If it makes the Earth greener,
you will find it here.

The European Investment Bank believes the hydrogen sector will play an important role in accelerating the energy transition



Energy Live News

EU bank and Portuguese Government join forces to boost investments in hydrogen

The United States and Brazil are at an impasse on a deal to stop destruction of the Amazon rainforest, which has surged under right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Reuters

Brazil demand for U.S. to pay upfront stalls deal to save Amazon forest

The social network has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 94% in the last three years and is now powered by 100% renewable energy



Facebook becomes net zero in its operations

New report from Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Behaviour Change warns world's wealthiest people must change their habits to meet global climate goals

Business Green

Citizen power or climate chaos: How can policymakers and businesses encourage low carbon behaviours?

A constellation of satellites will be flown this decade to try to pinpoint significant releases of climate-changing gases, in particular carbon dioxide and methane.

Satellite network to find carbon super-emitters

President Biden hopes to show that the United States is ready to be a leader again in combating climate change.

Biden’s Earth Day Summit: What to Expect

Google has drawn on satellite images dating back 37 years to introduce a time-lapse feature to its tool that lets users explore view of the Earth from above.
The tech firm says it hopes the feature will highlight the impacts of climate change as well as the many other ways that humans are leaving their marks on the planet.

Google Earth time-lapses show a changing planet

The chief executive officer of BP Plc had something exciting to tell investors in
September 2019. The fifth-largest multinational oil producer in the West had just
inked a deal to sell everything it owned in Alaska, marking a sudden exit from a
region the company had prized since the birth of the state 60 years earlier. The
$5.6 billion sale would help reduce corporate debt, but that wasn’t the only boon.
BP would be proudly shedding unwanted greenhouse gases, paving the way toward what would soon become its signature goal: zeroing out emissions by midcentury.

Bloomberg

What Happens When an Oil Giant Walks Away

In a sign of the issue’s important in the overall relationship, climate envoy John Kerry will be the first high-ranking Biden official to travel to China.

The Diplomat

Kerry Heads to China for Climate Talks

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel has been touted as the best available solution for the maritime industry to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions for a while now.

Offshore Energy

LNG as fuel should be a no-brainer. So, what’s the hold-up?

Four years ago this week, Project Drawdown released groundbreaking research on climate solutions that catalyzed the narrative that reversing global warming is possible. To celebrate that anniversary and underscore what’s needed now, 15 women-led ventures at the heart of the climate-tech movement are put in the spotlight.

GreenBiz

The case for raising up women in climate tech

The disused Rugeley Power Station site will become home to nearly 2,300 new low carbon homes



ENGIE to build low carbon homes and school at former coal-fired power station site

After four years of former President Donald Trump's assault on international climate cooperation, foreign leaders are wary of jumping too quickly to follow Washington's lead.

Politico US

World whiffs on Biden's pleas for bold climate pledges

The Canadian miner said it wants to achieve a zero-carbon footprint at both its Phase 1 anode materials plant and its Matawinie graphite project in Québec.

Mining.com

Nouveau Monde launches climate action plan to achieve carbon neutrality

The facility was considered failed in 2019, but the reasons were not made public until now

ENDS Waste & Bioenergy

Documents reveals vast list of issues at waste-gasification plant

Cutting the fossil-fuel industry’s tax perks might not dramatically affect hydrocarbon output or the environment, but it will mark the end of an era for Big Oil

The Wall Street Journal

Big Oil’s Influence Shrinks as Tax Perks Face Axe in Biden Plan

A range of stakeholders are preparing to meet for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP26, in November.
It was originally due to take place in 2020 but was rescheduled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

CNBC

‘Let’s make it count’: World leaders, royalty and environmentalists gear up for major climate summit COP26

The company’s stock market arrival establishes Bitcoin and other digital currencies in the traditional financial landscape. It also elevates a technology with astonishing environmental costs.

New York Times

In Coinbase’s Rise, a Reminder: Cryptocurrencies Use Lots of Energy

The ambitious bill would have banned fracking as well as other extraction methods.

Forbes

California Fracking Ban Dies In Committee

"I think there still are versions of a clean energy standard that work for Senate reconciliation rules," the Energy secretary said.

Granholm: Reconciliation possible for clean energy standard, but no decisions made

Renews Ltd provides news-focused coverage through unrivalled insights into the inner workings of offshore and onshore wind, wave and tidal power and other generation technologies.

Renews

547 Energy partners up to create multi GW platform

As the world’s largest greenhouse-gas emitter, China will make or break the global quest for climate neutrality by the middle of the century.  President Xi’s announcement in September 2020 of China’s new objective to peak CO2 emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 was thus broadly welcomed. These new long-term targets, however, are yet to be matched with a consistent short-term action plan.



