GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 10, 2020

Early this year, Microsoft rocked the sustainability world by announcing it was going not only carbon neutral but carbon negative by 2030. What is carbon negative and how will Microsoft achieve this goal? Microsoft says it wants to achieve net zero carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Australian sheep meat is a “climate-neutral” product. The study found that an alternative method of quantifying the impact of methane emissions has led to a raft of industry-friendly findings that the livestock sector seems to be using to claim climate neutrality as they continue to pollute. Credit: Matt Brown/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 4, 2022

From carbon emissions via the shipping, manufacturing, and order fulfillment processes, to excess packaging on the consumer end. In 2019 alone, the eCommerce giant Amazon shipped more than 7 billion packages, generating some 465 million pounds of waste in the process. Here’s what you need to know. What is sustainable eCommerce?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Negative emissions technologies are critical for the earth’s climate and hitting net zero in the UK, argues Drax CEO Will Gardiner. In the first months of the crisis alone, China reported a 25 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. In 2019, the UK reported greenhouse gas emissions that were provisionally 45.2

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Analysis of the government’s latest transparency data shows ministers at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) held 130 one-on-one meetings with energy producers between July 22 2019 and March 18 2021, of which nearly half (63) were with producers of high carbon energy. Drax Access.

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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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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

ClientEarth submitted a complaint against BP’s advertising in 2019, before the company decided to withdraw its “Possibilities Everywhere” campaign. But while the ad shows Exxon scientists hard at work developing “ algae farms ” and technology designed to suck carbon dioxide from the air, its business activities tell a different story.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

A large donation to the Labour Party from wood-burning giant Drax has raised concerns among campaigners over the sway of big carbon emitters over Parliament. Campaigners and experts oppose Drax’s bid to create the world’s largest carbon capture plant, citing potential harms to wildlife and poor mis-use of land for energy crops.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

A new Greenpeace report notes that Microsoft, Amazon and Google are undermining their public carbon commitments through by providing services that allow oil and gas firms extract fossil fuels from the earth. Amazon, which has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2040, had not replied to a request for comment ahead of this article's publication.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2021

Rothesay is aiming to be carbon neutral, or negative, across its direct operations by 2023, and net-zero carbon emissions across its investment portfolio by 2050, both compared to a 2020 baseline date. This compares to a 160-tonne benchmark across the UK, according to 2019 data.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. degrees unless more drastic action is taken, said the UN chief, but 1.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Joshua Tosteson, COO of climate conservation marketing company Everland, offers a defense of REDD+ carbon offsets. It is by now well recognised that nature-based climate solutions can provide more than a third of the carbon reductions needed to keep global warming below 2C, the target agreed at the Paris climate talks.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2022

The band has long voiced its concerns around the climate impact of major global concert tours, which require transportation of vast amounts of equipment and staff around the world, and in 2019 the group said it would not be touring again unless it could find lower carbon solutions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets unveils recommendations on how to scale up investment in emission reduction programmes, but environmental campaigners remain unimpressed. And it stresses that global emissions targets are likely to be missed without a fresh approach for driving investment in negative emissions projects.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

In fact, 2019 was the warmest year on record at the end of the warmest decade in recorded history. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. Set measurable targets to reduce your carbon footprint. The EPA has broken down the total U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Fresh analysis backed by 40 major energy, finance, and industry companies - including Shell, BP, Volvo, and ArcelorMittal - explores actions required this decade to deliver an emissions-free economy by mid-century that is not overly reliant on carbon offsets.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

Launched in 2019, the deal embraces virtually every policy area. It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. The fossil fuel industry spent nearly €60m in 2019 lobbying for hydrogen. It’s not just the energy lobby.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

In fact, 2019 was the warmest year on record at the end of the warmest decade in recorded history. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. Set measurable targets to reduce your carbon footprint. The EPA has broken down the total U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. Jennifer Jacquet, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 21, 2021

BIG was hired as the architect in 2019 to bring the design to life. The project aims to be a carbon neutral campus. Additionally, it aims to reduce carbon by building the project in the most sustainable way possible. The use of timber throughout ensures lowest possible carbon footprint.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

o C, according to the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP)Emission Gap Report 2019. By the end of 2020, global CO 2 emissions need to have dropped by 7.6% and continue to fall by 7.6% each year for us to have keep global heating under 1.5 Earth Day in 2020. Humanity depends on action now for a resilient and sustainable future.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 11, 2023

Drax, which says it supports over 6,000 jobs in the North of England, is the UK’s single largest emitter of carbon dioxide. In the newsletters, Drax says advocating for BECCS technology “should be a focus of our parliamentary representative”, highlighting its ambition to achieve ‘carbon negative’ energy by 2030.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2020

Over the next ten years, carbon reduction efforts will be a central element of Capgemini's work with its clients, which include some of the world's largest automotive, telecommunications, consumer goods and retail companies. The company's carbon reduction prerogramme, which is currently being validated, is now aligned with a 1.5

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed landmark the deal on Christmas Eve as a major victory for the UK, claiming it was worth around £668bn of trade in 2019 terms, while allowing Westminster to "take back control" of the UK's laws, borders, money, and fishing waters. Carbon pricing and energy. Electric vehicles.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The wind sector remains strong, despite a drop in the market share to 30% in 2022 from 42% in 2019 but the new wind action plan should help to accelerate permitting, improve auction systems across the EU and strengthen the supply chains.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

It said it will take action to slash its emissions and neutralise any remaining emissions with "additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets" in order to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040, which is 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement targets of 2050.

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Clean Energy Trust

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

January Cleantech Roundup: Corporations Claim Their Carbon | How Public Chargers Influence Electric Vehicle Adoption | Investor Climate Initiatives Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

That is the highest concentration of carbon dioxide in 800,000 years. This Fund should help EU countries to recover from the disastrous economic consequences of the pandemic, and favour actions that promise to reduce their negative ecological footprint. per cent in 2019 from 2018. The numbers are striking.

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