Greentown Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

Cemvita Factory applies synthetic biology to decarbonize and reduce the environmental footprint of heavy industries in three ways: capturing CO 2 or methane for use as a feedstock, reducing emissions from energy-intensive chemical reactions, and replacing processes that use harmful chemicals. percent of global emissions.

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 19, 2023

Invest the time to look at the product’s packaging, consider the energy needed to produce it, and research whether it’s biodegradable or can be recycled. Many cities have curbside recycling programs for pet waste, or you can compost it at home. Beginners Tip: Look at the list of ingredients — if you can’t say it, take heed!

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Plus 40 nations prep methane plans for COP27, Germany touts cheap transport tickets, and Saudi Arabia launches electric vehicle brand. COP27: 40 countries planning to unveil methane reduction plans. off global warming by 2050, as methane's warming potential is 84 times greater than carbon dioxide over 20-year timescale.

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Methane Electric vehicle Europe Transportation 36

Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

The European Commission this week confirmed that in addition to recently announced plans to rapidly accelerate investment in energy efficiency programmes, it is now exploring whether to raise the current target to source 40 per cent of the bloc's power from renewables by 2030 to 45 per cent. China debuts new climate investment fund.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Delivering the levelling up agenda is also critical and that means investment in infrastructure, making low-carbon tech the obvious choice. Reducing waste through recycling is an obvious answer, and almost half of domestic waste is now recycled. But recycling cannot eliminate all waste. But that is not what we are seeing.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In addition to these financial risks, greenwashing can also harm businesses by: Exposing employees and consumers to toxic, dangerous, and environmentally damaging products by not investing in the appropriate health and safety measures as a true sustainable business would. Posing an investment risk.

Business Energy Monitoring 148

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Instead of a sticky, pulpy wintertime hazard, the methane from these rotting oranges will soon generate clean energy. The methane captured from fermenting oranges will drive the generators for water purification plants. López estimated that Seville would need to invest 250,000 euros (about $300,000) to accomplish this.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

So called blue hydrogen plants, which produce hydrogen by steam reforming methane with the resulting emission captured for storage or recycling, must be "designed to maximise carbon capture efficiency", the Enviroment Agency said. This could include methane or refinery fuel gas used in the combustion plant, it said.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

With more companies taking the leap into sustainability these days, recycling in the office has become one of the top green initiatives for corporate sustainability programs. The Benefits of Recycling in the Office. The fact is: All companies, even those with remote workforces, generate some form of waste. Enhances Company Reputation.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2021

Going green starts at home, and while separating paper from plastic in your recycling bin is a great first start, there are more steps you can take to be less wasteful and reduce your carbon footprint. 7) Invest in energy-efficient appliances. Working remotely is also a powerful way to lower your carbon footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

John Whitehurst, UK business manager with minerals and lime producer Lhoist, offers predictions on how new recycling and reuse targets will affect the types of waste being produced. The Defra waste strategy says: “We continue to welcome further market investment in residual waste treatment infrastructure. The changing shape of waste.

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Waste Waste Plastics Recycling 133

R-Squared Energy

JUNE 14, 2020

Billions of dollars have been invested in the attempt to realize this vision. Over 95% of the world’s hydrogen is produced using the steam methane reforming process (SMR). The reforming reaction with methane as: CH 4 + H 2 O ? The Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) Process. The Carbon Footprint of Steam Methane Reforming.

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Hydrogen Carbon Natural gas Methane 60

Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Adding to the growing pile of evidence in favour of engineering a green recovery to the Covid-19 crisis, the report offers a blueprint for businesses to tap into what it highlights as a $10.1tr business opportunity from investing in efforts that prioritise nature across food, land, and ocean use.

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Fossil fuels Government Recycling Recycling 83

Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It’s a maze of exhibition halls recycled from the World Expo and extravagant corporate booths flaunting their “green” initiatives. The UAE played both sides, at once unveiling a $30B climate investment fund while allegedly negotiating petro side deals. The tripling…will be hard.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The 28-page PDF outlines what the company, a climate leader that has prioritized investing emerging carbon removal technologies, rather than buying a large volume of low-quality credits, has learned in its past few years in the market. Thursday, the commerce technology company Shopify released " Buying Carbon Removal, Explained."

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Carbon Education Technology Methane 73

Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Climate tech venture capital dropped 40% in H1’23 but climate-focused funds have still been steadily stacking the green, with at least $33B of investable dry powder ready to deploy in climate tech startups.   Sandbrook Capital, a Stamford Connecticut based private investment firm, raised $1.5B

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 72

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In addition to these financial risks, greenwashing can also harm businesses by: Exposing employees and consumers to toxic, dangerous, and environmentally damaging products by not investing in the appropriate health and safety measures as a true sustainable business would. Posing an investment risk.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 78

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

billion m3 methane – enough to provide electricity for up to 158 million households, or 474 million to 632 million people, assuming an average of three to four persons per household. which calls on us to half the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increase recycling and safe reuse globally by 2030.”

