Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Producing hydrogen at a centralized hub then supplying to on-site refueling stations or transporting to external customers is very well suited to hydrogen. Political will must be galvanized and renewed as we emerge from the fall-out of Covid-19, and energies refocused on climate change as soon as resource is available.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

The first will be to extend its reach beyond European heavy industry, air transport and electricity generators to cover surface transport and buildings. And the second will have even wider implications: it will increase the traded cost within Europe for the 80 per cent of global goods not subject to carbon pricing.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The storage of nuclear waste is always a hot political topic. Many communities don’t want waste stored in their vicinity, and some even object to the waste being transported through their towns. She said that political support for nuclear power is improving. Huff what the U.S. is doing to kick start nuclear power in the U.S.,

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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. The authors anticipate the upcoming Fit for 55 package in particular is set to trigger several new cases.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

A 2035 ban on sales of new fossil fuel cars and vans in Europe now looks inevitable, after long talks led to EU Council agreement on a host of crucial green policies. The decision reached overnight is great news," said Sandra Roling, director of transport at the Climate Group.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The regulation, which will come into force in 20 days' time, strengthens the interim 2030 emissions reduction target automakers in the EU have to meet, as well as enshrines the 2035 phase-out date into law. Now is the time for strong, decisive and progressive policy and leadership."

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The NIC - the UK's independent infrastructure advisory body - set out a number of recommendations today in its annual assessment of government progress towards key infrastructure priorities, including boosting transport connectivity and decarbonising the energy system.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including Denmark's new climate law and the Australian mining sector's net zero pledge. Denmark agrees 'landmark' climate action law. IETA sets out net zero carbon trading vision.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

Because while Europe had the highest e-waste recycling rate of any continent in 2019, the UK has no infrastructure in place to retrieve and retain the valuable and critical metals contained within e-waste. But the similarities with our European neighbours stop there.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

And most importantly, this is the right deal for Europe, right now.". Michel conceded negotiations had been difficult, but was quick to hail the resulting recovery package - known as the Next Generation EU fund - and 2021-27 long-term budget agreement as a "pivotal moment in Europe's journey" that would "also launch us into the future". "In

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The country is working on making a “hydrogen acceleration law” a reality. ” As Germany, Europe’s largest economy, has shut down its last nuclear power plants, its looking toward developing hydrogen infrastructure to help supply the power that so many of its industries desperately need.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

Our political leaders bear a genuinely world historic responsibility to try and drive the development of a net zero emission economy in less than three decades and end the obliteration of nature. If you do not support the current target are you proposing to change the law to shift or scrap the net zero target?

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

But we’re overdue for more from the governments that we, as tax-payers, voters, and (generally) law-abiding citizens, have contracted to manage our societies. But, governments of Europe, I salute your effort to help your citizens pack fewer greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

The list of extreme, tragic, and very costly weather events this year — record heat in Europe, hail in June in Mexico , record floods in Nebraska , endless Australian bush fires , and epic destruction from storms in Mozambique and the Bahamas – was shocking. Senate to pass common-sense gun laws. But sadly, it’s now the norm.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

“It All Happened Without Any Public Input” Zenith Energy is a Houston-based oil company that operates storage facilities, pipelines, and rail terminals around North America and Europe. “Instead of having that kind of objective analysis, the record strongly suggests they made a political choice.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The proposed law would impact 215 of Australia's biggest polluters, which are currently responsible for 28 per cent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. 15GW new wind in 2022 is not too bad given the challenges faced last year by Europe's wind industry," he said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The tough talk over fixed deadlines, regulatory autonomy, and the UK government's apparent willingness to tear up the political declaration it signed only a few months ago has further raised already heightened tensions on both sides of the Channel. Paris Agreement and other global green treaties. Emissions trading and carbon pricing.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Leave the 'dirty man of Europe' days behind. Although flawed, the protections afforded by EU laws forced Britain to clean up its act, plain and simple. Any world-leading environmental legislation must contain such ‘non-regression' laws. Tom West is law and policy advisor at ClientEarth. We should do the same.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Pollsters and political leaders may be fixated on the post-Brexit political realignment that has seen the 'red wall' turn blue while opposition parties start to nibble at the 'blue doughnut' in the south and suburbs, but are we also starting to see evidence of a green realignment that could yet inform the pace and shape of the net zero transition?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. And its LyftUp effort seeks to meet transportation needs in underserved urban communities. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

