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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The recent interest and commitment to water pledges has diverted scarce resources and funds from actions such as watershed conservation and protection, reuse, technology innovation and adoption, public policy innovation, etc. The World Resources Institute has revised its predictions of the water supply-demand deficit to 56 percent by 2030.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Glasgow moved us a step closer to this goal, with almost 200 countries pledging to “phase down” unabated coal power in the final text (“unabated” refers to coal power without carbon capture and storage). The post The Glasgow Climate Pact: What does it mean for Canada’s climate policy? Finance is shifting away from fossil fuels .

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Despite popular belief, electrification does not always lead to a reduction in carbon footprint. According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. The energy distribution model is becoming decentralised.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Coupled with the increased usage of renewable energy to fulfil electricity requirements, these energy efficiency gains can help IT operations in Europe to substantially decrease their carbon footprint. engaging in demand response by reducing data centre power consumption to better match the current local supply of renewables.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Evaluating regulations, subsidies, pricing mechanisms, and hybrid policies. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. In its simplest form, a carbon tax or fee reduces emissions due to the elasticity effect.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

In a resolution that secured strong backing from MEPs on Friday with 505 votes in favour and 119 against, the European Parliament demanded the EU revise its post-2020 budget in the wake of Covid-19, and said economic recovery plans must have a strong social and environmental focus.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has teamed up with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to launch a new collaborative coalition today aimed at guiding the industry's path towards delivering 'carbon neutral' concrete by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Recommended reading: Bloomberg : Exxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents. Foreign Policy : Everything You Think About the Geopolitics of Climate Change is Wrong. Mighty Earth : ArcelorMittal’s New Carbon-Neutral Commitment Could Catalyze Steel. Based in the U.S.,

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Though there is some domestic demand for wood pellets for electric utilities — particularly in the Northeast — the majority of wood pellets manufactured in the region are exported to the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), to fulfill global commitments to mitigate climate change by reducing reliance on fossil fuels. .

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

The crisis has exposed not only the lack of foresight but the lack of effectiveness in mainstream business risk management policies. The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google on Monday pledged that by 2030 it will run its entire business on carbon-free energy — every hour of every day of the year. West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. Google's supply, demand and policy approach. Europe and Chile.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The global peak in oil consumption may already be past us, according to a new report from Carbon Tracker — and China and India's rapid transition to low carbon transport is the reason why. But the IEA's current forecasts haven't yet accounted for the dramatic policy shifts coming from Beijing.

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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. The EU is aiming to be net-zero carbon across all sectors by 2050. Hydrogen is likely to play a substantial role in getting carbon out of those hard-to-reach sectors like heavy industry and freight.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SMUD is the first utility in the country to count avoided carbon emissions from the existing building stock as part of its progress on energy efficiency. The switch to "avoided carbon" is part of SMUD’s ambitious effort to accelerate decarbonization of its existing building stock. New buildings, new policy battles.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply. The sooner that the costs of carbon control are included in the costs of doing business, the sooner new technologies will be developed.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 27, 2021

On Thursday the 19 th of August, the Climate Council in partnership with the law firm Shearman & Sterling, hosted an intriguing panel to discuss a major topic in the energy industry: Will low-carbon hydrogen be the silver bullet in APAC? But the question remained, “how low carbon is low-carbon hydrogen?”

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The overarching ambition of the Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy is to slash greenhouse gas emissions from UK industry by two-thirds within 15 years, as part of plans to develop the "world's first" low carbon industrial sector that creates and supports up to 80,000 jobs by 2050. Coking coal?

