Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Clem Cowton, director of external affairs at Octopus Energy Group - which last week saw its valuation rise to around $5bn following a fresh $330m injection from investors - said urgent action was needed to reform the energy retail sector, and transform the rest of the energy system "to be cleaner, more efficient, and more secure".

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

where the same utility company can be retailer, network operator and generator, tenders can be designed to find the lowest whole system cost, McCarthy said. “While delivering low-cost, low-carbon power in abundance, the non-dispatchable nature of VRE presents a flexibility challenge for power systems,” he said. In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Offshore wind has largely been stuck on the sideline of the corporate renewables market, as demand for onshore wind and solar has surged from corporate giants like Google, Walmart and even oil companies like Shell. electricity retailers are beginning to think about the potential for a future market. That looks set to change.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Retail business sustainability. Using these trends we then present retail sustainability initiatives that will help you kickstart your organization’s sustainability program. What is retail sustainability? To operate indefinitely, a retail brand must meet environmental, social, and economic demands.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2020

How on-demand food delivery apps could encourage low-carbon food Anna Zhang Mon, 06/08/2020 – 02:00 The COVID-19 crisis has affected most aspects of daily life, including how we get our food. Adopting these habits has the potential to reduce carbon emissions by 66 gigatonnes CO2-equivalent, according to Project Drawdown.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2020

How on-demand food delivery apps could encourage low-carbon food Anna Zhang Mon, 06/08/2020 – 02:00 The COVID-19 crisis has affected most aspects of daily life, including how we get our food. Adopting these habits has the potential to reduce carbon emissions by 66 gigatonnes CO2-equivalent, according to Project Drawdown.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. Is this the best second life for trash?

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Demand Hydrogen Technology Energy 28

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

That’s despite the fact that renewable generation is increasingly contributing to low or even negative pricing on spot markets. “Whichever plant was required to meet the last megawatt of demand is the price-setting technology,” said Tom Edwards, senior modeler at Cornwall Insight, in an email. percent to 32.1

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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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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

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. This supports a circular economic model whereby fewer resources are demanded reducing water demand. Tip #6: Reduce fossil fuel demand.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. Demand growth is expected to fall from around four per cent each year to under one per cent, it said, with demand potentially peaking as soon as 2027.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. Demand growth is expected to fall from around four per cent each year to under one per cent, it said, with demand potentially peaking as soon as 2027.

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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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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The strong growth in demand in 2021 was driven by the economic recovery that followed 2020’s lockdowns and a succession of extreme weather events. Supply could not keep up with demand and this, coupled with unexpected outages, led to tight markets and steep price increases. They rose by 28% in Egypt and 43% in Pakistan.”.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 16, 2022

Once executed, the changes that are currently underway in the retail market will contribute to net-zero targets and negate the long-term impact on the customers’ wallet. Also of interest : Energy Transitions Podcast: Bridging the UK’s energy supply and demand gap with storage Next-Generation technologies for sustainable energy islands.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Unlike a carbon tax, the cap is carried out in four-year windows known as compliance periods rather than as payment due in close alignment with consumption or delivery of fuel. The final retail sale is just one stage in the process of extraction, production, and delivery. Why is this? cent increase in prices.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Unlike a carbon tax, the cap is carried out in four-year windows known as compliance periods rather than as payment due in close alignment with consumption or delivery of fuel. The final retail sale is just one stage in the process of extraction, production, and delivery. Why is this? cent increase in prices.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 52

Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Glasgow Summit will see a group of Fairtrade farmers from around the world deliver in person a letter demanding that governments follow through on their promise to provide $100bn in climate finance to support low-income nations' efforts to tackle the escalating climate crisis. We call on other businesses to do the same.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That’s potentially very bad news for the climate: The huge amount of methane that leaks during the production, transport and storage of LNG means that the carbon emissions associated with importing the fuel could be up to ten times higher than for the equivalent amount of Russian pipeline gas, researchers say.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Ultimately, how fast these markets rev up depends on demand from fleet buyers. One reason for all this: Batteries continue their journey down the price-experience curve, where increased demand lowers prices, further pumping up demand. Amazon continued its aggressive EV buying plans , as did both Walmart and IKEA.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

For instance, retailers wanting to be more resource efficient can't just rely on selling more resource efficient products to improve their environmental footprint. Third, government policy should encourage low-carbon innovation to be carefully joined up with digital innovation.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. IMO will assign a CII rating, with A being the best, least carbon-intensive and E being the worst, most carbon-intensive. retailers like Amazon, Walmart, or Home Depot).

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Mushroom Packaging is growing its footprint with a global network of licensees from New Zealand to the United Kingdom and beyond — expanding its customer base to include cosmetics retailer Lush and even interior designers. Turning pineapple leaves into textiles that benefit 'people and planet' . Producing just 2.69

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. million in Neighborhood Grants. LinkedIn | Personal website. million acres the 4.4

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

The coronavirus lockdown may have led to a fall in emissions, but assumptions that home-working automatically cuts carbon could prove to be wide of the mark. The potential to avoid a return to pre-crisis levels of air pollution, congestion, and carbon emissions is obvious. warming trajectory.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

These various initiatives are set to be complemented by new incentives to encourage the sector to make use of surplus heat and CO2 from industrial processes, as well as on-going efforts to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy technologies in order to cut on-farm energy costs and carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. In Jordan, the EBRD’s technical support and a 2015 loan worth up to $21 million helped poultry company Al Jazeera Agricultural Company upgrade its facilities and expand its retail presence.

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Charged

MAY 8, 2023

During the recent California heat wave, Nuvve helped to reduce peak demands on the grid through the Emergency Load Reduction Program, using bidirectional-capable school buses to feed energy back to the grid. A regular demand response program, you go down to zero and then that’s it. That means we can bring the meter negative.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Business Case for a Demand Response Management System, Part 1: Overview and Basic Elements. The use of Demand Response (DR) by utilities to help manage coincident peak is very common in the electric utility industry. A general rule of thumb is about 1% demand reduction per 1 degree of setback. By John Bonnin. Introduction.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

According to LSE's Grantham Institute, an increasing number of claims focus "on financial risks, fiduciary duties and corporate due diligence, which directly affect not only fossil fuel and cement companies, but also banks, pension funds, asset managers and major retailers, among others". Law and disorder.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

More than 50 businesses and organisations from across the UK's farming, food, and retail sectors have today urged the government to accelerate and strengthen the delivery of its embattled, post-Brexit green farming subsidy programme so as to build a "productive, regenerative, and resilient food system into the future".

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Demand Agriculture Government Resilience 36

Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Oil and gas giant sets sights on developing science-based climate targets, as hydrogen, nature based solutions, carbon capture, utility business, and electric vehicle infrastructure all earmarked for increased investment. The oil and gas giant confirmed its total carbon emissions peaked in 2018 at 1.7

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We explain how a sustainable business model will: Create business value , Meet the needs of your customers , Meet investor demand , Attract and engage top talent , Slash business costs , Improve brand reputation , Leverage new opportunities. Carbon in our atmosphere is 280 parts per million (ppm). Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm.

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