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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. Following the oil spill, BP’s stock price plummeted ~50% over two months.

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Revealed: Two Thirds of Online Posts from Six Major European Fossil Fuel Companies ‘Greenwashing’

DeSmogBlog

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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Does the WRI’s new Sustainable Food Future report need an update already?

AFN Sustainable Protein

Yet the material itself did feel fairly stale, taking 2010 as its benchmark year while looking forward to 2050. Current trends are sliding to a nearly 600 million-hectare “land gap,” between global agricultural land area in 2010, and expected agricultural expansion by 2050. That’s an area nearly twice the size of India.

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'It is now or never': IPCC concludes world has the tools and financial clout to halve emissions by 2030

Business Green

Thereafter, as previous IPCC reports have indicated, global emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030, in addition to a reduction in methane emissions of around a third, from 2019 levels. Even if emissions are halved by 2030 and methane is cut by a third in the same timeframe, it is "almost inevitable" warming will rise above that 1.5C

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. Following the oil spill, BP’s stock price plummeted ~50% over two months.

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Burned Out: Documents Reveal The Gas Industry’s Use Of Tobacco Tactics Over Gas Stove Emissions

DeSmogBlog

These documents, along with other findings, also demonstrate how multiple industries have employed this strategy to deny the health and environmental hazards of asbestos , lead , plastics , toxic chemicals , CFCs , and carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. This influence continued over subsequent decades.

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