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

GreenBiz

This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined. At 10 percent, industrial heat ranks on par with the combined emissions of cars (about 6 percent), planes (about 2 percent) and ships (about 2 percent). . In time, decarbonizing industrial heat is likely to require an all-of-the above mix of solutions.

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Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions

GreenBiz

Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. The companies said the jet fuel will be made from agricultural waste fats and oils (such as used cooking oil and inedible fats from beef processing). Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions.

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Amazon aims to clean up aviation

GreenBiz

But in reality, with revenues and ticket sales way down, there's only so much commercial airlines actually will do to meet decarbonization goals. More specifically, Amazon's air shipping business, which along with its entire global logistics supply chain juggernaut is booming. . Enter air cargo.

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The decarbonization promise of indoor agriculture is still in the seed stage

GreenBiz

The decarbonization promise of indoor agriculture is still in the seed stage. One uses lettuce shipped from where much of our lettuce is grown: The fields around Monterey, California. Indoor systems require little or even no pesticides and generate 80 percent less waste. Fri, 05/22/2020 - 01:18. Here’s a tale of two chefs.

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Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?

GreenBiz

The last 15 percent of the economy is hard to clean up — aviation, shipping, manufacturing, long-distance trucking," Fakhry said in an interview. It is the missing part of the puzzle to a fully decarbonized economy," the European Commission wrote in a July strategy document. Green hydrogen can do that.". Green hydrogen can do that.

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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Or, in the words of James Marape, president of Papua New Guinea, theyre now a total waste of time. They could have an amazing impact on accelerating decarbonization, but theyve decided not to do it. They could have an amazing impact on accelerating decarbonization, but theyve decided not to do it. Is it perfect?

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General Galactic Raises $8 Million to Turn CO2 into Clean Fuel

ESG Today

The new capital will be used to accelerate the development and deployment of General Galactic’s Genesis technology, which transforms industrial CO2 waste streams into fossil-free natural gas. We call this decarbonization without destruction, meaning the green transition can happen sooner and with less cost to critical industries.”

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