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IEA: global CO2 emissions rebounded to their highest level in history in 2021; largely driven by China

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2022

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose by 6% in 2021 to 36.3 billion tonnes, their highest ever level, as the world economy rebounded strongly from the COVID-19 crisis and relied heavily on coal to power that growth, according to new IEA analysis. In 2021 alone, China’s CO 2 emissions rose above 11.9

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Emissions Global Coal China

Study finds coal trains add significant amount of PM2.5 pollution in urban areas

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution to urban areas—more so than other freight or passenger trains— according to a study conducted in Richmond, California, by the University of California, Davis. The results indicate coal trains add on average 8.32

Coal

Coal Pollution Davis San Francisco

RWE and ArcelorMittal intend to build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities for low-emissions steelmaking

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Energy company RWE and steel producer ArcelorMittal have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to develop, build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities that will supply the renewable energy and green hydrogen required to produce low-emissions steel in Germany.

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Wind Hydrogen Emissions Building

IEA: global electricity demand growing faster than renewables, driving strong increase in generation from coal

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2021

Renewables are expanding quickly but not enough to satisfy a strong rebound in global electricity demand this year, resulting in a sharp rise in the use of coal power that risks pushing carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity sector to record levels next year, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.

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Coal Renewable Global Iraq

EIA projects increases in global energy consumption and emissions through 2050

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

In its International Energy Outlook 2021 (IEO2021), EIA projects that strong economic growth, particularly with developing economies in Asia, will drive global increases in energy consumption despite pandemic-related declines and long-term improvements in energy efficiency. —EIA Acting Administrator Stephen Nalley.

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Global Energy Emissions Asia

Global Carbon Project: Global carbon emissions growth slows, but hits record high

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Driven by rising natural gas and oil consumption, levels of CO 2 are expected to hit 37 billion metric tons this year, according to new estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP), an initiative led by Stanford University scientist Rob Jackson. over 2018 emissions. over 2018 emissions. That compares to 2.1% growth in 2017.

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Carbon Global Emissions Climate Change

Bloomberg NEF forecasts falling battery prices enabling surge in wind and solar to 50% of global generation by 2050

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

The arrival of cheap battery storage will mean that it becomes increasingly possible to finesse the delivery of electricity from wind and solar, so that these technologies can help meet demand even when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. trillion of that going to wind and solar and a further $1.5

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Wind Solar Global Coal

IEA: global energy demand rose by 2.3% in 2018, fastest pace in the last decade; CO2 emissions up 1.7%

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2019

last year, its fastest pace this decade, an exceptional performance driven by a robust global economy and stronger heating and cooling needs in some regions, according to the IEA. Solar and wind generation grew at double-digit pace, with solar alone increasing by 31%. As a result, global energy-related CO 2 emissions rose by 1.7%

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2018 Global Emissions Energy

BloombergNEF: solar, wind, batteries to attract $10T to 2050; curbing emissions long-term will require other technologies

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2019

Deep declines in wind, solar and battery technology costs will result in a grid nearly half-powered by the two fast-growing renewable energy sources by 2050, according to the latest projections from BloombergNEF (BNEF). Global power generation mix. Wind and solar grow from 7% of generation today to 48% by 2050.

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Wind Solar Emissions Batteries

BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. The findings suggest that developing nations are moving toward cleaner power but not nearly fast enough to limit global CO 2 emissions. thousand terawatt-hours in 2018, up from 6.4

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Coal Clean Cleaning Financing

Harvard team finds large-scale US wind power would cause warming that would take roughly a century to offset

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

All large-scale energy systems have environmental impacts, and the ability to compare the impacts of renewable energy sources is an important step in planning a future without coal or gas power. In the journal Joule , Harvard researchers report the most accurate modelling yet of how increasing wind power would affect climate.

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Wind Power Powered Climate

IEA: COVID-19 crisis causing the biggest fall in global energy investment in history

Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has set in motion the largest drop in global energy investment in history, with spending expected to plunge in every major sector this year—from fossil fuels to renewables and efficiency—the International Energy Agency said in a new report.

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Global Energy Coal 2020

IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew in 2016

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2017

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions were flat for a third straight year in 2016 even as the global economy grew, according to the International Energy Agency. The data signal a continuing decoupling of emissions and economic activity. Global emissions from the energy sector stood at 32.1

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Economy 2016 Global Emissions

ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

The ICCT has conducted a comprehensive global and temporal life-cycle assessment of GHG emissions from a variety of alternative passenger car powertrains and fuels. The life-cycle GHG emissions of cars registered in 2021 are compared with those of cars expected to be registered in 2030.

