EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Committing to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 or sooner is the new standard — that’s lifecycle emissions, which includes the carbon footprint of oil and gas combusted by customers during end uses. BP, for example, must follow its visionary February with a specific September. Deliver results at scale through cooperation. Now or never.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

per cent in the decade to 2021, with a corresponding rise in water pollution and declines in air quality caused by an increase in nitrogen fertiliser use. The IFA has worked closely with controversial California-based air quality scientist, Frank Mitloehner, to argue against the need to sharply curtail methane emissions from livestock.

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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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EDF + Business

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’re hearing more oil and gas companies pledging to reinvent themselves for a new, low carbon energy era. Net-zero emissions by 2050 — which means cutting greenhouse pollution as deeply as possible, then capturing the rest — is the goal. Slow, then stop, investment in new exploration and production, petrochemicals and refineries.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . Green investments, however, make up just 12 percent of these companies’ portfolios on average based on publicly available figures.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 17, 2024

By embedding this technology into various facets of air transportation, the industry takes a significant leap towards carbon neutrality, aligning with global sustainability objectives. From an environmental perspective, hydrogen-powered flight promises significant reductions in atmospheric pollution.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

The UK government's post-Brexit ambition for a net zero carbon market could be world-leading - but the plans released earlier this month repeat many of the mistakes of the EU system, including a very loose cap on emissions, and a market so complex it would make Rube Goldberg weep. This is below the current EU ETS price of €23 (£20.50).

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

The Jadar mine was regarded as one of Serbia's biggest foreign investment projects, but environmental groups criticised the plan, claiming it risked polluting land and water in the area. Shell takes flak over Canada carbon capture project. million petrol cars, despite having been fitted with the pioneering technology.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

To do so, they draw on friendly science, the promise of technological innovation and slick marketing campaigns – which promise “climate neutral” or “climate smart” meat and dairy – to create the idea we can continue eating vast quantities of the stuff while meeting our climate goals. The science shows that for humanity to stay below 1.5C

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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. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. The key will be making low-carbon fuels without creating new problems. Worried about the climate crisis?

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman has unveiled ambitious plans for a linear car-free city designed to produce zero carbon emissions, with construction earmarked to begin during the first quarter of this year. 90 per cent of people breathe polluted air.". Why should seven million people die every year because of pollution?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. Studies show these activities represent the majority of the sector’s emissions, yet many meat companies exclude them when calculating their carbon footprint. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

For example, when a forest—which naturally absorbs and stores carbon dioxide as trees grow—is logged and converted to grazing or agricultural land, GHGs are released as trees decompose. Notable exceptions included carbonated beverages, crunchy chicken breast, certain types of milk, and bottled water. drives 30 miles per day).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That’s potentially very bad news for the climate: The huge amount of methane that leaks during the production, transport and storage of LNG means that the carbon emissions associated with importing the fuel could be up to ten times higher than for the equivalent amount of Russian pipeline gas, researchers say.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This arresting visual captures the sentiments of opponents of a plan to develop the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project under the lake. billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026.

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

Additionally the Green Roof components and the plants are exposed to more extreme environmental impact like higher wind speeds, reflecting surfaces, higher temperatures, air pollution, artificial light at night, lower bio-diversity and more. Environmental aspects go under in the craving for a Return-of-Investment (ROI).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Instead, Boris Johnson's serial unseriousness, failure to engage with the detail and hypocrisy at home including rolling over to big polluters is undermining COP26 before it has begun. "We "As hosts, the UK has a unique responsibility to make the summit a success," he said. We can have no more climate delay. within reach.". warming pathway.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

Our transformation toward a climate-neutral economy - the fundamental task of our century - is currently taking on an entirely new dynamic, not in spite of, but because of, the Russian war," he said. She argued that eliminating this bias could reduce global carbon emissions by 3.6 per cent while increasing global income by 0.65

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Green Roof Technology

MARCH 17, 2020

Additionally the Green Roof components and the plants are exposed to more extreme environmental impact like higher wind speeds, reflecting surfaces, higher temperatures, air pollution, artificial light at night, lower bio-diversity and more. Environmental aspects go under in the craving for a Return-of-Investment (ROI).

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

Over the past decade, the world has woken up to the urgency of the climate crisis and consumers, governments, and investors are demanding that carbon intensive industries take action. This week, the EDF published an in-depth guide to help firms invest in enhancing the sustainability of their agricultural supply chains.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This might be the quickest and cheapest way for you to become carbon neutral, without retrofitting your vessels at all. Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe. It should be noted that there are countless ways to reshape the current carbon-intense industry, this article suggest merely one of many possibilities.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise. And What They Deliver.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“If not properly plugged and abandoned, these wells and facilities can contaminate waterways and soil, serve as a source of climate and air pollutants, and can present physical hazards to people and wildlife,” CalGEM writes in a 2023 legislative report. billion each. barrels of oil equivalent each day.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Within hours the whims of the American Electoral College system empowered autocrats, nationalists and polluters everywhere. Neutral, business-driven impact-led platforms have the best potential for achieving SDG 17, whether they are specific to a particular sector or industry, or sustainability-driven.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . percent of its GDP.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Alibaba Group Announces Carbon Neutrality Goal by 2030… here. Maersk Seeks $150-a-Ton Carbon Tax on Shipping Fuel… here. Morgan Stanley Announces Commitment to Mobilize $1Trillion to Support Sustainability Solutions by 2030, including $750 Billion of Low-Carbon Solutions… here. Youth and Employee Voice.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If you listen to Joe Biden on climate change, you might feel the urge to junk your car and invest in wind power. As the U.S. has grown increasingly polarized, it seems more and more like the two presidential candidates inhabit different planets. Meanwhile, the incumbent’s message seems to be that fossil fuels are A-OK.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Invest in battery technology. And I would invest in rail, in rail. And I believe that the way that we're going to deal with this problem is that we are going to increase by tenfold our investment in science. This is a crisis, and a lot of our plans are very similar to get to carbon neutral by 2045, 2050, something like that.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. As President Biden observed, the IRA "makes the largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change".

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

Broadly similar to the UK's Climate Change Act, the bill requires the adoption of a series of five year carbon budgets and a regime of annual progress reports. It added that it would invest $1bn over the next decade in support of the new targets. Biden administration sets bold solar cost goal. Meat giant JBS unveils net zero target.

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