Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

Seven years after the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, a large majority of country signatories and hundreds of companies have committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. At the same time, emissions have rocketed, with global annual CO2 emissions rising to 36.3 gigatons in 2021 from 35.5 Paris target.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Although the high temperatures experienced in the last five years could be temporary, there is a cause for alarm if global warming continues at the current rate. According to the UN, the world has about a 25% chance of experiencing a year of temperatures hot enough to push global temperatures past the 1.5°C limit before 2030.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Komatsu is aiming to reduce its global emissions by a whopping 50% by 2030, with a further goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. On the other hand, GM has set a target to achieve full carbon neutrality in both its products and operations by 2040. The mining industry is no exception.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The company has pledged to meet net zero by 2050 in its external operations. Global technology and engineering giant Hitachi has this week announced it is to strengthen its net zero strategy by extending its goals for carbon neutrality to cover its entire value chain. The company will also invest ¥1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The carbon footprint of British pig farming has reduced by almost 40% over the last 20 years, according to a new study, using a new methodology, led by the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. for Global Warming Potential (commonly known as carbon footprint); 21.2%

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

In an open letter yesterday, chief executives of major wind players including Ørsted, Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, RWE and SSE - as well as trade bodies Renewable UK, WindEurope and GWEC - urged G20 leaders to throw their weight behind the burgeoning wind sector if the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are to be kept alive.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Honda just took the next critical step toward our electrified future with two major investments in Ohio that will lead our plan to build EVs in America for our customers and help achieve our global goal of achieving carbon neutrality for all of our products and corporate activities by 2050.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Should the US, China, Japan, and South Korea deliver on net zero emission targets announced by their leaders in recent months, then the global climate change goals of the Paris Agreement could be "within reach", potentially putting the world on track to avoid the most catastrophic global warming scenarios during the second half of the century.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

An area of seagrass and rock on the seabed, Mediterranean sea, France: “Blue carbon” ecosystems could prevent approximately 1 gigatonne of CO2e from entering the atmosphere by 2050, says the report. Ocean-based climate action can play a much bigger role in shrinking the world’s carbon footprint than was previously thought.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The achievement marks the latest milestone in the wind turbine manufacturers' roadmap to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. As a renewable energy company, we contribute to curbing global warming, but we don't stop there. These wind and solar asssets are located in Spain, Denmark, India and the USA, it said. "As

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

Renovating a building to reduce its energy consumption makes little sense if there is no control of the carbon-intensive materials and components used for the renovation, and if these are transported over long distances.”. As there are only about 10 years left before the door closes for limiting global warming to less than 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

So they’re just going to try and squeeze out every last bit of profit they can and give it fancy new names like carbon capture and sequestration. It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. It’s not new.” The greenwashing term for it is liquefied natural gas.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

Carbon capture firm Climeworks has announced that it has completed a $650m equity round a day, just after the IPCC stated that carbon dioxide removal would now be essential to limit global warming to 1.5C. goal within reach.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

But concerns persist about the reliability of data metrics measuring carbon output. to support the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050?or or sooner currently stands at 87, representing $37tr AUM, more than a third of global assets under management, according to the latest Net Zero Asset Managers initiative figures.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Analysis of the carbon performance of the 72 largest listed industrial companies, which include cement, steel, paper, and aluminium firms, reveals just 19 per cent are currently have strategies that are aligned with a 2C pathway. Today's TPI data shows it can be done - with 14 companies now aligned with a path to keep global warming below 2C.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

To do so, they draw on friendly science, the promise of technological innovation and slick marketing campaigns – which promise “climate neutral” or “climate smart” meat and dairy – to create the idea we can continue eating vast quantities of the stuff while meeting our climate goals.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 2, 2023

The ASCEND (Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and Data sovereignty) project is preparing a feasibility study on the concept, with its potential to help meet Europe’s Green Deal goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. Have you read?

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

THE IMPORTANCE OF CARBON FOOTPRINTS. Businesses today need to know and understand their carbon footprint in order to make progress toward becoming a more sustainable and eco-friendly business. You can also use it to determine the amount of carbon offsets to purchase in order to get to carbon neutral. .