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Hydrogen Fuel Batteries Battery

BNEF, Snam, IGU report finds global gas industry set to resume growth post-pandemic; low-carbon technologies for long-term growth

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After growing by more than 2% in 2019, global gas use is set to fall by around 4% in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces energy consumption across the global economies. The report shows that medium-term growth will come from increasing cost-competitiveness and increased global access to gas. MMbtu in Russia, $8.7/MMbtu

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Gas Global Industrial Industry

1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that’s curbed oil demand – IEA

Baua Electric

MARCH 2, 2024

Photo: Tesla Without EVs, solar, wind, and nuclear, the global rise in emissions in the last five years would have been three times larger, new International Energy Agency (IEA) analysis shows. Renewables curbed emissions rise in 2023 The bad news is that energy-related emissions rose in 2023. billion tonnes.

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Global Oil Sale Coal

BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

The falling cost of making hydrogen from wind and solar power offers a promising route to cutting emissions in some of the most fossil-fuel-dependent sectors of the economy, such as steel, heavy-duty vehicles, shipping and cement, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). kg in most parts of the world before 2050.

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Hydrogen Carbon Emissions Price

Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea.

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Wind Hydrogen Grid Gas-Electric

Global CO2 emissions up 3% in 2011; per capita CO2 emissions in China reach EU levels

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

CO 2 per capita emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production from the top 5 emitting regions. Global emissions of CO 2 increased by 3% last year, according to the annual report “Trends in global CO 2 emissions”, released by the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).

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2011 Emissions CO2 Global

Intermountain Power Agency orders MHPS JAC Gas Turbine technology for renewable-hydrogen energy hub, operated by LA DWP

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

This award marks the first Advanced Class Gas Turbines in the industry specifically designed and purchased as part of a comprehensive plan to sequentially transition from coal, to natural gas and finally to renewable hydrogen fuel, and creates a roadmap for the global industry to follow. and Hitachi, Ltd.

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Los Angeles Hydrogen Renewable Gas

IEA: global energy investment stabilized above $1.8T in 2018; security and sustainability concerns growing

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2019

Global energy investment stabilized in 2018, ending three consecutive years of decline, as capital spending on oil, gas and coal supply bounced back while investment stalled for energy efficiency and renewables, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest annual review. Global energy investment totalled more than US$1.8

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2018 Global Energy Coal

CMU study finds that coal retirement is needed for EVs to reduce air pollution

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. UC stands for uncontrolled charging and CC stands for controlled charging.

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Coal Pollution Grid Gasoline-Electric

BMW Group plans to source steel produced with green power and hydrogen from H2GS in Sweden

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The BMW Group is systematically pursuing its goal of significantly reducing CO 2 emissions at their source in the supply chain. From 2025 on, the company plans to source steel produced with up to 95% less CO 2 emissions and without requiring fossil resources such as coal.

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Sweden BMW Green Hydrogen

The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C The target of reducing emissions by 50 percent by 2030 was established through an executive order in 2021. C in this century. clean-tech legislation.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions

BP Statistical Review finds global oil share down for 12th year in a row, coal share up to highest level since 1969; renewables at 2%

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JUNE 13, 2012

Coal’s market share of 30.3% Global energy consumption grew by 2.5% Oil demand grew by less than 1%—the slowest rate amongst fossil fuels—while gas grew by 2.2%, and coal was the only fossil fuel with above average annual consumption growth at 5.4% globally, and 8.4% was the highest since 1969. Source: BP.

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Coal Oil Renewable Saudi Arabia

Study finds climate impact of hydropower varies widely

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It is commonly thought that the greenhouse gas emissions from hydropower plants are similar to those of wind-generated power facilities. They analyzed the climate impacts over time of carbon dioxide and methane emissions from a dataset of 1,473 hydroelectric facilities in 104 countries. —Ocko and Hamburg (2019).

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Climate Climate Change Coal Gas-Electric

3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Despite the much-vaunted megatrend involving the global electrification drive and shift to renewable energy , the most ambitious pledges by Big Oil to pursue net-zero agendas remain weak at best. Indeed, much of Big Oil's reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions leans on the so-called natural gas bridge. 2 Total SA.

