Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Although fossil-based natural gas tends not to be low enough in carbon intensity to remain a primary energy source in our decarbonized future, the U.S. If produced, distributed, and used responsibly, RNG can play a critical role in the net-zero carbon economy. . is not ready to abandon it entirely. What Is Renewable Natural Gas?

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. Reduce fossil fuel use. From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a systemic conflict of interest at a time when the international financial sector is under increasing pressure to stop funding fossil fuels. Banks are increasingly saying they will decarbonise by 2050, yet a large number continue to finance fossil fuels, the primary source of carbon emissions.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

Our current fossil fuel economy has reached its limit,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a press conference. “The European airlines are fully committed to decarbonize air transport and accelerate their efforts to make Europe the world’s first carbon neutral continent by 2050,” the paper says.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

  But all this travel comes at a steep carbon cost. In 2022, aviation accounted for 2% of global CO2 emissions. 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.

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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. Today, we know how to generate clean electricity from the sun, wind, water, and the latent heat beneath the Earth’s surface. The Carbon Negative Shot is the third program in the Earthshots series.

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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.  Proterra, the dominant electric bus maker, was just one high profile example. Disaster seemed to be everywhere.

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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. Will the demand sustain in 2022? Hard to abate' got easier.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy. Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Fresh analysis backed by 40 major energy, finance, and industry companies - including Shell, BP, Volvo, and ArcelorMittal - explores actions required this decade to deliver an emissions-free economy by mid-century that is not overly reliant on carbon offsets.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project. Boredom turned into negative thoughts, and negative thoughts turned into depressing thoughts.

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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. 🛵 EMotorad , a Pune, India-based electric bike marketplace, raised $20M in Series B funding from Panthera Growth Partners, xto10x Technologies, and Green Frontier Capital.

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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. 2, electric flight ; no. The argument is that blending these fuels with fossil fuels would thereby reduce emissions. 1 covered the promise of improved efficiency ; no.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

Another aspect of that future is limiting carbon-intensive forms of travel. Is this a realistic version of how we might address the carbon intensity of air travel? In three vignettes, spanning 2023 to 2077, the main character grows from a young woman living in L.A. where long-distance travel is heavily restricted.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. Today, more than 95 per cent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Fleet electrification strategies gained steam throughout the year, with all-electric heavy-duty big rigs, semi-trucks, box trucks, delivery vans and more in the spotlight. READ THE FULL STORY: 8 electric truck and van companies to watch in 2020. . Transportation habits are changing drastically. Eastman is one of the largest U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

Expanding renewable energy capacity, encouraging a wider and faster switch to electric vehicles (EVs), reducing traffic in cities, and designing and constructing greener buildings all provide cases in point. All of these things offer excellent opportunities to boost UK productivity, the report argues. Elsewhere, too, there are challenges.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. Most mainstream projections suggest fossil fuels will continue to supply 50-60 per cent of energy by 2050. What would change?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Sixth Carbon Budget report published today encompasses around 1,000 pages which offer the most detailed roadmap ever developed on how to transform a modern economy so that it delivers net zero emissions within the space of just 30 years. The Sixth Carbon Budget also brings with it a clear need to act in the short term.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

Near-term goals set out by the plan are focused on minimising Delta's impact from single-use plastic, transitioning to electric ground service equipment, and encouraging vendors in its supply chain to develop their own climate plans.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

To do that you need emissions into the atmosphere and absorption of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere to be in balance (and if you want to lower temperatures back towards pre-industrial levels you need rates of absorption that are higher than rates of emissions so as to deliver net negative or 'beyond zero' emissions). It's that simple.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But the solutions are there On the other hand, the report stresses there is still time to deliver a low-carbon, sustainable economy where climate-resilient development becomes the norm. And the private sector is playing a starring role in this collective failure, as the actors that make the real economy work.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Businesses and investors were left bemused and frustrated at the lack of near-term action as gas prices spiked, Putin threatened a full shutdown of fossil fuel exports, and European governments rushed to deliver sweeping energy efficiency programmes.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Players in the carbon dioxide pipeline industry canceled major pipeline projects in recent weeks, marking an inauspicious start to President Biden’s ambitious plans to develop carbon capture infrastructure as a key emissions mitigation tool. Stockman pointed out that the U.S. Midwest to be injected and stored underground.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

A large donation to the Labour Party from wood-burning giant Drax has raised concerns among campaigners over the sway of big carbon emitters over Parliament. Opposition leader Keir Starmer has yet to articulate his party’s position on burning wood for electricity – or to clarify whether Labour accepts donations from polluting companies.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII): Adopted in 2021 through the IMO , these measurements build on prior standards and became mandatory beginning Jan 1, 2023. IMO will assign a CII rating, with A being the best, least carbon-intensive and E being the worst, most carbon-intensive.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. There are other ways to make hydrogen.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Negative emissions technologies are critical for the earth’s climate and hitting net zero in the UK, argues Drax CEO Will Gardiner. In the first months of the crisis alone, China reported a 25 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Going net negative. This year has been unlike any in recent memory.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Here, BusinessGreen sums up some of its key findings and recommendations for how all actors can work together to deliver a greener, more equitable, lower carbon future. limit but could be bent back down by the end of the century through the use of negative emissions projects, the report contends. The science.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2021

Amid depressed prices and slumping demand for fossil fuels, firms have embraced cloud computing and data services that allow them to make their operations more efficient and reduce overheads. There is some evidence these tech interventions could help drive the carbon-intensive sector towards a greener future.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

John Bello (2018) Project Manager, Skanska; Portland, Oregon After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Meanwhile, public polling suggests bailing out high carbon companies without attaching carbon reduction targets would be an unpopular move. I think the biggest risk that sits before the global mission on net zero is the risk of fossil fuel lock-in," warns Stark. "If

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Because the price of keeping the status quo grows steeper every year, from the human and economic toll of climate-related disasters, fires, heatwaves, and other environmental stresses to the jobs left on the table by not accelerating towards a carbon-free, regenerative economy. Carbon negative materials. Why do we love them?

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The government is expected to launch a consultation on the proposals, which broadly mirror plans already being pursued by the EU in a bid to create a 'level playing field' for the bloc's carbon intensive industries.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

It got me thinking: Could we boost the carbon drawdown potential of clean technologies even further by supporting more women-led startups in the burgeoning climate-tech ecosystem? Carbon removal. Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels.

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