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Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?

GreenBiz

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. is California’s aggressive push toward a carbon-neutral future. Jim Robbins.

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Australian firm partners with French giant to reduce carbon emissions in Japan

Renewable Energy World

International Bio Fuels Marketing (IBFM) has entered into contracts with French energy giant Engie to build four wood pellet plants in Asia with construction starting this year. Wood pellets, pictured below, are used for co-firing with coal at power plants, helping utilities and major end-users meet their carbon targets.

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We will not stabilise the climate without eliminating deforestation

Business Green

Joshua Tosteson, COO of climate conservation marketing company Everland, offers a defense of REDD+ carbon offsets. It is by now well recognised that nature-based climate solutions can provide more than a third of the carbon reductions needed to keep global warming below 2C, the target agreed at the Paris climate talks.

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The State of Green Business report 2021

Sustainability Consulting

companies are publishing a sustainability report, up from 86% in 2018, and 20% in 2011. · Companies that supported the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework will have more informed and more efficient allocation of capital and help facilitate the transition to a lower-carbon economy. ·

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Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?

AGreenLiving

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. is California’s aggressive push toward a carbon-neutral future.

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Tipping Points In Tropical Forests: Carbon Fluxes In The Amazon And Africa

Energy Innovation

One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions. Currently, carbon emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation (often referred to as land-use change) are offset, in part, by new reforestation and regrowth.

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History of the use of medicinal plants

Low Impact

Another vital herb, Opium poppy, was essential for its painkilling heroin and morphine, and opium was imported via a special licence from Turkey via neutral countries, thus maintaining supplies throughout the war. Malaria was another huge challenge – then still rife in Asia, Africa and Southern Europe.