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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Demand Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Natural gas 54

Smart Energy International

MARCH 28, 2024

The focus for the Horizon Europe climate, energy and mobility ‘cluster’ for its forthcoming three years is on the green and digital transitions and EU resilience. Thus, R&I actions will advance the technological readiness of demand side response and energy storage solutions for industrial-scale and domestic applications.

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Energy Energy Europe Carbon-neutral 52

Smart Energy International

JUNE 2, 2022

Scott Mathieson, network planning and regulation director at SP Energy Networks, stated: “The increasingly complex needs of our energy system, coupled with the significant increase in both demand for green electricity and generation our networks need to accommodate, means it is crucial we ensure its continued security and resilience.

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Electricity Resilience Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 98

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2020

Despite the chaos in global oil markets, the pair of supermajors have committed to maintaining their low carbon investment plans and spoken of an accelerating energy transition. BP stands by its planned low-carbon investments. “We talked a lot about the negative prices for WTI just a few weeks ago. Looney said.

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Carbon-negative Demand Investment Carbon 130

Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

To that end, Ofgem yesterday announced a fresh package of measures aimed at boosting financial resilience in the sector, including new stress testing all suppliers from January 2022 to measure their resilience against a range of scenarios. This is now the main obstacle holding back the UK's green industrial revolution.".

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Demand Energy Energy Policy 79

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. The steps that the U.K.

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Hydrogen Carbon-negative Natural gas Climate change 196

Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

With major global economies on lockdown in a bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus, demand for oil from the transport and energy sectors has taken a dramatic downturn, pushing down prices that were already falling thanks to moves by OPEC to maintain production even as demand slowed.

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Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Demand Investment 58

Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

With major global economies on lockdown in a bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus, demand for oil from transport and energy has taken a dramatic downturn, while low cost producing countries such as Saudi Arabia and Russia have made moves this year to slash their prices.

Fossil fuels 77

Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Resilience Investment 77

The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

By aggregating user demand and supply, community solar projects can offer economic benefits that individuals can’t get with rooftop solar, like economies of scale and access to financing. Reduced Carbon Footprint Community solar allows homeowners and renters to save on electricity bills while supporting renewable energy generation.

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Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 195

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. "I The flight was made the Ikarus C42 the "first aircraft powered by synthetic fuel", according to the Guinness World Records.

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Fossil fuels Aviation Carbon-negative Innovation 101

Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global Energy Review notes that renewables will be the only energy source to expand in 2020 despite a dramatic nosedive in energy demand worldwide caused by Covid-19's shutdown of economic and public life. The report notes that renewables are the only energy source expected to grow against a backdrop of overall reduced electricity demand.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Natural gas Demand 100

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. This adds to global waste, emissions and an exhausting demand for new material. C and build resilience for current and anticipated climate change impacts. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. SDG 13 Implementation.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels 88

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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Carbon-neutral Methane Natural gas Carbon-negative 184

Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The legislation includes: The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which will spend roughly $370bn on decarbonisation and climate resilience over the next 10 years and is projected to get the US two-thirds of the way to its emissions goals by 2030. electricity grid to 80 per cent carbon free power by 2030. If the world targets 1.5

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Policy Demand Carbon-negative Law 68

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. This adds to global waste, emissions and an exhausting demand for new material. C and build resilience for current and anticipated climate change impacts. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. SDG 13 Implementation.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Resilience 78

Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

Build a resilient fashion brand company using sustainable fashion. billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. Below we’ve detailed eight tips on how to reduce the negative environmental and social impact of your fashion brand company. Tip #6: Reduce fossil fuel demand. 8 sustainable fashion brand initiatives.

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Fashion Sustainability Biodegradable Packaging 148

Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

The report - titled Principles for a low-carbon, sustainable and net-zero aligned economic recovery post COVID-19 - suggests five key government interventions aimed at harnessing growing political, business, and consumer will to tackle the climate emergency, as well as a raft of specific policy recommendations.

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Carbon-negative Packaging Government Resilience 96

GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete. Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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Sustainability Health Carbon-negative Innovation 498

GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

The network operator, National Grid ESO, is bringing more markets online all the time to improve the grid's flexibility and resiliency. With a target to be able to run a carbon-free grid by 2025, National Grid ESO is very active in this area. “The problem with U.K. The CFD is a simple, lowest-bid-wins system.

