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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Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Some of the most difficult-to-understand words were mitigation , referring to efforts to reduce emissions to slow down climate change, and carbon-neutral , when there’s no net increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. Some people found the shorthand use of carbon confusing. “I

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Research into carbon capture and sequestration has shown both promise and disappointment. A 2010 study indicated that "negative emission technologies…significantly enhances the possibility to meet low concentration targets" (Azar et al, 2010). Related Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration References Anderson, K.,

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” Last year, he referred in his newsletter to the “supposed emergency of climate change that critics have lambasted as unfounded alarmism.”

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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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Smart Energy International

JUNE 13, 2022

T 3 transformation, which encompasses digital transformation, energy transformation and net-zero carbon transformation, is a new model for propelling today’s campuses into the future through systematic reformation and innovation. The world is consuming increasingly more energy, which causes higher carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The leader of Cold Lake First Nations has revealed the initiator of a major carbon capture project in Northern Alberta has not consulted with local Indigenous communities. They’re ramming it down our throats,” said Chief Jacko during a media scrum outside a Carbon Capture Canada conference held on Tuesday.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Goods imported into the UK from countries with a lower or no carbon price will face a levy by 2027. Green , and James Bee On 18 December 2023, the UK government announced a proposal for a new carbon border adjustment mechanism (UK CBAM). For more information on the UK ETS, refer to this Latham blog post. Davies , Michael D.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

However, base load refers to the minimum amount of demand on an electrical grid over a given period of time, not a minimum level of constant supply. First, most batteries today are four-hour batteries, not one-hour batteries,” he said, referring to large-capacity batteries used in renewable energy grid infrastructure. “I GW commercial.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That includes a recommitment to reaching its 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions below 50 percent of their 2007 levels, potentially ahead of schedule.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

While Nitrogen Dioxide is primarily produced by cars(EPA USA, 2016), other pollutants like Carbon Dioxide were on the fall too, with reduced global air travel reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions in the US by 17% ( Zogopoulos , 2021). Positive and Negative Impacts of the Pandemic on the Environment. References. and Islam, S.,

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

government has a new goal to make it much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. The Carbon Negative Shot is the third program in the Earthshots series. Carbon dioxide removal doesn’t directly cut emissions from any particular industry, like agriculture or aviation.

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Grist

JUNE 11, 2021

This fall, world leaders will meet in Glasgow, Scotland, for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP26. They will hash out their commitments under the Paris Agreement, raising their carbon-cutting ambitions or making announcements about climate-related investments.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Given the Paris Accord’s aspirations, the climate challenge facing humanity can be expressed in simple terms: halve annual carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions by 2030, halve them again by 2040, and again by 2050. Here we focus on some aspects of land-use and negative emission technologies (NET) dependent on the land. 2017, Faulk, 2019).

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

While most changes have been negative–canceled or delayed surgeries, intensive care units filled to maximum capacity, and provider burnout–the rise of telemedicine, virtual care, and remote monitoring is considered a silver lining by many patients and healthcare providers alike. The carbon footprint savings range between 0.70-372

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The article misleadingly refers to a report of ours, which [lists] emergency measures governments *could* turn to *if* Russia cuts off all gas to the EU this winter.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Yet these indigenous communities and their ancestral lands are under intense deforestation pressure and subject to a host of negative impacts of forest loss. Guyana is successfully issuing verified emission reductions and has signed significant purchase agreements on that carbon with Norway and with Hess Corporation.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS? HOW ARE OFFSETS USED?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When one thinks about carbon emissions, images of spewing smokestacks or tailpipes likely come to mind. One- seventh of the world’s carbon emissions are associated with building materials like steel, cement and aluminum. Cement and concrete can be made with lower-carbon fuels. million gas-fuelled cars.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

That’s why Amazon’s new carbon neutralization paper is a breath of fresh air. Not all carbon credits are created equal , but companies can purchase high-quality, verified forest carbon credits through organizations like Emergent , which develops REDD+ tropical forest carbon credits. .

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It is widely understood that human activity is having a severe negative impact on natural ecosystems all over the world, and only with greater investment in analysis and remedial action can these issues be addressed.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2021

DeSmog can now also reveal that Heaton’s colleague on Drax’s PR and public affairs team, Tanisha Beebee, advised on the CCC’s Sixth Carbon Budget over the course of several meetings last year. However, it produces 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year. Sixth Carbon Budget. Conflict of Interest?

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The voluntary carbon market can offer the scale, demand, market infrastructure and technologies to deliver for the climate, argues SustainCERT CEO Marion Verles. More than 30 years after the first offset project was initiated by a US electric power company in Guatemala, the voluntary carbon market finds itself at the dawn of a new era.

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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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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Whether it’s a new build or a retrofit (also referred to as greenhabbing , or green rehabbing an older building to be more eco-friendly), the real estate industry is moving towards sustainability because a low-carbon building is proven to have lower operating costs, improved resale value and higher occupancy rates. Enhanced reputation.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

You therefore hear people talking about reducing carbon footprints on the environment. Understanding HVO Fuel HVO is the abbreviation for Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil, and it is sometimes referred to as renewable diesel. It is posited that using this alternative can enable businesses to reduce their carbon footprint.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project. Boredom turned into negative thoughts, and negative thoughts turned into depressing thoughts.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

In your letter, you referred to the delivery challenges for the scheme, which you claim "have been exacerbated by the understandable impact of the Covid pandemic"," Dunne wrote. "In Businesses need to get behind low-carbon housing and have the confidence to upskill employees.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A growing number of oil companies in the past year have announced targets to achieve “net-zero emissions” by mid-century, seemingly signaling a monumental shift in the history of the oil business towards low-carbon solutions. Slowing down the low-carbon transition is profitable for the boards of these Carbon Majors,” the authors wrote.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter went on to say – in a reference to interconnectors, high voltage cables that allow neighbouring countries to trade excess renewable energy – that if countries in Europe pursuing similar strategies to the UK “get the same weather at the same time” there won’t be enough people “exporting to meet demand”.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The recently-passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is such a game-changer for domestic climate action that experts at ClimateWeek often referred to it, reflexively, as the Emissions Reduction Act. In the near-term, the conflict is exerting negative impacts on climate emissions. Here are my four key takeaways: U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the same month, OEUK also wrote letters to Sunak warning the proposed windfall tax would have a negative impact on oil and gas investments in the UK. Our industry is playing a vital role in the UK’s low-carbon energy future and paid £11 billion in production taxes in 2022/23. Shell referred DeSmog to OEUK for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A growing number of oil companies in the past year have announced targets to achieve “net-zero emissions” by mid-century, seemingly signaling a monumental shift in the history of the oil business towards low-carbon solutions. Slowing down the low-carbon transition is profitable for the boards of these Carbon Majors,” the authors wrote.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Increased awareness of the negative impact of business on the environment is driving companies to develop sustainable and climate-friendly goods and services. The rise of the Climate Technology category — which is sometimes referred to as green technology — will be good news for businesses who can take advantage of the trend.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems. Adhere to the “Good Fish Guide”.

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