Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

Published last week, the report - titled 'Solutions to Meet the Need for Feed' - warned that animal feed remains a blindspot in many of the discussions around how to reduce the environmental footprint of the farming industry. We have to come up with sustainable solutions for meeting that demand, without overtaxing the planetary boundaries."

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

Published last week, the report - titled 'Solutions to Meet the Need for Feed' - warned that animal feed remains a blindspot in many of the discussions around how to reduce the environmental footprint of the farming industry. We have to come up with sustainable solutions for meeting that demand, without overtaxing the planetary boundaries."

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As green groups slam the government's 'attack on nature', the opposition is this week seeking to make bolder climate action central to its offer to the country. They want long-term solutions to cut bills for good. A central mission of my government will be to turn the UK into a clean energy superpower.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And there were conflicting reports over the price tag attached to the new support package. Bloomberg reported that as recently as last week Truss was considering a much more modest package of support based on an increase in the grants handed to households to help them cope with soaring bills.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

A new study yesterday from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which was launched ahead of the annual Davos Summit in Switzerland next week, underscores the critical nature of this challenge.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He served on the California State Board of Education’s Curriculum Commission and then founded Ten Strands as a nonprofit organization to support California’s efforts to achieve statewide penetration of high-quality environment-based education into schools. What made you decide to move from the private sector to teaching?

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

Those companies with independently-verified, science-based targets covering supply chains - also known as Scope 3 emissions - are widely regarded as the most credible, as they take a more holistic - and arguably more accurate - approach to shrinking a company's climate impact.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

ICVCM said the new Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) have been developed using input from hundreds of organisations throughout the voluntary carbon market and will set out fundamental principles for high-quality credits which deliver real, verifiable emissions reductions based on the latest science and best practices.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2022

liquefied natural gas is “seeking to greenwash” its operations in order to portray gas exports as a climate solution and clear the way for further expansion, according to a new report. The tags quantify the greenhouse gas emissions of a given LNG cargo, with the aim of easing buyers’ concerns. A major exporter of U.S.

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Low Impact

JUNE 7, 2020

But we don’t have to ‘make a living’ with the OPD – we have to have a land-based business. If you boil down your needs to the bare minimum, you have to cover that from a land-based business. So you’d have to be able to meet all of your needs via this new, mutual-credit based system. That would be lovely.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

But how will this drive change the look, feel, and price tag of items on sale on high streets and fashion sites? In addition, the sector is the cause of mountains of waste, with the EU estimating that roughly 87 per cent of clothing material is currently incinerated, landfilled, or dumped in nature.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Over 650 scientists have signed a letter urging world leaders to stop using forests for bioenergy, ahead of the 15th Meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) – a major UN summit on protecting nature. Estonia, and Canada – and the UK–the world’s top importer of wood pellets for biomass energy.

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Better Ventures

APRIL 13, 2021

With a global pandemic bearing down on us, even more people need help and solutions to our behavioral health challenges become increasingly valuable. They’ve eliminated the stigma of “going to the therapist” and they’ve lowered the price tag, considerably improving access, particularly for low and middle income communities.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

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. 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.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Finnish technology research group VTT will develop sustainable materials and manufacturing processes for electronic products, as well as circularity enablers, namely smart tags as data carriers for digital product passports. A consortium of Finnish firms is among the line-up of contributors.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

deal on Thursday, ExxonMobil acquired Denbury , a Texas-based energy company focused on carbon capture and storage (CCS) and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) that controls the largest network of CO2 pipelines in the US. Source: Natural Gas Intelligence IRA enticement: The EOR to CCS pipeline? Exxon captures Denbury In a $4.9B

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down. In addition, several states have their own more demanding legislation in place, such as California’s and Massachusetts’ Global Warming Solutions Act.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Those include potential problems with the system that automatically shuts down its reactors in case of emergency, casting doubt on key safety claims from the Portland, Oregon-based company, critics say. The nature of NRC's review will leave the resolution of these key safety issues to be completed later this decade.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

