GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

How will the transformative initiatives in the European Green Deal, China's carbon-neutrality pledge and the climate plans being debated in Congress shape innovation and opportunities in climate tech over the coming decade? The past 12 months have seen a step-change in the climate ambition being pursued by the world's major powers.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

Japanese auto giant sets target to become carbon neutral by 2050, as it promises to launch 15 new battery electric models by 2025. The move came as the company also pledged to achieve 'carbon neutrality' by 2050 as part of a new "home planet" strategy. "In

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

The publisher also unveiled a new advertising service through a partnership with data company Scope3, which will offer brands the opportunity to deliver 'carbon-neutral' advertising campaigns. According to Vox Media, the company's various editorial brands reach more than 95 million self-identified eco-friendly users.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2022

DAC works by capturing CO2 in the air and then either sequestrating it or using it to manufacture carbon neutral fuel. The report added that as part of the Government’s Net Zero 2050 roadmap, CCUS should be included alongside other air transport energy policies. CCUS has both engineering and nature-based solutions.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

Military alliance announces target to cut emissions 45 per cent by 2030, Australia explores carbon pricing plans, and all the big green stories from around the world this week. However, military emissions are often exempted from countries' official carbon targets. NATO confirms plan to deliver net zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority's (SYPA) investment portfolios must be carbon neutral by 2030 under a set of new climate targets which secured backing from its members last week. The authority is also set to work alongside the Border to Coast Pensions Partnership on its carbon neutral goal.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Company becomes first jewellery firm to join Science Based Targets Initiative with pledge to become 'carbon neutral' by 2025. Specifically, the Denmark-headquartered company said it has set a target to become 'carbon neutral' across its own options by 2025.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

ClientEarth has filed a legal challenge against Belgium's central bank, accusing it of breaching legal obligations to consider environmental protection when buying corporate bonds in a landmark case that could help 'green' the monetary policy of a number of European nations.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts continues its work to build a geothermal system that will contribute to making the campus carbon-neutral by the end of the decade. The geothermal project is expected to be completed by 2028, towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The term “clean hydrogen” doesn’t have a specific official definition, but on the whole, it tends to refer to H2 that is produced in a way that doesn’t generate carbon emissions. Of course, there is also the question of what to do with carbon that has been captured.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 13, 2022

T 3 transformation, which encompasses digital transformation, energy transformation and net-zero carbon transformation, is a new model for propelling today’s campuses into the future through systematic reformation and innovation. The world is consuming increasingly more energy, which causes higher carbon emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

In the document, the science advisory group calls for far-reaching policy action. Renovating a building to reduce its energy consumption makes little sense if there is no control of the carbon-intensive materials and components used for the renovation, and if these are transported over long distances.”.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

The Restore Fund money will go to investing in working forests to transition them to more sustainable management practices that will sequester more carbon from the atmosphere to balance Apple’s carbon footprint in its hardware supply chain, while the timber production will produce financial profits for Apple as an investor.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Three California cities have been awarded $1 million each to attain carbon neutrality by 2030. All the cities were required to submit plans that did not include carbon offsets. Plans developed by the cities offer both bottom-up and top-down moonshot climate solutions in terms of policy, technology and market development.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

Energy independence is a key motivation for Chinese energy policy, but it will be only partly achieved. Strong policy support is reflected by the rapid uptake of green technologies. However, policy has turbocharged the sector and today wind is China’s largest source of electricity after coal and hydropower, delivering 9.4%

