Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A slew of initiatives designed to accelerate the electric vehicle (EVs) transition in emerging and developing markets has been launched this morning by the UK, as fresh figures have highlighted the transition away from polluting cars and trucks is occurring at drastically different rates around the world.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

These steel plants can replace polluting blast furnaces with a process that emits water vapor instead of CO2. Steel plants can replace polluting blast furnaces with a process that emits water vapor instead of CO2. Steel plants can replace polluting blast furnaces with a process that emits water vapor instead of CO2. Pull Quote.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

That’s a larger share of global emissions than aviation. Out of more than 200 groups currently listed on its website, 51 are from the United States and Canada, compared to only 11 from Africa. Importantly, this does not require its highly polluting supporters to cut greenhouse gas emissions – or even to have a plan for doing so.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”. “There is a yawning gap between the marketing claims of fossil fuel companies and the reality of their businesses,” said Jonathan White, a lawyer at ClientEarth.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

For example, the Mission Possible Partnership gets leading heavy-industry companies, banks and governments to create investment-grade “net-zero” sector strategies in seven key areas of the global economy — aviation, shipping, trucks, chemicals, steel aluminum and cement. More than 200 companies and organizations are so far involved.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

First domestic route in Denmark to use sustainable aviation fuel. The SAF is being supplied by DCC and Shell Aviation Denmark, the current supplier of jet fuel to Danish airports, as part of Shell Aviation's SAF supply agreement with Neste, the producer of SAF.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Moreover, key emerging markets, such as India, China, much of South East Asia, and most of Africa, spend huge sums on oil imports every year, providing their governments with a clear economic and strategic incentive to curb their oil dependence. Oil imports cost 1.5 per cent of China's GDP and 2.6

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction - now. The world's biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home. Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone - now. Many ecosystems are at the point of no return - now. The facts are undeniable.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

The announcement of Pritchard’s new consultancy roles follows the revelation that the Conservatives received £600,000 in the final quarter of 2022 from individuals and firms linked to high-pollution industries. Fossil fuel funders Pritchard attracted criticism from climate campaigners when his role at Linden Energy was announced last year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Other demands include cutting methane emissions by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030, working to tackle other damaging pollutants, and taking more ambitious action to decarbonise transport such as aviation and shipping.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Within hours the whims of the American Electoral College system empowered autocrats, nationalists and polluters everywhere. Bilateral ODA (overseas development assistance) to least developed countries fell by three per cent in real terms from 2017, aid to Africa fell by four per cent, and humanitarian aid fell by eight per cent," the UN said.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In the UK, petrol and diesel already contain up to 7 per cent biofuels but, given growing concerns about climate change and air pollution, governments are expected to enact stricter fuel standards. In aviation, there are high hopes of electrifying small and medium-sized aircraft, but for long-haul jets the challenge is greater.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Deals of the Week (11/13-11/19) Late-Stage / Growth ⚡ SkyNRG , an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) producer, raised $191M in Growth funding from Macquarie Group.   Heat stress caused income loss equivalent to 4% of Africa’s GDP , when 2022 losses in Europe and North America were just 0.1%

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