Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

Add in potentially huge demand for travel as soon as people feel that it is safe to venture further afield and it is easy to see how the early 2020s could again set new records for global emissions - and at time when scientists and the UN are warning emissions need to be falling at an unprecedentedly rapid rate.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

Influential consultancy details how five major shifts will be necessary to steer the global economy on to a sustainable path, and that a laggard approach to the decarbonisation of power and transport now will have direct impact on the levels of reforestation required later. Business leaders need knowledge of the shifts required for a 1.5C

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 9, 2021

Incorporating SDG 11, Affordable and Clean Energy, into your business will empower you to tackle the unique challenges of urban sustainability, resiliency, reduce your carbon footprint, become a sustainability leader, and show your customers you prioritize the needs of all. Affordable and sustainable transport systems.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2023

This is not the pace of clean tech deployment, nor the rate of decarbonisation we should be aspiring too. And as that rapid change builds momentum it will serve to push down the cost of clean technologies, demonstrate the benefits of decarbonisation to the public, and gradually bring the full net zero goal within reach.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2021

Former Bank of England Governor's plan to establish a $100bn-a-year global market for CO2 offsets contains three major flaws that urgently need addressing, argues Greenpeace UK's John Sauven. Carney needs to go back to square one. A look at the plan proposed so far suggests that there are three major flaws.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

But decarbonisation is one of many urgent challenges that local government needs to address, at a time of budget constraints and cost of living pressures. Understanding the role of hydrogen Hydrogen is attracting much attention for its decarbonisation potential because it is a clean alternative to natural gas and petroleum.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But it is a technical and somewhat arcane change to how emissions are recorded for the next Carbon Budget period that could yet determine the pace at which the UK decarbonises this decade, the country's ability to attract the green investment needed to revive its flat-lining economy, and whether or not we can feasibly meet our net zero goals.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

One final note: Be sure to check the end of this article for quick job updates from others who responded to our outreach but chose not to comment on the two questions. We don’t need outstanding experiences now; we need to shelter our customers, our people, our environment. . Holly Beale (2019).

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Theoretically, covering 30 percent of the 100,000 reservoirs around the globe with floating PV has the potential to yield 9,434 terawatt-hours annually, according to a Nature Sustainability article by Yubin Jin and colleagues published earlier this year—the equivalent of approximately 40 percent of global electricity use in 2021.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And that case has only strengthened in recent months: the actions we need to take to tackle climate change are aligned with those which can tackle the current energy crisis. Twelve months ago, ahead of COP26, the focus was on the urgent need for climate action. At country level, new targets were submitted. per cent to 0.5

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Increasingly, the stars are aligning for industrial emissions to take center stage, for three key reasons: demand for clean solutions is growing; technologies are maturing; and the conditions for policy solutions are ripe. Industrial decarbonization picks up steam.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

There was a historic breakthrough in agreeing on a finance facility for loss and damage, but we failed to agree urgent action to help peak emissions in the middle of this decade and secure finance for an unprecedented ramp-up in renewable energy. COP27 is over, but there is no time for the dust to settle. So, where do we go from here?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

All companies featured in this article were contacted for comment. It has no plans to cut oil and gas production, which energy analysts say is urgently needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. We need to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. ExxonMobil – “Powering Progress”. Society is changing.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 6, 2023

BIL “the backbone” : The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), aka Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law in November 2021, and is the “backbone,” providing much of the infrastructure these technologies need to scale at speed. Total funding: $1.2T

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

While they're not immune to the forthcoming fiscal challenges, entrepreneurs developing solutions for addressing climate change - from agtech to decarbonization to clean energy and more - are among those proving to be the most resilient. Since mid-March, as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic infected certain sectors of the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

In an article published today in The Times , Johnson set out his priorities for the Summit, declaring his intention to relaunch the G7 "as a means of expressing the values that unite us: openness, freedom, democracy and free trade".

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Would Rishi Sunak deliver the sweeping net zero financial plan and green stimulus measures that businesses, campaigners, economists, and scientists broadly agree are urgently needed to meet statutory climate goals? We need a real commitment to green growth.". Ahead of yesterday's Budget, anticipation was high.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

Delivering those contributions will require bold and urgent action — nothing less than transforming important sectors of the global economy, especially when it comes to how we generate power and move people and goods. emissions by greening the electricity and transportation sectors. It also includes retrofitting U.S.

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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. It was a proposal almost every industrialised country rallied behind.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

But seaweed's potential to help tackle one of the planet's least recognised, and most urgent, ecological crises - the destabilisation of the Earth's natural nitrogen and phosphorous cycles - has garnered less attention. As with climate change, government policy is needed to move things along.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

One final note: Be sure to check the end of this article for quick job updates from others who responded to our outreach but chose not to comment on the two questions. We don’t need outstanding experiences now; we need to shelter our customers, our people, our environment.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

Claims of tensions were denied by Sharma's spokeswoman, while several commentators noted that Stratton's article had been somewhat unfairly put through the social media wringer given she had noted that behaviour change was only one part of the necessary climate response. But such an effort has not materialised.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 1, 2021

Industrial decarbonization picks up steam Sarah Golden Mon, 03/01/2021 – 01:00 This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. All three are in urgent need of innovations and deployments, but the last of those three — combustion — has, until now, received the least attention. Biomethane.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Advocates of the technology predict that it could help to further drive down the cost offshore wind development, by removing the need for costly foundations and opening up deeper water areas for development. The findings show how important urgent action to cut emissions and to better manage physical risks such as flooding and heat are.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

The scale of the changes required to end European reliance on Russian fossil fuels are unprecedented and far bigger than many realise - what is needed is an economic war effort. What is needed is a war effort. The same armoury is needed for an economic war against Putin as is needed for McKibben's war against climate change.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

There has long been a fierce debate in climate circles about the effectiveness of setting deadlines to 'save the world', with critics warning that missed target dates distract from the need to slash emissions even if ambitious temperature goals slip out of reach. Others need to follow their lead. Do what works.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

This article was written by Kevin Crowley and Akshat Rathi. transporting it to an injection site, and burying it, Exxon would have locked away enough of the planet-warming gas to almost eliminate the climate harm caused by the facility. As a result, carbon capture didn’t follow the typical clean-energy pathway. By capturing CO?,

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

As the saying goes, to change everything, we need everyone … We need feminine and feminist climate leadership, which is wide open to people of any gender.". corporations need to step up much more proactively, Hobson observed. We’ve had plenty of talk, and now we need elbow grease and accountability, she said. .

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Clean Energy and Equity Advocate, Natural Resources Defense Council; Oakland, California. For Alexis Cureton, the pandemic has underscored that those left behind need advocates. Championing the needs of underserved communities is something he does on a daily basis through the lens of clean and efficient energy at the largest U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

In May 2021, Brown tweeted out an article by Bjørn Lomborg – author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It , books that downplay the risks of global warming – about how “exaggerations about climate change” are “destroying our ability to make sensible decisions for the future”.

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