GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The simple truth. But that takes courage," said Polman, who in 2019 created Imagine, a foundation aimed at eradicating poverty and inequality and stemming runaway climate change. It is now much cheaper to design right and invest in that. In the coming years, the speed and skill with which progress is made on these issues will be critical.

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Charged

JANUARY 29, 2024

No stakeholder got everything they wanted, but the truth is this is a very balanced deal and positive news.” However, they did make some concessions in other areas. Trailer manufacturers will have to lower the emissions of semi-trailers by 10% in 2030, and buses must reduce emissions by 90% in 2030, and 100% by 2035.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2024

These two and many others are based on grains of truth—but the FUD merchants cherry-pick, exaggerate and misrepresent in order to make temporary technical challenges sound like EV deal-killers. Several are so shopworn that they’ve acquired names, like the Legend of the Long Tailpipe and the Battery Backpack Bugaboo.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 16, 2021

At the second workshop, ARC dove into debunking a series of D&I myths—read on to learn the truth behind some of these myths and actionable steps for companies! The truth: Many companies don’t use objective, consistent performance metrics to inform promotions, which leaves room for conscious and unconscious biases to creep in.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 19, 2024

But the truth might be more complex. S&P Global Market Intelligence reports the value of oil and gas deals topped $271 billion in 2023 , double the previous year. Some of the biggest of these deals will aim to be finalized in 2024. Some worry that mega mergers are a bet against the energy transition.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Hard truths from a decade of investing in regional food systems. This truth informs three fundamental insights from our work in the field of food system transformation. Meredith Storton. Thu, 09/10/2020 - 02:00. These systems will remain out of reach, though, unless we address persistent, decades-old structural issues.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

These are moments of truth where I think you can see what right corporate behavior leads to and what wrong corporate behavior leads to.". Last week, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman urged business leaders to be courageous in their response. What COVID has done is a few things that we weren’t really able to get across until then.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 3, 2020

We hold these truths to be self-evident. TGIF, Agents of Impact! The convergence of COVID and the movement for racial justice has made clear that the future of finance is sustainability, inclusivity and equality. And ramped up impatience for a faster and deeper shift of capital, not least by impact investors themselves (see Nos.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2020

*Music in this episode by Lee Rosevere: "Waiting for the Moment That Never Comes," "Knowing the Truth," "Southside," "Start the Day," "Thinking It Over," "Curiosity" and "Introducing the Pre-Roll". Virtual Conversations. Mark your calendar for these upcoming GreenBiz webcasts. Can't join live? Moving to a regenerative food supply.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

These different moods were mirrored by different musical styles: from the dark and eerie pop of Billie Eilish’s ‘All the good girls go to hell’ to the sad pop ballad ‘Truth to Power’, by OneRepublic, or the threatening thrash metal of ‘Another way to die’ by Disturbed. Music supported these causes by expressing emotion and unifying people.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 12, 2022

While it might seem that way for someone who’s only willing to scratch the surface of the food industry looking for the worst-case scenario, it’s nowhere close to the truth. Conspiracy theorists often claim that the world is running out of food. Some companies are working on that issue.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

.” “With data-driven insights into equipment condition, health, and performance, GoConnect’s user-friendly interface provides access – anytime, anywhere – to current and historical data – allowing real-time decisions to be made, based on one version of the truth.”

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

First up, a shocking revelation: There’s no truth in advertising. I’d written about a new beef company called Wholesome Meats, which claims to sell the "only beef that heals the planet." Two members of that team also are moving to cut emissions from conventional beef production. million project. Sounds great, right?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

One of the most universal truths in the world is … The post Unleash Kids’ Creativity With These Natural Craft Ideas appeared first on Earth 911. Go here to see the original: Unleash Kids’ Creativity With These Natural Craft Ideas.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 17, 2023

Stay tuned for Getting to Ground Truth in Asia – Part Two, in which we’ll see how New Zealand and the Philippines are using satellite data to monitor forest harvest and growth. The major flaw in this system is that voluntary self-reporting has allowed for instances of false or inflated claims. Enter satellite data. The result?

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 20, 2024

So, what is the truth? Their inflated claims misrepresent the truth. The post Truth or Consequences appeared first on Clean & Prosperous Institute. Last September, in an article titled “ Do Climate Commitment Act allowance prices get passed through to the pump? ” So, what are the consequences? per allowance.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 11, 2024

There is an element of truth to this argument, in that net U.S. The United States established its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in the wake of the 1973–1974 oil embargo that disrupted oil imports and drove oil prices much higher. The SPR has the capacity to hold enough crude oil to help mitigate the impact of severe supply interruptions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In classrooms we see the wider unresolved conflict of the climate crisis in a nutshell: We need the truth, but the truth is hard. These feelings have been shared by the most informed people, climate scientists, for years. ” But as it becomes clear that warming will not be kept below the agreed 1.5C

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Mosaic

JANUARY 4, 2024

The truth is electrification can save homeowners 1,050 to $2,585 per year on energy bills yearly. Sadly, common misconceptions still persist around electrification — one being that electrification will cost homeowners money without saving them money in the long-run. Homeowners don’t have to electrify their homes in one go.

