GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2020

How on-demand food delivery apps could encourage low-carbon food. Even before the COVID era, food order and delivery apps were growing rapidly, and the sector was on track to more than double in value by 2025 — from $82 billion in 2018 to $200 billion by 2025. Anna Zhang. Mon, 06/08/2020 - 02:00.

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GreenBiz

MAY 13, 2020

Watch for ADM to pioneer biofuels, more carbon capture projects. According to the WSP assessment, about 46 percent of ADM’s energy consumption in 2018 (28.6 An early adopter of industrial carbon capture. An ADM carbon storage facility. Heather Clancy. Wed, 05/13/2020 - 02:57. Its leased fleet is just as massive.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Carbon impact of waste down 1.1 The total volume of household waste generated in Scotland remained largely the same as 2018, up 17,000 tonnes (an increase of 1%) from 2.41 million tonnes in 2018 to 2.42 Carbon impact of Scottish household waste continues to decrease. This is measured in carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e).

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

How carbon offsetting compares to carbon reduction. It made clear that more must be done to reduce and offset carbon emissions. In the years since 2015’s Paris Climate Accord, many industrial businesses have begun using carbon offsetting strategies to balance the emissions of their operations.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Companies and cities are increasingly adopting lower-carbon fleets — including trucks and buses that run off electricity, renewable diesel and renewable natural gas — according to a new report from the research team at Gladstein, Neandross and Associates (GNA). . Sustainable fleets are at an inflection point. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

We often look at sustainability in tech through the lens of hardware, focusing on how to make hardware more carbon-efficient," said Asim Hussain, green cloud advocacy lead at Microsoft and executive director of the Green Software Foundation, in an email. Carbon-aware applications that change behavior to minimize carbon emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

governments at all levels are prioritizing climate action and setting intense carbon-reduction goals. In fact, carbon emissions in the U.S. But successfully achieving these deep carbon reductions will require further reductions in energy use as well as the replacement of existing fossil generation with zero-carbon technologies.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2021

For Etsy, the e-commerce marketplace known for handmade items like jewelry, art and apparel, Scope 3 emissions make up 99 percent of the company's carbon footprint. The ambition is part of the company's net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 goal, which it set in February. . “I

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Consider this: In April, Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest companies in the world, announced its intent to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. No doubt Shell is counting on some miracle like carbon capture to preserve its adherence to a century-old business model of selling oil. And who could blame it?

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2021

Cargill’s new sustainability program, SeaFuther , expands its carbon reduction commitments from the terrestrial to the oceanic. Salmon is very efficient, from a carbon perspective, protein to begin with," said Heather Tansey, sustainability lead for animal nutrition and health at Cargill. In 2018, salmon aquaculture peaked at 2.68

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2024

ExxonMobil saw a “limited” role for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in fighting climate change, but still promoted the technology in its advertising campaigns, internal company documents show. Scenario D forecast much lower emissions than ExxonMobil’s public projection for the 2050 global energy portfolio, its 2018 Energy Outlook.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

One answer is for executives to offset their airlines’ emissions through carbon mitigation and sequestration projects. Airlines can pay farmers to effectively absorb airlines’ carbon emissions back into their land through regenerative farming practices. So how, then, can they do it? A lack of available alternatives.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

IMO member states are meeting this week for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 percent compared to 2008 levels. It is a dynamic that has left environmental campaigners increasingly frustrated. .

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In 2018, the last year for which figures were available, worldwide aquaculture production reached an all-time high of 114.5 Not only can these farms revive economic livelihoods for fishing communities that have seen local fisheries decline, they also can provide carbon sequestration benefits.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

percent) in 2018. As the GSIA latest report was published in 2018, we are yet to see how Taiwanese investors compare to their global peers for the past year. The company has established a renewable energy taskforce to actively participate in the carbon trading market and drive renewable energy through procurement. Conclusion.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

2023 was a year of anniversaries for CPL/Puragen Activated Carbons. Back in the summer, they celebrated 10 years of spent carbon reactivation at their Immingham facility, the site later being awarded a prestigious Green Apple environmental award as well as its ISO45001 accreditation for health & safety.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2024

