DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

In early March, global food giant Tyson unveiled a new beef product line at the 2023 annual industry meat conference. Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. The science shows that for humanity to stay below 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The conference was originally scheduled for the end of October of 2023. So they’re just going to try and squeeze out every last bit of profit they can and give it fancy new names like carbon capture and sequestration. It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 2, 2023

The ASCEND (Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and Data sovereignty) project is preparing a feasibility study on the concept, with its potential to help meet Europe’s Green Deal goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. For farms that already produce their own biomethane a methane liquefaction unity can be simply ‘bolted’ on.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The platform is the fruit of an early European gasification and methanation demonstrator project, and is supported by the French electrical utility ENGIE and the French agency for ecological transition ADEME. Construction of a first industrial unit in Le Havre could begin in 2023.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 5, 2022

The plan, which is expected to take effect from January 1, 2024, is focussed on building resilience into the company’s electricity and gas networks and targets the meeting of California’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2045. to gas bills compared to 2023. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

Our transformation toward a climate-neutral economy - the fundamental task of our century - is currently taking on an entirely new dynamic, not in spite of, but because of, the Russian war," he said. She argued that eliminating this bias could reduce global carbon emissions by 3.6 per cent while increasing global income by 0.65

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

One obvious way to deliver more energy with less carbon, Looney said, is "more renewables and gas, pushing coal out of power.". We need to compare gas to zero carbon — how will we decarbonize it?” The company, now known as Lightsource BP, is chasing 10 gigawatts of solar capacity worldwide by 2023. billion ($1.67

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise. And What They Deliver.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This arresting visual captures the sentiments of opponents of a plan to develop the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project under the lake. billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Glasgow moved us a step closer to this goal, with almost 200 countries pledging to “phase down” unabated coal power in the final text (“unabated” refers to coal power without carbon capture and storage). The Canadian Securities Administrators is proposing to mandate climate-related disclosures for listed companies starting in 2023.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Later this month, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) will head to the 2023 National Agri-Marketing Association’s conference to see if its public relations campaign about beef’s sustainability can secure the national award for campaigns directed to consumers.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 31, 2023

Meanwhile, July 2023 is the hottest month ever recorded. And a 24/7 clean electricity goal , meaning all of the energy used across a company’s operations at all times is actually generated from carbon-free sources, is much more difficult to reach than a 100% renewables pledge, which can technically be met with RECs alone.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“If not properly plugged and abandoned, these wells and facilities can contaminate waterways and soil, serve as a source of climate and air pollutants, and can present physical hazards to people and wildlife,” CalGEM writes in a 2023 legislative report. An oil and gas field within California’s San Joaquin Valley.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 12, 2022

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Canada) utilizes point-source CO2 and mineralizes it with waste materials to create supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that can be used in building materials. develops polymers for gas separation, enabling membrane-based carbon capture applications. Somerville, Mass.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

Fuels are hydrocarbons, meaning they are long chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms strung together (sometimes along with nitrogen or oxygen). While most fuels are long-chain hydrocarbons, the exact ratio and arrangement of the carbon and hydrogen varies, even within the same types of fuels.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Research from WWF, for example, has found 46 per cent of the UK's carbon footprint is generated overseas by goods produced to satisfy UK consumption. Methane emissions soar to record high. The evidence is consistent, alarming and undeniable.". Germany plots major wind and solar drive to shore up energy security.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Following a two-day summit held this weekend in Rome, the G20 nations announced a collective pledge to achieve carbon neutrality "by or around mid-century" and formally endorsed the Paris Agreement's more stretching temperature limit of 1.5C as a common goal. — António Guterres (@antonioguterres) October 31, 2021.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

For example, when a forest—which naturally absorbs and stores carbon dioxide as trees grow—is logged and converted to grazing or agricultural land, GHGs are released as trees decompose. 2023), whereas self-identities refer to “behaviors that are in line with … the label that people use to describe themselves” (Stancu and Lähteenmäki, 2022).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Campaign groups, however, bemoaned an overreliance on carbon offsets and "problematic accounting" underpinning New Zealand's fresh target. However, the target is still not expected to be met until 2023 and the failure to deliver fully on the $100bn funding pledge is set to be a major source of tension over the next fortnight of talks.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

Broadly similar to the UK's Climate Change Act, the bill requires the adoption of a series of five year carbon budgets and a regime of annual progress reports. The study forecasts that plant-based meats will match regular meat on price by 2023 and that nine out of 10 of the world's favourite dishes will have realistic alternatives by 2035.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This might be the quickest and cheapest way for you to become carbon neutral, without retrofitting your vessels at all. It should be noted that there are many possible ways to reshape the current carbon-intense industry, the below case is but one example. Where exactly will we obtain vast quantities of hydrogen and carbon?

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

It should be noted that there are countless ways to reshape the current carbon-intense industry, this article suggest merely one of many possibilities. The alternative to fossil feedstock, is to replace it with hydrogen and carbon in other sustainable forms. > A source of carbon. Power plants and open-source carbon sinks.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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