DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse. These statistics raise huge concerns but are hardly surprising,” said Vicky Cann from transparency watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

MEPs have called on the European Commission deliver a "massive" €2tr coronavirus recovery fund next week that prioritises the proposed Green Deal agenda to transform Europe into the world's first net zero continent by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

Green hydrogen may get all the headlines, but the prospect of it fueling Europe's future hydrogen economy on its own looks increasingly questionable. Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology scooping up the resulting CO2. Meanwhile, the U.K. They know that they need it.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This is a vital component in enabling a smarter, low carbon electricity network and in supporting the delivery of the government’s Climate Action Plan.” It is set to enable delivery of the Energy Demand Strategy aimed to decarbonise energy demand, which is currently under development by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 28, 2024

The focus for the Horizon Europe climate, energy and mobility ‘cluster’ for its forthcoming three years is on the green and digital transitions and EU resilience. The 2025-2027 strategic plan for Horizon Europe-supported research and innovation (R&I) in the energy sector identifies four specific areas: 1.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

On Wednesday the European Commission presented a sweeping 50-point plan centered around achieving net zero status in Europe by 2050. 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. ” Electrification.

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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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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 Global CCS Institute, a carbon capture think tank based in London, called the EU's strategy ambitious, but warned against picking winners.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Moreover, designing a successful R&I pathway is also key for a competitive clean energy industry and defining clear national 2030 and 2050 targets are crucial elements to this. However, the sector will need to overcome challenges such as higher global demand for components and the risk of supply chain disruptions. Register now

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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. can get to net-zero emissions by 2050. China takes a big step.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

Trade body European Aluminium formally launched the new strategy yesterday in Brussels, unveiling plans to ensure all end-of-life aluminium products are collected and recycled efficiently across Europe by the end of the decade.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Green gas specialist CNG Fuels has opened two further refuelling stations for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in the UK this week, in anticipation of surging demand for renewable biomethane over the next year and beyond. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Many of Europe's biggest companies now appear to be recognising both the necessity of the low carbon transition and the opportunities that should arise from deep decarbonisation, as they mobilised capital investment to the tune of €124bn behind clean technologies and R&D initiatives last year.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

A report published yesterday by climate think tank Ember notes that between January and June renewables generated 40 per cent of Europe's electricity, for the first time ever eclipsing the electricity share generated by gas and coal. Across the six month period, wind and solar contributed to 22 per cent of Europe's electricity generation.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

Part of the world’s largest series of energy sector events spread across North America, Europe, Australia, Africa & South East Asia, this even brings together over 200 exhibitors and 8000 qualified professionals from the entire value chain of the global power generation, transmission and distribution under one roof.

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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. “The EU bank has been Europe’s climate bank for many years. The benchmark looks like it will be set higher. New era for gas.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Have you read: Green tech supplier invests €600m amid German heat pump boom Iberdrola tech fund injects first capital in carbon neutral buildings developer. Also of interest: SEI Finance & Investment Poland’s low-carbon ambitions offer clear investment and business opportunities. Photo: Matthias Wilhelm / 50Hertz.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Rapidly falling clean technology costs alongside mounting investor pressure, consumer demand for change, and tightening government policy is pushing more companies to ramp up their climate targets towards net zero and beyond. Credit: BNEF.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

They have legislated a carbon neutrality goal for 2050, adopted a long-term strategy and advanced the phase-out of coal by 2025 among other key indicators. According to the report, the country’s efficiency efforts have not been able to decouple energy demand from economic growth, notably in transport and industry.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But while solar and wind have an obvious role to play in helping miners control their carbon emissions, the mining industry faces steep decarbonization challenges, analysts say. Rio Tinto, for example, says that 71 percent of its energy now comes from renewables, yet it has only set a goal of “substantial decarbonization” by 2050.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

The UK is committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and this year's edition of National Grid ESO's 'Future Energy Scenarios' shows that a 2035 clean power sector driven by a massive expansion of renewables is now the benchmark for the UK if it is to reach this goal. Zero carbon power by 2035. Credit: Ember.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. Deployed at scale, hydrogen from all sources could account for almost 20 percent of energy consumed by 2050, projects the Hydrogen Council.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Labour and skills shortages in Europe’s energy sector have been identified by the DSO Entity in a yearlong campaign. Other areas of expertise needed include cybersecurity, data analysis and architectures and administration, for example to manage the growing grid connection requests.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

She has transformed the global environmental movement, galvanised public support, and demanded responses from Presidents and Prime Ministers. It is vital Thunberg remains part of the outside game, calling constantly for more ambition, more urgency, right up to the point when the last tonne of carbon has made its way into the atmosphere.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The campaigning organisations claim that BNP Paribas - Europe's biggest bank and a major global investor in fossil fuels - has failed to comply with France's duty of vigilance law, which demands large companies take appropriate measures to protect human rights and the environment across their value chains.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The commission says including nuclear and gas as transitional energy sources does not amount to a free pass and aims to accelerate efforts to reduce carbon emissions. . “We They also should replace existing coal facilities that cannot be substituted with renewables and switch to renewable or low-carbon gases by 2035.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Japanese carmaker aiming for 75 per cent EV sales in Europe by 2030 as it invests in global supply chain for battery technology. The new strategy is designed to support Nissan's target to become 'carbon neutral' across the life cycle of its products by 2050, it said.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report from the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) argues that contrary to popular opinion the CCUS sector already comprises a "vast portfolio of existing technologies that are economically viable".

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

A sweeping €1.85tr stimulus strategy to rebuild Europe's economy from the wreckage of the coronavirus crisis has been unveiled by the European Commission today, promising a green infrastructure spending blitz to help put the continent on a path towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This is Europe's moment," she said.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 2, 2023

The ASCEND (Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and Data sovereignty) project is preparing a feasibility study on the concept, with its potential to help meet Europe’s Green Deal goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. The appliances also offer the opportunity for enrolment in demand response programmes.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The government recently concluded a consultation on how the aviation sector could reach net zero emissions but did not recommend any policies to cut demand. carbon budget if left unchecked. We know airport expansion, particularly in Europe and the UK is totally incompatible with any kind of serious climate ambition.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

This science-based threshold — considered necessary to achieve emissions targets by 2050 — excluded all fossil fuels from being in the taxonomy. Initially, 10 member states, mostly in Eastern and Southern Europe, opposed the TEG’s criteria. But this didn’t suit everyone. An Unholy Alliance’.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

This low-carbon image is out of step with the reality of fleet production figures – both current and projected – which reveal a business model out of step wedded to sales of fossil-fuel powered vehicles. and 30 percent of overall vehicle sales in Europe, where the adverts analysed were targeted.

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Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

Fully-electric vehicles (EVs) are set to dominate the growing plug-in market, with the report projecting they will comprise three-quarters of the plug-in segment by 2025 and up to 39 per cent of all vehicle sales in the leading markets of China and Europe by the same year.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

European TSOs set out support for carbon neutrality by 2050 Europe’s DSOs and TSOs agree to cooperate. Flagship 2 aims to develop an ecosystem for deep electrification of final demand. Have you read?

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

French company becomes latest oil major to bolster its emissions reductions strategy, with promise to hit net zero across its operations worldwide by 2050. And only by remaining a world-class investment can we most effectively play our part in advancing a low carbon future.

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