Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Green gas specialist CNG Fuels has opened two further refuelling stations for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in the UK this week, in anticipation of surging demand for renewable biomethane over the next year and beyond. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

However, the sector will need to overcome challenges such as higher global demand for components and the risk of supply chain disruptions. The report finds that the EU is on track to meet the forecast demand for batteries for 2025 and 2030. Join Enlit Europe in Paris. Register now

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

The UK is committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and this year's edition of National Grid ESO's 'Future Energy Scenarios' shows that a 2035 clean power sector driven by a massive expansion of renewables is now the benchmark for the UK if it is to reach this goal. Zero carbon power by 2035. Credit: Ember.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Rapidly falling clean technology costs alongside mounting investor pressure, consumer demand for change, and tightening government policy is pushing more companies to ramp up their climate targets towards net zero and beyond. Carbon credits will play an essential, but controversial, role in hitting net zero," the report states.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report from the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) argues that contrary to popular opinion the CCUS sector already comprises a "vast portfolio of existing technologies that are economically viable".

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Fresh analysis warns plans for UK's largest BECCS facility in North Yorkshire could prove more expensive for billpayers than Hinkley Point C, but developer Drax rejects calculations and insists carbon capture technology is likely to prove a crucial component of the net zero transition.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. Is this the best second life for trash?

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

The plans are in line with a strategy to develop Total "as a broad-energy company", a company statement explained, where low-carbon electricity and carbon-neutrality solutions are offered alongside its traditional oil and gas offerings. Energy markets are changing, driven by climate change, technology and societal expectations.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

But there are constant concerns about whether the supply can keep up with the growing demand as these technologies proliferate. Lithium is widely used in batteries in applications from small personal electronic devices up to electric vehicles and large-scale utility energy storage. The Safelines4birds project, with a €14 million ($14.4

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

Europe needs to be leading the charge to a more sustainable world, but it is being held back by short-termism and poor policymaking, argues Systemiq's Janez Potočnik. For 54 scarce and economically important raw materials, Europe imports 90 per cent of them fully. The price of these resources is also increasing.

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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. As recently as April, 2021, Uniper, then one of Europe’s biggest buyers of Russian gas, was forced to shelve the latest attempt to open an LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven, citing a lack of demand.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Though it was later dismantled by Obama’s successor, the European Commission included funding for behavioural research projects in its European Green Deal , a 1 trillion Euro campaign aimed to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Putting people at the centre.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The companies analyzed were selected to represent a range of scale and location across Europe. A Focus on ‘Net Zero’.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Across Europe electric vehicle sales are continuing to climb rapidly, and more and more manufacturers are responding to the growing demand. We want to become a net zero carbon business with a 100 per cent alternative fuel fleet. per cent in the Germany. Norway's market share for plug-in vehicles hit 79 per cent.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

And most importantly, this is the right deal for Europe, right now.". Michel conceded negotiations had been difficult, but was quick to hail the resulting recovery package - known as the Next Generation EU fund - and 2021-27 long-term budget agreement as a "pivotal moment in Europe's journey" that would "also launch us into the future". "In

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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. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks. Company profile.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. As these forests disappear to feed demand for biomass, so, too, will their unique ecosystems.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The wood pellets Drax produces are treated as “carbon neutral” under international accounting rules, based on an assumption that new-growth trees will capture the carbon lost by wood burnt for electricity. and Canada to meet a rising demand for biomass-fuelled energy in Europe and Asia.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

In particular, the plan adopts a technology-neutral Clean Electricity Standard, which puts us on the path to achieving 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. An important feature of this approach is that it is technology-neutral. It also includes retrofitting U.S. communities — especially in communities of color.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Italy announces ban on new petrol and diesel cars, EU carbon prices hit record levels, and all the green business news from around the world this week. RUSAL opens new low carbon aluminium smelter. Our smelter in Taishet will help to address the high global demand for low carbon aluminium.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

From nurturing ocean carbon sinks to encouraging marine clean tech, there are steps all businesses can take to accelerate progress towards SDG14. For their part, officials have often been more than happy to accede to industry representatives demands for higher quotas, according to Professor Callum Roberts from York University.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

The WindH2 system is a central component of the SALCOS - Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking technology project, which Salzgitter AG expects to deliver significant carbon emission reductions from the steelmaking process and could the long term even achieve almost CO2-free steel production. In Europe, 12.GW

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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. But we are not neutral about where things are built. I profoundly disagree with this approach.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 14, 2021

Moreover, Youngman’s slides tracked dramatically increased corporate commitments announced in 2020 towards net zero and/or science based carbon reduction targets, most of which seemed unimaginable just two to three years ago. In 2020, she set herself the goal of living carbon neutral. And for the next 5, or 10 years?

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AGreenLiving

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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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

Hydrogen is clearly riding on the renewable energy revolution with green hydrogen emerging as a game changer for achieving climate neutrality without compromising industrial growth and social development," explained Francesco La Camera, IRENA's director-general, at a launch event for the report this weekend. But hydrogen is not a new oil.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Test operations at the world's first fossil fuel-free steel-making plant have begun, marking a major milestone in the race to decarbonise the carbon intensive steel industry that is thought to be responsible for around seven per cent of global emissions. EU prepares free credit cut for high emissions industries - reports.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2023

A UK government agency has provided billions of pounds worth of financial support to the high-carbon aviation sector since the Paris climate agreement was adopted in 2015, DeSmog analysis shows. Airlines already benefit from paying no duty on their fuel, and most of the emissions from flying attract no carbon costs.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. For the first time in history, oil prices were negative. The transition is among us.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

Due to forecasts by accountants that global oil demand may never recover to levels reached before the pandemic, amid permanent changes to how people work and travel and growing concerns about the climate crisis. Even oil company BP is now coming up with scenarios in which demand will never return to the old level. Around 2030.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

Due to forecasts by accountants that global oil demand may never recover to levels reached before the pandemic, amid permanent changes to how people work and travel and growing concerns about the climate crisis. Even oil company BP is now coming up with scenarios in which demand will never return to the old level. Around 2030.

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