Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2025

The UKs ambitious target to increase electric vehicle (EV) sales to 80% of all new car purchases by 2030 could result in them accounting for up to 5% of total power demand, according to energy analysts at Montel, though there are concerns whether capacity buildout will be adequate.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

A major new analysis from Boston Consulting Group predicts a green energy system can solve the 'trilemma,' but a massive scaling up in wind, solar and grid storage capacity is urgently required through 2030.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 17, 2025

Spearheaded by global green hydrogen player Yamna, alongside renewable fuel specialist Sempen, this project aims to produce 1 million tons of green ammonia annually by 2030. The final investment decision (FID) for this green ammonia project is expected between 2027 and 2028, setting the stage for production to ramp up in 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

These closures will make the Government’s goal of clean power by 2030 all the more difficult, as Energy secretary Ed Miliband will be running up the down escalator”, said Chris Huhne, chairman of ADBA and former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Amazon is investing in 13 international water restoration projects in a quest to become ‘water positive’ by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Green gas could also save 22 billion in capital and operating costs in just the next six years in meeting the Governments goal of a clean power system by 2030 – 133 a year for each British household. The study projects a 36 billion saving in offshore wind investment (an 18 per cent reduction) and 10.5

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Heysham 2 (Lancashire) and Torness (East Lothian) will keep producing the putative zero-carbon electricity for an additional two years to March 2030 while Heysham 1 (Lancashire) and Hartlepool (Teesside) will produce power until March 2027, an extension of one year. EDF said it will invest a further £1.3

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2021

Natural climate solutions offer us up to one-third of the solutions required to meet the climate change goals by 2030. The Natural Climate Solutions Alliance offers valuable guidance for businesses looking to invest.

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Energy Storage News

JANUARY 31, 2024

The amount invested in energy storage soared globally during 2023, while battery manufacturing will require the biggest share of spending among clean energy technologies by 2030 to achieve net zero.

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The world will need to invest US$1.5 trillion per year until 2030 to meet the target of tripling clean power capacity by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Government has claimed that it is “on track to reach its target to protect 30% of UK land and sea for nature 2030”, but the department responsible cannot provide any evidence to back-up these assertions, as new findings reveal, which were published on 10 October by environmental groups. Image credit: Marc Barrot , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

Nature-based solutions to climate change are having a moment, and Apple is riding the trend with a $200 million fund dedicated to related investments. . What started as a $10 million investment became the $100 million Right Now Climate Fund. Thu, 04/22/2021 - 00:12.

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Energy Storage News

JUNE 10, 2024

Australia’s Clean Energy Council has signaled that Q1 2024 saw signs of recovery for the nation’s renewable energy generation sector but warned that investment levels must radically increase to achieve 2030 decarbonisation targets.

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GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2020

Its goal is to integrate the financial sector’s attempts at going green, including green business investments, exclusionary policies for certain fossil fuels and the industry’s ESG policies, into one complete strategy. . Wells Fargo has pledged to lend or invest $200 billion to sustainable businesses and projects by 2030.

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Energy Storage News

MARCH 31, 2025

Regulators earlier this month approved a scheme to support grid-scale energy storage facilities, aligned with New Yorks 6GW by 2030 policy target.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

While a growing number of companies such as Arcadis are creating solutions and investing in ways to combat climate change issues, there's still untapped potential for water investment, according to industry experts participating in the recent GreenFin virtual event. The global need for freshwater is set to grow exponentially. "Add

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Flagged by the National Energy System Operator (NESO) as an essential element in achieving the Government’s Clean Power 2030 ambition, Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) is a high voltage electricity superhighway able to transport 2 gigawatts of homegrown wind generated electricity between Torness, East Lothian and Hawthorn Pit, County Durham.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Google inked the deal with engineering company Kairos Power, which plans to get its first SMR up and running by 2030. The trajectory of AI investments has added to the scale of the task needed.” Back in 2020, Google set a goal of running on carbon-free energy around the clock by 2030.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio. The exclusion of JBS is quite dramatic for us because it is from all of our funds, not just the ones labelled ESG," Eric Pedersen, Nordea’s head of responsible investments, told The Guardian. .

