Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The European Commission’s review of the competitiveness of clean energy technologies finds that while remaining highly cost competitive, market shares are falling. Likewise innovative solutions and continuous technological advances are key to boost competitiveness of solar thermal. Have you read?

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Latest batch of carbon analysis from electronics giant reveals how clean technologies can help slash emissions from transportation and distribution. Can a company that helps produce clean technologies harness those same technologies to meet its own climate goals?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That includes a recommitment to reaching its 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions below 50 percent of their 2007 levels, potentially ahead of schedule.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Labour’s energy spokesperson has said he stands “completely” with biomass giant Drax, despite admitting that its use of wood pellets in its North Yorkshire power station is not carbon neutral. The speakers at the panel event, “How Can the UK Build a Zero Carbon, Lower Cost Energy Future?”

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GreenBiz

JUNE 25, 2020

With growing consensus on the gravity of the climate crisis, countries and companies are adopting carbon reduction targets. Pressure to make emissions visible has been around for a while: Consumers want to know how much carbon is embodied in the products they buy. Alas, to date the same isn’t true of carbon performance.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

A series of new offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities to supply the renewable energy and green hydrogen required for low-emissions steel production in Germany are set to be built following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between energy company RWE and steel producer ArcelorMittal.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Analysis of the government’s latest transparency data shows ministers at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) held 130 one-on-one meetings with energy producers between July 22 2019 and March 18 2021, of which nearly half (63) were with producers of high carbon energy. Drax Access.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Arlene Karidis Wed, 07/15/2020 – 01:00 One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is “clean hydrogen” made from trash. ” Today, more than 95 percent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables.

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

are collaborating on a net zero industrial cluster that they believe will establish a template for any country seeking a carbon-neutral economy. Its biomass generators will be connected to carbon capture, utili z ation and storage (CCUS) te chnology. A coalition of industry, power and oil and gas firms in the U.K.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 20, 2021

to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they have emitted since they were founded. He added that energy demand is expected to continue growing, and thus there is a growing need to address the associated carbon emissions. ambitious goal and a detailed plan ?to

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This year’s Draft Scoping Plan proposes a pathway to achieve the state’s target of 40 percent emissions below 1990 levels and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045. . This scenario relies on already mature technologies to achieve near-term emissions reductions, as opposed to nascent technologies such as carbon removal.

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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. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

for grid enhancements and $7B for hydrogen fuel hubs. 100B of deals went down in the Permian basin and Shell abandoned a $100M per year carbon credit pipeline. 🍃 Credit registration body Verra’s CEO resigned following a bombshell Guardian exposé, marking a perilous year for carbon.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. On Instagram , Campbell encouraged his followers to watch his “Hydrogen powered adventure!” percent of total energy consumption in 2050.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets unveils recommendations on how to scale up investment in emission reduction programmes, but environmental campaigners remain unimpressed. And it stresses that global emissions targets are likely to be missed without a fresh approach for driving investment in negative emissions projects.

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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. of hydrogen is made in this way; 90% of it is ‘grey’, made using fossil fuels like gas.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The companies are working together to demonstrate the potential of H2 Microsoft, Caterpillar and Ballard Power Systems have launched a collaboration through which they will demonstrate the way a hydrogen fuel cell system can be used at data centers as reliable backup power. Take our fun and engaging Hydrogen Quiz now!

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. 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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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

And the negative impact of climate change on habitat and diversity are far more profound than that caused by the wildlife trade. Opportunities from a zero carbon economy. A growing number of multinational corporations, local governments and countries have committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In its list of 2030 commitments to support the European Green Deal, CropLife said that it will “invest 10 billion euros into innovation in precision and digital technologies by 2030.” The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That’s potentially very bad news for the climate: The huge amount of methane that leaks during the production, transport and storage of LNG means that the carbon emissions associated with importing the fuel could be up to ten times higher than for the equivalent amount of Russian pipeline gas, researchers say. Credit: Phoebe Cooke.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is a unique, multi-year program driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO?)

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

But the new six-month Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V) acceleration program is all about ways to capture and convert carbon dioxide into something useful. Inhabitat: Please give us just a little history about the Carbon to Value Initiative. Most business accelerators focus on community economic development.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

But the new six-month Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V) acceleration program is all about ways to capture and convert carbon dioxide into something useful. Inhabitat: Please give us just a little history about the Carbon to Value Initiative. Most business accelerators focus on community economic development.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. A new technology of this sort, chemical garment-to-garment recycling, was one of your favorite stories of the year. .

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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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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. As technology costs continue to fall, the pathways to net-zero are becoming clearer.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

Ramping up onshore and offshore wind, alongside hydrogen and other renewables, is the key to unlocking a rapid, low-cost transformation of the energy sector. We therefore welcome the new support for floating offshore wind and renewable hydrogen technologies announced today which will play a vital role in the UK's net zero transition.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the percentage reduction in carbon emissions committed and the deadline set? I am delighted by the 'race to zero' among large and small companies setting bolder carbon targets. It mitigates its most material negative impacts, enjoys and perhaps amplifies its most material positives. And how are you judging that?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 25, 2020

With growing consensus on the gravity of the climate crisis, countries and companies are adopting carbon reduction targets. Pressure to make emissions visible has been around for a while: Consumers want to know how much carbon is embodied in the products they buy. Alas, to date the same isn’t true of carbon performance.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 25, 2020

With growing consensus on the gravity of the climate crisis, countries and companies are adopting carbon reduction targets. Pressure to make emissions visible has been around for a while: Consumers want to know how much carbon is embodied in the products they buy. Alas, to date the same isn’t true of carbon performance.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

Indeed, the European Green Deal programme aimed at transitioning Europe to become the world's first climate neutral continent by 2050 has been a major driving force behind the pandemic recovery and budget agreement. There were disappointments for the green economy in the EU Council deal, too.

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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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