Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

Energy-from-waste operator enfinium has announced (on 11 April) it is progressing plans to invest around £200 million in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at the Parc Adfer energy from waste facility in Deeside, North Wales. The project could capture up to 235,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year, said the group.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 5, 2021

Big name corporations Chevron and Microsoft are joining Schlumberger on a plan to develop a bioenergy project that will include carbon capture and sequestration. As a result, the energy produced would be carbon negative. The project will be located in Mendota, California and will use an idled bioenergy plant.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Energy-from-Waste (EfW) operator enfinium signed an agreement – on 19 March – with green technology company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) to install the UK’s first carbon capture pilot plant at an EfW facility. The aims of the pilot is to demonstrate the use of carbon capture technology at EfW facilities.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Most people seem to believe some form of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be necessary, although many are stil sceptical of an arguably “unproven” and ambitious technology. The same document said that CCS was “not on a trajectory” to meet the 2ºC target of over 400 MtCO2 being stored per year in 2025. Envirotec writes.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 5, 2021

Company is going all-electric and funding a new Yale center for applied research focused on carbon-negative technologies. announced this week that it wants to achieve carbon-neutral operations globally by 2040. Key steps toward reaching the FedEx carbon neutral goal include: Vehicle Electrification. FedEx Corp.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Bloomberg reports that this nuclear plant would help Microsoft’s plans to run its data centers on clean energy by 2025, and power data center expansions in Chicago, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Constellation will invest $1.6 Constellation is also pursuing a license renewal to extend plant operations until at least 2054.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. Its 2025 sustainability goals include one for valuing nature, which is a commitment to consider nature in all business decisions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance also urges policymakers to standardise carbon credits to allow carbon markets to act as a market proxy in the absence of a global carbon price. gigatonnes in 2025, the group said. gigatonnes in 2025, the group said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2021

EY confirms it is aiming to reach net zero emissions by 2025, as KPMG unveils target to do the same by 2030. EY confirmed on Monday it aims to become 'carbon negative' this year by significantly reducing its absolute emissions and removing and offsetting more carbon that it emits.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

Net zero is going to have to become net negative. That is according to some of the world's leading climate experts, who have today raised the alarm that governments must quickly move beyond net zero and establish net negative strategies if they want to cap global temperature increases at 1.5C by the end of the century.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

Current levels of investment in negative emissions technology fall far short of levels required to cap temperature rise in line with Paris goals, new coalition warns. We need action to help increase investment in proven technologies to get the scale, time and support needed for further innovation," she said.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

In preparation for that, National Grid ESO is aiming to be able to run a zero-carbon grid by 2025. With huge investment required from transmission and distribution operators to deliver a low carbon grid capable of underpinning the vast electrification of heat and transport, every penny counts. The recent U.K.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Detailed and joined-up policies, behaviour change, 'whole system' infrastructure investment, and holistic energy market reform are all critical to achieving net zero emissions, report warns. Both of these scenarios would meet the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

The goal of such a transition: all-electric buildings powered by solar, wind, and other sources of zero-carbon electricity. Maine is so confident in the performance of cold-climate heat pumps the state adopted a target to install 100,000 heat pumps by 2025. What sort of technology is involved in building electrification?

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019. Despite these paradigm-shifting results, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has warned that Britain will have to double its total of clean energy generation by 2025, to stay on course to meet its climate goals. The broader picture.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

But Imperial College London analysis warns emerging technologies and negative emission power plants are likely to be needed to unlock full decarbonisation of the grid. New business models, backed by policy and investment, will be needed to bring advanced-but-proven technologies into the mainstream.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Influential think tank warns that post-pandemic oil and gas companies have invested billions in projects that would push warming beyond 2.5C. A further $45bn of investment was deemed to be incompatible with a 1.7C above pre-industrial levels. warming scenario, which would be delivered if countries' honour current climate pledges. "Oil

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2021

Rothesay and RPMI Railpen have become the latest big investors to set out plans to reduce emissions in their investment portfolios and operations to achieve net zero by 2050. tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per full-time employee. This compares to a 160-tonne benchmark across the UK, according to 2019 data.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

