GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

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. Joel Makower.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Future of Carbon Policy Forum Is where you want to be on January 4th at Amazon’s Seattle Campus Can we sequester carbon under our wheels? We decarbonize natural gas use by converting gas to clean hydrogen at the customer’s point of use without CO2 emissions. Natural gas is 80% hydrogen atoms.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. . There are other ways to make hydrogen.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology scooping up the resulting CO2. Blue hydrogen locks in dependence on natural gas, with all the price volatility and geopolitics that comes with it, and it also relies on the development of cheap and effective CCS.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Detailed and joined-up policies, behaviour change, 'whole system' infrastructure investment, and holistic energy market reform are all critical to achieving net zero emissions, report warns. In this scenario, there would be close to no unabated natural gas generation from 2035 onwards.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The United States is in a golden era for climate policy. The policy has been a long time coming, yet came to fruition quickly, responding to the urgency of the climate crisis and the opportunity to legislate before midterms. How the policy will unfold is impossible for me to imagine.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

A new study and Well-to-Tank (WTT) model by low carbon technology consultancy Element Energy, commissioned by Zemo Partnership (formerly LowCVP), appears to identify a range of optimal pathways for the production, distribution and dispensing of low carbon hydrogen to transport end-users.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. The steps that the U.K. Support, not subsidies. billion) a year.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

They found that in order to have a 50 percent chance of achieving this target, 58 percent of known oil reserves, 59 percent of natural gas reserves, and 89 percent of coal reserves cannot be extracted. This means that global oil and gas production must decline 3 percent on average every year until 2050. “I

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Work at the Puga Valley geothermal project in Ladakh, India by the the state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has currently been stalled following an incident in 2022 where geothermal fluids flowed into the Puga Stream, prompting complaints from civil society and environmental organizations.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

It is clear that policy decisions in this parliamentary term will determine whether the UK is on a pathway that will credibly allow it to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and reverse the decline of the natural environment. There are two key aspects to that challenge.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

’s power sector will be operating on a negative-emissions basis by 2033 at the latest if the country sticks to its plan to reach net-zero emissions across the economy by 2050, according to system operator National Grid ESO. Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038. actually hitting its targeted carbon reductions.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Efforts by oil and gas companies to build massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities on B.C.’s But in practice much of the discussion was about how to accelerate gas exports to Asia. But as a Vancouver Sun story points out, the organization’s primary function is “to promote natural gas.” .

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The International Energy Agency (IEA) says global natural gas consumption rebounded by 4.6% in 2021, more than double the decline seen in the gas market in 2020. Last year closed with record high spot prices for gas in Europe and Asia, as the natural gas supply remained constricted.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

But support for specific policies is somewhat of a different story. Another aspect of that future is limiting carbon-intensive forms of travel. Is this a realistic version of how we might address the carbon intensity of air travel? ” The debate around gas stoves in the U.S. provides an interesting case study.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

And here's Makower's: "Fraudulent misrepresentation of a company's products, policies or performance.". Commitments to net zero are worth zero without the plans, policies and actions to back it up. There's a reason why carbon is all around. How companies can reach net zero carbon and avoid greenwashing.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. “Eni took a bath of green paint,” Abbate said.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

European airlines are fully committed to decarbonize air transport and accelerate their efforts to make Europe the world’s first carbon neutral continent by 2050,” the paper says. Climate policy regulation in the form of taxes is ecologically and economically counterproductive,” the paper says.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

From 2047 onwards, the energy system could then become net negative, absorbing more emissions than it produces through a mix of carbon capture technologies and solutions, which operate on both a standalone basis and while attached to power stations. Systems thinking is critical to delivering a low-carbon economy.

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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

APRIL 15, 2021

Apple has launched a "first-of-its-kind" $200m forestry fund aimed at removing "at least" one million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, promising to scale and support projects that sequester CO2, improve biodiversity and adhere to "strict environmental and social standards".

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

In terms of energy usage, manufacturing one kilogram of pesticide requires an average of 10 times more energy than producing one kilogram of nitrogen fertilizer, which is made from natural gas. Many pesticides release volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a precursor to ground-level ozone that acts as a powerful greenhouse gas.

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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. The case for negative emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy. Our new paper , published in Nature, revealed just how tight the world’s remaining carbon budget is likely to be. Our analysis showed that total fossil fuel production is limited by a global carbon budget.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Domestic Climate Policy Gets Real. to a carbon free economy by 2050, experts at Bloomberg and Princeton estimate that the US will have to build enough solar and wind farms to fill an area roughly five times the size of South Dakota. In the near-term, the conflict is exerting negative impacts on climate emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

And according to IEA’ Renewables 2020, Launch Presentation from November 10, 2020, global wind and solar PV’s combined installed capacity will surpass that of natural gas in 2023 and coal in 2024. Development of policies related to renewable energy targets, technologies, risk mitigation tools, tariffs, and licensing.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.

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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. At present home heating - the bulk of which is provided by the fossil fuel gas grid - accounts for 13 per cent of UK emissions.

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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. The PR campaign subjects heat pumps to intense criticism. On its website WPR said it aimed to “spark outrage” around heat pumps.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Below are the most applicable targets and indicators for businesses: Integrate climate change measures into policy and planning. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. Adopt disaster risk reduction strategies.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

Hard coal plants, or those burning more carbon-dense and less-polluting types of coal, by contrast, will be closed via least-cost tenders. In other words, a €40 billion policy's future at least partly relies on accurate natural-gas forecasting 18 years into the future. RWE is set to receive €2.6

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. On Saturday, a newly built jetty is due to welcome the Norwegian-flagged Höegh Esperanza, a 280-metre vessel capable of offloading cargoes of natural gas supercooled into liquid form, then shipped across the ocean in specialised tankers.

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