Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

Net zero is going to have to become net negative. That is according to some of the world's leading climate experts, who have today raised the alarm that governments must quickly move beyond net zero and establish net negative strategies if they want to cap global temperature increases at 1.5C by the end of the century.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

In financial results posted today, Drax Group claimed it was now one of Europe's "lowest carbon utilities", following the sale of its power plant's gas assets to VPI last February and the end of commercial coal generation at the site in March.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Members of a trade association set up to encourage carpet recycling in the UK – which goes by the name ‘Carpet Recycling UK’ – are causing 128,480 tonnes of carpet to be incinerated every year – emitting dangerous toxic chemicals and significant carbon emissions, costing UK society around £16.5 Available at: [link].

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

Apple committed on Tuesday to becoming carbon-neutral by 2030, pushing its ambitions far beyond its own corporate walls — already 100 percent powered by renewables — to include its vast supply chain and the lifecycle of all its products. Apple will increasingly rely on carbon-removal programs. technology giants.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

’s power sector will be operating on a negative-emissions basis by 2033 at the latest if the country sticks to its plan to reach net-zero emissions across the economy by 2050, according to system operator National Grid ESO. actually hitting its targeted carbon reductions. Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A recent study has found it is currently “not feasible” for the global livestock industry to sequester enough carbon to cancel out its planet-warming emissions — and that policy efforts geared toward that goal may be deeply misguided. 135 gigatons is roughly equal to all the carbon lost due to agriculture over the past 12,000 years.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

$1bn 'Ambition Zero Carbon' aims for zero carbon emissions across global operations by 2025, and ensure entire value chain is carbon negative by 2030. The new goals were set out in the firm's ‘Ambition Zero Carbon' strategy published yesterday, which brings forward its plans for decarbonisation in line with a 1.5C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

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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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Scientists are documenting changes that are “much more widespread” and “much more negative,” she said, than anticipated for the 1.09 It will gain increasing importance as the herculean difficulty of reducing emissions to net zero and removing vast stores of carbon from the atmosphere become clearer.”. Climeworks.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

mandated by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Current government commitments submitted in 2015 are highly inadequate, which is why the upcoming five-year revision and upgrading of Paris pledges is so crucial. She represented the Republic of the Marshall Islands during the Paris Agreement negotiations in 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2021

Both methane and carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have reached new record highs, the study reveals. Not every data point was negative, however, and there were some signs of hope. percent, largely due to expanding carbon pricing in China. trillion between 2015 and 2019. Australia, the U.K., percent to 23.2

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Across the European Union, the average quarterly wholesale electricity price rose by almost 20 euros per megawatt-hour between the fourth quarter of 2015 and the same period in 2018, according to European Commission data compiled by Bach. But over the same period, the share of renewable resources in gross electricity consumption rose from 28.8

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Smiling into the camera, she tells viewers that “the world needs ways to reduce carbon emissions.” Speakers from diverse backgrounds then reassure viewers that, luckily, they’re working on solutions to that very problem, “like carbon capture , and clean energy from hydrogen.”

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

In the early 2010s, climate scientists were painting a grim picture of the future: If humans didn’t curb carbon dioxide emissions, the world was headed toward 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Scientists now estimate that current emissions trajectories make a 4-degree scenario highly implausible, even as total carbon emissions continue to rise.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Between 2001-2015, 27% of forest disturbance was attributed to commodity-driven deforestation.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

In lieu of heavy machinery, plumes of sulfur dioxide, or rivers red with runoff , you’ll find four acres of a leafy-green shrub, tended to since 2015 by local villagers. They won’t have to manually burn the crop as they are doing now – meaning the process will be carbon negative, as opposed to what van der Ent labels as carbon neutral.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2022

