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

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. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks. Company profile.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Europe is still plotting the course towards being net-zero by 2050, but no matter the shape it takes, it will surely involve hundreds of gigawatts of new renewable power capacity. In 2014, EMEA, dominated by Europe, represented 44 percent of global energy storage deployment. In the U.S., These have become an important part of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But now Europe is poised to enact laws that would not only recognise the harms of chemical-intensive agriculture, but also to ensure that synthetic pesticide and fertiliser use is significantly reduced. As pesticide trade body CropLife Europe says: “let’s focus on transition, not just targets”.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. As these forests disappear to feed demand for biomass, so, too, will their unique ecosystems.

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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. As a global leader in negative emissions, we're going to scale up our ambitions internationally," Gardiner said.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

enjoyed a boom period for large-scale solar between 2013 and 2017, rivaling Germany as the hottest market in Europe. a 350-megawatt solar-plus-storage plant might have a good chance of securing a corporate power-purchase agreement these days, but in Europe that market is still getting started. The corporate PPA route? In the U.S.,

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Independent research published on 20 May by the charitable group greenspace scotland appears to reveal how the rivers flowing through the country’s towns and cities and the greenspaces between buildings can act as vital low carbon heat sources to help it achieve its climate targets. That is the carbon saving equivalent of taking 1.7

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Any shortfall in that support should be covered by federal funding, including proceeds from the new carbon tax, Teyssen said Tuesday. Reduced demand during the coronavirus lockdown, coupled with ample wind and solar generation, has seen German power prices go negative, even more so than usual.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2020

Despite the chaos in global oil markets, the pair of supermajors have committed to maintaining their low carbon investment plans and spoken of an accelerating energy transition. solar developer Silicon Ranch, and offshore wind projects in Europe and the U.S. BP stands by its planned low-carbon investments. Looney said.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We are increasing our personal use and depleting our useable supplies of water simultaneously, at such a rate that demand will outstrip supply by 2030**. Europe is leading the way with treating wastewater, although there is still a disparity between regulations. The problem is twofold. The main culprits contributing to water pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

The fast food chain, alongside a number packaging producers and trade associations, wrote to European policymakers at the end of April, demanding a pause to the legislation, which would champion reusable packaging in Europe. The call follows mounting pressure from industry over the past year.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

But discussions of natural gas’ negative aspects — namely excessive, typically underreported methane emissions that are considerably worse for the climate than carbon emissions — did not take place. Renewable carbon gases is a euphemism for biomass and hydrogen, among others.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Offshore wind has largely been stuck on the sideline of the corporate renewables market, as demand for onshore wind and solar has surged from corporate giants like Google, Walmart and even oil companies like Shell. In Europe, however, offshore wind is no longer an outlier when it comes to cost. That looks set to change. In the U.S.,

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 24, 2024

A recent panel discussion in Glasgow brought together representives from some of the firms helping to build a carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry in the UK. Europe’s storehouse? An important piece of the puzzle is storage: ensuring that captured carbon can be safely and sustainably sequestered over the long term.

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

” This tale underscores a vexing problem for the energy transition in Europe. That’s despite the fact that renewable generation is increasingly contributing to low or even negative pricing on spot markets. First, renewables still account for a relatively small proportion of overall electricity generation across Europe.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 9, 2020

will supply enough electricity for 14 breweries in Western Europe. As we welcome the new European Green Deal, we now ask our consumers, customers, colleagues, business partners and fellow companies to join us in shifting towards renewable power," Jason Warner, president for Europe, AB InBev, said in a statement.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Shopify and Stripe announce latest $11m investment round through Frontier negative emissions fund. Ecommerce tech giants Shopify and Stripe have announced the latest round of investment as part of the Frontier negative emissions technology initiative, securing $11m worth of carbon removal credits through six new deals.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Green gas specialist CNG Fuels has opened two further refuelling stations for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in the UK this week, in anticipation of surging demand for renewable biomethane over the next year and beyond. 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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Labour’s energy spokesperson has said he stands “completely” with biomass giant Drax, despite admitting that its use of wood pellets in its North Yorkshire power station is not carbon neutral. The speakers at the panel event, “How Can the UK Build a Zero Carbon, Lower Cost Energy Future?” Completely With Them’.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2022

An energy-intensive process largely reliant on fossil fuels, concrete production is estimated to account for around eight per cent of global carbon emissions - more than both shipping and air travel combined. Concrete and steel emit as much as all road transport globally, and demand is going up.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Global demand for electricity is also growing faster than renewables capacity post-pandemic, opening the door to more fossil fuel energy in many parts of the world. Only around 10.6 Only around 10.6

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

The UK is committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and this year's edition of National Grid ESO's 'Future Energy Scenarios' shows that a 2035 clean power sector driven by a massive expansion of renewables is now the benchmark for the UK if it is to reach this goal. Zero carbon power by 2035. Credit: Ember.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2020

In addition to cheap sources of green energy, Gore says we need to price carbon. There are 43 jurisdictions around the world that already have a price on carbon such as Europe and China. Customers, investors, boards, executive teams, and their families are demanding that businesses become more sustainable.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Environmentalists have long warned that demand for the pellets is endangering irreplaceable primary forests in areas including parts of Estonia, British Columbia in Canada and the southeastern United States. . They have sent MEPs a version marked with their corrections. non-profit tracking biomass, who authored the comments, told DeSmog.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 6, 2022

Yet, practices can lead to a vast amount of unnecessary waste, habitat destruction, and carbon emissions depending on how you choose to operate. By demanding a lot of space, leading to significant land-use change. Support research into less carbon-intensive solar panel designs such as the perovskite solar cells.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 7, 2021

Power plant engineering and construction giant Bechtel is partnering with a renewable energies company to explore the potential of bioenergy production sites combined with carbon capture and storage. The EPC firm announced its strategic agreement with Drax to create Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) plants around the world.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Drax plans to turn off its two remaining coal fired power units at its North Yorkshire plant in March in order to switch the lion's share of its power generation to biomass, as it drives forward with its plan to use carbon capture technologies to become a 'carbon negative' company by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 5, 2023

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances – the first of 2023 – sees S&P Global downgrade Elia Group and Eurogrid’s outlook from stable to negative while Indian transmission company Adani Group announces BSML – a smart metering subsidiary. Elia Group and Eurogrid’s outlook down to negative.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

International Airlines Group (IAG) has become the first major aviation firm in Europe to commit to powering 10 per cent of its flights with bio-based jet fuels by the end of the decade, in a move that will see the British Airways owner purchase one million tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) a year.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that, while the market for carbon offsets is forecast to see rapid growth and reach over $1 billion this year, the “offsets” themselves can vary widely in their quality and effectiveness at actually reducing pollution. “The degrees Celsius (2.7

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

” Have you read: ABB releases blueprint for carbon negative microgrids Safeguarding the stability of the grid Decarbonising heat: The hot topic we can’t ignore. Strong demand. According to the heat pump producer, demand for the green technology is large and growing. We will continue to expand in this market.”

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

as well as a surge of renewable capacity aided by legislation aimed at curbing carbon dioxide emissions. Even though demand growth for both of these commodities has been robust over the past decade, prices have plunged. This slowdown had a negative impact on fossil fuel demand. Victims of Their Own Success.

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