What’s the deal with 'carbon-negative' biomethane?
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Companies such as Chevron are making big investments into biodigesters, but is this really where the money should be spent?
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GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Companies such as Chevron are making big investments into biodigesters, but is this really where the money should be spent?
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 19, 2024
Energy-from-Waste (EfW) operator enfinium signed an agreement – on 19 March – with green technology company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) to install the UK’s first carbon capture pilot plant at an EfW facility. The aims of the pilot is to demonstrate the use of carbon capture technology at EfW facilities.
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Renewable Energy World
MARCH 5, 2021
Big name corporations Chevron and Microsoft are joining Schlumberger on a plan to develop a bioenergy project that will include carbon capture and sequestration. As a result, the energy produced would be carbon negative. The project will be located in Mendota, California and will use an idled bioenergy plant.
Business Green
AUGUST 25, 2020
Office furniture giant Steelcase has set its sights on becoming a 'carbon negative' organisation within the next decade, yesterday unveiling plans to ramp up its use of renewable energy, slash carbon emissions, and finance carbon offset efforts that deliver "external emissions reductions with social benefits".
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Why IKEA is investing in sustainable mobility. For the company known for its delicious meatballs and DIY shelves, the investment isn't actually that surprising. For the company known for its delicious meatballs and DIY shelves, the investment isn't actually that surprising. Holly Secon. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 00:30.
Business Green
APRIL 28, 2022
US start-up Brimstone Energy has announced $55m of fresh investment to support development of its "carbon negative" cement making process, after a host of major backers joined its latest fundraising round. Conventional processes for producing cement and concrete are inherently carbon and energy intensive.
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 24, 2020
The technology company promised to remove all of the carbon that it’s ever put in the atmosphere -- going back to when it was founded in an Albuquerque garage in 1975. That includes $1 billion in carbon removal technologies and methods. Microsoft is setting a new standard for corporate climate targets. AP: U.S.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
A new partnership may pave the way for more than £400 million to be invested in recycling facilities across the UK. With this investment, we have the ability to make a significant environmental and social impact across the UK.”.
The Environmental Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2022
In most cases, you’ll find investing being referenced to profit generation. As concerns continue to grow about the sustainability of some business practices, some groups prioritize the environment’s well-being vis-à-vis profit when investing. This is called Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing.
AGreenLiving
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Companies such as Chevron are making big investments into biodigesters, but is this really where the money should be spent? Here is the original: What’s the deal with ‘carbon-negative’ biomethane?
E8 Cleantech Angels
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.
E8 Cleantech Angels
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.
E8 Cleantech Angels
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 9, 2022
In an investment said to be worth tens of millions of pounds, a storage facility for the temporary storage of liquid CO2 will be constructed by anaerobic digestion (AD) plant developer and operator Future Biogas by the end of 2024 on a dedicated site at Saltend, comprising up to 32 CO2 storage tanks. How is it carbon negative?
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 13, 2020
“The argument that has often been put forward is that they can't invest in renewables because renewable projects offer much lower returns than oil and gas projects. The oil and gas sector currently accounts for just 2 percent of investment in renewables, according to Wood Mackenzie. Will the current market storm change that?
Andrew Winston
MAY 4, 2022
This is another in the realm of the “business case” for sustainability (within a corporation for its own capital and investment decisions, not as an investment thesis for investors). Raising the price on carbon or other inputs drives different capital and investment decisions. They shouldn’t.
Business Green
AUGUST 11, 2021
IndiNature says investment will help scale up production of its 'carbon negative' building material. Carbon negative insulation for homes and commercial properties is to be produced in Scotland for the first time following a £3m investment in a pioneering green materials firm from the Scottish National Investment Bank.
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 8, 2021
In January 2020, Brad Smith, the President of Microsoft, announced that the company had set a target of becoming carbon negative by 2030. What does going carbon negative actually entail? The fund invests in various climate technologies as a part of the company’s overall climate efforts.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Wind turbine market leader Vestas has revealed the first investment made by its venture fund with a stake in Swedish wooden wind tower start-up Modvion. If successfully commercialized, Modvion’s solution would solve the transport problem, while also replacing carbon intensive-steel with what could be a carbon-negative alternative.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 12, 2022
UK energy utility Drax has unveiled plans to build the world’s largest carbon capture facility with the goal of removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than it produces, and thereby securing “carbon negative” status. But campaign groups continue to insist that the maths behind biomass doesn’t add up.
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 27, 2023
Then they analyzed how the funds would have done over the same time period if the fossil fuel investments had been divested, and their value spread evenly among the remaining holdings. Weber and his colleagues also looked at the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the public equity investments of eight U.S.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature.
