Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2021

Much coverage has been devoted in both the national and trade press about the shortage of skilled workers available to take up jobs in key sectors including manufacturing and engineering. In short, a lot more must be done to tell the wider story of apprenticeships and why it is in everyone’s interest to do more to promote them.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Together, decide which areas of your business need improvement and select both short and long-term initiatives that can carry you throughout the year. Here are a few ideas for celebrating Houseplant Appreciation Day: Allow employees to bring a plant for their desk or office. Houseplant Appreciation Day – January 10th.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a report addressing climate risks to the U.S. Climate change, said the report’s authors, is expected to affect “multiple sectors, geographies and assets in the United States, sometimes simultaneously and within a relatively short timeframe.” Last week, a subcommittee of the U.S.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

However, a rebuttal to the idea that farmers are making the switch to regenerative practices on their own is the large upfront costs it takes to do so. We need carbon to be stored for centuries to make a real impact, but short-term contracts might be the way to go. Soil credits have more upfront costs than forestry.

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Soil Carbon Agriculture Logging 515

Grist

AUGUST 10, 2023

Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a newsletter highlighting a major new report on what it presented as a promising solution to the plastic pollution crisis: using “recycled” plastic in construction materials. generates each year. “To

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Sources told This is Money that trade body the Association of British Insurers is separately meeting with City Minister John Glen this week to discuss the new push. The Treasury are fed up with the loose language around the target, there's no real idea of how we're going to get there. But Boris doesn't want anyone to pay for it.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Other studies, like one published in 2012 in GBC Bioenergy , directly challenge the idea that wood pellets are renewable energy because forests can be replanted. If [the UK] took subsidies away from Drax, it would fail and cause difficulties in producing enough electricity in the short term.” . It’s just not true. Energy & Climate.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Glad to help promote it and connect it to the idea of “net positive advocacy” from my work with Paul Polman. The business world is increasingly and genuinely inspired by the idea of building more sustainable businesses. It’s easy to interpret the action as prioritizing BP’s narrow, short-term interests.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The idea is outlined in a new whitepaper - A New Net Zero Doctrine: The Social Responsibility of Nations is to Reduce Debt. We already understand this idea in the UK, where citizens receive healthcare 'as a service' via the NHS, instead of receiving money to buy healthcare. A low carbon right. We need to move a lot faster.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Katie Smith is a Technical Assistant with Reddie & Grose LLP, a firm of patent, trade mark and design attorneys. The main benefit of liquid air energy storage is that it can provide medium to long duration energy storage, believed by some to be crucial in complementing the short duration storage provided by batteries.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

He will also have to win a battle of ideas. da Paixão Jr , has cast Bolsonaro’s defeat as a setback for the entire continent, writing that Latin America is “submerging into a dangerous regression to socialism, guided by wrong-headed, backward economic ideas that never worked anywhere.” IMIL’s chairman, Sebastião Ventura P.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

Trade body Solar UK was moved to release a statement this afternoon hitting back at suggestions that have emerged from both Sunak and Truss campaign teams over the past fortnight that ground-mount solar farms risk swallowing up valuable land for food crops and livestock grazing.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

As unprecedented as these times are, and as uncertain as the near future may be, some past events offer small but important parallels that could yield tools and ideas for how to proceed. The rest will follow : We were in the law library at Dell, watching the horror of the World Trade Center exploding with a plane.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In terms of maintaining an economically optimal supply of power, the energy sector refers to the sequence in which electricity-producing power plants operate on an electricity trading platform as a merit order. Graphically, the principle appears like this: The Merit Order Effect In Electrical Energy Trading. What are the back draws?

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In terms of maintaining an economically optimal supply of power, the energy sector refers to the sequence in which electricity-producing power plants operate on an electricity trading platform as a merit order. Graphically, the principle appears like this: The Merit Order Effect In Electrical Energy Trading. What are the back draws?

Energy 52

Energy Energy Nuclear Power Demand 52

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

An apocalyptic “meh” seemed to greet the government’s bumper package of energy- and climate-related policy announcements and documents released on 30 March, which appeared short on new ideas and sources of funding. Scottish Renewables said the fund “falls woefully short of what we need.” “We

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

In writing RESTORD it is hard not to reflect that so much of our built environment process persists in degenerative practice, we have a long way to go in a short time to fully embrace regenerative, do more good, not only less bad, approaches. We may have the technologies but now need the mindsets.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But these are considered short-duration solutions. Polluting companies often buy carbon offsets derived from these relatively short term solutions. It’s an approach that another carbon removal trade association, the Carbon Business Council, disagrees with. “We Amador agrees with that idea, at least in the short term.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

As research from green energy trade body RenewableUK has shown, we will need vast amounts more offshore wind capacity (120GW) for green hydrogen to be produced in the required quantities. What we should see is a steady decline in both long and short haul flights, with an increased reliance on electric trains to take us abroad.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2021

It comes as banks face growing pressure to match their 2050 net zero financed emissions targets with efforts to stop financing fossil fuel companies in the short term, with today's call to action coming just weeks a major report revealed the 60 biggest banks ploughed $750bn into fossil fuel companies in 2020, in a $40bn increase from 2016 levels.

