DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections. million tonnes of greenhouse gases during the same period.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 23, 2024

Hype’s Strategic Market Entry and Brussels’ Path to Cleaner Mobility In a strategic maneuver that underscores the shifting dynamics of Europe’s transportation sector, French taxi firm Hype has unveiled its ambitious plan to broaden its hydrogen-powered taxi operations into Brussels.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2020

Both Evian and Volvic also set to become 'carbon neutral' in the UK in 2020, claims the French food and drinks giant. Hugh Jones, managing director for advisory at the Carbon Trust, said Danone's efforts demonstrated "real commitment to achieving significant carbon reductions".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Cambridge University Endowment Fund (CUEF) - which at £3.5bn is one of the biggest of its kind in Europe - plans to ramp up investments in renewable energy as it switches off the lights on fossil fuels, Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen J Toope announced in his annual address yesterday. "The warming scenario.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

It is this prescience that means the Green Deal offers both the direction for recovery and an essential template for long-term stability through the transition to a climate neutral, prosperous and fair continent by 2050. Investing in clean industrial innovation can help to renew Europe's industrial base and secure its future competitiveness.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Ministers face a number of difficult decisions on hydrogen, nuclear and carbon capture and storage. They will also need to make a call on everything from allowing the “carbon neutral” Cumbria coal mine to proceed, and continued subsidies for the wood-fired power station Drax. Labour’s path will not be smooth.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This Hydrogen Day, Tuesday October 8th, marks a pivotal moment to celebrate hydrogen’s vital role in shaping a sustainable and carbon-neutral future. This day serves as a pivotal platform to recognize and promote the crucial role hydrogen plays in advancing towards a sustainable and carbon-neutral future.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including EU's carbon border row with China, and fresh climate goals from Israel and Indonesia. China argues EU's carbon border tax violates WTO rules. COP15 biodiveristy summit braced for third Covid-19 delay. Indonesia submits updated 2030 climate plan.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the effort to limit global warming to 1.5C – the legally-binding limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The OfS is the higher education regulator in England, which works to protect the interests of students.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

She has been accused of trying to “undermine” climate science when the impact of human-caused climate change is making headlines amid a summer heatwave in Europe. Hall tweeted: “Carbon neutral by 2030 promises [London Mayor Sadiq] Khan. I recommend this article – it’s a good one.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As we approach the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement, I've been reflecting on the climate action journey that Volvo Cars has been on since 2015. So, in 2016, we set an ambition to have global climate neutral manufacturing operations by 2025. It has been easier in Europe but more challenging in the US and China.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Since that agreement’s adoption in December 2015, ING has issued 83.2 Last October, its CEO called on governments in Europe and Australia to offer greater policy support for greening grids as it seeks to reduce the residential sector emissions from its mortgages. We will of course respond in court if necessary.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From 2015 to 2023, he was a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group. Drax’s plant in Selby, Yorkshire, which burns wood pellets to generate electricity, is the single biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the country according to the climate think tank Ember.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The kingdom almost derailed the 2015 Paris Agreement by rejecting , until the last moment, calls to set a collective goal to keep global warming under 1.5C. Neom’s marketing instead relies on vague statements about the deployment of “new technologies and solutions in transportation, energy efficiency, and carbon reduction”.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 26, 2022

That means we are spending money to waste low-carbon, zero-marginal cost power, and then spending again to ask gas generators to burn more fossil fuels instead. This is not a model that will scale to allow us to achieve zero-carbon electricity economically by 2035. Jo-Jo Hubbard is the CEO and co-founder of Electron.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The task force was established by the state’s House of Representatives last November to explore prospects for shipping regionally produced shale gas to Europe in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. LNG companies shipped to Europe at soaring premiums. Texas and Louisiana produced record amounts of shale gas last year, which U.S.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. The industry claims that forests that are felled sustainably — for construction, say, or for burning to produce electricity in utility-scale power plants — can provide jobs and energy, stimulate the economy, and even reduce society’s net carbon emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In January China's largest steel producer and second largest in the world by output - state-owned Baowu - announced it would achieve 'carbon neutrality' by 2050, and - importantly - would aim to peak its emissions in 2023. As such, there is no time to lose if Europe hopes to keep a toe-hold in tomorrow's steel market.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Forests are so unhealthy they are now emitting more carbon than they produce, according to recent s tudies. At the same time, California is counting on its forests sucking up lots of carbon from cars, factories, and power plants to meet its goals to slash carbon emissions. “If But either way, the result is more carbon emissions.

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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

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

JANUARY 21, 2022

The mine was expected to produce enough lithium to power over one million electric vehicles, making it one of Europe's biggest lithium mines by output, in addition to a host of other materials for various applications. Shell takes flak over Canada carbon capture project.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

"We're looking forward to continued partnership with our suppliers to make Apple's supply chain carbon neutral by 2030. Apple claims it has been carbon neutral from all of its corporate operations since 2020 and said it is "laser-focused" on its ambitious goal of becoming carbon neutral across its entire supply chain.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Several promising carbon reduction measures are combined which are technically viable and based on matured technology, although scaling of existing technologies and cooperation with key partners is required. It originates from Heerema’s ambition to become a carbon neutral offshore contractor.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Founded in 2000, Ecocem has four manufacturing facilities across Western Europe, selling into several major international markets including France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, the UK, etc. Ecocem’s revenues have tripled since 2015 and it expected revenues of around €230m in 2023.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

ENGIE North America, an energy leader accelerating North America’s transition toward a carbon neutral economy, is a long-time Greentown Labs partner and recently became a Founding Partner of Greentown Houston. We have already seen a decrease in the cost of renewable hydrogen in Europe between 2015 and 2020—a decrease of 45 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Headquartered in the outskirts of Paris, the Bolloré Group — under the name of its holding company, Compagnie de l’Odet — sits at 177 on the Fortune 500 Europe list of largest companies for 2023 , with 19.77 The Bolloré Group as a whole reported company-wide carbon emissions of 34.8 billion euros ($21.7 billon) in revenues.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Joel Makower Mon, 12/14/2020 – 02:11 One of the world’s largest oil and gas companies is betting that the future of flying is carbon-neutral. CORSIA applies only to international flights, which account for the majority of aviation’s carbon footprint and around 1.3

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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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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A significant proportion of global carbon emissions come from farming meat. Reducing the 24 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions from stationary and mobile sources is a gigantic task involving both technological challenges and monumental financial and societal costs. When they want to kill me, they will do it.’

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

COP28 will be especially significant, as it will feature the first-ever “ global stocktake ,” of how much progress — or lack thereof — countries and other stakeholders have made toward meeting the goal established in 2015’s Paris Agreement of limiting warming to “ well below ” 2º degrees Celsius. Critics argue it is anything but.

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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. County officials worked directly with the developer to obtain information, and no neutral intermediaries were involved. To meet these aggressive timetables, U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

The EU deal formalises the bloc's goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and become the world's first 'carbon neutral continent'. A number of Member States insisted on a less ambitious target, citing fears over the impact on carbon intensive industries. The Climate Law sets the EU on a green path for a generation.

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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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