Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

LSE's Josh Burke sets out the risks of prematurely incorporating carbon removal technologies into carbon markets. Carbon removals are needed because net zero targets - as implied by their name - are based on net emissions levels, which are important to distinguish from gross emissions. New net zero standards.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and in 2018 IMO member states agreed the sector's first ever climate targets - including an overatching ambition to cut its 2008 emissions in half by 2050 - and promising to draw up a detailed action plan before 2023 to achieve these goals. International shipping accounts for around 2.5

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global carbon emissions are set to drop a record eight per cent this year, with lockdowns on public and economic life introduced to tackle the coronavirus pandemic delivering an unprecedented blow to fossil fuel demand, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). A recent analysis by Carbon Brief noted that emissions have to fall 7.6

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

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. Glen Peters/CICERO.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

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. Boredom turned into negative thoughts, and negative thoughts turned into depressing thoughts.

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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.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

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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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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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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Greentown Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

Today is a major milestone in Houston’s broader efforts to build a more efficient and more sustainable low-carbon future. BHP’s climate action plan also includes a $400 million Climate Investment Program to develop technologies to reduce emissions from its own operations and those from the use of its resources. “We

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

We’ve spent decades promoting clean energy technologies. 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. In 2008, Exxon made a record $40.6 Fracking was not a viable industry even before oil went negative.

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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. It is a dynamic that has left environmental campaigners increasingly frustrated.

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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. For example, humans and trees benefit each other by supplying oxygen and carbon dioxide. Similarly, water and trees complement each other.

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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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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

They’ve expanded their markets and slashed carbon footprints along the way, cementing reputations as innovators. Buying 100 percent-recycled nylon from Aquafil has helped Interface reduce the carbon footprint of its carpet tile by 69 percent. ” Ten years earlier, Bonazzi was on the other side.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Can artificial intelligence conduct an informed conversation about the broad and complex technologies under the climate tech umbrella? Let's let it speak for itself If we're going to co-exist with our technology overlords, we ought to know them a bit better. Joel Makower: Let's start with the basics: Is AI a climate technology?

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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

But while Covid-19 may change how the world tackles climate change in the immediate term, the targets, technologies, and pressing need to deliver net zero emissions by the middle of the century remain precisely the same. As Stark said in a conference call last month : "Nothing has changed, yet everything has changed.".

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

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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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. Especially the combination of these technologies can virtually annihilate all climate issues related to food within five to ten years.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) Like the zeppelin and the Concorde before it, icebreakers will become a futuristic technology lost to history. Their early demise won’t be due to technological or financial failures, however, but rather because humankind made the surfaces it traversed obsolete. +

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Shell also financed and seconded staff to industry-backed energy research initiatives throughout the 1970s that emphasized uncertainties in climate science, or made unrealistic suggestions that technological solutions could be found to offset growing emissions from burning fossil fuels. He died in 2008. Shell had other plans.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The steps that the UK takes to rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic can accelerate the transition to a successful and low-carbon economy and improve our climate resilience. Ian Johnston, CEO of Engenie said: "We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to bring about a step-change in low carbon transport.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When you look back on 2008—when U.S. ESG investing hits a speed bump Environmental, social and governance (ESG) is an investing strategy that has led to a significant boost in investments in clean technologies like renewable energy and electric vehicles. ” In a closely related story, the U.S.

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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. For the original on Bloomberg Green, click here.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

clean energy and technology community that has evolved into a mighty and globe-spanning economic force. I came to GTM in the fall of 2008, just in time to catch the start of the cleantech VC bubble bursting around our San Francisco Bay Area editorial offices.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this.” Everything seemed to be feasible through modern technology. New technologies, especially automobiles, moving pictures, and radio, brought "modernity" to a large part of the population. This scenario is referred to by some as the ‘carbon crunch’.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 26, 2020

If we reconsider the de-regulatory mayhem that resulted in the financial meltdown of 2008 and the insanity of deregulation under the Trump administration , we may be able to change our perilous course. It must also include carbon removal technologies like direct air capture (DAC) and carbon capture and sequestration or (CCS).

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 11, 2021

While so many have spoken volumes about her work resurrecting the auto industry after the 2008 financial crisis, it was her efforts on the state level shepherding aggressive renewable energy policies which helped create 125,000 green jobs in Michigan. Clean energy technology is only as clean as the components it’s made from.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since 2008, the American Petroleum Institute (API), which is the U.S.’s Carbon footprint. It also creates dimensions where certain ideas and information, such as “clean coal” or “carbon footprints,” can be chosen over others and made to seem legitimate — what Aronczyk and Espinoza call the creation of “contexts of communication.”.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

“Even in supposedly liberal enclaves like Cambridge, Massachusetts,” where Oreskes teaches at Harvard , “many people think climate change will be best addressed by technological innovation in the marketplace,” the co-authors surmise, perhaps in alluding to the prototypical industry-friendly policies pushed by former Obama Administration U.S.

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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. cents per kWh of electricity produced at facilities placed into service after 2024 that produce zero or negative emissions.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Since its inception in 2008, The Green Market Oracle has published 7,731 articles which have been viewed on this site a total of 4,012,438 times. As this year ends I want to take a moment to thank our readers and let you know that the new year will bring some exciting changes and additions.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Since its inception in 2008, The Green Market Oracle has published 7,731 articles which have been viewed on this site a total of 4,012,438 times. As this year ends I want to take a moment to thank our readers and let you know that the new year will bring some exciting changes and additions.

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