GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google on Monday pledged that by 2030 it will run its entire business on carbon-free energy — every hour of every day of the year. West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. Europe and Chile.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google has today unveiled a new wave of sustainability commitments, including high profile pledges to eliminate the company's "carbon legacy" and ensure it can operate with entirely carbon-free energy by 2030 at the latest. This means that Google's lifetime net carbon footprint is now zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012. To help businesses create their individual decarbonisation strategies, Siemens has published a new whitepaper suggesting a range of specific steps towards carbon neutrality. Shift to low-carbon heat.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 3, 2022

Carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 were the lowest in nearly 40 years, according to a 2021 year-end report by the U.S. Since peaking in 2007, however, CO 2 emissions have declined in nine of the past 13 years. Energy Information Administration (EIA). energy-related CO 2 emissions totaled 4.6 billion metric tons, down 11% from 2019.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

leads the world in reducing carbon emissions. has experienced the largest decline in carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of any country. has experienced the largest decline in carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of any country. reduced carbon emissions by 879 million metric tons, or 14%. carbon emissions.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 4, 2022

Starting in 2007, Permian Global has worked to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, protect habitats, and support sustainable local economies through large-scale tropical forest protection and restoration projects. Each verified carbon unit purchased by a company stops the emission of one ton of CO2.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

Google yesterday announced the latest breakthrough in support of its goal to utilise zero carbon power at all times, unveiling a new Carbon-Intelligent Computing Platform that matches data centre energy use to peaks in renewable power generation. Early results demonstrate carbon-aware load shifting works," Radovanovic said.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Our advanced gasification process uses waste products to generate low-carbon syngas – a mix of hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide and monoxide. Biomass gasification in particular offers huge potential in this area of greener power. This can produce hydrogen as well as liquid fuels, and traditional heat and power.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Putting a price on carbon should reduce emissions, because it makes dirty production processes more expensive than clean ones, right? We analysed data for 142 countries over more than two decades, 43 of which had a carbon price of some form by the end of the study period. Emissions tend to fall in countries with carbon prices.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

The “responsibly-produced” oil that will be pumped through Trans Mountain could release 15 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. As early as 2007, Alberta’s provincial government instituted a carbon tax on large industrial emitters, which has raised U.S. But certain facts were left conveniently unstated.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Govan Heritage Trust is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of Govan Old Church – a Grade A listed building on the banks of the River Clyde – and will use the funding to install a new river source heat pump, resulting in a 93% reduction in carbon emissions and a 20% saving in energy costs.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In 2007, he was instrumental in making the Volvo plant in Ghent, Belgium, a carbon-neutral automotive plant. Collignon has more than 30 years of international experience in the commercial vehicle industry with GM and the Volvo Group. He has incubated several companies, and held board positions in economic and industry federations.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Those include a deal with state power agency Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems to build 12 of its 50-megawatt modules by 2030 to deliver power across the Intermountain West as part of UAMPS’ Carbon Free Power Project. NuScale says it has also signed agreements with entities in the U.S.,

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JULY 5, 2024

The tech giant’s efforts to lower its carbon footprint have been derailed by artificial intelligence. In fact, Google reached its initial carbon neutrality level back in 2007 and has been aiming to achieve a lifetime net zero carbon footprint by 2030. A near 50% emission spike since 2019.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

THE IMPORTANCE OF CARBON FOOTPRINTS. Businesses today need to know and understand their carbon footprint in order to make progress toward becoming a more sustainable and eco-friendly business. You can also use it to determine the amount of carbon offsets to purchase in order to get to carbon neutral. .

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

All carbon pollution is equal: this is a founding assumption of the UN Climate Convention, because the atmospheric effect of a tonne of carbon dioxide emitted from a smoking tropical tree in Mato Grosso is no different from a tonne billowing from a coal power station in Missouri. So far, it is no more than a trickle.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

First established in 2005, the Courtauld Commitment has been updated to introduce more ambitious goals several times, with the latest 10-year programme started in 2015 setting out a range of targets to reduce waste, water use, and carbon emissions across the industry by 2025. billion meals.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A Bank of America analyst recently compared the investment opportunity to that of smartphones before 2007. Clean hydrogen—whether made with non-emitting electricity, in combination with carbon removal, or via other innovative technologies—remains a largely unrealized opportunity. VANCOUVER — Hydrogen is getting people talking.