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Government Batteries Carbon-negative Europe 229

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For example, climate mitigation, which includes working on EV’s or carbon capture would be perfect for someone who wants to focus on emission reductions. I assume your Policy role is far from boring as we continue to grapple with strong energy demand, climate impacts on supply and the invasion of Ukraine that is also tightening our supply.

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Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Policy Carbon 90

Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

Recent data shows that of the 30 raw materials the EU classifies as critical, 19 are predominantly imported from China, a country where Covid restrictions and impacts continue to negatively affect the production and supply of goods. The price of these resources is also increasing. Today we are experiencing a polycrisis.

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Carbon-negative Europe Climate change Resilience 36

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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Carbon Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Pollution 73

Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2021

But the sector has long been dogged by concerns that soaring demand for feedstocks could have significant land use and environmental impacts that may negate the emissions savings that should result from moving from fossil fuels to biomass.

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Innovation Government Carbon-negative Climate change 69

Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Indeed, the ingredients for negativity are all too abundant: a persistent, shapeshifting virus; political stalemates that thwart climate action; growing social and economic inequality; terrifying ecological indicators; pushback by the anti-science crowd and their media enablers. Demand for sustainability professionals outstripped supply.

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Sustainability Aviation Biodiversity Carbon-negative 91

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

While it’s broadly recognized that a dramatic expansion of renewables is necessary to attain climate goals, this expansion also holds great potential to reduce negative impacts on rivers, and the communities and resources, such as fisheries, that depend on healthy, connected rivers.

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Solar Energy Monitor Hydropower Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 117

Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

In fact in many states, the wholesale cost of electricity moves into negative prices in the middle of the day when rooftop solar system generation peaks. There are other non-financial factors that we need to consider when assessing the demand for battery storage systems. State-based Solar Battery Rebates.

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Batteries Building Energy Monitoring 124

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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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 99

Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Firstly, every COP is by definition the most important COP ever, up to the point when global emissions are consistently falling at a rapid rate and the world is mobilising trillions of dollars to fully decarbonise the global economy and enhance the climate resilience of our societies.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Elemental is excited for the growing demand this will create for Blue Ocean Barns , a company that is curbing methane emissions from the agricultural sector with a seaweed based feed product for livestock. Carbon Negative Shot is a U.S.

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Innovation Technology Methane Fossil fuels 105

Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

For all the growing interest in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing and high profile investor demands for corporates to tackle escalating climate risks, many asset managers remain 'blind' to the threat to their portfolios posed by global biodiversity loss and are consistently failing to engage with carbon intensive businesses.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Policy Investment 97

Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Inevitably then, as we make progress on scope one and two operational carbon emissions, attentions turn to reducing scope three emissions as the pressure on the supply chain - already squeezed by price increases and inflationary pressures, ramps up. Like so many industries, the built environment is heavily reliant on its supply chain.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Sustainability Ethics 44

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

However, flood risk is now addressed on a wider catchment scale so that initiatives in one part of a catchment do not have negative effects further downstream. The planting of shrubs and trees also helps infiltration and retention by generating a demand for soil moisture, so that soils have a greater capacity to absorb water.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Soil 205

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Historically, public concern about the environment dips during a recession so there is a real risk that this negative messaging will lead the public to conclude that net zero is an expensive luxury that can wait. A properly funded national insulation programme will cut bills, improve the quality of our homes and slash carbon.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

The report, published yesterday, reveals that it is not just the natural environment that is compromised by the high-carbon, high-waste practices of the disposable, 'fast fashion' industry, but the future profitability of many of the sector's major players.

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Fashion Retail Carbon-negative Demand 77

Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

In order to do this we must not fall back into the trap of our pre-Covid world by continuing to reinforce carbon-intensive structures. To begin with, our post Covid-19 recovery plans must avoid unconditionally propping up and bailing out carbon-heavy industries. First, we need a global price on carbon. It has to be green.

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Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 45

Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

First, it must understand the labour market impacts of decommissioning fossil fuel power plants and reskilling workers to build and manage the new low-carbon economy. Second, it must also engage with the social impacts of new low-carbon energy systems and infrastructures, with an emphasis on equity and justice concerns.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 86

Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Source: Stockholm Resilience Centre PBs represent a conceptual framework of the effect of ongoing unlimited human activities on the limited capacity of the earth.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Resilience Real Estate 53