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

JULY 13, 2021

Detailed and joined-up policies, behaviour change, 'whole system' infrastructure investment, and holistic energy market reform are all critical to achieving net zero emissions, report warns. Both of these scenarios would meet the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget.

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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

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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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

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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee Chair Philip Dunne talks to BusinessGreen about the need for 'a tax system fit for net zero Britain' and the right time to judge whether the government has delivered on its green recovery promises.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

A current lack of policy and leadership. 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. Only one policy contained any detail of cost or timeframes. Hubbub's Trewin Restorick.

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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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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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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 greatest successes.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As with previous years, 2022’s conference has focused on implementing climate policies – with decarbonisation a key theme. 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.

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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

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

MARCH 11, 2020

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. However, for policy to be effective in getting to net zero emissions, it is important to be clear what we mean by innovation.

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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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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I think there’s an increasing recognition that policy measures and action targeted at production itself is going to be needed to get the kind of decline rates that we’re thinking about here,” said Steve Pye, one of the study’s authors, during a press call on Tuesday. degrees C above preindustrial temperatures. “If

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

policy interventions and subsidies are poised to address upfront vehicle costs. In addition, 52 percent of those surveyed reported a negative effect on their quality of life. The good news is that in the U.S., Klein et al.’s s (2023) findings of the impacts of car loss and car gain on low-income households. Source: Klein et al.,

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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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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

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 18, 2022

Aviation giant has partnered with US low-carbon fuel company Alder Fuels and will test its SAF in its planes. Aerospace giant Boeing has announced it is to team up with US low-carbon fuel specialist Alder Fuels in a new partnership with a view to expanding production of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) around the world.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Josh Burke at LSE's Grantham Research Institute navigates the costs, opportunities, advantages and disadvantages of different carbon capture and negative emissions technologies. This was made clear in the Committee on Climate Change's landmark advice to government on reaching net zero by 2050, published last May.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. The growth in demand that this creates will increase pressure on land and other resources.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

For many observers the only thing worse than the publication of the government's Food Strategy was the puns it unleashed. For farming and environmental groups alike the frustration with the long-awaited strategy was palpable. However, the wider focus on agricultural innovation is not without its merits.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

The year 2020 will be remembered as a year in which humanity weathered a dangerous and fast-spreading disease, costing companies and governments billions in management and recovery. Many economic sectors had slowed down or shuttered entirely due to lowered demand and health measures. However, not all outcomes have been positive.

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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. Cement and concrete can be made with lower-carbon fuels. million gas-fuelled cars.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

Concrete production accounts for 8% of global annual carbon emissions – if it were a country, it would rank somewhere between the US and India in terms of its carbon footprint. Looking towards 2030 and beyond, carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) through CO 2 mineralisation is an emerging solution.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

New reports from the government and the Energy Systems Catapult have today provided further evidence the UK's energy industry is facing a decade of unprecedented and rapid change. Coal - set to be completely phased out as a source of power in the UK by 2024 - is notable by its complete absence from the government's analysis.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

National Infrastructure Commission urges government to act quickly to drive development of first wave of BECCS and DACS plants, arguing carbon removals will be a cornerstone of the UK's future economy. Calls for the UK to start scaling up negative emissions technology are becoming shriller.

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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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