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Charged

MAY 10, 2021

Both sources have substantial local environmental impacts, in addition to the carbon cost of shipping the lithium around the world. German-Australian startup Vulcan Energy Resources says it can deliver carbon-neutral lithium, extracted at geothermal power stations. Source: Reuters via autoblog.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2020

The UK's 'carbon footprint' is an oft-debated topic among green policy and energy wonks. Given the intricacies of the UK economy and its myriad supply chains, drawing up an accurate estimate of the UK's true 'carbon footprint' is an extremely complicated challenge. The overall carbon footprint stood at 772 million tonnes in 2017.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Aiming to support the development and deployment of technologies that enable energy intensive businesses to transition towards a low carbon future, the programme has committed a total of £500m in grants for UK businesses, with £185m set to be spread across two windows in 2024 alone.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Icelandic company Carbfix has cracked the code on converting liquified CO2 into rock, leading the charge to capture and store excess carbon. Capturing carbon from the atmosphere is quickly becoming a popular venture. But Icelandic company Carbfix has been capturing and storing carbon in rocks for over a decade.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Since the peak in 2007, coal consumption in the U.S. Both were aided by legislation aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Power produced from natural gas has lower associated carbon dioxide emissions. Since 2007, consumption of renewable power in the U.S. The Impact on Carbon Dioxide Emissions.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

In that article I divided carbon dioxide emissions into two broad categories: What has already been released into the atmosphere (the legacy emissions), and ongoing releases. There is some potential for removing CO 2 from the oceans as calcium carbonate, but that application is probably limited. Ongoing Emissions. In the U.S.

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Charged

AUGUST 25, 2021

For the fossil fuel industry, “one of the obvious problems to be solved is where to distribute fuels while the world is galloping towards a carbon-free future,” says L-Charge. The company tells us that gasoline sales have been declining steadily since 2007, and combined sales of diesel and gasoline peaked in 2017.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

Carbon emissions from the global power sector fell by two per cent in 2019, the biggest fall since at least 1990, and yet the goals set by the Paris Agreement remain at risk of being missed by a huge margin unless there is a far more rapid shift towards cleaner energy sources. remains "extremely difficult" to meet.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Emerging economies on course to 'leapfrog' fossil fuel power infrastructure and move straight to renewables-dominated grids, according to new analysis from Carbon Tracker and India's CEEW. Overall, the analysis expects fossil fuel demand in emerging markets to peak as early as 2025.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 16, 2022

This is why it’s vital to consider every emission scope during the carbon reporting process of a business. A study by McKinsey showed that data centers have been known to emit a massive 80 megatonnes of carbon dioxide each year. The carbon footprint of data centers can be reduced by: Accurately measuring and tracking use.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That includes a recommitment to reaching its 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions below 50 percent of their 2007 levels, potentially ahead of schedule.

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altenergymag

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The canopy will contribute to MGM’s stated goal of reducing carbon emissions per square foot by 45% by 2025, using a 2007 baseline. Built with U.S.-made made Nucor steel and a proprietary water management system, the 1.382MW solar canopy sits atop the roof deck of the MGM Springfield’s parking garage.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Carbon pricing is a regular feature of Canadian headlines, as parties and governments clash over the right to impose a price on pollution across Canada. Many of these discussions are centred around whether carbon pricing is genuinely effective at reducing emissions. The carbon price incentivized B.C.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 13, 2021

As Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained, the company is aiming to run a 24/7 carbon-free operation worldwide by 2030; it’s been carbon-neutral since 2007. Meeting audacious goals with meaningful change. But real change, Pichai explained, happens when such actions spread outside the company. .

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Another $70 million will go toward hydrogen refueling infrastructure, with $25 million more for “zero- and near-zero carbon fuel production and supply” to meet the need for alternatives to battery-powered vehicles in the decades to come. This week's announcement follows on Gov. and the Netherlands.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

Fossil fuels are composed of carbon and hydrogen. When hydrocarbons are combusted, the carbon forms carbon dioxide and the hydrogen forms water. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. Consumption in 2019 was 35% below the 2007 level in OECD countries. What is meant by that?

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