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

Envirotec Magazine

Newhaven waste incinerator, East Sussex. A legal challenge has been issued to the Government’s decision to exclude municipal waste incinerators from the UK Emissions Trading Scheme – the replacement for the existing EU Emissions Trading Scheme, to come into effect after the UK leaves the EU.

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Amazon aims to clean up aviation

GreenBiz

Infinium makes biofuel by taking hydrogen made with clean power and electrolysis, combining it with carbon dioxide and running it through two thermochemical processes — turning it into a replacement fuel for airplanes, ships and large trucks. Air shipping, a growing sector, is the most carbon-intensive way to ship a product.

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Ontario Power Generation includes nuclear energy in green bonds

Corporate Knights

However, nuclear is a key technology in the corporation’s plan to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, says chief financial officer Aida Cipolla. However, the inclusion of nuclear in sustainable financing remains controversial, given ongoing concerns about long-term disposal of radioactive waste. .

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Oracle, Amazon make major renewable energy-based announcements

Renewable Energy World

Hardware recycling: Continuing its efforts to reduce e-waste, in FY20, Oracle collected 2.5 Reducing waste : Oracle has decreased the amount of waste sent to landfill at Oracle-owned buildings by 25% on a square foot basis since 2015. million pounds of retired hardware assets, of which 99.6% was either reused or recycled.

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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined

GreenBiz

Chemically similar to the fossil gas piped to our kitchens, RNG is instead generated from the breakdown of organic matter at landfills (the biggest current source), municipal sewage treatment plants, farm waste and similar sites. Today, RNG is held back in part by a Catch-22 financial trap. The first step? Pull Quote.

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How the ‘Global Stocktake’ Can Accelerate Climate Action

Chris Hall

Established under Article 14 of the Paris Agreement , the Global Stocktake is designed “to assess the collective progress towards achieving the purpose of [the Paris] Agreement and its long-term goals. What is the purpose of the Global Stocktake? But the Global Stocktake is meant to go far beyond an assessment.

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Corporate climate action: 3 acceleration areas to get ahead on in 2024

Corporate Knights

It marked the first time the international community assessed its collective progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions since the Paris Agreement in 2015. An example of how this translates is Schneider Electric’s flagship program Zero Carbon Project , which aims to halve supplier CO 2 emissions by 2025.

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