GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

The path to a fully decarbonized energy system in Europe could depend on technologies that are out of bounds in today’s market, a consultancy forecast suggests. Afry modeled two possible avenues to decarbonize Europe's power, heat and transport sectors. The trouble is that the prospects for new nuclear in Europe are not good.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

But the vast majority of today’s industrial hydrogen production is ‘grey,’ made from natural gas via steam methane reforming — a process that emits carbon dioxide, but at a low cost that electrolysis will struggle to beat over the coming decades. On Tuesday the Santa Barbara, Calif.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

UN University foresees 24% wastewater increase by 2030; 51% by 2050. Furthermore, the paper says, wastewater volumes are increasing quickly, with a projected rise of roughly 24% by 2030, 51% by 2050. Given the foreseen wastewater increases, that number rises to 196 million households in 2030, and 239 million households in 2050.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy study warns the 'climate footprint of Europe's big meat and dairy companies rival the fossil fuel giants'. The climate footprint of Europe's big meat and dairy companies rival the fossil fuel giants yet they continue to operate with impunity," she said.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Deployed at scale, hydrogen from all sources could account for almost 20 percent of energy consumed by 2050, projects the Hydrogen Council. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. . And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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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. For farms that already produce their own biomethane a methane liquefaction unity can be simply ‘bolted’ on.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

US oil and gas major offers 'respect and support' for global ambition to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, but campaigners remain less than convinced. But the firm argued intensity targets were "the truest reflection of how manufacturing companies like ExxonMobil are reducing the GHGs associated with each unit they produce".

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Green hydrogen could replace methane to generate heat or power. He has been tracking the contribution of gas, including hydrogen, for the operator's 2050 Future Energy Scenarios. When the country was working with an 80 percent emissions reduction by 2050, hydrogen had a smaller role in those forecasts. This is how it began.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 1, 2024

The future grid Few would claim to know what the 2050 grid will look like but there are many scenarios from organisations such as the IEA and IRENA and regional bodies such as the EU with its newly released grid action plan as to how to get there.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Plus 40 nations prep methane plans for COP27, Germany touts cheap transport tickets, and Saudi Arabia launches electric vehicle brand. COP27: 40 countries planning to unveil methane reduction plans. off global warming by 2050, as methane's warming potential is 84 times greater than carbon dioxide over 20-year timescale.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Meeting energy demand and net-zero goals by 2050 necessitates a further global buildout of renewables infrastructure, which can increase energy availability without increasing emissions. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has shaken global energy markets as Europe pivoted away from Russian fossil fuel exports.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

European policymakers have determined that hydrogen will be an essential tool to decarbonize industry and transport as Europe aims for a net-zero economy by 2050. Europe's gas sector strikes upbeat tone. Read GTM's green hydrogen explainer here.).

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It sets out to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050 with a catch: They don’t really mean all of their emissions. But the only commitment they’re making is to eliminate methane [emissions] and stop flaring,” said Ioualalen. Oil and gas companies are committing to net-zero.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Experts dispute this climate-friendly branding, however, given the problem of methane leakages through the production and transportation process, and doubts about the efficacy of CCS. When taking into account methane its climate footprint is “more than 20 percent greater than burning natural gas or coal for heat”, they found.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

With widespread commitments made to reducing CO 2 emissions, attention is turning to other greenhouse gases, specifically methane and nitrous oxide as the next largest contributors. Now more than ever, time is of the essence in delivering net zero solutions with the 2030 climate targets in sight and those for 2050 not far behind.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Civil society and courts in Europe are pushing back. JBS, the world’s largest meat company — whose methane emissions exceed the combined livestock methane emissions of France, Germany, Canada and New Zealand — has also claimed to be on a net zero pathway based on offsets. The airline has pulled certain ads from the market.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The gas can be produced either through the electrolysis of water using renewable power to create green hydrogen or through its extraction from methane, a process that produces carbon dioxide as a by product that can then be captured and stored resulting in so-called blue hydrogen.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

According to a poll of 6,000 customers in North America, Europe, and Asia, 72% of respondents are already actively purchasing more environmentally friendly goods. The entire amount of greenhouse gasses (such as carbon dioxide and methane) produced by human actions is known as a carbon footprint.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The chief of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), the joint sustainability initiative backed by the world's biggest miners, is confident Europe's drive to shore up mineral security and deliver on climate goals could result in a cleaner and greener future for the global mining industry. "I