A final investment decision on phase one could be made next year. The renewable hydrogen would be combined with captured carbon from emission sources around Copenhagen to create hydrocarbon fuels — specifically, methanol for shipping and e-kerosene as a jet fuel replacement. One project in the U.K. One project in the U.K.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 13, 2022

T 3 transformation, which encompasses digital transformation, energy transformation and net-zero carbon transformation, is a new model for propelling today’s campuses into the future through systematic reformation and innovation. The world is consuming increasingly more energy, which causes higher carbon emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It had been conceived in London earlier that year, when Günther Thallinger, CEO of German investment giant Allianz and a passionate advocate for bolder climate action, walked into the headquarters of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), his head buzzing with ideas. "Günther

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2020

The Transform to Net Zero initiative launched today will see members of the coalition - which also include Danish shipping giant Maersk, Indian information technology company Wipro and Brazilian beauty company Natura & Co - collaborate on research, guidance and roadmaps to help businesses slash their carbon emissions in line with a 1.5C

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

$1bn 'Ambition Zero Carbon' aims for zero carbon emissions across global operations by 2025, and ensure entire value chain is carbon negative by 2030. The far-reaching strategy outlines plans to invest $1bn in achieving the goals. pathway - first announced in 2015 - by more than a decade.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

However, when the levy was passed in July 2022, it included a loophole where companies received 91p tax relief for every pound they invest in UK extraction, in what the independent Institute of Fiscal Studies called a “huge tax subsidy” for energy companies. A deadline of 31 December 2025 was later included in the EPL bill.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

The US investment giant has switched to 100 per cent renewable electricity, cut emissions and bought offsets. Bank of America has become the latest corporate to hit carbon neutrality, with the firm announcing yesterday it has met the target a year ahead of schedule.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

Renewables will become the largest source of electricity generation in 2025. Cambodia provides a clear example of the potential for expansion of solar power and grid investments to avoid high-impact hydropower. This dramatic expansion of wind and solar has been driven by precipitously falling costs.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The world's top climate scientists have updated their guidance on carbon removals technologies, arguing they are likely to prove essential to stablising global temperatures, but only if they are developed judiciously.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Advocates of BECCS argue that by sourcing sustainable biomass feedstocks for power plants and then capturing the resulting emissions, the technology can deliver both reliable renewable power and negative emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Oil and gas giant sets sights on developing science-based climate targets, as hydrogen, nature based solutions, carbon capture, utility business, and electric vehicle infrastructure all earmarked for increased investment. The oil and gas giant confirmed its total carbon emissions peaked in 2018 at 1.7

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

(check all that apply) All International UK Sign Up In 2022, Canada and Germany signed a joint declaration of intent wherein the nations agreed to invest in hydrogen and establish a transatlantic hydrogen supply corridor. To date, ammonia-powered shipping is experimental. This hydrogen is also derived from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Drax has set out a new ambition to "boost social mobility" for one million people in the UK by 2025, this week unveiling a plan to improve green skills, education, employability, and opportunities for people from disadvantaged backgrounds and in under-invested areas of the country over the next five years.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

Concrete production accounts for 8% of global annual carbon emissions – if it were a country, it would rank somewhere between the US and India in terms of its carbon footprint. Looking towards 2030 and beyond, carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) through CO 2 mineralisation is an emerging solution.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Reports: China to accelerate investment in new gird infrastructure. The Chinese government has provided the first evidence that its recent unveiling of a net zero emissions target will trigger a new wave of low carbon infrastructure deployment. Investing in wind will help Europe reset its economy," said WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2022

Energy giant Drax has formally submitted plans for its multi-billion-pound bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project at its North Yorkshire power station. BECCS plants combine biomass power plants with carbon capture and storage capabilities to capture emissions that result from burning biomass feedstocks, such as wood chips.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 29, 2022

For instance, a single pint of beer can have a carbon footprint as high as 900g CO 2e (for bottled beer that’s been extensively transported). This is ~14% of the daily average carbon footprint from meals per US citizen – having 2 to 3 pints ramps that percentage up to 42%. Sustainable Brewing Tip #4: Reduce your carbon footprint.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Carbon capture technologies, energy efficiency innovators, and clean tech start-ups are all set to benefit from a £116m government funding boost aimed at accelerating the UK's green industrial revolution, generating green jobs, and delivering on the country's net zero goals.

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