Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

The likelihood is that they will face a couple of questions on the climate crisis and the net zero transition, and several more related questions on the energy security and cost of living crisis. How do you plan to make our homes and infrastructure more resilient to levels of heat that will become ever more frequent and intense?

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Fossil fuel phase down & out: The final COP26 agreement commits countries to accelerate the development, deployment, and dissemination of technologies — and the adoption of policies — to transition towards low-emission energy systems. Carbon Negative Shot is a U.S. What needs to happen next. degree target. degree target.

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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. IEA executive director Fatih Birol said the coronavirus crisis marked a watershed moment for the global energy industry.

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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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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Last year, global carbon emissions hit an all-time high of 40.9 But all that carbon doesn’t have to wind up in the atmosphere. They pour in the product and, when it’s ready a few hours later, take a sip.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

Grant Shapps declares 'we need to combat the idea that it costs you money to go green', but campaigners insist government is failing to deliver policies that could curb energy costs. There's a lot of pressure at the moment on energy bills and we know they're very high.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

According to the International Energy Agency, CO2 emissions are expected to drop 8% this year, but as economic recovery begins, emissions could increase to pre-COVID-19 levels. Improve industrial energy efficiency through such means as replacing equipment and upgrading waste-heat technologies ? They are: ?

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. 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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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Across the 1,500 pages of the climate advisory body's latest UK climate risk assessment - which it carries out every five years - it sets out in stark detail the challenge to build in resilience and adaptation into UK infrastructure, and just how far behind government policy currently is on these issues.

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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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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. It's not just ESG.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

There was a historic breakthrough in agreeing on a finance facility for loss and damage, but we failed to agree urgent action to help peak emissions in the middle of this decade and secure finance for an unprecedented ramp-up in renewable energy. Labour has also laid out a plan for an $8bn wealth fund from revenues from renewable energy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Labour's new green energy policy is a case in point. He argued that the strategy would cut hundreds of pounds off average household bills, create up to half a million new jobs, and establish the UK as the first country in the world to operate a fully decarbonised energy system. They want long-term solutions to cut bills for good.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

It also stressed that it remains committed to its long term net zero target to build "a 'decarbonised society' as close as possible to 2050" through "disruptive innovations", such as artificial photosynthesis and green hydrogen development. The EU, UK, China and South Korea are moving towards a new - low carbon - economy.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ( NYSERDA ) and the Consulate General of Canada in New York. New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., Brazil, and Europe.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

Ramping up onshore and offshore wind, alongside hydrogen and other renewables, is the key to unlocking a rapid, low-cost transformation of the energy sector. We therefore welcome the new support for floating offshore wind and renewable hydrogen technologies announced today which will play a vital role in the UK's net zero transition.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade. At the same time, Yara claims to promote the deployment of “green ammonia”, which instead of fossil fuels would be produced with green hydrogen (hydrogen generated entirely by renewable energy).

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Investment in clean energy from fossil fuel majors saw a marked uptick during the pandemic in 2020, research suggests. Newer technologies such as hydrogen also attracted growing investment, it adds, and are now increasingly viewed as mainstream by much of the sector. per cent of their total capital expenditure in 2020.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

The Committee's overarching conclusion is both clear as day and extremely pertinent at the current geopolitical juncture: a net zero energy system is technologically, financially, and politically achievable within the 2035 timeframe, but the government simply cannot afford to waste anymore time in building it.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

Industrial consortium begins operation of wind-powered hydrogen plant at Saxony steelwork. The project, which is the only one of its kind in Germany, will produce green hydrogen by harnessing local wind power capacity. Climate protection in the energy and industrial sector is much more than just electricity from renewable sources.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Negative emissions technologies are critical for the earth’s climate and hitting net zero in the UK, argues Drax CEO Will Gardiner. We are all well aware the ongoing need for extra caution, cooperation and resilience in the face of this global crisis. Going net negative. The role of BECCS in hitting energy targets.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Humber Estuary is the most carbon-intensive stretch of the UK, home to 55,000 jobs and a huge slice of British economic value, but it is also one of the most climate vulnerable regions in the country - BusinessGreen sat down with the people working to turn the region into a world-leading green hub. Developing a Zero-Carbon Cluster.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Creating sustainable ski resorts builds resilience. Sustainability pushes resorts away from the negative spiral, where high carbon footprints catalyze climate change – which could ultimately render the ski industry obsolete.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

acquisition is the largest single carbon-management investment since the passage of the IRA and has implications for the carbon capture, utilization, and storage ecosystem. Regulators miss another deadline on deep-sea mining rules, and the US is digging into the carbon removal benefits of regenerative agriculture.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

The firm last week released a new Accelerated Energy Transition Scenario - AET-2 - which explores how "progressive electrification will squeeze the most polluting hydrocarbons out of the energy mix, nearly eliminating their markets". However, the new scenario still expects gas demand to remain resilient.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The trailed £3bn energy efficiency package was hugely welcome, even if questions remain over precisely how it will be administered and what will happen when the single year Budget is exhausted. But then once again the accompanying policy measures singularly failed to match the rhetoric.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Because the price of keeping the status quo grows steeper every year, from the human and economic toll of climate-related disasters, fires, heatwaves, and other environmental stresses to the jobs left on the table by not accelerating towards a carbon-free, regenerative economy. Carbon negative materials. Why do we love them?

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

They also are more equipped with the vital skills to adapt and be resilient to climate change when disaster strikes, and to influence how their communities mitigate against it. Carbon removal. Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

” For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Once the pandemic shut down campus activity, SCU pivoted and developed citizen science pursuits such as tree tracking and energy insights programs, encouraging students to engage in their local urban forest and community's renewable energy goals.)

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

Driven by net zero, hydrogen could make up 12 per cent of global energy use by 2050, according to IRENA. The geopolitical ramifications of the green energy transition have long been contemplated by foreign policy wonks. But hydrogen is not a new oil.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The steps that the UK takes to rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic can accelerate the transition to a successful and low-carbon economy and improve our climate resilience. The energy sector already invests £14bn a year and is ready to work closely with Government to help power our economic recovery and meet our net zero target.".

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. VERGE 20 will be attended by more than 15,000 leaders, it will feature 300+ speakers.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Study after study demonstrates how a national energy efficiency upgrade programme and zero carbon home building blitz delivers a better return on investment than any other infrastructure programme. Regenerative agriculture and negative emissions projects provide a means of bolstering climate resilience and food security.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. GreenBiz Editors.

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Business Green

MAY 9, 2022

Queen's Speech expected to include new Energy Bill and latest wave of planning reforms, as Boris Johnson faces mounting pressure to tackle cost of living crisis. Local government and communities must have real power to create climate and nature-resilient places that work for, and not against, them.

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