Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

If there is one issue that transcends all the different areas of modern journalism, then climate change is it. According to an independent study, commissioned by Clim8 Invest, climate change is the number one concern for 61 per cent of UK consumers. per cent of 2018 GDP. Taking action.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

This is another in the realm of the “business case” for sustainability (within a corporation for its own capital and investment decisions, not as an investment thesis for investors). Raising the price on carbon or other inputs drives different capital and investment decisions. They shouldn’t.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. The innovators say we can. They invest in less bad instead of different and better. .

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EDF + Business

JULY 21, 2020

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns we have just 30 years to reduce emissions to the point where we have no impact on the climate. In these challenging times, we need bold leadership and immediate action to rebuild a better, more sustainable planet and a low-carbon economy.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

degrees C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — or continue with the status quo. Elemental’s Policy Lab team unpacked the major national, subnational, and private sector commitments that emerged from COP 26 for climate technology innovation in the United States and beyond. Simply put, climate action creates jobs.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When one thinks about carbon emissions, images of spewing smokestacks or tailpipes likely come to mind. One- seventh of the world’s carbon emissions are associated with building materials like steel, cement and aluminum. Put simply, there is a construction-shaped hole in our global efforts to combat climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

Net zero emission climate targets may have swept the public and private sectors over the past two years, but businesses and governments must now step up their ambition further if they want to avert dangerous levels of climate change. Net zero is going to have to become net negative. by the end of the century.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2024

Enfinium CEO Mike Maudsley explains how the energy from waste sector can deliver negative emissions, why the net zero transition needs all industries to play a role, and what the company is doing to encourage more young people to work in the green economy Mike Maudsley joined enfinium as chief executive officer in 2022.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The past week has been a key period for investment decisions, pleas and pledges within the financial community. At the same time, the European Investment Bank (EIB) released its 7th annual investment survey, breaking down how firms have been faring in the energy space in the midst of the continuing effects of the war in Ukraine.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To achieve this it will require an annual reduction in carbon intensity of 9.7%, according to the latest “Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI)” produced by professional services firm PwC. However, the rate of progress has slowed and the gap to meet climate targets is widening. If the UK is able to achieve the required 9.7%

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Whether that energy is turned into renewable fuels or clean electricity, it can reduce carbon emissions and resource depletion. From waste segregation to state-of-the-art WTE plants, innovative technology is helping transform trash into valuable resources. Unfortunately, most countries still do not manage to achieve this goal.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2021

Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme sees 24 projects share £4m of funding. The government announced the latest wave of funding from its Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme, providing grants worth up to £200,000 to 24 projects from across the UK.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

VIDEO: Regen CEO Merlin Hyman speaks to Drax's Rebecca Heaton, David Joffe from the Committee on Climate Change, Jenifer Baxter from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME), and Great Grimsby MP Lia Nici about the challenges and opportunities of negative emissions technologies.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 10, 2021

.” The project represents $400 million in community investment, the company said in a press release. Microsoft established ambitious goals for the corporation to be carbon negative by 2030 and to remove historical carbon emissions by 2050. “On

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

EXCLUSIVE: BeZero Carbon argues scaling of nascent UK carbon removals sector is being held back by chronic lack of investment. The market is also being hindered by the UK's pathcy record of harnessing its world-leading science and technology facilities for commercial gain, BeZero Carbon added.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Bids for funding are being sought through the second phase of the government's Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme, which was announced today and is designed to support projects looking to breed, plant, cultivate, and harvest organic matter that can be used as a fuel to produce energy.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

With billions of dollars already flowing into climatetech, investors have a big role to play in driving the energy transition and negating the effects of climate change. The IPCC report hasn’t necessarily changed investors’ core approaches, but it’s shifted forward their timelines of investing in certain technologies.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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Business Green

APRIL 11, 2021

Report commissioned by energy firm argues BECCS technology offers climate and cost benefits for decarbonising UK energy system. The project is unique as a relatively inexpensive source of negative emissions that can be deployed before 2030 and is an important first step in a wider UK BECCS programme," states the report.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2020

Apple has become the latest US tech behemoth to step up its net zero ambitions, today pledging to be 'carbon neutral' throughout its entire business, manufacturing supply chain and product life cycle by the end of the decade. Climate action can be the foundation for a new era of innovative potential, job creation, and durable economic growth.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The investment covers 40% of the Texas facility’s $1.3B project cost and is one of the largest DAC investments to date. Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

New funding aims to accelerate development of innovative nuclear and hydrogen technologies, as consultation launched on plans for hydrogen-ready boilers. Energy and Climate Change Minister Graham Stuart said the new support from government would provide a major boost to the UK nuclear industry and help create export opportunities.

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

Alphabet, Meta, Shopify and McKinsey launch Frontier Fund to bring down costs of carbon removal technologies that scientists acknowledge will be critical to meeting climate goals.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Blue hydrogen has been marketed as a climate-friendly fuel since the production process aims to capture most of the associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. But climate campaigners warn the impact of methane leaks could negate any benefits from the as-yet unproven technology. Dirty Hydrogen’.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Facilitating technological and business model innovation will be central to achieving net zero, argues Nick Molho of the Aldersgate Group. Whilst Brexit will undoubtedly remain a dominant theme in 2020, the new government will need to press on with delivering progress on the climate change and environmental agenda.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Tech giant teams up with Goldman Sachs and Conservation International in a move designed to scale up wider investment in forestry restoration worldwide. Nature provides some of the best tools to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Heirloom Capital, a company which claims to have developed an "ultra low-cost" DAC process that captures and process CO2 ready for storage in rock form, has hailed the fund raise as one of the largest investments in nascent carbon negative technology to date.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

Digital Innovation Manager, BASF; Sao Paulo, Brazil. COVID-19 will definitely change the world, and I truly hope that this will bring a new priority for sustainability topics. As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

This “vicious cycle” of pesticide use fueling climate change, and vice versa, is examined in a report published Tuesday by the advocacy group Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA). According to PANNA , the assessment is the first in-depth scientific review of the relationship between pesticides and climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Lucy Victoria Desai, a writer for Northern Powergrid who specialises in sustainability, business, and innovation, appraises the potential and practicalities of wind energy. The world has already found some innovative ways to sustainably produce energy without the reliance on coal, oil, and natural gas. The pros. •

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2022

Global tech giant Microsoft has announced it has signed a 10-year carbon removal offtake agreement with Swiss direct air capture firm Climeworks that will see it fund the removal of 10,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere.

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EDF + Business

JULY 10, 2020

In fact, Amazon’s carbon emissions climbed 15% in the last year alone — even before coronavirus — due to increased sales. But while it’s comforting to see signs of “normalcy” returning in some regions, our health and our planet depend on our ability to find innovative solutions for building back, better.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Incorporating SDG 13, Climate Action, into your business will empower you to tackle the unique challenges of a changing climate and show your customers you prioritize the needs of all. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Improve climate change education.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

A company making ‘carbon negative’ insulation is the latest one to receive a share of £8m funding for circular economy businesses administered by Zero Waste Scotland. The Borders firm claims that its products can reduce the average new Scottish home’s carbon footprint by 4.4

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The recently-passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is such a game-changer for domestic climate action that experts at ClimateWeek often referred to it, reflexively, as the Emissions Reduction Act. back into a position of global climate leadership. In the near-term, the conflict is exerting negative impacts on climate emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Climate change is a transnational challenge which threatens global resilience and our shared security and prosperity," said Sir Mike Wigston KCB CBE ADC, air chief marshal and chief of air staff. The company has received investment from Formula One World Champion Damon Hill and a grant from the UK's innovation agency Innovate UK.

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