Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Drawing upon findings recently published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), the report from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG) argues that current global emissions targets are inadequate and that net negative – rather than net zero – strategies are required.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Policy documents released yesterday offer a glimpse into how big a role the government envisages for technologies such as carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in supporting its Net Zero Strategy.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

That’s why Amazon’s new carbon neutralization paper is a breath of fresh air. Not all carbon credits are created equal , but companies can purchase high-quality, verified forest carbon credits through organizations like Emergent , which develops REDD+ tropical forest carbon credits. .

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

That’s the message from several recent reports focusing on the role of service-sector companies in addressing — positively or negatively — climate change. Policy & Politics. When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. Follow the money, indeed. Corporate Strategy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Most people seem to believe some form of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be necessary, although many are stil sceptical of an arguably “unproven” and ambitious technology. In 2018 Carbon Engineering founder David Keith – a physicist at Harvard – explained how it could be done for $94 to $232, writing in the journal Joule.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Tech giant Microsoft has this week formally joined the European Corporate Leaders Group (CLG Europe), building on its recent commitment to become a net negative emission company. The company also pledged to invest $1bn to support the creation of carbon reduction and removal technologies through the Carbon Investment Fund.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

VIDEO: Regen CEO Merlin Hyman speaks to Drax's Rebecca Heaton, David Joffe from the Committee on Climate Change, Jenifer Baxter from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME), and Great Grimsby MP Lia Nici about the challenges and opportunities of negative emissions technologies. But what does 'negative emissions' mean in practice?

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

Exelon is following through with a threat to close two of its Illinois nuclear power plants by next year unless it receives state support to boost their financial viability, a move that could undermine the state's carbon-free electricity goals. The announcement was met with strong negative reactions from Illinois state leaders.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

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 The paper uses a carbon budget of 580 billion metric tons, an amount that is estimated to give only a 50 percent chance of stabilizing the global climate at 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temperatures.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

What it really means is that while some greenhouse gas emissions will be cut, fossil fuels will continue to be burnt but will be ‘balanced’ or ‘offset’ with an ‘equivalent’ amount of so-called ‘carbon removal’. The EU has made billions available for hydrogen-related projects, while the UK has pledged £350 million.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Here are my main takeaways: Biodiversity is as big an issue as climate change (and the two overlap majorly), but doesn’t get as much political airtime; However, the public judges biodiversity more highly as it is relatable to everyone (eg David Attenborough TV shows), and negative press coverage can resonate in a way that carbon emissions can’t; (..)

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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 5, 2021

And a favorable political environment will help. Buildings will be designed to be carbon negative. Higher module efficiencies mean that buildings under two stories can be designed to be carbon negative — generating more energy than they operationally consume. All roof orientations are fair game for solar.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

He argued oil and gas company advertising is usually not directed at getting consumers to buy their products and services but is more akin to political lobbying. This is political advertising that they're running to maintain their influence over public policy," he suggested. For example, last year 20 U.K. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2020

SSE said its objective "where it has the influence to do so, is to support a fair transition from a high carbon economy to a net zero one and thereby command support from stakeholders so that the worst effects of climate change can be prevented". The firm last year sold its consumer energy services arm to OVO in a £500m deal.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

’s power sector will be operating on a negative-emissions basis by 2033 at the latest if the country sticks to its plan to reach net-zero emissions across the economy by 2050, according to system operator National Grid ESO. actually hitting its targeted carbon reductions. Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

While the political will appears well-aligned on meeting those massive renewables targets, the same can not be said unequivocally of energy storage and other flexibility investments, such as interconnectors. By the end of 2019, the total tally (plus the U.K.) was 22 GW with 3.6 In the U.K., These have become an important part of U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Such systems also imply an ideal combination of political framework regulations (such as extended producer responsibility, deposit return schemes, and so on) and technical processes for waste handling. Now is the time for real action to ensure societies stop wasting resources with all the related negative consequences.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

But getting those emissions down to zero is shaping up to be one of the most politically difficult parts of the government's decarbonisation agenda. Last month, there was a backlash in The Sun and The Daily Mail on the cost of replacing gas boilers with low carbon alternatives. Sticks without carrots won't work.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

A group of leading academics, campaigners, and executives have this week issued a renewed call for governments to accelerate efforts to scale up the deployment of Nature-Based Solutions capable of simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and restoring natural habitats.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It encompasses places where net zero goals are under active political discussion, where leaders have made a political declaration, where legislation is under development, and where targets have been adopted - as well as two countries that are already carbon negative: Bhutan and Suriname.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The meetings – which include in-person talks with the then Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and his minister Greg Hands (now the Conservative Party chairman) – are revealed in research by Fossil Free Parliament (FFP), a group campaigning against fossil fuel influence on UK politics. Shell referred DeSmog to OEUK for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Blue hydrogen has been marketed as a climate-friendly fuel since the production process aims to capture most of the associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It adds: “Our innovative LCH [low carbon hydrogen] technology is ready to go and allows for high purity and clean hydrogen to be produced from natural gas at scale.”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

VIDEO: Dr Steve Smith from Oxford University's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment chats to James Murray about the challenges and potential of negative emissions technologies. As such, it is now increasingly recognised that negative emissions technologies will play a vital role in helping the world reach net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” As for politics, I am liberal, while Dr. Peterson is conservative,” he said. As it should be, I think, for a good educational institution.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

Engineered carbon removal technologies such as CCUS, DAC, and BECCS are increasingly seen as crucial to the net zero transition, but spreading the costs fairly remains a challenge. among policymakers and net zero advocates alike.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

What is considered comfortable now could have consequences in the future - especially if it means reverting back, even in the short term, to old, damaging, carbon-based energy tactics. While energy as a political and economic tool is far from a novel concept, it has once again been pushed to the fore. Striving for self-sufficiency.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The Green Deal is the first political act from the new European Commission, which was confirmed last month and serves as the European Union's executive branch. Among its many provisions, the Green Deal will include: A "Just Transition Fund" to make sure vulnerable sectors and regions are not negatively impacted by the changes.

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Terra Infirma

AUGUST 23, 2021

I tweeted about this (on my political Twitter account) and was quite surprised at the negative reaction to the view that our personal choices have (carbon) consequences. Even the idea of a personal carbon footprint is apparently a nefarious attempt by Big Oil to shift blame away from themselves and on to the individual.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Half an hour's drive from Reykjavik, several racks of giant fans are erected on billboard-sized metal blocks, primed and ready to suck carbon dioxide from the cold Icelandic air. Mimicking a carbon storage process that happens in nature, Carbfix's technology mixes captured CO2 with warm water and then injects it deep underground.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Our new paper , published in Nature, revealed just how tight the world’s remaining carbon budget is likely to be. That’s because we based our estimates on a carbon budget compatible with just a 50% probability of limiting warming to 1.5C. Our analysis showed that total fossil fuel production is limited by a global carbon budget.

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