Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

Demand for biofuels has seen significant tracts of land, much of it the Global South, repurposed for energy crop production, a trend that campaigners have blamed for driving deforestation and biodiversity destruction while exacerbating food insecurity. Regulators and investors have taken note. Now it's different.".

Aviation 68

Aviation Fossil fuels Waste Waste 68

Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Tank-up of Tomorrow Transportation accounts for ~16% of global GHG emissions , and while passenger vehicles have likely gone the way of EVs, cleaning up the remaining 55% of hard-to-decarbonize aviation, heavy ground transport, and maritime shipping is still—well, hard! Engines are optimized for fossil fuels.

Transportation 52

Transportation Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 52

Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

From clean energy and nature investments to phasing down fossil fuels, We Mean Business Coalition's Maria Mendiluce offers her take on what corporate climate leadership should look like over the coming year. However, it was a missed opportunity to be bolder and propose to phase out all fossil fuels.

Business Energy Monitoring 40

Business Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 40

Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Exclusive: Researchers have sought to calculate the external environmental, social and health costs of from fossil fuels, renewables, road transport and aviation. It's yet even more sobering evidence that the UK needs to move away from fossil fuels and ambitiously pursue rapid decarbonisation," he added.

Transportation 71

Transportation Electricity Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 71

Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

US tech giants have faced criticism for continuing to work with fossil fuel giants such as Chevron and ExxonMobil, despite their own ambitious climate commitments. We will be relying on fossil fuels for some time.". Any clear-eyed person recognises that this happens over time," he said. "We

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2023

The group behind the ranking, the Travel Smart Campaign, has warned that companies failing to tackle their aviation emissions footprint are missing an opportunity to permanently "lock in" the low-carbon travel practices adopted during the pandemic, and opening themselves up to reputational damage in the long run.

Policy 36

Policy Aviation Transportation Demand 36

Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Over five weeks we’re publishing a range of Stay Grounded factsheets about various kinds of techno-greenwashing provided by the aviation industry. Alternative jet fuels or so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuels” (SAF) are liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used with existing aircraft in place of kerosene produced from fossil fuels.

Aviation 69

Aviation Fossil fuels Waste Waste 69

Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

There are also fears that - if poorly regulated and policed - nature-based solutions efforts such as tree-planting can have a detrimental impact on biodiversity, food and water security, as well as local or Indigenous livelihoods.

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Technology Carbon Carbon-negative Demand 99

Business Green

APRIL 19, 2022

Activists also fear that the emergence of the nascent sector could hinder efforts to reduce absolute emissions in the first place, by providing polluters with a license to continue burning fossil fuels.

Carbon 36

Carbon Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Technology 36

Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  And below we start the week off with a walk down memory lane of the year’s top CTVC headlines.

Business Energy Monitoring 72

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 72

Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

It concluded that all of the popular schemes were failing to adequately address environmental harms, such as rising waste levels, 'fast fashion' resource use, and use the industry's reliance on fossil fuels. The total emissions impact of the fashion sector is estimated to eclipse that of international aviation and shipping combined.

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Fashion Waste Waste Fossil fuels 86

Grist

MAY 25, 2021

He emphasized that cutting emissions from fossil fuel burning as fast as possible remains vital to tackling global heating: “There’s no suggestion that [CO2 removal] is a substitute for reducing our emissions.”. “Nobody really wants to be in the situation of having to suck so much CO2 from the atmosphere. Large-scale tree planting.

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Carbon Soil Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 136

Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its report into climate change solutions, and its message was clear: a significant ramp up in investment and deployment is needed to deliver a "major energy system transformation" that can slash global demand for the fossil fuels poisoning the planet.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Climate change Fossil fuels 73

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Agriculture Methane Carbon-neutral COP 143

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 1, 2020

“We will be relying on fossil fuels for some time.” Broadly focused on the fossil fuels company’s digital transformation, the applications being built collaboratively by the two companies are aimed at measuring carbon emissions — both Shell’s and those of its suppliers and customers.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 28

Business Green

JUNE 14, 2020

It argues that the government should ensure all public finance abroad is aligned with an inclusive energy transition, and commit to ending fossil fuel finance and helping developing countries with the transition to a low carbon economy.

Government 68

Government Climate change Packaging Resilience 68

Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

Delta's mid-term strategy is focused on scaling up the use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) to a 10 per cent share of its fuel in 2030, before rising to a 35 per cent share in 2035 and 95 per cent by mid-century. Our foundation is strong. Now we accelerate."

Fossil fuels 73

Fossil fuels Aviation Carbon-negative Plastics 73

Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The Strategy was also criticised for failing to provide sufficient detail on how the government planned to tackle emissions from certain sectors, such as farming and land use and aviation. What would happen if we moved it to 2060 or 2070? We're not going to be here. Let's be realistic.".

Climate change 61

Climate change Government Policy Biodiversity 61

Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

HVCs are responsible for up to two per cent of global emissions, equivalent to aviation, and double that associated with the aluminum industry. And while $759bn is hardly chicken feed, it is roughly one per cent of the $172tr estimated by BNEF to be needed to decarbonise the global energy sector by 2050.

