Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

A report published on 26 August by an independent group of experts warns that reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is now “too little too late”, and will not achieve the long-term temperature goals identified in the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C C by the end of the century.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

billion acres of forest to the world could limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050. suggests that adding 2.5 But some researchers aren't so sure.

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Solar Power World

MARCH 26, 2020

Here are five utilities that have committed to net-zero electricity by 2050 or sooner, in accordance with the IPCC’s report that limiting global warming to 1.5°C C will require reaching net zero emissions around 2050. The post 5 utilities with 100% clean energy goals by 2050 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 31, 2022

In a bid to meet its target of zero emissions by 2050, Australia has come up with decarbonizing actions ranging from adopting electric vehicles to developing ethanol facilities to support the chemical industry, encouraging renewable refineries for the growth of biofuels.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2021

British American Tobacco (BAT) has committed to delivering net zero emissions by 2050 across its value chain and will bring its existing sustainability targets in line with limiting global warming to 1.5C after signing up to the UN's Race to Zero, the company announced late last week.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

All 154 commitments included targets to cut emissions by 2030, and 76 included long-term targets stretching out to 2050 and beyond. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Study: Global warming will stay below 2 degrees C — if countries actually keep their promises on Apr 14, 2022.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Emma Howard Boyd's speech to the Committee on Climate Change's Adapting to 3C+ of global warming conference. Without adaptation, climate change could depress growth in global agriculture yields up to 30 percent by 2050, disproportionately affecting small farms around the world. degrees above pre-industrial levels.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

The document highlights the extremely high global warming potential of largely unrecorded methane leakages along the whole natural gas supply chain. However, its 20-year global warming potential is over 80 times that of carbon dioxide, which means that it is far more destructive. “So The climate does not make compromises.”

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Renew Economy

JUNE 6, 2022

New research suggests aiming for net zero emissions by 2050 would likely see the world blow past 2 degrees of global warming. C warming by 2025 without big emissions cuts appeared first on RenewEconomy. The post “Limited time:” World will lock in 1.5°C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Workplace pension provider becomes latest to join the Make My Money Matter campaign which is pushing pensions industry to set 2050 net zero goals. Growing numbers of pension providers have begun pledging net zero targets over the past year, including Nest, Aviva and Aegon. and avoids paying corporate lip service.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

SSE has become the latest UK energy supplier to set a net zero emission target, pledging to fully decarbonise its business operations by 2050 "at the latest". That's why SSE is today, committing to achieve 'net zero' carbon emissions from all of our business operations by 2050 at the latest.".

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 21, 2020

will increase by 59% by the year 2050. and other parts of the world because of global warming. Related: Global warming expected to exceed 1.5 Global warming could push air conditioning demand up 59%. An analysis done by Climate Central shows that demand for air conditioning in the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

Seven years after the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, a large majority of country signatories and hundreds of companies have committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. At the same time, emissions have rocketed, with global annual CO2 emissions rising to 36.3 gigatons in 2021 from 35.5 Paris target.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

McDonald's today announced its commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 across its global corporation, with the UK & Ireland branch of the business aiming to lead the way by achieving net zero emissions by 2040. The fast-food giant confirmed it has set climate targets in line with limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) yesterday used its Annual General Meeting in Boston to approve a resolution calling for the global air transport industry to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The scale of the industry in 2050 will require the mitigation of 1.8 We have a plan," he said.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

Countries around the world have set ‘decarbonization’ as one of the goals for 2050. Hydrogen demand is expected to reach 78 exajoules worldwide by 2050 following the efforts to keep global warming to a minimum of +2 degrees Celsius. Further, two-thirds of all Americans feel that government should do better on climate.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Although the high temperatures experienced in the last five years could be temporary, there is a cause for alarm if global warming continues at the current rate. According to the UN, the world has about a 25% chance of experiencing a year of temperatures hot enough to push global temperatures past the 1.5°C limit before 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2024