After a year-long planning process, Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho on Wednesday gave the green light to Drax’s carbon capture (CCS) proposal for two of its large biomass units. And it gets worse: carbon cannot be captured without the infrastructure to transport and then depose of (or utilise) it.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 23, 2020

“This deal will strengthen Galp’s position as an integrated energy player and represents a significant step towards our commitment to support a gradual transition into a lower carbon economy,” Gomes da Silva said. Despite annual revenue of $19 billion in 2018, Galp is a relatively small player in the oil sector.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Climate committee urges government not to relax future targets after UK overachieved in 2018-22, in part thanks to lockdowns Ministers will be able to water down the UK’s carbon reduction commitments if the government chooses to take advantage of a legal loophole.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Together, WRAP’s annual reports highlight the challenges and pathways for tackling climate action, and detail where leading UK businesses are already acting to address waste, carbon and water usage through The UK Plastics Pact , the Courtauld Commitment 2030 and Textiles 2030.” non-Near-Infrared detectable colours and PVC.)

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Charged

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The deal ends several years of uncertainty over the future of First Mode, which, after being founded in 2018, was in a three-year partnership with mining corporation Anglo American to develop a non-fossil fuel engine for the company’s fleet of mining haul trucks.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In March, Samsonite announced "Our Responsible Journey," a new global sustainability strategy that outlines its commitments across four priority areas: Product Innovation; Carbon Action; Thriving Supply Chain; and Our People, including engagement, development, diversity and inclusion. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 01:00.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Xcel made waves in late 2018 by setting its own net-zero carbon plans in advance of state mandates.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Arizona's biggest utility, Arizona Public Service (APS), recently announced its own carbon-free energy by 2050 plan, despite a lack of state mandates requiring such a transition. In 2018, Public Service Co. Meanwhile, Colorado Springs Utilities said it would close its remaining coal plants by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As Louisiana attempts to spew less climate-warming pollution, which disproportionately comes from industry, fossil-fuel companies have convinced lawmakers to jump onto the bandwagon of carbon capture and storage (CCS), a controversial and unproven method of addressing the issue.

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Grist

MARCH 10, 2021

Most pipelines that snake around the United States carry carbon that was buried underground for millions of years and then dug up, destined to be burned in a combustion engine or furnace or boiler and emitted into the atmosphere. But a new pipeline that could soon wind through Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas promises to do the opposite.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 6, 2024

Photo: Getty Images Microsoft is doubling down on a controversial plan to capture carbon dioxide emissions from wood-burning power plants. And back in 2018, nearly 800 scientists signed a letter to the European Parliament asking it to stop supporting the use of wood for bioenergy.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For perspective, the market for agricultural equipment was sized at $139 billion in 2018, and it’s expected to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 8.9 Moving away from heavier equipment, for example, could help reduce soil compaction, allowing fields to absorb and sequester more atmospheric carbon dioxide. percent through 2025.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

If we're going to make sure that we're using more recycled content, if we're going to ensure that we're going to reduce carbon emissions, then we need to be tracking that. CLP's private-equity Closed Loop Leadership Fund , launched in 2018, counts Nestlé, Microsoft and Nuveen among its investors.). "I said Anna Marciano, head of U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The new school is the largest project to be commissioned under a pioneering multi-disciplinary consultant (MDC) partnership agreement, entered into by West Sussex County Council and Faithful+Gould in 2018.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In 2018, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that the three largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions were transportation (28 percent), electricity (27 percent), and industry (22 percent).

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

The truck rule follows another California law ( passed in 2018 ) that says all new public transit buses sold must be zero-emission starting in 2029. By 2045, all new commercial trucks sold in California must be zero-emission. .

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 17, 2022

Over £250 million of funding has been awarded to heat network schemes under the Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP) since it opened its doors to applicants in 2018. Not only do they deliver significant base-load low carbon electricity, but they also process waste that would otherwise end up in landfill.

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