DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections. million tonnes of greenhouse gases during the same period.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. “The EU bank has been Europe’s climate bank for many years. The benchmark looks like it will be set higher.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

A new advance opening the way for Mg-ion batteries, protections for birds around networks, Enel Green Power’s Sicily hydrogen lab and a plan to power Bitcoin mining with methane from landfills are in the technology radar. Landfill methane for Bitcoin mining. Out with lithium, in with magnesium. Now with funding of $4.3

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

But differing and overlapping terminology and meanings - including 'net zero', 'carbon neutral', 'climate positive', and 'zero carbon' - has led to confusion among investors and consumers, leaving the net zero movement "open to sleight of hand and greenwashing", the BNEF report warns. Credit: BNEF.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The conference, which is being held from 22 to 25 September in Liverpool, is one of the largest political gatherings in Europe and will feature set piece speeches from Labour’s newly-elected Cabinet ministers. Drax disputes this claim.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon might seem like a good alternative to meat, in a world that needs to shift away from carbon-intensive cattle — at least the fish farming industry would have you see it that way. Carbon Capture and Storage. Below, a handful of DeSmog writers dive into the issues they’ll be watching in 2023. Aquaculture. Next year you will.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Burning trees to reduce our carbon footprint is oxymoronic.” Carbon Debt.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 2, 2023

The ASCEND (Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and Data sovereignty) project is preparing a feasibility study on the concept, with its potential to help meet Europe’s Green Deal goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The task force was established by the state’s House of Representatives last November to explore prospects for shipping regionally produced shale gas to Europe in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. LNG companies shipped to Europe at soaring premiums. Texas and Louisiana produced record amounts of shale gas last year, which U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Across Europe, a single-use plastic ban will come into effect from 2021, targeting straws, cotton buds, and disposable cutlery, among other products. According to a recent study , two thirds of people across Europe and the Americas associate the word ‘plastic’ with ocean litter. Thankfully, governments are now beginning to act.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators. COPA-COGECA, has however, criticized the EU’s July study.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2022

Leading the charge is Canada Proud, a right-wing Facebook page with close ties to the Conservative Party, which made post after post in the early days of the invasion urging the country to export more hydrocarbons to Europe. But Canada Proud is not a neutral observer when it comes to projects like Coastal GasLink. s west coast.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

He added that “peer-reviewed scientific research states that the rapid [global] warming is substantially due to the methane, nitrous oxide, and fossil fuel emissions we produce.” The company says that its electricity is “carbon neutral” given that trees can be planted to reabsorb emissions – a claim that has been disputed by climate experts.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

In the initial phase, 25 terawatt-hours (TWh) per year of green methane, from which more than half a million metric tons of hydrogen can be produced, will be imported into Wilhelmshaven. In the current volatile situation, I understand that you have brought forward the timelines for the project to help address the security crisis in Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The companies analyzed were selected to represent a range of scale and location across Europe. A Focus on ‘Net Zero’.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Ministers face a number of difficult decisions on hydrogen, nuclear and carbon capture and storage. They will also need to make a call on everything from allowing the “carbon neutral” Cumbria coal mine to proceed, and continued subsidies for the wood-fired power station Drax. Labour’s path will not be smooth.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. The analysis concluded that Europe would import an additional 35 million tonnes of carbon emissions if it replaced all its Russian pipeline gas by the end of next year, compared to 2021.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

The mine was expected to produce enough lithium to power over one million electric vehicles, making it one of Europe's biggest lithium mines by output, in addition to a host of other materials for various applications. Shell takes flak over Canada carbon capture project.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

The two new stations - one in Warrington, which it claims is the largest in Europe, and another in Northampton - are together capable of refuelling over 1,000 trucks a day, more than doubling the firm's existing renewable biomethane refuelling capacity in the UK.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This might be the quickest and cheapest way for you to become carbon neutral, without retrofitting your vessels at all. Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe. The alternative to fossil feedstock, is to replace it with hydrogen and carbon in other sustainable forms. > A source of carbon.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) Just to give an example, for journeys between Europe and Asia, the Northern Sea Route can already be two to three weeks faster than the Suez Canal. Lot’s of Methane.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. As Europe intensifies its decarbonization drive, it, too, is betting big on the fuel.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Chrysalix and Emerald Technology Partners from Europe; Factor[e] and Social Alpha from Africa/India; and Tsing Capital and CRCM from China. Frost Methane : An offsets market being created around methane flaring activities Kanin Energy : A venture focused on turning industrial waste heat into an emissions-free energy source.

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

In this regard the Green Roof industry is not getting tired in developing a deluge of products and components that are supposed to help with stormwater management, stormwater retention, stormwater detention, stormwater neutralization, and stormwater clarification. It is like feeding less to livestock to reduce Methane gas emissions.

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Green Roof Technology

MARCH 17, 2020

In this regard the Green Roof industry is not getting tired in developing a deluge of products and components that are supposed to help with stormwater management, stormwater retention, stormwater detention, stormwater neutralization, and stormwater clarification. It is like feeding less to livestock to reduce Methane gas emissions. .

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AGreenLiving

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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While being presented as a clean hydrogen plan for decarbonizing the energy system, the main focus of the hydrogen section of the bill is to continue and expand the use of natural gas (that is, methane) in the U.S. This reality about carbon capture’s failure, however, did not prevent the inclusion of $3.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

Our transformation toward a climate-neutral economy - the fundamental task of our century - is currently taking on an entirely new dynamic, not in spite of, but because of, the Russian war," he said. She argued that eliminating this bias could reduce global carbon emissions by 3.6 per cent while increasing global income by 0.65

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise. And What They Deliver.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 31, 2023

The background: Rivian signed onto the UN’s 24/7 Carbon-free Energy Compact in March, becoming the first automaker to set a goal of meeting every kilowatt-hour of electricity consumption with carbon-free energy sources, every hour of every day, everywhere—after calling out the industry for not doing enough to reduce GHG emissions.

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