GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Media Authorship. Anheuser-Busch. Anheuser-Busch.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

Offshore renewables are proposed to become the third most important energy resource in the European power system, providing 18% of the dispatched energy by 2040 and 2050 – sufficient to supply up to 55 million households in 2040. Moreover, the size of this task and the speed required is huge.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Yet just as efforts toward that goal are finally scaling up — via the EU’s amplified climate targets, China’s new carbon-neutral target for 2060, and other examples — the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a massive dose of uncertainty. China takes a big step. can get to net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2021

Data centre firm REIT CyrusOne has announced that all its facilities in Europe are now running on 100 per cent renewable energy tariffs. The achievement comes a full nine years ahead of the 2030 target outlined in the Climate Neutral Data Center Pact, which was co-founded by CyrusOne earlier this year.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 5, 2020

Repsol, like a growing number of European oil companies, is looking to the power market to find low-carbon revenue. While the ultimate 2050 objective is carbon-neutrality, Repsol is using the metric of carbon intensity to gauge its progress. In late 2018 it acquired the retail gas and electricity firm Viesgo. billion ($4.2

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

New report sets out how policymakers could help accelerate the adoption of low carbon building technologies and practices. It is the first of its kind at EU scale to address the whole life carbon impact of the built environment, across multiple policy routes, WorldGBC said. The safe and sustainable future of Europe depends upon it.".

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply. The sooner that the costs of carbon control are included in the costs of doing business, the sooner new technologies will be developed.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

Norwegian wind giant says earnings ‘exceeded expectations’ in 2019 and is on track to be carbon neutral by 2025. Some 86 per cent of Ørsted's heat and power generation comes from renewables, up from 75 per cent last year, putting the firm on track to hit its goal of carbon neutrality by 2025.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2022

The five vehicles replace diesel HGVs and should result in up to 100,000 annual road miles being fuelled with renewable electricity instead of diesel, preventing 170 tonnes of carbon emissions. Amazon is one of the first companies in the world to put electric heavy goods trucks on the road," he said.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 28, 2019

government pledged £220 million ($283 million) toward getting a fusion power plant up and running by 2040, as part of moves to cut the country’s emissions to net zero by midcentury. Events in Europe reflect growing momentum in fusion research worldwide. Last month, for example, the U.K. Growing momentum worldwide.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tokyo-based cosmetics and consumer goods company joins The Climate Pledge, pledging to achieve net zero emissions by 2040. The announcement builds on previous targets from the company, which saw it commit to reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2040 and become a carbon negative company by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Most of the early-stage work on hydrogen’s grid storage potential is happening in Europe and Asia, but the U.S. Massive storage capacity is key to the promise of using hydrogen at scales that could allow power plants now burning natural gas to tap the carbon-neutral gas to fire turbines for days or weeks at a time.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 10, 2022

In other words, by 2035 all new passenger vehicles and vans in Europe would be required to be zero emission, i.e. electric or hydrogen powered. The target was argued as crucial to reaching climate neutrality by 2050. In addition, purchasing and driving zero-emission cars would become cheaper for consumers, he promised.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

A group of six of Europe's largest energy companies have today written to the EU, calling on it to fast track plans for a new climate law that would require the bloc to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. This predictability would be enhanced by setting an intermediate target in 2040 aligned with EU's climate action framework.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

But differing and overlapping terminology and meanings - including 'net zero', 'carbon neutral', 'climate positive', and 'zero carbon' - has led to confusion among investors and consumers, leaving the net zero movement "open to sleight of hand and greenwashing", the BNEF report warns. Credit: BNEF. or 2C boundaries.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

ING maintains that it is making progress in its transition towards a lower carbon portfolio and says it strongly believes that engaging with its clients is where it can make the most impact, as opposed to exiting certain clients or sectors — though it has parted ways with several coal firms over this issue. Credit: Ceescamel , CC BY-SA 4.0

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2022

Gavin Graveson, senior executive vice-president of northern Europe at Veolia, said it was critical for the UK to build an ethical and sustainable supply chain for batteries as the EV transition gathered pace. "We An anticipated 350,000 tonnes of end-of-life EV batteries are predicted to need management within the UK by 2040, Veolia said.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 29, 2020

