GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

” This tale underscores a vexing problem for the energy transition in Europe. 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. percent to 32.1

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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. Yet somehow, that’s consistent with their net-zero plans, which I think says a lot about net-zero.”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Others that have been active in pushing for the EU to continue to allow the use of certain controversial chemicals, include CropLife Europe and The Glyphosate Renewal Group. The documents leaked in the Corporate Europe Observatory investigation were “part of lobbying work that is done in all stakeholder groups.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

An interview with CEO Peter Carlsson, who urges Europe to quickly build on its own battery knowledge. A Time For Growth The need to reduce carbon emissions has enormous consequences for Europe, explains Carlsson. Our estimate is that Europe will need 800 gigawatts of battery power within ten years. White sneakers.

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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. 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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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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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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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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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. The analysis concluded that Europe would import an additional 35 million tonnes of carbon emissions if it replaced all its Russian pipeline gas by the end of next year, compared to 2021.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

However, despite this progress overall demand for oil was actually still a touch higher last year than it was in 2015. It claims that most major car manufacturers are continuing to negatively engage on climate policy issues, with eight out of the 12 firms it assessed scoring 'D+' or below in its rankings. per cent of total oil demand.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Climate change investment had been increasing since 2015 when the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced and the Paris Agreement adopted by nearly 200 countries. Europe accounts for more than half of the renewables' projects, with more than 700 in the first three quarters of 2022. This momentum is now at risk.".

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Within two years, he and colleagues in Europe hope to be working in a Norwegian fjord, testing prototypes for a giant submarine curtain, up to 50 miles across, that could seal off the two glaciers from the remorseless Antarctic current. Time-lapse satellite imagery of ice breaking off the Pine Island Glacier from 2015 to 2020.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Advocates of this approach reckon it would help catalyse investments in clean technologies and ensure investors are more cognisant of the complex and escalating risks associated with high carbon assets. An alternative approach could include setting minimum mandatory climate standards for ESG products, requiring banks to adopt 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

But leakage of methane — a powerful climate pollutant — during operations to frack, transport and store the gas means that importing LNG can generate up to 10 times the carbon emissions as an equivalent quantity of pipeline gas, according to analysis by Norwegian research company Rystad Energy. Calcasieu Pass supplied the first U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2020

While natural disturbances — flooding , landslides, insect infestations, fungi, vine overgrowth, disease, wildfire and even wind damage — negatively impact forests , they do not compare with the magnitude of harm humans have precipitated. Consider how over-harvesting trees for more land use has altered forest landscapes. As the U.S.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 25, 2022

Positive (+) feedbacks reinforce changes, while negative (-) feedbacks dampen them. The constructed model compares four idealized policies: three different carbon tax policies and one generic policy of performance standards. See the article’s Table 1 for an excellent summary of social factors represented in the model. Public support.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

"Locking us into new oil & gas for decades means we'll have to rely on expensive, unproven and as yet unscalable carbon dioxide removal technologies.?While We will also need to explore and develop new carbon dioxide removal approaches which will be risky but essential to achieve the goals of climate stability.".

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. There are other ways to make hydrogen.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

Meanwhile, at the national level, the Biden administration has set a bold goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Though Europe has examples, the U.S. Further, the poor appearance and fit of the turbines with the landscape were cited as negative. To meet these aggressive timetables, U.S. Moving quickly while being fair.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

But the British grid, which ran on 27 percent renewable energy last winter, is performing well compared to others in Europe when it comes to outages, according to a 2022 report from the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER). “It

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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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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

✈️ Twelve broke ground on a commercial-scale facility in Washington state to produce a jet fuel made from water, electricity, and carbon dioxide. ☀️ PVcase , a Kaunas, Lithuania-based solar design software provider, raised $100M from Highland Europe, Elephant, and Energize Ventures.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2023

A UK government agency has provided billions of pounds worth of financial support to the high-carbon aviation sector since the Paris climate agreement was adopted in 2015, DeSmog analysis shows. Airlines already benefit from paying no duty on their fuel, and most of the emissions from flying attract no carbon costs.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2019

billion) investment in carbon capture and storage by the mid-2020s. Labour is proposing a £250 billion ($330 billion) Green Transformation Fund that would bankroll both renewable and low-carbon energy, including new nuclear, as well as supporting an overhaul of transport infrastructure.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

At the time of the Paris climate accord in 2015, it was clear that 2 degrees Celsius would still be devastating to the planet and humanity, and specifically, wipe out low-lying areas and nations. The extreme weather we’re feeling — like record-shattering heat in Europe this summer — is the result of the 1 degree Celsius (1.8

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

At the time of the Paris climate accord in 2015, it was clear that 2 degrees Celsius would still be devastating to the planet and humanity, and specifically, wipe out low-lying areas and nations. The extreme weather we’re feeling — like record-shattering heat in Europe this summer — is the result of the 1 degree Celsius (1.8

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

percent) of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, the highest proportion in Europe. The country’s exemption allows certain farms to use larger amounts of manure as fertiliser, despite the fact it releases significant amounts of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that is 265 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 100 year period.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Test operations at the world's first fossil fuel-free steel-making plant have begun, marking a major milestone in the race to decarbonise the carbon intensive steel industry that is thought to be responsible for around seven per cent of global emissions. EU prepares free credit cut for high emissions industries - reports.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

Ask most investors, fund managers, and bankers whether they have heard of Carbon Tracker, and you're likely to be met with a blank face. Under Mark Campanale's leadership, Carbon Tracker was the think tank which took the theory of a 'carbon bubble' into the mainstream. Carbon Tracker has not been working in isolation, of course.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

When 175 world leaders gathered in Paris in 2015 to agree a landmark treaty to combat climate change, it felt like action and investment would be accelerated as the world worked together to deliver a sustainable low carbon future. This ambitious target is a beacon for the rest of the world to follow - and it couldn't come soon enough.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2025

When it comes to the environment, Poilievre’s platform builds on his years-long crusade against the consumer carbon tax, with a promise to ditch industrial carbon pricing and build LNG plants and mines. In the months since that interview, the U.S. He is joined there by leading conservatives from the U.K.

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