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BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea

GreenBiz

OGCI claims mobile carbon capture technologies aboard ships could help the global shipping sector reach its current climate target to cut emissions by 50 percent by 2050, from a 2008 baseline — a goal that has faced criticism from green groups for lacking ambition. The global shipping sector is responsible for around 2.5

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Legal challenge to exclusion of waste incinerators from post-Brexit emissions trading scheme

Envirotec Magazine

The exclusion means the UK will fail in its obligations under the Paris Agreement and instead has concentrated on the need to achieve net zero by 2050. By concentrating only on achieving net zero by 2050, it is alleged that the Government has failed to lawfully take account of those aims. This is wrong in law.

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Going green: The future of hydrogen energy

Renewable Energy World

Manufacturing and installing hydrogen technology at scale is one of the main ways that costs can come down — the sooner the economic landscape allows for this scale of deployment, the sooner the shift to a zero-carbon economy. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012.

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Big Squeeze for UK Pension Schemes

Chris Hall

The requirements stem from the 2017 recommendations of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a forum set up in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, and specifically the board’s Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD). There will be a challenge to find the time and resources.”. Cabove pre-industrial levels.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. The company cleaned up in sales, and it’s going on an advertising offense.