DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse. These statistics raise huge concerns but are hardly surprising,” said Vicky Cann from transparency watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But now Europe is poised to enact laws that would not only recognise the harms of chemical-intensive agriculture, but also to ensure that synthetic pesticide and fertiliser use is significantly reduced. As pesticide trade body CropLife Europe says: “let’s focus on transition, not just targets”.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

A new "green steel" venture in Sweden has been launched with bold plans to start production as early as 2024. “This case, which is replicable, is key to deliver on Europe’s climate-neutrality pledges,” he added. Costs and carbon. That involves a mixture of biomass and carbon-capture approaches.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It is hoped the site will be operational by 2024 with a final investment decision in 2022. By 2030 BP hopes to have 10 percent of the clean hydrogen market in “core hydrogen markets” as it chases carbon neutrality by 2050. The project is BP’s first full-scale commercial hydrogen venture.

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Charged

MAY 10, 2021

The European Commission estimates that Europe will need to increase its supply of lithium by a factor of 18 by 2030, and by a factor of 60 by 2050. To date, Europe has been importing the bulk of its lithium from the “lithium triangle” in South America, and from Australia. The company plans to invest 1.7

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

US carmaker aiming to end fossil fuel van sales and achieve 'carbon neutrality' across entire European operations and supply chain by 2035. Stuart Rowley, chair of Ford's European business, said yesterday's announcements "signal what is nothing less than the total transformation of our brand in Europe".

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2021

million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the plant by the end of the decade for storage under the seabed. million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year from 2030 onwards, with the captured CO2 transported to a storage site several kilometers under the bedrock of the sea. Swedish cement maker aims to capture 1.8

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 31, 2023

Europe’s energy research and innovation agenda for the period 2025-2028 has been published with an estimated budget of almost €1 billion (US$1.1 The PPCs for 2025+ are as follows: HLUC 1 – Optimal cross sector integration and grid scale storage Integrating hydrogen and CO2-neutral gases Regulatory framework for cross sector integration.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

ENTSO-E has published the first offshore network development plans to support the delivery of Europe’s offshore renewable energy targets. This corresponds to a factor 10 increase in the installation rate, based on Wind Europe’s quoted data of an average annual installation rate during the last 10 years of 2.5GW.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In cooperation with Shell and Total, the project aims to create a carbon capture and storage hub in Norway, open to third parties. A deal for the construction of the facilities has been struck between Equinor, Subsea 7 Norway and Aibel, paving the way for the facilities to be operational in 2024. Why is Northern Lights such a big deal?

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2021

Energy giant Uniper today confirmed it is to close its Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power plant in September 2024 once it has fulfilled its current contract to provide capacity under the UK's Capacity Market scheme. It also announced that one of its generating units at the site would be closing earlier in September 2022.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2022

Facility will be able to treat a sizeable tranche of the UK’s end-of-life vehicles when it comes online in 2024, according to firm. The company told S&P Platts it expected the plan to be able to process 1,000 mt a year of batteries by 2024, a figure expected to amount to 20 per cent of all the UK's end-of-life EV batteries.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

The carmaker announced this morning that the Ford e-Transit was now ready to ship to businesses around Europe, noting that it already had a backlog of 5,000 orders for the all-electric version of the world's best-selling cargo van. It has also pledge to add roughly 3,000 jobs at the factory over the coming years.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 10, 2022

In other words, by 2035 all new passenger vehicles and vans in Europe would be required to be zero emission, i.e. electric or hydrogen powered. The target was argued as crucial to reaching climate neutrality by 2050. The challenge now is that the infrastructure is in place to enable the operation of the zero emission vehicles.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

EDF acquires CB Heating EDF, Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity, has strategically acquired one of the UK’s leading air source heat pump installers, CB Heating. We plan to train over 1000 heat pump installers in 2024, meaning a quarter of all estimated heat pump installers in the UK will be a HPIN member.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Japanese carmaker aiming for 75 per cent EV sales in Europe by 2030 as it invests in global supply chain for battery technology. The new strategy is designed to support Nissan's target to become 'carbon neutral' across the life cycle of its products by 2050, it said.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 22, 2023

