Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

From incentives for public transport to lower speed limits and car-free Sundays, the organisation argued the various measures set out in its plan could lower oil demand by 2.7 million barrels a day within four months, roughly equivalent to the oil consumed by all the cars in China.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

According to the research, Europe is leading the charge in the development of clean hydrogen, with Germany home to 25 of the total already operational projects (equal to 27%); the U.S. Since 2021, when the map was first published, the number of tracked production projects at any stage of development has increased by almost 50%.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Mercedes-Benz says about 20% of the trucks it sells in Europe are in the construction site segment, making it the second most important market segment for the manufacturer after long-distance transport. “We The social and political pressure on our customers is significant.”.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

Although Germany is generating record amounts of clean energy in the north, its grid is too weak to transport all the power down to load centers in the south — a longstanding challenge for the country that's only getting worse.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

The measure will be essential to safeguard these components against supply disruption, say the authors, who warn that access to the critical raw materials (CRMs) in these products is vulnerable to geo-political tides.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

” The budget statement “predictably majored on pre-election giveaways political dividing lines”, said Ashden policy lead Will Walter, adding that it “will do nothing for those living in cold, damp, expensive to heat homes or for local authorities struggling to provide basic services.”

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

The North West Hydrogen Alliance - a regional trade body backed by several local councils and leading gas companies such as Shell, Cadent, and INEOS-owned Inovyn - today launched a roadmap setting out "quick and easy steps" to deliver a rollout of hydrogen technology across the UK transport sector.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As the European Union sets its sights on a green hydrogen boom as part of its plans to meet decarbonization pledges and rebuild economies ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, North Africa has emerged as a possible source for a significant chunk of Europe’s future hydrogen supply. Underestimating Europe’s renewables potential.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

From its source in the Pindos Mountains in north-west Greece to its meeting with the Adriatic Sea in Albania, the Vjosa river flows uninterrupted for more than 270 kilometres, making it the longest free-flowing river in Europe outside of Russia. But the picture is much more complicated.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

It is well documented that the current industrial agricultural model yields outputs of questionable quality, relies on fossil fuels and practices that are damaging to ecosystems, and is built around supply chains that involve long-distance transport that make it vulnerable to border closures. Policy & Politics. mph across the city.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The dawn of electrified trucking: Routes to decarbonising commercial vehicles forecasts that by 2030, zero-emission vehicles (battery-electric or fuel cell) will account for a third of all trucks in Europe, North America and China, and 70 percent by 2035.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The annual Power Barometer, which maps key energy sector developments in Europe, finds that while the peak of the energy crisis may be over, the challenges to the region’s decarbonisation and security of supply are not. since 2020. Have you read? Overall the smart meter penetration is about 56% as of 2022, up from 48% in 2020.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

The fund assists organisations based in emerging economies that are working to improve access to clean transport. Drive Electric, a global philanthropic campaign driving the transition to a clean transport future, announced this week that the LEAP Fund has been expanded by $1.05m in grants to support initiatives in Africa and Latin America.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 6, 2020

But like the talks themselves, Europe's aggressive push to reduce its carbon emissions has been merely postponed , not canceled. Despite the vast economic challenges and immediate public health crisis from COVID-19, European companies and political institutions are restating the importance of tackling the climate emergency.

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Terra Infirma

JULY 31, 2023

These announcements come after a weekend of screeching u-turns from the Government on transport policy, including announcing a review into the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) the Government has been funding for the last few years. All this against a backdrop of extreme weather across the US, Europe and China.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

The firms were then featured prominently on panels alongside these cabinet ministers, MPs, and local political leaders. The corporate sponsors of the conference spoke alongside these political leaders, and a spokesperson for Atkins admitted that its “sponsorship package included panel speaker slots”.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 13, 2020

