GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

Citigroup to halt all financing for thermal coal mining by 2030. General Mills commits to 100% renewable electricity by 2030. services sector posted its biggest contraction in more than a decade and the price of oil turned negative for the first time in history. Intel’s 2030 commitments include "shared" climate and social goals.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These facilities promise faster deployment times and a significantly lower carbon footprint compared to conventional setups connected to strained energy grids. While these operations are not yet completely carbon-free, the benefits are clear. The company has hinted at utilizing green hydrogen in the future.

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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? What happened?

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2025

Hope Denton, Acoustic Solutions Specialist at Jacksons Fencing, writes The UK has set ambitious targets to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and one key technology in achieving this goal is air source heat pumps (ASHP). These systems harness renewable energy from the outside air to heat homes and businesses.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The hottest trend of the year was the electrification of transportation, which is on the precipice of a major upswing: Less than 1 percent of fleet vehicles were electric at the beginning of the year, but that number is expected to grow to 12 percent by 2030. . Eastman is one of the largest U.S. That includes two new technologies.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Drawing upon findings recently published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), the report from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG) argues that current global emissions targets are inadequate and that net negative – rather than net zero – strategies are required.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

Apple committed on Tuesday to becoming carbon-neutral by 2030, pushing its ambitions far beyond its own corporate walls — already 100 percent powered by renewables — to include its vast supply chain and the lifecycle of all its products. Apple will increasingly rely on carbon-removal programs. technology giants.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The company has been reorienting towards a sustainability strategy that it's calling " climate positive ": by 2030, the goal is to remove more greenhouse gases from the atmosphere than the entire IKEA value chain emits. That means low-carbon deliveries for businesses that want to operate in these locations. "So

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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 24, 2020

By co-building a carbon-negative regenerative economy, US manufacturers can unlock $26 trillion in financial value and produce over 65 million new green jobs globally by 2030.

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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. Its broader sustainability targets include getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. . said Anna Marciano, head of U.S. legal sustainability at Nestlé USA. "If

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Science Based Targets initiative makes clear that greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution must halve by 2030. In 2021, how a company performs on all factors — including ESG factors — on a strategy executed within its rapidly shrinking carbon footprint, not just reporting data, should determine investment decisions. Pull Quote.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 2, 2020

ImpactAlpha, July 3 – Technology to capture, store and use carbon dioxide could take 500 million tons of the greenhouse gas per year out of the atmosphere by 2030, a 10-fold increase from today, according to a new McKinsey report. Key to making the technology cost-effective: a price on carbon. Put a price on it.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

I’d argued that regenerative grazing could cut emissions from beef production , helping reduce the outsized contribution cattle make to food’s carbon footprint. These and other emissions-reduction projects are part of Cargill’s goal to cut emissions from every pound of beef in its supply chain by 30 percent by 2030.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In January 2020, Brad Smith, the President of Microsoft, announced that the company had set a target of becoming carbon negative by 2030. What does going carbon negative actually entail? Investments in its portfolio cover carbon removal, carbon marketplace innovation and the circular economy, among others.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Tech giant unveils plans for new Climate Science Information Centre as it pledges to reach net zero emissions across its value chain by 2030. It said it would achieve this new goal through working with suppliers, supporting the development of new carbon removal technologies and making its facilities as efficient as possible.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 29, 2024

The company’s Park Royal datacentre is part of its commitment to drive the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), but that ambition is jarring with its target of being carbon negative by 2030. Continue reading.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2020

Apple has become the latest US tech behemoth to step up its net zero ambitions, today pledging to be 'carbon neutral' throughout its entire business, manufacturing supply chain and product life cycle by the end of the decade. With our commitment to carbon neutrality, we hope to be a ripple in the pond that creates a much larger change.".

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012. To help businesses create their individual decarbonisation strategies, Siemens has published a new whitepaper suggesting a range of specific steps towards carbon neutrality. Shift to low-carbon heat.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 2, 2024

That’s a problem if Microsoft is serious about its commitment to achieving carbon negativity by the end of the decade. It’ll need a lot more renewable energy online around the world to keep its carbon footprint from growing. It could cost roughly $11.5 billion BloombergNEF estimates that it could cost between $11.5

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In January 2020, Brad Smith, the President of Microsoft, announced that the company had set a target of becoming carbon negative by 2030. What does going carbon negative actually entail? Investments in its portfolio cover carbon removal, carbon marketplace innovation and the circular economy, among others.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Michigan’s new economywide 2050 carbon neutral proposal vaults it into the vanguard of United States climate ambition. It’s just the fourth such goal nationwide with interim targets of 28% carbon reductions compared to 2005 by 2025, 52% by 2030, and carbon neutrality by 2050, going net negative thereafter.

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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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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 4, 2022

Carbon Positive- Business as Usual. Though we are beginning to see a shift towards greener business practices and sweeping sustainability commitments, companies are almost all still carbon positive, meaning they produce emissions greater than zero. C, global emissions must be reduced by 45% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

The paper identifies five core green policy areas that policymakers should focus on — green energy, low-carbon transport, natural capital, green building upgrades and green research and development (R&D) — and highlights successful green spending programs to date. billion has been spent on low-carbon transport, $28.9 Meanwhile, $86.1

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Dubbed Ad Net Zero, the strategy includes a five-point action plan for companies working across the sector to cut CO2 emissions within their own operations, while also working with production agencies, clients, and events' organisers to decarbonise wider sector practices with a view to achieving net zero carbon by 2030.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2020

BREAKING: Tech giant promises that by 2050 it will remove as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it has emitted since its founding in 1975.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

UK energy-from-waste (Efw) operator enfinium has launched the UK’s first carbon capture pilot at an EfW site, the group announced on 16 September. The launch is described as a milestone for the sector and for the group’s plans to deploy Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology across its UK facilities to generate carbon removals at scale.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This venture underscores Microsoft’s commitment to reducing carbon emissions in the tech industry, supporting its broader ambition to become carbon-negative by 2030. The Growing Demand for Greener Data Centers Data centers are notorious for their substantial energy consumption.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Firm announces new wood pellet production and sales targets as it confirms intention to build global fleet of bioenergy and carbon capture and storage plants. Drax said it would spend £3bn between 2022 and 2030 to meet its new biomass pellet production and sales targets.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints. Through certification and education programs, My Green Lab enlists scientists and facilities professionals to clean up the carbon impact of labs. That includes moving toward 100 percent renewables and a fully electric fleet.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

Thanks for reading, and keep crushing that carbon. ~ Another change of pace from Big Oil in the coming years, especially from the national oil companies, would go a long way to meeting the carbon limits set out in the Paris Agreement. Find me on Twitter @jk_parnell if you want to say hi. It’s 2007.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

"As lawyers, we're concerned, because if there is no federal preemption, then there will be a multitude of litigation against the companies with respect to activities that they take that may be considered to be negative due to the climate change," she said. The risks of not sharing. The power of metaphor.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

VIDEO: The energy company has been trialling ground-breaking CCS technology at its biomass power plant in a bid to achieve negative emissions. So, by using those crops to create energy and capturing and storing the CO2 emitted in the process, bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technologies can deliver negative emissions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Tech giant Microsoft has this week formally joined the European Corporate Leaders Group (CLG Europe), building on its recent commitment to become a net negative emission company. The company also pledged to invest $1bn to support the creation of carbon reduction and removal technologies through the Carbon Investment Fund.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Credit: Photo by depositphotos.com 2030 goals to become carbon negative This project is another step in contributing to Microsoft’s broader goal of achieving carbon negativity – not just carbon neutrality – by 2030.

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