DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Fossil Fuel Companies Made Bold Promises to Capture Carbon. By Michael Buchsbaum and Edward Donnelly Carbon capture and storage got so much buzz this year, but our reporters went beyond the hype. That figure doesn’t include a $10 billion federal carbon capture tax credit announced during COP28. Here’s What Actually Happened.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

It is set to feature over 100 leading speakers from the fields of business, politics, academia, and civil society. When the global economy restarts, it must do so with a clear and urgent direction towards a low carbon future.".

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Mon, 07/19/2021 - 02:00.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Green business leaders will be hoping Sunak reaffirms his commitment to the UK's net zero target and provide markets with much-needed policy clarity to support the net zero transition following weeks of political turmoil, policy U-turns and economic upheaval.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Central to the industry’s fight against targets are scare stories about potential economic and political upheaval that could result from cutting back pesticides and fertilisers. The industry often claims that green targets are “ political ”. A full data set of the evidence behind this table is available on request from DeSmog.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. Soaring energy bills? Blame net zero. Boris Johnson's downfall? Net zero's fault. A decade of flat-lining productivity and anaemic wage growth?

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This can be done by means of the Fischer-Tropsch process, where a mixture of carbon and hydrogen are transformed into liquid hydrocarbons. This is the time the world needs to be carbon neutral! In other words, we should either make carbon neutral vessels now , or we start using circular fuels in due time.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. For more than 100 years, the company has had a significant economic and social impact on the region.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

He argues 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 suggests.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Argentine government, with the cooperation of an array of global institutions, has the country locked in an “oil and gas trap,” mortgaging the country’s future on fracking even as the financial risks continue to grow, the report warns. But it’s not at all clear the bet will pay off. The new Profundo report , commissioned by 350.org,

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Haque anticipates civilization will end because of the confluence of climate change, mass extinction, ecological collapse, economic depressions, financial implosions, political upheavals, pandemics, plagues, floods, fires, and social breakdowns. Extinction is a political choice. Or maybe we won't.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

However, following claims from Truss last week that field-based solar arrays were a "depressing" sight in the British countryside, her rival Sunak today broadly echoed her stance, promising to "make sure that high quality farmland is kept in production and not used for housing, ‘rewilding' or large-scale solar farms".

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Low Impact

JULY 4, 2021

That’s been really successful, people love them, and it reaches out beyond the usual political divide. There are large commercial solar arrays, and so there’s a counter argument that if capitalism can deliver renewable energy and decarbonisation, why would we do it? What technologies? That’s very important isn’t it? Yes, it’s great.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Energy-efficiency efforts have been implemented in many municipal buildings and 60 solar panel arrays have been installed on rooftops of 58 city-owned buildings. “It It was designed to promote energy-efficiency improvements in large commercial buildings that are responsible for more than 50 percent of all carbon emissions in Kansas City. “I

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2020

For example, the use of nature-based flood management approaches helps to restore local environments and provide carbon sequestration. Enhancing flood resilience requires ensuring that all necessary social, human, natural, physical and financial systems are in place to mitigate future flood risks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This week, I'll try to untangle one of the more complex, confusing and contentious aspects of our food systems: the emerging market for soil carbon offsets. Everyone was polite, but it's clear that divisions run deep. To the Establishment, that's dangerous thinking that threatens to undermine the entire market for soil carbon offsets.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ever since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, MPs, media commentators, scientists, think tanks, and businesses have sought to highlight how more ambitious net zero policies could serve to curb bills, enhance energy security, and boost the economy through this winter and beyond, while also helping to cut carbon emissions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 20, 2024

Pressure at the Pinnacle: Exxon’s Ultimatum Exxon, a key player in the push toward a low-carbon economy, is in the spotlight with its ambitious plans for the world’s largest low-carbon hydrogen facility in Baytown, Texas. “We’re investing billions of dollars to reduce the carbon intensity of our natural gas.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

That is the hypothesis advanced in a new report published today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. According to the report, more than 318 cases in Europe have been identified as climate cases since 1993.

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AGreenLiving

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.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

The frustration for Danker and many others is that the government has repeatedly stressed its commitment to green growth and has spent the last few years mulling a wide array of policies that would serve to mobilise much needed green investment. The PM set out less than a year ago what is needed to transform our economy," Danker said.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 15, 2024

Geothermal energy accounts for less than 1% of today’s global renewable capacity despite its enormous potential as a carbon-free, continuous source of heat and electricity (IRENA, 2023). The bulky, expensive nodes with poor battery life and hefty price tags, which are still on the market, do not offer vast improvements on geophone arrays.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. That's the biggest risk.".

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

"Locking us into new oil & gas for decades means we'll have to rely on expensive, unproven and as yet unscalable carbon dioxide removal technologies.?While The only thing we lack is the political will to deliver them. ?. There's no silver bullet to tackling the climate emergency.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Highly Commended: Carbon Intelligence. In a hugely competitive category, Greenhouse PR narrowly won out thanks to a year of rapid growth, packed with high impact campaigns promoting the best of green business and an impressive array of pro-bono work. Zero Carbon Campaign - #PriceOutPollution. Communications Agency of the Year.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 27, 2021

Proponents of electric vehicles forthrightly acknowledge the many technological, management, political and consumer challenges that lie ahead. Is the current array of electricity generators and distributors prepared for this challenge? The answer is no. Are electric vehicles the next chapter in the U.S. culture war?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

The goal: Move the more than 10,000 employees that normally commute to its South San Francisco campus (pre-pandemic) with the lowest carbon footprint possible, and offer its traveling salesforce across the country access to EVs. One big reason — rising in importance at companies across the globe — is employee engagement.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

At the same time it has become a political football, a bete noire of the Tory right wing, and the primary example of the sclerotic nature of the UK's planning system. It is a philosophy other parts of the green economy and low carbon infrastructure industry can obviously learn from.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Tory strategists themselves with the idea that the next election could be more like 1992 than 1997, but if the Party is to engineer one of the biggest polling recoveries in electoral history the government desperately needs some success stories and positive political momentum to carry it into a general election campaign next year.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

In fact, many are still requesting that FERC reconsider the order and planning lawsuits to challenge it, or simply awaiting November’s election, which could shift political power in Washington D.C. in ways that could lead to FERC's order being overturned. The silver lining in PJM's compliance plan.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

China trade war, California policy and business leaders have forged ahead with efforts to collaborate with China on the advancement of low-carbon energy technologies considered both financially lucrative and critical to mitigating the worst impacts of climate change. (Credit: New Energy Nexus). Despite the ongoing U.S.-China

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

But ultimately such measures emerged as piecemeal additions to wider stimulus programmes that simultaneously drove high carbon investment. Building and product standards, green finance reforms, and coal and car phase out targets, to name just a few examples, can deliver huge carbon savings without impacting the public purse.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Bank of America, for example, committed to "mobilize $1tr by 2030" toward "low-carbon, sustainable business activities." Citi similarly pledged $1tr by 2030 to "finance and facilitate a wide array of climate solutions." Wells Fargo said it would pony up $500bn by 2030 toward activities "that help the transition to a low-carbon economy."

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As you likely know, last June Oregon was on the brink of passing a statewide Cap-and-Invest carbon pricing program ?—?standing standing only a State Senate floor vote away from becoming the second state (behind California) to institute an economy-wide price on carbon. denying a quorum?

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

These include research programmes to protect the environment and communities from the effects of climate change and to support a move to a low carbon economy.". It is just one project as part of a wider programme of science research funded by the UK government's Strategic Priorities Fund on UK climate resilience," a spokesperson added.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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