GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That includes a recommitment to reaching its 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions below 50 percent of their 2007 levels, potentially ahead of schedule.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 31, 2020

Dominion has been forced to confront a rapid shift away from carbon-emitting energy assets in its home state of Virginia under its Clean Economy Act , which calls for Dominion to achieve carbon-free energy by 2045. gigawatt offshore wind farm in 2024.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2022

Brand hopes new project will help meet its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to half industry average by 2024. Forage-based diets that limit cows' methane-rich burps and better soil management to boost grass growth are all part of a new plan by Ben & Jerry's to cut greenhouse gas emissions to half the industry average by 2024.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

To anyone paying attention to global oil and gas demand future forecasts, even under existing policies , the COP28 agreement should not be a surprise. So how does a fossil-fuel producing nation square the circle with its climate ambitions and knowledge that fossil-fuel demand will drop in the coming decades, if not earlier?

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 3, 2020

The move to exit merchant generation while retaining its three nuclear power plants “could reduce overall business risk and earnings volatility, improve our credit profile, and enhance an already compelling ESG position driven by pending clean energy investments, methane reduction and zero-carbon generation,” Izzo said.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The public health benefits of realizing 100 percent zero carbon electricity by 2035 would be enormous. Beyond improving health, getting to 100 percent zero carbon electricity would also be a boon for the climate, eliminating more than a quarter of America’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2035. million workdays to poor health.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. The California Air Resources Board adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in 2009. carbon intensity value of natural gas vehicles below zero for the first time in history.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 13, 2020

The public health benefits of realizing 100 percent zero carbon electricity by 2035 would be enormous. Public health benefits of reaching 100% zero carbon energy. The avoided climate damages between 2020 and 2035 total $500 billion, using the social cost of carbon developed under the Obama administration.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Canadian pipeline company TC Energy is aiming to expand the volume of methane gas that it ships through a long distance pipeline in the Pacific Northwest, potentially locking in higher gas use despite laws in western states that chart a path away from fossil fuels in the years ahead. That trend is spreading in the Northwest.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In fact, many of us are flying more – air travel over Thanksgiving week in the US was the busiest ever , and annual demand for flights is growing rapidly in markets like India and China.   But all this travel comes at a steep carbon cost. Other vegetable oils face land use and carbon footprint concerns.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In addition, more than 200 of the largest global businesses estimate climate change impacts will cost ~$1T by as early as 2024. Customers, especially the next generation of consumers , are demanding companies be environmentally and socially responsible. In addition, we must do all we can to protect current carbon stocks.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Look forward to 2024 predictions from many of your favorite clairvoyant climate voices. The S&P Global Clean Energy index dropped 30% YTD weighed down by higher interest rates and supply / demand imbalances. 100B of deals went down in the Permian basin and Shell abandoned a $100M per year carbon credit pipeline.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The UK government’s Hydrogen Strategy , launched in August, promises to develop a “thriving low carbon hydrogen sector” as a “key plank” of its climate plans, and the fuel was given pride of place at a “Hydrogen Transition Summit” hosted in Glasgow during the recent UN climate talks.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. IMO will assign a CII rating, with A being the best, least carbon-intensive and E being the worst, most carbon-intensive. What’s new? Maersk, MSC, Evergreen).

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

He says the group's mission is more crucial now than ever before, given the extractive industries' critical role in providing the minerals and metals required for the technologies that enable a low carbon economy. The mining industry is an enormous enabler of economic growth that is sustainable, that is environmentally positive," he contends.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

WTO boss calls for urgent carbon pricing reforms Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), this week called on delegates at the Davos Summit to overhaul trade agreements and pursue a global price on carbon or risk seeing efforts to deliver on global climate goals falter.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

While climate impacts intensify along the Gulf Coast, the Louisiana, Texas, and federal governments are poised to permit a growing number of proposed hydrogen manufacturing facilities equipped with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals. Credit: Julie Dermansky. In 2023, U.S.

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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. This article explores the current situation in Rotterdam, how many refineries there are, the fuel and hydrogen demand, the basic technological requirements for a synthetic fuel refinery and the costs involved.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2021

Amid depressed prices and slumping demand for fossil fuels, firms have embraced cloud computing and data services that allow them to make their operations more efficient and reduce overheads. There is some evidence these tech interventions could help drive the carbon-intensive sector towards a greener future.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This article explores the current situation in Rotterdam, how many refineries there are, the fuel and hydrogen demand, the basic technological requirements for a synthetic fuel refinery and the costs involved. The alternative to fossil feedstock, is to replace it with hydrogen and carbon in other sustainable forms.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The court ordered the Belgian government to slash carbon emissions by at least 55 percent (below 1990 levels) by 2030. All three cases heard by the European Court of Human Rights seek to compel governments to align their climate policies with what science demands in order to safeguard human rights. KlimaSeniorinnen v.

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2024

Natural gas is 70 to 90 percent methane, a greenhouse gas that’s about 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the short term. We’ve been sending comments, letters, demanding meetings about the safety hazards of SpaceX next to LNG , and we’ve been left in the dark.

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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.”

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 11, 2024

Reflecting Larry Fink’s statement “climate risk is investment risk”, the SEC’s ruling addresses growing investor demand for disclosing and pricing-in climate-related risks. Meanwhile a report by Carbon Brief predicts that if Donald Trump were to win, US emissions would be 4bn tonnes greater by 2030.  

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

New report raises social cost of carbon estimates, surpassing previous estimates by more than 250%. The Social Cost of GHG: A Brief History Federal agencies began to develop estimates of the social cost of carbon dioxide (SCC) following the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s 2008 decision in Center for Biological Diversity v.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From President Biden to methane pledges, BusinessGreen explores the biggest developments on the fifth full day of the pivotal climate talks in Sharm EL Sheikh. Last year, I committed to work with our Congress to quadruple our climate finance to provide $11bn annually by 2024, including $3bn for adaptation," he said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Trump administration had moved to water down US auto emissions standards, but the new order proposes a strengthening of the rules so that the EPA would require a 10 per cent year-over-year strengthening of emissions standards for model year 2023, followed by five per cent increases each year from 2024 through to 2026.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  SPAC valuation ).

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

And because we can’t help ourselves, we then attempted to extrapolate the straight line between these divergent views of what’s to come for climate tech in 2024. It’s a toss up from our oracles if the carbon market will fall, but all agree that losing the lower quality offsets can only be good for its health.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Campaigners say the trend towards private ownership in the North Sea is potentially “catastrophic” for the UK’s plans for an equitable transition towards low carbon industries. million metric tons of plastic each year once it opens in 2024. So who are these new North Sea players?

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. cents per kWh of electricity produced at facilities placed into service after 2024 that produce zero or negative emissions.

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