GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This article originally was published on Yale Environment 360. gas company, Air Products & Chemicals, announced that as part of Neom it has been building a green hydrogen plant in Saudi Arabia for the last four years. Across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, more countries and companies are embracing this high-quality fuel.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

Emissions abatement efforts are considered by some companies to be complex and costly. But as pressure to address climate change and sustainability increases, businesses are learning that investing in sustainability and company profitability are not mutually exclusive. Click here for more information.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

Bill Weihl argues US corporates have a huge opportunity to help deliver genuinely ambitious climate-focused legislation. Within days, Congress is expected to vote on a historic investment ($369bn, to be precise) in climate and clean energy. We have the know-how and the solutions to address this crisis. What if we fail?

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 30, 2021

Climate change has been a dominant driver of this growth. There is broad agreement among nations that rising global carbon dioxide emissions must be addressed. This growing awareness has resulted in tremendous pressure on the energy sector to adapt to a new reality. Sustainability accountability is growing rapidly.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 8, 2022

Dry cleaning businesses need to be eco friendly and sustainable in order to prosper in today’s rapidly evolving marketplace. It is also critical that you do your part in addressing climate change. Operator pressure control — shuts down the boiler at a specific setpoint to prevent steam pressure from building up.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The COP26 Youth Climate Protest in Glasgow on 5 November (image credit: PMGphotog / Shutterstock.com). The new “Article 6 Rules” have been designed with the intention of diverting funds to schemes that generate credits, such as tree planting and carbon-capture systems. Carbon trading. What can be done with the captured CO2?

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 8, 2022

Dry cleaning businesses need to be eco friendly and sustainable in order to prosper in today’s rapidly evolving marketplace. It is also critical that you do your part in addressing climate change. Operator pressure control — shuts down the boiler at a specific setpoint to prevent steam pressure from building up.

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

I actually wrote it last fall as I was thinking through my larger climate strategy piece in HBR. I keep coming back to this question: how do we increase quality of life for what will be 9 or 10 billion people in a climate and resource-constrained world? (A repost from my MIT SMR column. In other words, how do we grow? Which is true?

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

The UK should therefore "take back control" by rapidly ramping up renewable energy generation of all forms, Johnson argued. Renewables are the quickest and cheapest route to greater energy independence," the article stated. They are invulnerable to Putin's manipulations. He may have his hand on the taps for oil and gas.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

Set up with the vision of "business as a force of good", B Corps are an attempt to address the problem of companies being primarily accountable to their shareholders, rather than wider stakeholders such as employees, customers, local communities or the environment. A shift in corporate thinking is certainly underway.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

BusinessGreen rounds up the latest developments to emerge from the pivotal climate talks taking place in Sharm El Sheikh. The warming seas are starting to swallow our lands, inch by inch," Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano said during his plenary address. Nature is losing its patience with us," he said. "As

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Thousands of companies have hitched themselves to the carbon-neutral bandwagon, from fossil fuel producers like BP and Shell, to other household names including United Airlines, Dell, Burger King, and Vodafone. Some companies say they’ll decarbonise by 2040 , others as early as 2022.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

How the climate crisis will crash the economy Joel Makower Mon, 09/14/2020 – 02:11 The chickens are coming home to roost. Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. So many people and stories. financial system.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. If human activity, including economic activity, is the primary driver of global warming, it only makes sense that an effective solution must start with changing that behavior.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

How the climate crisis will crash the economy Joel Makower Mon, 09/14/2020 – 02:11 The chickens are coming home to roost. Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. So many people and stories. financial system.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 1, 2020

CoRE recognizes the critical societal importance of scaling clean energy technologies such as solar to address the climate crisis. This survey measures a company’s chemical footprint against best practices. Solar companies can use this tool to identify safer solutions to problematic materials such as hydrofluoric acid.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