BMW, Ford, other automakers rev up carbon commitments Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 07/29/2020 – 02:00 The world’s biggest automakers are ramping up their carbon commitments even as they struggle to build back in the wake of the pandemic. Are the automakers doing enough when it comes to carbon emissions? What do you think?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 15, 2023

There are also prospects for a significant expansion of the electricity market due to the goal of Iceland becoming carbon-neutral by 2040. A growing heating and power demand Current energy production areas do not support growth in demand for hot water based on projected population trends.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

The commitments formed the centrpiece of the automakers second annual Integrated Sustainability and Financial Report, which was released yesterday, confirming Ford's long term goals to to achieve carbon neutrality no later than 2050, backed by science-based interim emissions targets for 2035.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The target aims to set the path for climate neutrality by 2050. Green , and James Bee On 6 February 2024, the European Commission (Commission) presented its recommendations for the EU’s 2040 climate target, following a detailed impact assessment on potential emission reduction pathways. Davies , Michael D.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

So, in 2016, we set an ambition to have global climate neutral manufacturing operations by 2025. So , last year, at the launch of our first fully electric vehicle, XC40 Recharge, we stated our intention to become a climate neutral company by 2040. It has been easier in Europe but more challenging in the US and China.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2021

This project comes as part of Nissan's pioneering efforts to achieve carbon neutrality throughout the entire lifecycle of our products," said Nissan president and chief executive officer, Makoto Uchida. The project takes the total capital investment by Nissan in its Sunderland plant past £5bn.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

The adverts regularly highlight the companies’ preferred solutions to climate change — from carbon capture and storage, to experimental algae biofuels, and investment in renewable energy sources — without being open about the small percentage of overall investment allocated to these technologies, nor their various limitations.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 28, 2020

Amazon hands Mercedes-Benz its biggest electric vehicle order to date Katie Fehrenbacher Fri, 08/28/2020 – 00:00 German auto giant Mercedes-Benz announced its largest order of electric vehicles to date Friday: 1,800 electric delivery vans for retail giant Amazon to use across Europe.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Germany has set a target to become carbon neutral by 2045 with preliminary targets for cutting emissions by at least 65% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, and 88% by 2040. To reach this goal the German market for EVs would need to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 35% to 2030, according to GlobalData.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Brazil announces 'indicative' goal to deliver carbon neutrality by 2060. Brazil this week announced a new 'indicative' goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, ahead of this week's global Climate Ambition Summit. Australia drops Kyoto carbon credit demand from Paris Agreement plan.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. Even with the ambitious plans from the EU, that cheap hydrogen will most likely find its way into Europe. That $1 trillion-plus stimulus package will try to make the continent carbon-neutral. “By Carbon targets?

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Related: GM pledges carbon neutrality by 2040, expands electric fleet So far, the Chevy Bolt has been General Motors’ EV offering. The commercial is part of GM’s “Everyone In” ad campaign designed to bring electric vehicles into the mainstream and increase North American sales.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

The list of extreme, tragic, and very costly weather events this year — record heat in Europe, hail in June in Mexico , record floods in Nebraska , endless Australian bush fires , and epic destruction from storms in Mozambique and the Bahamas – was shocking. But it’s now not an annual story; it’s permanent. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Consensus is building in Europe and around the world that investment in decarbonisation initiatives will be central to a successful economic recovery from Covid-19. Green hydrogen is an entirely carbon-neutral fuel source, which is a vital component of any sustainable and economic energy supply. Changing the status quo.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

and globally by 2040. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. Company profile. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. Even with the ambitious plans from the EU, that cheap hydrogen will most likely find its way into Europe. That $1 trillion-plus stimulus package will try to make the continent carbon-neutral. “By Carbon targets?

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply. The sooner that the costs of carbon control are included in the costs of doing business, the sooner new technologies will be developed.".

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Toyota Motor Europe has announced that it intends to build a Hydrogen Factory in Europe to give it the ability to align its efforts to commercialize H2 tech and systems. Hydrogen Factory Europe will be used for the production of a growing number of H2 fuel cell systems.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply. The sooner that the costs of carbon control are included in the costs of doing business, the sooner new technologies will be developed.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

The organisation concluded that no oil and gas firms across Europe and the US are currently basing their asset valuations on realistic price assumptions for oil. It's a sign there will be an accelerated move to a lower carbon economy, which calls into question the financial rationale for continuing to invest in fossil fuels.

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