Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It will convert this waste into ultra-low sulphur diesel to replace fossil fuels in the transport and heavy-machinery sectors. Clean Planet Energy’s ecoPlant is intended to process non-recyclable and hard-to-recycle waste plastics that would otherwise be sent to landfill.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 15, 2023

A “granfluencer” known as “our Filipino grandma” is among an army of US-based influencers being used by fossil fuel giants to promote major polluters to younger audiences, DeSmog can reveal. million, who had promoted fossil fuel firms since 2017. Juarez and Sangaland declined to comment.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

have ties to polluting companies and organizations, including major fossil fuel companies, according to a new DeSmog analysis. Nearly one in five directors (19 percent) have current or past experience working in the fossil fuel industry. They’re actually propping up the expansion of the fossil fuel industry.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. billion (13.3 billion euros), up $9.9

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 20, 2022

Vantaa Energy claims the technology has enabled the firm to increase its use of biofuels and reduce the use of fossil fuels at the Martinlaasko power plant since early 2020. This has resulted in lower carbon-dioxide emissions and operating costs.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Global demand for electricity is also growing faster than renewables capacity post-pandemic, opening the door to more fossil fuel energy in many parts of the world. per cent in 2022. Only around 10.6 Only around 10.6 per cent this year and by 2.5

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

In financial results posted today, Drax Group claimed it was now one of Europe's "lowest carbon utilities", following the sale of its power plant's gas assets to VPI last February and the end of commercial coal generation at the site in March.

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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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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This transition, however, will impact jobs in fossil fuel-based energy production and could, if not considered from a social perspective, negatively impact millions of individuals in emerging economy nations. 27, 2022 in Dallas.). Those at risk are countries whose society and economy are based on fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

What could the UK's energy system look like in 2050, once offshore wind energy is the backbone of the electricity grid, fossil fuel vehicles are increasingly scarce, hydrogen fuel has gone from vision to reality, and energy efficiency is an everyday consideration for families and businesses alike?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

There are five countries in the world that run on 100 percent wind-water-solar (WWS) alone with zero batteries, zero nuclear, and zero fossil fuels. She never met a fossil fuel lobbyist she didn’t love.” ”She Jacobson, who also leads the institution’s Atmosphere/Energy Program. Another four countries are at 98.5-100

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter states in her Twitter bio that she works with “businesses with projects across the electricity, gas and oil industries”, though these professional links to fossil fuel interests were not identified on the Today programme.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Investment in projects that tackle climate change is expected to decline in 2022 as global foreign direct investment flows drop, according to a report published by the UN Conference on Trade and Development. Europe accounts for more than half of the renewables' projects, with more than 700 in the first three quarters of 2022.

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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. Heat pumps will play an essential role in reducing our fossil fuel dependence and making our homes and buildings renewables-ready.”

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2022

An energy-intensive process largely reliant on fossil fuels, concrete production is estimated to account for around eight per cent of global carbon emissions - more than both shipping and air travel combined.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

gas export projects since the beginning of 2022, a sharp increase on the 1.86 LNG export boom — raising questions about a commitment Germany made to phase out international public finance for fossil fuel projects at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow in 2021. German banks lent 2.17 billion euros to U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Release of report expected to call for major shift away from fossil fuels has been delayed by several hours after government officials wrestled over headline conclusions for policymakers. per cent of global GDP by 2050, but was in some circumstances more economically attractive than maintaining the carbon-intensive status quo.

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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. Shell US did not respond to a request for comment from DeSmog. Shell Norco.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 2, 2022

Traditionally, according to SP Energy Networks, wide-scale system recovery in such a scenario has only been possible by utilising large fossil fuel power stations. SP Energy Networks plans two more live Distributed ReStart trials for later in 2022. Distributed ReStart.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Insect protein developer has created a patented process for cultivating mealworm to produce low carbon feed for fish, pet and livestock. In addition, the firm said the new facility in France would be carbon negative, and use a circular economy model than generates zero waste.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

Grant aims to support group's work to establish more robust governance mechanisms for voluntary carbon markets sector. Our theory of change is simple: first build a voluntary carbon market with integrity, and scale will follow," she said.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Policy documents released yesterday offer a glimpse into how big a role the government envisages for technologies such as carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in supporting its Net Zero Strategy.

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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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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

In the early 2010s, climate scientists were painting a grim picture of the future: If humans didn’t curb carbon dioxide emissions, the world was headed toward 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Scientists now estimate that current emissions trajectories make a 4-degree scenario highly implausible, even as total carbon emissions continue to rise.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Energy supplier touts tie-up with engineering services company Worley as evidence plan to build UK's largest carbon capture project in Yorkshire is moving ahead. It's no longer enough to reduce emissions - the world has got to start removing carbon from the atmosphere if we are to avert this climate crisis," he said.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

Energy Innovation used the California Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) to identify a “Deeper Decarbonization Scenario” and compare it to modeling for the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) 2022 Draft Scoping Plan. . CARB is currently evaluating climate policies for its 2022 update of the Climate Change Scoping Plan.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

It said it will take action to slash its emissions and neutralise any remaining emissions with "additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets" in order to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040, which is 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement targets of 2050.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet growth in global emissions has also slowed, and the authors of today's report maintain that mobilising the finance, scaling up the technologies, and incentivising behaviour changes needed to drive a "substantial reduction in overall fossil fuel use" remains eminently feasible and - crucially - affordable.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

At least it did, before the ocean swallowed the carbon emissions belched out by industrializing nations and began to swell. If all goes according to plan, construction could begin as soon as spring 2022. But the benefits of the project outweigh the negatives. that looks like a giant boot. It is time we held them accountable.”

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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. The fossil fuel supply chain involves many steps, each with embedded profits. gallon in Washington as of December 26, 2022). Why is this?

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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. The fossil fuel supply chain involves many steps, each with embedded profits. per gallon in Washington as of December 26, 2022).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

‘Fund and reward’ measure could stimulate the growth of still-nascent lower carbon shipping fuel markets, according to the International Chamber of Shipping. per cent and three per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, with all 50,000 of the world's merchant vessels on the seas today powered by fossil fuels.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

Meanwhile, academic studies have detailed how the emissions produced by clearing land and fertilising, farming, and shipping many 'energy crops' can be almost as large, and in some cases larger, than the emissions resulting from the fossil fuels they are designed to replace. Regulators and investors have taken note.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Scientists are documenting changes that are “much more widespread” and “much more negative,” she said, than anticipated for the 1.09 It will gain increasing importance as the herculean difficulty of reducing emissions to net zero and removing vast stores of carbon from the atmosphere become clearer.”. Climeworks.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

Just this week Ford and Volvo joined together with 26 other energy, transport and logistics operators in calling on the EU to ban sales of new fossil fuel cars and vans in Europe by 2035, alongside fresh mandatory EV charging infrastructure targets. In order to keep the sector in line with a 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

Records show that the company has lobbied during the past three years on California’s climate strategy, toxicity provisions, low carbon fuel standards, as well as its oil and gas production policies. Veolia generated revenues of $47 billion in 2022, an increase of 50 percent from the year before.

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