Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

COP26 needs to be more than just a moment. COP26 is fast approaching, yet it feels as distant and difficult to grasp as ever. So how is the UK public feeling about COP26, climate change, and what the opportunity for business might be? You only know the language if you're in the club.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As the lockdown lifts emphasis has shifted to customer engagement. Following discussions with more than 200 businesses on their responses to the pandemic, Hubbub's Trewin Restorick sets out the five key takeaways. The conversations, informed by experts and public polling , have been wide-ranging, but five common themes emerged.

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Defend Our Future

JANUARY 17, 2020

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a pivotal moment in the fight for equality. As we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. to advance equal rights, a new study found that many racist housing policies of the mid-twentieth century led to greater heatwave risks in vulnerable neighborhoods. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish? Elsa Wenzel. Tue, 06/08/2021 - 02:12. Put down that beet-juice burger. The next big wave in plant-based protein is fake fish. Overall, businesses creating all sorts of meat alternatives raised $3.1 billion last year, more than three times the level of 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 5, 2021

California is facing a major decision under a tight deadline — whether it should push for large-scale power plants and batteries to prevent a repeat of its August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer, or turn to behind-the-meter resources like batteries and demand response. 14 and 15 last year. 14 and 15 last year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

First, news broke that London Mayor Sadiq Khan had refused planning consent for the MSG Sphere in Stratford. This 100-metre illuminated globe would have towered over nearby buildings like a baleful, modern-day Eye of Sauron, with 190,000 square feet of LED surface continually beaming corporate marketing messages across the city.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It was a tough call to select the highlights, but here you have my Editor’s pick of our Top 10 – in no particular order – chosen for going deep, originality, capturing the political moment, scoring victories for the climate movement or straight-up popularity…. It was a tough year for the green transition.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

James Parish, a wind gust from Ida lifted most of the roof from the home of Sharon Lavigne. On Sunday afternoon, Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane, making it one of the most powerful storms to strike Louisiana in recorded history. Ida made landfall on the 16th anniversary of the devastating Hurricane Katrina.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 29, 2020

BLM joins COVID-19 In this raw moment, we are dually confronted. Climate and Justice make a Great Pair Not mere Facebook friends, these two spawn recovery, lift communities. Climate and Justice make a Great Pair Not mere Facebook friends, these two spawn recovery, lift communities. You’ll find her haiku from 2019 here.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

Currys collects a staggering 5,500 tonnes of unwanted tech every month, boosted by prominent signage instore, and they are offering refurbished tech alongside new, albeit only on their website at the moment. It is not a shop, but a community repair hub where people can get their appliances fixed and learn repair skills along the way.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A host of leading industry figures five their views on how can firms support and accelerate the transition to net zero buildings. From whichever angle you look, net zero buildings offer a compelling vision. And it needn't be a distant vision of the future, either. Not that any part of this transition is easy, of course.

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Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

The main reason for this is that many businesses have built their net zero strategies around perceived best practice at a given moment in time - whether that was two or ten years ago. That's significantly less off setting than many firms are currently planning. Of course, I'm not saying any of this is straight forward.

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Grist

MARCH 21, 2024

The spotlight When Grist writer Tik Root set out on a journey to decarbonize his home, he didn’t intend at first to document the effort. As a journalist covering climate, he’s had years of experience reporting on electrification, energy, and technology — and demystifying those often complex topics for the average consumer.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

But whoever wins the race, the next Prime Minister will need to quickly lift their gaze from their navels and look to the horizon. And yet, just at the moment we need markets to act with confidence and lead us out of the storm, political consensus around net zero looks more fragile than ever. But this could change.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2021

As we emerge from COP26 and a year in which we've seen a number of important global moments, from the UN Food Systems Summit to part one of the Convention on Biological Diversity COP in China, the jury is still out on what the tangible outcomes will be. Pivotal moment for the sustainability movement. December 2021.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 26, 2021

For me, finding and becoming an active member of Women in Cleantech and Sustainability was a pivotal moment – where community, passion, vision and kindness lifted me up and reminded me: I am not alone. . Her introduction reminded us of the power of telling our own stories and of lifting each other up. We are community makers.”

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

Entitled Seize the Moment: Building a thriving, inclusive and resilient economy in the aftermath of Covid-19 , the report argues the government should aim "targeted public investment" at key sectors while pushing through policy reforms that can help green infrastructure projects attract further private sector investment.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2023

This is an important moment to remind those who are aligned with B Lab's mission that people really are at the heart of the change that we seek to have through business. This is an important moment to remind those who are aligned with B Lab's mission that people really are at the heart of the change that we seek to have through business.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 29, 2020

So far, the clean energy industry has largely embraced a "rising tide lifts all boats" approach: If renewables companies help clean up the grid, that will naturally reduce pollution for the communities of color who experience it most acutely. “When I have those conversations and send information, there’s no action. [.]

