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August

09

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 9, 2021

What is Carbon Capture Technology?

 www.npr.org
Billions of dollars in the new infrastructure agreement are targeted for a technology that would gather carbon dioxide emissions and bury...

Can Carbon Capture And Storage Save California’s Grid?

 www.forbes.com
California’s ambitious emissions reduction plans are driving the state towards a more expensive and less reliable energy system because t...

EnLink Midstream Reports Second Quarter 2021, Expects 2021 Adjusted EBITDA in the Upper End of June Guidance

 www.prnewswire.com
Our vision is to become the future of midstream by leading in innovation and creating sustainable value for EnLink and our unitholders. ...

AMCI Acquisition Corp. II Announces Closing of $150 Million Initial Public Offering

 www.prnewswire.com
AMCI Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: AMCIU) (the "Company") announced today that it closed its initial public offering of 15,000,000 units....
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August

06

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 6, 2021

LPs see value creation as leading driver of ESG, say Manulife

 www.privateequitywire.co.uk
Almost four out of five (75 per cent) of LPs expect sustainability to drive investment decisions over next five years, while 66 per cent ...

How PE Portfolio Companies Can Start Impacting Tomorrow Today

 middlemarketgrowth.org
Two CEOs from private equity-backed businesses discuss their experiences implementing ESG initiatives during a panel sponsored by RSM.

How tech (and some humans) is changing the face of ESG

 www.greenbiz.com
The line between climate action and financial performance is blurring quickly. Corporations are increasingly relying on new technologies ...
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August

05

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 5, 2021

FMC Corporation announces Net Zero Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2035

 investors.fmc.com
FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC), a leading global agricultural sciences company, announced its goal to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) ...

ESG investing is booming, and investors are 'winging it when it comes to research'

 finance.yahoo.com
Interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing has taken off, and there's no sign it's slowing down. And yet, when it ...

Emerging Markets Offer Big Investment Opps for ESG-Focused Investors, Report Says

 www.environmentalleader.com
A new report touting the importance of ESG factors and their impact on investments and investment decisions has found that better environ...

Award Winning ESG Investor Dr. Indranil Ghosh Launches New Podcast Series "Impact Unicorns"

 www.wfmz.com
Dr. Indranil Ghosh—CEO of sustainable investing firm Tiger Hill Capital , award-winning author, and strategic advisor to global leaders—l...
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August

04

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 4, 2021

Inside the Epic Infrastructure Bill

 www.nytimes.com
What’s in the $1 trillion proposal, from broadband and bridges to ports and pedestrian crossings.

Gordon Signs Agreement for Wyoming and JCOAL Carbon Capture Research

 oilcity.news
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon and Japan Coal Frontier Organization President Osamu Tsukamoto have signed a memorandum of understanding (MO...

Carbon Clean Awarded FEED Contract for Acorn CCS project

 www.gasworld.com
Carbon Clean has been contracted to carry out the Front End Engineering Desgin (FEED) services for the Acorn carbon capture plant at St F...

A new era for CCUS – CCUS in Clean Energy Transitions

 www.iea.org
The development of CCUS hubs – industrial centres with shared CO2 transport and storage infrastructure – could play a critical role in ac...
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August

03

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 3, 2021

TPG Announces $5.4 Billion First Close of TPG Rise Climate Fund

press.tpg.com
TPG Rise Climate, the climate investing strategy of TPG’s global impact investing platform TPG Rise, today announced the first close of $...

Highlights From The BP Statistical Review Of World Energy 2021

 www.rrapier.com
Earlier this month the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2o21 was released, covering energy data through 2020. The Review provides a ...

Piedmont Lithium delays timeline to supply Tesla

 www.reuters.com
Piedmont Lithium said it will delay first shipments of lithium chemicals to EV maker Tesla. It does not have a definitive date for when d...

Five Carbon Capture Projects in the U.S.

 www.asme.org
Carbon capture is back. In March, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $24 million for research into technology that captures ca...
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August

02

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 2, 2021

IEA's Roadmap Shows Difficult Journey to Net-Zero

 www.reuters.com
Polarised responses to the International Energy Agency report on achieving net zero emissions by 2050 reveal the enormous challenges of t...

