Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

If we trickle along not delivering the capacity needed, we [could] get an increasing set of climate and pollution related problems and a massive biodiversity hit," he says. "We Green hydrogen is another area where Ørsted plans to expand rapidly over the coming decade. That is something that is shared by green hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. The meeting took place as part of the Canada–Germany Energy Partnership , established in March 2021 to foster “clean energy” trade opportunities – including in hydrogen and LNG.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Moreover, a growing number of national governments are beginning to set out policies, roadmaps, and targets to support domestic SAF adoption, with Canada, China, and Japan now joining a market that has to date been largely driven by Europe and the US.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

A sweeping €1.85tr stimulus strategy to rebuild Europe's economy from the wreckage of the coronavirus crisis has been unveiled by the European Commission today, promising a green infrastructure spending blitz to help put the continent on a path towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This is Europe's moment," she said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

A group of Europe's largest truckmakers have this week pledged to stop selling vehicles that produce emissions by 2040, a decade earlier than originally planned. It also called for a higher tax on carbon across Europe to help drive the change. "If Canada joins global hydrogen push. Macron reveals plan for climate referendum.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

Netze BW GmbH has announced two actions to bolster power transmission in Germany: a strengthening of the power grid in Kusterdingen and the latest biodiverse summation substation for Hechingen-Weilheim. 700 to 10,000 square meters depending on the location, it is the utility’s hope to promote biodiversity in the area.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Commission estimates the plan could help upgrade 35 million buildings across Europe and create up to 160,000 additional green jobs in the construction sector by 2030. With Europe the world's second biggest producer of chemicals - accounting for 16.9 Yet the EU Commission's Strategy goes further than current UK plans.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In 2022 this has led us to stories that have unmasked all manner of trickery: from the minutiae of misleading stickers marketing “hydrogen-ready” boilers to the sinister presence of sanctioned coal barons at this year’s COP27 climate summit. How Big Ag Delays the Shift to Sustainable Farming in Europe. Special mention: DeSmog Debunks….

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2022

The Europe-based fund aims to link fast-growth climate change innovators with a global network of corporates, policy-makers, and follow-on investors in a bid to accelerate market adoption of a range of clean technologies. Systemiq Capital is a joint venture from Polman, Jeremy Oppenheim, Systemiq, and Irena Spazzapan.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

In recent years, leading green groups have branded the 21st century drive to ramp up the use of biofuels in transport - set in motion by late 2000s-era EU and US renewable fuels targets - as a " fiasco ", a " scandal " and " Europe's dumbest climate policy ". The advent of hydrogen-based fuels. Regulatory and industry momentum.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The critical window for action to transform the plastics system across Europe in order to meet both circular economy and climate goals is narrowing, with a major ramp up in innovation, policy ambition, investment, and corporate cooperation urgently needed over the next five years.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Case Studies of Green Campus Initiatives Europe University of Nottingham, UK : The University of Nottingham has a strong commitment to sustainability, as indicated in various sources. They help reduce waste generation, decrease carbon emissions, conserve water, and promote biodiversity.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Northvolt raised $1.6bn over two rounds this year to scale battery manufacturing in Europe. This was mainly driven by a handful of large Series C deals from capital-intensive verticals such as Transportation and Energy, including Verkor ($905m), Hithium ($621m), and Electric Hydrogen ($380m). The average drop across everything was 30%.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The CBAM is set to cover iron, steel, cement, aluminium, fertilisers, and electricity, before potentially extending to hydrogen, certain indirect emissions, and some downstream products such as screws and bolts, according to the EU Parliament. Surviving without Russian gas is impossible, they said, because it is just not viable.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

President Emmanuel Macron said the funding would help "relocalise" manufacturing in the country and "make France the leading country in Europe for the production of clean vehicles". New Zealand steps up plans to create 11,000 biodiversity jobs.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

Some $66.1bn has been spent on green energy so far, it notes, of which $25.3bn focused on renewables and $18.5bn on hydrogen, the latter boosted substantially by major investment programmes by France and Germany.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

How do you intend to deliver the planned wave of carbon capture, hydrogen, and nuclear projects over the coming years? What is your contingency plan if Vladimir Putin stops exports of gas to Europe sparking a genuine energy supply crisis? What is your strategy for the upcoming COP15 Biodiversity Summit?

