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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2021

We did an episode of this show trying to figure out how oil prices fell to negative $40 per barrel. the President of Gas Vista and a non-resident fellow at the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy. Shayle and Leslie cover the many demand-side and supply-side issues. At the beginning of the pandemic, energy prices crashed.

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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

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

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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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Professor Peter Taylor and Alice Garvey from the University of Leeds set out the challenges and policy requirements for decarbonising heavy industry which they included in a recent report commissioned by the CCC. Here, lead authors of the report Professor Peter Taylor and Alice Garvey set out the main findings.

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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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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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As with previous years, 2022’s conference has focused on implementing climate policies – with decarbonisation a key theme. 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.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019. Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. Naturally, energy demand declined as office blocks fell dark and leisure activities were suspended, but these latest Drax figures indicate something else. The greatest successes.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Detailed and joined-up policies, behaviour change, 'whole system' infrastructure investment, and holistic energy market reform are all critical to achieving net zero emissions, report warns. Both of these scenarios would meet the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

At the same time, advanced voltage control systems, such as ENW’s CLASS project , are working to provide demand response and fast frequency response functions. And you're at the same time trying to contract flexibility services from consumers and aggregators to manage the load demand on the distribution network," he said.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Advocates of BECCS argue that by sourcing sustainable biomass feedstocks for power plants and then capturing the resulting emissions, the technology can deliver both reliable renewable power and negative emissions.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I think there’s an increasing recognition that policy measures and action targeted at production itself is going to be needed to get the kind of decline rates that we’re thinking about here,” said Steve Pye, one of the study’s authors, during a press call on Tuesday. degrees C above preindustrial temperatures. “If

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

The goal of such a transition: all-electric buildings powered by solar, wind, and other sources of zero-carbon electricity. Ultimately it will come down to a combination of policy push and consumer pull. As in many aspects of America's energy transition, California has taken a leading role on the policy side.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2021

VIDEO: Top experts from the University of Oxford, Friends of the Earth, Vertree and the UK Green Building Council tackle the carbon offsets debate. So what, if anything, can be done to ensure carbon offsets projects are credible and deliver on their promised emissions reductions?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The United States is in a golden era for climate policy. The policy has been a long time coming, yet came to fruition quickly, responding to the urgency of the climate crisis and the opportunity to legislate before midterms. How the policy will unfold is impossible for me to imagine. Demand for energy storage is on the rise.

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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. "As

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

But Imperial College London analysis warns emerging technologies and negative emission power plants are likely to be needed to unlock full decarbonisation of the grid. Flexible technologies like pumped hydro storage kept the system stable as supply from renewables increased and demand for power fell.".

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

This could be by reducing an organization’s carbon footprint while also establishing a healthy work-life balance for employees. There’s heightened market demand for sustainable practices with robust and transparent disclosure. This is having negative knock-on effects impacting environmental and social systems.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Corporate demand for carbon removal and offsetting will establish forests as a major new asset class that could generate $800bn annually for investors by mid-century, according to the UN's Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). It also urges investors to promote a global standard for nature-based offset market.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

A new study and Well-to-Tank (WTT) model by low carbon technology consultancy Element Energy, commissioned by Zemo Partnership (formerly LowCVP), appears to identify a range of optimal pathways for the production, distribution and dispensing of low carbon hydrogen to transport end-users.

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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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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

A new organisation has been formed to connect and mobilise companies engaged in the nascent direct air capture (DAC) sector and build public support for technologies that directly remove carbon dioxide from the air. However, the DAC Coalition this week impressed the need to scale the technology to keep to the 1.5C

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2024

The campaigners’ analysis shows carbon emissions from vans in the UK have risen 63 percent since 1990, threatening climate targets despite the growing push for electric vehicle (EV) adoption. Carbon emissions from private cars and taxis have decreased by 19 percent over the same period.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. The growth in demand that this creates will increase pressure on land and other 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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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. We’ve never seen such ambition in public policy,” commented panellist Dr William Joyce of Innovate UK. Europe’s storehouse? million tons of CO2 per year.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 29, 2022

For instance, a single pint of beer can have a carbon footprint as high as 900g CO 2e (for bottled beer that’s been extensively transported). This is ~14% of the daily average carbon footprint from meals per US citizen – having 2 to 3 pints ramps that percentage up to 42%. Challenge 5 : The brewing process is wasteful.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Families and businesses are already feeling the squeeze of the energy crisis, and as 2021 draws to a close, the UK energy policy framework and associated regulations are coming in for intense scrutiny. This is now the main obstacle holding back the UK's green industrial revolution.".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

A major cold snap led to record electricity usage in the Canadian province of Alberta over the weekend, culminating in demands from provincial utilities to limit consumption. Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

As many commentators have noted, there is no silver bullet for tackling carbon emissions. So it stands to reason that, focusing decarbonisation efforts on just a handful of these carbon intensive sectors could make an outsized impact to the global transition to net zero.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The world's top climate scientists have updated their guidance on carbon removals technologies, arguing they are likely to prove essential to stablising global temperatures, but only if they are developed judiciously.

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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. Policy deadlines have led to a photovoltaic (PV) boom, with 23% market growth from 2019-2020. By demanding a lot of space, leading to significant land-use change.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

Report from ShareAction finds that none of the world's 75 largest asset managers have a dedicated biodiversity policy, while many are still underplaying climate risks. Moreover, only 11 per cent of asset managers have policies requiring portfolio companies to mitigate harmful impacts on biodiversity.

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