Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

The waste management sector bears an essential role in the EU’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the group explained in a statement in early February. Waste-to-Energy contributes by treating the fraction of municipal waste unfit for recycling, as a part of the Effort Sharing Regulation. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. Launched in March this year, the drive to decarbonise industry forms a major part of the UK’s journey to 2050 net zero.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

So as the aviation industry has gradually climbed aboard global pledges to get rid of carbon emissions, it has mostly promised to make up for its damage elsewhere — through offsets that might involve planting trees, restoring wetlands, or paying people to preserve ecosystems that otherwise would have been razed. Others warm it.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

So they’re just going to try and squeeze out every last bit of profit they can and give it fancy new names like carbon capture and sequestration. It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. It’s not new.” But there’s nothing natural about it,” she said. “It’s

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

At the same time, Brussels signaled that it will also encourage the development of "blue" hydrogen produced from fossil fuels paired with carbon capture, at least for the time being. The Global CCS Institute, a carbon capture think tank based in London, called the EU's strategy ambitious, but warned against picking winners.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

To do so, they draw on friendly science, the promise of technological innovation and slick marketing campaigns – which promise “climate neutral” or “climate smart” meat and dairy – to create the idea we can continue eating vast quantities of the stuff while meeting our climate goals. The science shows that for humanity to stay below 1.5C

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. Natural gas may burn with less carbon and with fewer pollutants than coal but Browne said that could prove insufficient.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

But differing and overlapping terminology and meanings - including 'net zero', 'carbon neutral', 'climate positive', and 'zero carbon' - has led to confusion among investors and consumers, leaving the net zero movement "open to sleight of hand and greenwashing", the BNEF report warns. Credit: BNEF.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

European Commission unveils flurry of major policy plans as it seeks to help deliver on 2050 net zero goal, but green groups warn bolder action is still required. The green recovery starts at home," he said. "We Again, however, concerns were raised that the plans are insufficiently ambitious.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 2, 2023

The ASCEND (Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and Data sovereignty) project is preparing a feasibility study on the concept, with its potential to help meet Europe’s Green Deal goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The debate over decarbonising homes - one of the UK's biggest challenges on the path to net zero emissions by 2050 - continues to heat up. It also announced plans for 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity and systems capable of capturing 10 million tonnes of CO2 by the end of the decade.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Committing to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 or sooner is the new standard — that’s lifecycle emissions, which includes the carbon footprint of oil and gas combusted by customers during end uses. Set and achieve big targets for GHG reductions. Deliver results at scale through cooperation. And it arrived not a moment too soon.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

As a record 335 new MPs take tours of (and selfies in) their new place of work, we take a look at those responsible for getting the UK to net zero emissions by 2050, and protecting our environment. Ministers face a number of difficult decisions on hydrogen, nuclear and carbon capture and storage. Labour’s path will not be smooth.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2024

Natural gas is a fossil fuel made up mostly of methane , an extremely potent greenhouse gas that is much more efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Despite Michigan’s goal of economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2050 and calls for reducing reliance on fossil fuels, it has by no means shunned natural gas.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

THE IMPORTANCE OF CARBON FOOTPRINTS. Businesses today need to know and understand their carbon footprint in order to make progress toward becoming a more sustainable and eco-friendly business. You can also use it to determine the amount of carbon offsets to purchase in order to get to carbon neutral. .

