GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

Net zero can be achieved, first and foremost, by cutting or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and, secondarily, by offsetting any remaining emissions through such actions as planting trees, investing in renewable energy projects that replace fossil-fuel energy, or investing in novel carbon-removal technologies such as direct air capture.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2021

Electric vehicles (EVs) will dominate the world's roads by mid-century, accounting for 56 per cent of all vehicle sales, according to a new analysis from Wood Mackenzie. In Q1 2021 alone, electric vehicle sales rocketed to almost 550,000, which represents a 66 per cent increase over the same period last year," he said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Latest Carbon Clean 200 list companies outperformed average benchmark by 47 per cent over the past year. Overall, they calculated that investing $10,000 in the Carbon Clean 200 companies in July 2016 would have seen this investment grow to more than $21,000 by the end of last month.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Komatsu is aiming to reduce its global emissions by a whopping 50% by 2030, with a further goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. On the other hand, GM has set a target to achieve full carbon neutrality in both its products and operations by 2040. The mining industry is no exception.

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Charged

MARCH 29, 2023

Fourteen vehicles from the new fleet will be used to transport goods to and from Volvo’s heavy truck assembly plant located outside the city. According to Volvo, the delivery is part of Volvo Trucks’ sustainability target of achieving a 100%-fossil-fuel-free supply chain by 2040. Source: Volvo

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 11, 2022

The aim of this emission classification system was to help organizations measure and manage their carbon footprint. These are fossil fuels burnt on site. Stationary combustion : These are the emissions released from the direct burning of fossil fuels to power heat sources (e.g. Fossil fuels (e.g.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

The text, which has been approved by ministers from all 27 EU nations , states that the bloc will "systematically promote and call for a global move towards energy systems free of unabated fossil fuels well ahead of 2050", alongside pushing for a peak in fossil fuel consumption in the near term.

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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

APRIL 6, 2022

Car giants General Motors (GM) and Honda are teaming up to jointly develop a series of affordable electric vehicles (EVs) using next-generation battery technology, with a view to kick-starting global production of millions of cars within five years, the firms announced yesterday.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. The halfway mark has now passed between 1990, the year that countries who signed the U.N. Sometimes when running a marathon it can help to have a pace runner.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. . Green hydrogen — made by splitting water’s hydrogen and oxygen using electricity produced by renewable sources — is a small fish in the "energies pond." Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The city of Kansas City, MO announced last week that it is committing to an all-electric fleet for new vehicle purchases as part of its’ pledge to reach climate neutral citywide by 2040. Additionally, increasing the use of electric vehicles will help the city achieve its climate protection goals.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2022

Luxury car maker announces plans to transform its Midlands plant into an electric vehicle production facility, as Tesla posts record profits. Bentley has said it will invest £2.5bn on electrifying its vehicles and transforming its Crewe headquarters into a "zero environmental impact" electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing plant.

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Business Green

JANUARY 8, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week including China's ETS, Japan's fossil fuel car ban, and Enel's African green power push. China launches world's largest carbon market for power sector. Japan aims for ban on fossil fuel car sales by 2035.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

Ford has this week reiterated its goal to build two million electric vehicles (EVs) a year by 2026, with a view to ensuring half its annual sales come from electric models by the end of the decade.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Specifically, the proof-of-concept used EDF’s MASERA Microgrid demonstrator in Singapore to demonstrate the automatic redemption of tokenised RECs at electric vehicle charging stations. Large energy consumers typically report their carbon emission s based on their annual energy consumption. Have you read?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

German car giant aiming to ensure all its passenger vehicles are 'carbon neutral' across value chain by 2039 at the latest. The carmaker plans to use the fossil-free steel "as quickly as possible" to make prototype parts for car body shells, which it said were already being planned for next year.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Ride-hailing service targets 100 per cent electric vehicles on its platform as it joins EV100 initiative. Lyft has announced that all drivers on its ride-hailing platform will need to shift over to electric vehicles within the next decade, as it became the latest major company to join the global EV100 initiative.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

Automakers whose fleet of newly registered vehicles exceeds its specific annual emissions target in any calendar year must pay a premium of €95 per gram of CO2 per km. E-fuels, sometimes called synthetic fuels, can be produced with zero emissions using clean energy and captured carbon. Our asks are simple.