The UK will also still be bound by EU law and fall under the jurisdiction of the EU Court of Justice, albeit now without any say on those laws are developed and enforced, with British MEPs and judges having left Brussels and Luxembourg respectively this week. At the same time the chances of a big political row are considerable.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Meanwhile, there are also growing political pressures. Yet this time, calls for a 'green recovery' to 'build back better' from the pandemic have not fallen entirely on deaf ears, especially in Europe, with billions of state stimulus funding earmarked specifically for green projects. But there is still a long way to go.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 16, 2022

Countries across Europe are already deep into a generational shift away from fossil fuels and toward greater efficiency, electrification, and integration of renewables. Collectively, RECs hold promise for scaling up decentralized renewable energy production across Europe.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. And its LyftUp effort seeks to meet transportation needs in underserved urban communities. One in five is Black. Barbie is Rosa Parks, David Bowie and Susan B.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

Will well-intentioned critiques of demonstrably inadequate net zero strategies catalyse more ambitious decarbonisation plans or will they inadvertently undermine a trend that has helped successfully push climate issues up the corporate and political agenda? because they were never intended to". China could soon follow.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for Europe. It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports. Europe still imports more than 40 percent of its gas from Russia, and the American fossil fuel industry is still pushing the U.S. Gas is not as easily transportable as oil.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Braverman’s Head of Communications David Scullion is deputy political editor of The Critic magazine, which regularly publishes articles attacking climate action by Craig Mackinlay , a Conservative backbencher who runs the NZSG with Baker. Anne-Marie Trevelyan – Transport Secretary. Michelle Donelan – Culture Secretary.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That's par for the course — an exciting advancement here, political or economic pushback there. So, too, the reversal of political fortunes in Brazil (Jair Bolsonaro out, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in) and Australia (Scott Morrison out, Anthony Albanese in), where climate deniers were replaced by more action-oriented leaders.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Over the following two and a half decades, scientists continued to collect data on climate change at the same time that governments worldwide argued over the economic and political implications of taking action to counter its effects. This economic catch-up game using fossil fuels is, of course, highly controversial.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Washington Governor Jay Inslee acknowledged a shortfall during a press conference last month: “Even with our best-in-the-nation laws, and even with federal action, we don’t have enough on the books today to actually reduce carbon at the pace we need to.”. Or rising prices could fuel a political backlash.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Support for transport costs was also provided by the trustee of an Exxon-backed think tank that has proposed fracking across Europe as a partial solution to the ongoing energy crisis. However, the group said fracking was unlikely to go ahead in the UK, as this would “spend huge political capital for not much gas”.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Today, he works on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s corporate sustainability team, overseeing the company’s efforts to help customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa use IT solutions to reduce their energy and water use. They were concerned that Europe was moving ahead on renewable energy," he says.

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Clean Energy Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Credit: Tesla Tesla and the Electric Vehicle Transition Tesla is seemingly always in the news, from its financial struggles to Elon Musk violating securities law, to a growing list of positives and successes (including scaling up Model III production). Shell has also been bidding on retail energy providers and utilities in Europe ?—?it

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

There is no political incentive for the government to row back on its net zero ambitions. Both sides will want a deal and Johnson has the majority and political capital he needs to sell a compromise agreement, even if, as basic economic and negotiating realities suggest, it is the UK that ends up acceding to most of the EU's demands.

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Charged

JANUARY 18, 2022

To help us sort out how the new policies are likely to unfold, we turned to Margo Oge, former Director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality and author of the book Driving the Future. Transportation will be, probably along with the energy sector, the key sector that will require to be addressed in order to achieve that goal.

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