China & India Miss UN Deadline for GHG Pledges

 apnews.com
China and India have missed a U.N. deadline to submit fresh plans for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions in time for the global body ...

Offshore Carbon Capture Storage: A Forecast of Transatlantic Collaboration

 www.offshore-mag.com
The European impetus to reduce and contain emissions has led to a number of different collaborative business partnerships in the UK and E...

Stanford Announces New School, the School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences

 www.forbes.com
The new school will house the School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, the ...
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July

30

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 30, 2021

Aemetis Negotiating Supply of 1.6 Million Tons Per Year of CO2

 www.aemetis.com
Aemetis, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMTX), a renewable natural gas and renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products, announce...

Green Plains Announces 5 Locations for Carbon Capture

 www.globenewswire.com
Green Plains Inc. (NASDAQ:GPRE), today announced that all four of its Nebraska biorefineries and its Shenandoah, Iowa biorefinery have en...

Exxon Eyes Gulf Coast for $100 Billion Innovation Hub

 www.houstonchronicle.com
Exxon Mobil said it believes Houston is the “perfect place” for a giant, $100 billion project to capture carbon dioxide emissions from th...

Navigator CO2 Announces 12 Million Tons Per Year Capacity

 www.prnewswire.com
Successful non-binding open season of Midwest carbon capture and sequestration project complete; pipeline project would benefit agricultu...
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July

29

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 29, 2021

Microsoft's Sustainability Resources - Scope 1, 2, & 3

 microsoft.github.io
Microsoft is committed to becoming carbon negative (removing more carbon out of the atmosphere than the company emits) by 2030. As part o...

Vechain Tracks Emissions on the Blockchain

 www.vechain.com
The VeChain project started in June 2015, focusing on building a trust-free and distributed business ecosystem to enable transparent info...

Devvio Brings ESG to the Blockchain

 www.devvesg.io
DevvESG combines a powerful blockchain platform, a forward-thinking fund, and an environmentally-friendly cryptocurrency to revolutionize...

Open Footprint Forum: Data Accuracy for Emissions

 www.opengroup.org
Reliable tracking of environmental footprint data is a global concern for corporations, governments, and consumers. Accurate data on emis...

Redwood Materials Raises $700M to Expand Battery Recycling

 techcrunch.com
Redwood Materials CEO JB Straubel shared his aspirations last year to turn the startup he co-founded in 2017 into one of the world’s majo...
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July

28

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 28, 2021

Apple Seeks to Manufacture Battery in USA

 www.macrumors.com
The report says that Foxconn, one of Apple's largest suppliers, and Advanced Lithium Electrochemistry, plan to set up plants in the Unite...

Tesla Surpasses $1 Billion in GAAP Net Income for Q2

 seekingalpha.com
To recap, Q2 2021 was the record quarter on many levels. We achieved record production, deliveries and surpassed over a $1billion in GAAP...

DOE to Move Battery Supply Chain into US

 www.energy.gov
The Federal Consortium for Advanced Batteries (FCAB) brings together Federal agencies that are interested in ensuring a domestic supply o...

Schlumberger and Panasonic Join Forces to Create Lithium Production in US

 www.slb.com
Schlumberger New Energy and Panasonic Energy of North America, a division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, announced today that...
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July

27

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 27, 2021

Baker Hughes and Samsung Engineering Team up in CCUS and Hydrogen Drive

 www.upstreamonline.com
South Korea’s Samsung Engineering and US contractor Baker Hughes are linking up on low-to-zero-carbon projects involving carbon capture, ...

Baker Hughes Company (BKR) CEO Lorenzo Simonelli on Q2 2021 Results

 seekingalpha.com
We are pleased with our results as we generated strong free cash flow, continued to drive forward our cost-out efforts, and took further ...

10 Pitch Decks from Notable CleanTech Startups

 www.failory.com
Failory showcases 10 pitch decks from clean tech startups over the last few years.

Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator

 ricecleanenergy.org
The Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator was launched to increase the likelihood of success for early-stage startups advancing solution...
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July

26

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 26, 2021

Japan Showcases Hydrogen at the Olympics

 www.ft.com
Tokyo 2020 is meant to be the “hydrogen Olympics” — a showcase for Japan’s aspiration to make the lightest element in the periodic table ...