Bruegel

China’s has a grand carbon neutrality target but where is the plan?

The world’s green power surge depends on polysilicon made in China’s remote Northwest. No one really knows what’s going on inside the facilities

Secrecy and Abuse Claims Haunt China’s Solar Factories in Xinjiang

Critics say $16bn provision in infrastructure package spurs drillers to shirk obligations

Financial Times

Joe Biden’s oil clean-up plan slammed as bailout for fossil fuels

A 20-year PPA was signed between EDF Renewables and SNCF Energie

French trains to get on solar tracks with EDF’s PV plant

Japan has announced it will dump 1m tonnes of contaminated water into the ocean, sparking controversy

The Guardian

Everything you need to know about the plan to release treated Fukushima water

Pension funds hold trillions of dollars of the world’s wealth, yet many of these vast reserves come from fossil fuel investments, projects that are increasingly under fire for their social and environmental impacts. UK pension firm Aegon has announced ambitious plans to carbon neutralise its pension investments by 2050, raising the prospect of a lucrative pension industry no longer tied at the hip to fossil fuels.

Power Technology

In for a penny: could pension fund reform make or break clean energy investment?

French major Total has teamed up with Siemens Energy to cut down CO2 emissions from liquefied natural gas (LNG) assets.

Total, Siemens partner on LNG assets emission cuts

In the first section of this article, the president of Shell Oil Company offers the company’s view on transitioning to a net-zero economy in America. But in making climate-focused business decisions, Shell relies in part on the input of climate-focused nonprofit organizations who recognize the value of partnering with the private sector. So it invited the president of Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), a nonprofit collaborating with businesses and policymakers at the local, global and international levels advancing climate solutions and energy technology to share this space in the second section to offer his own candid view on America’s net-zero 2050 target

Getting to net-zero by 2050: Two independent perspectives on achieving one critically important goal

Latest figures show increase of 2% in 2018-19 driven by energy sector and rise in methanol production

New Zealand emissions rise as government vows urgent action

European politicians, companies and trade unions on Tuesday called on the United States to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% this decade, adding to mounting pressure on the Biden administration ahead of a climate summit next week.

European CEOs, lawmakers add to pressure on Biden to hike climate target

Policymakers are under intensifying pressure to deliver on promises made as part of the Paris Agreement ahead of this year’s COP26, due to be held in Glasgow, Scotland in early November.
Yet, even as politicians and business leaders publicly acknowledge the necessity of transitioning to a low-carbon society, hopes of limiting global warming — and meeting a crucial global target — are quickly deteriorating.

What ‘energy transition’? Global fossil fuel use is accelerating and set to get even worse

The administration is closing in on deals with some close allies, but agreements with powers like China, Brazil and India are proving difficult.

Biden Wants Leaders to Make Climate Commitments for Earth Day

More than 300 corporate leaders will ask the Biden administration to nearly double the emission reduction targets set by the Obama administration.

Executives Call for Deep Emission Cuts to Combat Climate Change

Biden Wants World Leaders to Make Climate 

Making the digital artworks requires colossal amounts of computing power, and that means greenhouse gases.

NFTs Are Shaking Up the Art World. Are They Also Fueling Climate Change?

Solar power is now the cheapest source of electricity in history, according to a 2020 report by the International Energy Agency. But there's something holding this clean energy powerhouse back: space. Unlike fossil fuel power stations, solar farms need a lot of room to generate enough electricity to keep up with demand. Most solar farms are composed of ground-mounted panels that take up land that could be used to grow food or provide habitat for wildlife.

Tech Xplore

Floating solar farms could cool down lakes threatened by climate change

While the deadly coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep the world, energy researchers in Europe have been assessing a drop in carbon emissions and an acceleration of the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable electricity.

Covid Vs Coal: Has The Pandemic Accelerated Europe’s Green Energy Transition?

Concerns about climate change are driving a growing number of states, utilities, and corporations to set the goal of zeroing out power-sector carbon emissions. To date 17 states plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders to achieve 100% carbon-free electricity in the next couple of decades. Additionally, 46 U.S. utilities have pledged to go carbon free no later than 2050. Altogether, these goals cover about half of the U.S. population and economy.

US power sector is halfway to zero carbon emissions

Japan will release more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear station into the sea, the government said on Tuesday, a move opposed by neighbours including China, which called it “extremely irresponsible.”

Japan to release contaminated Fukushima water into sea after treatment

Based on data in EIA’s Monthly Energy Review, energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions decreased by 11% in the United States in 2020 primarily because of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions. U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions fell in every end-use sector for the first time since 2012.