Reform’s Climate Science Denial Reform UK has been campaigning on an overtly anti-climate platform, and has called for the UK’s 2050 net zero emissions target to be scrapped. Tice has said “CO2 isn’t poison, it’s plant food”, while the party’s London mayoral candidate Howard Cox has said “man is not responsible for global warming”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The signatories pledged to reach net zero by 2050 and halve emissions by 2030 in line with global targets to limit global warming to 1.5C. A host of leading events venues and businesses have this week signed up to the Net Zero Carbon Events initiative, which was launched on the sidelines of COP26 this week.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

Brunel, which manages £30bn worth of investments for 10 local government pension scheme funds, confirmed this week it had tested the new framework against its portfolios and would use it to work towards a 50 per cent reduction in its emissions by 2030 and to reach net zero by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Xcel Energy, which operates the largest utilities in Colorado and Minnesota, has outlined a plan to reach zero-carbon electricity by 2050 , ahead of moves toward similar mandates in both states. Even so, other utilities have been moving toward long-range carbon reduction goals in anticipation of regulatory action.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Jupiter Fund Management has committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 across its full range of investments and operations, citing the "urgent need" to limit global warming to less than 1.5C in line with global climate goals.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

But many are stopping short of a commitment to no longer use the fossil fuels causing global warming — particularly those that stand to lose business from such a pact. For context, the Paris climate accord adopted by nearly 200 nations in 2015 commits them to limiting global warming to around 1.5

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Hohn was particularly sceptical of announcements by companies pledging to move to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, saying these are a "waste of time" as that is 30 years away, and "we need to see emissions reductions this year, next year, and the following year". Reducing carbon emissions.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Limiting global warming to 1.5C [above pre-industrial levels] with no or limited overshoot requires deep, rapid and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions of 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035 relative to the 2019 level and reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2022

Investors representing $16tr in assets under management have disclosed their initial targets for putting their portfolios on a path to net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner, according to the latest progress report from the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM). per cent of its assets, up from 10.6 per cent previously.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Energy storage can help mitigate climate change, but it is still on low levels and needs to triple by 2050 to keep global warming below 2°C. Globally, only 3% of power capacity is being stored. To limit global warming to below 2°C, energy storage capacity would need to increase from 140 GW in 2014 to 450 GW in 2050.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

Barclays has set out its ambition to become a net zero bank by 2050, today pledging to align both its own business as well as its entire financing, investing and lending portfolio with the goals of the Paris Agreement within the next 30 years.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy Foundation , as well as Conservative MP Lee Anderson and Reform party president Nigel Farage. Rees-Mogg also has a long record of opposing climate policies.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2022

But the survey was commissioned by Net Zero Watch (NZW) – the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – which last week released a paper calling for renewable energy from wind and solar to be “wound down” completely and for coal-fired power stations to be kept open.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

All of the 'big six' US investment banks have now vowed to significantly reduce the carbon emissions of their lending activity in a bid to deliver net zero financed emissions by mid-century, after Wells Fargo announced yesterday it planned to align all its activities with global climate goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Corporate commitments to net-zero accelerated over the last two years, with almost one-third (30%) of Europe’s largest listed companies now having pledged to reach net-zero by 2050, according to a new study by consultancy firm Accenture. Net-zero by 2050 — let alone sooner — will be feasible only with swift, decisive action in this decade.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

We are still feeling the ripple effects of investigations five years ago showing that ExxonMobil Corporation’s staff scientists were well aware decades ago that petroleum caused global warming. Scientific American: A Woman Warned GM about Warming, But Men Didn’t Listen.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

Shell has become the latest oil major to join the net zero club, yesterday pledging to strengthen its previous climate goals in a bid to deliver net zero emissions across its business and value chain by 2050. So just how serious is Shell about decarbonising its business and reaching net zero by 2050? warming pathway.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Alongside the policy discussions on how to reach the Paris Agreement of 2015 and limit global warming to 1.5⁰C, Biochar production is still in its infancy but if we incentivised production at scale, by 2050 it could lock 2.6 C, a variety of different sustainable agriculture solutions will be on display at the Urban Farm.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. For example, its analysis found that using electrified drying for the recycled paper industry could avoid 16 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2050. Sponsored Article.

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