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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

JULY 20, 2022

It is an admirable target, and among the most ambitious in the world for an aviation industry the size of the UK's, where air travel is worth around £22bn a year to the economy, and Heathrow Airport is among the busiest in Europe, if not the world. Electric and hydrogen aircraft have much to prove.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

The rapid loss of biodiversity has led an increasing number of pathogens to infect humans as intermediate hosts. We should see that, before 2050, wind power and solar power will become the new coal for generating power, batteries and hydrogen fuels will be the new oil, and the AIoT operating system will turn into the new power network.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2023

Business travel accounts for a significant proportion of global air travel, with McKinsey estimating that its share of the market sits at roughly 15 to 20 per cent and an analysis from Transport and Environment pinning the figure in Europe at 27 per cent.

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Policy Aviation Transportation Demand 36

Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

The crucial COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Kunming, China, which had been set to take place in October is now facing yet another delay, with Covid-19 concerns now likely to now push back the critical nature talks into early 2022, according to reports. European Investment Bank announces green hydrogen partnership.

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The City Fix

MARCH 10, 2023

Transportation connects us to one another. It’s how we get to school and work, how we visit our families, and how we access our food and health care. It’s also how we ship goods and deliver services. As economies and.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The review rightly underlines the vital importance of using a wide range of renewables to strengthen Britain's energy security, including innovative technologies like floating wind, tidal stream and green hydrogen. While the UK has strengths in green hydrogen it looks to be falling behind Europe and other countries in its ambition. "The

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

On top of that, she will also take control of the UK's net zero and biodiversity agendas as Europe struggles with an energy crisis largely spurred by the Russia's invasion of Ukraine and countries around the world gear up for the crucial COP27 and COP15 UN summits this autumn.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

billion on hydrogen, the latter boosted substantially by major investment programs by France and Germany. billion on hydrogen. billion has been spent on green energy so far, it notes, of which $25.3 billion focused on renewables and $18.5 Meanwhile, $86.1 billion has been spent on low-carbon transport, $28.9 trillion of the $4.6

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Meanwhile, Russia's energy minister Alexander Novak has told The Guardian that the country has no plans to scale back fossil fuel production in the coming decades, instead aiming for a 50 per cent growth in gas production alongside plans for developing hydrogen and carbon capture technology. "I

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

A greater abundance of cheaper, reliable renewable energy could in turn help cut costs and increase capacity for producing green hydrogen, an increasingly attractive solution for decarbonising steelmaking, shipping and - another of the identified leverage points - green ammonia in agriculture.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2020

CEO for Renewable Energy Systems Group in Northern Europe reflects on the events, issues, and trends that have shaped her career. Job Title: CEO Northern Europe, RES. It's great to see how far the renewable industry has come and my regret is that we haven't gone fast enough to prevent impacts of climate change and reduced biodiversity.

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Fossil fuels Hydrogen Climate change Demand 51

Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Conservative MP Philip Dunne MP, chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, said: "From boosting low carbon heating to harnessing renewable energy, and addressing carbon leakage to furthering hydrogen and carbon capture and storage, the government outlines some promising ideas today. And investment in EV charging is great to see.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. It is because climate is central to geopolitics, that the UK's Integrated Review established tackling climate change and biodiversity loss as the UK's top international priority. I have travelled on a prototype hydrogen bus in India. degree limit within reach.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Company profile.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Businesses leaders urge EU committees to champion Nature Restoration Law An alliance of 12 major business networks is this week urging key European Parliament committees to support and strengthen a proposed Nature Restoration Law, which if passed would set out legally binding goals for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

How biorefineries transform ‘waste’ into all the building blocks of chemical industry The best example I found on transformation in the chemical industry is Chemport Europe. Electrolysis is used to create hydrogen and oxygen. Those of you who are still not convinced and fear biodiversity issues, I have something even better on offer.

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

Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Against that backdrop, renewable energy, low carbon heating and energy efficiency all rose to the fore, underscored by major climate policy wins - such as the Inflation Reduction Act in the US and REPowerEU in Europe - and rising green investment. How dangerous climate tipping points are 'likely' to be triggered in a 1.5C

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