ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts continues its work to build a geothermal system that will contribute to making the campus carbon-neutral by the end of the decade. The geothermal project is expected to be completed by 2028, towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To achieve this it will require an annual reduction in carbon intensity of 9.7%, according to the latest “Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI)” produced by professional services firm PwC. Between 2012 and 2016, peak coal phase-out years, the UK achieved an annual average rate of decarbonisation of 6.9%.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 26, 2021

billion in green bond funding the company issued since 2016. The renewables projects will avoid an average of 921,000 metric tons of carbon emissions annually, which is equivalent to removing nearly 200,000 cars from the road. The company funded 17 green bond projects, from the $4.7 billion to projects.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Yet just as efforts toward that goal are finally scaling up — via the EU’s amplified climate targets, China’s new carbon-neutral target for 2060, and other examples — the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a massive dose of uncertainty. “We need more policy support than is available today.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But while solar and wind have an obvious role to play in helping miners control their carbon emissions, the mining industry faces steep decarbonization challenges, analysts say. Cutting mining’s carbon footprint to zero is complicated by the fact that electricity use only accounts for around 40 percent of direct emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 5, 2020

Repsol, like a growing number of European oil companies, is looking to the power market to find low-carbon revenue. While the ultimate 2050 objective is carbon-neutrality, Repsol is using the metric of carbon intensity to gauge its progress. In late 2018 it acquired the retail gas and electricity firm Viesgo.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 29, 2022

This helps ensure that the organization is taking the necessary steps towards meeting its environmental and social goals, such as reducing its carbon footprint or giving back to the community. San Francisco-based sustainable footwear and clothing company, Allbirds , sold over a million shoes in just two years since its launch in 2016.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

UN aviation body ICAO condemned by climate campaigners for controversially changing CORSIA carbon offset scheme rules. Anne Petsonk, international counsel at US NGO the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), accused the global aviation sector of backtracking on its commitment to deliver carbon neutral growth from 2020.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

German car giant aiming to ensure all its passenger vehicles are 'carbon neutral' across value chain by 2039 at the latest. We are proud to reduce global carbon dioxide-emissions in collaboration with our new partner.". Together, we are building an entirely fossil-free value chain all the way to the end customer," he said. "We

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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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?

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

Collaboration will investigate uses for hydrogen at Uniper's retiring coal plants as it takes aim at becoming carbon neutral by 2035. Its low carbon power capacity, on the other hand, accounted for just 6MW, split between hydroelectricity and nuclear.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

2030 sustainability vision launched today by the beauty giant includes pledges to use only recycled or biobased packaging by the end of the decade and achieve carbon neutrality across its sites by 2025.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

General Assembly that the country is aiming to be carbon-neutral by 2060. It will likely include more details on the first stages of this path to net-zero carbon. Solar-rich Xinjiang Province, in the country’s northwest, saw curtailment in excess of 30 percent in 2016, according to official data.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The climate champions who attended were recognised for their individual efforts towards moving Canada to net-zero carbon emissions.”. Under her leadership, Teck has set an objective to be carbon neutral by 2050 as part of our overall commitment to taking action on climate change.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

Burberry said the new supply chain target means all its carbon reduction goals were now aligned with the Paris Agreement's more stretching goal of limiting global temperature increases to 1.5C. The firm is also aiming to reduce its power and operational emissions by 95 per cent by 2022 on a 2016 base year.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Latest Carbon Clean 200 list companies outperformed average benchmark by 47 per cent over the past year. Overall, they calculated that investing $10,000 in the Carbon Clean 200 companies in July 2016 would have seen this investment grow to more than $21,000 by the end of last month.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

Qatar, whose natural-gas exports trail only those of Russia, will host the FIFA World Cup in 2022 and has pledged to make the event carbon-neutral. Total acquired energy storage manufacturer Saft in 2016. The first 350 megawatts will be operational next year with the full project scheduled for completion in 2022.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) in Colombia will hold a public auction to sell 2 million certificates of carbon credits from three hydroelectric plants and one wind farm. A carbon credit is equivalent to 1 ton of CO2 that is no longer emitted into the atmosphere.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It is one of the reasons why no wind turbines have been installed there since 2016 — alongside planning restrictions and removal of government subsidy to the sector. Cornwall Council invested £3 million, and will own and operate the turbine as part of its plans to make the county carbon-neutral by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The new guides came as industry actors called on the government to do more to support the development of greener buildings, as one analysis warned the £650m of new funding committed in the Spending Review could cover barely a thousandth of the cost of retrofitting UK homes built between 2016 and 2025.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

By planting varied crops, by not tilling, and by actually encouraging wild plant and animal life, she believes that we can restore the land to its natural balance while sequestering carbon. Join us for a discussion of innovation in agriculture and advocacy facilitated by Climate Solutions' Gregg Small.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

"The first fossil-free steel in the world is not only a breakthrough for SSAB, it represents proof that it's possible to make the transition and significantly reduce the global carbon footprint of the steel industry," said Martin Lindqvist, president and CEO of SSAB. "We

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

climate action strategy from the Science Based Targets initiative, as it yesterday unveiled further details of its plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040. Japanese pharmaceutical giant Takeda has become the latest global corporate to secure independent approval for its 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Between 2016 and 2020, Australia’s “big 4” collectively provided $32.41 In addition, ANZ CEO and executive director Shayne Elliot spent 20 years working within Citigroup, the world’s second largest funder of fossil fuels, which has channelled over $200 billion worth of financing into fossil fuel projects since 2016.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

2019 Sustainability Report confirms oil giant is making progress with a raft of low carbon initiatives, but concerns remain over incremental pace of decarbonisation. The new report also reveals that in 2019 the Net Carbon Footprint fell slightly from 79gCO2e/MJ in 2016 to 78gCO2e/MJ last year. Shell shares this sense of urgency.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

The pension provider is also aiming to slash the carbon emissions in its default pension funds in half by 2030, covering around £10bn of assets.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Wood pellets, pictured below, are used for co-firing with coal at power plants, helping utilities and major end-users meet their carbon targets. The business moved ashore to an office at the marina in 2016 after director Andrew Ly joined the company.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A Tory peer and ex-minister who called on the UK’s financial sector to cut its carbon emissions has joined a bank that has invested nearly £25 billion in fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement. She added: “There is, however, more work to be done to bring green issues into the mainstream of the financial services sector.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Let’s halt bioenergy, reduce emissions and protect natural carbon sinks and landscapes rather than relying on false solutions.” Burning trees to reduce our carbon footprint is oxymoronic.” Carbon Debt.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. Peter Terium is a Dutch business executive and was the Chief Executive Officer of innogy from 1 April 2016 until 19 December 2017. That $1 trillion-plus stimulus package will try to make the continent carbon-neutral. “By

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2020

Cement production costs are forecast to rise by 61 per cent as the industry is forced to invest in nascent carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to cut emissions from the CO2-intensive sector, according to analysis yesterday by Redburn, which has been seen by the Financial Times.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

Since debuting in 2016, Honda has sold just 1,900 units of the hydrogen sedan worldwide, according to a report from news agency Nikkei Asia. Now, with a commitment to carbon neutrality by 2050, Honda has set a target to make 100 per cent of our vehicles sales battery-electric (BEV) or fuel cell electric (FCEV) by 2040," the company said.

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Business Green

APRIL 11, 2021

Developer secures planning permission for major redevelopment of Staffordshire site that aims to provide 'tangible articulation of the whole transition to zero carbon'. It is one of our main economic objectives in our new corporate plan and will help us realise our ambition to be a carbon neutral district by 2030.".

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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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