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Britain is overwhelmingly in favour of tackling climate change and protecting nature and it is time for the government to step up, writes Ben Margolis. This summer has brought home the impacts of climate change to the people of the UK in a way most have never previously experienced.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

Shell reveals latest plans to ramp up delivery of greener aviation fuels. Many players across the corporate world can agree on one thing: we need to decarbonise the aviation industry. But they can't do it alone. But they can't do it alone. "It It needs support. Right now, book-and-claim is not a widely accepted form of emissions reduction.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

At the same time, meanwhile, mooted plans to plans to lift the ban on fracking in England, water down green farming subsidies and ditch habitat protection regulations had seen the government accused of waging an "attack on nature" by environmental groups. So the way we are delivering out mission right now has to change," said Truss. "We

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, at the moment there is very little transparency, which makes it hard for anyone to assess if projects are delivering benefits for ecosystems or people. However, at the moment there is very little transparency, which makes it hard for anyone to assess if projects are delivering benefits for ecosystems or people.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It was a moment of deep pride for all of us. Where are the opportunities to lift BIPOC voices, to elevate and amplify the ideas and proven solutions from communities outside our sphere? Where are the opportunities to lift BIPOC voices, to elevate and amplify the ideas and proven solutions from communities outside our sphere?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

BusinessGreen reports on the fast-evolving plans to establish a thriving EV battery recycling industry in the UK. Batteries are set to become even more ubiquitous than they are already. The clean tech revolution will see battery technologies play a critical role in our cars, our trucks, our power grid, our buildings, and even our ferries.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

As such, the IEA's report today - titled Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector - is nothing less than a watershed moment for the global economy. The International Energy Agency has set out a vision for a major transformation of the global economy – here are its top conclusions.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

ECIU's Matt Williams assesses the government's recent trees and peat action plans, and how they might fit into the government's wider net zero strategy. And while that is true, the degraded state of a swathe of our countryside means it is, in the lingo, a 'source' as opposed to a 'sink' of carbon, releasing more carbon than it sucks up.

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Green Tech Challenge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In that moment, a car, a BMW, with a driver on the phone, was about to show me that size does matter and that I was not of a mattering size. In that moment, a car, a BMW, with a driver on the phone, was about to show me that size does matter and that I was not of a mattering size. Life Lessons about Business It was too late.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It was a moment of deep pride for all of us. Where are the opportunities to lift BIPOC voices, to elevate and amplify the ideas and proven solutions from communities outside our sphere? Where are the opportunities to lift BIPOC voices, to elevate and amplify the ideas and proven solutions from communities outside our sphere?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Joel Makower talks to the former Unilever boss about his new book, 'Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take'. An icon of sustainable business has a new book. Given that intriguing title, I thought it would be time to check back in with Paul Pullman, who I interviewed for last week's GreenBiz 350 podcast.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

But campaigners slam strategy that will 'do nothing to help the UK get off Russian gas this year', warning 'the person who will be happiest with it is Vladimir Putin'. The release of the Strategy follows several delays and weeks of disagreements within government over multiple aspects of the plan.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2021

It's a can of worms that I recently pried open, unleashing a squirming jumble of concepts, opinions and perspectives — some clear and concise, others anything but, at least to lay readers like me. This was no academic exercise. It will require thinking big and making bold moves. The term has become de rigueur among climate activists.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This investment programme is going to breathe life into the UK economy - it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic'. million heat pumps would have been sold by 2030, ahead of natural gas boilers being removed from sale entirely by 2033 at the latest.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

The overall message is clear: the government needs to get a move on, or risk missing out on much needed global green investment, as well as a more energy secure grid system. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the top reaction to the CCC's 130-page clarion call for action. Now there is more at stake.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

The former Chancellor and the Foreign Secretary will now battle it out to become the next Prime Minister, but who has the most impressive green vision? The run-off between Sunak and Truss could also see environmental issues pushed to the fore. So which candidate is best placed to navigate this tightrope and deliver for the green economy?

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2022

An estimated one in four households are expected to be plunged into fuel poverty this winter as gas prices continue to soar and the UK's energy price cap is lifted for the second time in a year. For comparison, last summer the energy price stood at £1,138.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2022

The field is crowded, the race is wide open, and the Conservative Party’s commitment to climate action appears to be fracturing – we take a look at what we know so far about the candidate’s green plans. The front-runners. Rishi Sunak. However, his candidacy has environmental groups worried.

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