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How changes brought on by coronavirus could help tackle climate change

Business Green

Stock markets around the world had some of their worst performance in decades this past week, well surpassing that of the global financial crisis in 2008. There is a strong link between economic activity and global carbon dioxide emissions, due to the dominance of fossil fuel sources of energy. Andy Rain/EPA. Glen Peters/CICERO.

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Covid-19 will lead to further stranded assets in the EU

Business Green

With airlines looking at an annus horribilis in 2020, planes could follow coal plants as Europe's next stranded asset, writes Vlerick Business School's Professor David Veredas. That is the highest concentration of carbon dioxide in 800,000 years. And, jsut as in 2008, conditionality should be attached to bailouts.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks. Company profile.

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Price and provenance: Does the UK have an appetite for eco-labels on food?

Business Green

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. Broad awareness of the issues at stake is not limited to a small minority, but neither has it yet reached an overwhelming majority.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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'We are witnessing the impacts of a disorderly transition': CCC boss Chris Stark on net zero in the wake of Covid-19

Business Green

Scores of leading global corporates across Europe and America are calling for it , as well as investors managing trillions of dollars of assets. Meanwhile, public polling suggests bailing out high carbon companies without attaching carbon reduction targets would be an unpopular move.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

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. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.