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Charged

MAY 30, 2023

But the bugaboo of grid capacity as a deal-killer for vehicle electrification is just that—a grain of truth spun into a misleading meme by folks with an obstructionist agenda. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) estimates that Americans drove 2.9 If these estimates are correct, Americans will drive around 3.4 trillion miles in 2049.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

Stephen Davies, an academic who has worked in educational outreach roles at the IEA since 2010, appeared several times in Climate The Movie: The Cold Truth – a new film directed by climate science denier Martin Durkin. A screenshot of Stephen Davies of the Institute of Economic Affairs in Climate The Movie: The Cold Truth.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 11, 2024

The truth is a tricky business and these are complicated topics. There is indeed a problem with electric vehicles — only it’s not a problem with the vehicles themselves. But a new problem — like the problem on YouTube — has replaced the old one, now focused on the solutions to climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In order to maximise the benefits of these technological breakthroughs, we need a substantial ground-truthing effort to support the machine learning remote assessment technologies so that they read the carbon in plant life and terrain more accurately. The result of the work of our taskforce was a series of recommendations.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Huge advances have been made in improving air quality since the middle of the 20th century, but, as this report points out, “the dispiriting truth is that most people living in cities today are breathing unhealthy air”. Air pollution has always been a complex problem, with drivers and impacts that vary significantly from place to place.

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Terra Infirma

MARCH 6, 2020

While they contain an element of truth, all of these arguments are built on the myth that unless greener options can universally replace the status quo, then they are useless. In truth, the arguments arise from people trying to stay in their comfort zone by clinging to an excuse to do nothing. Not everybody can cycle.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2022

And, given SMEs make up the backbone of the UK’s economy, the simple truth is that we will not be able to seize the full opportunity of green jobs if more help is not offered to SMEs, especially in the regions outside Scotland, London and the South East. of all new jobs classed as green.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 8, 2020

IMARA enriches ground truth data with remote sensing data to quantify and visualize environmental impact in order to boost projects working towards a more sustainable, biodiverse, and balanced world. By doing this, they aim to inspire, support, and accelerate action for robust and resilient landscapes.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 27, 2023

Inspiring user-to-user connection grew in Community, such as a user researching mangroves in Trinidad connecting with a local Trinidadian to ground-truth their findings. Over the past year, these platforms have blossomed into vibrant hubs for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and innovation within the Earth observation community.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Because of this, cropland mapping has traditionally required a wealth of ground-truth data for training and verifying machine learning classifiers. Their aim here is to understand which communities have significant concentrations of smallholder farming activities for critical crops.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 3, 2023

Citizens deserve the truth about where we stand on climate, and together they’re showing that they can handle the truth, when they see something meaningful they can do about it together. Based on this stubbornly realistic understanding we aim to address the public as citizens rather than consumers, and most importantly as adults.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The truth is the last offshore wind auction failed, the de facto ban on onshore wind has not been lifted, there is still no final investment decision for Sizewell C, and energy efficiency improvement rates are lagging far behind what is required. It is going to fascinating to see how this new strategy lands.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

The truth is no one knows for sure. But what is less clear is how this global warming will translate into increased weather extremes and how these extremes will then impact hugely complex human infrastructure, agricultural systems, and the economies they underpin. These near-term damages are a result of our past emissions.

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Fairsnape

JULY 23, 2019

Tell the Truth: The first objective of call of extinction rebellion is to recognise that a climate emergency exists and to tell the truth. And, if anyone is setting up, or knows of a construction sector emergency declaration, I would be more than keen to assist/support. The second is to Act Now.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Fresh from their incredible success with a Pulitzer Prize-winning series on China’s mass internment of Muslims in the Xinjiang Province, Alison Killing and Megha Rajagopalan will dive deeper into how satellite imagery can provide both transparency and truth in reporting.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

However, as Henry Stanier, Wildlife Trust Monitoring and Research Officer, explains; “Nothing could be further from the truth; human activity, mostly driven by agriculture, has focused primarily on water levels, and this has had a profound effect on the local ecology.”. Three of the wells have been fitted with OTT ecoLog water level loggers.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The IEA warns in a new report titled The Oil and Gas Industry in Net Zero Transitions that the industry faces “a moment of truth” regarding its role in the energy transition and that CCS is “not a way to retain the status quo.” Most of the corporate advocacy analyzed, around 80 percent, did not align with these positions.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The evidence, they wrote, should inspire the DOJ to “investigate Exxon, Shell, and other members of the fossil fuel industry to determine whether they violated RICO, consumer protection, truth in advertising, public health, or other laws.” A separate letter from U.S. The DOJ threw its support behind the plaintiffs in a U.S.

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