners analyzed carbon neutrality commitments made by the Fortune Global 500, finding that there’s been a three-fold increase in net-zero targets, which means a 50% increase in the number of companies that have either achieved carbon neutrality, or are targeting it by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

There are “net zero” pensions, “net zero” fuels, even “net zero” mobile networks. Thousands of companies have hitched themselves to the carbon-neutral bandwagon, from fossil fuel producers like BP and Shell, to other household names including United Airlines, Dell, Burger King, and Vodafone.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

We are determined to work with our partners to reduce the carbon footprint of wind turbines; together we can be the example of how an industry transforms its value chain to support the green transition and the critical move to a circular economy.". Nearly a third of LM Wind Power's carbon footprint comes from waste disposal.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2022

The United Nations secretary-general has become increasingly outspoken about the failure of the world’s financial sector to stop investing in new fossil fuel projects and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. New funding for fossil fuels is delusional,” Guterres said on June 14.

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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

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 '. Natural gas is, of course, a fossil fuel and so can't itself be carbon neutral.

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