Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

The relationship between net zero policy and productivity is sometimes complex, but with the right policy planning the latter can help drive the former, fresh analysis argues. 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.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The virus has caused a 17 percent reduction in atmospheric carbon during parts of this year and may decrease CO2 emissions by 4.2-7.5 Negative values can be seen in 1982, 1992 and 1996. The negative index values in 1982 reflect the demise of the Soviet Union. percent in 2020 compared to 2019. There was a 2.6 ppm less than that.

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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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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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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

But seasoned observers fear that growing calls for a bolder and more ambitious global policy framework are continuing to founder on the rocks of vested interests and short term cost concerns. It is not the job of the United Nations to protect vested fossil fuel interests," they wrote in a letter seen by BusinessGreen. "It

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Seasoned observers fear that growing calls for a bolder and more ambitious global policy framework are continuing to founder on the rocks of vested interests and short-term cost concerns. “It is not the job of the United Nations to protect vested fossil fuel interests,” they wrote in a letter seen by BusinessGreen.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

John Bello (2018) Project Manager, Skanska; Portland, Oregon After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Meanwhile, public polling suggests bailing out high carbon companies without attaching carbon reduction targets would be an unpopular move. I think the biggest risk that sits before the global mission on net zero is the risk of fossil fuel lock-in," warns Stark. "If

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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. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. 2008 May 22;7:24. xii] [xiii]. Int J Health Geogr.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Today Greta Thunberg offered a characteristically unvarnished assessment of what now is required to get the world on track to averting the worst impacts of the climate crisis, blasting politicians globally for failing to match their recent green rhetoric with meaningful policy action.

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

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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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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this.” Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy. With the ‘old’, I refer to the fossil-fuel based, centralized energy industries that are reliant on conservative economic models.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a new column, Gaslit , which will navigate society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Since 2008, the American Petroleum Institute (API), which is the U.S.’s Have a tip or idea? Get in touch. In other words, they needed legitimacy.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Instead, they arose from well-funded industry campaigns creating what Oreskes and Conway have called a manufactured consensus “quasi-religious belief” in deregulated markets and an accompanying diehard opposition to governmental solutions to public policy problems. politics for the past 100-plus years. It has mostly remained there since.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said. As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend.

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