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SMUD is the first utility in the country to count avoided carbon emissions from the existing building stock as part of its progress on energy efficiency. The switch to "avoided carbon" is part of SMUD’s ambitious effort to accelerate decarbonization of its existing building stock. New buildings, new policy battles.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google on Monday pledged that by 2030 it will run its entire business on carbon-free energy — every hour of every day of the year. West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. Google's supply, demand and policy approach. Europe and Chile.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2020, including 13.2 million from burning biomass, according to environmental law charity ClientEarth – is sponsoring an event called “How Can the UK Build a Zero Carbon, Lower Cost Energy Future?” Drax – which emitted 19.4 at the Labour conference in Brighton on Monday.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“Other brands need to send similarly clear signals to their suppliers,” Gary Cook, global climate policy director for the nonprofit Stand.earth that published the report , said in a press release. Most power grids don’t have enough solar and wind farms online yet to fulfill companies’ goals of becoming carbon neutral.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The envisaged Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) implementation at LIPOR’s Energy Recovery Plant consists of capturing, extracting and purifying the biogenic part of CO2, present in about 60% of the carbon dioxide emissions generated as a result of the incineration process.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation released new rese arch evaluating California’s climate progress and identifying a policy pathway that would reaffirm California as a climate leader. includes important new metrics to track the economic, environmental, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate policies. By Olivia Ashmoore.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 23, 2023

By Leanna Tang and Andrew Howell, CFA High-integrity carbon credits can play an important part in enhancing climate action, but their role in corporate sustainability strategies has come under scrutiny over the last year.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

So as the aviation industry has gradually climbed aboard global pledges to get rid of carbon emissions, it has mostly promised to make up for its damage elsewhere — through offsets that might involve planting trees, restoring wetlands, or paying people to preserve ecosystems that otherwise would have been razed. And, oh yeah: less flying. “It

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2022

As the EU aims for climate neutrality in agriculture and land use by 2035, as well as becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, the “greening” of agriculture becomes a top priority. Müller and Lucas shared their perspectives on Earth observation (EO) as an essential tool for greening agricultural policy.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Businesses who fail to act on decarbonisation risk exposing themselves to potential risks from policy-driven increased operating costs, increased energy costs or increased compliance costs. Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012. Shift to low-carbon heat.

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TechCrunch: Climate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We’re talking about Apple’s commitment to be 100% carbon neutral by 2030. We’re going to hear a lot about that subject when Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environmental, policy and social initiatives, joins us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt […] It’s an ambitious and necessary goal.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

53% of emissions can be reduced, eliminated or captured through a combination of fuel switch, power sector decarbonisation and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS). Making Net Zero Concrete and Cement Possible appears to show, through its Net Zero scenario, how the sector can reach net zero GHG emissions and comply with a 1.5°C

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Goods deemed “Climate Neutral” are coming to stores soon thanks to a user-friendly approach to carbon accounting. See the original post: The new labeling scheme designed to help companies go carbon neutral.

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Fairsnape

JUNE 11, 2020

Over 50 existing policies from leading cities have been evaluated, categorised, and scored according to their potential, cost efficiency, ease of implementation, and enforceability. It is a substantial source of carbon emissions in cities that can be dramatically reduced through the legal and regulatory powers of zoning and land use policies.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Global body calls on governments to establish 'credible and irreversible' climate policies that drive 25 per cent cut in emissions by 2030. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the cost of climate inaction will dwarf the economic hit of a managed transition to a lower carbon economy over the next eight years.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 21, 2020

Apple embeds racial justice into new supply-chain carbon neutrality pledge Heather Clancy Tue, 07/21/2020 – 04:13 Apple already has ventured far beyond most other companies when it comes to pushing for climate action within its supply chain. Now, it’s wandering farther into uncharted territory.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 3, 2021

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The report’s author and IEMA’s Policy and Engagement Lead, Nick Blyth, said: “We know from IEMA members’ experience that a range of carbon reduction measures are available and are being deployed. Good practice should continue to see carbon reduction targets addressed separately from compensation measures.

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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. But the recovery in activity in the second half of 2020 and “a lack of clean energy policies” caused emissions to rise a further 2 per cent year on year in December.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

UK energy utility Drax has unveiled plans to build the world’s largest carbon capture facility with the goal of removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than it produces, and thereby securing “carbon negative” status. But campaign groups continue to insist that the maths behind biomass doesn’t add up.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 27, 2021

On Thursday the 19 th of August, the Climate Council in partnership with the law firm Shearman & Sterling, hosted an intriguing panel to discuss a major topic in the energy industry: Will low-carbon hydrogen be the silver bullet in APAC? But the question remained, “how low carbon is low-carbon hydrogen?”

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