What’s the deal with 'carbon-negative' biomethane?
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Companies such as Chevron are making big investments into biodigesters, but is this really where the money should be spent?
Grant supports ‘carbon negative’ firm and brings circular economy jobs to the Borders
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 24, 2020
A company making ‘carbon negative’ insulation is the latest one to receive a share of £8m funding for circular economy businesses administered by Zero Waste Scotland. The Borders firm claims that its products can reduce the average new Scottish home’s carbon footprint by 4.4
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Negative emissions in North Wales: £200 investment advances CCUS plans in Deeside
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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Carbon-negative bioenergy project underway with Chevron, Microsoft and Schlumberger
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 5, 2021
Big name corporations Chevron and Microsoft are joining Schlumberger on a plan to develop a bioenergy project that will include carbon capture and sequestration. As a result, the energy produced would be carbon negative. The project will be located in Mendota, California and will use an idled bioenergy plant.
Office furniture giant Steelcase sets 2030 'carbon negative' goal
Business Green
AUGUST 25, 2020
Office furniture giant Steelcase has set its sights on becoming a 'carbon negative' organisation within the next decade, yesterday unveiling plans to ramp up its use of renewable energy, slash carbon emissions, and finance carbon offset efforts that deliver "external emissions reductions with social benefits".
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Frontier Agriculture invests in CCm Technologies' 'carbon negative' fertiliser
Business Green
JUNE 3, 2024
Investment aims to prepare low carbon fertiliser product for roll out across UK farms
Why IKEA is investing in sustainable mobility
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Why IKEA is investing in sustainable mobility. For the company known for its delicious meatballs and DIY shelves, the investment isn't actually that surprising. For the company known for its delicious meatballs and DIY shelves, the investment isn't actually that surprising. Holly Secon. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 00:30.
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'Game-changer': Brimstone secures $55m investment in boost for 'carbon-negative' cement-making process
Business Green
APRIL 28, 2022
US start-up Brimstone Energy has announced $55m of fresh investment to support development of its "carbon negative" cement making process, after a host of major backers joined its latest fundraising round. Conventional processes for producing cement and concrete are inherently carbon and energy intensive.
Microsoft’s Carbon-Negative Gambit
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 24, 2020
The technology company promised to remove all of the carbon that it’s ever put in the atmosphere -- going back to when it was founded in an Albuquerque garage in 1975. That includes $1 billion in carbon removal technologies and methods. Microsoft is setting a new standard for corporate climate targets. AP: U.S.
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£400m to be invested in UK plastic recycling facilities
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
A new partnership may pave the way for more than £400 million to be invested in recycling facilities across the UK. With this investment, we have the ability to make a significant environmental and social impact across the UK.”.
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Sustainable investing is changing global supply chains: 4 key takeaways
GreenBiz
JANUARY 20, 2021
Sustainable investing is changing global supply chains: 4 key takeaways. Sustainable investing strategies have ascended quickly in the last 10 years. Morgan Global Equity Research estimated that the sustainable investing market is expected to reach $45 trillion in assets under management (AUM) by the end of the year.
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Partnership aims to install UK-first CCUS pilot plant at EfW facility
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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What’s the deal with ‘carbon-negative’ biomethane?
AGreenLiving
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Companies such as Chevron are making big investments into biodigesters, but is this really where the money should be spent? Here is the original: What’s the deal with ‘carbon-negative’ biomethane?
Necessity or distraction? How carbon capture and negative emissions debates are starting to heat up
Business Green
JANUARY 18, 2021
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Global Witness have all raised concerns about the creeping reliance on unproven carbon removal methods in companies' decarbonisation strategies, but some scientists maintain carbon capture is essential if net zero goals are to be met.
E8 Launches Good Carbon Gifts,a carbon-negative catalog for the 2020 holidays
E8 Cleantech Angels
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.
E8 Launches Good Carbon Gifts,a carbon-negative catalog for the 2020 holidays
E8 Cleantech Angels
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.
E8 Launches Good Carbon Gifts,a carbon-negative catalog for the 2020 holidays
E8 Cleantech Angels
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.
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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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Could the Oil Price Collapse Drive More Investment Into Renewables?
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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Rail corridor will transport captured carbon from Ferrybridge
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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147 Woodland Biofuels - Proposed $1.35 Billion Investment in Southeast Louisiana Would Establish the World's Largest Carbon Negative Renewable Natural Gas / Ultra-Green Hydrogen Facility
Global Renewable News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Highlights Woodland Biofuels expects Phase 1 of the project to create 110 direct new jobs in St. John the Baptist Parish. The new facility would be located at the Globalplex multimodal facili.
