GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

and globally by 2040. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. LinkedIn | Personal website. million acres the 4.4

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

A new report from power market analytics firm Aurora Energy Research suggests that increased deployment of (and continued improvements in) virtualisation technology could reduce potential future European computing emissions 55% by 2040.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply. The sooner that the costs of carbon control are included in the costs of doing business, the sooner new technologies will be developed.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

AT&T pledged to be carbon-neutral by 2035, a step up from its previous goal to reduce Scope 1 emissions by 20 percent and Scope 2 emissions by 60 percent. Walmart pledged to become carbon-neutral across its global operations by 2040 — without relying on offsets. Morgan Stanley became the first major U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

Shell is chasing carbon neutrality by 2050 or sooner and the project in the Netherlands offers a glimpse of how it hopes to get there. The NortH2 consortium hopes to eventually develop electrolyzer capacity requiring 3 to 4 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity, perhaps growing to 10 gigawatts by 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 3, 2020

China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, is making a promise to get to zero emissions 40 years from now. Resources: The Guardian : China Pledges to Become Carbon Neutral Before 2060. Axios : Walmart Aims for Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2040. GTM : Google Pledges 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Yet just as efforts toward that goal are finally scaling up — via the EU’s amplified climate targets, China’s new carbon-neutral target for 2060, and other examples — the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a massive dose of uncertainty. “We need more policy support than is available today.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SMUD is the first utility in the country to count avoided carbon emissions from the existing building stock as part of its progress on energy efficiency. The switch to "avoided carbon" is part of SMUD’s ambitious effort to accelerate decarbonization of its existing building stock. A holistic vision.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

British conglomerate GFG Alliance this week announced it will invest €2bn to modernize its European steel plants, as it steps up efforts to tackle the sector's substantial carbon emissions and achieve the firm's 2030 carbon neutral goal.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Announced as “the beginning of the UK’s path to net zero” the plan sets out a number of initiatives in areas such as energy, transport, carbon capture and flood defences. Prominent among these was an intention to advance faster along the timeline towards banning diesel and petrol cars – now scheduled for 2030 instead of 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

I look forward to tapping into that desire and building on the strong foundation that Bob has built as we meet society’s demand for cleaner, better energy," he added. One obvious way to deliver more energy with less carbon, Looney said, is "more renewables and gas, pushing coal out of power.". Playing catch-up on renewables.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Komatsu is aiming to reduce its global emissions by a whopping 50% by 2030, with a further goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. On the other hand, GM has set a target to achieve full carbon neutrality in both its products and operations by 2040. The mining industry is no exception.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2021

Swedish tanker shipping giant sets out roadmap to decarbonise its fleet, as it steps up focus on zero emissions technologies and carbon neutral fuels. And by 2035 at the latest, the firm said it aimed to have an electric, zero carbon ship with a similar design to its recent InfinityMAX zero emissions bulk carrier concept in the water.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Retailer launches its first ever sustainability report, citing growing demand from shoppers for sustainable goods and business practices. Supermarkets across the UK are stepping up their climate transition plans and advocacy as demand from consumers and investors for sustainable goods and business practices mounts.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2024

This story is the second part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe , and in partnership with Follow the Money. Sections of pipe for the Porthos CO2 pipeline, intended to take captured carbon emissions and inject them under the North Sea, await burial at the Port of Rotterdam.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Honda recently released its 2024 outlook for its passenger vehicle business and underscored that it still sees a strong future for hydrogen cars, even though its only model powered by H2 was discontinued three years ago because of a lack of fueling infrastructure and overall demand.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Google announced that it has now invested in enough high-quality carbon offsets to essentially erase its carbon footprint , compensating for all the carbon the company ever emitted. Google first became carbon-neutral in 2007. Microsoft plans to be carbon-negative by 2030. Via BBC Image via Pawe?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Rapidly falling clean technology costs alongside mounting investor pressure, consumer demand for change, and tightening government policy is pushing more companies to ramp up their climate targets towards net zero and beyond. Carbon credits will play an essential, but controversial, role in hitting net zero," the report states.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The International Energy Agency was clear in its landmark report earlier this year: phasing out coal power by 2040 is a key milestone on the path to net zero. On top of this, 46 countries signed up to the Global Coal to Clean Power Transition Statement to phase out coal in the 2030s (for rich countries) and 2040s (for developing ones).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Claims that tournament is 'carbon neutral' challenged, as criticism mounts from footballers and athletes over FIFA's questionable carbon accounting and use of offsets. As criticism mounts around shameful human rights violations in Qatar, carbon neutrality claims are being used as a distraction.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