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Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Climate change Investment 89

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

The idea is to help grow a company’s operations and lower the risk for private sector investors. We do a lot of work with them, bringing them up to standard … It is an upfront investment that might not be paid off in the short term, but the point is to get in early, lay down the right standards, and build a relationship.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2022

Some analysts have warned that new low carbon steelmaking technologies will struggle to compete on cost with conventional steel in the short to medium term. We will increase SSAB's earnings, while rapidly reducing carbon dioxide emissions and making a significant contribution to the climate and the transition of society.".

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Hydrogen Carbon Demand Investment 94

Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

Apparently, a lot of suppliers need cash, because these sorts of arrangements have become quite common, especially among publicly traded companies that prefer to hang onto the money they owe suppliers for as long as they can as a way to improve their own cash flow, pay down debt and deliver more value to shareholders. Adding ESG to the mix.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

There are nearly 32 million small and midsize businesses in the United States — SMEs for short — defined as those with fewer than 500 employees, according to the US Small Business Administration. On the one hand, most have a modest physical footprint, short supply chains, few employees to commute and travel and so on.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2021

The ink was not long dry on the UK-EU trade deal before Boris Johnson was calling on UK business leaders to get behind plans for regulatory liberalisation, a call-to-arms that was itemised more precisely by Daniel Hannan in his January article for ConservativeHome. In short, the British public support robust rules.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

And I am not talking about short-term energy storage. Then someone had the brilliant idea to sell it as fuel. Another benefit is the fact energy supply is less dependent from politically unstable countries or trade “wars” because the offshore structure can be constructed in more stable areas, potentially even in international waters.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Emissions from businesses covered by the European Emissions Trading Scheme fell by 9.1 It marked the end of years of doubting whether my idea would find global relevance. The world is never short and never will be short of renewable energy. European Commission confirms emissions covered by ETS fell 9.1 per cent last year.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2022

However, “there was a huge outpouring of concern by county residents, both young and old, and that turned the tide in the short run,” said Detwiler. Even though it’s a very, very small amount of acreage, the idea that someone could actually say no is what they are afraid of,” Detwiler said, referring to the gas industry.

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Charged

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When we interviewed some of them two years ago at a Rivian event, they were largely affluent buyers who were open to the idea of electric vehicles, but wouldn’t drive anything but a pickup or large SUV. On November 10, Rivian debuted as a publicly traded company.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

There are nearly 32 million small and midsize businesses in the United States — SMEs for short — defined as those with fewer than 500 employees, according to the US Small Business Administration. On the one hand, most have a modest physical footprint, short supply chains, few employees to commute and travel and so on.

Education 56

Education North America Organic Sustainability 56

Clean Energy Canada

JULY 3, 2020

In short, the sector found its voice. While the idea of a clean (or green) recovery has made the news rounds in recent weeks, less covered were a number of new reports that together draw the same conclusion – that clean stimulus isn’t idealistic, it’s good economic policy. per cent, while fossil fuel stocks plummeted 40.5

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

However, the idea prompted widespread anger last week among opposition politicians and environmental campaigners, who argued skimming funds from existing schemes was counterproductive, short-sighted, and amounted to 'robbing Peter to pay Paul'.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As a best practice, invite all ideas to the table from across all levels and departments in your business and be open to new ways of greening your products, practices, and habits. Also include your sustainability mission statement and explain how the policy coincides with the company’s short and long-term sustainability goals.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2022

To mark the second anniversary of the UK's departure from the EU, the government yesterday published a 100-page report detailing the 'benefits of Brexit', including a short section detailing how the UK's divorce from Brussels has apparently precipitated and enhanced the UK's climate, environment and agricultural policy.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2021

It comes as banks face growing pressure to match their 2050 net zero financed emissions targets with efforts to stop financing fossil fuel companies in the short term, with today's call to action coming just weeks a major report revealed the 60 biggest banks ploughed $750bn into fossil fuel companies in 2020, in a $40bn increase from 2016 levels.

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Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Climate change Investment 50

Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

This week’s drabble is a snippet from the cli-fi short story “ Cabbage Koora: A Prognostic Autobiography ” — one of the finalists in this year’s Imagine 2200 contest , a Grist project that asks writers to envision hopeful climate futures. ” The debate around gas stoves in the U.S.

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