Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But analyst warns of 'significant hurdles' in scaling nascent sustainable aviation fuel market, including scarcity of supply and competition for feedstock with renewable diesel market. Aviation biofuels could account for up to five per cent of global jet fuel demand before the end of the decade, up from less than 0.1

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Demand Aviation Policy Hydrogen 68

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Microsoft will procure electricity from Shell's renewable energy portfolio as it works toward its 100 percent goal, and the two aspire to advance the use of sustainable aviation fuels. . But there's a lot more to the relationship.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 450

Business Green

MARCH 8, 2024

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week 'Game-changing': Kensa launches ultra-efficient compact ground source heat pump New model debuted, as latest government figures confirm surge in demand for heat pump grant scheme - by Cecilia Keating ( @cecilia_keating ) Budget: Government trails funding boost for Green Industries (..)

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Aviation Biodiversity Government Demand 39

Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Things that not long ago seemed an environmentalist's pipe dream — net zero supply chains, cheap energy storage, decarbonised aviation and shipping, circular value chains, enlightened investors — now seem not only possible, but inevitable. Meanwhile, development of cleaner aviation and shipping fuels is moving along nicely.

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Sustainability Aviation Biodiversity Carbon-negative 90

Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting.  Energy & industry.

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Energy Monitor Investment Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 111

Business Green

MARCH 3, 2023

UK's current technology agnostic approach to greening transport is slowing investment, MPs on the Transport Committee warn MPs have urged the government to shelve its current "technology neutral" approach to decarbonising transport and start backing specific technology solutions, including sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and rail electrification.

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Transportation Government Technology Aviation 39

Business Green

MARCH 14, 2023

The group behind the ranking, the Travel Smart Campaign, has warned that companies failing to tackle their aviation emissions footprint are missing an opportunity to permanently "lock in" the low-carbon travel practices adopted during the pandemic, and opening themselves up to reputational damage in the long run.

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Policy Aviation Transportation Demand 36

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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Climate change Aviation Carbon-negative Government 101

Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Global demand for biomass is likely to exceed environmentally sustainable supplies in the coming years as the drive to decarbonise takes hold across different industries - a situation which risks undermining climate mitigation efforts and causing major damage to biodiversity and the natural world.

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Sustainability Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Biodiversity 74

Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Among a flurry of fresh commitments today, the government said it wanted all internal UK plane journeys to generate net zero emissions, and new petrol and diesel trucks to be removed from sale - both by 2040 - on the path to delivering net zero rail, aviation, shipping and road vehicles sectors by 2050.

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Transportation Government Aviation Policy 80

GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is no surprise then that the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021 identifies climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss, alongside infectious diseases, as the top global risks for the next decade in terms of impact and likelihood. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Plastics Government Waste Waste 395

Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Her comments were echoed by Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, who said the package was the EU's response to a "make-or-break decade in the fight against the climate and biodiversity crises". The European Union has set ambitious targets and today we present how we can meet them," he said.

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Aviation Carbon-neutral Packaging Europe 87

Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

The European Commission has confirmed it does not plan to remove aviation from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) even when the new UN-backed CORSIA aviation offsetting scheme launches in 2021. Transport Commissioner Adina Valean told MEPs that "CORSIA will not put the ETS at stake. It will not replace the ETS.

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Aviation Hydrogen Asia Government 97

Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Measures will be put in place to protect wildlife and to achieve 'biodiversity net gain', the airport said. The project is unlikely to win over anti-aviation campainers, however, who have long argued that efforts to curb emissions from airports, while welcome, are dwarfed by the carbon footpring of the flights they enable.

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Aviation Biodiversity Carbon Investment 36

Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

Encouraging Certified Sustainable Palm Oil can help the industry tackle the world's climate and biodiversity crises and improve the livelihoods of millions of oil palm farmers, writes RSPO's Nicholas Hurt. per cent of the global aggregate, bringing it on par with global emissions from the aviation industry.

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Sustainability Biodiversity Demand North America 72

Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

Demand for biofuels has seen significant tracts of land, much of it the Global South, repurposed for energy crop production, a trend that campaigners have blamed for driving deforestation and biodiversity destruction while exacerbating food insecurity. Now it's different.".

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Aviation Fossil fuels Waste Waste 68

Low Impact

AUGUST 30, 2020

In a sustainable future (and there’s no other kind), is there a place for the aviation industry? I’m very strongly anti-aviation. I don’t think it’s sustainable to have aviation. The aviation industry say that there is, and they’re lying. I’m very strongly anti-aviation. But Ice Ages have almost wiped us out too.

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Aviation Fossil fuels Government Agriculture 103

Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

In an open letter, the group issued a "global call" for governments and organisations to "engage in the fight against the global threats of biodiversity loss and climate change". We all have the opportunity to engage in the fight against the global threats of biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Exclusive: Researchers have sought to calculate the external environmental, social and health costs of from fossil fuels, renewables, road transport and aviation.

