DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It’s a “green investment guidebook,” said Henry Eviston, spokesperson on sustainable finance at WWF European Policy Office. But this didn’t suit everyone.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

General Assembly that the country is aiming to be carbon-neutral by 2060. The publication of China’s 14 th five-year plan, covering 2021-2025, is expected this month. It will likely include more details on the first stages of this path to net-zero carbon. Building a grid and power market fit for net-zero carbon.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

It also aims to encourage the use of interties from provinces and territories with an abundance of hydroelectric power; incentivise increased use of hydrogen, battery storage and carbon capture and storage; and help to set the stage for the increased use of demand-side management and distributed energy in Canada.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The investment covers 40% of the Texas facility’s $1.3B project cost and is one of the largest DAC investments to date. 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. To whom do we owe the credit?

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

In developing the 2022 Draft Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan), CARB evaluated four scenarios to identify the most viable path to achieve the state’s 2030 interim GHG reduction and GHG neutrality targets. billion funds have been invested into GHG-reducing projects. To date, $10.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

The UK's nascent hydrogen economy celebrated a major milestone this week, when a 1MW boiler was fired up with the low carbon fuel at a test centre in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Andy Burnham, Metro Mayor for Greater Manchester, said the Rochdale pilot project would help establish the region as a leader in the UK's low-carbon economy.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

It would therefore appear to be the first UK government support package to come with green conditions attached, following months of appeals from green groups for climate-conditional bailouts to help steer high-carbon industries towards a greener, net zero future.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 18, 2020

trillion of private investment into the economy over 15 years, supporting 530,000 new net jobs per year, and cutting wholesale power prices 10 percent. grid would also reduce economy-wide carbon emissions 27 percent, avoid $1.2 Of course, building more gas power plants would instead create huge stranded costs.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

Last week, duel announcements from the two public utilities commissions, the bodies that regulate the states' electricity and natural gas infrastructure (among other things), revealed the "competition" is not very close. New York is focused on incentivizing fuel switching, while California is focused on restricting new natural gas.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warning emissions must peak by 2025 before falling 43 per cent by 2030 compared to 2019 levels to stave off the catastrophic effects of climate change, investors urgently need clearly defined net zero pathways for the highest emitting industries. gigatons in 2021 from 35.5

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

They have legislated a carbon neutrality goal for 2050, adopted a long-term strategy and advanced the phase-out of coal by 2025 among other key indicators. The major priorities for Hungary’s climate and energy policies relate to energy security, reducing fossil fuel use and keeping energy prices affordable.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

For while electric and ground-source heat pumps are set to play a key role in keeping homes warm in the coming decade and beyond, the energy networks companies that manage the UK's gas grid believe replacing fossil fuel gas in pipes with low carbon hydrogen also has an important part to play in deliver greener heating to the nation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. On Saturday, a newly built jetty is due to welcome the Norwegian-flagged Höegh Esperanza, a 280-metre vessel capable of offloading cargoes of natural gas supercooled into liquid form, then shipped across the ocean in specialised tankers.

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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. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Strategy, although still lacking details on policy and financial support in certain areas - more of that is now expected in another related policy document next year - envisages hydrogen supporting 9,000 jobs and attracting £4bn investment by 2030, rising to 100,000 jobs by 2050 in an industry potentially worh £13bn.

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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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. hydrogen is a lot more expensive than other fuels such as natural gas.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

In 2017, Bolloré Logistics posted a 30-minute video on YouTube “illustrat[ing] the management of the day-to-day operations on the Logistics Oil & Gas Shore Base of Bolloré Transport & Logistics in Port Gentil, Gabon, entirely dedicated to Shell, a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies.”

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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 initial carbon pollution fee of $15 per (tCO2e) in 2020 increases annually by $2/tCO2e plus urban-area inflation.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is a unique, multi-year program driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO?) New York City, N.Y.,

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. There are other ways to make hydrogen.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

Houston is buzzing with incredible climatetech startups, world-leading energy organizations, and a thriving investment community. Today is a major milestone in Houston’s broader efforts to build a more efficient and more sustainable low-carbon future.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

The two corporations investing billions to build three new factories just outside Columbus, Ohio, have said that the facilities will be carbon neutral — despite Ohio’s near-total reliance on electricity from fossil fuels. All three factories are scheduled to be in operation by 2025.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

California regulators have allocated $45 million to incentives for heat pump water heaters through 2025, in another step on the path toward the state's 2045 carbon neutrality goal. Around 90 percent (PDF) of the furnaces and water heaters in California are fueled by natural gas or propane. million in total.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Summary - As part of Heerema’s ambition to be carbon neutral , the potential of hydrogen for Heerema fleet and equipment is currently being investigated. About the Project The goal is to learn about hydrogen in order to scale in the future In October 2020, Heerema Marine Contractors was the first marine contractor to go carbon neutral.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Iberdrola decommissioned the last of its coal-fired power stations in 2017 and has since pledged to become carbon neutral in Europe by 2030, and globally by 2050. Last year, it announced it would invest 75 billion euros ($88 billion) in renewable energy by 2025 to meet the growing demand for clean power.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

Buildings are the second-largest source of carbon emissions in California, after transportation. According to Kenney, "PG&E welcomes the opportunity to avoid investments in new gas assets that might later prove underutilized as local governments and the state work together to realize long-term decarbonization objectives.".

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AGreenLiving

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. and globally by 2040.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Several promising carbon reduction measures are combined which are technically viable and based on matured technology, although scaling of existing technologies and cooperation with key partners is required. It originates from Heerema’s ambition to become a carbon neutral offshore contractor.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Plus Ford's major $11.8bn EV investment in the US, Germany's election fallout, the latest on India's NDC, and all the top green business news from around the world this week. Meanwhile, demand for coal, oil and natural gas fall by 80 per cent, 60 per cent and 45 per cent, respectively, by 2060 compared with last year.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Test operations at the world's first fossil fuel-free steel-making plant have begun, marking a major milestone in the race to decarbonise the carbon intensive steel industry that is thought to be responsible for around seven per cent of global emissions. Investors flock to Germany's maiden green bond sale.

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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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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

She has developed a vendor sustainability scorecard for a Fortune 100 company, consulted with a national brand to improve impact measurement and reporting, and quantified the carbon emissions of an industry association. Praneet Singh Arshi. A certified B Corp, Grove serves hundreds of thousands of households in the U.S. every month.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

The Ottawa-based startup is bringing to scale a process that generates hydrogen by capturing carbon dioxide from the air, then storing it within seawater, mimicking the ocean’s natural processes to create a carbon sink. But what really got me interested in sustainability was back in investments," Collins recalls. .

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