GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

That's the hope of several early movers in circular economy investing, who shared their insights at the GreenBiz 21 virtual event in early February. . If we're going to make sure that we're using more recycled content, if we're going to ensure that we're going to reduce carbon emissions, then we need to be tracking that.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 13, 2020

“The argument that has often been put forward is that they can't invest in renewables because renewable projects offer much lower returns than oil and gas projects. The oil and gas sector currently accounts for just 2 percent of investment in renewables, according to Wood Mackenzie. Will the current market storm change that?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These facilities promise faster deployment times and a significantly lower carbon footprint compared to conventional setups connected to strained energy grids. While these operations are not yet completely carbon-free, the benefits are clear. The company has hinted at utilizing green hydrogen in the future.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Climate change requires immediate action, and our most urgent, non-negotiable priority must be to tackle the root cause, carbon emissions,” said AGU President Lisa J. They should clearly report any negative results. It warns that the unintended consequences of large-scale deployment are largely unknown. Informed Governance.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us. A radical increase in available carbon emissions data may be just around the corner. Their asset values and prospects will be damaged by sudden negative shifts in both consumer and investor sentiment as a result. . Ian Kearney. Tue, 02/09/2021 - 02:00.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

1, venture capitalists invested a whopping $1.5 dairy brand that committed to going carbon-negative by 2025 ? But do regenerative methods sequester as much carbon as advocates claim? Imagine the PR storm if a big company shrinks its carbon footprint using credits that later come under attack in the media.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

In an investment said to be worth tens of millions of pounds, a storage facility for the temporary storage of liquid CO2 will be constructed by anaerobic digestion (AD) plant developer and operator Future Biogas by the end of 2024 on a dedicated site at Saltend, comprising up to 32 CO2 storage tanks. How is it carbon negative?

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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. This is the largest commitment it has made to a single portfolio investment, so it isn’t some side project. Behind Microsoft's bold plan to build social equity into clean energy buying.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Katie Lebling. Wed, 11/11/2020 - 00:30.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

Energy-from-waste operator enfinium has announced (on 11 April) it is progressing plans to invest around £200 million in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at the Parc Adfer energy from waste facility in Deeside, North Wales. The project could capture up to 235,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year, said the group.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Why H&M, other big brands are investing in garment recycling. Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. Investors such as H&M are already forging ahead. Eastman is one of the largest U.S.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

He has rightly earned praise for speaking up on climate, investment and economic transition. His letter is money-weighted opinion, colossal in institutional investment and business circles (if not quite God-like ). He wants us to embrace the opportunity of climate change and investing; climate risk is investment risk.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Sourcing algae from sustainable seaweed farmers that capture carbon as they grow their crop, Loliware is working to manufacture a variety of bio-based polymers. Loliware, Ecovative Designs and Ananas Anam have all invested heavily in ensuring (and proving) that their products are as functional as the legacy product they might replace. .

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. . There are other ways to make hydrogen.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Drawing upon findings recently published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), the report from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG) argues that current global emissions targets are inadequate and that net negative – rather than net zero – strategies are required.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

That’s the message from several recent reports focusing on the role of service-sector companies in addressing — positively or negatively — climate change. health insurers are all invested in the fossil fuel industry" and will call on insurers to divest from these companies, calling them "the greatest threat to human health.".

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

It plans to add carbon capture and storage to the biomass plants, taking them to a negative-emissions status. “[Thursday’s] announcement is part of Drax renewing its focus on renewables and pioneering bioenergy with carbon capture and storage technology (BECCS),” the company representative said in an email.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 8, 2025

White hydrogen offers a naturally occurring, carbon-free energy source waiting to be extracted, unlike green or gray hydrogen, which require energy-intensive production methods. This region could also support carbon-negative hydrogen production by combining hydrogen extraction with carbon sequestration.

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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

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. . Buildings might have to embrace windows that open, increase the fresh air take up and invest in outdoor workspaces.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In January 2020, Brad Smith, the President of Microsoft, announced that the company had set a target of becoming carbon negative by 2030. What does going carbon negative actually entail? The fund invests in various climate technologies as a part of the company’s overall climate efforts.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 17, 2020

We have to act much, much faster and go further in reducing the carbon footprint. Our energy systems must keep improving at pace, to become cleaner and more efficient, and this requires ambitious thinking, capital investment and bold leadership. ” The threat to investment is a very real one.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The envisaged Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) implementation at LIPOR’s Energy Recovery Plant consists of capturing, extracting and purifying the biogenic part of CO2, present in about 60% of the carbon dioxide emissions generated as a result of the incineration process.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

IndiNature says investment will help scale up production of its 'carbon negative' building material. Carbon negative insulation for homes and commercial properties is to be produced in Scotland for the first time following a £3m investment in a pioneering green materials firm from the Scottish National Investment Bank.

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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Wind turbine market leader Vestas has revealed the first investment made by its venture fund with a stake in Swedish wooden wind tower start-up Modvion. If successfully commercialized, Modvion’s solution would solve the transport problem, while also replacing carbon intensive-steel with what could be a carbon-negative alternative.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action — from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" — are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts. Offsetting versus insetting.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2023

A green carbon laboratory – examining the role that the non-operational highways ‘green’ asset can play in providing a source of materials and fuels to decarbonise highway operations: South Gloucestershire Council and West Sussex County Council. The decision panel of independent experts were drawn from the highways and transportation sector.

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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

MARCH 29, 2023

A seemingly first-of-a-kind project will support the decarbonisation of the UK’s largest waste-to-energy facility, while also contributing 3% of the UK Government’s 2035 target for negative emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Pointing to the need for an Earthscape approach to decision making, the paper identifies key ways in which the ocean both mitigates climate change by absorbing excess heat and carbon from the atmosphere and aggravates it, failure in ocean systems exacerbating extreme weather, shifting ocean currents and reducing its ability to absorb carbon.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

trillion invested by these 50 countries to date, only $1.9 trillion has been invested in long-term recovery measures intended to spur economic activity, it notes. billion on hydrogen, the latter boosted substantially by major investment programs by France and Germany. billion has been spent on low-carbon transport, $28.9

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In January 2020, Brad Smith, the President of Microsoft, announced that the company had set a target of becoming carbon negative by 2030. What does going carbon negative actually entail? The fund invests in various climate technologies as a part of the company’s overall climate efforts.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To achieve this it will require an annual reduction in carbon intensity of 9.7%, according to the latest “Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI)” produced by professional services firm PwC. This year the UK became the first major economy to set a legally binding commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2024

Investment aims to prepare low carbon fertiliser product for roll out across UK farms

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