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Transportation Electricity Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 70

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

into the water column as the global aviation industry sends into the atmosphere annually, and that UK waters are the 4th largest global carbon emitter from 3. 3] ‘Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate’ [link]. A recent study also found that fishing boats that trawl the ocean floor?release?as carbon back?into

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

There are also fears that - if poorly regulated and policed - nature-based solutions efforts such as tree-planting can have a detrimental impact on biodiversity, food and water security, as well as local or Indigenous livelihoods.

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Technology Carbon Carbon-negative Demand 98

Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Tank-up of Tomorrow Transportation accounts for ~16% of global GHG emissions , and while passenger vehicles have likely gone the way of EVs, cleaning up the remaining 55% of hard-to-decarbonize aviation, heavy ground transport, and maritime shipping is still—well, hard! Engines are optimized for fossil fuels. Cleantech 1.0

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2022

Existing portfolio companies include those working on synthetic biology and regenerative land use; new chemistries driving low carbon materials; direct and indirect electrification of transport; AI, geospatial analytics, and next-gen computing; carbon removals and biodiversity restoration.

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Climate change Aviation Transportation Biodiversity 54

Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

BCG's report also stressed the critical role alternative proteins can play in meeting climate goals, calculating that the nascent sector could deliver emissions reductions equivalent to decarbonising 95 per cent of the aviation industry if its global market share increased from two per cent today to eight per cent by 2030.

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Aviation Retail Biodiversity Agriculture 36

Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Advocates of so-called nature based solutions argue that they can deliver significant emissions reductions while also bolstering flood resilience and enhancing biodiversity. But that's where we are - we've delayed [climate action] for too long.".

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2022

There are also fears that - if poorly regulated and policed - nature-based solutions efforts such as tree-planting can have a detrimental impact on biodiversity, food, and water security, as well as local or Indigenous livelihoods.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Technology 36

Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The fledgling zero emission aviation sector took another step forward this week, with the successful completion of the first test flight undertake by an ell-electric Cessna light aircraft. New Zealand steps up plans to create 11,000 biodiversity jobs. Plus all the top green business news from around the world.

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Electricity Packaging Aviation Biodiversity 63

Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Businesses leaders urge EU committees to champion Nature Restoration Law An alliance of 12 major business networks is this week urging key European Parliament committees to support and strengthen a proposed Nature Restoration Law, which if passed would set out legally binding goals for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

With good reason: The climate and biodiversity crises, combined with the social and economic equity crises, are providing momentum and incentives for staying the course. The job boom crosses sectors, from finance and private equity to clean energy and biodiversity. Nature and biodiversity awareness sprouted.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Biodiversity 36

Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

That is the conclusion from the latest edition of the Green Stimulus Index, a report published by Vivid Economics and Finance for Biodiversity which ranks the 'greenness' of the stimulus plans put forward by 30 of the world's largest economies in response to the coronavirus crisis.

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Packaging Government Agriculture Fossil fuels 96

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

“Labour’s pledge to offer a fairer, greener future is undermined by this willingness to accept money from a company that is responsible for forest destruction, environmental injustice, biodiversity loss and climate-wrecking emissions,” he said. “We

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 22, 2021

Related: Super trawlers ravage UK’s protected waters amid pandemic The study broke the ocean into 50-square-kilometer blocks and used collected data to measure how much each square contributes to marine life in terms of fish stock, biodiversity and salinity among other aspects.

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Carbon Aviation Pollution Biodiversity 28

Grist

MAY 25, 2021

Carbon removal is also deemed essential because it will be difficult to halt all emissions from sectors such as aviation, farming and cement by 2050. The UK’s official climate advisers estimate the UK is likely to need to remove about 100 million metric tons of CO2 a year by 2050 to reach net zero. Large-scale tree planting.

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Carbon Soil Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 139

Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2020

If you could double our forest cover - so we were at least on par with France - we could offset the entire aviation industry's emissions in the UK. For years the public sector and third sector have attempted to drive reforestation and biodiversity reconstruction, but this has been unsuccessful.

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Carbon Biodiversity Government Aviation 72

Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Superorganism , a SF and NY-based venture fund, launched to focus on biodiversity and nature startups. approved a significant sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) blending mandate , requiring that sustainable sources make up total aviation fuel at 2% by 2025, 6% by 2025, 20% by 2035, and 70% by 2050.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 52

Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

In an update released alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech on the government's economic plans, Number 10 said it was working to support the research and development of emerging DAC technologies that "could be deployed across the country to remove carbon from the air, helping sectors where it's tough to decarbonise such as aviation".

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Government Carbon Electric vehicle Investment 84

Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels don’t go away entirely in this scenario — oil and gas are still used for chemical feedstocks and aviation past 2050. Secondly, the model that the authors used to arrive at their fossil fuel quota actually allows the world to emit more than 580 billion metric tons of carbon and for temperatures to temporarily rise to 1.8

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Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Carbon Natural gas 145