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This shift reflects Bosch’s broader expectations for hydrogen technology to be a multi-billion euro market by 2030, as well as its vision for hydrogen’s role in driving global decarbonization efforts. China, and members of the European Union have announced substantial investments to accelerate hydrogen adoption.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We also believe that scale of investment in solving wicked water problems is grossly inadequate, whether at the watershed level, supply chain, operations or engagement on public policy and with civil society. 700 million people worldwide could be displaced by intense water scarcity by 2030 ( Global Water Institute, 2013 ). Pull Quote.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Anthoni Salims Strategic Investment The development of this groundbreaking facility ties back to the vision and investments of Anthoni Salim, Indonesia’s influential billionaire. GW by 2030. Singapore plans to launch at least nine hydrogen-ready plants by 2030. and reach up to 11.8

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Amazon has been investing in sustainability for many years. Back in 2014, Amazon started making major investments in renewable energy. How will the company get there five years ahead of the initial 2030 target? The Road to Powering Amazon on 100% Renewable Energy by 2025. Date/Time: April 29, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT).

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In 2015, the world, acting through the United Nations, set in place a system of 17 very ambitious goals to guide humanity’s development toward sustainability through 2030. It has, of course, made achieving those goals by 2030 a whole lot harder (and it was already very hard). Mon, 02/22/2021 - 01:00. Now it is 2021.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It’s also planning an investment push that will see it fund carbon removal projects at an expected cost of $35 per metric ton in 2025, increasing to $80 per metric ton in 2030 — far higher than the amount companies traditionally pay to purchase carbon offsets on voluntary markets. .

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

He has rightly earned praise for speaking up on climate, investment and economic transition. His letter is money-weighted opinion, colossal in institutional investment and business circles (if not quite God-like ). The Science Based Targets initiative makes clear that greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution must halve by 2030.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

And in June, IKEA announced a strategic partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation , which will build on the company’s commitment to become fully circular by 2030. We have a lot of goals by 2030. What would it mean for IKEA to be fully circular? "I And based on current trends — e-commerce revenues are projected to grow to $6.54

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030. Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030. billion gallons the airline uses annually. Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Our analysis shows this can be achieved in a way that benefits jobs and the economy, provided we hit the country’s 2030 target – set in line with the CCC’s advice in 2020. Investment in low carbon technologies – electric vehicles, heat pumps, and renewables – needs to come now for this target to be achievable.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

Citigroup to halt all financing for thermal coal mining by 2030. General Mills commits to 100% renewable electricity by 2030. Campbell Soup to transition to 100% recyclable or compostable packaging by 2030. Intel’s 2030 commitments include "shared" climate and social goals. Mattel launches latest sugarcane-based products.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 7, 2021

trillion infrastructure plan — the American Jobs Plan — unveiled last week, the White House is proposing a massive $174 billion investment "to win the EV market." by 2030 since before the election. Former President Barack Obama's green recovery stimulus invested in battery and EV manufacturing with some mixed results.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We] need leaders who know that by investing in others, they will be better off themselves. It is now much cheaper to design right and invest in that. It led us to this current crisis … It is now much cheaper to design right and invest in that," Polman said. It is now much cheaper to design right and invest in that.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2025

Businesses across Europe are facing mounting pressure to invest in more eco-friendly practices, but high upfront costs and operational challenges stand in the way. by 2030 is forcing organisations across all industries to rethink their business models. Neil Pein is CEO at BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions.

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TechXplore

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In what many have deemed a disaster, the UK government's latest auction for renewable power—an annual attempt to incentivize private sector investment in a range of power sources—has failed to bring forward any new offshore wind projects.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

IBM said it would reach that milestone in 2030. Such commitments often are coupled with an interim goal of cutting emissions in half by, say, 2030. Companies are being increasingly criticized for investing more into offsets than into actual emissions reductions. The bar continues to move. Does net zero rely too much on offsets?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Investments in software and data, as well as building deep relationships with utilities, will be key to helping fleets navigate this daunting ecosystem. But in early 2019, Amazon announced an industry-first for a delivery company: It pledged that half of all of its shipments would be net-zero carbon by 2030. million vehicles — by 2030.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 9, 2021

Right now, the corporate gold standard is net zero well before 2050, and companies at the net-zero forefront are saying that they want to halve their Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions by 2030. Such a system would help send the demand signal up the chain and trigger investments, he added. What solutions do you have already? The policy levers.

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