The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Gansu Wind Complex, China The Gansu Wind Complex stands as a testament to China’s commitment to renewable energy and sustainable development. Unveiling the Giant: Gansu Wind Complex The Gansu Wind Complex is one of the world’s largest wind power installations, covering vast expanses of the Gansu Province in northwestern China.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 26, 2022

The current energy crisis has prompted many questions about the validity of renewables as the correct solution. The problem, she argues, is the system within which we are integrating these clean energy sources. Energy is owning a lot of headlines these days. We need to change that system to something that’s a better fit.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South to burn them overseas in its power plants. million tons of pellets per year.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. At times the fossil fuel economy can seem indefatigable.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google has today unveiled a new wave of sustainability commitments, including high profile pledges to eliminate the company's "carbon legacy" and ensure it can operate with entirely carbon-free energy by 2030 at the latest. This means that Google's lifetime net carbon footprint is now zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

By Faye Bowser, Head of Energy Solutions, Siemens plc. Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Washington passed 100% clean electricity into law earlier this year, and with public input government agencies are currently drafting rules to guide utilities on how to comply with the law by phasing out fossil fuel emissions and integrating equity in their service models. 100% Clean Energy by 2045 is now the law in Washington!

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Worried about the climate crisis? And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. .

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable. Energy Usage and Electricity. Plumbing and Water Usage. While it is energy intensive to make, it is far less energy intensive to recycle. Energy Efficiency and Electricity.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable. Energy Usage and Electricity. Plumbing and Water Usage. While it is energy intensive to make, it is far less energy intensive to recycle. Energy Efficiency and Electricity.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The effects of climate change are worsening as countries around the world experience more heat waves and unpredictable weather. In that light, let's take a look at how these five countries are acknowledging climate change, and what steps they are taking to reduce its impact.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The research at Ohio University could help transform old fossil fuel sites into clean energy assets, though much work remains to be done. Geologists at Ohio University are exploring the potential to turn abandoned coal mines into sources of carbon-free heating and cooling. They’re just taking up space.”.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Changes in people’s buying habits need to be consistent to speed up the green transition, say experts. Putting people at the centre.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

General Synod calls climate change 'a crisis for God's creation' as it votes to decarbonise the Church within 10 years. The Bishop said the climate crisis was a social justice issue that most severely affected the world's poorest "and if the Church is to hold others to account, we have to get our own house in order".

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The government’s advisory Climate Change Committee has recommended no “net increase” in airport expansion should be allowed unless the industry “sufficiently outperforms” its current emissions projections. carbon budget if left unchecked. Incompatible’ with Climate Action.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Drought conditions are causing saltwater to creep into the drinking water of communities along the Mississippi River, and the DOE puts $325M toward long-duration energy storage projects. Corporate carbon footprint tracking collects $27M, and forestry and battery interests intersect to invest $18M toward bio-graphite for lithium-ion cells.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

Ministers said the strategy sets out a vision for how the UK could slash emissions generated by industry by two-thirds in just 15 years and deliver the "world's first" low carbon industrial sector.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In cooperation with Shell and Total, the project aims to create a carbon capture and storage hub in Norway, open to third parties. All signs are ‘Green for Go’ Where some are struggling to get carbon capture projects started, others are leading the way forward. million tonnes of CO2 per year. Why is Northern Lights such a big deal?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The agency said the strategy represened an unprecedented effort to drastically slash pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy. "No No economy in the world, much less the soon-to-be fourth largest, has put forth such a comprehensive roadmap to reach carbon neutrality. India submits fresh net zero strategy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The energy industry's interest in low carbon hydrogen is building fast, and the nuclear industry reckons it could yet have a crucial role to play. There may be on-going debates about how best to use hydrogen - should it be deployed to heat buildings, provide energy storage, decarbonise heavy industry, or fuel trains and planes?

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

Ministers said the strategy sets out a vision for how the UK could slash emissions generated by industry by two-thirds in just 15 years and deliver the "world's first" low carbon industrial sector.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Governments are very keen to promote the role of technology when it comes to the fight against climate change. While technology may provide part of the solution to climate change, right now it's part of the problem. The amount of energy consumed by data centres is likely to grow significantly over the next decade.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Reaching Net Zero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson. Climate change is no longer a theoretical concept: it poses an existential threat to us all.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. and globally by 2040. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

The UK must quickly "get its own house in order" and ramp up its decarbonisation efforts if it is to maximise the chances of a successful COP26 Climate Summit this autumn, the Prime Minister has been warned, in a letter today from more than 60 green NGOs and campaign groups.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

Mobilising billions of dollars of low carbon investment is a huge challenge, but it is also a massive opportunity for those financiers willing to innovate in pursuit of net zero emissions. Chief among them is the huge investment gap that must still be bridged before the destination of carbon neutrality can be reached.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Climate Change Committee has just delivered its most detailed and ambitious work yet to the government, in what the advisory body's CEO Chris Stark this week called "one of the most important things we've ever published". The Sixth Carbon Budget also brings with it a clear need to act in the short term.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

Businesses that advertise in the UK have had to comply with rules around environmental claims for decades, and it is now more than 13 years since the advertising watchdog ordered Shell to pull an ad that used flowers floating from refinery chimneys to promote a carbon capture and utilisation project.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

The UN Climate Change Conference is only a few months away, and to say that expectations are high would be an understatement. She believed good progress was being made on Adaptation (the effort to secure protection for habitats and communities against the effects of climate change). What are the big priorities for COP?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Carbon offset. Does the carbon offset provider use sound science and accounting practices to back up the claims it makes about its carbon offsets? The FTC said in December that it expects comments on 'carbon offsets' in particular for the next Green Guides. Made with renewable energy. Low carbon.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — The former president of the COP26 climate talks has brought a delegation including four oil companies and tobacco giant Philip Morris to the summit currently taking place in Glasgow, Scotland. O’Neill gave an interview to Radio 4 at the time claiming prime minister Boris Johnson didn’t “really get” climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

It’s not often that we have a chance to savor a history-making win on the climate change front. The $370B in climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act — the biggest climate bill ever passed — provides such a moment. Allume Energy , Transcend ). Forest Frizzell, CEO of Shifted Energy.

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