Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Despite popular belief, electrification does not always lead to a reduction in carbon footprint. According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. The energy distribution model is becoming decentralised.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2023

Whether used to heat your house or build it, wood is often touted as carbon-neutral, especially by biofuel and lumber companies and even some environmentalists. The logic seems simple enough: Sure, logging unleashes planet-warming carbon into the air, but that can be replaced with new trees that suck carbon back out of the air.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

In 2010, wind made up only 1% of China’s electricity generation. In absolute terms, China’s emissions will reduce by 70%, following a path close to meeting its target of carbon neutrality by 2060. Strong policy support is reflected by the rapid uptake of green technologies. of the total electricity supply in 2023.

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altenergymag

MAY 10, 2021

JinkoSolar began in 2006 as a wafer manufacturer before going public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2010. The value of its brand is intrinsically associated with achieving carbon neutrality through the gradual phasing out of fossil fuels and their replacement by renewable energy.

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Coal-fired plants represent 37 percent of Evergy’s energy generating capacity as of 2020, compared to 52 percent in 2010. The new solar array is part of Evergy’s plan to be carbon neutral by 2045. Combined, it is 50-percent carbon free.

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Grist

MAY 10, 2024

But trees are increasingly being prized for one thing: their ability to capture carbon and counteract climate change. Indigenous peoples are getting pushed out of their lands because of carbon offset projects. Native grasslands are getting turned into forests, even though grasslands themselves are huge, overlooked reservoirs of carbon.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

Office furniture giant Steelcase has set its sights on becoming a 'carbon negative' organisation within the next decade, yesterday unveiling plans to ramp up its use of renewable energy, slash carbon emissions, and finance carbon offset efforts that deliver "external emissions reductions with social benefits".

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

Renovating a building to reduce its energy consumption makes little sense if there is no control of the carbon-intensive materials and components used for the renovation, and if these are transported over long distances.”. There is a lot of embodied carbon in a building structure, especially in the concrete and steel.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

It contributes directly to the ENGIE Group’s purpose, “to act to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally friendly solutions”.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Fairsnape

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The biggest contribution we can make to the climate crisis is to urgently deliver buildings that are carbon sinks. The plethora of climate, carbon and biodiversity targets, visions and reports within, and beyond, the built environment, may seem to cause confusion, but there is a core, science based purpose.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The announcement comes as Duke intends to deploy $63 billion of capital over the next five years, 80% of which is expected to support investments in grid modernization and zero or lower-carbon emitting generation. GW of capacity since 2010, Good said. The Carbon Plan" would then be reviewed every two years and may be adjusted.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The campaign promoted the state-owned renewable energy company Masdar and Masdar City — the UAE’s futuristic “zero-carbon” metropolis — while casting Al Jaber, the head of the Masdar company, as the face of the petrostate’s promised clean energy future. As a key plank of its strategy, Edelman organized an influence drive in tandem with U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Hawaiian Electric exceeded the state requirement to reach 30 percent by 2020 and has more than tripled the amount of renewable energy on its electric grids in 10 years, up from just under 10 percent in 2010.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

Furthermore, the agreement aims to support China in its goal of reaching carbon-emission peaks before 2030 and becoming climate neutral by 2060. As a part of this governmental cooperation, Energinet has been supporting the State Grid Corporation of China since 2010.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This Hydrogen Day, Tuesday October 8th, marks a pivotal moment to celebrate hydrogen’s vital role in shaping a sustainable and carbon-neutral future. This day serves as a pivotal platform to recognize and promote the crucial role hydrogen plays in advancing towards a sustainable and carbon-neutral future.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

The adverts regularly highlight the companies’ preferred solutions to climate change — from carbon capture and storage, to experimental algae biofuels, and investment in renewable energy sources — without being open about the small percentage of overall investment allocated to these technologies, nor their various limitations.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 2, 2021

Carbon-related conversations (zero, neutral, etc.) Similarly, mentions of ‘clean energy’ and ‘renewable energy’ have grown from under one million per month in 2010, to as many as six million per month in 2019. are also growing – up 133% year on year in 2019 compared to 2018, and up a further 26% in 2020. Covid-19 takes over.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Global average levels of carbon dioxide reached 407.8

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 14, 2019

It cuts the buildings carbon footprint in half compared to comparable traditional arenas and it also uses half the energy. Related Comprehensive Green School Information and Resources 2010 - 2018 Subscribe in a reader Bentley is a business school that practicing the values it preaches in the classroom.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2020

Employment in the low carbon and renewable sector and is predicted to rise to two million by 2030, so the youth of today may find themselves in luck as green industries boom closer to the net zero emissions target for 2050. STEM jobs and apprenticeships in the electricity system, spread out to all corners of the country.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The funding, covering the first five-year development phase of a spherical tokamak for energy production, “will set us on the path to develop and build a commercially viable fusion power plant by 2040, offering clean, safe and carbon-free fuel supplies,” said a government press statement. Growing momentum worldwide.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Drax’s plant in Selby, Yorkshire, which burns wood pellets to generate electricity, is the single biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the country according to the climate think tank Ember. Drax disputes this claim. However, Gove’s climate record is not unblemished. Gove and Marshall have a long association.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The fresh targets from ASOS come in the same week as rival fashion retailer Primark unveiled a new sustainability strategy , pledging to halve its carbon footprint to introduce more "durable" clothing that will last longer and prevent clothing going to waste.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

As a result of this rapid expansion, overall emissions from Ireland’s agricultural sector, which had been declining slowly up until around 2010, rose by a massive 19.3 While agriculture has come out with the lowest targets, Ireland’s electricity sector has been handed the hugely challenging objective of a 75 per cent carbon reduction by 2030.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The university expects to be carbon neutral by 2025. Related Comprehensive Green School Information and Resources 2010 - 2019 University of Queensland Goes 100% Renewable Subscribe in a reader The battery acts like a huge thermal energy storage tank, solar panels cool water and then it is used in campus' air conditioning system.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

temperature limit, found the study, a collaboration between the NGOs NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch. Scientists have warned global greenhouse gas emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030 from 2010 levels to track a pathway towards net zero, in line with limiting global average temperature rise to 1.5C

Energy Monitor 68

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. The industry claims that forests that are felled sustainably — for construction, say, or for burning to produce electricity in utility-scale power plants — can provide jobs and energy, stimulate the economy, and even reduce society’s net carbon emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 25, 2021

The number of vehicle miles traveled in the state is on pace to increase by 21% from 2010 to 2030, according to a new report from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the regional planning agency for greater Boston. Massachusetts has set a goal of being carbon neutral by 2050.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. Since 2010, the big five fossil fuel companies alone – Shell, BP, Total, ExxonMobil and Chevron – have spent more than €250m lobbying the EU.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018. However, what many don’t know is that we are also investing billions of dollars in low- and zero-carbon solutions globally as part of our efforts to support the energy transition. “No

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Through its commitment to sustainability and customer-centricity, Voltan is participating in the construction of a carbon-neutral society for future generations. For example, about 60% of Helsinki’s direct carbon dioxide emissions originate from the production of district heating.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2022

That project’s greenhouse gas emissions could far eclipse any carbon reductions that Netflix promises in its “net-zero” plan. Founded in 2010, its board of directors and advisors come from some of the top legal, lobbying and financial firms in Canada. The Macdonald Laurier Institute is a relatively new think tank.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The company said it would host and participate in events and talks at the summit detailing how it reduced its carbon footprint 42 per cent in the past 16 years, despite growing as a business by 46 per cent. "We To achieve our vision, we know that all of society needs to be low carbon, resource efficient and harmonized with nature.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors.

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