Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The world's top climate scientists have updated their guidance on carbon removals technologies, arguing they are likely to prove essential to stablising global temperatures, but only if they are developed judiciously.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The goal of these pairings is to make battery plants, and clean energy plants more broadly, more profitable and efficient in power markets, thereby hastening the acceleration of a lower carbon power grid. Sometimes that means pulling out of markets , to avoid committing to negative pricing. Going digital, going global.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

as well as a surge of renewable capacity aided by legislation aimed at curbing carbon dioxide emissions. Even though demand growth for both of these commodities has been robust over the past decade, prices have plunged. This slowdown had a negative impact on fossil fuel demand. Victims of Their Own Success.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Yet, rather than meet the demands of environmentalism, many corporations chose to hide dirty operations under a green sheen. For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The oil and gas industry has had a rough ride since the oil price downturn of 2014. If global oil demand peaks, as a result of legislation designed to reduce carbon emissions, and more specifically an electrification of the transportation fleet, then the oil industry may follow the steep decline the coal industry has experienced.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Dolphins and sharks are just two other marine species that could be negatively affected by seismic surveys through behavioral changes to get away from the noise. In its defense, the oil giant claimed communities had been consulted in 2014, at the time Impact Africa was granted the license.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The study comes as the EU Commission is also facing criticism this week from green groups for including carbon sinks in its updated 55 per cent emissions reduction target for 2030 - raising fears it could undermine the effectiveness of moves to strengthen the bloc's medium term emissions targets.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Credit: Beyond Plastics One such community is Convent, a majority Black town in St.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. As then-CEO David Novak told investors in 2014, the opportunity for expansion in so-called “emerging markets” was “huge.” “We

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Secondly, with regard to production, plastic bags contribute to global warming by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Showcasing the extent of this pollution, the first oceanographic study conducted in 2014 examined the amount of near-surface plastic debris. The carbon footprint of plastic is ~ 6kg CO2 per kg.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

These factors have resulted in one of the world's most low carbon economies, substantial inward investment, and a fast growing community of clean tech start-ups. It is a price point that significantly undercuts the price of carbon on emissions trading markets, as well as many rival carbon capture technologies.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. iv] Medical students in Canada are joining the climate strikes, demanding stronger climate action to address public health issues. [v]. Download this brief here. [i]

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Yet, rather than meet the demands of environmentalism, many corporations chose to hide dirty operations under a green sheen. For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Economics are a primary concern in a well-designed strategy to reduce carbon. The potential ways to reduce carbon emissions vary dramatically on an economic basis. The amount of carbon abatement that a given method can accomplish also has limits in scale. Some items are shown as negative cost. Intro to MAC Curves.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By Joshua Bledsoe , Winston Stromberg , Brian McCall , and Samantha Yeager Environmental groups and a biofuel trade association are challenging the California Air Resources Boards (CARBs) November 2024 amendments to the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program (LCFS or the Program). avoiding a rapid or dramatic increase in demand).

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

Just over 800 cases were filed between 1986 and 2014, but more than 1,000 have been brought before the courts since then. Having a day in court - and generating negative publicity for the companies involved - may be a victory unto itself. Winning such suits is rare and may not even be the number one goal of some litigants.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Moreover, more than half of respondents to the Savanta ComRes survey claimed to be aware that the current food system had negative impacts on climate change, air, water and soil pollution, and that it can drive destructive land-use changes such as deforestation.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Environmental change can truly have a ton of negative outcomes. In the event that electrical conveyors are joined to the positive and negative sides, framing an electrical circuit, the electrons can be caught as an electric current - that is, power. Low efficiencies imply that bigger clusters are required, and that implies higher cost.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

When it comes to Project Canary in particular, the company says its standards are high — and that there’s not enough gas from its most “responsibly sourced” wells to meet demand from buyers. “And then we’re going to create a carbon offset by plugging and abandoning that well, so it never leaks methane again.”

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 15, 2024

  🧪 Emvolon , a Boston, MA-based waste to carbon-negative fuels platform, raised $10m in funding.    🌱 forward earth , a Berlin, Germany-based automated carbon management, raised $5m in Seed funding from Revent and Speedinvest. 

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The Capacity Market was introduced in 2014 to reduce the risk of future blackouts as the grid becomes more reliant on intermittent renewable power sources such as wind and solar. As it stands, "the legislation is not fit for purpose," Ember states.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

And now, as Reuters reports, many are trying to sell-off “dozens of oil and gas fields and refineries worth more than $110 billion to curb both their ballooning debt and their carbon footprints.”. BP gets to tell investors it's reducing carbon impact. Banks including JPMorgan did not want to lend Hilcorp $5.6

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

And now, as Reuters reports, many are trying to sell-off “dozens of oil and gas fields and refineries worth more than $110 billion to curb both their ballooning debt and their carbon footprints.”. BP gets to tell investors it's reducing carbon impact. Banks including JPMorgan did not want to lend Hilcorp $5.6

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Last year, the company announced two major initiatives: Carbon renewal technology , or CRT, which breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. We knew that the circular economy and being a lot more efficient with carbon was a good idea.".

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

Video conferencing and web collaboration software is changing how companies operate their business while lowering their carbon footprint. On the 11th of June 2014, London grounded to a standstill. million tons less of carbon dioxide than it did before COVID-19. Disruptive Software That Fights Climate Change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

On top of this, he was publicly demanding action to curtail air pollution across the state, angering the members of the industry’s oldest lobby group, the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) , then known as the Western Oil and Gas Association (WOGA). Haagen-Smit, December 1950.

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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. As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. For the first time in history, oil prices were negative. The transition is among us.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

Last year, the company announced two major initiatives: Carbon renewal technology , or CRT, which breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. We knew that the circular economy and being a lot more efficient with carbon was a good idea.".

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As the global demand for plastics has grown, Texas also has become a hub for the petrochemical industry, which uses benzene in its production processes. Hyde, who went on to serve as the TCEQ’s executive director from 2014 to 2018, now works as a lobbyist for the petrochemical industry.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

As explained by Nina Munteanu in a Vancouver Sun article , the reason that conservative men are so negatively disposed towards female environmentalists is because these women threaten their gender identity. Compared to men, women litter less, recycle more, and leave a smaller carbon footprint." kilograms of carbon per day.

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