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Green Deal sets the course for Europe to achieve carbon-neutrality by 2050. Car manufacturers don't think that’s enough and want the commission to use a planned review of the alternative fuels infrastructure policy to introduce mandatory EV charging infrastructure targets for member states and ensure tech-neutrality.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

At the same time, Brussels signaled that it will also encourage the development of "blue" hydrogen produced from fossil fuels paired with carbon capture, at least for the time being. The Global CCS Institute, a carbon capture think tank based in London, called the EU's strategy ambitious, but warned against picking winners.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Yet just as efforts toward that goal are finally scaling up — via the EU’s amplified climate targets, China’s new carbon-neutral target for 2060, and other examples — the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a massive dose of uncertainty. “We need more policy support than is available today.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Moller-Maersk, Citi, Mediterranean Shipping Company, and Hapag-Lloyd yesterday issued a joint Call to Action for Shipping Decarbonisation, which urges governments to work with the industry to deliver policies and investments to decarbonise the international shipping industry and its global supply chains.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

So as the aviation industry has gradually climbed aboard global pledges to get rid of carbon emissions, it has mostly promised to make up for its damage elsewhere — through offsets that might involve planting trees, restoring wetlands, or paying people to preserve ecosystems that otherwise would have been razed. And, oh yeah: less flying. “It

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2021

"We are firmly committed to helping our suppliers become carbon neutral by 2030 and are thrilled that companies who've joined us span industries and countries around the world, including Germany, China, the US, India, and France," said Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president for environment, policy, and social initiatives.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Drax CEO argues deal will play 'pivotal role' in the development of voluntary carbon markets. Respira would then sell on these credits on the voluntary carbon market to corporations and financial institutions looking to achieve carbon neutrality and net zero emission targets.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 25, 2020

With growing consensus on the gravity of the climate crisis, countries and companies are adopting carbon reduction targets. Pressure to make emissions visible has been around for a while: Consumers want to know how much carbon is embodied in the products they buy. Alas, to date the same isn’t true of carbon performance.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

The waste management sector bears an essential role in the EU’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the group explained in a statement in early February. Waste-to-Energy contributes by treating the fraction of municipal waste unfit for recycling, as a part of the Effort Sharing Regulation.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A new policy platform is thinking big on forests and climate. We need to stop emissions from deforestation and forest degradation while simultaneously bolstering the carbon sequestration capacity of healthy, growing forests. Improve forest practices for carbon, adaptation and resilience. would be " carbon-neutral by 2035."

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Pragmatic changes will help These regulations are a key part of building a clean and affordable electricity grid at a time when demand is growing. More flexibility for gas acting as backup Second, the regulations should expand provisions allowing natural-gas facilities without carbon capture and storage to operate as back-up power.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 28, 2020

Hundreds of Amazon employees have joined in solidarity, forming the advocacy group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) to protest the company’s climate policies. AECJ seeks to push Amazon into adopting more eco-conscious practices, but Amazon has threatened the protesters with termination for violating its communications policy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New tool designed to help civil society and investors scrutinise the mismatch between national climate goals and energy policies. Developed by influential financial think tank Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor, the registry reveals that producing and burning all the world's reserves of oil and gas would yield more than 3.5

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 14, 2020

Following the outbreak of the coronavirus, airlines have been forced to cut jobs in the face of a steep decline in passenger demand and companies have had to halt the production and delivery of orders. This questions run the gamut from containment and prevention to green technology and support for carbon neutral air travel.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 23, 2023

By Leanna Tang and Andrew Howell, CFA High-integrity carbon credits can play an important part in enhancing climate action, but their role in corporate sustainability strategies has come under scrutiny over the last year. When a buyer removes a credit from the market by retiring it, they can take credit for the emissions impact it represents.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

CBI, Make UK, Institute of Directors, the Federation of Small Businesses, and the British Chamber of Commerce call for joined-up approach to decarbonisation that manages impact on high carbon industries. A number of businesses have also embraced the approach and are pursuing just transition policies and green skills programmes.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

Susan Hall, the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, has opposed key climate policies, backed the reintroduction of fracking and promoted articles online which spread climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. Hall tweeted: “Carbon neutral by 2030 promises [London Mayor Sadiq] Khan. Well said [David Frost]”.

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