Plastics 62

Plastics Demand Waste Waste 62

Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

After all, oft-cited data suggests that the impact of a company's supply chain is as much as 80 per cent of its overall greenhouse gas emissions footprint - and an even higher percentage of its impact on biodiversity and nature. But getting to net zero in a supply chain will take more than nudges and new purchasing contracts.

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Innovation Carbon Biotechnology Recycled materials 78

Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A renewed commitmend to commercialise sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) made from everyday household waste, flue gases from industry, carbon captured from the atmosphere and excess electricity, with the hope these kerosene alternatives can meet 10 per cent of fuel demand from aviation by 2030.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 83

Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Discussions leading up to the hotly-anticipated summit are already said to have delivered hugely significant commitments on fossil fuels and clean energy , company climate risk disclosure , and global minimum corporate tax levels. These are expected to be published "after consultation with governments", the SMI said.

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Fossil fuels Demand Biodiversity Climate change 49

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Polyester renewal technology, or PRT, involves taking waste polyesters from landfills and other waste streams and transforming them back into a raw material that the company claims is indistinguishable from polyester produced from fossil-fuel feedstocks. In addition, other stories on plastic production piqued readers’ interest.

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Sustainability Plastics Agriculture Carbon-negative 540

Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

COP25 left a bitter impression that our leaders are not taking seriously the lack of progress to date, nor the major challenges ahead in decarbonising fuels & heat, which together represent 80 per cent of current energy demand. Most mainstream projections suggest fossil fuels will continue to supply 50-60 per cent of energy by 2050.

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Carbon-neutral Climate change Nuclear Power Carbon-negative 95

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s It’s really about production at the end of the day.” Meat lobby groups will share a different message at pavilions at COP28.

Agriculture 143

Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 143

Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Just two weeks ago, the Prime Minister told the UN General Assembly that the world could not afford to "dither and delay" on tackling biodiversity loss, yet yesterday marked 200 days since the government's landmark Environment Bill was last seen in parliament. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

Policy 59

Policy Carbon-negative Government Carbon 59

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

More funds currently flow into fossil fuels than climate solutions worldwide and the $100bn climate finance target for less developed nations remains unmet, nearly 15 years after it was first promised by richer nations. There is a clearly a major business opportunity to be seized in developing climate solutions and services.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Global warming Resilience 36

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The new administration faces an immediate challenge to explain how it intends to bring transport, buildings, industry, agriculture, aviation, and shipping into line with legally binding climate goals. How will Truss manage these warring factions, while also working to win over the majority of MPs who did not back her candidacy?

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Government Policy Energy Energy 67

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

“Labour’s pledge to offer a fairer, greener future is undermined by this willingness to accept money from a company that is responsible for forest destruction, environmental injustice, biodiversity loss and climate-wrecking emissions,” he said. “We A 2021 Guardian investigation found that the Conservatives had received £1.3m

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Pollution Fossil fuels Politics Carbon-negative 94

Business Green

MARCH 3, 2023

UK's current technology agnostic approach to greening transport is slowing investment, MPs on the Transport Committee warn MPs have urged the government to shelve its current "technology neutral" approach to decarbonising transport and start backing specific technology solutions, including sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and rail electrification.

Transportation 40

Transportation Government Technology Aviation 40

Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

IPPR Environmental Justice Commission head Luke Murphy said: "Today the Chancellor declared the UK was entering an ‘age of optimism' but instead he used the budget to extend the ages of fossil fuels. Rishi Sunak talked for longer about beer duty, than our duty to future generations to address the climate and nature crises.

Government 66

Government Investment Climate change Innovation 66

Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting.  Energy & industry.

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Energy Monitor Investment Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 111

Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Among a flurry of fresh commitments today, the government said it wanted all internal UK plane journeys to generate net zero emissions, and new petrol and diesel trucks to be removed from sale - both by 2040 - on the path to delivering net zero rail, aviation, shipping and road vehicles sectors by 2050.

Transportation 82

Transportation Government Aviation Policy 82

Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

How to divert energy flows from fossil to renewable using electricity and biomass Summary - Up to 20% of our energy needs could be met by sustainably harvested biomass, in particular food and agricultural waste, as well as manure. Aviation and maritime transport will need to remain petroleum based for quite some time.

Building Energy Monitoring 78

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen today declared that "the fossil fuel economy has reached its limits", as she unveiled a sweeping new policy package designed to accelerate decarbonisation efforts across the bloc and mobilise billions of Euros of investment in green infrastructure.

Aviation 89

Aviation Carbon-neutral Packaging Europe 89

Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Yesterday the government not only unveiled its long-delayed Transport Decarbonisation Plan - which was originally slated to emerge late last year - but also launched crucial consultations on delivering net zero aviation by 2050 and phasing out sales of fossil fuel trucks by 2040, among other proposals. Anything missing?

Transportation 87

Transportation Government Aviation Fossil fuels 87

Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The compronmise agreement sees the Greens back Labour's proposals for a 'Safeguard Mechanism', which promises to regulate emissions from Australia's 215 biggest polluting coal and gas facilities without outright banning new fossil fuel projects. Bold projects such as the one planned for Skellefteå are crucial in this endeavour."

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Government Aviation Law Fossil fuels 40