GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That includes a recommitment to reaching its 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions below 50 percent of their 2007 levels, potentially ahead of schedule.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Global Witness have all raised concerns about the creeping reliance on unproven carbon removal methods in companies' decarbonisation strategies, but some scientists maintain carbon capture is essential if net zero goals are to be met.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Below he discusses the issue of water pollution in the fashion industry. The fashion industry is reliant on water. Startlingly, the fashion industry is now the second largest generator of pollution on Earth after the oil industry, which is driven by the snowballing effect of ‘fast fashion’. The problem is twofold.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The City of Seoul in South Korea has created a “Comprehensive Plan for Promotion and Activation of Geothermal Energy” that aims to grow its current installed geothermal heating and cooling capacity of 278 MWth to 1 GW by 2030. of the city’s renewable energy mix.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 24, 2024

A recent panel discussion in Glasgow brought together representives from some of the firms helping to build a carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry in the UK. An important piece of the puzzle is storage: ensuring that captured carbon can be safely and sustainably sequestered over the long term.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

A timeline from coal to negative emissions at Drax – told by the engineers who were there. Biomass power generation would have seemed impossible to the engineers who began building Drax Power Station in 1967. But the unique nature of Drax presents a more powerful opportunity for its future: negative emissions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Microsoft has set set its sights on becoming a net replenisher of water by 2030 in a bid to help manage "chronic shortages of freshwater" expected in the decades to come, it announced yesterday. This means that by 2030 Microsoft will replenish more water than it consumes on a global basis.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Policymakers met with fossil fuel and biomass producers nine times as often as with their renewable energy counterparts, DeSmog can reveal, raising fresh concerns over the depth of the government’s commitments to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Our record on renewable energy speaks for itself,” they said. “In

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

The tech giant announced Monday that it recently powered a row of data center servers for 48 hours using nothing but hydrogen fuel cells, which it believes to be the longest such test in the world for a data center operator at that scale. Microsoft is already experimenting with using its onsite batteries to sell services to the grid.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2025

Glimpse raised a $10M Series A for its battery-quality-monitoring platform. Greentown members and alumni Andros Innovations , EVident Battery , FAST Metals , Fleet Robotics , Heliotrope Photonics , Orien Energy , Reframe Systems , Respire Energy , rStream , SpadXTech , SparkCharge , and Transaera won a total of nearly $2.7M

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) will be essential to achieve net zero emissions. million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, and the world's largest Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant to date opened in Iceland this month.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

A major cold snap led to record electricity usage in the Canadian province of Alberta over the weekend, culminating in demands from provincial utilities to limit consumption. The extreme cold and record-setting electrical consumption has reignited local debates about whether heat pumps are a viable option in the province.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. Renewables will become the largest source of electricity generation in 2025. Existing hydropower plants can also help with this large ramp up power.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The falling cost of wind and solar power significantly reduces the need for carbon capture and storage technology to tackle climate change, a new paper has argued. Cheap, abundant renewable energy reduces the value of CCS in all areas.”. by the end of the century. Renewables. The Right Kind of CCS’.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

companies, including Walmart, Amazon, and Microsoft, employ lobbyists that also do work for the oil and gas industry, according to new research into state lobbying data. The behavior is rampant across the insurance, health care, retail, and tech industries. Many of the largest U.S. Credit: Mike Mozart. (CC CC BY 2.0).

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Cleaner Electricity Grids Equal Longer Life Expectancy By Nils Frenkel, Sales Director, North America When I was working with the City of San Antonio’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan a few years ago, I learned about a shocking statistic in the city I call home. Peaker Plants Are Located Throughout the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Latest batch of carbon analysis from electronics giant reveals how clean technologies can help slash emissions from transportation and distribution. The German-headquartered company first started collecting carbon data in 2020, and as such the data unveiled yesterday provides the first year-on-year comparison of its climate impact.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2021

DeSmog can now also reveal that Heaton’s colleague on Drax’s PR and public affairs team, Tanisha Beebee, advised on the CCC’s Sixth Carbon Budget over the course of several meetings last year. A recent study on biomass raised concerns over the energy source’s sustainability and efficacy. Sixth Carbon Budget.