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

2019 Sustainability Report confirms oil giant is making progress with a raft of low carbon initiatives, but concerns remain over incremental pace of decarbonisation. The new report also reveals that in 2019 the Net Carbon Footprint fell slightly from 79gCO2e/MJ in 2016 to 78gCO2e/MJ last year. Shell shares this sense of urgency.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 20, 2021

to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they have emitted since they were founded. He added that energy demand is expected to continue growing, and thus there is a growing need to address the associated carbon emissions. ambitious goal and a detailed plan ?to

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

Over the past decade, the world has woken up to the urgency of the climate crisis and consumers, governments, and investors are demanding that carbon intensive industries take action. This creates something of a perilous situation for companies that source and sell agricultural products, particularly beef, dairy, pork, and poultry.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Crucially, this isn’t biodegradable – and studies are projecting that, by 2050, there will be more plastic in the sea than fish. Transitioning from Plastic to Biodegradable Paper Reduces Your Carbon Footprint. As a result, biodegradable straws can be carbon neutral and avoid a dependence on non-renewable resources.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 28, 2022

A study by ICF on Southern Company Gas revealed pathways for the company to reach net-zero by 2050. It found that natural gas and the company’s own gas infrastructure are essential to achieve Southern Company’s 2050 net zero goals. The optimal route, it states, would be to optimise GHG reduction with its existing infrastructure.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

Could Denmark deliver a carbon neutral farming sector by 2050? Whether you have a stake in Denmark's farming sector or not, the findings of the technical report, entitled A Pathway to Carbon Neutral Agriculture in Denmark , are significant. The World Resources Institute (WRI) thinks so.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’re hearing more oil and gas companies pledging to reinvent themselves for a new, low carbon energy era. Net-zero emissions by 2050 — which means cutting greenhouse pollution as deeply as possible, then capturing the rest — is the goal. But for a capital intensive industry with long-lived assets, 2050 will come sooner than it seems.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

The UK government's post-Brexit ambition for a net zero carbon market could be world-leading - but the plans released earlier this month repeat many of the mistakes of the EU system, including a very loose cap on emissions, and a market so complex it would make Rube Goldberg weep. This is below the current EU ETS price of €23 (£20.50).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. Studies show these activities represent the majority of the sector’s emissions, yet many meat companies exclude them when calculating their carbon footprint. The AAA did not respond when DeSmog asked about its emissions claim.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

That synthesis looked impressive at first glance; it outlined how we could change global food systems, so they emit fewer greenhouse gases, occupy less land, and protect the earth’s biodiversity — all while producing ever higher volumes of food for a global population approaching ten billion by 2050. . billion by 2050 as axiomatic.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2023

The most ubiquitous form of greenwashing criticised by the researchers, however, was the use of climate claims such as 'carbon neutral', 'climate friendly' and 'net zero' to describe products from firms with an outsized carbon footprint and plans to purchase offsets to meet goals.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Driving this sea change in long-term planning is a combination of public pressure and energy economics.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

For example, in 2019 L’Oréal USA announced that 14 of its factories were "carbon neutral," and the beauty giant continues to look for renewable options for all of its thermal loads as part of its science-based targets. Apple, for example, last year announced a carbon-neutrality target throughout its entire supply chain.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman has unveiled ambitious plans for a linear car-free city designed to produce zero carbon emissions, with construction earmarked to begin during the first quarter of this year. China sets out carbon capture push in climate policy guidelines. 90 per cent of people breathe polluted air.". "As

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Decision to quit three US trade bodies stems from differences over carbon pricing policies and methane regulation, as oil giant looks to build on net zero plans. High profile corporates have left trade bodies in disagreements over climate policy before. And when differences arise we will be transparent.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

For example, when a forest—which naturally absorbs and stores carbon dioxide as trees grow—is logged and converted to grazing or agricultural land, GHGs are released as trees decompose. Notable exceptions included carbonated beverages, crunchy chicken breast, certain types of milk, and bottled water. drives 30 miles per day).

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This might be the quickest and cheapest way for you to become carbon neutral, without retrofitting your vessels at all. It should be noted that there are many possible ways to reshape the current carbon-intense industry, the below case is but one example. Where exactly will we obtain vast quantities of hydrogen and carbon?

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

It should be noted that there are countless ways to reshape the current carbon-intense industry, this article suggest merely one of many possibilities. Eventually all fossil fuels are to be replaced with a sustainable alternative, hopefully some time before 2050. > A source of carbon.

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