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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

The renewable hydrogen would be combined with captured carbon from emission sources around Copenhagen to create hydrocarbon fuels — specifically, methanol for shipping and e-kerosene as a jet fuel replacement. gigawatts of electrolyzer capacity to increase the production capacity of the various sustainable fuels by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. Conversely, energy produced by fossil fuels fell to just 39.6%, marking the first time that clean energy has consistently outperformed legacy sources. Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. The broader picture.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

IMO member states are meeting this week for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 percent compared to 2008 levels. It is a dynamic that has left environmental campaigners increasingly frustrated. .

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. . Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. .

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

Alphabet, Meta, Shopify and McKinsey launch Frontier Fund to bring down costs of carbon removal technologies that scientists acknowledge will be critical to meeting climate goals.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The world's top climate scientists have updated their guidance on carbon removals technologies, arguing they are likely to prove essential to stablising global temperatures, but only if they are developed judiciously.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The research, conducted by the non-profit Global Energy Monitor and shared with DeSmog, found thousands of cases in which high-profile corporations engage in lobbying in state capitols, hiring the same lobbyists that do work for powerful fossil fuel companies. It has also sought to enlist other companies to take on the pledge.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

A new Greenpeace report notes that Microsoft, Amazon and Google are undermining their public carbon commitments through by providing services that allow oil and gas firms extract fossil fuels from the earth.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2022

Launched today with the backing of 17 companies from across the concrete value chain, the ConcreteZero initiative calls on members to commit to using 30 per cent low emission concrete by 2025, rising to 50 per cent by the end of the decade, in support of an overarching goal to achieve net zero production of the material by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Most people seem to believe some form of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be necessary, although many are stil sceptical of an arguably “unproven” and ambitious technology. The same document said that CCS was “not on a trajectory” to meet the 2ºC target of over 400 MtCO2 being stored per year in 2025. Envirotec writes.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Cerulean, which specialises in floating wind power infrastructure and calls increased North Sea fossil fuel production “vital”, received public funding in January to back its plans to power drilling rigs with offshore wind turbines. Green Party Peer Natalie Bennett said: “We need fossil fuels to stay in the ground.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Currently it claims to represent 452 cities, 22 regions, 1,101 businesses, 45 of the biggest investors, and 549 universities, arguing these 'real economy' actors join 120 countries and constitute the largest ever alliance committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter states in her Twitter bio that she works with “businesses with projects across the electricity, gas and oil industries”, though these professional links to fossil fuel interests were not identified on the Today programme.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Drax has set out a new ambition to "boost social mobility" for one million people in the UK by 2025, this week unveiling a plan to improve green skills, education, employability, and opportunities for people from disadvantaged backgrounds and in under-invested areas of the country over the next five years.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

Renewables will become the largest source of electricity generation in 2025. A WWF analysis showed that solar PV with energy storage can play a significant role in meeting projected load in 2030, substituting for a large share of fossil fuels and hydropower.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And Brad Tilden, chief executive of Alaska Airlines hailed the partnership as a means of helping to ramp up deployment of fossil fuel alternatives for flights after years of research and development.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Advocates of BECCS argue that by sourcing sustainable biomass feedstocks for power plants and then capturing the resulting emissions, the technology can deliver both reliable renewable power and negative emissions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

The outlook for carbon capture and storage, both with gas and bioenergy, also appears to have improved significantly over the past four years. The central scenario for onshore wind projects coming online in 2025 has seen projected LCOEs fall by around a third from £65/MWh to £46/MWh.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. Below we’ve detailed eight tips on how to reduce the negative environmental and social impact of your fashion brand company. Plus synthetic fibers are fossil-fuel-derived. Tip #6: Reduce fossil fuel demand. million in 2025. million in 2020 to $10, 109.9

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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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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The plant, which aims to capture 500,000 tCO2/year starting in 2025, will now be a joint venture between Blackrock and Oxy subsidiary 1PointFive. Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy. To whom do we owe the credit?

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The IPCC report stresses that global emissions must peak by 2025 at the very latest to keep alive any hope of limiting temperature increases to the 1.5C temporarily, before hopefully stabilising back below that threshold by 2100 as negative emissions projects scale up, the report stresses. goal set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

"It showed it was no longer acceptable to talk about greening your finance offering, or scaling up support for renewable energy, while still being perfectly comfortable to finance fossil fuels and other non-green sectors. Accordingly, Alliance members are currently pursuing targets not for 2050, but rather for 2025.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

Just this week Ford and Volvo joined together with 26 other energy, transport and logistics operators in calling on the EU to ban sales of new fossil fuel cars and vans in Europe by 2035, alongside fresh mandatory EV charging infrastructure targets. In order to keep the sector in line with a 1.5C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Without a clear and ambitious government plan zero carbon home heating by 2050 remains a pipe dream, a new analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre warns. At present home heating - the bulk of which is provided by the fossil fuel gas grid - accounts for 13 per cent of UK emissions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Climate campaigners, however, see the new piers and pipelines as ominous signs that the gas lobby has finally achieved a long-standing goal to lock Germany into the $100 billion global LNG market – threatening to keep Europe’s biggest economy hooked on fossil fuels for decades to come. “A It’s fossil fuel madness.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The Treasury should set in stone a new fiscal rule for an annually-increasing carbon price in the UK, argues SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies. Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow I think it's imperative the Treasury installs a new fiscal rule: the need for an annually increasing carbon price.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

  But all this travel comes at a steep carbon cost. In part because air travel is such a technical marvel, engineering our way around direct emissions from burning fossil fuels strapped to those big jet engines on the wings is definitionally “hard to abate. In 2022, aviation accounted for 2% of global CO2 emissions.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 29, 2020

-based think-tank Carbon Tracker show that 40% of EU coal plants ran at a loss in 2017. by 2024; and Ireland and Italy by 2025. Stockholm Exergi CEO Anders Egelrud told PV Magazine he hopes the utility will eventually go carbon-negative. ” Image via Steve Buissinne. ” Image via Steve Buissinne. .

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

That means negotiating swiftly and in good faith to deliver both a new climate finance settlement beyond 2025, a huge boost in climate adaptation funding, and a formal Loss and Damage financing mechanism.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Now, in its eventual internal-combustion phaseout, GM can’t seem to make EVs fast enough, and 30 new models are lined up for the market for 2025. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In recent months, we have seen game changing commitments from companies such as Microsoft to go carbon negative by 2030 and BP announcing a move away from fossil fuel extraction to grow their investments in renewables tenfold. Sustainability and regeneration have never been so high on the business agenda.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2020

Over the next ten years, carbon reduction efforts will be a central element of Capgemini's work with its clients, which include some of the world's largest automotive, telecommunications, consumer goods and retail companies. The company's carbon reduction prerogramme, which is currently being validated, is now aligned with a 1.5

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. It concluded this approach could be a cost-effective way to actually achieve negative emissions.

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