GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. Natural gas may burn with less carbon and with fewer pollutants than coal but Browne said that could prove insufficient.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Wärtsilä defines the goal of 100 percent decarbonization as a carbon-neutral power grid with a combination of generation resources — the vast majority of which would be wind and solar — as well as ample amounts of battery storage, demand response and flexible gas power, which will ultimately run on carbon-free renewable fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

By far the most politically contentious aspect of the new emissions budgets involves Ireland’s livestock-dominated agriculture sector, which currently accounts for 37.5 After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. Irish Agriculture.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Funding decision granted and first contracts signed for the Northern Lights project Summary - Following a historic vote in parliament on December 15th 2020, the Norwegian Government announced its funding decision for the ‘Northern Lights’ CO2 transport and storage project. million tonnes of CO2 per year.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

This year’s World Petroleum Congress will facilitate vital conversations between traditional energy sector leaders and the carbon neutral energy industry of the future, according to the event’s website. It describes itself as a “non-advocacy, non-political organization.”

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2020

On May 27, the European Commission proposed a €750-billion (C$114-billion) recovery fund to steer the continent toward carbon neutrality by 2050. The plan sets aside 25% of all funding for climate action, which includes €40 billion (C$61 bilion) earmarked for assisting EU Member States in transitioning towards climate neutrality.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

billion tonnes of planet-warming emissions into the atmosphere, leading international climate researchers to deem Montney the world’s sixth-largest “carbon bomb.” Burning all that gas could release 13.7 Yet this is still being presented by gas advocates as global progress on climate change. Gas releases less emissions when burned than coal.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Global average levels of carbon dioxide reached 407.8

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

A Pathways’ advertisement on a Bixi docking station read “Le captage du carbone est une étape importante vers des activités d’exploitation carboneutre,” or “Carbon capture is an important step towards carbon neutral resource extraction.” The 2023 federal budget announced more than C$17.7

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

are collaborating on a net zero industrial cluster that they believe will establish a template for any country seeking a carbon-neutral economy. But concrete proposals on how the country could get there are few and far between, with Brexit and (yet) another ele ction dominating the political ag en da. Earlier this year, the U.K.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

An area of seagrass and rock on the seabed, Mediterranean sea, France: “Blue carbon” ecosystems could prevent approximately 1 gigatonne of CO2e from entering the atmosphere by 2050, says the report. Ocean-based climate action can play a much bigger role in shrinking the world’s carbon footprint than was previously thought.

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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. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis? If not sooner.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 6, 2020

But like the talks themselves, Europe's aggressive push to reduce its carbon emissions has been merely postponed , not canceled. Despite the vast economic challenges and immediate public health crisis from COVID-19, European companies and political institutions are restating the importance of tackling the climate emergency.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

In this digital, mobile and social media age, we are constantly bombarded with new environmental, economic, social, geo-political and technical terminology that creates confusion, misguided actions and misinterpretation. Terms such as climate change, climate crisis, carbon neutral, negative emissions, etc.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

Many councils - from across the political spectrum - are already taking a leading role on decarbonisation and in driving a green recovery from the pandemic. This is especially important as many of the areas where reductions will need to be made have "a strong local dimension", such as decarbonising buildings, transport, and waste.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

We need heating , lighting and transportation. Graphene batteries will solve that (and at the same time make all land-based transportation electrical). I am talking long-range marine transport and long-term energy storage. People think we need energy. Truth is, we do not. At the right place, on the right time.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It is clear that the business community and political leaders are responding to the crisis, but there is clearly much more that could and should be done.". "The fundamental challenge for business however is how to move from making commitments to delivering them and stakeholders will want to see progress before too long," he explained. "It

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2022

The political circumstances may be novel, but this is merely the latest variation on a message that Canada Proud has pushed online for years: that we need to remove as many restrictions as possible on the production, transport and export of fossil fuels. “Shouldn’t the world be buying Canadian oil and gas instead?”. s west coast.

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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

JULY 6, 2021

Current piecemeal approach to carbon pricing threatens progress towards global climate goals, Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance argues. Such an approach could establish a minimum and maximum price for carbon emissions that would then increase over time, it said, providing companies with a clear incentive to invest in emission reduction efforts.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

In addition, from 2035 a ban on the sale of new carbon-emitting vehicles will come into effect, but in a move that has angered environmental campaigners the rules will allow for the sale of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles that make use of so-called e-fuels, which advocates maintain can be produced in a way that results in zero emissions.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2022

Starting in 2025, the credits would become technology neutral and apply to all carbon-free electricity generation technologies (today the ITC applies to solar and the PTC applies to wind), Jesse Jenkins of Princeton's Zero Lab explained on The Catalyst podcast. The bill is not perfect. the art of the possible, a.k.a.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

We learned we’re (1) changing the earth’s land so much that we threaten our food security and the land’s ability to capture carbon, (2) heading toward devastated oceans that are coral-free, and (3) not cutting emissions even remotely fast enough to avoid these outcomes. The costs are not theoretical any more. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

The government, private finance, consumers, and regulators all have vital roles to play in helping the UK to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050," she said "The UK is a global leader in financial services. When the world's eyes are on us for COP26, we must show that we can also be a green finance powerhouse to help achieve net zero.".

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

The proposed stimulus package calls for a "renovation wave" of buildings and infrastructure in support of the Green Deal, as well as investments in circular economy efforts, renewable energy projects, clean hydrogen infrastructure, green transport networks, and an enhanced Just Transition Fund for workers.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

The recent Energy White Paper hints that plans for the rest of this cash will be forthcoming in the Heat and Buildings strategy, but a proper plan to carbon free homes will have eyes beyond this parliamentary term. So far the government has outlined just over £3bn of the £9.2bn efficiency spend pledged in the 2019 Manifesto.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction from a host of leading figures and organisations from across politics, business, NGOs, academia and think tanks offer their views on the Strategy and its many implications for the UK's net zero transition.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Had then Transport Secretary Chris Grayling received better legal advice or displayed better political judgement we would be in a very different place. But it can't rely on the government's support following a studiedly neutral response from Number 10. The terms of the debate have now shifted.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

On November 21, 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed Resolution 19-27 , approving several amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program designed to foster stability in the LCFS market and promote access to electric vehicle (EV) transportation for disadvantaged and low-income communities in California.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

On November 21, 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed Resolution 19-27 , approving several amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program designed to foster stability in the LCFS market and promote access to electric vehicle (EV) transportation for disadvantaged and low-income communities in California.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Analysis backed by top green figures indicates net zero transition is set to rapidly escalate in 2020s, leaving carbon-intensive industries looking increasingly uncompetitive. With the right policy support, zero carbon technologies and business models can outcompete old carbon-intensive industries across multiple sectors by 2030.".

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

The entire political spectrum wants to see a 'green recovery'. In his speech yesterday, Sunak extolled the virtues of the growing green economy, setting out a vision of a "future economy" dominated by offshore wind power, carbon capture and storage, innovative clean technologies, and "decent well-paid green jobs".

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. More than 100 gigatons of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, must be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. Newswise — New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., July 16, 2020.

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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. Political Decision’.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 25, 2020

With freight transport forecast to grow by 100% by 2050, how can air cargo combat its own demons in the fight against climate change? Or will it always be seen as the bad boy for carbon emissions? Within the transport sector, other modes such as road vehicles have already made significant strides towards carbon neutrality.

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