Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Tackling methane from oil and gas operations among 'best near-term opportunities’ for combatting climate change, IEA argues. Methane, which is largely released from abandoned coal mines, oil and gas operations, and farming, has a far greater global warming potential than CO2.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

By Faye Bowser, Head of Energy Solutions, Siemens plc. How do we find the energy and ideas now to put in place the changes needed to sustain our collective trajectory to 2050, and also identify the next set of ‘big wins’ for industry? We have already exceeded our interim global business goal of cutting CO2 emissions by half by 2020.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This future hyperspectral satellites will be named Tanager, a colorful and visually diverse family of birds in Central and South America, and are designed to deliver hyperspectral data at a resolution of 30 meters with over 400 spectral bands. Sign up to receive updates on Planet’s hyperspectral commercial offering here.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Despite the tense, last-minute drama, the Glasgow Climate Pact sends a very clear investment signal to businesses and financial institutions, argues Nick Molho from the Aldersgate Group. This is understandable, but it should not detract from the very clear signals that the business and investment community have been sent at COP26.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

European Commission unveils flurry of major policy plans as it seeks to help deliver on 2050 net zero goal, but green groups warn bolder action is still required. 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.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Business as usual for the oil and gas industry is over. Investor confidence is flagging just as the talent pool shrinks and competition from cleaner energy sources intensifies. Ben Ratner, Senior Director, EDF+Business. Support science based climate policy agendas. BP’s recent “net zero” announcement is a case in point.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Government confirms plans for levy on gas suppliers to help fund grid-connected anaerobic digestion (AD) plants around Britain. Heating is currently responsible for around a third of the UK's total greenhouse gas emissions, due to the overwhelming majority of homes and businesses being heated by fossil fuel gas.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The gas can be produced either through the electrolysis of water using renewable power to create green hydrogen or through its extraction from methane, a process that produces carbon dioxide as a by product that can then be captured and stored resulting in so-called blue hydrogen.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The latest report from the Energy Transitions Commission has set out a roadmap for how the world can move on to a 1.5C It is a daunting task, but one governments and businesses have no option but to complete if they want to avert a rolling climate crisis. warming trajectory over the course of the coming decade. pathway by 2030.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Ecommerce businesses gain from this in various ways, such as enhancing their corporate reputation, being ready for climate change policies, maintaining industry competition, and appealing to consumers and workers. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Adopting net-zero by 2050 benchmarks will allow banks to minimize portfolio-wide climate risks and capitalize on the financial opportunities of the energy transition. Transition risks could also arise, as technological and policy advancements cause the value of high-emitting companies to decline. Why it matters. degree scenario.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Many investors in these areas — such as oil & gas, transportation, and agriculture – have begun to look more closely at the private sector’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. Companies flared 142 billion cubic meters of gas last year, according to the World Bank, or about 4% of global natural gas production.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2022

During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Philanthropist Bill Gates, the US special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry, CEO of energy firm Vattenfall Anna Borg, and Yasmine Fouad, Egypt’s Minister of Environment, discussed the key actions utilities, governments and the private sector are planning to accelerate climate action and innovation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

California's new decarbonisation plan, Austria's windfall tax, and global methane reduction efforts. The agency said the strategy represened an unprecedented effort to drastically slash pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy. "No California Air Resources Board publishes sweeping net zero strategy.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

“Satellites for Climate Action” Brings Together Government, Technology, Philanthropy, and Environmental Groups to Use Satellite Data to Advance Climate Protection. The initiative was unveiled at the third annual Bloomberg Global Business Forum. Data is one of the most powerful tools we have in the fight against climate change.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). The impacts of GHGs are being felt here and now. Emissions have grown by an average 1.4

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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).

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis? Much work remains.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

With increasing public, government and shareholder attention on climate, here are three ways sustainable finance leaders will emerge in 2021. Integrate climate into core business. As with other core financial issues, monitoring metrics is just the start. Support regulations and policies required to decarbonize.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2022

That plant - dubbed H2H Saltend - is aiming to supply low carbon fuel to the park's various industrial businesses, as well as to the Saltend Power Station, which has powered the vast manufacturing site since the late 1990s. We are decarbonising energy and we are decarbonising products.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful. A 2019 study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed that fossil fuels accounted for almost 70 percent of global energy demand.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

UN backs green hydrogen as it publishes seven principles designed to guide policymakers and business leaders approach to scaling the low carbon fuel. energy sector pathway". Fossil-based hydrogen must turn to credible, independent lifecycle emissions monitoring and regulation to meet a "high burden of proof" for inclusion in 1.5C

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Meanwhile, the government has made the development of a lower carbon farming a key priority for its planned post Brexit reforms of agricultural subsidies, which will see land owners rewarded for the environmental services they deliver.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

As energy demands increase for heavier and longer-distance transport, the energy efficiency equation for fossil based-fuels becomes harder to displace. So far, electrification and hydrogen-based options have struggled to achieve sufficient energy densities. These lower-carbon fuels are only as good as their ingredients.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

New IEEFA report argues existing CCS projects are underperforming, but industry counters that carbon capture projects can deliver major emissions savings when effective policy frameworks are in place. Producing the primary usable product - natural, or methane gas - is impossible without separating CO2," researchers explained.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

believing the government was doing too little to reduce the effects of climate change. Thus far we have made investments towards reducing the climate impact of our food, industrial production, and energy systems, and we are eager to make more. VCs are great at investing in capital-efficient, highly scalable, high margin businesses.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

LCPI finds that one third of reductions, approximately 10 million tCO2e, should be expected from current trends and existing policies plus the price-elasticity effect of the fee if I-1631 is enacted. The measure would rely on a robust investment program to achieve the remaining 20 million tCO2e. the fee) and targeted investments.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

BusinessGreen brings you an overview of the key business takeaways from the Glasgow Climate Summit. Forward-thinking businesses and financiers are set to be agents of change as governments look for ways to turn ambition into action - a role that is clearly not lost on the many business leaders represented at the SEC Centre in Glasgow.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

A new league table has highlighted how the global electric vehicle market is continuing to rapidly expand, with China seeing sales of zero emission models top three million units last year. The new analysis from electric vehicle subscription service Elmo confirms that China remains the largest EV market by sales, with nearly 3.4

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 12, 2021

With increasing public, government, and shareholder attention on climate, here are three ways that sustainable finance leaders will emerge in 2021. Integrate climate into core business. As with other core financial issues, monitoring metrics is just the start. Ben Ratner, Senior Director, EDF+Business.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Biomethane from sewage, renewable power, peatland restoration, and tree planting feature heavily in Water UK's sweeping new decarbonisation roadmap. The new plan envisages the development of up to 3GW of new onsite solar and wind generation capacity in order to meet around 80 per cent of the industry's power demand.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. More broadly, backers of hydrogen energy and CCS tend to see environmental advocates as obstacles to these technologies. Lake Maurepas at sunrise.

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