From July 2024, the service will utilise the DeCurret’s network to convert environmental values into digital tokens and start settlement using the digital currency, tentatively named ‘DCJPY’. IIJ is joining the JEPX as a non-fossil value trading member and plans to start offering a service to procure clean energy certificates.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“With this new direction, the aim is to go beyond the boundaries of our industry by building a better society, based on carbon neutrality.” ” Toyota’s announcement explained that achieving carbon neutrality requires an approach taking several paths.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Spain has delivered the lowest prices ever seen for onshore wind in Europe," said Giles Dickson, CEO at trade body WindEurope, highlighting bids from onshore wind developers that ranged from €20/MWh to €28.89/MWh. The European wind industry continues to reduce costs through innovation, scale and learning effects.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Europe’s power system – vision for carbon neutrality Exclusive: Using digitalisation to achieve net zero infrastructure in power and renewables Kadri Simson reveals urgent next steps to accelerate energy transition. Join Enlit Europe in Frankfurt and be part of the conversation about the energy transition in Europe and beyond.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 8, 2022

Booking is now open for a novel 6-hour flight to the edge of space in what is billed as the world’s only carbon neutral spaceship. Hydrogen propelled space ballooning.

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Charged

JANUARY 5, 2024

New entries are announced virtually every month, and picking the 2025 models that will be most important throughout 2024 is risky for early January. Still, the 2025 Kia EV9 and 2025 Volvo EX30 stand out as particularly important EVs for 2024. Its sibling Hyundai will follow with its own version, the Ioniq 7, sometime during 2024.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The IOC and IPC will use the hydrogen fuel cell converted coaches for transporting the visitors as a part of its guest program during the 2024 Games in Paris. In this way, they will become H2-powered electric vehicles producing zero carbon emissions. Once converted, the buses will be purchased by French company B.E.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The EU this weekend agreed the biggest expansion to date of its emissions trading scheme (ETS), promising that sweeping reforms to the world's largest carbon market will drive investment in green infrastructure and help "reduce emissions further and faster". per cent from 2024 to 2027 and 4.4 per cent from 2028.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

Europe opens largest solar plant, Poland advances SMR plans, and Canada seeks more sustainable potatoes in this week's Global Briefing. There had also been speculation that candidates from Asia or Africa were likely to be preferred given the past four holders of the post have been from Latin America and Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

billion) — to take over the company’s global strategic media buying in 2024. Headquartered in the outskirts of Paris, the Bolloré Group — under the name of its holding company, Compagnie de l’Odet — sits at 177 on the Fortune 500 Europe list of largest companies for 2023 , with 19.77 billion euros (around $2.49 refinery. (The

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The target aims to set the path for climate neutrality by 2050. Green , and James Bee On 6 February 2024, the European Commission (Commission) presented its recommendations for the EU’s 2040 climate target, following a detailed impact assessment on potential emission reduction pathways. Davies , Michael D.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The wood pellets Drax produces are treated as “carbon neutral” under international accounting rules, based on an assumption that new-growth trees will capture the carbon lost by wood burnt for electricity. and Canada to meet a rising demand for biomass-fuelled energy in Europe and Asia.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The first tests will include participants such as Amazon, INEOS, Air Products, Wiedmann & Winz, and Holcim, which will each report on their initial experience using the carbon emission-free long-distance transport vehicles. ” Coming in mid-2024 The trial period with the participating companies is slated to start mid next year.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 5, 2024

The BMK and the finance ministry intend to carry out the auction in spring of this year (2024) when the next €2.2 What’s more, the nation seeks to decarbonize as much as 80% of its carbon-intensive H2 use with equally clean sources, also by 2030.   Climate-neutral hydrogen is important to Austria. billion ($2.38

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Two of Europe's top engineering giants have this week moved forward with plans to accelerate the roll out hydrogen fuelled trains, with projects advancing in both Germany and Italy. Only then can DB be climate-neutral by 2050. South Korea signals plan to strengthen 2030 carbon targets. within our administration's term?for

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

US automaker touts battery-powered Transit van as ‘the vehicles small businesses across Europe have been waiting for’. Ford is gearing up to launch a new battery-electric version of its best-selling Transit van in Europe, yesterday touting the E-Transit Custom as the vehicle "small businesses across Europe have been waiting for".

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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. Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe. The alternative to fossil feedstock, is to replace it with hydrogen and carbon in other sustainable forms. > A source of carbon.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The 924-megawatt Sunrise Wind project , which is expected to reach commercial operation in 2024, will be the first offshore wind farm in the U.S. To date, we have connected the offshore grid to the mainland 21 times, bringing more than 12 gigawatts of wind power to households in Europe.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The project would be part of the French government's wider plans to putting 8.75GW of offshore wind capacity out to tender by 2028, which also includes plans for a 500MW floating wind project off Brittany to tender in 2024. Fears grow over degradation of Amazon carbon sink.

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