Business Green

MARCH 28, 2021

Fossil fuel firms are increasingly eyeing up plans for blue hydrogen production, but think tank E3G fears the nascent sector risks locking in a new generation of high carbon infrastructure and jobs.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The world’s hugely encouraging clean energy-momentum is running up against the stubborn incumbency of fossil fuels in our energy systems,” said Fatih Birol, the IEA Executive Director. The social and economic benefits of accelerating clean energy transitions are huge, and the costs of inaction are immense.”.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

On Monday, the giant burger corporation announced that by 2025, Happy Meals will contain more sustainable toys. Related: Disney World McDonald’s to be first net-zero fast food restaurant McDonald’s produces more than one billion toys every year, most of which include virgin plastic made with fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While the fuel is barely on the radar in the United States, around the world a green hydrogen rush is underway, and many companies, investors, governments and environmentalists believe it is an energy source that could help end the reign of fossil fuels and slow the world’s warming trajectory. "It In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

as a global climate solution, with some industry boosters even going so far as to call Canada’s supply of the fossil fuel the “cleanest in the world.” C is to stop building new fossil fuel projects. Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. government last year.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

“The Liberals announced key additional policies to help them achieve an increased climate target and build a sustainable economy, such as a 2035 clean electricity standard, a requirement for 50% of new cars to be zero-emission by 2030 (en route to 100% by 2035), capping oil and gas emissions, and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Consisting of one nitrogen and three hydrogen atoms, the ammonia molecule (NH3) has the potential to support the hydrogen fuel economy in all three domains. Today, most hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels through steam methane reforming, generating 830 Mt of annual CO2 emissions. Making hydrogen competitive.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But the newly adopted measures, which were announced last week, leave the London-based multinational with plenty of flexibility to continue financing fossil fuel extraction — and some critics say they don’t go far enough. Publicly, Barclays has signaled an intent to pivot away from fossil fuels and help power the rise of green energy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Under the current plan, ships travelling within the EU will be required to pay for 100 per cent of their carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen dioxide emissions for journeys within the bloc, and 50 per cent of emissions of journeys to or from a non-EU destination.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

A year after successfully producing biomethane from forest biomass, the GAYA platform has seemingly achieved a world first with the production of its first cubic metres of renewable gas from Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF).

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Capping oil and gas sector emissions at current levels and introducing five-year targets starting in 2025 to reduce emissions in line with a net-zero 2050. Requiring oil and gas companies to reduce methane emissions by at least 75% below 2012 levels by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

G20 leaders may have resisted calls this weekend for a firm target date for ending the use of coal power, but pressure on coal operators is still set to intensify with the launch today of a major new global campaign that is aiming to ensure a quarter of the world's remaining coal power plants are closed by 2025.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Boiler manufacturers stake claim for future green heating market by calling for a phase-out of new fossil gas boilers from 2025. Currently the vast majority of hydrogen is produced using fossil fuel gas through processes that lead to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

The OGCI said the range was "consistent with the reduction needed across the oil and gas industry by 2025 to support the Paris Agreement goals" and would result in a reduction of between 36 and 52 million tonnes of CO2e per year by 2025, assuming constant levels of marketed oil and gas production.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

While there is some question about how dirty blue hydrogen is and will be — due to its reliance on gas, a fossil fuel, and carbon capture technology to reduce emissions from its production — no one is arguing that it will ever be cleaner than green hydrogen. kgH2 by 2025. kgH2 by 2025. A Fossil Fuel Narrative.

