GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

The Transform to Net Zero initiative launched Tuesday will see members of the coalition — which also include Danish shipping giant Maersk, Indian information technology company Wipro and Brazilian beauty company Natura & Co — collaborate on research, guidance and roadmaps to help businesses slash their carbon emissions in line with a 1.5

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

From Brazil to Denmark and India to Turkey, nations around the world are strategizing to decarbonize.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

And with the political backing and de-risking of the early stage of the HYBRIT project, it can be argued that HYBRIT is the outcome of a long-standing political intent to ensure a competitive basic industry sector in Sweden. Both Vattenfall and LKAB are owned by the Swedish state, while SSAB was privatized in 1994.

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2022

Climate tech solutions enabling the transformation of energy, transportation, food and carbon removal markets are already demonstrating enormous potential to confront the climate crisis and improve peoples’ lives.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2020

From Apple to Unilever to Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, more big companies are partings ways with industry associations that support policies at odds with corporate sustainability goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

At the National Recycling Awards, run by MRW , CPL/Puragen’s submission for “High-Sulphur Spent Carbon Reactivation” was crowned the winner in the Energy Innovation category. Activated carbon is currently the best available technology for removing H2S from biogas streams, but the process leaves elemental sulphur trapped within the carbon.

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Terra Infirma

APRIL 24, 2024

After an excellent meal, being a political geek, I stayed behind to check out the proceedings of the Assembly from the public gallery in order to get the full Stormont experience. Yep, the carbon border adjustment mechanism. I left with a real glow in my heart for the future, both political and environmental.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s hard to make planting trees political, one reason this climate mitigation strategy has received rare bipartisan support for the past two decades. You can get carbon credits for urban forestry . It connects businesses with urban forestry projects and then issues a certified carbon credit. . Jesse Klein. That’s real.".

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 7, 2025

And attacks on climate action will cost politicians who miss the forest for the trees, while effective, tangible solutions will pay political dividends. So finds a post-mortem analysis conducted by two Canadian political scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in consultation with Clean Energy Canada.

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TechXplore

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Having worked with renewables for the last 15 years, and listening to the lofty goals political leaders make to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, UMass Lowell mechanical engineering Professor Christopher Niezrecki can tell you that as a state and a nation, we're not on track.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

The UK government’s business as usual housing strategy could consume all of England’s cumulative carbon budget consistent with 1.5°C New research led by the University of Kent’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) models the future carbon emissions and impacts on nature generated by England’s current housing strategy.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

VICTORIA —Mark Zacharias, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the announcement by Premier David Eby about changes to the provincial consumer carbon price: “B.C. was a leader in putting carbon pricing in place in 2008. It’s worth noting that yesterday’s announcement from the B.C.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 3, 2025

Factory closures highlight the turbulent shift to a green economy, exposing political challenges and the urgent need for a equitable move to net zero One of the biggest political battles of the future began to take shape in 2024, yet it did not centre on Westminster.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A trade group for contested carbon capture with close ties to major oil and gas companies is sponsoring over a dozen events at the Conservative and Labour conferences over the next fortnight. But the role of carbon capture in the energy transition is hotly contested.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Fish is often sold as the perfect climate-friendly dinner: highly nutritious and lower carbon than other forms of protein. In part, because industrial fishing – scientists and campaigners say – is weakening the ocean’s ability to act as a carbon sink. billion metric tons of carbon a year – equivalent to about 11 billion acres of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Internal BP emails show that its UK executives were reassured by a controversial oil industry group that they could “shape [the] internal thinking” of a 2018 report on carbon taxes produced by the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange. The emails were among hundreds of documents released by a powerful committee of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Ride sharing has swept transportation systems over the last decade -- bringing convenience, but also congestion, inequities, and political fights. It eliminates outage and price risk while accelerating us towards a zero carbon future. Now a new category of transportation networking is emerging: TransitTech. Learn more.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found multiple Safe Drinking Water Act violations at the nation’s first carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) storage project, PoliticoPro’s E&E News reported today. The company started injecting carbon in Illinois at the end of April 2017, making the site a little over seven years old.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A recent study has found it is currently “not feasible” for the global livestock industry to sequester enough carbon to cancel out its planet-warming emissions — and that policy efforts geared toward that goal may be deeply misguided. 135 gigatons is roughly equal to all the carbon lost due to agriculture over the past 12,000 years.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft Director of Sustainability Sam Arons pointed to Lyft's policy work in Colorado during the Political Climate podcast last week. In the same vein, Lyft also has been advocating for more states to adopt laws such as California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). Policy & Politics. Pull Quote. Transportation & Mobility.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 5, 2021

