Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

A report published on 26 August by an independent group of experts warns that reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is now “too little too late”, and will not achieve the long-term temperature goals identified in the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C C by the end of the century.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2021

Acquisition aimed at addressing growing demand for carbon removal projects such as direct air capture, BECCS, biochar and carbon-embodied buildings. Carbon removal is a process through which CO2 is physically captured from the atmosphere and stabilsed into durable storage.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

Carbon capture firm Climeworks has announced that it has completed a $650m equity round a day, just after the IPCC stated that carbon dioxide removal would now be essential to limit global warming to 1.5C. goal within reach.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies are being adopted too slowly to achieve even the IPCC’s 2.0° upper limit for global warming, according to a new McKinsey study. CCUS needs new business models; state subsidies alone may not create needed growth, says says McKinsey & Company report.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. Climate scientists say the world must now do both to limit global warming to 1.5 Carbon Engineering.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is especially fitting as the conference is taking place seven years after the signing of the Paris Agreement – a legally binding international treaty that commits countries to limiting global warming to below 2 (and preferably below 1.5) Enabling solutions: Shrinking your digital carbon footprint. degrees Celsius.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Scientists are documenting changes that are “much more widespread” and “much more negative,” she said, than anticipated for the 1.09 degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date. In the broadest sense, overshoot is a future where the world does not cut carbon quickly enough to limit global warming to 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

UK household carbon emissions increased less than expected in 2021 despite the easing of national lockdown restrictions, according to new research by consulting firm Accenture. Specifically, 61% agreed that the energy price cap rise will negatively impact their efforts to be more sustainable. Under-30s became ‘carbon conflicted’.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

Almost half of all global coal plants are already set to run at a loss in 2020, warns think tank Carbon Tracker. Building new coal and propping up the existing fleet with stimulus money would be throwing good money after bad," said study co-author Matt Gray, Carbon Tracker's co-head of power and utilities.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Major projects are inherently carbon intensive, and the data required for effective analytics is not easily obtained, as major projects span multiple organisations and each organisation has their own individual objectives and separate data strategies. billion tonnes of carbon every year. Neither are easy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

New report from PwC models a tiered carbon pricing framework proposed by the IMF earlier this year and finds it would broadly pay for itself, while slashing carbon emissions. per cent at a cost of less than one per cent of GDP. per cent at a cost of less than one per cent of GDP.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2020

Just 10 per cent of global utility firms prioritising renewables over fossil fuel investments, University of Oxford research finds. Moreover, many of these firms had continued to invest in fossil fuels in parallel with renewables, albeit at a slower rate than for clean energy, according to the study.

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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. But we don’t yet have economical ways to fly airplanes, power large ships, make key materials like steel or cement, or grow food without sending planet-warming emissions into the atmosphere. .

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 The first has to do with the carbon budget — the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the planet warms more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

New report from the Coalition for Negative Emissions argues urgent action is needed to expand carbon removals market - and businesses have a critical role to play. Most importantly, delivering net zero emissions through carbon offsets risks distracting from the need to slash emissions at source.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2022

Global tech giant Microsoft has announced it has signed a 10-year carbon removal offtake agreement with Swiss direct air capture firm Climeworks that will see it fund the removal of 10,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

$1bn 'Ambition Zero Carbon' aims for zero carbon emissions across global operations by 2025, and ensure entire value chain is carbon negative by 2030. The far-reaching strategy outlines plans to invest $1bn in achieving the goals. pathway - first announced in 2015 - by more than a decade.

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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. According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. Newswise — New York City, N.Y.,

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

After all, a substantial fraction of global carbon emissions arise from the production, transportation, and consumption of fossil fuels. Hydrogen is increasingly being viewed as an important tool for reducing carbon emissions, because the use of hydrogen for energy generates no direct carbon dioxide emissions.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. Climate scientists say the world must now do both to limit global warming to 1.5 Carbon Engineering.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

To avert catastrophic warming, the global community must rapidly reduce how much of these fuels it extracts and burns. Our new paper , published in Nature, revealed just how tight the world’s remaining carbon budget is likely to be. Our analysis showed that total fossil fuel production is limited by a global carbon budget.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 31, 2020

Carbon marketplace hawks credits in businesses that store CO2 with their products Gloria Oladipo Mon, 08/31/2020 – 05:00 As corporate interest in carbon removal options grows, Puro.earth , a startup from Finland, is offering a twist on carbon marketplaces.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Coal’s grip on the global electricity sector is loosening as more utilities and companies invest in renewable energy. As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage. The case for negative emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

degrees of global warming. In that report, FAO recommended “at least 75 percent growth in global sustainable aquaculture production compared to 2020 level” – a sharp increase that would see a dramatic rise in the number of wild-caught fish required to feed farmed fish. The EU, for one, has invested 1.4

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EDF + Business

JUNE 8, 2023

. “Chicken and Egg” Dilemma The decarbonization of the sector rests largely on the commercialization of zero-carbon fuels and technologies for ships. It must also develop practical and cost-effective pathways for the maritime sector to be in line with a pathway that limits global warming to no more than 1.5°C.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Direct Air Capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere is one set of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategies that may play a role in mitigating climate change, particularly in the mid to latter part of the 21 st century. C report provided four scenarios (P1-P4 in Figure 1) with increasing roles for negative emissions.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Campaigners have long argued that while major fossil fuel companies are spending big sums on publicly pushing messages that suggest they are committed to decarbonizing by investing in greener forms of energy, in reality, the overwhelming majority of their capital expenditure still goes towards oil and gas. For example, last year 20 U.K.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

UBS has become the first financial services firm to partner with Swiss direct air capture (DAC) specialist Climeworks, with the investment bank today announcing it has signed a 10-year agreement to help offset its "unavoidable" emissions and support the expansion of the nascent carbon removals sector.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

IETA sets out net zero carbon trading vision. The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) has unveiled its plan to lobby governments, companies and carbon markets to set net zero emissions targets in line with the Paris Agreement's 1.5C Australia mining trade body's net zero pledge incurs criticism.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Last month, there was a backlash in The Sun and The Daily Mail on the cost of replacing gas boilers with low carbon alternatives. And now Steve Baker MP, a new member of the climate sceptic Global Warming Policy Forum, is doing his utmost to make noise on the Conservative backbenches and get '#costofnetzero' trending on Twitter.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

"There is a growing urgency in Europe and globally to identify solutions that address the negative consequences companies and institutions face due to climate change," said Reid Steadman, global head of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

But what is less clear is how this global warming will translate into increased weather extremes and how these extremes will then impact hugely complex human infrastructure, agricultural systems, and the economies they underpin. Such outcomes would trigger huge geo-political risks that could impact the entire global economy.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. According to Project Drawdown, eating a plant-based diet is "the most important contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming." Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Business as usual is not working The report is unequivocal that human-caused climate change is affecting weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe, and is set to get worse without a major acceleration in policy action and drastically increased investment in climate solutions. of warming.

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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. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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