GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals. Joel Makower.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Consider this: In April, Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest companies in the world, announced its intent to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. No doubt Shell is counting on some miracle like carbon capture to preserve its adherence to a century-old business model of selling oil. And who could blame it? What happened?

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee writes to government slamming decision to axe grant scheme and urging Ministers to deliver replacement. The EAC report had explicitly advised that the scheme should "not to be scrapped or quietly wound down" - a recommendation that was unceremoniously rejected by the government. "In

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

A group of leading academics, campaigners, and executives have this week issued a renewed call for governments to accelerate efforts to scale up the deployment of Nature-Based Solutions capable of simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and restoring natural habitats.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies are being adopted too slowly to achieve even the IPCC’s 2.0° But CCUS adoption needs to grow 120 times by 2050 for the world to meet its existing net-zero commitments, at a cost of $130 billion per year – more than governments are willing or able to afford alone.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2022

With immediate government backing, this gas demand could be directly replaced with home-grown biomethane within the next four years. In fact, converting biomethane to green hydrogen can be net negative. The current industry produces enough bio-CO2 to meet the UK’s entire industrial demand.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land. Too many companies and governments are hiding behind the smokescreen of net zero to continue dirty business-as-usual activities," he said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

UN-led coalition releases new targets to cut carbon from public construction projects by boosting demand for low-carbon steel, cement, and concrete. Government commitments to buy green can make a pivotal difference.". Steel, cement and concrete are the building blocks of our modern world," he said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Firm announces new wood pellet production and sales targets as it confirms intention to build global fleet of bioenergy and carbon capture and storage plants. Green groups have repeatedly urged governments around the world to strip biomass of subsidies and its 'renewable' status.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2021

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. The use of biomass feedstocks to generate energy or produce materials is expected to play a major role in the transition to a net zero emission economy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Drax CEO argues deal will play 'pivotal role' in the development of voluntary carbon markets. Respira would then sell on these credits on the voluntary carbon market to corporations and financial institutions looking to achieve carbon neutrality and net zero emission targets.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

However, it is crucial that as we move from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, we do not not risk disturbing our planet’s largest carbon sinks by giving the destructive deep-sea mining industry the green light and opening up a new frontier of industrial extraction, writes campaign organisation the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown. As for disclosure, investors expect more of it and at a more robust level, but they are also demanding goal-setting, with metrics and accountability.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Scope 3 emissions can account for over 70% of many businesses’ carbon footprint, which means that organisations – and the world – cannot reach net-zero without taking huge strides to reduce their indirect emissions. Enabling solutions: Shrinking your digital carbon footprint. What’s next?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The global gas supply shortage has driven a more than 500 per cent surge in prices this year, which, coupled with inadequate hedging strategies and the restrictions imposed by the government's energy price cap, has seen a wave of energy suppliers filing for bankruptcy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. Mon, 03/08/2021 - 00:15. ESG issues continue to gain prominence, with climate change getting the most attention today.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

The latest edition of National Grid ESO's Future Energy Scenarios (FES) 2021 predicts there are a number of ways that power generation in Britain could become emissions net negative by 2034 helping to put the UK on track to become a net zero emission economy by mid-century. Both of these scenarios would meet the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology scooping up the resulting CO2. A cluster of powerful European governments says a hydrogen economy has to be fueled by renewables, not natural gas. The EU is aiming to be net-zero carbon across all sectors by 2050. Meanwhile, the U.K.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

But Imperial College London analysis warns emerging technologies and negative emission power plants are likely to be needed to unlock full decarbonisation of the grid. per cent as more plants shuttered last year in preparation for the government's proposed 2024 coal power phase-out deadline. per cent.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

The government has confirmed it is tightening the rules governing its renewables subsidy regime ahead of the fourth round of clean power contract auctions later this year, announcing last week it will withdraw support for clean energy developments that do not hit their supply chain goals.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

has called on the German government to intervene to keep down the costs of renewable electricity and “fast-track” the energy transition. Johannes Teyssen said the government needs to cap the tariff added to customer bills to pay for the country’s renewable support schemes, known as the "EEG levy."

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. ’s final energy demand by 2050. billion) a year.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

From 2047 onwards, the energy system could then become net negative, absorbing more emissions than it produces through a mix of carbon capture technologies and solutions, which operate on both a standalone basis and while attached to power stations. Systems thinking is critical to delivering a low-carbon economy.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

The government has presented further details of its plan for scaling up direct air capture, CCUS, and BECCS technologies in the coming decade. The estimates come in the government's response to a host of recommendations from the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) last year on the role for carbon removals in the net zero transition.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

The fashion industry is on course to take-up 25 per cent of the world's carbon budget, yet despite this huge impact, the UK government is failing to tackle the negative impact of fashion. The demand for pre-loved clothing is forecast to grow by between 15-20 per cent per annum over the next?five?years.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2022

Influential analyst firm argues prices for carbon offsets could reach as high as $120 a ton by 2050, or as low as $47 a ton. That is the conclusion of a new report this week from influential research firm BloombergNEF, which details how carbon offset prices could reach as high as $120/ton or as low as $47/ton by 2050.

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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. Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. Naturally, energy demand declined as office blocks fell dark and leisure activities were suspended, but these latest Drax figures indicate something else. The broader picture.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

A new report from McKinsey predicts global fossil fuel demand 'will never return to its pre-pandemic growth curve', but warns the world is still on track to badly miss its climate goals. The influential consultancy giant today published a new report detailing how it expects global oil demand to peak in 2029, with gas demand peaking in 2037.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2021

Acquisition aimed at addressing growing demand for carbon removal projects such as direct air capture, BECCS, biochar and carbon-embodied buildings. Carbon removal is a process through which CO2 is physically captured from the atmosphere and stabilsed into durable storage.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

New report from the Coalition for Negative Emissions argues urgent action is needed to expand carbon removals market - and businesses have a critical role to play. Most importantly, delivering net zero emissions through carbon offsets risks distracting from the need to slash emissions at source.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Following a decade of red ink — capped by a devastating 2020 when oil prices briefly went negative — fracking-focused companies finally made some money this year. Yet a new analysis from earth scientist David Hughes, writing for the nonprofit Post Carbon Institute , suggests that the industry’s future may not be nearly so bright.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

A major cold snap led to record electricity usage in the Canadian province of Alberta over the weekend, culminating in demands from provincial utilities to limit consumption. Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis.

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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?” Completely With Them’.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The world's top climate scientists have updated their guidance on carbon removals technologies, arguing they are likely to prove essential to stablising global temperatures, but only if they are developed judiciously.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The UK government’s weakening of its windfall tax on energy profits matched the demands of a high-level lobbying campaign by the oil and gas industry, new research reveals. In the same month, OEUK also wrote letters to Sunak warning the proposed windfall tax would have a negative impact on oil and gas investments in the UK.

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