“Mining trucks are among the largest, most capable vehicles used in any industry, and we believe hydrogen fuel cells are best suited to deliver zero emissions propulsion to these demanding applications.” This collaboration aside, Komatsu and GM are working hard to reach carbon neutrality.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

Biomethane supplier CNG Fuels has cut the ribbon on its latest refuelling station in Nottinghamshire, enabling up to 500 low carbon trucks and heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) to fill up every day, it announced yesterday. per cent of the UK's CO2 emissions, by 2040, and the UK is expected to recognise biomethane as a carbon negative fuel in 2022.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

The hydrogen automotive market received a blow late last week, after Honda announced it is to discontinue its flagship fuel cell model following disappointing demand. Japanese car maker confirms it is to discontinue its pioneering fuel cell model, but insists hydrogen models are still part of its future plans.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

The firm today said it had signed a "landmark" memorandum of understanding with the Welsh Government that will see both parties work together towards developing a commercially-viable facility in the Vale of Glamorgan to feed rapidly growing demand for lithium-ion batteries.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Akin to that demand, Milieudefensie now seeks to compel ING to cut its CO2 emissions roughly in half by 2030 and align its policy with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C Milieudefensie said these are “baby steps in the right direction” and called the 2040 fossil fuel deadline “15 years too late.” Credit: Sabrina Bedford.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

This mix would primarily be based upon wind and solar, backed by carbon-neutral synthetic gas during periods of poor wind and solar conditions. Astonishingly, Wartsila states that overbuilding enough renewable capacity to meet winter demand eliminates the need for seasonal storage. What exactly does this mean?

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. Exporting hydrogen to the EU Peter Terium expects Europe’s anticipated demand should exceed its own supply, even while implementing the Green Deal. Carbon targets? million tons per year of green ammonia. Hydrogen targets!

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

So, in 2016, we set an ambition to have global climate neutral manufacturing operations by 2025. However, as our CEO, Håkan Samuelsson, said at the time, we believe that this strategy is the right one, not least as consumer demand for electric vehicles will only increase.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The move shows the efforts that Amazon is willing to go to eke out carbon emissions across its vast network of planes, vehicles and distribution centers that deliver on-demand goods across the globe. 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.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

Price and demand projections have been trimmed and there is a real sense that the clean energy transition that much of the industry has tip-toed around for the past decade could be about to accelerate. "The However, the contention that the new price projections are more realistic is contestable.

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EDF + Business

JULY 22, 2020

Fortunately, a number of leading companies are rising to the challenge and responding stakeholder demands for ESG leadership. In order to stabilize the climate and put the global economy on track to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, in line with what the science demands, the private sector will need to play a leading role.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

As we continuously reduce our total carbon footprint, we know that steel is a major area for further progress," he said. Meanwhile, demand for the material is expected to grow over the coming decades to meet demand for green infrastructure like railways, wind turbines, and power stations.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Utilization of geothermal heat and power are being considered for the sites to support an ever-increasing demand for hot water and to maintain or increase electricity production. A growing heating and power demand Current energy production areas do not support growth in demand for hot water based on projected population trends.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Thousands of companies have hitched themselves to the carbon-neutral bandwagon, from fossil fuel producers like BP and Shell, to other household names including United Airlines, Dell, Burger King, and Vodafone. Some companies say they’ll decarbonise by 2040 , others as early as 2022. And it’s already made waves.

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