U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions declined by 11% in 2020

As the world’s largest financial institutions jockey for leadership positions in financing the transition to a clean economy, JPMorgan Chase is creating a team dedicated to building deeper relationships with companies that sell "environmentally-friendly" products and services or that focus on environmental conservation.



JPMorgan Chase wants to be the commercial bank for ‘green economy’ companies

Achieving the net zero target without BECCS would cost the UK an additional £15 billion, according to a new report

Bioenergy and CCS could help the UK save more than £4.5bn over the coming decade

IRENA and SGCC have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see the two organisations work closely to support grid enhancements, system flexibility and sector-coupling in China and IRENA’s Clean Energy Corridor regions.

IRENA

IRENA and China State Grid Agree to Advance Transition Through Power System Enhancements

The Federal Government is promising a gas-led recovery that will turbocharge Australian manufacturing and provide reliable and affordable power to households. Despite international pressure to reduce the use of fossil fuels, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s says that gas will help Australia 'transition' to renewables. Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor insists we can’t make the transition to a secure and reliable electricity sector without an increased role for gas and has pledged to use taxpayer funds to build new gas-fired power plants if needed. But not everybody is convinced, and increasingly, state governments are pushing beyond gas with ambitious plans for more renewable power.

ABC News

The future of power: What’s behind Australia’s push for gas-fired energy

In 2020 lockdowns caused the largest single-year drop in America’s
greenhouse-gas emissions on record. Even then, for every American
16 metric tons of carbon dioxide were released into the atmosphere. By 2050 President Joe Biden would like that number to be net zero. Getting there within three decades seems daunting.

The Economist

The bumps ahead for Joe Biden’s plan to decarbonise America

The U.S. special envoy on climate stopped in Bangladesh as part of a tour of climate change-vulnerable nations.

US Envoy Kerry Discusses Climate Challenges in Bangladesh

Trash-burning facilities once seemed like a useful way to minimize pollution and generate power. But the EU is withdrawing support over emissions concerns.

Wired

In Europe, Backlash Heats Up Over Garbage Incinerators

The plan that President Joe Biden unveiled in Pittsburgh on March 31st proposes over $2trn of spending on jobs and infrastructure. However, at the heart of the American Jobs Plan is action to combat climate change. It bristles with support for electric vehicles and renewable energy, as well as proposals for research and sorely needed large government-funded demonstration projects for potentially crucial technologies. Fans of transmission lines are well served; so are railway enthusiasts.

Joe Biden’s climate gamble

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday proposed $14 billion in spending on initiatives to fight climate change in the 2022 budget, including large cash injections for environmental regulation and science research

Biden budget's $14 billion hike for climate includes big boosts for EPA, science

Sustainability | Climate Change

In a decarbonising world, long-term gas infrastructure investments are looking riskier and shorter term


IEEFA

Competitive renewables wipe decades off economic life of Australia’s longest gas pipeline

Brent Heuser, an engineering professor at the University of Illinois, said Japan’s plan to release treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will have “zero environmental impact.”
The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co or TEPCO, will treat and dilute the water before pumping it out into the Pacific Ocean in about two years’ time.
Japan’s neighbors including China and South Korea opposed the plan. Environmental group Greenpeace as well as local residents and fishermen also raised their concerns.

Engineering professor says Japan’s plan to dump treated radioactive water in the sea is not dangerous

With industry and investor awareness and attention increasing, environmental, social governance issues are influencing hiring requirements and skills employers are seeking in candidates.

How ESG factors impact recruiting in  mining

Activists say the ‘heart of Africa’ line shipping crude from Uganda to Tanzania is unnecessary and poses a huge environmental risk

‘We cannot drink oil’: campaigners condemn east African pipeline project

The former nonprofit water advocacy group executive and water utility official is leading the administration’s work to incorporate environmental justice into EPA’s water work.

POLITICO Q&A: Radhika Fox, acting head of EPA’s water office

The Biden Infrastructure Plan is starting to resemble the ancient parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant - all of us blind, gathered around a giant beast, one touching a tusk, another a trunk, coming together to describe the animal in our midst.

Biden’s Necessary Infrastructure Plan - Winners In Three Scenarios

Mining companies and marine scientists want to know whether harvesting blobs of useful materials from the seafloor harms ocean life.

Will Future Electric Vehicles Be Powered by Deep-Sea Metals?

Aligning its climate and industrial policies, the European Union (UE) is introducing sustainability requirements for the whole life-cycle of electric vehicle (EV) batteries. This initiative would not only ensure that EVs fit with Europe’s climate-neutrality and resource-efficiency pledges, but also give European new entrants a better chance to compete.

IFRI

Green Batteries: a Competitive Advantage for Europe’s Electric Vehicle Value Chain?

