DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, said the editors of The Telegraph had “lost their minds when it comes to climate change”. Both newspapers [The Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] are campaigning against climate policies,” Ward told DeSmog.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. As with the financial divestment movement, there is a valid debate about whether engagement with high-carbon firms that are working to reduce their emissions is more effective than simply severing ties. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4 Pull Quote.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Cumbria County Council is reconsidering its controversial decision to approve plans for the UK's first new coal mine in 30 years "in light of new information", it announced today, citing greenhouse gas emissions projections published by the Climate Change Committee late last year.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

"There is a growing urgency in Europe and globally to identify solutions that address the negative consequences companies and institutions face due to climate change," said Reid Steadman, global head of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

LSE's Josh Burke sets out the risks of prematurely incorporating carbon removal technologies into carbon markets. COP27, which concluded earlier this month, saw many contentious climate issues such as loss and damage, water scarcity, fossil fuel taxation and just transition at the front and centre. New net zero standards.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

These issues should be analysed, in consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial crisis of 2008, and it should be considered whether our past development has addressed real needs. Population, climate and food (PCF) are deeply entangled. For a recent example see the severity of the impact of climate change and of COVID-19.

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Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

Slow UK growth in output and real wages over the past lost decade-and-a-half has meant these metrics are barely any better than they were prior to the 2008 financial crisis. Yet if real wages had grown at the same rate as they did before 2008, we would be on average almost £200 per week better off. per cent GDP boost for the UK.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

Consider this: In April, Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest companies in the world, announced its intent to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. No doubt Shell is counting on some miracle like carbon capture to preserve its adherence to a century-old business model of selling oil. In 2008, Exxon made a record $40.6

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Maersk even advocated for a $150 per ton carbon tax on shipping fuel.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. But as our climate changes, the effect of altering weather patterns on public health has also been the subject of considerable study, and increasingly, media attention.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. All of a sudden sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and gender equality. A hypothetical example would be saying that a diesel car causes zero carbon dioxide emissions. Legal conviction by The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Between 2008 and 2019, the average amount of meat eaten each day per person in the UK fell from just under 104g to a little more than 86g, according to the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey. Meanwhile, businesses are themselves grappling how to drive sustainable behaviour change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

IMO member states will be meeting virtually for three days from Monday for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 per cent compared to 2008 levels.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil fuel industry trade associations in the US spent almost $1.4tr on public relations, advertising, and communications, according to Clean Creatives. It is a big business. This is where advertising is a great driver of competition and innovation.".

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 20, 2020

IMO member states are meeting this week for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 percent compared to 2008 levels.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We cannot win the fight against climate change without addressing nature loss.? Such an approach focuses on maximizing positive and minimizing negative aspects of nature-based adaptation strategies and options. Global Compact member since 2008. They’ve been committed to sustainability for decades and a U.N.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. All of a sudden sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and gender equality. A hypothetical example would be saying that a diesel car causes zero carbon dioxide emissions. Legal conviction by The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

Five years ago, climate change wasn’t a topic among many conversations in Houston. Things have changed. Today is a major milestone in Houston’s broader efforts to build a more efficient and more sustainable low-carbon future. Since its founding in 2008, White Deer has raised capital in excess of $2.7

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. As with the financial divestment movement, there is a valid debate about whether engagement with high-carbon firms that are working to reduce their emissions is more effective than simply severing ties. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I wanted to see how much it knew and how well it could contextualise the broad and complex range of technologies under the climate tech umbrella - everything from clean energy to water treatment to e-bikes to carbon capture - and what it understood about corporate sustainability in general. Makower: Great.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) This could lead to yet another negative feedback loop that could wreak havoc on the Arctic, drastically increasing the melting of not just sea ice but also Greenland's ice-sheets. Sea Ice extent is going down. feedback loops will cause this melting to possibly accelerate.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Introduction Climate Change. According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. From a historical perspective however, warning about the negative effects of our food consumption are commonplace. Deforestation. Loss of biodiversity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Insisting there were no politicians she could currently vote for, Thunberg argued that world leaders must begin to treat climate change as a genuine emergency and highlighted the contrast with the urgent response to the coronavirus crisis. "As The 2020s are a key decade for action on climate change," he said.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

A year on from the UK's net zero target being adopted in law coinciding with the start of one of the most eventful 12 months in modern political history, the influential Committee on Climate Change today published its annual review of the UK's progress against its climate goals.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 20, 2024

Surprisingly typical: Real (inflation-adjusted) gasoline prices in 2023 were middle of the pack since 2008, ranking 7th highest out of 16 total years. January and February 2024 prices were both the 9th highest out of 17 since 2008. January and February 2024 prices were both the 9th highest out of 17 since 2008.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 18, 2024

An average of $53 allowance price in 2023, translates to just under 43 cents per gallon based on the carbon intensity of gasoline). [1] As we showed in our original article, real-world carbon pricing experience suggests significantly less than full pass-through to the pump.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 18, 2024

An average of $53 allowance price in 2023, translates to just under 43 cents per gallon based on the carbon intensity of gasoline). [1] As we showed in our original article, real-world carbon pricing experience suggests significantly less than full pass-through to the pump.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 17, 2024

An average of $53 allowance price in 2023, translates to just under 43 cents per gallon based on the carbon intensity of gasoline). As we showed in our original article, real-world carbon pricing experience suggests significantly less than full pass-through to the pump.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today. 400+ sessions. But not all offsets are created equal.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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