DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. On Instagram , Campbell encouraged his followers to watch his “Hydrogen powered adventure!” percent of total energy consumption in 2050.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2022

Planetary Technologies celebrates grant from XPrize Carbon Removal competition as it prepares a series of pilot projects to demonstrate its negative emissions technology. The company has also scored some notable corporate procurement commitments for its carbon removal credits.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

The energy system would, by 2050, be a net absorber of carbon emissions, with investments in carbon removal technologies compensating for all residual emissions from the heat, power, and transport sectors, and then absorbing a further 30Mt of emissions from the atmosphere annually.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. “Eni took a bath of green paint,” Abbate said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

But despite these well-documented issues, many energy industry experts insist biofuels have a major role to play in the transition to a net zero emission economy, in particular for decarbonising heavy-duty transport sectors that are resistant to electrification, such as shipping, aviation, and potentially trucking. The remaining 1.2

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

But the government's failure to engage the public means we risk people viewing the net zero transition in a negative light and perceiving policy measures as being imposed.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Together, these investors have pledged to reach net zero emissions by 2050, not just for their operations but across their entire asset portfolios, and help others do the same by identifying decarbonisation pathways for strategically key, high-carbon sectors. 2050 can seem a long way off - many of us will be retired," he reflects.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Without a clear and ambitious government plan zero carbon home heating by 2050 remains a pipe dream, a new analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre warns. These benefits far outweigh the negatives, and vitally these changes allow us to meet our decarbonisation targets.".

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The documents leaked in the Corporate Europe Observatory investigation were “part of lobbying work that is done in all stakeholder groups. The documents supported our talks with our EU member organisations,” a spokesperson for COPA-COGECA told DeSmog.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

IMO member states will be meeting virtually for three days from Monday for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 per cent compared to 2008 levels.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

The document leaves open the door for the government to ratchet up its ambition in the future, stating that it "will pursue further efforts both in the medium and long-term to reduce greenhouse gas emissions beyond this level". The EU, UK, China and South Korea are moving towards a new - low carbon - economy.

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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. is one of the facilities undergoing a significant public reimagining.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Sixth Carbon Budget report published today encompasses around 1,000 pages which offer the most detailed roadmap ever developed on how to transform a modern economy so that it delivers net zero emissions within the space of just 30 years. The Sixth Carbon Budget also brings with it a clear need to act in the short term.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 20, 2020

IMO member states are meeting this week for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 percent compared to 2008 levels. It is a dynamic that has left environmental campaigners increasingly frustrated.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

While Alok Sharma and his colleagues at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) had favoured the ETS, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak and his team at the Treasury had reportedly preferred some form of new carbon tax. Here BusinessGreen explores the eight key lessons from the the 170-page White Paper.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I felt I should have been, since I signed up to get media advisories from the CPRA about it, but choose not to let that stop me from at least trying to document the historic event. As one of the few reporters to challenge the project’s feasibility , I was not surprised that I was not invited.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

Yet, as has been well documented in recent weeks, there are still pockets of resistance within the ranks of the Conservative Party to doing much in the way of investing in that transition. That is not to say the public are unconcerned about the potential costs of decarbonisation, though - far from it. It is a reasonable point.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports published over the last eight months by the IPCC as part of its sixth assessment review, the document offers policymakers around the world a peer-reviewed roadmap for the policies, investments, and technologies scientists believe are required to avoid climate catastrophe. The science.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

The big worry for the green economy and the net zero transition is that the myriad weaknesses and misjudgements of the past few months could have significant negative implications for the UK's climate agenda. To paraphrase the great philosopher-king of the age, Joey Tribbiani , pigeons learn faster than some members of the Cabinet.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In at least 18 of the world's biggest economies, support for industries and projects with considerable negative environmental impacts have dominated recovery packages, the analysis suggests. For example, China may have announced a new net zero targte, but to date a miniscule 0.3 million new jobs, the report said.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Time for Energy is part of a collection of 201 company documents, official correspondence, reports, academic studies, and other materials that cast new light on what Shell knew about climate change — and what it chose to tell the public. ” Documents from the collection can be viewed at Climate Files , a project of the U.S.-based

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38 North Solutions

AUGUST 17, 2022

Clarify FERC jurisdiction regarding the regulation of interstate hydrogen pipeline, storage, import, and export facilities. Now, strategically engaging the Administration and Congress during the implementation phase will ensure positive outcomes and prevent negative ones.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

It acknowledges the goal of ensuring residual emissions of greenhouse gases are balanced by technologies to remove them from the atmosphere is "a great idea, in principle", just as it accepts how "in principle there is nothing wrong or dangerous about carbon dioxide removal proposals".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Third, assembly members gave strong support for businesses to make low carbon products that use less energy and materials.". There was strong support for hydrogen, heat pumps, and heat networks to keep homes warm, alongside retrofitting funding to boost energy efficiency. There was also an embrace of changes to life at home.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering proposals aimed at reducing climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing coal and gas-fueled power plants. See the entire statement in Document Cloud. This not-so-fast rhetoric is nothing new.

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