Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Project aims to develop Europe's largest joint hydrogen production and carbon capture project by 2026, according to partners. Equinor vice president and country manager Al Cook said the joint decarbonisation strategy could establish the Humber as the UK the "environmental standard bearer that the world can learn from".

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

And while it's not a central concern today for those companies (Enel, EDP, BayWa and others) or industry groups (SolarPower Europe and WindEurope), all see green hydrogen playing a vital role in achieving deep decarbonization of the energy system. Interest in green hydrogen is skyrocketing among major oil and gas firms.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Alliance of leading truckmakers pledge to switch to zero emission models by 2040. A group of Europe's largest truckmakers have this week pledged to stop selling vehicles that produce emissions by 2040, a decade earlier than originally planned. It also called for a higher tax on carbon across Europe to help drive the change. "If

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But it is looking to step up its participation considerably as a way of replacing fossil fuel exports with an alternative created with the country's plentiful renewable energy resources. The country leads the way in hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle development thanks to the efforts of auto makers such as Toyota and Honda.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

These new vehicles are quickly bumping up against familiar challenges of battery range, production capacity and charging, or fueling, infrastructure. First, and perhaps most crucially, it plans to price its vehicles at the same or lower prices as comparable fossil-fuel vehicles.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding the role of hydrogen Hydrogen is attracting much attention for its decarbonisation potential because it is a clean alternative to natural gas and petroleum. As a forward-thinking authority, LCRCA has set a net zero target of 2040, ten years ahead of the national target.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

and globally by 2040. Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. Company profile.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

And further inland, what was once the UK 's biggest coal-fired power plant, Drax Power Station, is now largely fuelled by sustainable biomass, following its conversion from using coal to generate electricity, making it Europe's largest decarbonisation project. So if we can decarbonise the Humber that is the biggest prize going in the UK.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The government's Committee for the Ecological Transition (CITE) announced a ban on the sale of new passenger cars with combustion engines would come into effect from 2035, while a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel light commercial vehicles would apply from 2040. There's nothing in our agreement that limits us to Europe.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 4, 2021

These new vehicles are quickly bumping up against familiar challenges of battery range, production capacity and charging, or fueling, infrastructure. First, and perhaps most crucially, it plans to price its vehicles at the same or lower prices as comparable fossil-fuel vehicles.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell - Gas to liquids (GTL) | Shell Natural Gas. Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe. This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Recent weeks have seen a new 2030 emissions target, the National Infrastructure Strategy, the Treasury's Spending Review, the confirmation of an end to overseas financing of fossil fuel infrastructure, and, of course, Boris Johnson's Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution. There are currently around 1.7

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? We however are not interested in replacing all fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

I have been calling the carbon capture CO2 pipeline buildout plan a “publicly-funded sewer system for the fossil fuel industry” for some time. Here are the Princeton maps of what needs to be done, downplaying it as smaller than natural gas infrastructure: A Trans-Alaska Pipeline from New Jersey to Georgia?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

and globally by 2040. Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. said in December.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Even without looking beyond its borders, the UK must build a tremendous amount of new clean electricity to meet growing demand, replace aging gas boilers, and abate rising costs. This will result in the UK seeing the second largest reduction in consumer gas demand in Europe and the third largest drop in consumer oil demand.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2022

Fossil fuel tycoon pledges $76bn for green infrastructure in India. Fossil fuel magnate Mukesh Ambani has pledged to spend $76bn on green projects in the Indian state of Gujarat through his company Reliance Industries. Germany targets 100 per cent renewable power by 2035. per cent respectively.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

EURACTIV reported that it has seen a leaked draft version of the plan, which had been due to be released this week but has been hastily revised in response to Russia's invasion, the resulting threat to the bloc's energy security, and the growing calls for sanctions on the Kremlin to be extended to cover Russia's fossil fuel exports.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. The worst year for oil ever Oil fueled the 20th century. Many of us now believe it is not a matter of if, but when we will transition away from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And as a trove of industry documents reveals, Exxon is far from the only fossil fuel company selling carbon capture as its golden ticket to continue pumping its products, despite internal concerns about the technology’s feasibility. A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

German's RWE completed its high profile asset swap deal with E.ON, finalising one of the largest deals in German industrial history, as both companies seek to strengthen their position in Europe's accelerating clean energy transition. By 2040, we will be carbon neutral. The new RWE has been completed," he said. "It

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That’s greater than its previous commitment to reduce net carbon emissions from its power sector by 80 percent by 2050 and methane emissions from its natural-gas operations by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2040. “I have heard it said that an offshore wind hub of the type that exists in Europe could not be built in the U.S.,”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Like many other banks, HSBC has pledged to step away from its funding of fossil-fuels interests and other high-carbon industrial activities with a pledge to achieving net-zero financed emissions across its customer portfolio by 2050. (It It aims to reach net-zero for its own operations and supply chain by 2030.)

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

BLOOMBERG: Well, already we've closed 304 out of the 530 coal-fired power plants in the United States, and we've closed 80 out of the 200 or 300 that are in Europe, Bloomberg Philanthropies, working with the Sierra Club, that's one of the things you do.But let's just start at the beginning. But it is a transitional fuel.

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