New projects with big price tags are looking for long-duration energy storage solutions In the summer of 2021, a flurry of R&D money was flying into new long-duration energy storage technologies. This project would be the first compressed air storage enterprise that doesn't rely on naturally occuring underground salt domes.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

PFAS do not naturally break down in the environment over time. Preliminary estimates suggest that the price tag on filtering forever chemicals out of America’s drinking water is more than $3.8 Their resistance to decay is what makes them useful. It’s also what makes them dangerous. billion per year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To get a better understanding of the city’s legacy, DeSmog tagged along to an activist-led tour organised by Brussels based advocacy group, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and local activists at Glasgow Calls Out Polluters. However, the gallery exposes the troubling provenance of Glasgow’s wealth.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Under the pact, every three years the OSPAR Commission produces an inventory of North Sea oil and gas installations , based on information provided by governments and platform operators. The contractor then hired the Matador 3, owned by Rotterdam-based Bonn & Mees, to begin bringing the platforms to shore piece by piece.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

The brands "can use plastics to make fibers, but they don't have a solution for fiber-to-fiber recycling at scale," Emmanuel Ladent, Carbios CEO, said in an interview. A 'truly circular' solution. In the traditional recycling world, the solutions are not circular.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

Lemery is a self-described “climate doctor” who came into the work by getting out of the hospital and into nature. Lemery took a Denver-based benefactor with a small group to Greenland’s Ilulissat ice fjord for a formative moment in a remote and endangered place. Doctors put a price tag on the annual health impacts of climate change.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell - Gas to liquids (GTL) | Shell Natural Gas. This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2. It is believed by many that land-based transport will become mostly electric by the end of this decade, which would reduce the need for petroleum-based products (gasoline and diesel) by almost 80%.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Wisdom Supply Company , a women-owned B-Corp based out of San Francisco, consists of two activists who found a way to take action against plastic waste by creating environmentally friendly supplies for the classroom. Five years later, she was tagged for study and released back into the wild. According the the U.S. That’s Wisdom.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Previous unconfirmed reports have estimated a price tag for the Sizewell project of between £16-20bn. The government today signalled that proposals for a Regulated Asset Base (RAB) funding model, which would allow developers to raise revenues through consumer energy bills to help fund the project, remain very much in the mix.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2, where the hydrogen is used for the petrochemical industry and CO2 is simply released into the atmosphere. They claim the project could be expanded up to 500 MW at a later stage to replace all of Lingen’s fossil fuel-based hydrogen. How much would the fuel cost?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

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. 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.

Carbon 28

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

Look for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), also known as Green Tags. Another way to reduce emissions from lighting would be to ensure there’s adequate natural light. Also, consider kitting workspaces out with second-hand furniture, which is not only good for your wallet but also lessens your demand for natural resources.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

Look for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), also known as Green Tags. Another way to reduce emissions from lighting would be to ensure there’s adequate natural light. Also, consider kitting workspaces out with second-hand furniture, which is not only good for your wallet but also lessens your demand for natural resources.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Two years ago, companies were making plans for offshore wind projects on the Eastern coast of the US based on a projected cost of $77 per MWh - now that’s jumped 48% to $114, according to BNEF.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

Since then, the price tag for the project has since more than doubled and the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office had to step in to provide additional financing. ☀️ GlassPoint , a Fremont, CA-based industrial solar steam developer, raised $8M in Series A funding from 300PPM.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Acton also incubated the Cornwall Alliance , another association of think tanks and faith-based groups with close links to another Atlas member, the Heritage Foundation. Xol was sentenced to seven years in prison for his role organizing protests against the dams.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

For people whose job is to control natural systems, “that’s a hard pill to swallow.” Though they make important decisions like when hunting seasons open, how long they last, and how many animals hunters can take, they are not required to have a background in biology or natural resources. Is more hunting the solution?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Although the oil giant publicly touts carbon capture as a “proven” climate solution, its own early foray reveals just how flimsy of a fix the technology really is — and how expensive, both for taxpayers and the climate. A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0

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