Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

So they’re just going to try and squeeze out every last bit of profit they can and give it fancy new names like carbon capture and sequestration. Sarcastically, he thanked the room of “polluters” for destroying Louisiana’s coastline. “On It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. Studies show these activities represent the majority of the sector’s emissions, yet many meat companies exclude them when calculating their carbon footprint. Meat Industry Playbook.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. Natural gas may burn with less carbon and with fewer pollutants than coal but Browne said that could prove insufficient.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Some of Apple’s new watches will be carbon neutral, the company announced this month. In just the past week, we’ve seen Apple launch its first carbon-neutral products and Amazon start to share pollution reports for individual devices. How much of a difference did that little decision make? Not much, honestly.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise. And What They Deliver.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

California's new decarbonisation plan, Austria's windfall tax, and global methane reduction efforts. The agency said the strategy represened an unprecedented effort to drastically slash pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy. "No California Air Resources Board publishes sweeping net zero strategy.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution. This could have dire health impacts. Burning all that gas could release 13.7

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

Our transformation toward a climate-neutral economy - the fundamental task of our century - is currently taking on an entirely new dynamic, not in spite of, but because of, the Russian war," he said. She argued that eliminating this bias could reduce global carbon emissions by 3.6 per cent while increasing global income by 0.65

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This arresting visual captures the sentiments of opponents of a plan to develop the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project under the lake. billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Committing to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 or sooner is the new standard — that’s lifecycle emissions, which includes the carbon footprint of oil and gas combusted by customers during end uses. Set and achieve big targets for GHG reductions. Deliver results at scale through cooperation. And it arrived not a moment too soon.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

per cent in the decade to 2021, with a corresponding rise in water pollution and declines in air quality caused by an increase in nitrogen fertiliser use. The IFA has worked closely with controversial California-based air quality scientist, Frank Mitloehner, to argue against the need to sharply curtail methane emissions from livestock.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’re hearing more oil and gas companies pledging to reinvent themselves for a new, low carbon energy era. Net-zero emissions by 2050 — which means cutting greenhouse pollution as deeply as possible, then capturing the rest — is the goal. Mark Brownstein co-authored this post. Failure is not an option. That’s a big ‘to-do’ list.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

California has one of the leading greenhouse gas reduction programs in the world to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 and a long history of finding innovative ways to reduce emissions while encouraging a thriving economy. Data is one of the most powerful tools we have in the fight against climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. temperature goal is to be kept alive.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

The UK government's post-Brexit ambition for a net zero carbon market could be world-leading - but the plans released earlier this month repeat many of the mistakes of the EU system, including a very loose cap on emissions, and a market so complex it would make Rube Goldberg weep. This is below the current EU ETS price of €23 (£20.50).

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

The Jadar mine was regarded as one of Serbia's biggest foreign investment projects, but environmental groups criticised the plan, claiming it risked polluting land and water in the area. Shell takes flak over Canada carbon capture project. million petrol cars, despite having been fitted with the pioneering technology.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. The key will be making low-carbon fuels without creating new problems. Worried about the climate crisis?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . percent of its GDP.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 17, 2024

By embedding this technology into various facets of air transportation, the industry takes a significant leap towards carbon neutrality, aligning with global sustainability objectives. From an environmental perspective, hydrogen-powered flight promises significant reductions in atmospheric pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“If not properly plugged and abandoned, these wells and facilities can contaminate waterways and soil, serve as a source of climate and air pollutants, and can present physical hazards to people and wildlife,” CalGEM writes in a 2023 legislative report. barrels of oil equivalent each day.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

Over the past decade, the world has woken up to the urgency of the climate crisis and consumers, governments, and investors are demanding that carbon intensive industries take action. This creates something of a perilous situation for companies that source and sell agricultural products, particularly beef, dairy, pork, and poultry.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The Environmental Protection Agency under Trump has taken a distinctly anti-science bent, with half the members of the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors dismissed in 2017 and a 2018 disbanding of a panel of scientists tasked with advising the agency on safe air pollution levels. A 2018 tariff on solar panels manufactured outside the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

When pollution from decomposing plastic can be up to 23 times as bad on land as it is in the ocean, the switch to biodegradable alternatives can make a huge difference. Transitioning from Plastic to Biodegradable Paper Reduces Your Carbon Footprint. Plastic production is one of the most greenhouse-gas heavy industries in the world.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman has unveiled ambitious plans for a linear car-free city designed to produce zero carbon emissions, with construction earmarked to begin during the first quarter of this year. 90 per cent of people breathe polluted air.". Why should seven million people die every year because of pollution?

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

For example, when a forest—which naturally absorbs and stores carbon dioxide as trees grow—is logged and converted to grazing or agricultural land, GHGs are released as trees decompose. Notable exceptions included carbonated beverages, crunchy chicken breast, certain types of milk, and bottled water. drives 30 miles per day).

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

Broadly similar to the UK's Climate Change Act, the bill requires the adoption of a series of five year carbon budgets and a regime of annual progress reports. Biden administration sets bold solar cost goal. Meat giant JBS unveils net zero target.

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