Carbon reduction goals, diversity targets or ESG leaderboard rankings cannot be achieved until we understand the human behavior and decision processes behind our current actions. Examples from politics to public health are too many to mention. Lockdowns have brought boarded-up shops with a trickle of passers-by. Anxiety follows.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Policy & Politics. I'm fairly certain that campaigns are already ramping up to get the world's largest financial institutions on board. Follow the money, indeed. Corporate Strategy. Featured Column. Two Steps Forward. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

A trifecta of factors — the COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequity and hyper-partisan politics — are reshaping how companies think about environmental, social and governance issues. Under pressure: What's influencing corporate ESG strategy (30:45) . You must subscribe to each newsletter in order to receive it.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

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. Of course, there is also the question of what to do with carbon that has been captured.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In the old Beyond Petroleum days, BP experimented with green molecules: biofuels, hydrogen and gas-plus-CCS (carbon capture and storage). The two aces that Big Oil holds are loads of cash and political oomph (some would argue its the same thing).

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The carbon removal company Spiritus estimated that her journey of roughly 5,500 miles produced about 40 tons of carbon dioxide — about what is generated by charging nearly 5 million cell phones. Its approach involves drawing carbon directly from the air and burying it, but others sink it in the ocean.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 10, 2020

What are the political benefits and diplomatic drawbacks? Reuters: Biggest fall in carbon emissions since World War Two. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists : Will the coronavirus have a lasting impact on carbon emissions? Could that be a good thing? WSJ : Coronavirus Lockdowns Clear the Air But the Effect Could be Fleeting.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Ride sharing has swept transportation systems over the last decade -- bringing convenience, but also congestion, inequities, and political fights. It eliminates outage and price risk while accelerating us towards a zero carbon future. Now a new category of transportation networking is emerging: TransitTech. Learn more.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In the quest for carbon offsets, (almost) anything goes. What Joe Biden could do to cultivate carbon removal innovation (16:35) . Nonprofit Carbon180 has plenty of ideas for how the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture can collaborate to cultivate new economic opportunities centered on carbon removal.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 28, 2024

As a recent open letter signed by over 250 Canadian economists made clear, ‘the most vocal opponents of carbon pricing are not offering alternative policies to reduce emissions and meet our climate goals. “As And they certainly aren’t offering any alternatives that would reduce emissions at the same low cost as carbon pricing.’ “The

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

The firm says it matches environmental need – such as carbon reduction and offsetting – with funding partners. Political ecologist Dr Scott Leatham said: “As local authorities and communities look to rebuild and reconnect, there is increasing evidence that people want to see a green recovery.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

Just a couple of months into 2020, the world was amid significant discussion about the core purpose of businesses, led by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink calling for corporate America to take control of its carbon footprint and major companies, including Microsoft and Delta , making ambitious zero-carbon pledges.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been hyped by industry groups like the Pathways Alliance as a credible solution to help decarbonize the Alberta oil industry, despite several studies questioning both the effectiveness and the economics of storing carbon dioxide underground. percent of carbon credits. And what about risk?

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 3, 2025

But rather than lecture citizens about climate or carbon, Vetter, an adviser at the Saxon energy agency, talked up the cash they could save. Versions of this unusual scene played out in towns and cities across Germany in November in a weeklong PR blitz to promote heat pumps a clean alternative to gas-burning boilers. Continue reading.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That it did so is, in itself, remarkable, given the political climes. Among them: “The United States should establish a price on carbon.”. Policy & Politics. Last week, a subcommittee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a report addressing climate risks to the U.S. financial system. Risk & Resilience.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Wood pellets were considered to be renewable energy because replanted forests could recapture carbon lost in the clear cutting and burning process. As more and more science came out about the industry… it became clear that this is not the green and carbon neutral energy it was made out to be,” Zucchino said.

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