Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The accelerator program, which specializes in advancing startup-corporate partnerships with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) and the M-Lab Companies, welcomes five startups working on emissions-reducing innovations for industrial supply-chain applications. Fujifilm Corporation, Yazaki Innovations, Inc., Somerville, Mass.

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GreenBiz

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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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Innovation in the building sector is critical to achieving decarbonization, as the sector is responsible for 40 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions. To change this, we need innovations that reinvent how buildings and their materials are planned, built, sourced, and managed. and Houston, Texas, Jan.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

Analysis from government's Innovate UK agency reveals entrepreneurs are flocking to support the net zero transition. The research also found that start-ups believe that the number one thing they can do to reduce their carbon footprint is to innovate around a solution which combats climate change.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 8, 2022

As we embark on recruiting for Elemental’s Cohort 11, we spoke with each of our Directors of Innovation about what they’re looking to fund this year, what motivates them in their work, and much more. As a Director of Innovation, I am constantly learning, iterating, and problem solving. Robotics and automation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2021

Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme sees 24 projects share £4m of funding. The government announced the latest wave of funding from its Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme, providing grants worth up to £200,000 to 24 projects from across the UK.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

IndiNature says investment will help scale up production of its 'carbon negative' building material. Carbon negative insulation for homes and commercial properties is to be produced in Scotland for the first time following a £3m investment in a pioneering green materials firm from the Scottish National Investment Bank.

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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. Have you read?

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. Source: 2022 Africa AgriFoodtech Investment Report. But at a total of just $27.2

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

If successfully commercialized, Modvion’s solution would solve the transport problem, while also replacing carbon intensive-steel with what could be a carbon-negative alternative. Bo Svoldgaard, senior VP and head of innovation said this first investment is an excellent fit for Vestas. million to $7.2

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Walkers plans to significantly cut its carbon emissions by creating low carbon fertiliser for its potato farmers from leftover potato peelings. By-products captured from beer breweries was also transformed into fertiliser during the trial, it added.

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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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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. ConcreteZero is signalling to the industry that the biggest buyers want the industry to innovate and act now on emissions.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 13, 2022

T 3 transformation, which encompasses digital transformation, energy transformation and net-zero carbon transformation, is a new model for propelling today’s campuses into the future through systematic reformation and innovation. The world is consuming increasingly more energy, which causes higher carbon emissions.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 23, 2024

In 2022, an estimated 600,000 people were exposed to rising seas along these coastlines. And while Canada’s coast faces countless climate threats, Elemental Policy Lab Fellow Na’im Merchant said it also could become important for climate resiliency as an unparalleled resource for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

A company making ‘carbon negative’ insulation is the latest one to receive a share of £8m funding for circular economy businesses administered by Zero Waste Scotland. The Borders firm claims that its products can reduce the average new Scottish home’s carbon footprint by 4.4

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation released new rese arch evaluating California’s climate progress and identifying a policy pathway that would reaffirm California as a climate leader. CARB is currently evaluating climate policies for its 2022 update of the Climate Change Scoping Plan. By Olivia Ashmoore.

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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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Energy Innovation

MAY 25, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. In February 2022, a team led by Frances Moore of the University of California, Davis published an article in Nature that directly responded to the scholars’ provocation. Source: Moore et al.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

The company’s key verticals include carbon-negative biomanufacturing, also called carbon capture and utilization (CCU), biomining, and subsurface biomanufacturing. What’s up next in 2022? The climate impact? Utilizing one gigaton of CO 2 by 2050, according to Cemvita Factory—about 2.5 percent of global emissions.

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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? The spread of $0.11/gallon

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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? The spread of $0.11/gallon

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 2, 2022

for energy network innovation National Grid and Eversource advance New England’s network resilience. It can also save hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions by negating the need for coal and gas power stations, therefore pushing us forward on decarbonisation plans as we strive to reach net zero emissions. “We

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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. Kerosene is a “long-chain hydrocarbon”, which means it is made up of carbon and hydrogen atoms (specifically C 12 H 26 C 15 H 32 ). Other vegetable oils face land use and carbon footprint concerns.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Our goal is to reduce respiratory healthcare carbon emissions without restricting patient choice or risking improvement in health outcomes.". You can now enter the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2022 and be in with a chance of joining us at the UK's largest and most prestigious green business awards this summer.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In a November 2022 letter to a key EU policymaker, multiple agribusiness lobby groups – including COPA-COGECA, pesticide trade group CropLife Europe, and seed trade group Euroseeds – argued that the targets should be replaced with ones that are “based on science and feasible for producers”. The EU Targets Ignore Science’.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

A ripple effect in both mature and emerging gas importing market is already visible, says the IEA’s Gas Market Report Q1 2022. High natural gas prices negatively affected demand from industrial consumers, who either switched to alternative fuels or reduced output in the last few months of 2021. Price squeeze in the global gas market.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

On Tuesday, coinciding with COP27s Finance day, the EIB released the seventh edition of its annual investment survey, which provides unique firm-level information collected from April to July 2022. link] #COP27 pic.twitter.com/4UdQV2HI5F — European Investment Bank (@EIB) November 9, 2022. Read the full EIB survey??

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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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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Nearly $370b in tax credits, clean energy incentives, and investments in green innovation are intended to dramatically accelerate domestic decarbonization in sectors from energy to manufacturing. In the near-term, the conflict is exerting negative impacts on climate emissions. It aligns U.S. For example, to fully transition the U.S.

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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. To get there, industries need to lead the way with innovative technologies and solutions.”

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change report is the third part of the sixth assessment cycle of the IPCC and follows a report on the physical science and trajectory of climate change published in August and a study into the impacts of the environmental crisis published in February.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We remain committed to delivering innovative solutions that address pressing agriculture challenges for farmers, growers and society.”. In its list of 2030 commitments to support the European Green Deal, CropLife said that it will “invest 10 billion euros into innovation in precision and digital technologies by 2030.”

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Here are the 6 big themes I drew from the last year, and 6 things to look out for in 2022]. I’ve tried here to touch on big themes and stories from 2021 that seem more lasting, and offer some thoughts on what to look out for in 2022. Maersk even advocated for a $150 per ton carbon tax on shipping fuel. Here we go.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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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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