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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. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

Energy giant to work with Econic to pioneer new uses for trapped carbon. Energy giant Drax is pushing forward with its plans to develop a new generation of carbon capture, usage and storage technologies at its power plants, yesterday announcing a partnership with Econic Technologies to develop new uses for its stored carbon.

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Charged

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. Going bi adds several nifty new benefits to driving electric. What did you tell the folks in Sacramento? That’s one way.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Around the world, 1.6 The rise of the middle class.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Suddenly you realise that power, beauty and money are worthless, and won't get you the oxygen you're fighting for. Despite all the negativity, one of the silver linings emerging from the pandemic is how it has hit the reset button on nature. This is the perfect moment to embrace green energy in our fight against the climate crisis.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

The report expounds the need to slow ever-rising methane levels, noting that atmospheric concentrations of the gas have more than doubled since pre-industrial levels and are increasing faster now than they have at any point since the 1980s.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

The board-backed proposal commits the bank to phasing out all project finance, corporate finance, and underwriting of coal-fired power and thermal coal mining by 2030 in the EU and OECD, and by 2040 globally. The group touted the promise as the first time a mainstream bank had taken such a stance.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Although the communications industry has mostly sidestepped the kind of scrutiny traditionally reserved for oil and gas companies, the investors’ concerns show calls for climate accountability in the sector are getting louder. MSCI ranks all five as ‘ESG Leaders’ for carbon emissions. It scores WPP, Publicis and IPG as AA.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

National Infrastructure Commission urges government to act quickly to drive development of first wave of BECCS and DACS plants, arguing carbon removals will be a cornerstone of the UK's future economy. Calls for the UK to start scaling up negative emissions technology are becoming shriller.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

An introduction to the battery company NorthVolt and its strategy Summary - NortVolt, led by Tesla-Veteran Peter Carlsson, is building the very first European battery gigafactory. The European car industry is too dependent on Asian and American manufacturers. That makes the European car industry, with 2.7 White sneakers.

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

Trillions of dollars will be spent to stimulate the global economy after the pandemic - we must not continue the mistake of fossil fuel dependency, argues Mainstream Renewable Power CEO Andy Kinsella. In order to do this we must not fall back into the trap of our pre-Covid world by continuing to reinforce carbon-intensive structures.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs. In new funds, energy transition infrastructure is bringing in the big bucks with Brookfield's record-breaking $28B infra fund and Antin's $1.2B sustainable infra fund. .

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

Partnership comes as Global Energy Monitor report warns steel industry faces $518bn of stranded assets unless measures to decarbonise are taken now. Electricity from renewable energies and green hydrogen must become the hallmark of industrial production in Germany," said Sven Utermöhlen, CEO Offshore Wind, RWE Renewables.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. The report focuses on bisphenol A (BPA), which is an industrial chemical found in baby bottles and polycarbonate plastics. The problem with this fraudulent certification is well-known in the maritime industry. Energy Star. Posing an investment risk.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Although the communications industry has mostly sidestepped the kind of scrutiny traditionally reserved for oil and gas companies, the investors’ concerns show calls for climate accountability in the sector are getting louder. MSCI ranks all five as ‘ESG Leaders’ for carbon emissions. It scores WPP, Publicis and IPG as AA.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Sixth Carbon Budget report published today encompasses around 1,000 pages which offer the most detailed roadmap ever developed on how to transform a modern economy so that it delivers net zero emissions within the space of just 30 years. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction to the CCC's report from across the green economy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

“I am here to sound the alarm alongside my German colleagues: This is destruction masked as economic development, and we will do everything we can to protect our homes and to stop it,” said Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , a New Orleans nonprofit working with communities affected by the fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In part two of a series looking at Icelandic clean energy innovation, BusinessGreen explores mooted plans to turn emissions produced by plants across Europe into Iceland's bedrock. These factors have resulted in one of the world's most low carbon economies, substantial inward investment, and a fast growing community of clean tech start-ups.

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