DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

MANCHESTER – The Conservative chair of a parliamentary group on hydrogen has defended the body’s receipt of £70,000 in funding from fossil fuel giants including Shell and Equinor. Stafford, who is the Conservative MP for Rother Valley, said that his interest in hydrogen directly stems from his time working for Shell. “To

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 21, 2022

Namibia’s green hydrogen to be verified on blockchain Blockchain in Europe’s energy sector – policy and regulation Iberdrola chief reveals multi-billion plan to seize market share of oil & gas firms. These include the availability of high-quality data and open-source analytics and trust minimisation techniques for event verification.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

#Greentown10 is a celebration of the startups, partners, ecosystem collaborators, and other climate champions who have worked together over Greentown’s first decade. This month, we’re spotlighting our annual DEMO Day event, which in 2020 evolved into the Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit. In 2020, we took DEMO Day to the next level.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Last year was one of the worst on record for climate change-related disasters, yet Canada’s federal government spent $18.6 It is 10 times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015. Levin called carbon capture and hydrogen “dangerous distractions.” “The

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

His comments came days after campaigners criticised Drax’s sponsoring of the event as “green spin at its worst”. Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves announced later in the day that, if elected, the party would spend an extra £28 billion a year on tackling the climate crisis, including investment in renewable energy and planting trees.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Meanwhile, in the UK specifically, there's significant potential to see the EV transition accelerate, movement on offshore wind projects and steps forward in areas such as hydrogen and battery plants in the next year. 2021 was an eventful year for the climate change agenda - can 2022 top it?

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

During a VERGE 20 virtual event Friday, McCarthy talked with GreenBiz co-founder Joel Makower about how racial justice and climate justice go hand in hand, and what we need to do to assure a bright future for everyone’s children. Finally, the climate crisis is worse than it’s ever been. Pull Quote. Sponsored Article.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Two firms to explore potential for shifting away from fossil fuels and harnessing hydrogen to power British Airways' future fleet. By 2027, the company also plans to have hydrogen technologies in service capable of powering commercial aircraft carrying up to 100 people, ramping up to journeys of over 1,000 miles by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the latest round of United Nations climate change negotiations draws to an end in Egypt this weekend, you could be forgiven for feeling pessimistic. Countries' emissions targets have hardly changed since a year ago. So, is the cause of international cooperation on climate change hopeless? Far from it.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Each has an internal brand studio that creates advertising content for fossil fuel majors that range from podcasts to newsletters, videos, and advertorials, and some allow fossil fuel companies to sponsor their events. “People are reading about it in the news, that’s what shapes their understanding. .

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Jon Saltmarsh (BEIS) and Chris Barron (DGA & Costain) with the Hyuandai hydrogen car. Members of the Decarbonised Gas Alliance (DGA) gathered in Westminster on 18 October to discuss – and seek support for – the role of hydrogen in advancing the UK’s ambitions to reach net zero emissions. The DGA roadshow launch.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Transition Deal echoed the fossil fuel lobby by emphasising the importance of hydrogen power and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to the green transition. It added that, “Hydrogen is essential to meeting our net zero commitment in the UK.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As the oil and gas industry achieves success in pushing the world towards widespread adoption of methane-based blue hydrogen, some unexpected voices are calling out the industry on its deception of selling blue hydrogen as an affordable and clean source of energy. . Industry Funded Misinformation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Iberdrola, Ørsted, ACWA Power, CWP Renewables, Envision, Yara and Snam lead UN-backed drive to halve cost of hydrogen by 2026. The world urgently needs to massively ramp up deployment of breakthrough solutions like green hydrogen," said Nigel Topping, COP26 High Level Champion for Global Climate Action, and former CEO of We Mean Business. "The

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Last year we saw a genuine step change in ambitions to tackle climate change globally crowned by net zero commitments from Europe and China. The event will no doubt continue to be a driver for change in the next 10 months and beyond, with more global leaders looking to be bold and impactful on decarbonisation.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

This five day immersive online event is Canada's leading conference. It is for people who believe that innovation can create a better world MaRS Impact Week will present multipronged approaches to tackle the enormous challenges the world is facing including climate change, COVID-19, soaring unemployment, and increasing inequality.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 10, 2022

Accelerator for low-carbon hydrogen solutions welcomes seven startups. LCHA received 88 applications from 18 countries, representing numerous innovations that are advancing low-carbon hydrogen production, enhancing hydrogen storage and distribution, and providing business model innovations for the management of hydrogen supply chains.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

National Grid's long term strategy manager, Danielle Stewart, discusses the role for hydrogen as the UK gas grid plots its path to net zero over the coming decades. And, while EVs are growing in popularity for domestic use, in the future hydrogen could be used to power freight and rail traffic.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

