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Green Search: Ecosia sees active user rates soar to 20 million

Business Green

With highest usage in Germany, France, UK, and the US, the growing user base is also reflected in the carbon negative search engine's recent milestone of reaching 150 million trees planted, with 100 million planted in the past three years alone. Our commitment to go all in means ramping up everything we do.

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If the world wants a green recovery, it must commit to innovation

Business Green

Negative emissions technologies are critical for the earth’s climate and hitting net zero in the UK, argues Drax CEO Will Gardiner. In the first months of the crisis alone, China reported a 25 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Going net negative. This year has been unlike any in recent memory.

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C-Capture raises £8m to accelerate carbon capture technology development

Business Green

UK start-up C-Capture has secured £8m investment to further develop its pioneering carbon capture technology from its existing shareholders IP Group, Drax and BP Ventures, as well as additional funding from the British Business Bank's Future Fund, it announced today.

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Public Pension Funds Have Lost Billions on Their Fossil Fuel Investments: New Analysis

DeSmogBlog

He said the findings are consistent with other similar studies, such as a 2019 analysis which found that California and Colorado’s public pension funds would have been a combined $19 billion richer had they divested from fossil fuel holdings in 2009. So that’s kind of a conflict.”

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What Were Europe’s Oil Majors Doing When GTM Launched in 2007?

GreenTechMedia

Thanks for reading, and keep crushing that carbon. ~ Another change of pace from Big Oil in the coming years, especially from the national oil companies, would go a long way to meeting the carbon limits set out in the Paris Agreement. Shell bailed in 2009, selling its stake to Saint-Gobain. It’s 2007.

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Transforming a power station for our net zero future

Business Green

A timeline from coal to negative emissions at Drax – told by the engineers who were there. Today, however, sustainably-sourced compressed wood pellets have enabled the Yorkshire power station - once the country's largest single source of emissions - to rapidly decarbonise, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions 85 per cent lower than in 2013.

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Media brief: What are carbon offsets and how can they be used?

Clean Energy Canada

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS? HOW ARE OFFSETS USED?

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