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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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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 Available at: [link].

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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?

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Earth Day 22nd April – Importance of protecting our nature amid the Virus spread!

Econaur

It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies. In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution formally recognizing the day as International Mother Earth Day. Earth Day in 2020.

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Corporate Giants Promote Climate Action, But Work With Oil Lobbyists in State Capitols

DeSmogBlog

Microsoft also positions itself as a climate champion, publicly vowing to reach 100 percent renewable energy for its operations by 2025 and to become a “carbon negative” company by 2030. In 2009, for example, Apple and Nike and a handful of utilities quit the U.S. Credit: Mike Mozart. (CC CC BY 2.0). Blocking Climate Action.

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Shell Persists with Effort to Explore for Oil Off South Africa’s Wild Coast

DeSmogBlog

Dolphins and sharks are just two other marine species that could be negatively affected by seismic surveys through behavioral changes to get away from the noise. In 2009 the company paid out $15.5 The case was originally filed in 2008 and two of the plaintiffs died in the 13 years it took for the verdict to be issues.

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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. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.