AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Google announced that it has now invested in enough high-quality carbon offsets to essentially erase its carbon footprint , compensating for all the carbon the company ever emitted. Google first became carbon-neutral in 2007. Microsoft plans to be carbon-negative by 2030. Via BBC Image via Pawe?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The geothermal heating and cooling system has been designed to entirely replace the use of natural gas by Schneider Electric Bulgaria in their smart factory. Schneider Electric Bulgaria , a subsidiary of the French energy management and automation company Schneider Electric, has invested EUR 1.8

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

Natural gas consumption will remain high with 2050 consumption marginally below 2023 levels and 58% being imported. In absolute terms, China’s emissions will reduce by 70%, following a path close to meeting its target of carbon neutrality by 2060.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

IBM said it would reach that milestone in 2030. Such commitments often are coupled with an interim goal of cutting emissions in half by, say, 2030. Is net zero the same as carbon neutral? You can become carbon neutral simply by buying offsets — for a year’s worth of driving or air travel, for example.

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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. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 30, 2020

Electric boilers fuel Diageo’s carbon-neutral whiskey distillery dream Jesse Klein Thu, 07/30/2020 – 00:30 Even whiskey is going electric. But Diageo’s new 72,000-square-foot distillery is designed to be completely carbon-neutral. “It’s not every day you get that opportunity.”

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

By 2030 BP hopes to have 10 percent of the clean hydrogen market in “core hydrogen markets” as it chases carbon neutrality by 2050. That term incorporates hydrogen produced from natural gas with carbon capture technology in place, or so-called blue hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

and other fossil fuel companies are urging the European Union to relax targets to boost climate-friendly “green” hydrogen, hoping to win greater support for projects to manufacture the fuel using natural gas. The target builds on a pre-existing goal of producing or importing 20 million tonnes of green hydrogen by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. It's targeting €1 trillion of climate action and sustainability investments between 2021 and 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

The European Union this week set ambitious 2024 and 2030 targets for green hydrogen, a big step for the emerging sector. 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. Blue vs. green.

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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. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Subsequently, Senate Bill 32 strengthened the state’s GHG emissions reductions target to at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and former Governor Jerry Brown’s Executive Order B-55-18 established a second statewide goal to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible, and no later than 2045.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2023

An industry group that’s called Canada’s federal climate targets “unachievable” and referred to opponents of oil and gas expansion as “climate alarmists” has received nearly $1.23 It counts among its affiliate members LNG Canada, a $40 billion gas export project on B.C.’s If exposed to air, it quickly vaporizes back to its gas form.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Leading boiler provider Baxi unveils plans to become carbon neutral by 2030, as high profile hydrogen heating trial chalks off key milestone. The company confirmed yesterday that it plans to phase out carbon intensive heating systems and ensure its new products all work using low-carbon energy by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Once a combined-heat-and-power project, it now relies on natural gas. Some customers are still keeping an eye on natural gas as a cheaper option to diesel though, he said. Luma has ties to several natural gas businesses. Enel X told Greentech Media it plans to consider further projects in Puerto Rico.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Take the Intermountain Power Project , the coal-fired power plant in Utah converting to turbines that will use natural gas blended with 30 percent hydrogen, a proportion that will rise to 100 percent hydrogen over the coming decades. gigawatt Okeechobee power plant, and it could be online by 2023.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The climate champions who attended were recognised for their individual efforts towards moving Canada to net-zero carbon emissions.”. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil. Last year CDPQ bought Transportadora Associada de Gás S.A. The other companies have been contacted for comment.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

"The fundamental purpose of the taxonomy is to enable capital to be channelled towards economic activities that are fully compatible with the EU's commitment to climate neutrality by 2050 and reducing emissions by 55 per cent by 2030… Put simply, there is no remaining carbon budget for new investments in natural gas.".

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

General Assembly that the country is aiming to be carbon-neutral by 2060. In December he set a 2030 wind and solar capacity goal of 1,200 gigawatts, up from around 450 GW today. It will likely include more details on the first stages of this path to net-zero carbon. The new strategy is wide-ranging.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

A Pathways’ advertisement on a Bixi docking station read “Le captage du carbone est une étape importante vers des activités d’exploitation carboneutre,” or “Carbon capture is an important step towards carbon neutral resource extraction.” Canada’s hydrogen economy depends on government subsidies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

So you would be eliminating the emissions because you’re eliminating the burning of natural gas to oil, the water to create the steam.” The process currently uses large quantities of natural gas, available in situ, which produces considerable carbon dioxide emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As an alternative to landfill, which is due to be phased out, the GAYA chain is positioned as the channel of reference for making use of non-recyclable waste to produce a storable renewable gas, which can substitute for natural gas and as such has multiple end uses, in sectors such as sustainable mobility, industry and the tertiary sector.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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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. These design features include: Doubling the annual cap decline from 2 to 4 percent from 2021 to 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

Scientists at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands have employed Vaisala carbon dioxide sensors in their research greenhouses for over a decade. The Dutch horticultural sector aims to be climate-neutral by 2040. Carbon dioxide in greenhouses. Monitoring carbon dioxide. Wageningen CO2 probe.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 23, 2024

About TotalEnergies TotalEnergies is a global multi-energy company that produces and markets energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables, and electricity. TotalEnergies will continue to expand this business to reach 35 GW in 2025 and more than 100 TWh of net electricity production by 2030.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Hydrogen, liquified natural gas and technologies geared at improving the energy efficiency of ships are among Shell's proposed solutions to decarbonise its shipping business. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is also set to play a "critical role" in making Shell's shipping operations more sustainable, according to yesterday's update.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

This project demonstrates a new kind of energy future and a model of lower-carbon energy production that can be replicated worldwide," said Huibert Vigeveno Shell's downstream director, at the project's opening ceremony. In addition, a plant for liquefied renewable natural gas, known as bio-LNG, is also in development, the company said.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. The current 50,000 or so stations are to be expanded to 10 times that by 2030. If not sooner.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The proposals include a new climate law to be drafted within 100 days and stronger carbon taxes including the creation of so-called carbon borders. These would levy carbon taxes on imports to prevent the offshoring of emissions by firms that shift activities overseas. ” Electrification.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Apple has launched a "first-of-its-kind" $200m forestry fund aimed at removing "at least" one million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, promising to scale and support projects that sequester CO2, improve biodiversity and adhere to "strict environmental and social standards".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A green hydrogen unit has been installed at an industrial factory for construction materials in Port Talbot, as part of a research project to explore how the zero carbon technology could be used to replace fossil fuels in concrete and cement production. It is estimated that cement is the source of just under 1.5

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 2, 2020

The EU recently established a target of 40 gigawatts by 2030, but as things currently stand there are no subsidies or tenders on offer to grease the wheels of deployment. Cost aside, hydrogen holds several powerful attractions for utilities and oil and gas firms alike. Questions about the utility hydrogen model.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Regenerative Agriculture Often accompanied with: carbon storage, no till, crop rotation With host country the UAE spearheading a new “Regenerative Landscapes” project in close partnership with the likes of Pepsico, Nestlé and fertilizer giant Yara, the term “ regenerative agriculture ” is likely to be a hot topic at COP28.

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