GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals. Joel Makower.

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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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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 1, 2022

The first phase of the project is expected to be complete by Spring 2023 and will integrate solar photovoltaic panels, a 500kVA grid connection, electric vehicle (EV) charging points and electricity demand from an office building, as well as heating from an air source heat pump.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

They've expanded their markets and slashed carbon footprints along the way, cementing reputations as innovators. Buying 100 percent-recycled nylon from Aquafil has helped Interface reduce the carbon footprint of its carpet tile by 69 percent. What happens when your circularity efforts are ahead of what most consumers are demanding?

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 6, 2020

There were plenty of juicy news tidbits in Microsoft’s recent progress report about its goal to become carbon negative over the next decade. But this is a signal that a giant tech company is willing to understand the demands of the community, under-served customers and the public at large.". Heather Clancy.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Better filtration systems including HEPA filters, ionization, ultraviolet lights and active carbon have increased the quality of recirculated air, without having to increase the amount of fresh air in the building. . Demand control CO2 sensors measure the number of people in a room based on breath and can adjust the systems accordingly.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

While the oil and gas industries face the greatest risks, EIA’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook also predicts steep declines in commercial and industrial electricity demand, and a significant decline in new generation capacity as a result. These drop-offs in demand will drive down total U.S. Similar views on a coming U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Amid increasing pressure from climate change and urbanisation, OTT’s UK Managing Director Nigel Grimsley explains the growing demand for monitoring technology that enables more effective water management. Flood risk is now addressed on a wider catchment scale so that upstream initiatives do not have negative effects further downstream.

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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. Actions on the energy demand side.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Sunny and breezy weather coupled with lower demand for power due to lockdown prompted negative electricity prices on Sunday. Demand is around 19GW, which is getting towards summer overnight levels (I think lowest Grid has coped with recently was 17GW). per cent to their lowest level since the 1800s.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2021

We did an episode of this show trying to figure out how oil prices fell to negative $40 per barrel. Shayle and Leslie cover the many demand-side and supply-side issues. It eliminates outage and price risk while accelerating us towards a zero carbon future. At the beginning of the pandemic, energy prices crashed.

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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. You can imagine a future in which some beef, probably priced at a premium, comes with a carbon-negative label. Sounds great, right?

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 11, 2023

New “bio” ropes made from biomaterials have the potential to replace conventional plastics of fossil origin in mussel and algae cultivation, say the groups behind their development, who claim sustainability advantages including up to 34% carbon footprint reduction compared to ropes made from conventional plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Energy-from-Waste (EfW) operator enfinium signed an agreement – on 19 March – with green technology company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) to install the UK’s first carbon capture pilot plant at an EfW facility. The aims of the pilot is to demonstrate the use of carbon capture technology at EfW facilities.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown. As for disclosure, investors expect more of it and at a more robust level, but they are also demanding goal-setting, with metrics and accountability.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 5, 2021

“ Luckily for many companies in the solar and storage industry, our products and services were in high demand; from a revenue perspective 2020 was not as bad as it could have been. Buildings will be designed to be carbon negative. The days of ignoring northerly sloped rooftops are gone.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 25, 2020

With growing consensus on the gravity of the climate crisis, countries and companies are adopting carbon reduction targets. Pressure to make emissions visible has been around for a while: Consumers want to know how much carbon is embodied in the products they buy. Alas, to date the same isn’t true of carbon performance.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2022

With immediate government backing, this gas demand could be directly replaced with home-grown biomethane within the next four years. In fact, converting biomethane to green hydrogen can be net negative. The current industry produces enough bio-CO2 to meet the UK’s entire industrial demand.”.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

In January, the momentum built as Microsoft committed to becoming carbon-negative and BlackRock Chairman Larry Fink’s now-fabled letter to CEOs called the climate crisis a "defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects." The climate crisis even topped the discussion list at the World Economic Forum Annual Summit in Davos.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

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. But reporting numbers is less important than the performance score. That decision for active equities may be to buy, hold or sell.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

However, it is crucial that as we move from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, we do not not risk disturbing our planet’s largest carbon sinks by giving the destructive deep-sea mining industry the green light and opening up a new frontier of industrial extraction, writes campaign organisation the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2021

We did an episode of this show trying to figure out how oil prices fell to negative $40 per barrel. Shayle and Leslie cover the many demand-side and supply-side issues. It eliminates outage and price risk while accelerating us towards a zero carbon future. At the beginning of the pandemic, energy prices crashed.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 13, 2020

A dispute between Russia and Saudi Arabia has sent a flood of cheap oil and gas into global markets just as the COVID-19 pandemic is stifling demand. By that same token, the current headwinds for oil companies could mean a negative impact on carbon-reduction measures that would also be considered by the industry as discretionary spending.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2023

The use of so-called “negative emissions technologies” to enhance carbon sequestration and storage in the ocean is increasingly being discussed. This process, also known as alkalinization, harnesses chemical processes to alter the geochemistry of seawater and thereby increase the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

Then, 46 randomized participants received two portable air cleaners with HEPA and carbon filters to use at home; the other participants received placebo air cleaners that circulated air but had the filters removed. Our study shows there’s a negative impact on cardiovascular health, as well.”. “In micrograms per cubic foot of PM 2.5.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

Scott Mathieson, Network Planning and Regulation Director at SP Energy Networks, said: “The increasingly complex needs of our energy system, coupled with the significant increase in both demand for green electricity and generation our networks need to accommodate, means it is crucial we ensure its continued security and resilience.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology scooping up the resulting CO2. The EU is aiming to be net-zero carbon across all sectors by 2050. Hydrogen is likely to play a substantial role in getting carbon out of those hard-to-reach sectors like heavy industry and freight.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 7, 2020

We are now deep into a historic pause for oil demand across the globe — shutting down oil fields, causing negative pricing, overwhelming our storage abilities, and forcing up to a million job losses this year. "We So if demand doesn’t come back, what happens?

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. Nature takes root on the balance sheet. Richard Mattison. Mon, 03/08/2021 - 00:15. After all, climate change accelerates as nature is harmed.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2020

Put simply, the term ‘cleantech’ describes a product that aims to reduce or mitigate negative environmental impact. Accounting for eight per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, the current process for making cement is far from eco-friendly. At the same time, carbon dioxide is released and captured, alongside oxygen and hydrogen.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hydrogen has the potential to decarbonize a wide range of heavy industries including energy, chemicals, steel and cement, which means demand is going to be huge. In its Net-Zero Emissions scenario the IEA expects demand to increase fivefold from 2020 to 2050. Making hydrogen competitive. Reducing renewable energy curtailment.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Scope 3 emissions can account for over 70% of many businesses’ carbon footprint, which means that organisations – and the world – cannot reach net-zero without taking huge strides to reduce their indirect emissions. Enabling solutions: Shrinking your digital carbon footprint. What’s next?

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. ’s final energy demand by 2050. The steps that the U.K.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It is now headed to create the first off-grid hydrogen fuel-powered modular data center in the world which will be operating 24/7 with minimal noise, zero carbon emissions, and a negative water footprint, which means that the community’s water supply will be replenished by its operations.

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