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Giant offshore wind farms and Labour's net zero promises: BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week

Business Green

by James Murray ( @James_BG ) 'Ambition, action, and accountability': Transition Plan Taskforce unveils 'gold standard' climate disclosure framework New Transition Plan Taskforce Disclosure Framework breaks down key components that should feature in 'robust and credible' corporate net zero transition plans. -

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Carbon Credits: Google and Unilever among firms 'road testing' new code of practice

Business Green

The code aims to provide companies with a globally standardised benchmark for the voluntary use of carbon credits, and provide a way to recognise that a business, brand, or product has genuinely gone the 'extra mile' to ensure projects deliver promised emissions savings by securiung a VCMI Gold, Silver, or Bronze accreditation.

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Corporates urged to deliver first Net Zero Transition Plans this year

Business Green

"Generally, there's no shortage of climate targets amongst big businesses," said Rachel McEwen, CSO of SSE and new TPT Delivery Group Member. We need a gold-standard framework, aligned to the real world, providing businesses with the guidance they need to make their targets a reality."

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'A quantum leap for climate action': UK pledges to end support for overseas oil and gas projects

Business Green

The UK's announcement to stop funding fossil fuel exports sets a new gold standard for what serious climate action looks like," she said. Friends of the Earth campaigner Rachel Kennerley?also her comments were echoed by Dr Alison Doig from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, who said the government had "finally seen sense".

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Why Most US Utilities Are Failing to Make the Most of Their Smart Meters

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Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) networks also collect masses of interval data — a gold mine for a raft of utility improvements, from sorting and targeting customers to optimizing efficiency spending and informing distribution grid outage recovery and conservation voltage reduction schemes.

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Business in the Age of Mass Extinction

Andrew Winston

Back in 1962, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring warned us that modern society and chemicals were killing birds and other species. The gold standard on the topic is the Global Footprint Network and is a good place to start (as well as Project Drawdown for quantitative estimates on the best actions to help climate and planet).

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Business in the Age of Mass Extinction

Andrew Winston

Back in 1962, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring warned us that modern society and chemicals were killing birds and other species. The gold standard on the topic is the Global Footprint Network and is a good place to start (as well as Project Drawdown for quantitative estimates on the best actions to help climate and planet).