GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The only climate trend more powerful for global financial institutions than the drive to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is the momentum to exit oil and gas. According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), more than 50 globally significant financial institutions have put in place an oil and gas exit policy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

European Commission unveils flurry of major policy plans as it seeks to help deliver on 2050 net zero goal, but green groups warn bolder action is still required. The green recovery starts at home," he said. "We

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Governments must implement stronger policies to tackle still rising demand foe fossil gas if they are to deliver on their net zero emission goals by 2050, according to a new report this week from the International Energy Agency (IEA). Natural gas demand is expected to rise by 3.6

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Governments, however, need to quickly implement ‘regenerative agriculture’ policies to incentivise farmers to take up the challenge, the researchers argue. That event attracted farmers, scientists, the agrifood industry and policy makers to discuss the leading role that soil could play in the journey towards Net Zero.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Banks and major investors with 40% of the world’s financial assets committed to carbon neutrality by 2050 under the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. Canada also re-committed to phasing out international fossil fuel financing by 2023 and reducing oil and gas methane emissions by 75% by 2030.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

US oil major ExxonMobil announced yesterday that it plans to achieve net zero across its "operated assets" by 2050, tapping a range measures from energy efficiency and electrification to methane mitigation and equipment upgrades to slash emissions from its own operations.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 17, 2021

Though Wall Street has directed unprecedented attention to climate over the past year, it can and must do more to remain competitive in a business landscape oriented towards net zero emissions by 2050. Address methane. As the IPCC noted, methane mitigation is essential to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

BP has today become the latest oil major to set a net zero emissions goal , announcing that it aims to deliver net zero emissions across its operations and its oil and gas production basis by 2050 or sooner. In addition, the company said it intended to play a more proactive role in "helping the world get to net zero".

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

They have to push renewable methane. WSJ: BP Wants to Become Carbon Neutral by 2050, But Doesn’t Say How. Energetic’s EneRate Credit Cover policy is an easy button for commercial solar — similar to a FICO score in residential solar. And how do you reduce the carbon intensity of a hydrocarbon business?

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For the 128 asset managers and 61 banks that have committed to align trillions of dollars with the Paris Agreement, this moment presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to achieve their climate goals – not through investments but through public policy advocacy. Advocating for climate policy is in investors’ best interest.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

EDF+Business program staff participated in meetings and panel presentations, including: Victoria Mills, director of corporate climate policy leadership; Elizabeth Sturcken, director of net zero acceleration; Katie Anderson, manager of supply chain and agricultural methane. An urgent new warning from the U.N.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 There are a variety of different sources of methane emissions and many solutions will be needed to curb those emissions.

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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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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Committing to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 or sooner is the new standard — that’s lifecycle emissions, which includes the carbon footprint of oil and gas combusted by customers during end uses. Support science based climate policy agendas. Actively supporting climate policy isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s good business.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

The waste management sector bears an essential role in the EU’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the group explained in a statement in early February. Waste-to-Energy contributes by treating the fraction of municipal waste unfit for recycling, as a part of the Effort Sharing Regulation. “We

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

With methane emissions driving near-term warming at an alarming rate, it is critical that oil and gas transactions incorporate ambitious standards for CO2 and methane management to ensure effective environmental stewardship in line with climate science. How can the oil and gas industry drive progress?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The “unabated” qualifier has no internationally accepted definition, Romain Ioualalen, global policy campaign manager at Oil Change International, explained. It’s used as grounds for companies to escape fulfilling the climate policies coming out of COP28, and has real-life, tangible consequences.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. Launched in March this year, the drive to decarbonise industry forms a major part of the UK’s journey to 2050 net zero.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Fortunately, Morgan Stanley has broken the status quo this week, becoming the first major American bank to commit to net-zero financed emissions by 2050. Adopting net-zero by 2050 benchmarks will allow banks to minimize portfolio-wide climate risks and capitalize on the financial opportunities of the energy transition. Why it matters.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2020

But while a transition to natural gas is already underway, it’s unclear what the future of that fossil fuel will look like as policies shift and other, cleaner resources become more competitive. “That bridge to 2050 is not a short bridge,” said Alverà “And it’s not a complete bridge.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

Oil and gas giant details climate policy misalignments with several major global trade associations in latest review. It follows Shells decision in 2019 to leave the American Fuel & Petrochemical Association due to "material misalignment" on climate policy. "We

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

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. Many people involved in climate policy privately acknowledge the limitations of carbon offsets.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

He added that “hydrogen is really the only net zero game in town” for HGVs, since introducing electric models is “not going to happen at any scale or size” by 2040 or even 2050. Using methane – [to make] blue hydrogen – always results in some residual emissions. The companies include Shell, Cadent and Equinor.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Despite the encouraging trend of companies committing to net zero by 2050, setting goals is not enough to bend the curve on climate pollution. Business must focus on short-lived climate pollutants in addition to carbon dioxide, as 50% of warming over next two decades (from today’s emissions) will be due to methane. Key Findings.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The IEA analyzed current government net-zero emissions pledges, finding demand for fossil fuels would peak by 2025 and global CO2 emissions would fall by 40% by 2050. The global average temperature rise in 2100 is held to 2.1°C C in the "Announced Pledges Scenario.".

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

The plan would see £904m invested in projects across Britain between 2021 and 2026 to prepare the gas grid for a switchover from using methane natural gas - a fossil fuel - to instead use zero carbon hydrogen and biomethane in support of the UK's 2050 net zero emissions target.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Global annual hydrogen supply in 2020 accounted for 90 Mt, with the bulk (59%) coming from fossil fuel-based steam methane reformation from natural gas, with 19% coming from coal-to-hydrogen gasification – while less than 1% currently is sourced from electrolysis. of total global emissions.

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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. Projects and players.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 17, 2021

BloombergNEF estimates that clean hydrogen could meet up to a quarter of the world’s energy demand by 2050. A perspective of 20 years amplifies the near-term warming impact of methane, which has a shorter lifetime compared to carbon dioxide, while a 100-year perspective considers the climate impacts over a longer period.

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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. That and other improvements to methane management can make the US industry a stronger partner to international buyers. New investments bring optimism.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 24, 2022

This prohibition and others are laid out in the banks’ environmental and social policy frameworks. Addressing methane emissions in the buying and selling of oil and gas assets, for example, could enable banks to reduce their clients’ climate-related transition risks. 3: Push for smart climate policy. Every major U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Ecommerce businesses gain from this in various ways, such as enhancing their corporate reputation, being ready for climate change policies, maintaining industry competition, and appealing to consumers and workers. It is crucial to develop national policies to reduce food waste. Ways To Decrease.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In 2020, it announced it would become a net-zero-emissions bank by 2050 — a goal that also involves “aligning its financing with the goals and timelines of the Paris Agreement,” and reducing its lending to the oil and gas sector. Publicly, Barclays has signaled an intent to pivot away from fossil fuels and help power the rise of green energy.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Thereafter, as previous IPCC reports have indicated, global emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030, in addition to a reduction in methane emissions of around a third, from 2019 levels. There are policies, regulations and market instruments that are proving effective. goal set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

In addition to carbon dioxide emitted from combustion of natural gas, its production, transmission and distribution results in significant emissions from methane — a greenhouse gas 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide during the first 20 years after its release. Equity must be at the core of policies and reform processes.

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