The Environmental Blog

MAY 27, 2020

Much of the world will remain under quarantine for the foreseeable future, but instead of viewing home isolation as a negative, see it as an opportunity to undertake projects you have been putting off. Solar energy is one of the most eco-friendly technologies you can add to your home. Solar Energy.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019. By viewing the year behind us as a test case, it’s obvious that Westminster needs to heavily fund and support two particular technologies: wind and solar. Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. The greatest successes.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

While Nitrogen Dioxide is primarily produced by cars(EPA USA, 2016), other pollutants like Carbon Dioxide were on the fall too, with reduced global air travel reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions in the US by 17% ( Zogopoulos , 2021). Positive and Negative Impacts of the Pandemic on the Environment. Source:Rume, T. and Islam, S.,

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2022

Plan to invest hundreds of millions in fledgeling carbon removal firms yet another sign of surging private sector interest in nascent sector. The fund's founder, long-time technology investor Chris Sacca, said last week that the fund had been supported by a broad range of investors, including online payments giant Stripe.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

When we are bombarded with negative news and potential threats regularly, it can take a toll on our well-being and overall happiness. Reduced Carbon Footprint. Our individual carbon footprints are extreme compared to those of our ancestors. In our modern world, there are many different existential threats. energy resource.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Paul-Frederik Bach, a former transmission system operator executive, started tracking European wholesale electricity prices on his blog in 2014. That’s despite the fact that renewable generation is increasingly contributing to low or even negative pricing on spot markets. He used a colored map for different price bands.

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The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Human activities produce 40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in a year as per 2015. To create such amount of carbon, you’d need to burn a forest the size of the African continent every day throughout the year. Fortunately, there are ways you can reduce the carbon footprint in your daily life. Take a look.

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Climate 4.0

MARCH 7, 2021

The Climate Economy is one that, when achieved, is carbon-negative (not just “zero”), circular, sustainable, reparative of the past, and regenerative for the future. What makes it truly the Climate 4.0 Economy is when it is achieved simultaneously with the Industry 4.0, Digital Transformation of the global economy now well-underway.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

A new Greenpeace report notes that Microsoft, Amazon and Google are undermining their public carbon commitments through by providing services that allow oil and gas firms extract fossil fuels from the earth. Amazon, which has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2040, had not replied to a request for comment ahead of this article's publication.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. Carbon Engineering’s working pilot plant in Squamish B.C. Carbon Engineering.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service. The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

On the anniversary of its pledge to become a 'carbon negative' company, Microsoft has provided a snapshot of its decarbonisation progress to date, revealing it curbed its absolute emissions by six per cent last year while purchasing 1.3 million metric tonnes of carbon removal credits through its first offset tender process.

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Clean Energy Trust

APRIL 23, 2020

Marc Andreesen wrote a much-discussed blog post recently ( It’s Time to Build ) with a call to build things in light of the pandemic crisis and welcomed feedback from others. and the European Union pursue clean energy technologies as a stimulus method?” Will the coronavirus cause the world to hit peak carbon? Delivery robots.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

By Seamus Lombardo, Luisa Teixeira, Tara O’Shea Every quarter, we publish a blog post that highlights some of the amazing work of the NICFI Satellite Data Program’s community of users. Yet these indigenous communities and their ancestral lands are under intense deforestation pressure and subject to a host of negative impacts of forest loss.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. The House of Commons’ Science and Technology Select Committee has determined that low carbon hydrogen will at best have a limited role in heating homes.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” I believe that there will always be environmental problems and that we can nearly always solve them with improved knowledge, science, and technology.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

After years of R&D there is growing evidence that carbon capture and utilisation technologies are edging towards the crucial commercialisation phase. This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects. What's on my mind?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One tangible way to measure the positive contributions of investment portfolios on the climate is via reductions in carbon emissions and this is something more and more providers are reporting today, while a growing number of investment products are aligning themselves with the Paris Agreement goals. Rigorous standards. Beyond personal.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2021

All of Smog Armor’s materials are sourced in the US and they’ve partnered with a local green paint manufacturer to make the paints locally and reduce their carbon footprint. Their labels are also made with 100% recycled paper and they have created a paint pouch that uses 80% less plastic than standard paint cans. IMPETUS DIGITAL.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. Carbon Engineering’s working pilot plant in Squamish B.C. Carbon Engineering.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 4, 2022

There were certain technologies that existed and her own will to make changes to clean energy, but it was all so nascent. She believes that we need to interrogate different technologies, become aware internally of our skill sets and then merge our curiosity and passion with those two things. On Keally’s Career Journey & Learnings.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Good-faith efforts to reuse carbon, heat and steam are underway with a target to reduce the Port’s emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2025. The EU’s climate commitments mean that we will replace those smokestacks with clean technologies, sooner or later.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Microsoft also positions itself as a climate champion, publicly vowing to reach 100 percent renewable energy for its operations by 2025 and to become a “carbon negative” company by 2030. Credit: Mike Mozart. (CC CC BY 2.0). But the tech company also works with the same lobbyists that push a fossil fuel agenda. Blocking Climate Action.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? The graph at the top shows the trajectory of global carbon emissions (and this is without the land-use figures), so no. And it’s not all about carbon emissions. These things cause negative feedback loops that make all problems worse.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

But the good news is — so are additional technologies like solar panels, EV chargers and battery storage. When homeowners choose these options, they can lessen their carbon footprint while also gaining a more reliable energy source. Sadly, intense weather patterns are on the rise. Because it helps them (and the industry).

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

But the good news is — so are additional technologies like solar panels, EV chargers and battery storage. When homeowners choose these options, they can lessen their carbon footprint while also gaining a more reliable energy source. Sadly, intense weather patterns are on the rise. Because it helps them (and the industry).

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

In fact in many states, the wholesale cost of electricity moves into negative prices in the middle of the day when rooftop solar system generation peaks. One of the main actions homeowners can take to reduce their own carbon footprint is to install solar. This percentage is expected to increase progressively over next decade.

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Green Tech Challenge

JULY 10, 2019

Ocean acidification has negative effects on sea-life and the ecosystem. Aquaculture and Ocean Acidification When mixed with seawater, carbon dioxide produces an acid which corrodes calcium, making shell formation and bone growth particularly difficult. As a traveller, she blogs at www.beyondthebirthplace.com.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

About 77% of the citizens agree that a more important energy priority should be developing alternative energy resources like wind and solar power and hydrogen technology instead of increasing fossil fuel production. Green hydrogen is generated from low-carbon power or renewable energy.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Maersk even advocated for a $150 per ton carbon tax on shipping fuel.

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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. Green technology is at the heart of the European Green Deal. Once approved, the law will set legally binding targets for carbon emission reductions.

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects. Makes me want to host my own personal blog there. “This program makes it easy, and valuable, to do the right thing. .”

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Neither current politics or technology will be enough, the report’s writers say, estimating how present food production and distribution habits point to a yawning 56 percent “food gap” between what was produced in 2010 and food that will be needed in 2050. Can 10 technologies save the world?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This post contains spoilers about the film Don't Look Up, although, let's be honest if you're reading this blog there's a good chance you've seen it already. "We This would cause negative consequences such as reduced food production and higher food prices." We really did have everything, didn't we? I mean, when you think about it.".

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

In what appears to row back on the Commission's initial ambitions for a "renovation wave" of spending focused on a raft of green infrastructure and technologies, Member States are now set to be given relative freedom to spend support they are given as they see fit. There were disappointments for the green economy in the EU Council deal, too.

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