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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. Credit: Carbon Tracker). The situation in India is a little more complicated, Carbon Tracker's Bond noted.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Phill Davies, Co-Founder of Magway, a UK firm behind a new form of e-commerce and freight delivery system, believes the transition to electric vehicles won’t be enough to secure needed emissions reductions for sectors such as logistics, and offers a few thoughts on alternative approaches.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

Plans to decarbonise the biggest car plant in Britain took a major leap forward today, as Nissan announced its intention to build a 20MW solar farm at its Sunderland factory that will significantly reduce the operation's reliance on fossil fuels.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Polestar has once again published the full lifecycle carbon emissions associated with the production of its electric vehicles (EVs), estimating that its latest models have generated between 24 to 25 tonnes of CO2 by the time they are sold to customers. Making cars electric is not the end game, it is a starting point.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 25, 2022

A 2021 report by Natural Capital Partners analyzed carbon neutrality commitments made by the Fortune Global 500, finding that there’s been a three-fold increase in net-zero targets, which means a 50% increase in the number of companies that have either achieved carbon neutrality, or are targeting it by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But while solar and wind have an obvious role to play in helping miners control their carbon emissions, the mining industry faces steep decarbonization challenges, analysts say. Cutting mining’s carbon footprint to zero is complicated by the fact that electricity use only accounts for around 40 percent of direct emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2021

Together with tourism, business travel contributes to the release of almost 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Remote work software enables business productivity and operations to resume while minimizing workplace carbon emissions. Scooters, bikes and low-emission vehicles. Invest in carbon offset programs.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 9, 2022

Drawing on IRENA’s existing, technology-focused studies, the report – China’s Route to Carbon Neutrality: Perspectives and the Role of Renewables – offers key insights and identifies priority actions together with 13 recommendations. Increasing electrification. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

This low-carbon image is out of step with the reality of fleet production figures – both current and projected – which reveal a business model out of step wedded to sales of fossil-fuel powered vehicles. The companies’ sales of lower-emissions vehicles ranged between 12.8

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Across Europe electric vehicle sales are continuing to climb rapidly, and more and more manufacturers are responding to the growing demand. A recent study shows that 45 per cent of people have reconsidered their electric vehicle ownership plans as a result of the radical improvement on air pollution seen across the globe. "Our

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

The spoof ads are part of a wider campaign calling on regulators to ban adverts from polluters in public spaces, which hopes to build on policies in Amsterdam and France to restrict advertising of high carbon activities.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2020

Kensa both manufactures and installs ground source heat pump technologies for homes and businesses, offering a low carbon alternative to heating from fossil fuel gas, which is estimated to account for around a quarter of the UK's total energy use and 15 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

A European group of global investment managers and pension funds has devised an ambitious plan to cut their portfolios down to net-zero carbon. The group distributes its recommended measures to asset managers to help them reach the European Union’s goal to be climate -neutral by 2050. Together, they control over $40 trillion in assets.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 9, 2021

Over the past decade, Mainspring Energy has been at work on a novel "linear generator" that it says can provide on-site electricity with lower emissions than fossil-fueled engines and microturbines, and greater flexibility than fuel cells. “We need renewable fuels to help support that.”

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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. Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2021

Carbon emissions resulting from unnecessary travel, the energy needed to run websites and the houses themselves. Invest in Electric Vehicles. INVEST IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES. When it’s time to update your fleet, go electric. These are: Excessive paper waste from mail campaigns, brochures, and contracts.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

All homes and office buildings built in England will soon be equipped with electric car charge points, under proposals designed to ramp up the number of chargers across the country ahead of the 2030 phase out of new fossil fuel vehicles. This is encouraging," she said on Twitter. "A A sign of things to come?".

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This year’s Draft Scoping Plan proposes a pathway to achieve the state’s target of 40 percent emissions below 1990 levels and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045. . This scenario relies on already mature technologies to achieve near-term emissions reductions, as opposed to nascent technologies such as carbon removal.

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