Global Renewable News
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Strategic Biofuels, the leader in developing deeply negative carbon footprint renewable fuel plants, and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA), a subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, a leading Fortun.
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 8, 2021
In January 2020, Brad Smith, the President of Microsoft, announced that the company had set a target of becoming carbon negative by 2030. What does going carbon negative actually entail? The fund invests in various climate technologies as a part of the company’s overall climate efforts.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance also urges policymakers to standardise carbon credits to allow carbon markets to act as a market proxy in the absence of a global carbon price. gigatonnes in 2025, the group said. gigatonnes in 2025, the group said.
Business Green
OCTOBER 3, 2022
BeZero Carbon research points to growing commercial interest in carbon removals such as direct air capture, enhanced weathering and biochar. Over the last year, we have seen the market for carbon dioxide removal jump-started from relative obscurity to one of the highest potential growth industries in the world," he said.
AFN Sustainable Protein
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. million, it’s still clearly under-invested. Climate investing in 2021.
GreenBiz
JUNE 3, 2021
Climate tech startups, and investments into them, are growing. In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. Accelerate is a fast pitch competition featuring startups across the circular economy value chain. Courtesy of.
ThinkGeoEnergy
OCTOBER 26, 2023
This equity round also represents the first grant awarded by the Canada Growth Fund, a $15 billion federal program that supports low-carbon initiatives. This significant investment will enable Eavor to accelerate the development and deployment of its revolutionary geothermal technology – the Eavor-Loop.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
And, much like the market for carbon offsets, it’s messy. . In the same way that a company’s carbon credit may offset its U.S. Sustainability practitioners have spent the past couple of decades defining and debating the role of carbon credits in the transition to a clean economy, and plastics credits are not fundamentally different.
Renew Economy
JUNE 15, 2023
Macquarie University engineered technology that converts biomass into "carbon negative" green hydrogen gets $2m investment from federal green bank. The post Renewable hydrogen tech that turns biomass into green molecules wins CEFC backing appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 2, 2023
Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 28, 2020
This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects. Rising corporate support of carbontech and carbon removal technologies writ large is one of the biggest reasons driving my optimism that the market is about to take a turn. .
altenergymag
JUNE 21, 2022
construction and demolition waste recycling wash plant as it continues its investment into the circular economy and achieve carbon negative status. One of the UK's leading recycling companies, The NWH Group, has officially opened its new £4.4m
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 12, 2024
When investing in Stonegate Instruments’ technology, you are actively working to reduce both your carbon footprint and energy costs, whilst committing to combat serious and potentially damaging risks. When a leak occurs, the system must work harder to maintain function, leading to sizable increases in both energy usage and costs.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2021
Drawing upon findings recently published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), the report from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG) argues that current global emissions targets are inadequate and that net negative – rather than net zero – strategies are required.
Business Green
AUGUST 8, 2021
Mark Wishnie from BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group and Landscape Capital. Nature-based solutions can cost-effectively provide roughly a third of the climate action needed by 2030 and, unlike other carbon removal technologies, are available and proven now. Institutional investors also have an important role to play.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 9, 2022
“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.
Business Green
MARCH 29, 2021
A new 'confidence survey' from the NFU has found British farmers are increasing investments in soil health, tree planting, renewable energy generation, and energy efficiency. It finds that 30 per cent of farmers are planning to invest in energy efficiency measures, up six percentage points from 24 per cent last year.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 25, 2023
A green carbon laboratory – examining the role that the non-operational highways ‘green’ asset can play in providing a source of materials and fuels to decarbonise highway operations: South Gloucestershire Council and West Sussex County Council. The decision panel of independent experts were drawn from the highways and transportation sector.
Smart Energy International
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Stiebel Eltron, a German green tech supplier, has announced investment plans of €600 million ($600 million) into their heat pump development capabilities. ” Have you read: ABB releases blueprint for carbon negative microgrids Safeguarding the stability of the grid Decarbonising heat: The hot topic we can’t ignore.
Business Green
APRIL 5, 2022
Carbon capture firm Climeworks has announced that it has completed a $650m equity round a day, just after the IPCC stated that carbon dioxide removal would now be essential to limit global warming to 1.5C. goal within reach.
Business Green
JULY 5, 2022
Asset manager said it aims to deliver long-term returns, net zero carbon emissions, and improved ESG outcomes through new investment vehicle. At the same time, they want to invest in portfolios that enable them to achieve net zero emissions in line with the Paris Alignment trajectory, as well as reach better ESG outcomes,".
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