Hemp-based insulation firm secures Scottish National Investment Bank funding
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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Microsoft’s $1B Climate Innovation Fund
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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The UK’s first carbon capture pilot on an energy-from-waste facility goes live
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
UK energy-from-waste (Efw) operator enfinium has launched the UK’s first carbon capture pilot at an EfW site, the group announced on 16 September. The launch is described as a milestone for the sector and for the group’s plans to deploy Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology across its UK facilities to generate carbon removals at scale.
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Ocean-based sequestration heats ups
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.
Vestas Ventures Makes First Investment With Wooden Tower Stake
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.
Microsoft made the biggest renewable energy agreement ever to fuel its AI ambitions
The Verge: Energy
MAY 2, 2024
Microsoft is pumping a lot of its resources into AI offerings for its customers , investing more than $13 billion in OpenAI. That’s a problem if Microsoft is serious about its commitment to achieving carbon negativity by the end of the decade. It could cost roughly $11.5
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Ocean-based sequestration heats up
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.
A bad bet on biomass? Critics respond to Drax announcement
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 12, 2022
UK energy utility Drax has unveiled plans to build the world’s largest carbon capture facility with the goal of removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than it produces, and thereby securing “carbon negative” status. But campaign groups continue to insist that the maths behind biomass doesn’t add up.
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Microsoft’s $1B Climate Innovation Fund
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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'Critical': $6.6tr investor alliance calls for 'massive investment' in CO2 removal solutions
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance also urges policymakers to standardise carbon credits to allow carbon markets to act as a market proxy in the absence of a global carbon price. gigatonnes in 2025, the group said. gigatonnes in 2025, the group said.
Oil and Gas Sector Told to Step Up Climate Game or Lose Investment
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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Global Renewable News
APRIL 17, 2024
Highlights The first-ever EIB project in Bhutan, one of just three net carbon-negative countries in the world, supports new solar photovoltaic and hydropower schemes under the EU's Global G.
'Returns could be in the trillions': Report touts huge investment opportunity of carbon removal technologies
Business Green
OCTOBER 3, 2022
BeZero Carbon research points to growing commercial interest in carbon removals such as direct air capture, enhanced weathering and biochar. Over the last year, we have seen the market for carbon dioxide removal jump-started from relative obscurity to one of the highest potential growth industries in the world," he said.
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Public Pension Funds Have Lost Billions on Their Fossil Fuel Investments: New Analysis
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 27, 2023
Then they analyzed how the funds would have done over the same time period if the fossil fuel investments had been divested, and their value spread evenly among the remaining holdings. Weber and his colleagues also looked at the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the public equity investments of eight U.S.
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Data snapshot: Climate-related agrifoodtech in majority of upstream African investment, but more funding needed
AFN Sustainable Protein
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. million, it’s still clearly under-invested. Climate investing in 2021.
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Nestlé and Microsoft on financing circular innovations
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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5 circular economy startups we've got our eyes on
GreenBiz
JUNE 3, 2021
Climate tech startups, and investments into them, are growing. In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. Accelerate is a fast pitch competition featuring startups across the circular economy value chain. Courtesy of.
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NWH opens new £4.4m aggregate recycling plant
altenergymag
JUNE 21, 2022
construction and demolition waste recycling wash plant as it continues its investment into the circular economy and achieve carbon negative status. One of the UK's leading recycling companies, The NWH Group, has officially opened its new £4.4m
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Transforming waste to a valuable resource: why anaerobic digestion is key in hydrogen production
Hydrogen Fuel News
JUNE 11, 2024
Hydrogen can play a crucial role in the decarbonisation of the UK economy, especially where that hydrogen is “green” with zero carbon emissions. As methane is 28 times more potent a greenhouse gas compared to carbon dioxide, each molecule of methane captured is a significant gain in steps to reduce global warming.
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The ‘why’ and ‘how’ of carbon capture technology for buildings
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 2, 2023
Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.
Renewable hydrogen tech that turns biomass into green molecules wins CEFC backing
Renew Economy
JUNE 15, 2023
Macquarie University engineered technology that converts biomass into "carbon negative" green hydrogen gets $2m investment from federal green bank. The post Renewable hydrogen tech that turns biomass into green molecules wins CEFC backing appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Mobilising institutional investment is critical for financing nature-based climate solutions
Business Green
AUGUST 8, 2021
Mark Wishnie from BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group and Landscape Capital. Nature-based solutions can cost-effectively provide roughly a third of the climate action needed by 2030 and, unlike other carbon removal technologies, are available and proven now. Institutional investors also have an important role to play.
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Sumitomo Corporation of Americas - Strategic Biofuels and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas Announce Major Investment Commitment
Global Renewable News
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Strategic Biofuels, the leader in developing deeply negative carbon footprint renewable fuel plants, and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA), a subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, a leading Fortun.
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