DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Tags: Boris Johnson Covering Climate Now 2019 brexit climate deniers Brexit Party Vox European Parliament Its leadership is facing calls to simultaneously increase its ambition to tackle climate change and cut the very regulations that would deliver reductions in globe-warming pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Read time: 7 mins Six young people from Portugal have filed an unprecedented climate change lawsuit against almost all of Europe, targeting 33 European nations for failing to take adequate action on the climate crisis that they say threatens their human rights.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 6, 2024

Eurelectric’s Kristian Ruby urges a ‘European way’ to tackle mass uptake of electric vehicles Enabling a mass uptake of electric vehicles is “one of the critical litmus tests” for the energy transition in Europe, according to Kristian Ruby, secretary-general of electricity association Eurelectric.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

The programme, funded by the Scottish government funded advisory group Zero Waste Scotland and delivered in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, involves the use of RFID tags. These have already been used in Europe and in some other parts of the UK.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 3 mins Organisations promoting climate science denial and anti-environmentalism in Europe share the same rhetoric, narratives and right-wing links as their US counterparts, new research has found.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

That's part of the vision for the base-case and upside-case scenarios laid out in a recent report on textile recycling in Europe from the consulting giant McKinsey. And that's just for the industry in Europe. Imagine if a significant portion of the textiles that cannot be reused in their current form could be recycled.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

The unprecedented quantity of Extended Producer Responsibility legislation that has been greenlighted so far this year – across Europe – no doubt signals a new level of environmental awareness on a governmental, rather than merely social level. Green Deal legislation has proven most adaptable to the times.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2019

Read time: 6 mins By John Quiggin , The University of Queensland The announcement by Suncorp that it will no longer insure new thermal coal projects, along with a similar announcement by QBE Insurance a few months earlier, brings Australia into line with Europe where most major insurers have broken with coal.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Listening stations from Malin Head – Ireland’s most northerly point – to the island of Islay in Scotland will record transmissions from a variety of mobile marine species tagged by the project’s scientists. Well done to all involved for advancing our understanding of our seas,” she added.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 20, 2020

With two turbines, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot is tiny; and with a price tag of $300 million, it’s very expensive for a generation facility of its size. The project’s major offshore components, all made in Europe, have been waiting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for a specialized installation vessel to sail in.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Global sales of zero emission and plug-in hybrid vehicles are set to outstrip those of internal combustion engines (ICEs) for the first time in 2047, powered largely by by soaring sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in China, Europe and North America, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

A government grant scheme offering businesses thousands of pounds off the price tag of electric vans and trucks has been extended by a further two years, in a move Ministers expect to support the purchase of tens of thousands of greener vehicles.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

Spanish energy giants Iberdrola and Endesa each won an allotment from the auction, while German energy firm TAG took away two. The auction will help Portugal - one of Europe's sunniest countries, with the most hours of sunshine per day - achieve its ambition of having 7,000MW of renewable energy by 2030, Fernandes added.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. Finding the solution through innovative technology. New FlexICs from PragmatIC.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The key price point for battery packs to become cheap enough for manufacturers to produce mass market EVs for around the same price tag as typical petrol and diesel vehicles is thought to be around $100/kWh, and BNEF yesterday estimated prices could hit that tipping point as soon as 2024.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Instead, it is often blended with diesel and tagged based on the amount of diesel it’s mixed with. However, unlike in Europe, where diesel-powered vehicles are more common, they only represent 1 percent of U.S. Though it had a slow start, Edmunds found that its production has risen from 25 million gallons in 2005 to 1.7

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Move aligns with Honda's commitment to reaching full electrification across Europe by 2025. Last year, it pledged to sell solely vehicles with electric drivetrains in Europe by 2025 and to reduce ICE vehicle sales to below a third of its global total by the same date.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 11, 2024

Data is available via a search function on the Stream platform – there isn’t a category listing so far – with the first use case tags including ‘Domestic tap water quality’, ‘Utility mapping’ and ‘Water quality parameters’.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It’s a great advertising tag line, but there are no free rides; someone always pays somewhere. Concepts in Europe to electrify highways with either in-pavement wireless or overhead catenary charging might eliminate fuel stations entirely. That has to come from somewhere on a reliable and consistent basis or you do not get fed.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

