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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement. As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis.

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Heard of “Net-Zero Oil” or “Carbon Negative” Bioenergy? In 2023 You Will

DeSmogBlog

Salmon might seem like a good alternative to meat, in a world that needs to shift away from carbon-intensive cattle — at least the fish farming industry would have you see it that way. Last year, we mapped Canada’s hydrogen lobby and revealed how fossil fuel interests are pushing for blue hydrogen in Canada. Aquaculture.

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Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Are Using British Influencers to go Viral

DeSmogBlog

DeSmog analysed examples of more than 100 influencers being paid to promote fossil fuel firms worldwide since 2017, from the US to Malaysia, in campaigns that have reached billions of people. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.

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'Fossil fuel free flying': RAF completes first flight with synthetic fuel

Business Green

The way we power our aircraft will be a big part of achieving that goal, and this exciting project to make aviation fuel from air and water shows how it might be done.". Zero Petroleum and the RAF launched Project MARTIN in June 2021, developing ZERO SynAvGas over five months with negative carbon technology company IGTL Technology.

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BEIS funding supports utility’s project to turn biogas into hydrogen

Envirotec Magazine

The consortium has a vast amount of knowledge and experience, which we are leveraging to produce carbon negative hydrogen – there is no better goal to be working on right now.”. Although the primary goal of the work is to produce hydrogen, the Levidian LOOP is also a unique carbon capture and utilisation technology.

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Electrification gets down to the wire

GreenBiz

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals.