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Green Search: Ecosia sees active user rates soar to 20 million

Business Green

With highest usage in Germany, France, UK, and the US, the growing user base is also reflected in the carbon negative search engine's recent milestone of reaching 150 million trees planted, with 100 million planted in the past three years alone. Our commitment to go all in means ramping up everything we do.

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C-Capture raises £8m to accelerate carbon capture technology development

Business Green

UK start-up C-Capture has secured £8m investment to further develop its pioneering carbon capture technology from its existing shareholders IP Group, Drax and BP Ventures, as well as additional funding from the British Business Bank's Future Fund, it announced today.

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Public Pension Funds Have Lost Billions on Their Fossil Fuel Investments: New Analysis

DeSmogBlog

He said the findings are consistent with other similar studies, such as a 2019 analysis which found that California and Colorado’s public pension funds would have been a combined $19 billion richer had they divested from fossil fuel holdings in 2009. So that’s kind of a conflict.”

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What Were Europe’s Oil Majors Doing When GTM Launched in 2007?

GreenTechMedia

Thanks for reading, and keep crushing that carbon. ~ Another change of pace from Big Oil in the coming years, especially from the national oil companies, would go a long way to meeting the carbon limits set out in the Paris Agreement. Shell bailed in 2009, selling its stake to Saint-Gobain. It’s 2007.

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Media brief: What are carbon offsets and how can they be used?

Clean Energy Canada

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS? HOW ARE OFFSETS USED?

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Investigation reveals almost 130,000 tonnes of carpet incinerated annually

Envirotec Magazine

Members of a trade association set up to encourage carpet recycling in the UK – which goes by the name ‘Carpet Recycling UK’ – are causing 128,480 tonnes of carpet to be incinerated every year – emitting dangerous toxic chemicals and significant carbon emissions, costing UK society around £16.5

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Eco Bricks for Sustainable Building

GreenTech Gazette

Not only are our bricks that we use today made from finite and limited resources, they are known to have some pretty negative carbon impacts. In 2009, they formed Kenoteq. This brick also avoids having to be fired in a kiln and is capable of reducing carbon emissions by as much as 90%.