Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. The wind farm will also save Egypt an estimated US$5 billion in annual natural gas costs, and help create as many as 100,000 jobs. Brazil to offer to host future COP. French Senate approves solar car park legislation.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Meanwhile, Michigan approves a bundle of clean energy bills, the UN irons out details for the "loss and damages" fund ahead of COP, and Flexport launches a book and claim model for SAFs.  The investment covers 40% of the Texas facility’s $1.3B project cost and is one of the largest DAC investments to date.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, including Exxon-Mobil and Saudi Aramco, are backing this CCS push, along with major fossil fuel companies in Japan. CCS’s false promises distract from proven alternatives, like solar and wind. The government-owned Japan CCS Co.,

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

But principally I learned that though this international system - the COP process - is imperfect and unwieldy, it can work," he added. "It The Group will develop policy options to encourage and enable the investment and finance necessary for delivery of the Paris agreement and the Glasgow climate pact," Sharma said today.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Strategy, although still lacking details on policy and financial support in certain areas - more of that is now expected in another related policy document next year - envisages hydrogen supporting 9,000 jobs and attracting £4bn investment by 2030, rising to 100,000 jobs by 2050 in an industry potentially worh £13bn.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Task Force members include “exploration managers” at BP, Shell, Chrysaor, and Total, and an operations manager at the industry body Oil & Gas UK (OGUK). As the COP host, the U.K.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Paris Agreement indicates that wealthier nations should pay an increasing amount to less wealthy countries to assist with climate-related investments like flood defense from sea level rise, clean energy development, or the use of energy efficiency retrofits. As part of its COP presidency, the U.K. CARBON MARKETS.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Analysing 2,325 social media posts from 22 major European polluters, the report found that 72 percent of posts from oil and gas firms tried to emphasise their spending on green technology. As the study also pointed out, however, these firms invested just 1.7

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

As such, the firms behind the project emphasised its delivery would depend on both on-going public support for so-called "primary capture projects" and the transportation and storage infrastructure that will link them up, and the creation of longer term business models that can create a competitive and appetising investment market for first movers.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

For one of his examples, Sawan chose Pakistan, where more than 33 million people were affected be record flooding that left one-third of the country under water, where domestic renewables are seen as the best hedge against insecure liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies and uncertain prices.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Last year, it announced it would invest 75 billion euros ($88 billion) in renewable energy by 2025 to meet the growing demand for clean power. But the company has recently completed two new gas plants in Mexico and planned for an additional two, based on a 25-year contract, according to its website. .”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Saudi Arabia and Australia are assumed to be working hard to strip any mention of fossil fuels from the final text, in line with COP tradition, while reports this afternoon indicated China was fiercely opposed to any mention of a coal phase out. They had are investing in an old fashioned technology that is going out," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Saudi Arabia and Australia are assumed to be working hard to strip any mention of fossil fuels from the final text, in line with COP tradition, while reports this afternoon indicated China was fiercely opposed to any mention of a coal phase out. They are investing in an old fashioned technology that is going out," he said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

Despite the marked increase in government ambitions, CO2 emissions have increased in every year since the Paris COP in 2015 (bar 2020)," it continues. The longer the delay in taking decisive action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a sustained basis, the greater are the likely resulting economic and social costs."

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The IPCC spotlighted the urgency of methane reductions in its Sixth Assessment Report, as the International Energy Agency emphasized the cost-effectiveness of solutions, and dozens of countries pledged to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas and other sectors in advance of COP 26.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

should also set a natural gas production record this year, and exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will reach a new high. .” should also set a natural gas production record this year, and exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will reach a new high.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Join us for a webinar Jan 25th on Sightline Climate’s 2023 investment trends, insights, and discussion. Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. The current Haber Bosch process relies on fossil fuels (~ 70% natural gas, 30% coal) and emits 2.4   Want more deals? Thanks for reading!

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

About 200 countries are presently convened for the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 25 in Madrid. The Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP) is tasked with making sure the agreements under the Paris Climate Accord are met. degrees above if possible. But in the U.S.,

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

That’s a recipe for higher oil prices, and subsequently higher gasoline and natural gas prices. Europe’s natural gas crisis. Europe suffered from a natural gas shortage this year. Russia could help ease the crisis, but Germany suspended the process of certifying the Nord Stream 2 Russian gas pipeline.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But aside from a handful of “natural solutions” such as tree-planting and reducing emissions from agriculture, most of the ideas would promote more oil and gas drilling, expand liquefied natural gas, and weaken environmental protections. Garret Graves (R-LA) in 2018. Credit: Brookings Institution. (CC CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

500b in Solar investments in 2023 (up 75% y/y in US), 50% y/y growth in EVs in the US, and battery prices continuing their downward march another 50% by 2030 means many $1t industries are ripe for disruption. This is one of the best times to be investing in this sector I’ve ever seen.   Shayle : Yes. Joshua : No!

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The great majority of them are heated with natural gas or oil, and parked in their garages and driveways or on nearby streets are some two hundred and ninety million vehicles, an estimated ninety-nine per cent of which, as of August, run on gasoline. We weren’t able to invest the private capital.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 7, 2020

It seems like a lifetime ago when at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, I watched more than 100 heads of state and government queue to sign the original documents of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Biodiversity Convention and Agenda 21. Negotiations had been tough, and some leaders were more enthusiastic than others.

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