PM touts 'green industrial revolution' as fix for climate and Covid crises as he urges countries to step up climate efforts. We want to use those technologies to develop a lot of hydrogen. We are going to be putting a big bet on wind power - we want to be the Saudi Arabia of wind. Let's face it, we were woefully under prepared.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

politicians last week as part of its three year-long investigation into how the oil industry has worked to undermine efforts to tackle climate change. Carbon pricing can only be part of a policy approach to tackling climate change, it can’t be the solution by itself. The evidence unearthed by U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Following a year of study, debate and events, CILT has published (on 17 February) its year-end report summarising its work on Routes to Net Zero 2050 and looking ahead to the work to be done in 2021. The report includes 21 recommendations for action covering all transport modes and activities. Setting carbon budgets for the transport sector.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Mann was speaking last week about his latest book, The New Climate War , which argues that forces that have for decades sought to oppose climate action have now revised their strategies for a world in which the impacts of climate change are "no longer subtle". Net zero is possible," Mann said. "We

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. The rescheduled conference, which took place for nearly a week from January 16-19, felt like a more scaled-down event, with far fewer than the anticipated 3,000 attendees.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Fossil fuel industry lobby for blue hydrogen is attempting to 'capture the UK Government behind a fossil based future', campaigners warn. And last month, BP announced plans to build the UK's "largest" blue hydrogen facility in Teesside, which it envisages producing 1GW of the low carbon fuel by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Local and regional leaders appeared at a public event in Birmingham on 13 July to make the case to Government for additional powers to tackle climate change. Polly Billington, CEO of UK100, said: “We need a power shift from central government to local communities to tackle climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2022

The Global Fusion Industry in 2022 , launched on 14 July at an event in Brussels, is the second annual survey from the FIA, which aims to build a directory of fusion energy businesses and provide a periodic update on the sector. We’ve seen too many reminders in the last year of why fusion investment is so important.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

JANUARY 5, 2024

The group also heard from Fortescue Energy ’s North American CEO, Andrew Vesey, on its plan to build a green hydrogen production plant in Centralia, as the anchor of the PNW Hydrogen Hub. This year’s nominees were First Mode , Modern Hydrogen , and Group14.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 19, 2024

The focus will be on jumpstarting the renewable H2 market The leaders speaking at the California Hydrogen Convention will address pathways and challenges to accelerating renewable hydrogen and forming a strong environment for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions while functioning as a catalyst for facing climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Labour’s transport spokesperson has rejected calls to “pause” expansions at UK airports during a party conference event on how to “build back greener” after the Covid-19 pandemic. McMahon also called for airports to decarbonise their whole operations, including flights, to tackle climate change. million tonnes of CO2 in 2050.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The event had a lineup of incredible speakers from different facets of the climatetech landscape to talk about both the challenges and the opportunities in Houston’s climatetech startup ecosystem, with an eye on what Houston’s selection as a hydrogen hub means for workforce development and the future of the regional energy transition.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Africa’s Green Economy Summit , an official E Fest Cape Town event, to be hosted 22–24 February 2023, will focus on the exciting investment opportunities to accelerate Africa’s adoption of renewable energy, clean transport, and clean technologies, such as green hydrogen, that can effect social change and development.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 2, 2024

This contributes to climate change and negates some of the benefits of using natural gas, which has lower carbon emissions than coal or oil. Injecting fluids into wells at high pressures can trigger seismic events, causing distress to local communities and damaging infrastructure.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 26, 2022

We took that challenge to heart, and hosted 80+ events this year including a round table with U.S. Fysikes Biosolutions is developing renewable green fuels via the production of hydrogen and concentrated CO2 from direct air capture and industrial CO 2 capture technologies. Greentown’s mission is to convene, connect, and inspire.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Thee government should aim to unleash commercial-scale heat pump projects instead of hydrogen for heating, argues Kevin Stickney, managing director of Erda Energy and part of the Pump It Up campaign. Well, with a whopping 392 mentions last year, hydrogen received more Parliamentary attention in 2020 than fracking in 2014.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 2, 2022

National Grid Gas Transmission has been granted £1.1m ($1.5m) funding for 10 projects, advancing work investigating the use of hydrogen in the national gas system and further unlocking gas’s role as a key enabler in the transition to net zero. Zero Emission Transport]. Data and Digitalisation]. Data and Digitalisation].

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A 6GW pipeline of green hydrogen projects is being primed in the UK and Europe over the next two years, but experts fear key pieces of the policy puzzle still need putting in place. Could 2022 be the year in which green hydrogen produced using renewable power moves from 'nice idea' towards a mainstream, bankable investment proposition?

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 16, 2021

What you may have missed: the unprecedented heat dome, which subsequently drifted eastward through the Prairies, was 150 times more likely because of human-caused climate change. Climate change threatens many important industries. Indeed, climate change is already driving up food prices.

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