The firm said it is now aiming to accelerate delivery of battery cars to customers in 2023 in order to tackle its huge EV order book, which includes over 100,000 orders in Europe alone. Overall, the company expects every one in five of the vehicles it sells worldwide to be electric by 2025.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

” EnBW doubled its offshore wind capacity in Europe in 2019, adding 609 megawatts via the Albatros and Hohe See projects. Among Moixa’s differentiators are its proprietary software platform, small physical footprint and the equally small price tag of its lithium-ion phosphate systems. In the U.K.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The average price tag on an electric vehicle (EV) could shoot up by £2,800 in the UK in the event of a 'no-deal' Brexit, with resulting tariffs imposed on battery imports likely to effectively cancel out consumer savings from the government's plug-in car grants scheme, Britain's car industry has warned.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Each aircraft comes with a price tag of around $4m, it said. As such, should it achieve certification from air travel safety standards regulators in the US and Europe, Vertical Aerospace believes it could unlock a potential total market for electric air taxis of between $1tr-4.4tr by 2040.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And, hot on Ford's wheels, today Nissan unveiled a sweeping plan to invest $17.7bn towards expanding its EV offering over the next five years, supporting a flurry of freshly enhanced targets worldwide, including for 75 per cent of its sales to come from battery vehicles in Europe by the end of the decade.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And, hot on Ford's wheels, today Nissan unveiled a sweeping plan to invest $17.7bn towards expanding its EV offering over the next five years, supporting a flurry of freshly enhanced targets worldwide, including for 75 per cent of its sales to come from battery vehicles in Europe by the end of the decade.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And there were conflicting reports over the price tag attached to the new support package. However, some analysts counselled costs could swell further if wholesale gas prices continue to rise over the winter in response to cold weather or further moves from Russia to restrict gas supplies to Europe.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

Changing desert into a renewable paradise As governments and industries seek less-polluting alternatives to hydrocarbons, the world’s biggest crude exporter doesn’t want to cede the upcoming hydrogen business to China, Europe or Australia and lose a potentially massive source of income. The hydrogen plant is part of that vision.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 18, 2019

and Europe. The FERC decision on price formation will set a precedent for how state energy regulation and subsidies impact pricing for ISO/RTO markets with a capacity market — and more broadly on the responsibility and price tag on resource adequacy procurement. From July through September 2019, WoodMac tracked over 1.2

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

and Europe and spent a lot of time talking to federal and state officials about the potential for offshore wind,” said Kennedy. Typical programs have a price tag of several hundred thousand dollars. ” One exciting part of advocacy work at a nonprofit is how hard work can pay off in concrete ways.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The plan is to be reviewed next Spring, but the government indicated the price freeze could stay in place for up to two years with the price tag expected to reach up to £150bn. As a result, domestic energy bills should stay at around current levels through this winter.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The event aimed to celebrate “the industry’s continuing contribution to nature conservation” It also explored how the industry can deliver net gain and “showcased some of the best examples of quarry restoration and wildlife conservation in Europe.”

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2023

This tag line remains at the heart of the global B Corp movement. The words of one of my friends from B Lab Europe captured its essence and spirit best when she remarked that you can always tell when you're in a room of people connected to the B Corp movement because they have a special sparkle in their eyes.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

Changing desert into a renewable paradise As governments and industries seek less-polluting alternatives to hydrocarbons, the world’s biggest crude exporter doesn’t want to cede the upcoming hydrogen business to China, Europe or Australia and lose a potentially massive source of income. The hydrogen plant is part of that vision.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

Be in no doubt, one man bears primary responsibility for the energy crisis gripping the UK and the rest of Europe. The government's repeated failure to promote energy saving, enhance energy efficiency, and deliver more domestic energy generation is condemning the UK to an era of rolling crises.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Consumer EV sales are also booming in key markets across the UK, Europe, China and the US. The corporate roll out of EVs is enabled by the way zero emission models are continuing to improve in terms of performance, while also becoming cheaper, more widely available, and easier to charge up.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

” It’s a great advertising tag line, but there are no free rides; someone always pays somewhere. Concepts in Europe to electrify highways with either in-pavement wireless or overhead catenary charging might eliminate fuel stations entirely. That has to come from somewhere on a reliable and consistent basis or you do not get fed.

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