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Oil Renewable Wind Gas-Electric

Researchers Say Mix of Policies and Current or Near-Term Technologies Could Phase Out US CO2 Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants by 2030

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2010

Life-cycle GHG emissions from fossil and alternative sources of electricity. This global climate change problem becomes manageable only if society deals quickly with emissions of carbon dioxide from burning coal in electric power plants, they state. Credit: ACS, Kharecha et al. Click to enlarge. Kharecha et al.

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Coal Emissions Oil-Sands Climate Change

Chevy Dealership Adds Solar Trackers

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cutting pollution and global heating emissions in the United States is dependent more than anything else on 1) shifting from fossil fuel powered vehicles to electric vehicles and human-powered transit, and 2) switching from coal and natural gas to solar and wind energy.

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Solar Dealers Coal United States

Consortium developing green hydrogen megaproject in Oman

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

An international consortium comprising OQ, which is the Sultanate of Oman’s global integrated energy company, InterContinental Energy, the leading dedicated green fuels developer, and EnerTech, a Kuwait government-backed clean energy investor and developer, is developing an integrated green fuels mega project in Oman. trillion market by.

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Oman Hydrogen Green Kuwait

EIA expects US motor fuel consumption to increase this summer, but remain below 2019 levels

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2021

EIA forecasts that global consumption of petroleum and liquid fuels will average 97.7 The higher forecast is primarily a result of higher global GDP growth forecasts from Oxford Economics, which increased 0.4 EIA expects US coal production to total 585 MMst in 2021, 46 MMst (9%) more than in 2020. million b/d from March 2020.

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2019 Fuel Coal Motor

JetBlue to go carbon neutral on all domestic flights by offsetting emissions starting in 2020; flying with SAF from SFO

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

JetBlue will offset carbon dioxide emissions from jet fuel for all domestic JetBlue flights beginning in July 2020, making it the first major US airline to take this measurable step toward reducing its contribution to global warming. billion pounds of CO 2 emissions in partnership with Carbonfund.org.

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Carbon 2020 Emissions San Francisco

MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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MIT Coal Gas Emissions

UK to award £54M to 15 projects developing innovative carbon removal technology

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2022

The UK government is awarding £54 million to 15 projects to develop technologies that remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere. Seawater - The oceans naturally absorb carbon dioxide but because of a large increase in carbon dioxide emissions from our activities the oceans absorb more than previously. Project Funding: £2,999,964.00.

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Waste

Berkeley study finds renewable portfolio standards insufficient to meet 2030 GHG emission targets; new policy required

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. Click to enlarge.

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Renewable Emissions Standards Coal

Northwestern/Princeton study explores air quality impacts of aggressive conversion to EVs

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

The exponentially increasing global market share of EVs has prompted research on their efficacy in reducing greenhouse gases, but comparatively little effort has focused on their impact on air quality. coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass). —Schnell et al. Seasons and times of day. Winter while PM 2.5

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Conversion Jordan Ozone Coal

BP Energy Outlook: 30% growth in global demand to 2035; fuel demand continues to rise, even with EVs & fuel efficiency

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2017

The 2017 edition of the BP Energy Outlook , published today, forecasts that global demand for energy will increase by around 30% between 2015 and 2035, an average growth of 1.3% per year rise expected in global GDP, reflecting improved energy efficiency driven by technology improvements and environmental concerns. billion by 2035.

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Global Fuel Energy Oil

BP Energy Outlook 2030 sees emerging economies leading energy growth to 2030; global CO2 emissions from energy well above IEA 450 scenario

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JANUARY 19, 2011

In both the base-case and a scenario with more aggressive environmental policies, CO 2 emissions from energy use remain well above the IEA 450 scenario. However, both cases result in global CO 2 emissions well above the IEA 450 scenario—a back-cast which illustrates what is required to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at 450 ppm.

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Energy Economy Global Oil-Sands

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel to advance the decarbonization of steel production; low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2022

of CO 2 emissions in Germany, mainly at the Duisburg site where the main emitters—the blast furnaces—are operated. By replacing the coal-fired blast furnaces with direct reduction plants in which iron ore is reduced with low-carbon hydrogen, thyssenkrupp Steel intends to make steel production climate-neutral in the long term.

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Hydrogen Carbon Renewable Power

Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. of global greenhouse gas emissions (or about 1.4%

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Renewable Economy Hydrogen Water

IEA: time to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2019

Hydrogen can help to tackle various critical energy challenges, including helping to store the variable output from renewables like solar PV and wind to better match demand. A wide variety of fuels are able to produce hydrogen, including renewables, nuclear, natural gas, coal and oil.