She wrote: “The claimants point to clear evidence of negative taxation flows in particular years; specifically negative tax flows overall in 2015-16 and 2016-17 of £2 million and £359 million respectively.”. A BEIS spokesperson said: “We welcome today’s judgment. An OGA spokesperson said: “We welcome the judgment.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The voluntary carbon market can offer the scale, demand, market infrastructure and technologies to deliver for the climate, argues SustainCERT CEO Marion Verles. More than 30 years after the first offset project was initiated by a US electric power company in Guatemala, the voluntary carbon market finds itself at the dawn of a new era.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The resulting model estimated pollution exposure levels and the number of premature deaths with varying values of pollution control, socioeconomic trends and climate warming over the years 2015 to 2100. However, lower pollution concentrations alone did not necessarily lower the projected number of deaths.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

As trees grow they remove carbon from the atmosphere. Spurred by the necessities of drastically cutting emissions and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to meet climate targets, many countries, including Brazil, India and China, have committed large areas to forest restoration. above pre-industrial levels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. Rakos has also come under fire from Laurence Tubiana, a former French diplomat and an architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, over his claims.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

HSBC is Europe's second largest financier of fossil fuels, after Barclays, according to the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), which found the bank had provided $87bn to some of the world's largest fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Already, politicians and major corporations, including oil and gas producers, are hard at work promoting the idea that the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goals can be met if the financial world coalesces around “net-zero” climate initiatives. special envoy on climate, has called humanity’s “last best chance” to curb the climate catastrophe.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 6, 2020

The authors find that many (though not all) regions see net gains without considering any climate benefits, and all regions of the world see substantial net economic benefits when adding in the social cost of carbon at $100 per ton (see bold pink line in Figure 1). b, Benefits of coal-exit scenario for year 2050 in absolute terms.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

He’s an ExxonMobil scientist in a company ad that also shows other scientists in a high-tech lab working to develop “low-carbon technologies.” All over the world, carbon-intensive industries and corporations are being challenged over their greenwashing strategies, and the number of relative cases in litigation is multiplying.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? The graph at the top shows the trajectory of global carbon emissions (and this is without the land-use figures), so no. And it’s not all about carbon emissions. Also, most countries will miss their targets. It’s magical thinking.

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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. This slowdown had a negative impact on fossil fuel demand. Meanwhile, renewables may see a small negative impact from the pandemic in the short term – but the move toward green energy may gain momentum as the COVID-19 threat fades.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. So why did these eminent scientists decide to come to Paris in 2015? The problem is this confuses the means with the end.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Published to mark the fifth anniversary of the global climate treaty that was brokered in the French capital at the 2015 COP21 Summit, the report offers companies a strategic framework for how to reach net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner across their core businesses, value chains, and wider economies, according to CISL.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

In 2015 US President Barack Obama created the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (or “ nudge-unit ”) to bring insights from the behavioural sciences to federal policies. Research done in the US found that 42% of energy-related carbon emissions came from household machines, including cars.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Paris Summit in 2015 was a genuine turning point in the world's response to the climate crisis that will define the century one way or another, and as such it should be remembered by historians as an event of global import. In some ways this is an absurd contention.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

An independent HS2 review published by the government today said there was a risk of the project running up costs as high as £100bn, almost double the £56bn budget forecast back in 2015, while also conceding that construction of the new rail network could push up carbon emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. Economic sustainability refers to indefinite economic production to support long-term business prosperity, without negatively impacting the social and environmental aspects of a business. Waste: With a 2% reduction in waste since 2015. Economic Sustainability.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Indeed, the ingredients for negativity are all too abundant: a persistent, shapeshifting virus; political stalemates that thwart climate action; growing social and economic inequality; terrifying ecological indicators; pushback by the anti-science crowd and their media enablers.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. “Eni took a bath of green paint,” Abbate said.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 19, 2021

government’s recently released hydrogen strategy—a thoughtful plan to create and use clean hydrogen—contains an implicit acknowledgement: the world is moving away from fossil fuels and toward low-carbon alternatives. is already a global leader in the direct air capture of CO2 through companies such as Squamish-based Carbon Engineering.

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