IRENA and the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), have undertaken an MoU that will see the two organisations work closely to support grid enhancements, system flexibility and sector-coupling in China and IRENA’s Clean Energy Corridor regions.

ESI Africa

China: Creating clean energy corridors by improving grid support

Coordinated management of excrement from animals and humans could save nearly EUR 100 million each year. The key is to produce the biogas from the excrement before it is used as fertilizer. In addition, Sweden could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by around 1.5 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. These are the results from a new study published by researchers at Linköping University in Resources, Conservation & Recycling: X.

Biogas from excrement to reduce environmental impact

Japan's government announced Tuesday it would start releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years. It's a move that's fiercely opposed by fishermen, residents and Japan's neighbors.

Japan to start releasing Fukushima water into sea in 2 years

Japan's decision to release more than one million tonnes of treated radioactive water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea has stirred fierce controversy.

Understanding the plan to release treated Fukushima water

The pathway to Appalachia's survival depends on whether it can train workers and attract 21st Century businesses.

How Appalachia Can Survive A Post-Industrial America

Plus: following the oil price recovery, US carbon emissions closely track virus outbreaks and more 

Biden’s $16bn hole-filling project

It’s been decades since hydrogen was first proposed as a primary source of clean energy. Thanks to advances in a variety of key technologies, the moment when the abundant gas can begin contributing to the fight against climate change may finally be upon us. If hydrogen is to achieve its full potential, it must become less expensive and more efficient to produce, distribute, and use.

The Green Tech Opportunity in Hydrogen

Sustainability | Policy & Regulation

Scrutiny of fossil-fuel producers also has to be more nuanced

Oil companies are now a more complex foe for environmentalists

Shell has presented its Energy Transition Strategy publication to shareholders for advisory vote at the company’s AGM on 18 May. The publication sets out the company’s target to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, in step with society’s progress towards the goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Shell submits energy transition plan to shareholders

Fossil-fuel producers’ lack of transparency is hampering our chances of halting global warming

A carbon registry leaves polluters with nowhere left to hide

Richard Johnson will also serve as the company’s global head of investor relations.

Appian Capital Advisory appoints managing director

Activists remain concerned with human rights and environmental issues as part of the mining process

Jewellery industry makes slow progress on responsible supply chains

The Japanese government has decided to dispose of massive amounts of treated but still radioactive water stored in tanks at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant by releasing it into the Pacific Ocean, local media reported Friday, a conclusion widely expected but delayed for years amid protests and safety concerns.

Japan to announce Fukushima water release into sea soon

Controversy over so-called ‘avoided emissions’ highlights creative carbon accounting issues

Carney’s stumble at Brookfield intensifies focus on ‘net zero’ claims

The Danish firm is now a partner at the Copper Mark Assurance Framework.

FLSmidth joins responsible copper production framework

Mining group plans to list ‘Thungela’ amid investor pressure over environment  

Anglo American to demerge South African coal assets

JPMorgan Chase launches green economy team

EY Canada is launching a new centre of excellence aimed at offering mining companies in the Americas access to innovative services and [&#8230;]

EY Canada launches centre of excellence for mining and metals

The agreement is for financing the mine fleet for the Crawford nickel cobalt sulphide project in Ontario.

Canada Nickel, Taykwa Tagamou Nation ink MOU

Sourced from sustainably-managed forests, bioenergy usage must increase to deliver the European Green Deal

Why Europe needs bioenergy to reach net zero

As the world looks to address issues of gender equity, development and climate change, the importance of increasing the participation of women in the energy sector is gaining attention.

Columbia SIPA

The Invisible Women in Energy: Biomass Producers Who Deserve More Recognition

London-based climate activists Extinction Rebellion  says the bank’s investments are “directly contributing to the climate and ecological emergency.”

Climate Activists Smash Barclays HQ Windows To Protest Capitalism’s Role In Climate Change

The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) has updated its tailings standards and it now meets or exceeds most global guidelines.

Canadian miners subject to tougher tailings standards

By: Elizabeth Sisul Climate change is frequently front and center in the conversation about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns.

The "S" In ESG

Canadian pension giant launches renewables unit

Critical metals and minerals are a tiny sliver of a sliver of global  mining production.

GRAPH: Global metal and ore production at a glance

Francis Fannon also previously served as Senior Director for Government Affairs for Murphy Oil Corporation.

Former US assistant secretary for Energy Resources joins Standard Lithium Board

Industrial technology firms that exist today are likely to become multi-billion and even trillion-dollar companies in the next decade. Investors with the foresight to back step-change technologies will show Wall Street what ESG really means and that saving the environment is immensely profitable.

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