How coffee is grown and plantations expand is extremely important given the pressure coffee growing can put on the environment, particularly water sources and forest. Saturday morning in Buon Ma Thuot (Image: Karoline Kan/China Dialogue) Tradition and ambition China is a tea-drinking country but coffee consumption is growing rapidly.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Biodiversity Benchmark , developed in partnership with The Biodiversity Consultancy and Conservation International and supported by Sappi, will enable companies to understand their impacts and dependencies on nature in their materials sourcing strategies, chart a pathway to delivering positive biodiversity outcomes, and benchmark their progress.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

These systems will remain out of reach, though, unless we address persistent, decades-old structural issues. Price pressures continue to challenge the viability of decentralized food systems and communities of color continue to be underserved — as farmers, food chain workers, supply chain entrepreneurs and consumers.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

he COP27 Climate Summit finally closed early on Sunday morning , delivering both an historic deal to introduce a new Loss and Damage fund and recriminations over governments' continuing failure to accept unabated fossil fuels need to be phase out in the coming decades. A major new fund really could be up and running in a little over a year.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Our biggest existential threat, climate change, is no longer a scientific model of the future; it’s now a relentless daily challenge. The forces driving companies toward sustainability are relentless … yet we’re not doing enough and some powerful counter-pressures are in play. This was a rough year. I see duality.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact. As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). Use the links provided to navigate through this article. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

However, the company’s plan to invest up to $46 billion over the next 15–20 years to expand into an emissions-free iron process being piloted in Northern Sweden is big news for Sweden, the global steel industry and future generations around the world. The steel industry contributes directly to 7% of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Jim Robbins Thu, 11/19/2020 – 01:30 This article originally was published on Yale Environment 360. gas company, Air Products & Chemicals, announced that as part of Neom it has been building a green hydrogen plant in Saudi Arabia for the last four years. Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. The Climate Impact of Meat.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The key final decision texts on the UNFCCC website include a raft of new commitments and legal language aimed at pushing for more investment, resources, and ambition in support of efforts to drive down emissions, boost economies and support countries tackle the worsening impacts of climate change. and 2C of warming. and 2C of warming.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Industry voice: Emissions from transport are growing, but innovative companies can help Europe meet its climate targets, according to Schroders. Greenhouse gas emissions from energy supply are falling rapidly, for example. Clearly, the transport sector is going to have to make some big changes in a short space of time.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

Just half a decade ago, maybe even more recently, there was a concentrated effort on behalf of the industry to raise awareness of the ESG risks associated with issues such as climate change. I wanted something that was linked to our investment approach, linked to climate data. The impetus is now omnipresent.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The last few hundred years of human activity have stored up changes in climate that threaten human existence. But climate change is not the only ecological threat - it is widely agreed that damage to the natural environment and loss of biodiversity pose a comparable risk. What is natural capital?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. If human activity, including economic activity, is the primary driver of global warming, it only makes sense that an effective solution must start with changing that behavior.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 25, 2021

They also have the most potential to drive changes for a more sustainable future. The food retail industry has remained behind in adapting to the realities of doing business in the era of climate change and rapidly changing consumer preferences. Primary to this regulatory drive are refrigerants.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Just a couple of decades ago, the notion of a major company investing in nature might have seemed absurd – today it is mission critical to the future of the economy. Such projects also support ecosystem services, biodiversity, access to freshwater, climate resilience, improved livelihoods, healthy diets, and food security.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

While still daunted by the epic and tragic scale of the climate crisis, this community has been buoyed by the way in which their work has already helped deliver both plummeting clean technology costs and a decoupling of greenhouse gas emissions and global GDP. because they were never intended to". because they were never intended to".

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 19, 2024

While some of the rhetoric may be cooling a bit , external critics of ESG have definitely altered how companies act, especially in the U.S. Has the pullback on talking about climate and equity issues slowed action within companies? We need a more nuanced approach to address these pressures.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. The article was called ‘can the world kick its oil habit?’. The article in the Financial Times however was incredible bullish on the oil and gas industry.

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The big stories of 2023 included the “anti-ESG” movement’s silencing effect on many companies; the explosion of clean tech; new reporting laws that are pressuring companies to measure and do more; and most oddly, the annual global climate meeting held in the United Arab Emirates, a petro-state. But the U.S.

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