Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Package delivery giant and airline operator FedEx has announced it plans to achieve 'carbon neutrality' across its operations within the next 20 years through investments in electrification, sustainable fuels, energy efficiency, and carbon capture systems. FedEx CEO and chairman Frederick W.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

With a power grid that has been notoriously unreliable in the past, India’s goal to transform formerly passive consumers into prosumers would seem an uphill battle. The stakes are particularly high because India is the world’s third largest energy consumer.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Online pension provider Smart Pension has announced its plan to transition its default fund to a 'net zero' position by 2040, by ramping up its investments in firms working to boost energy efficiency, accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels, and deliver a more circular economy.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation launched the Oregon Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our newest state-specific, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. By Shelley Wenzel.

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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.

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AutoGrid

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The European Imperative Against a backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty, the imperative for both private and public organizations in Europe is clear: establish a reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy supply chain. DER Initiatives Across Europe Across Europe, individual countries are strategically advancing their energy objectives.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

Iceland's start-up community is looking to go global with its efforts to bolster the clean energy transition. The island nation has adopted an incredible goal of being fossil fuel-free by 2040 , which would be a global first. Icewind: Energy for extreme conditions. Greetings from Iceland!

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Over the past 20 years, renewable energy usage has exploded around the world. Mr. Rockall highlighted a major global problem in which the fossil fuel solution is clearly better than the status quo. I learnt that most of the developing world uses wood as a primary source of energy, especially for cooking.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Prospects for carbon capture received a boost in September when the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the emerging technology is “ critical ” to a clean-energy transition. CCUS could go a step further by using sequestered carbon as a feedstock for industrial processes or synthetic fuels.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.   Demand is on the rise.

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Cleantech East

MAY 12, 2020

The Broads Authority currently has a decarbonisation plan in place to reduce the emissions of the region to carbon neutral status by 2030, and net carbon zero by 2040. Electrification is the process of reducing carbon-based energy sources across a region through the increased use of electricity over fossil fuels.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Taxonomy utilises a “transition” category, acknowledging the unique challenges and needs of Asia’s shift towards a net zero economy amidst economic growth and increasing energy demands. Early Phase-Out of Coal-Fired Power Plants (CFPP) The Taxonomy also provides a hybrid framework to phase out CFPPs at both a facility and entity level.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

million people die as a result of air pollution every year, but governments are still spending more supporting fossil fuel projects than they are tackling dirty air. OECD countries must phase out existing coal by 2030, with all others following suit by 2040. There must be no new coal plants built after 2021," he said.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The Budget on Wednesday will be the first real test of this government's commitment on climate and it needs to drive momentum in the decarbonisation of electricity, heat and transport or it will set us up for a failure on the world stage. This Budget is a real opportunity to show leadership on carbon pricing.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

Managed by a team across its real assets platform, the fund aims to deliver a net annual return of approximately eight per cent over a rolling five-year period, while also targeting net zero by 2040 or sooner. This will include installation of ground source heat pumps and solar and thermal energy supplies.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

Shell and BP are writing down assets while a raft of US fracking firms are entering bankruptcy protection – change is coming to the fossil fuel industry faster than anyone expected. The stranded asset hypothesis just got real. However, the contention that the new price projections are more realistic is contestable.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

So what is the energy sector doing to address this? Despite further investment in renewable energy, fossil fuel usage is still increasing, and it’s expected that fossil fuels will remain the dominant form of energy by the end of this century.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Critics, meanwhile, have been quick to point out that the plan is thin on details around how the government intends to scale up energy efficiency improvements, boost green skills, decarbonise heavy industry, and encourage people to embrace lower carbon diets. The power sector. Guiding Principles.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Remember how the nation mobilized seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So Electrified technologies are already well understood and many are widely available to consumers, such as electric stovetops and heat pumps, Griffith noted.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

The study drew on data from 123 countries that together account for 99 per cent of fossil fuel emissions. In contrast, with an economic recovery tilted towards green stimulus and reductions in fossil fuel investments, it is possible to avoid future warming of 0.3C warming target at the heart of the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

This new Office should take ownership of delivering the net zero agenda with oversight from both the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working closely with devolved governments, the National Audit Office, and the Climate Change Committee (CCC), among other agencies.

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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. Here, we've picked out 10 key takeaways for business leaders from the Glasgow Climate Pact and COP26 Summit: 1. Polluters have been put on notice.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“The math doesn’t yet add up,” the report finds, citing “significant gaps” between the decarbonization targets of major utilities and their current plans for retiring fossil-fuel plants. utilities such as Duke Energy , Dominion Energy , Southern Company and Xcel Energy.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040. and globally by 2040.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to a $1.3 To realise the full benefit of the nation’s goal of 100% clean electricity by 2035, we need to more than double our grid capacity,” said US secretary of energy Jennifer M. Construction is expected to start in Q1 of calendar year 2025.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). For instance, in 2007 Australia introduced the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme (NGERS) to set mandatory emission reporting. F) above pre-industrial levels by 2040.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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Bidgely

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This year’s experts explored what it means for a utility to be future-ready as we establish ambitious decarbonization goals and prepare for never-before-seen loads from electric vehicles and the complexity of distributed energy resources. That understanding is what led the electric company to develop its smart grid test bed. “

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Mathur While cleaning up plastic pollution in the oceans will take multiple strategies, including reducing plastic usage and preventing the garbage from reaching the ocean, The Ocean Cleanup’s project is driven by the urgent need to reduce the size of the massive garbage patches that are actively harming sea life.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2021

A technical, environmental and economical evaluation from a shipowner’s perspective by Gilles Hagen Summary - This thesis performs a technical, economical and environmental feasibility study of dense hydrogen carriers as a fuel to power the largest semi-submersible offshore crane vessel in the world – Heerema’s Sleipnir.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This post is the second in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100 percent clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. It was written by Michelle Solomon, Senior Policy Analyst in the Electricity Program.

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

The dramatic decline in demand for oil products as lockdown measures kicked in around the world has brutally exposed the dangers of making fossil fuels the global economy's most influential commodity. Some supply chains have been stretched to breaking point , having been severely hit in some quarters by labour and ingredient shortages.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

Despite the (slow) migration to electric-powered cars, consumer trends are making driving even more wasteful and unequal. A recent analysis found the emissions saved from electric cars have been more than cancelled out by the increase in gas-guzzling Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs). Reducing car use in cities.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

Are fats and oils the key to the aviation fuels of the future? Envirotec writes Many are betting on sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) as the pathway to meeting ambitious net zero targets in the sector, with 2040 and 2050 being oft-cited deadlines. One issue is that hydrocarbon molecules (i.e.,

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

Companies planning to build new coal-fired power plants will no longer be able to get financing from BNP Paribas, following the banking giant's introduction of a string of new policies aimed at eliminating its exposure to coal-fired electricity projects.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

Remember how the nation mobilised seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? Sixty-nine million US homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So Plus, renewable energy is more efficient than natural gas and coal-fired energy, which lose a lot of heat.

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