Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

The UK government announced the disbursement of over £80 million funding on 28 June, intended to give a boost to a range of projects geared towards ditching fossil fuels in favour of cleaner energy sources. Projects include hydrogen-powered cornflake production and low-carbon Scottish whisky distillation. CCUS Innovation 2.0

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GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2020

The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is banking on banks to get us over the carbon-neutral finish line by 2050. . Its goal is to integrate the financial sector’s attempts at going green, including green business investments, exclusionary policies for certain fossil fuels and the industry’s ESG policies, into one complete strategy. .

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

California regulators have allocated $45 million to incentives for heat pump water heaters through 2025, in another step on the path toward the state's 2045 carbon neutrality goal. Around 90 percent (PDF) of the furnaces and water heaters in California are fueled by natural gas or propane. million in total.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

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. In 2020, food companies delved even deeper into how agricultural practices can sequester carbon in the land rather than release it. Media Source.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Most of these emissions come from the electricity consumed in Twitter’s data centers, located in countries where electricity generation is still heavily dependent on fossil fuels. It is entirely possible that carbon emissions only skyrocket further””, indicates Tommy Catherine, expert at Greenly’s Carbon Institute.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2020

But Diageo's new 72,000-square-foot distillery is designed to be completely 'carbon-neutral'. According to Diageo, it should avoid more than 117,000 metric tons of annual carbon emissions by switching to renewable electricities compared to operating using a traditional natural gas facility.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

One of the world’s largest oil and gas companies is betting that the future of flying is carbon-neutral. That may seem an audacious notion from a company whose business model for well over a century has centered around bringing fossil fuels to market — and is banking on petroleum being a key, albeit declining, fuel for decades to come.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. . Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. .

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

A sustainable housing development is to be developed in Bristol, featuring innovative low-carbon heating. In the search for a means to cut carbon and improve air quality, the Council has selected a heat pump system previously evaluated in London, according to the company behind it, Kensa Contracting.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

These include the controversial energy company Drax , the fossil fuel lobby group Offshore Energies UK , and the gas company Cadent. The firm’s plant in Selby, Yorkshire, which burns wood pellets to generate electricity, is the single biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the country according to the climate think tank Ember.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

Industry Heatrix GmbH, Germany, [link] Heatrix’s wants to competitively replace fossil fuels in energy-intensive industries by converting renewable electricity into storable, high-temperature process heat. No carbon-neutral, cost-competitive and easy-to-integrate solution currently exists.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

Funded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, the project is centred on Worthing Crematorium in West Sussex and is part of Adur & Worthing Council’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2030. Green hydrogen is also produced without any carbon emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Italian gas and energy infrastructure giant Snam has set its sights on becoming a carbon neutral company by 2040, pledging to invest €7.5bn over the next four years in hydrogen, biomethane, energy efficiency, and digitisation to help drive its transition away from fossil fuels.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In its decision notice about the proposed 1.4GW power station proposal, the Queensland Department of Environment and Science said economic and employment impacts were outweighed by climate concerns, and that it was inconsistent with “the right to life”.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2024

Researchers at the University of Sheffield are exploring new exhaust aftertreatment systems for heavy-duty engines capable of running on clean, zero-carbon fuels such as ammonia. In addition, diesel engines burn fossil fuels releasing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas (GHG), as well as other pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides (NOx).

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Owner of New York title says banning fossil fuel ads is just one of a number of planned initiatives in 2023 to help tackle climate crisis. The publisher also unveiled a new advertising service through a partnership with data company Scope3, which will offer brands the opportunity to deliver 'carbon-neutral' advertising campaigns.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. So they’re just going to try and squeeze out every last bit of profit they can and give it fancy new names like carbon capture and sequestration. It’s not new.”

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As such, it has an ethical imperative to adopt practices that lead to carbon neutrality. Cutting their carbon emissions to zero – as many have pledged – might appear to be an impossible task. million tonnes/year of carbon dioxide equivalent. One day, they will expect these products to be completely carbon neutral.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Bard College , a private liberal arts college in the hamlet of Annandale-on-Hudson, New York State, will soon replace its aging, fossil fuel-fired heating and cooling system located in The Charles P. Stevenson, Jr Library with a new state-of-the-art system that will run on geothermal energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

A team of experts has launched a project in London’s borough of Greenwich to assess the feasibility of switching gas-heated, owner-occupied homes in high density areas to low carbon heating in the form of networked ground source heat pumps.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions found five core imperatives to reaching climate neutrality, including electrifying or switching to low-carbon fuels in the industry sector. From there, Skyven identifies where there are opportunities to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, reduce fuel consumption and save money.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2022

This will need to be timed with the future system needs and the gradual phase-out of fossil fuel generation. The new vision document, which builds on the organisation’s ongoing network development plans and innovation roadmaps, states that three elements are key for the power system of the future.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 3, 2021

He established a national carbon neutrality goal upon entering office. Converting our energy reliance away from fossil fuels and towards solar power […]. In 2020, the solar energy industry achieved its most profitable year.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Clean energy generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the EU over the first six months of 2020, largely due to a raft of new solar and wind installations dominating an electricity market pinched by Covid-19, new findings have shown.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The University of Cambridge has committed to divest from all direct and indirect investments in fossil fuels by 2030, as the institution works towards its goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2038.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Analysis claims UK continues to plough billions of pounds into fossil fuel sector despite government's ambitions of being a world leader on climate action. Yet beyond the targets and policy announcements, its own agencies have continued to plough public funds into fossil fuels.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts continues its work to build a geothermal system that will contribute to making the campus carbon-neutral by the end of the decade. The geothermal project is expected to be completed by 2028, towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Most H2 is produced using fossil fuels like natural gas, but can the right methods make that green? The term “clean hydrogen” doesn’t have a specific official definition, but on the whole, it tends to refer to H2 that is produced in a way that doesn’t generate carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A new report from InfluenceMap reveals the fossil fuel industry has been waging an international lobbying war to prevent cities and towns from requiring newly built homes and businesses to install climate-friendly heating and other appliances. So far, 26 U.S. So far, 26 U.S. Lobbying in the U.S. Of the 26 U.S. In the E.U.,

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Volvo Trucks has announced that its heavy electric trucks are to soon include parts made of "fossil-free" steel, as part of the automakers' plan to slash the carbon footprint of its zero-emission vehicle range.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2020

Accounting for eight per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, the current process for making cement is far from eco-friendly. Rather than using intense heat in kilns, powered by fossil fuels, electrochemistry allows for limestone to be converted into a key ingredient of cement, at room temperature. Hydrogen as a fuel source.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2021

Fossil fuel companies are pressing ahead with new oil and gas developments, despite a recent warning from the International Energy Agency (IEA) that this will make the Paris Agreement goals impossible to meet, an analysis has found. The company was “leading in carbon efficient production of oil an gas,” she added.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google on Monday pledged that by 2030 it will run its entire business on carbon-free energy — every hour of every day of the year. West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. Europe and Chile.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

Toyota and Woven Planet are studying a number of pathways to carbon neutrality and consider hydrogen to be a promising solution with significant advantages. Today, most hydrogen is generated from fossil fuels and used for industrial purposes such as fertiliser production and petroleum refining.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

DeSmog analysed examples of more than 100 influencers being paid to promote fossil fuel firms worldwide since 2017, from the US to Malaysia, in campaigns that have reached billions of people. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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