Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

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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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation. billion in funding.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

Aviation giant has partnered with US low-carbon fuel company Alder Fuels and will test its SAF in its planes. Aerospace giant Boeing has announced it is to team up with US low-carbon fuel specialist Alder Fuels in a new partnership with a view to expanding production of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) around the world.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

As trees grow they remove carbon from the atmosphere. One important step was the 2011 launch of the Bonn Challenge to restore 350m hectares of forest by 2030. One important step was the 2011 launch of the Bonn Challenge to restore 350m hectares of forest by 2030. above pre-industrial levels. 1 petagram = 1 billion tonnes).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

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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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 11, 2021

Previous articles provided an overview of this year’s Review, an examination of the data on carbon emissions, and a look at oil supply and demand trends. moved into the lead for natural gas production in 2011, and has since substantially grown that lead. Today I delve into the data on natural gas production and consumption. To put U.S.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Direct Air Capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere is one set of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategies that may play a role in mitigating climate change, particularly in the mid to latter part of the 21 st century. C report provided four scenarios (P1-P4 in Figure 1) with increasing roles for negative emissions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

The carbon credit system needs an overhaul to effectively help in reducing climate change, according to a UCL study. French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of ' carbon neutral liquid natural gas '. Natural gas is, of course, a fossil fuel and so can't itself be carbon neutral.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But while much of the focus has understandably been on the need to transform the most carbon intensive industries and activities on which the economy relies - such as energy, heavy industry, and transport - cultural and creative industries have largely been seen as bit-players in the decarbonisation drive to date.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In recent months, we have seen game changing commitments from companies such as Microsoft to go carbon negative by 2030 and BP announcing a move away from fossil fuel extraction to grow their investments in renewables tenfold. Sustainability and regeneration have never been so high on the business agenda.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

Known as an advanced nuclear reactor, it will be a carbon-free power source that’s said to be safer and cheaper than old-school reactors, according to the World Nuclear Association. “This is our fastest and clearest course to becoming carbon negative,” Gordon said in the press briefing.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

LSE's Josh Burke sets out the risks of prematurely incorporating carbon removal technologies into carbon markets. Carbon removals are needed because net zero targets - as implied by their name - are based on net emissions levels, which are important to distinguish from gross emissions. New net zero standards.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The virus has caused a 17 percent reduction in atmospheric carbon during parts of this year and may decrease CO2 emissions by 4.2-7.5 Negative values can be seen in 1982, 1992 and 1996. The negative index values in 1982 reflect the demise of the Soviet Union. percent in 2020 compared to 2019. There was a 2.6 ppm less than that.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Greentown Labs is already working closely with the City of Houston to support the goals outlined in its first-ever Climate Action Plan , which includes a commitment of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. is home to about 100 startups and has supported more than 280 startups since the incubator’s founding in 2011.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In 2011, the IFC lent poultry company Ust-Kamenogorsk Poultry (UKPF) invested $2 million in refurbishing housing for chickens, among other projects. A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. The valuing-nature goal builds on work that began in 2011 in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

Today is a major milestone in Houston’s broader efforts to build a more efficient and more sustainable low-carbon future. MHI combines cutting-edge technology with deep experience to deliver innovative, integrated solutions that help to realize a carbon-neutral world, improve the quality of life, and ensure a safer world.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

Better filtration systems including HEPA filters, ionization, ultraviolet lights and active carbon have increased the quality of recirculated air, without having to increase the amount of fresh air in the building. But they also seem to have created the perfect breeding ground for infection.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A Time For Growth The need to reduce carbon emissions has enormous consequences for Europe, explains Carlsson. After years at, among others, Ericsson and NXP, he moved to Palo Alto in 2011 to start working at Tesla. But of course it is counterproductive, the press is just now going to write even more negatively about China.'

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There are plans for huge “SAF” refineries in Paraguay using soybeans as a feedstock and such fuels are permitted under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) , which is the only internationally agreed policy and runs until 2035. We hope this figure can be higher ”.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Cranford, NJ, USA): Cost-competitive carbon-negative monoethylene glycol using today’s grid electricity. ? and Houston, TX, Greentown Labs is home to 200 startups and has supported more than 450 startups since the incubator’s founding in 2011. With incubators in Somerville, Mass. billion in funding.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 14000 frameworks Environmental management system (EMS) An environmental management system aims to reduce the negative impacts a business has on the environment by integrating policy, procedures, and processes for measuring, analyzing, and reporting an organization’s impact on the natural world. Objective Results to be achieved.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Morten Nilsson explains why the BTPS is aiming to be net zero on carbon emissions by 2035, and how it plans to get there. Scientists believe that our best hope is to drastically reduce carbon emissions now, limiting the rise in global temperature to 1.5C Increased displacement of people. Reduced economic growth.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

"Governments, corporations, and individuals across the world are starting to understand the critical importance and value of the ecosystem services provided by their natural capital assets, not least in carbon storage and sequestration," said Professor Willis. These could have direct revenue impacts," he adds.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? It was about five square miles of trees’ worth of oxygen production or carbon sequestration required to set up one building. Demonizing carbon?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Beginning in 2006, the Pork Checkoff paid NPPC each year for the license to this slogan — even though the slogan was retired in 2011. The audit also found that in 2010 and 2011 the NCBA charged the travel costs of at least 20 staffers traveling to D.C. to the Beef Checkoff without prior approval from the Cattlemen’s Beef Board.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

3) A gradual decline is preferred, because the alternative is a carbon crunch scenario. The production of renewable products at the Rotterdam refinery in the Netherlands started in 2011. Then again, especially in these times of negative oil prices, corona and geo-political instability, all bets are off. No crude oil needed here!

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

3) A gradual decline is preferred, because the alternative is a carbon crunch scenario. The production of renewable products at the Rotterdam refinery in the Netherlands started in 2011. Then again, especially in these times of negative oil prices, corona and geo-political instability, all bets are off. No crude oil needed here!

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Fossil fuels Politics Demand Plastics 78

Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. More than 100 gigatons of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, must be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. Newswise — New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., July 16, 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Dairy production in Ireland has boomed since 2011, as the EU started phasing out its cap on milk production, with a devastating impact on the climate. As noted in DeSmog’s new IBEC profile , the group has been regularly accused of acting to delay climate action, for example in 2011 , 2018 and 2024.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

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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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is a unique, multi-year program driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO?) New York City, N.Y.,

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Business Energy Monitoring Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Startups 59

Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Broome residents attend a 2011 protest rally against the proposed natural gas plant. Goolarabooloo protesters stand at a 2011 rally against construction of the natural gas plant. Broome residents attend a 2011 protest in response to Woodside Energy’s plans for oil and gas exploration along the Kimberley coast.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 28, 2021

April 28, 2021 — The Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative), a multi-year collaboration among The Urban Future Lab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Greentown Labs , and Fraunhofer USA , has selected 10 startups for the first year of this exciting accelerator. is a platform for negative emissions. New York City, N.Y.,

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

But it also had a textbook answer: putting a price on carbon. Economists called this solution a “Pigouvian tax”—after the Cambridge economist Arthur Pigou, who in the early twentieth century had helped develop the concept of negative externalities. Congress from ratifying the Kyoto protocol to the U.N. It would have been timely.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. For the first time in history, oil prices were negative. Carbon Tracker states that the world is “witnessing the decline and fall of the fossil fuel system”. The transition is among us.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixable,” according to a newly published report. In addition, vast quantities of carbon and methane pollution are released into the atmosphere. This article was originally published by Gas Outlook.

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