Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

What could the UK's energy system look like in 2050, once offshore wind energy is the backbone of the electricity grid, fossil fuel vehicles are increasingly scarce, hydrogen fuel has gone from vision to reality, and energy efficiency is an everyday consideration for families and businesses alike?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer-focused spending program. percent is likely to increase net air pollution.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. Neither do the EU’s ‘cohesion’ and ‘just transition’ funds exclude fossil fuel investments. Why have Timmermans and other EU suits embraced hydrogen?

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. They’d even found a partner, the owner of a fueling station for hydrogen-powered cars, who wanted them to build a pilot plant at his facility.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

The new ETC analysis, released yesterday , sets out how rapidly increasing demand for bioresources from the manufacturing, construction, and energy industries could outstrip environmentally sustainable supplies unless alternative zero carbon options are rapidly scaled up and the use of biomass is carefully prioritised.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

government has a new goal to make it much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. The Carbon Negative Shot is the third program in the Earthshots series. The Department of Energy announced a Hydrogen Shot , a program to make clean hydrogen fuel 80 percent cheaper than it is today, in June.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

AUGUST 1, 2021

Thanks to all the investors, donors, foundations and donor advised funds who invested with us last year: Woman-owned Earthly Labs working on industrial carbon capture and recycling and led by Amy George , Steelhead Composites in composite hydrogen storage with Andrew Coors at the helm, and.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Advocates of BECCS argue that by sourcing sustainable biomass feedstocks for power plants and then capturing the resulting emissions, the technology can deliver both reliable renewable power and negative emissions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Research body argues government must fix 'uneven' decarbonisation policies that continue to drive customers towards high carbon activities. In response to the report, a government spokesperson said: "We've already published decarbonisation plans for energy, industry, transport, oil and gas and the recent hydrogen strategy.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several ambitious pledges emerged to phase down fossil fuels, limit methane emissions, stop deforestation, and turbocharge the adoption of electric vehicles. Carbon Negative Shot is a U.S. Department of Energy–backed research effort to bring the cost of carbon removal below $100 a ton by 2030.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

Meanwhile, academic studies have detailed how the emissions produced by clearing land and fertilising, farming, and shipping many 'energy crops' can be almost as large, and in some cases larger, than the emissions resulting from the fossil fuels they are designed to replace. Regulators and investors have taken note.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 13, 2020

The need for negative emission technologies ( NETs ) is becoming increasingly apparent in the wake of our failure to draw-down atmospheric greenhouse gases. Plants can harvest the CO2 from the air and sequester it or sell it for agricultural or industrial applications. It can also be recycled and used to make synthetic fuel.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

  But all this travel comes at a steep carbon cost. In part because air travel is such a technical marvel, engineering our way around direct emissions from burning fossil fuels strapped to those big jet engines on the wings is definitionally “hard to abate. In 2022, aviation accounted for 2% of global CO2 emissions.

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CleanTech San Diego

JUNE 10, 2021

Cleantech San Diego member Oberon Fuels , producer of clean-burning dimethyl ether (DME) transportation fuel, has begun production of the first-ever renewable DME (rDME) in the United States, and the only current commercial production of this molecule in the world.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Among its many provisions, the Green Deal will include: A "Just Transition Fund" to make sure vulnerable sectors and regions are not negatively impacted by the changes. Carbon capture, utilization and sequestration, hydrogen infrastructure and energy storage will also receive support to reach commercialization.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

AUGUST 1, 2021

Thanks to all the investors, donors, foundations and donor advised funds who invested with us last year: Woman-owned Earthly Labs working on industrial carbon capture and recycling and led by Amy George , Steelhead Composites in composite hydrogen storage with Andrew Coors at the helm, and.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Upcoming policy decisions on plastic, carbon trading and carbon capture could see the waste sector become a major driver of regional decarbonisation, writes Enfinium's Mike Maudsley Just over a year ago, I made a significant - and positive - career change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Increased federal incentives for “carbon management” technologies are catalyzing a surge in proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the United States, from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest to California. use the captured carbon to drill for more oil in a process called enhanced oil recovery.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Europe’s Green Deal.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet growth in global emissions has also slowed, and the authors of today's report maintain that mobilising the finance, scaling up the technologies, and incentivising behaviour changes needed to drive a "substantial reduction in overall fossil fuel use" remains eminently feasible and - crucially - affordable.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This year’s Draft Scoping Plan proposes a pathway to achieve the state’s target of 40 percent emissions below 1990 levels and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045. . This scenario includes BAU policies as well as a higher carbon price, vehicle electrification, and mode shifting (shifting from vehicle to active and public transportation). .

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs.     🌱 Vizcab , a Lyon, France-based carbon impact analysis software developer, raised $6M in Series A funding from Kompas Ventures and Cemex Ventures.  

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer focused spending programmes.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 8, 2022

Concepts like decentralized agriculture, water conservation, and shared economy came naturally since there was simply no other choice. This year, we are specifically interested in technologies related to: The intersections of water x agriculture and water x hydrogen. Brine management and resource recovery.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

, published by a team including Lord Nicholas Stern and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz that argued that non-conditional support for high carbon industries would see a lower return on investment than green stimulus packages. Build carbon-capture-and-storage infrastructure around large industrial clusters ? They are: ?

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. Meanwhile, humans have continued destructive practices such as deforestation and agricultural expansion.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

And the negative impact of climate change on habitat and diversity are far more profound than that caused by the wildlife trade. Opportunities from a zero carbon economy. A growing number of multinational corporations, local governments and countries have committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

Of the 15 technology areas PWC analysed, the areas that represent over 80 per cent of future emission reduction potential by 2050 - such as solar power, wind power, food waste technology, green hydrogen production, and alternative protein - received just 25 per cent of recent climate tech investment between 2013 and the first half of 2021.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Indeed, the ingredients for negativity are all too abundant: a persistent, shapeshifting virus; political stalemates that thwart climate action; growing social and economic inequality; terrifying ecological indicators; pushback by the anti-science crowd and their media enablers.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

"Domestically the answer to cutting emissions, keeping bills under control and ensuring security of supply, is to continue to build out our world-leading offshore wind sector and invest in nuclear and hydrogen, as the government is doing," he said. There's a lot of pressure at the moment on energy bills and we know they're very high.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Yesterday, in a bid to help Ministers bridge the gap, business advoacy group the Aldersgate Group published a major report that sets out how a series of policy measures enacted over this parliamentary term could steer the UK towards its 2050 net zero ambition, as well as its interim carbon reduction targets under the fourth and fifth carbon budgets.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Putting measures to address the climate crisis at the heart of UK economic policy - and break our dependence on outdated, polluting fossil fuels - makes economic, social and environmental sense," said Katie White, executive director of advocacy and campaigns at WWF.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Land use and agriculture also stand out as areas where there is an obvious gap in ambition, with peatland restoration in particular needing further action.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

As many commentators have noted, there is no silver bullet for tackling carbon emissions. So it stands to reason that, focusing decarbonisation efforts on just a handful of these carbon intensive sectors could make an outsized impact to the global transition to net zero.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

.” For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer-focused spending program. billion focused on renewables and $18.5

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