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. WPR’s campaign also explicitly promotes hydrogen as a viable fuel for domestic heating.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 1, 2024

Mars Materials is disrupting this market with a captured-carbon-based acrylonitrile that serves as a drop-in replacement for the traditional chemical. “We And Mars Materials’ process is the only commercially validated, carbon-negative approach for acrylonitrile production.” and fast-growing acrylamide market.

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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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Aviation biofuels specialist Velocys and petrochemicals giant INEOS have become the latest firms to join the Zero Carbon Humber project, which is aiming to create the "world's first" net zero industrial cluster.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

  But all this travel comes at a steep carbon cost. In 2022, aviation accounted for 2% of global CO2 emissions. ”  That leaves basically three options for decarb: electric planes, hydrogen planes, or cleaning up the fuel powering today’s fleet.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Upcoming policy decisions on plastic, carbon trading and carbon capture could see the waste sector become a major driver of regional decarbonisation, writes Enfinium's Mike Maudsley Just over a year ago, I made a significant - and positive - career change. It took less than six months for that prevailing wisdom to be proven wrong.

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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. Under the proposals, which the ICS has submitted to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) this week, a ship powered by ammonia could receive a "reward" of more than $1.5m

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Latest batch of carbon analysis from electronics giant reveals how clean technologies can help slash emissions from transportation and distribution. The German-headquartered company first started collecting carbon data in 2020, and as such the data unveiled yesterday provides the first year-on-year comparison of its climate impact.

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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. In 2022, a Harvard University paper found that a “green innovation” narrative was one of the key social media tactics deployed by fossil fuel companies.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

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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 7, 2022

The argument goes that biofuels produced using sustainable feedstocks and low carbon processes can enable rapid emissions reductions in the short to medium-term, because they seamlessly integrate with existing fossil fuel infrastructure and can be mixed with existing gasoline, diesel, or kerosene. Regulatory and industry momentum.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Both enter 2022 on an upward, even hockey-stick growth trajectory, in large part the result of events and commitments that have taken place since the pandemic began in early 2020. These are among the developments that will propel us into 2022 and beyond. Will the demand sustain in 2022? Likely yes.

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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. In 2022, Eni reported a profit of $14.12

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 8, 2022

From your position leading Elemental’s water and circular economy portfolio, what areas are particularly ripe for innovation in 2022? This year, we are specifically interested in technologies related to: The intersections of water x agriculture and water x hydrogen. Brine management and resource recovery. Robotics and automation.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

Hydrogen fuel cell cars, in contrast, accounted for less than a percentage point of the booming zero emission vehicle market. It claims that most major car manufacturers are continuing to negatively engage on climate policy issues, with eight out of the 12 firms it assessed scoring 'D+' or below in its rankings.

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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. is one of the facilities undergoing a significant public reimagining.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade. At the same time, Yara claims to promote the deployment of “green ammonia”, which instead of fossil fuels would be produced with green hydrogen (hydrogen generated entirely by renewable energy).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Other recommendations include urgently delivering clear strategies to deliver new carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen projects, setting clear and ambitious targets in the delayed Environment Bill, laying the groundwork for domestic EV battery manufacturing at scale, and aligning the UK's net zero and nature agendas.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

The report - titled Principles for a low-carbon, sustainable and net-zero aligned economic recovery post COVID-19 - suggests five key government interventions aimed at harnessing growing political, business, and consumer will to tackle the climate emergency, as well as a raft of specific policy recommendations.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII): Adopted in 2021 through the IMO , these measurements build on prior standards and became mandatory beginning Jan 1, 2023. IMO will assign a CII rating, with A being the best, least carbon-intensive and E being the worst, most carbon-intensive.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

Industrial consortium begins operation of wind-powered hydrogen plant at Saxony steelwork. The project, which is the only one of its kind in Germany, will produce green hydrogen by harnessing local wind power capacity. Salzgitter AG, E.ON The pioneering work done here has every chance of becoming a 'Made in Germany' export hit.".

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In 2022 - surely not. But the announcement came alongside two separate analyses that suggested a near zero-emission power system by 2030 would be both technically and economically feasible. A system governed by the principle of public money (only) for public environment good is a much better idea than unconditional subsidies for landowners.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

temporarily, before hopefully stabilising back below that threshold by 2100 as negative emissions projects scale up, the report stresses. He urged countries to come forward this year - particularly richer nations in the G20 - with more ambitious national climate commitments ahead of the COP27 summit in Egypt later in 2022. "We

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” report in June 2022, which introduced the concept of “Clean Air Net Zero” (CANZ) — ensuring Net Zero policies include a clean air audit and vice versa. ” It follows the release of the organisation’s “ Yes We CANZ!

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Public awareness of low-carbon heating systems is very limited, and promotion of the BUS has been wholly inadequate to stimulate demand," Parminter argues. "62 In order to cut bills, carbon emissions and eradicate fuel poverty, we need a vaccine-style roll out of heat pumps and insulation not this dismal trickle."

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

While Alok Sharma and his colleagues at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) had favoured the ETS, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak and his team at the Treasury had reportedly preferred some form of new carbon tax. The UK is to deliver the 'world's first' net zero emissions trading scheme.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

billion (as of 2022). One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Sustainability pushes resorts away from the negative spiral, where high carbon footprints catalyze climate change – which could ultimately render the ski industry obsolete.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A little over a month into the third Conservative administration of 2022 and Number 10 appears to have imposed a degree of stability, albeit by caving in to potential Parliamentary rebellions on multiple fronts. An attempt to push through hugely unpopular plans to lift the moratorium on fracking ultimately brought down her government.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Despite the region’s shrinking wetlands, the government continues to permit new LNG export facilities on the Gulf Coast , and is encouraging hydrogen and carbon capture sequestration developments , though they too will lead to further land loss. Trandahl’s salary and compensation in 2022 exceeded $1.5

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

acquisition is the largest single carbon-management investment since the passage of the IRA and has implications for the carbon capture, utilization, and storage ecosystem. Regulators miss another deadline on deep-sea mining rules, and the US is digging into the carbon removal benefits of regenerative agriculture.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 14, 2023

Carbon accounting software attracts $50M and cultivated meat collects $35M. In June 2022, EV manufacturer Electric Last Mile Solutions declared bankruptcy just a year after going public through a SPAC deal. The Biden administration awards the first $1B+ for US DAC hubs and researchers replicate a nuclear fusion breakthrough.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Italy announces ban on new petrol and diesel cars, EU carbon prices hit record levels, and all the green business news from around the world this week. RUSAL opens new low carbon aluminium smelter. Our smelter in Taishet will help to address the high global demand for low carbon aluminium.".

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