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Whether pandemic or climate crisis, you better get your data right

GreenBiz

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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'Tipping point'? CNG Fuels eyes surging HGV demand for renewable biomethane

Business Green

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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The risky business of climate risk: 'Stop predicting the future'

GreenBiz

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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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

Grist

But the process of leaving the lab and entering the real world suddenly lifted the veil on all the economic, regulatory, and logistical challenges the startup had yet to solve. The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground.

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EVs sales may be soaring, but are carmakers really on the road to net zero?

Business Green

per cent of total oil demand. However, despite this progress overall demand for oil was actually still a touch higher last year than it was in 2015. There is still some way to go before EVs deliver promised steep reductions in oil demand. BNEF estimates last year's global EV sales helped avoid 1.5

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? High-flying fuels

Climate Tech VC

In fact, many of us are flying more – air travel over Thanksgiving week in the US was the busiest ever , and annual demand for flights is growing rapidly in markets like India and China.   But all this travel comes at a steep carbon cost. Other vegetable oils face land use and carbon footprint concerns.

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? Spinning CO2 into clothes

Climate Tech VC

We’ve spilled plenty of ink in this newsletter on carbon capture, but less on what happens after —particularly carbon-to-value. In the meantime, Rubi aims to capture the CO2 from industrial processes and use it to make apparel inputs carbon-negative. What to watch Grab a partner. So you get a lot of waste.