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring North America Agriculture 261

Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

The company announced yesterday that it has earmarked potential sites for 41 low-carbon greenhouses heated by harnessing waste heat piped from local wastewater recycling centres, as its maiden greenhouses reach completion in East Anglia. The 10-year scheme is currently scheduled to close to new applicants from March 2021.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Successful deployment of several commercial-scale projects will be needed to de-risk EGS and ready it for private sector investment. Today, less than 1% is made from renewable energy *Steam Methane Reform with carbon capture and storage, 1.5-6.2 The FORGE initiative field site in Milford, Utah. Photo credit: FORGE.

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Energy Energy Hydrogen Technology 58

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Policies that support community-scale biomass systems are also gaining traction.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 97

Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Most of the low-emissions interventions analyzed (70 percent) utilize existing know-how and technologies: reducing deforestation, better managing manure, improving feed and breeding (which can reduce methane emissions from livestock), reducing nitrogen fertilizer overuse and runoff, and adopting renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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Waste Waste Packaging Transportation 59

EDF + Business

AUGUST 18, 2020

This includes carbon dioxide, methane and the local air pollutants impacting communities around the world (often the least advantaged ones). Slow, then stop, investment in new exploration and production, petrochemicals and refineries. Slash greenhouse emissions coming from oil and gas production, the value chain and end use.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2021

Major new report from the Environmental Services Association urges government to seize opportunity to slash emissions from waste and mobilise £10bn of green investment. Overall the document, titled A net-zero greenhouse gas emissions strategy for the UK recycling and waste sector , has taken 18 months to put together. "We

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

to support its plans to develop a tractor that can run off methane produced from farm waste. And Slough-based Constellium is to £10m to support its work to provide new sources of recycled aluminium for auto manufacturers. In addition, CNH Industrial in Essex has been awarded £15.6m

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CleanTech San Diego

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Together, these startups employ 362 people, have had 162 patents approved, and have raised more than $223 million in private and public investment since being accepted into the program. 76 percent of SCEIN companies have C-Suite diversity.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . Green investments, however, make up just 12 percent of these companies’ portfolios on average based on publicly available figures. ” . .

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Can you find ways to recycle or upcycle waste materials? Where do you install recycling bins and for what materials and waste? In other words, how can the use of everyday materials in the office be substituted with more sustainable, recycled, and reused materials? You need to identify instances where this is happening.

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Waste Waste Business Energy Monitoring Recycling 148

The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Methane, which is released as organic matter in landfill decomposes, traps up to 20 times more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Investing in power tools from the likes of SGS will guarantee that you can get to work on your new wardrobe or chest of drawers straight away. Buy and use recyclable containers.

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Waste Waste Upcycling Carbon-negative 406

Grist

OCTOBER 23, 2019

They found that more than 250 firms have raised $2 billion in combined investments to capture and use carbon, or permanently store it underground. Extavour said that total investment is likely higher, because of the survey’s limited regional focus. . Still, the technology doesn’t exactly eliminate carbon; it recycles it.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

future would require a "markedly different regulatory environment", significant economic incentives for companies to invest rapidly to scale up decarbonisation efforts, and individuals making quite fundamental lifestyle changes, the report notes. For example, a 1.5C As such, the analysts emphasise that the research is by no means a forecast.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure would rely on a robust investment program to achieve the remaining 20 million tCO2e. California’s Climate Investments ?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Governments urged to make waste management policy and investment a top priority at COP27 Climate Summit. billion tonnes of greenhouse emissions could be slashed annually through improved recycling, composting, and waste separation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

A raw materials action plan published by the European Commission in 2020 called for the "sustainable and responsible domestic sourcing and processing of raw materials in the EU", alongside a drive to ramp up materials recycling and reuse, and an effort to diversify supplies from third countries. And then there is the elephant in the mine.

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Charged

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Battle Motors, formerly Crane Carrier Company (CCC), has raised $150 million in a Series B investment round. Battle Motors serves the vocational truck industry, providing diesel, methane and now EV chassis for refuse and recycling applications to some 750 municipal customers across the US and Canada.

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The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A 100 million tons of wood could be saved each year if all that paper was recycled. Recycle paper, plastic, and glass. Photo by Frimufilms on Freepik Recycling is your way of giving materials a second chance while reducing the strain on our landfills. Keep a recycling bin handy to make this practice a no-brainer.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

Food waste is a global issue, releasing toxic ammonia-filled leachate and planet-warming methane into the environment. To alleviate the tremendous amount of plastic waste that enters landfills every day and to preserve the fossil fuels used to make new plastic, hotels should reduce, reuse, replace and recycle plastics.

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Waste Waste Plastics Sustainability 148