Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 23, 2024

And while Canada’s coast faces countless climate threats, Elemental Policy Lab Fellow Na’im Merchant said it also could become important for climate resiliency as an unparalleled resource for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods. The world needs to go net-negative, and not enough people are paying attention to that.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

Renewable Natural Gas: Today’s Carbon-Negative Fuel Renewable natural gas sits at the intersection of two critical challenges: addressing increased emissions from organic waste and laying the foundation for zero carbon transportation across all sectors.? View post: Renewable Natural Gas: Today’s Carbon-Negative Fuel.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2021

VIDEO: Top experts from the University of Oxford, Friends of the Earth, Vertree and the UK Green Building Council tackle the carbon offsets debate. So what, if anything, can be done to ensure carbon offsets projects are credible and deliver on their promised emissions reductions?

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

and PM10), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) nitrogen oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO) and ozone (O 3). Ten of the 43 devices will also monitor carbon dioxide (CO 2). For over 60 years, we have worked with many city authorities across the UK and internationally to help them to reduce the negative impacts of air pollution.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 16, 2020

Bold new commitment will see the tech giant charge an internal carbon fee not just on emissions from its direct operations, but on those of its supply chain. Read more: Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

The new ‘OxAria’ study started on 1st July, extending an existing collaboration which has enabled five low-cost air pollution sensors to be installed at city centre locations, generating real-time information on key air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides (NO, NO2), carbon monoxide (CO), ozone (O3) and particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5,

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Professor Peter Taylor and Alice Garvey from the University of Leeds set out the challenges and policy requirements for decarbonising heavy industry which they included in a recent report commissioned by the CCC. Here, lead authors of the report Professor Peter Taylor and Alice Garvey set out the main findings.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Previous work established the carbon negative position of the business and this paper now sets out the additional greenhouse gas savings that could arise from future activities. Bath University’s research not only validates those efforts but reinforces our vision to improve our already fantastic carbon credentials.”.

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POWER Magazine

MARCH 1, 2024

GW Drax Power Station in northeastern England—once Western Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant—is poised to pioneer bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a negative emissions The post UK’s Drax Eyes U.S. for Bioenergy CCS Expansion Drive appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation released new rese arch evaluating California’s climate progress and identifying a policy pathway that would reaffirm California as a climate leader. includes important new metrics to track the economic, environmental, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate policies. By Olivia Ashmoore.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Advocates of BECCS argue that by sourcing sustainable biomass feedstocks for power plants and then capturing the resulting emissions, the technology can deliver both reliable renewable power and negative emissions.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

Firms need a stable policy environment to make the necessary investments, writes Viridor's Tim Rotheray The drive for net zero is serious business. policy and carbon accounting are at risk of turning genuine ambition into business risk. But often these policies are not enough. And companies are following.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 11, 2023

New “bio” ropes made from biomaterials have the potential to replace conventional plastics of fossil origin in mussel and algae cultivation, say the groups behind their development, who claim sustainability advantages including up to 34% carbon footprint reduction compared to ropes made from conventional plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The envisaged Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) implementation at LIPOR’s Energy Recovery Plant consists of capturing, extracting and purifying the biogenic part of CO2, present in about 60% of the carbon dioxide emissions generated as a result of the incineration process.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action — from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" — are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2020

These might turn out to look quite different in the future, if carbon-accounting under the Emissions Trading System (ETS) were to be based on science and the real effects on climate. Much of the biomass employed in Europe is anything but carbon neutral. Labelling forest biomass as renewable has a perverse impact on the climate.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

It plans to add carbon capture and storage to the biomass plants, taking them to a negative-emissions status. “[Thursday’s] announcement is part of Drax renewing its focus on renewables and pioneering bioenergy with carbon capture and storage technology (BECCS),” the company representative said in an email.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Yet while many have started to rapidly address their direct emissions, it's become clear that many targets will be missed unless more is done to tackle indirect supply chains emissions - where commonly 80 per cent of a firm's carbon footprint resides. Then there's policy shocks. All these impacts will affect large firms first.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A coherent policy response that catalyses action to deliver emissions reductions across all sectors is required. To achieve this it will require an annual reduction in carbon intensity of 9.7%, according to the latest “Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI)” produced by professional services firm PwC.

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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? Our innovative process uses gas to produce hydrogen and sequesters solid carbon at the same time. Natural gas is 80% hydrogen atoms. The event is currently SOLD OUT.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2021

We did an episode of this show trying to figure out how oil prices fell to negative $40 per barrel. the President of Gas Vista and a non-resident fellow at the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy. It eliminates outage and price risk while accelerating us towards a zero carbon future. Times have changed.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2021

But the 2017 appointment attracted criticism due to Heaton’s position as head of sustainability and policy at Drax, a company that received £832 million in subsidies from the government last year for biomass generation. However, critics said her position as the only executive of an energy company offered an unfair advantage to the company.

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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. Both of these scenarios would meet the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Businesses who fail to act on decarbonisation risk exposing themselves to potential risks from policy-driven increased operating costs, increased energy costs or increased compliance costs. Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012. Shift to low-carbon heat.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

David Gillerman, founding partner and CEO of Crossroads Real Estate , said: “The negative impact of plastic waste on our environment, plus the challenges we face from excess carbon emissions, made the joint venture with Clean Planet Energy a very compelling opportunity.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) today unveiled a wide-ranging report on the government's green recovery agenda which argues major reforms to UK taxation and the swift release of long-awaited policy strategies will be central to laying the foundations of a greener, job-rich economy that protects nature.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The world's top climate scientists have updated their guidance on carbon removals technologies, arguing they are likely to prove essential to stablising global temperatures, but only if they are developed judiciously.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

However, it is crucial that as we move from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, we do not not risk disturbing our planet’s largest carbon sinks by giving the destructive deep-sea mining industry the green light and opening up a new frontier of industrial extraction, writes campaign organisation the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

For that project, greenhouse gas emissions were cited as the most significant factor for refusing permission in Ellesmere Port, with the Secretary of State stating that ‘every tonne of carbon contributes to climate change’. UKOG’s plans would have a considerable negative impact on the natural environment around Dunsfold and beyond.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Drax has come in for renewed scrutiny over the environmental sustainability of its supply chain, with a major investigation having found evidence of carbon-rich primary forests in western Canada being felled to supply wood pellet feedstock for Britain's biggest power station in North Yorkshire.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Tech giant Microsoft has this week formally joined the European Corporate Leaders Group (CLG Europe), building on its recent commitment to become a net negative emission company. CLG Europe brings together influential European businesses which share the aim of delivering climate neutrality through "progressive public policy".

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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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