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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. Southern Company has joined other major U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Capping oil and gas sector emissions at current levels and introducing five-year targets starting in 2025 to reduce emissions in line with a net-zero 2050. Requiring oil and gas companies to reduce methane emissions by at least 75% below 2012 levels by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

But electric-powered heat pumps that shift hot and cold air to adjust indoor temperatures are more efficient at both heating and cooling than fossil fuel-fired furnaces or boilers, advocates say. and Berkeley neighbor Oakland, Calif. The role of renewable, synthetic gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The pad is owned by a fossil fuel operator that’s come under fire in recent years for purchasing tens of thousands of low-producing oil and gas wells without a clear business motive and for making unrealistic budget projections that minimize the true cost of plugging , critics say.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Draft text published this morning requests countries update their NDCs next year and retains calls to tackle fossil fuels, but negotiations over climate finance and other areas still unresolved. It also retains references to tackling emissions from fossil fuels, albeit with caveats. of warming.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 11, 2022

The first scenario analyzed zero-emissions appliance sales beginning in 2030, and the other beginning in 2025. Switching to all-electric appliances by 2025 would result in $1.7 The company’s decarbonization strategy makes one thing crystal clear: NW Natural’s business model, now and for the foreseeable future, is to sell methane gas.

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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 Thereafter, as previous IPCC reports have indicated, global emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030, in addition to a reduction in methane emissions of around a third, from 2019 levels.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . Still, the process of making hydrogen fuel from any source has a way to go before it has firm footing, even in a state committed to decarbonization. .

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But insiders remain optimistic ambitious agreement can still be reached, as updated Climate Action Tracker analysis projects slight global CO2 reduction from recent global methane, coal, transport and forest pledges. warming pathway by nine per cent. world may now be closer to a 2.3 gigatonnes global warming pathway.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

At the same time, Brussels signaled that it will also encourage the development of "blue" hydrogen produced from fossil fuels paired with carbon capture, at least for the time being. The European Union this week set ambitious 2024 and 2030 targets for green hydrogen, a big step for the emerging sector.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Chinese policymakers expect the market to grow to 5,000 vehicles by the end of next year, and 50,000 by 2025. Both South Korea and Japan are also looking at aggressive fuel-cell vehicle adoption curves. South Korea wants 80,000 fuel-cell vehicles sold by 2025, up from 900 last year, while Japan wants to go from 2,926 to 200,000.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

The main focus – How do we get ‘GREEN HYDROGEN’ to compete with energy sources in the sectors like electricity generation, industrial feedstock, export, and the fuel used in the transportation sector. Australia has the potential to become a major player in the Hydrogen market that is estimated to reach $201 billion by 2025. kg by 2025.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Countries have also agreed to submit their post-2030 climate targets on a five yearly cycle, with 2035 plans due in 2025. on the table," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

as the key target for the Paris Agreement and reiterates last year's promise to deliver a "phasing down" of unabated coal power and a "phasing out" of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. And the suggested text invites parties to "consider further actions to reduce by 2030 non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions, including methane".

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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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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

They are studying four concept aircraft and will select one by 2025. Hydrogen aircraft are part of a new economy of hydrogen aiming at replacing fossil fuels where electricity is not a possible alternative. Replace today’s grey hydrogen (produced from fossil fuels) used for industrial processes (e.g.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The report notes that, under existing government policies global fossil fuel fuse is set to peak this decade, as coal use falls back in the coming years, natural gas demand reaches a plateau by the end of this decade, and oil demand levels off in the mid-2030 as the transition to EVs gather space.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Facility will be built in stages and start producing 'green' hydrogen by 2025, under plans unveiled today. The energy giant said the green hydrogen plant would be built in multiple phases and was aiming to deliver 60MWe of production capacity by 2025, subject to a final investment decision on the project which is set to be taken in 2023.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

Finding alternative fuel sources is essential (and tricky) for a few reasons:   Existing infrastructure has been developed to store, transport, and utilize hydrocarbons extracted from the Earth. Price sensitivity is high for fuels in tight-margin industries such as shipping and travel. Engines are optimized for fossil fuels.

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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

JULY 3, 2020

To kick start a zero-carbon heating transformation, the charities are calling for a £100m Clean Heat Grant programme for heat pumps, which was announced in the last Budget, to be brought forward to this year to enable a 'Cash for Clunkers' heat scheme that would provide grants to those who exchange old fossil fuel-fired boilers for heat pumps.

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