Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

The first investment by e-commerce and cloud services powerhouse Amazon's $100m Right Now Climate Fund underscores the growing interest in nature-based solutions for carbon removal. The second, the Forest Carbon Co-op (PDF) , is focused on enabling owners of midsize forests benefit in similar ways. "But

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Powering the rig with offshore wind power will “remove up to 20,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, equivalent to taking more than 4,000 cars off the road”, Cerulean says. Twenty-three million barrels of oil equate to 9,890,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, using an emission factor of 0.43

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Shell agreed to fund their relocation in 2002 — but Hawkins’ family was one of the few who decided to stay.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2022

Carbon Accounting, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits. What is carbon offsetting ? What is the difference between a carbon offset and a carbon credit ? Can carbon offsetting effectively mitigate climate change, or are we banking on a fruitless quick-fix solution ? What Is Carbon Offsetting?

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? It was about five square miles of trees’ worth of oxygen production or carbon sequestration required to set up one building. Demonizing carbon?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixable,” according to a newly published report. In addition, vast quantities of carbon and methane pollution are released into the atmosphere. This article was originally published by Gas Outlook.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 14, 2023

Carbon accounting software attracts $50M and cultivated meat collects $35M. In June of this year, electric truck-maker Lordstown Motors also filed for bankruptcy protection after its 2002 exit via SPAC. The Biden administration awards the first $1B+ for US DAC hubs and researchers replicate a nuclear fusion breakthrough.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

This pay inequality hasn’t budged much since 2002 (during whcih time women earned 80% as much as men). Hold unconscious bias training to help employees understand how such biases work and how they can negatively affect team members and team interactions. How can you implement this initiative in your business?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

But then when you look at ExxonMobil’s language around carbon capture, for example, they’ll say things like ‘it’s going to take an all-of-the-above approach,’ and when the oil and gas industry says ‘all of the above,’ they mean oil and gas first.”. Lower carbon future.” Chevron is “ advancing a lower carbon future.”.

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