Amazon Seeks Clean Energy in Japan Datacenters

 www.reuters.com
Amazon.com Inc is in talks with Japanese power utilities and trading houses to build a renewable power plant in Japan to procure clean en...

Octopus Hydrogen + Luxfer Gas Ink Green Hydrogen Deal

 www.businesswire.com
Luxfer Gas Cylinders - a leading manufacturer of high-pressure composite and aluminum cylinders worldwide – is joining forces with Octopu...

Japan Targets 40% Renewable Energy

 asia.nikkei.com
The Japanese government looks to have renewable energy generate almost 40% of the country's power in fiscal 2030 in the latest version of...
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July

23

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 23, 2021

CNG Lessons Learned - 2009 DOE Workshop

 www.energy.gov
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) hosted a workshop to exchange information among exper...

Venture Capital and Climate Change - It's Different This Time?

 news.yahoo.com
Silicon Valley got a black eye a decade ago when its big venture capital foray into expensive and nascent cleantech didn’t pan out—but it...

Mercedes-Benz Goes All in on Electric Vehicles

 fortune.com
Feeling the heat from Tesla on the one side and from regulators on the other, Mercedes-Benz doubled its ambitions and now expects that by...

DOE Predicts Job Growth in Biofuels Sector

 biomassmagazine.com
The U.S. Department of Energy on July 19 released its 2021 U.S. Energy Employment Report, which shows jobs in biobased fuels fell last ye...
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July

22

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 22, 2021

Net Zero Is Hard Work, So Companies Are Going ‘Carbon Neutral’

 www.bloomberg.com
There’s a debate about how companies should be recognized for buying carbon offsets based on avoiding emissions. Better to call them “car...

RPMI Railpen Commits to Net-Zero Portfolio by 2050

 www.pionline.com
RPMI Railpen, London, plans to deliver a net-zero portfolio by 2050, it said Wednesday. The goal for its portfolio is a 50% reduction in ...

Is 'Net Zero' Much Ado about Nothing?

www.ecosystemmarketplace.com
From definitions to offsets, and technologies to greenwashing, GreenBiz Chairman & Co-founder Joel Makower presents five questions about ...

Achieving Net-zero Carbon Emissions will be Eye-wateringly Expensive

 www.economist.com
Britain is one of 131 countries that have committed to reducing net carbon emissions to zero, or are discussing such a target—but one of ...
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July

21

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 21, 2021

Department of Energy Announces $52 Million to Advance Clean Hydrogen

 www.energy.gov
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $52.5 million to fund 31 projects to advance next-generation clean hydrogen technolog...

UK Government Aims for 2040 to Eliminate Fossil Fuels

 www.visordown.com
UK Government releases the decarbonisation of transport plan with sights on banning fossil fuels by 2040, the days of combustion engines ...

Shell Appeals Ruling on Carbon Emissions

 www.theguardian.com
A court in The Hague reached the milestone verdict in May this year after Friends of the Earth and over 17,000 co-plaintiffs successfully...

Green Ammonia and Green Hydrogen Fuel Cells to Drive Zero Carbon Future

 www.theautochannel.com
Clean Air Task Force (CATF) convened a high-level workshop with 25 researchers and thought leaders from various facets of the global tra...
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July

20

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 20, 2021

General Atlantic Raises $4 Billion

 www.axios.com
Investment firm General Atlantic is raising $4 billion for a growth equity fund focused on climate technologies

Generate Capital Raises $2 Billion

 news.yahoo.com
Generate Capital, a sustainable infrastructure finance and development firm, this morning announced a $2 billion fundraise from major ins...

NY State Awards $4 Million to 20+ Projects

 www.nyserda.ny.gov
Governor Cuomo awarded the projects money to explore heat pump studies and clean energy options at disadvantaged communities

Biden's Climate Goals Clash with US Oil Production

 www.nationalgeographic.com
Although President Biden has cancelled Keystone XL and halted federal drilling, there are many other projects going forward to produce fo...
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July

19

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 19, 2021

Major Solar Projects in 2021 from SEI

 www.seia.org
The Major Solar Projects List is a database of all ground-mounted solar projects, 1 MW and above, that are either operating, under constr...