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

utilities have promised to eliminate their carbon emissions by midcentury. utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5 Most of the biggest U.S. A new report from the Sierra Club finds that almost no U.S.

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Climate 4.0

AUGUST 17, 2022

Carbon Neutrality, Sometime in the Future China’s government has pledged carbon neutrality by 2060. The US has pledged carbon neutrality by 2050. Its Congress has just passed legislation billed as the most significant in decades , even as it is littered with support of carbon-fuel power generation.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

"We have a duty to the communities we serve to continue to reduce the impact our business has on the environment and we are committing to reduce our own carbon emissions and become Net Zero by 2040, 10 years ahead of the government's own targets, because 2050 isn't soon enough," he said. "We

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

A warming world doesn’t bode well for a sport that skates on frozen water. One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Yet there are ways resorts can mitigate their climatic impact, to help curb global warming and become more sustainable.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2022

The tracker found that 158 financial players have committed to carbon neutrality in their investment portfolio by 2050 by joining the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero , a coalition launched last year for financial institutions to accelerate the transition to net-zero. And there is precedent.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. F by 2050 and 5.6°F–8.8°F

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

The commitments formed the centrpiece of the automakers second annual Integrated Sustainability and Financial Report, which was released yesterday, confirming Ford's long term goals to to achieve carbon neutrality no later than 2050, backed by science-based interim emissions targets for 2035.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The new International Aviation Climate Ambition Coalition will bring together countries that want the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to adopt an "ambitious long-term aspirational goal that is compatible with net zero global emissions by 2050", according to documents seen by Reuters.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

This is important for both environmental reasons, so as to keep global warming below 2C - and for social reasons, given the volatility of oil and gas prices. For example, less than two per cent of UK homes have any form of low carbon heating, but by 2050 the government wants to install over 19 million heat pumps across the country.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2020

President Xi, one of around 75 world leaders scheduled to speak at the virtual UN summit, reiterated his landmark pledge from September to peak China's carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060. I welcome President Xi's commitment to achieving carbon neutrality before 2060.

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Michael Grossman

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Such has been the case when it comes to communicating the dangers of the climate crisis during COVID, according to the recent study published by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication , who reported “Most Americans are convinced that global warming is happening (72% nationally).”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in August that such extreme weather events will become a more regular occurrence if global warming continues. Despite numerous governments setting targets to reach net zero carbon emissions, the world is not on track to contain rising temperatures.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

It also argued that despite a temporary rebound in 2021, global coal demand is set to slow down from this year onwards. The researchers stress that green hydrogen - hydrogen produced without emissions using clean power and electrolysis - is set to be major driver of power demand between 2035 and 2050. or $1.7tr," the report states.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2022

Between 2013 and 2017, United Arab Emirates-based investment manager Alan McCormick tweeted numerous articles by climate science deniers, including one calling on readers to “celebrate carbon dioxide”. One of the main investors in GB News is the Legatum Group, a Dubai-based investment firm co-founded by McCormick. Jenkins Jr.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The commitment is aligned with the Paris Agreement's target to limit global warming to 1.5C Continued increases in global warming will amplify existing risks and create new risks with potentially irreversible and catastrophic impacts on markets, society and the environment.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2021

China represents more than a quarter of all global carbon emissions, and it has spent tens of billions of dollars to build coal power facilities in 152 countries over the past decade through its Belt and Road Initiative. Roughly 70% of the coal plants built globally now rely on Chinese funding. I worked in both the George W.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The 'domino effect' of net zero pledges from world leaders in recent months could prove hugely impactful on global warming trajectories, a new analysis suggests, but is its optimistic outlook justified? Back then, CAT's estimate for global average temperature rise by 2100 was 3.5C.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The findings, taken from the IEA's An Energy Sector Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality in China report, suggests Beijing's existing policies will also give the country the capacity to accelerate its transition to clean energy sources and reach carbon neutrality before 2060. Sri Lanka to cease new coal power projects.

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