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Clean Cleaning Affordable Future

“A Moral Imperative” — Joe Biden Commits To Halving US Emissions

CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 24, 2021

Instead, President Joe Biden told 40 world leaders that the US would halve its global warming emissions by the end of the decade. Hiding behind the coattails of Big Oil is no longer the stance of the US. This is a moral imperative, an economic imperative,” Biden exclaimed. “A A moment of peril, but also a […].

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Emissions Oil Global Climate Change

Australia’s CSIRO creates Future Science Platform focused on hydrogen energy systems

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The creation of a Hydrogen FSP will support the development of technologies that allow Australia to export its solar energy, as well as providing low emissions energy solutions for Australians. —CSIRO Energy Director Karl Rodrigues.

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Hydrogen Future Energy Australia

Annual Increase in Global CO2 Emissions Halved in 2008; Decrease in Fossil Oil Consumption, Increase in Renewables Share

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2009

Global CO 2 emissions from fuel use and cement production by region. Emissions increased by 1.7% Global CO2 emissions increased from 15.3 The lower increase in CO 2 emissions was mainly due to a decrease in global fossil oil consumption of about 0.6%, the first global decrease since 1992.

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2008 Oil Renewable Emissions

IEA: global CO2 emissions rebounded to their highest level in history in 2021; largely driven by China

Study finds coal trains add significant amount of PM2.5 pollution in urban areas

RWE and ArcelorMittal intend to build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities for low-emissions steelmaking

IEA: global electricity demand growing faster than renewables, driving strong increase in generation from coal

EIA projects increases in global energy consumption and emissions through 2050

Global Carbon Project: Global carbon emissions growth slows, but hits record high

Bloomberg NEF forecasts falling battery prices enabling surge in wind and solar to 50% of global generation by 2050

IEA: global energy demand rose by 2.3% in 2018, fastest pace in the last decade; CO2 emissions up 1.7%

BloombergNEF: solar, wind, batteries to attract $10T to 2050; curbing emissions long-term will require other technologies

BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

Harvard team finds large-scale US wind power would cause warming that would take roughly a century to offset

IEA: COVID-19 crisis causing the biggest fall in global energy investment in history

IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew in 2016

ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

BNEF, Snam, IGU report finds global gas industry set to resume growth post-pandemic; low-carbon technologies for long-term growth

1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that’s curbed oil demand – IEA

BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

Global CO2 emissions up 3% in 2011; per capita CO2 emissions in China reach EU levels

Intermountain Power Agency orders MHPS JAC Gas Turbine technology for renewable-hydrogen energy hub, operated by LA DWP

IEA: global energy investment stabilized above $1.8T in 2018; security and sustainability concerns growing

CMU study finds that coal retirement is needed for EVs to reduce air pollution

BMW Group plans to source steel produced with green power and hydrogen from H2GS in Sweden

The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

BP Statistical Review finds global oil share down for 12th year in a row, coal share up to highest level since 1969; renewables at 2%

Study finds climate impact of hydropower varies widely

3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

Researchers Say Mix of Policies and Current or Near-Term Technologies Could Phase Out US CO2 Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants by 2030

Chevy Dealership Adds Solar Trackers

Consortium developing green hydrogen megaproject in Oman

EIA expects US motor fuel consumption to increase this summer, but remain below 2019 levels

JetBlue to go carbon neutral on all domestic flights by offsetting emissions starting in 2020; flying with SAF from SFO

MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

UK to award £54M to 15 projects developing innovative carbon removal technology

Berkeley study finds renewable portfolio standards insufficient to meet 2030 GHG emission targets; new policy required

Northwestern/Princeton study explores air quality impacts of aggressive conversion to EVs

BP Energy Outlook: 30% growth in global demand to 2035; fuel demand continues to rise, even with EVs & fuel efficiency

BP Energy Outlook 2030 sees emerging economies leading energy growth to 2030; global CO2 emissions from energy well above IEA 450 scenario

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel to advance the decarbonization of steel production; low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power

Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

IEA: time to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future

“A Moral Imperative” — Joe Biden Commits To Halving US Emissions

Australia’s CSIRO creates Future Science Platform focused on hydrogen energy systems

Annual Increase in Global CO2 Emissions Halved in 2008; Decrease in Fossil Oil Consumption, Increase in Renewables Share

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