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“The EU bank has been Europe’s climate bank for many years. ” Browne said there is no data on the volumes of methane and carbon dioxide emitted in the process of creating and delivering LNG to end users. Today it has decided to make a quantum leap in its ambition,” said EIB President Werner Hoyer.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Manure is also rich in nitrogen, it points out, but intensive farming models which separate livestock from crops - for example, the reliance on soy from South America as feed for cattle in Europe - make it impractical to use natural manure as a primary source of nitrogen, leading to greater reliance on synthetic products.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

As we've seen from the range of hydrogen-related announcements across Europe in the last two weeks, it's clear that the international race to develop hydrogen economies has now well and truly begun. Chris Train of the Gas Goes Green campaign argues the time is right to scale up the UK's green hydrogen industry. But what about here in the UK?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

But, as with energy utilities, it found many of these goals tended to focus only on operational Scope 1 and 2 emissions, while missing out CO2 from products sold, with firms primarily focusing on reducing methane flaring and investing in renewables.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

But if we want to permanently reduce the UK's exposure to volatile gas markets, a lynchpin of any future vision must be to accelerate our transition to electrified heating, deploying the ultra-efficient heat pump technology that our neighbours in chilly Scandinavia, and other parts of Europe, have been using for years.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In recent months, the world’s three top producers — Europe’s ArcelorMittal, China’s Baowu Steel, and Japan’s Nippon Steel — committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, echoing targets set in their home countries. Companies are piloting systems across Europe that use hydrogen in furnaces in lieu of coal.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

But it nevertheless delivers a very straightforward conclusion: achieving net zero emissions right across the planet as soon as possible and ideally before 2050 is the only pathway forward for humanity if the worst climate impacts are to be avoided. Climate impacts are happening now, worsening and in some cases irreversible.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Industry voice: Emissions from transport are growing, but innovative companies can help Europe meet its climate targets, according to Schroders. However, the EU is targeting a 55 per cent reduction by 2030 (compared to 1990) with the aim of reaching net zero by 2050. Greenhouse gas emissions in the EU fell by 3.8

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Chris O'Connor, head of hydrogen at Equans UK & Ireland explains Making the case for decarbonisation National targets for achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 mean that local authorities are under pressure to decarbonise their own operations and introduce carbon-reduction initiatives across their regions. methane - CH4).

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Since the start of the invasion on 24 February, gas prices in Europe have averaged €120 per megawatt hour, which is over six times the value over the same time period in 2021, while prices in Japan and South Korea have also surged almost five-fold over that timeframe, according to the study.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Rearing livestock is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, in part because it contributes to deforestation as land is cleared either to rear animals or to grow crops to provide animal feed and in part through methane emissions from cattle. And that's where the seaweed comes in. Vertical Farming.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Deployed at scale, hydrogen from all sources could account for almost 20 per cent of energy consumed by 2050, projects the Hydrogen Council. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

The company said proceeds from the transition bond would be used to reduce methane leakage and fund replacement pipelines to facilitate the future use of hydrogen and other low-carbon gases. Launched on Wednesday, the €500m issuance was 8.5

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

The two new stations - one in Warrington, which it claims is the largest in Europe, and another in Northampton - are together capable of refuelling over 1,000 trucks a day, more than doubling the firm's existing renewable biomethane refuelling capacity in the UK. We're at a tipping point," he said.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

Excerpt from Shell CEO Ben van Beurden's speech today setting out oil giant's plan to be a net zero business by 2050. The European Union, for example, should achieve net-zero emissions by no later than 2050 if the world is to succeed in restricting warming to 1.5° In fact, today is a very unconventional Responsible Investor Day.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The companies analyzed were selected to represent a range of scale and location across Europe. Shell’s strategy to reach net zero by 2050, which the company announced this February, includes only modest reductions to the company’s oil business, as well as plans to expand its gas business by over 20 percent in the coming years.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

The mine was expected to produce enough lithium to power over one million electric vehicles, making it one of Europe's biggest lithium mines by output, in addition to a host of other materials for various applications.

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