Azerbaijans State Oil Firm Plans Offshore Wind Pilot

 www.windpowermonthly.com
Azerbaijan’s state oil company is planning a single-turbine floating offshore wind pilot project to decarbonise upstream oil and gas acti...

EnLink Eyeing Carbon Storage in Louisiana

 www.naturalgasintel.com
Dallas-based EnLink Midstream LLC has increased its earnings guidance for 2021 amid strengthening natural gas and oil prices, with an eye...

Aker Explores Carbon Capture and Storage in Iceland

 news.cision.com
Norway’s Aker Carbon Capture has joined forces with Carbfix and Elkem Iceland in the groundbreaking work of reducing CO2 emissions of Elk...
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July

17

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 16, 2021

Indian Energy Tycoon to Invest $10 Billion into Clean Energy

 www.thenationalnews.com
Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani unveiled an ambitious push into clean energy involving 750 billion rupees ($10.1bn) of investment over three ...

We Need To Take CO2 Out Of The Sky

 www.orbuch.com
To keep below two degrees, we'll need to dramatically reduce current emissions and simultaneously remove 10-15 gigatons of CO2/yr from th...

CO2 Sequestration - Federal Role

 fas.org
For several decades the federal government has funded efforts to explore the feasibility of mitigating the release of greenhouse gases (G...

NETL's Fossil Energy R&D Awards

 www.netl.doe.gov
The National Energy Technology Laboratory (part of DOE) is driving innovation and delivering solutions for an environmentally sustainable...
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July

15

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 15, 2021

Senegal Promotes Energy Diversification and Role of Natural Gas

 www.africanews.com
Backed by over 450 billion cubic meters of proven natural gas reserves, Senegal is rapidly establishing itself as a leader in African gas...

Project Canary Certifies EQT Natural Gas

 www.bizjournals.com
When EQT Corp. announced it had started a pilot program of third-party environmental monitoring with Project Canary, it was tapping into ...

Chesapeake Plans to Certify Haynesville and Appalachia Gas

 www.naturalgasintel.com
Chesapeake Energy Corp. said Wednesday it is partnering with nonprofits MiQ and Equitable Origin to certify its Lower 48 natural gas prod...

Texas ERCOT Releases 60-Point Grid Reliability Roadmap

 www.ercot.com
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) presented the “Roadmap to Improving Grid Reliability,” which details a variety of impro...
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July

14

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 14, 2021

States Adopt Renewable Portfolio Standards

 www.ncsl.org
States have been very active in the past year revising their Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), which require that a specified percenta...

SCF Partners Announces Investment in Hydrasun

 www.businesswire.com
Hydrasun is a recognised market leader in the provision of integrated fluid transfer, power and control solutions. We are focused on sup...

Utilities and Clean Energy Groups Battle for Southeast Market

 www.canarymedia.com
Why are clean energy groups and big corporate electricity buyers so opposed to a plan to create the first regional energy-trading market ...

Toms River Solar in NJ Goes Live Delivering 28 Megawatts

 www.edf-re.com
EDF Renewables North America (EDFR) and the Renewable Power business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs) today announce...
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July

13

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 13, 2021

Over 40 Carbon Capture Projects Announced in Europe

 www.catf.us
The Clean Air Task Force’s (CATF) Europe Carbon Capture Project and Activity Map shows more than 40 carbon capture projects have been ann...

TxDoT Estimates Texas Accounts for 0.48% of Global Emissions

 www.texasobserver.org
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) wants to fix the commute. In early 2020, after nearly three decades of planning, discussio...

Carbon Confused? Carbon-positive, Carbon-neutral, or Carbon-negative

 www.treehugger.com
I have never understood exactly what net-zero means. I don't even know how to type it: does it have a hyphen or not? I have mentioned thi...

$100M Prize for Carbon Removal

 www.xprize.org
Climate science is clear that in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change we need to dramatically reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) e...

Is Venture Capital or Project Finance Key to Solving Climate Challenge?

 blog.terra.do
How can we best scale and deploy technologies that fight climate change? Where does climate finance fit it on the timeline of embracing c...

80+ Venture Firms Investing in Climate Tech

 climatetechvc.org
The word is out on climate tech investing. Every sector of the global economy needs to transform to be climate neutral over just two busi...
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