Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

Less than one per cent unabated fossil fuels and at least 80 per cent wind and solar in the power mix required to meet UK climate targets, according to Ember's Tom Harrison. This year's edition updates its predecessor's pathways to reaching economy-wide net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Zero carbon power by 2035.

Carbon 100

Carbon Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral 100

GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer-focused spending program. percent is likely to increase net air pollution.

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Packaging Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Government 369

DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Climate change 97

Climate change Fossil fuels Methane Natural gas 97

Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Investment in clean energy from fossil fuel majors saw a marked uptick during the pandemic in 2020, research suggests. It is beginning to look as though the writing may now be on the wall for polluters that fail to take radical steps to reform their business as quickly as possible.

Fossil fuels 42

Fossil fuels Demand Climate change Investment 42

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. Conversely, energy produced by fossil fuels fell to just 39.6%, marking the first time that clean energy has consistently outperformed legacy sources. Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. The broader picture. 19 lockdown measures.

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Carbon-negative Energy Energy Fossil fuels 121

Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. 3) It’s funding big polluters. Neither do the EU’s ‘cohesion’ and ‘just transition’ funds exclude fossil fuel investments. 4) It buys into false solutions.

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Fossil fuels Hydrogen Law Europe 96

DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. WPR’s campaign also explicitly promotes hydrogen as a viable fuel for domestic heating.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 76

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Syngas can be subsequently burned to generate electricity or processed into transportation fuels.

Energy Monitor 102

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 102

Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Though the focus is on its zero carbon emissions into the air, it reduces other forms of pollution. The pollution reduction from the use of H2 can extend beyond what is released into the air. It is the reverse process of electrolysis, one of the methods of producing the H2 for use in hydrogen fuel cells in the first place.

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Pollution Hydrogen Health Fossil fuels 114

Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. They’d even found a partner, the owner of a fueling station for hydrogen-powered cars, who wanted them to build a pilot plant at his facility.

Climate change 130

Climate change Startups Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 130

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. Shell agreed to fund their relocation in 2002 — but Hawkins’ family was one of the few who decided to stay.

Sustainability 98

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 98

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Increased federal incentives for “carbon management” technologies are catalyzing a surge in proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the United States, from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest to California. use the captured carbon to drill for more oil in a process called enhanced oil recovery.

Carbon 112

Carbon Carbon-negative Pollution Transportation 112

Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

government has a new goal to make it much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. The Carbon Negative Shot is the third program in the Earthshots series. The Department of Energy announced a Hydrogen Shot , a program to make clean hydrogen fuel 80 percent cheaper than it is today, in June.

Energy Monitor 91

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 91

Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage.

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Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Carbon Fossil fuels 84

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The global chemicals industry has a huge opportunity to transform itself from a major polluter into a "planet-positive force" that could drive decarbonisation across the wider economy over the coming decades, while doubling in size and creating 29 million new jobs in the process.

Fossil fuels 39

Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Investment Carbon 39

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Among its many provisions, the Green Deal will include: A "Just Transition Fund" to make sure vulnerable sectors and regions are not negatively impacted by the changes. Carbon capture, utilization and sequestration, hydrogen infrastructure and energy storage will also receive support to reach commercialization.

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Europe Carbon-negative Packaging Policy 100

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Climate campaigners, however, see the new piers and pipelines as ominous signs that the gas lobby has finally achieved a long-standing goal to lock Germany into the $100 billion global LNG market – threatening to keep Europe’s biggest economy hooked on fossil fuels for decades to come. “A It’s fossil fuel madness.”.

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Natural gas Fossil fuels Hydrogen Government 98

Business Green

APRIL 26, 2022

With wind and solar costs significantly lower than all forms of polluting generation in most parts of the world, and concerns about the security of gas supplies painfully and tragically obvious, the logical course of action is to build a lot more renewables capacity ASAP. What happens when the wind blows?

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Carbon-negative Demand Hydrogen Fossil fuels 69

Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This year’s Draft Scoping Plan proposes a pathway to achieve the state’s target of 40 percent emissions below 1990 levels and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045. . This scenario includes BAU policies as well as a higher carbon price, vehicle electrification, and mode shifting (shifting from vehicle to active and public transportation). .

Policy 52

Policy Carbon-neutral Energy Energy 52

Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

But with private car use shooting up as people avoid taking public transport over fears of contracting the virus, the Covid-19 crisis risks spurring a longer-term health and environmental crisis in driven by higher air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, warned Greener Journeys. per cent increase in social deprivation, the study notes.

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Investment Transportation Carbon-negative Pollution 67

The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

About 77% of the citizens agree that a more important energy priority should be developing alternative energy resources like wind and solar power and hydrogen technology instead of increasing fossil fuel production. Green hydrogen is generated from low-carbon power or renewable energy. Versatile Fuel.

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Hydrogen Energy Energy Fossil fuels 370

Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer focused spending programmes.

Packaging 101

Packaging Carbon-negative Government Health 101

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.

Carbon 69

Carbon Carbon-negative Plastics Startups 69

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.

Carbon 72

Carbon Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Pollution 72

Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

, published by a team including Lord Nicholas Stern and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz that argued that non-conditional support for high carbon industries would see a lower return on investment than green stimulus packages. Build carbon-capture-and-storage infrastructure around large industrial clusters ? They are: ?

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Carbon-negative Climate change Policy Electric vehicle 64

Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

What would be your message to the businesses currently planning to ramp up investment in job-creating and cost competitive low carbon projects to help deliver on the UK's net zero targets? How do you intend to deliver the planned wave of carbon capture, hydrogen, and nuclear projects over the coming years?

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Carbon-negative Resilience Government Carbon 76

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.

Sustainability 90

Sustainability Aviation Biodiversity Carbon-negative 90

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. Planes remain among the most polluting means of transport. Clean beauty and fashion are trendy.

Sustainability 540

Sustainability Plastics Agriculture Carbon-negative 540

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Putting measures to address the climate crisis at the heart of UK economic policy - and break our dependence on outdated, polluting fossil fuels - makes economic, social and environmental sense," said Katie White, executive director of advocacy and campaigns at WWF.

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Government Policy Climate change Fossil fuels 69

GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

None of these hopeful developments will avert the accelerating climate crisis in the near term, for this crisis manifests the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases already banked in the atmosphere, oceans and terrestrial ecosystems that will require multiple generations to reverse. Innovation marches forward.

Politics 475

Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 475

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.

Carbon 46

Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 46

AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

.” For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer-focused spending program. billion on hydrogen.

Government 28

Government Packaging Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral 28

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It argued not enough has yet been done to learn from the mistakes that led to dieselgate, where diesel vehicles were promoted across Europe as a climate-friendly option without regard to the increase in deadly air pollution emissions associated with diesel combustion.

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Policy Carbon-negative Government Pollution 217

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. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 523

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

One moment a speaker discussed the inevitability of a transition away from fossil fuels; in the next, another suggested the impossibility of bringing populations out of poverty without fossil fuels. The contradictions and tension pervading Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week were both apparent and invisible. Credit: IRENA).

Fossil fuels 130

Fossil fuels Energy Energy Carbon-negative 130

Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Ofgem has argued that its price controls are enabling investment in low carbon infrastructure, but the watchdog has also argued it would like to see a clearer mandate from government to clarify the balance required between cost control for consumers and investment in new infrastructure.

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Electric vehicle Carbon-negative Investment Climate change 41