Tesla's Model 3 was the top-selling car in California in the first quarter of 2020, but electrified transport is not just about cars anymore. Part of the challenge in electrifying transportation is simply getting enough good models on the market to attract customers and foster competition. While the U.S. national policy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Experts dispute this climate-friendly branding, however, given the problem of methane leakages through the production and transportation process, and doubts about the efficacy of CCS. Hydrogen Europe. Juliet Philips, senior policy advisor at the thinktank E3G, described it as “a bit of a red herring as a low-carbon solution”.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Proposals for Europe’s offshore energy islands are gaining momentum, with regulatory issues rather than technology now looking like the largest barrier. Doing so would cut curtailment and replace the need for transformer infrastructure, with the energy transported to shore as hydrogen instead of electricity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Political leaders and businesses from across North West England have unveiled their vision for the region to transition to net zero by 2040 bolstered by a "green recovery" from the coronavirus crisis, as they yesterday announced plans to launch a decarbonisation roadmap later this year. Now is absolutely the time to make that happen.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Uber pledges to ensure all its drivers have fully electric vehicles in Europe, the US, and Canada by 2030, and across the rest of the world by 2040. The move came after Transport for London ruled that private for-hire vehicles would no longer be exempt from the congestion charge.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Funding decision granted and first contracts signed for the Northern Lights project Summary - Following a historic vote in parliament on December 15th 2020, the Norwegian Government announced its funding decision for the ‘Northern Lights’ CO2 transport and storage project. million tonnes of CO2 per year.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

They straddle climate change, the role of biomass energy, greenhouse gas emissions from different oil feedstocks, policies towards slashing emissions in transport, buildings and infrastructure, and the interactions between climate change and human health. Reliance on the GDP-based system is not going to work.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The idea is gaining followers , especially in Europe and especially among young people. Akielly Hu, Grist’s news and politics fellow, discussed the growing popularity of degrowth with Kohei Saito — a Marxist author whose 2020 degrowth manifesto quickly turned into a bestseller in Japan and beyond. (The

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

But there remain widespread misgivings about how long it is taking for the technology to get off the ground, particularly in Europe, which is trailing behind the US, according to a report released in December by the Global CCS Institute , a think tank dedicated to the topic.

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Charged

AUGUST 22, 2019

Obviously, such plans have opponents, and they aren’t likely to become law without political battles. The only vehicles allowed in the central zone are cars belonging to residents, delivery vehicles, taxis and public transport. Some saw the beginning of a brown backlash that would strike down proposed car bans across Europe.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The Commission is likely to have found a target that is achievable and politically palatable to all member states. “I think 55 percent is a very positive step for Europe and honestly, it would have been unbelievable just a year ago,” she told GTM in an interview. Europe deployed 3.6GW of offshore wind in 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

rather than mainland Europe. The second big differentiator between Xlinks and previous Sahara generation schemes is transport. While previous concepts looked to ship electricity via interconnectors to mainland Europe, Xlinks plans to run 3.6 And now there’s Xlinks. ’s newest nuclear plant.

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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

MARCH 13, 2023

News come as BYD reveals UK did not make the long-list for its first European car plant due to post-Brexit political instability Octopus Electric Vehicles has inked a deal with BYD which will see it become the "preferred salary sacrifice provider" for the Chinese automaker as it launches in the UK.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The heat is then transported to the surface and upgraded by a heat pump, raising fluid temperatures to levels needed for either heating, cooling, or power generation. In this way, geothermal energy can be made more widely known to society and politics, particularly as a means of heating and cooling.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

They straddle climate change, the role of biomass energy, greenhouse gas emissions from different oil feedstocks, policies towards slashing emissions in transport, buildings and infrastructure, and the interactions between climate change and human health. Reliance on the GDP-based system is not going to work.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“The EU bank has been Europe’s climate bank for many years. Media reporting and political scrutiny of this issue will intensify. This might increase the risk that the popular and political tide turns on natural gas like it already has on coal in most countries.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

According to the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E), for the electric grid to not be a roadblock hampering the future of Europe’s electric transport sector, namely heavy-duty EVs, it will be imperative for all stakeholders to become active immediately.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The report was released on the eve of the WEF's annual Davis Summit, which kicks off next week and is again expected to see hundreds of business and political leaders jet into the Swiss resort. Greenpeace said many of the flights "could have easily been train or car trips", as it again reiterated its calls for a ban on private jet flights.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2021

The bill, which was developed with scientists and legal experts, requires the country to put an end to environmental destruction through the production, transportation and disposal of goods consumed. ‘Yesterday is No Longer Available’.

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