Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Aviation biofuels specialist Velocys and petrochemicals giant INEOS have become the latest firms to join the Zero Carbon Humber project, which is aiming to create the "world's first" net zero industrial cluster.

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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. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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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. per cent is likely to increase net air pollution.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Reports from CBI, EnergyUK, ECIU, and ScottishPower all hammer home calls for ambitious green recovery package. The government has been inundated with calls from green trade bodies, campaigners and academics for it to deliver a green stimulus package in recent weeks. The consensus keeps building.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

for grid enhancements and $7B for hydrogen fuel hubs. Climate tech venture capital dropped 40% in H1’23 but climate-focused funds have still been steadily stacking the green, with at least $33B of investable dry powder ready to deploy in climate tech startups. 🏦 The Loans Program Office kept busy.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

This study complements a previous University of Oxford working paper, Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change? Build carbon-capture-and-storage infrastructure around large industrial clusters ? They are: ?

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global carbon emissions are set to drop a record eight per cent this year, with lockdowns on public and economic life introduced to tackle the coronavirus pandemic delivering an unprecedented blow to fossil fuel demand, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). A recent analysis by Carbon Brief noted that emissions have to fall 7.6

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That is the upbeat conclusion of a major new report today, which argues that while the chemicals industry currently lags behind many other sectors of the economy in terms of climate action, it has the potential to reinvent itself as a critical climate solution and even become carbon negative by 2040.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Good-faith efforts to reuse carbon, heat and steam are underway with a target to reduce the Port’s emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2025. They invest in less bad instead of different and better. . Where Gail sees despair, Fred sees opportunity.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

On one side governments and the aviation industry proselytise the virtues of techno-optimism, sketching out a vision whereby a combination of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), electrification, hydrogen, efficiency gains, and negative emissions technologies allow the sector to decarbonise even as it expands.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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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, 2022

"Domestically the answer to cutting emissions, keeping bills under control and ensuring security of supply, is to continue to build out our world-leading offshore wind sector and invest in nuclear and hydrogen, as the government is doing," he said. It doesn't need to, and in fact, it can actually be good value for money as well.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2020

With governments across the globe currently formulating packages for rescuing airlines, these agreements have widely been seen as a chance to bring the aviation industry to heel and agree to measures that can help net zero goals be met. Matching incentives to progress. It is vitally important that the carrot and the stick are closely aligned.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Other recommendations include urgently delivering clear strategies to deliver new carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen projects, setting clear and ambitious targets in the delayed Environment Bill, laying the groundwork for domestic EV battery manufacturing at scale, and aligning the UK's net zero and nature agendas.

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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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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. In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste.

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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. Of the $14.6 Meanwhile, $86.1

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 17, 2020

We have to act much, much faster and go further in reducing the carbon footprint. Our energy systems must keep improving at pace, to become cleaner and more efficient, and this requires ambitious thinking, capital investment and bold leadership. ” The threat to investment is a very real one.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Due to the environmental harms associated with the use of these agrochemicals, the EU has made limiting their use a key plank among the measures included in its “Green Deal” — a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The government is expected to launch a consultation on the proposals, which broadly mirror plans already being pursued by the EU in a bid to create a 'level playing field' for the bloc's carbon intensive industries.

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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. In the first months of the crisis alone, China reported a 25 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Going net negative. This year has been unlike any in recent memory.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Cameron-era decisions to block onshore wind development, slash energy efficiency funding, delay green building standards, and shelve carbon capture and storage (CCS) plans undermined UK energy security and slowed the clean energy transition. But these failures hampered emission reduction efforts rather than actively drove up emissions.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

African green hydrogen plans, new coal-to-clean energy deals, and worsening climate impacts. Paris Olympics plans to halve carbon footprint of meals served at the Games. African countries team up for new green hydrogen initiative. The Africa Green Hydrogen Alliance will go a long way in fostering these developments.".

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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

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. We will have to wait a few more months yet.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

It got me thinking: Could we boost the carbon drawdown potential of clean technologies even further by supporting more women-led startups in the burgeoning climate-tech ecosystem? VC investment in climate tech is growing five times faster than overall VC, with a $60 billion increase in funding over the last seven years. Carbon removal.

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AGreenLiving

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. million acres the 4.4

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AGreenLiving

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. In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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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. per cent - around £1.1bn - of China's recovery package has been designated for green projects.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"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. Co-Founder & Lead Engineer, Planetary Hydrogen; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Sarah Golden.

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Business Green

MAY 9, 2022

As such, the net zero transition is expected to play a central role in the government's new plans, with a landmark energy bill, reforms to mobilise increased investment in low carbon infrastructure, and a fresh set of planning reforms expected to be at the heart of the speech.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

. “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. “It’s kind of a long-lived dream.”

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To me, this was a particularly silly question, as I recently finished writing an article on the future of fossil fuels and oil prices were actually negative for the first time in human history. Why is $45bn in fossil fuel considered ‘an investment’, while every dollar invested in renewables or the energy transition or viewed as 'costs'?

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