Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

In his response to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres noted that, “Had we been further advanced in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, we could better face this challenge.” ” Background on Earth Day.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

A Pathways’ advertisement on a Bixi docking station read “Le captage du carbone est une étape importante vers des activités d’exploitation carboneutre,” or “Carbon capture is an important step towards carbon neutral resource extraction.” Public transit remains “an underfunded climate solution,” Rougeot said.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 12, 2022

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Canada) utilizes point-source CO2 and mineralizes it with waste materials to create supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that can be used in building materials. develops polymers for gas separation, enabling membrane-based carbon capture applications. Somerville, Mass.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. More than 100 gigatons of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, must be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. Collaborations such as this will help to solve the climate problems.”.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 9, 2021

Research shows the built environment—and its construction—accounts for nearly 40 percent of the world’s carbon emissions which means there’s an enormous opportunity for innovation in this sector,” said Dr. Emily Reichert, CEO of Greentown Labs. Saint-Gobain Media Contact Lauren Howe lauren@empHoweredPR.com 978-400-3036.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Developed through a continuous innovation process, they can be found everywhere in our living places and daily life, providing wellbeing, performance and safety, while addressing the challenges of sustainable construction, resource efficiency and the fight against climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Students for Liberty has received over $1 million in funding since 2009 from the philanthropic organisations of Charles Koch, who co-owns Koch Industries – one of the largest privately-held companies in the US – which trades heavily in oil and gas. The warnings were repeated in an article from the group’s public policy analyst in 2023.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is a unique, multi-year program driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO?) New York City, N.Y.,

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The links revealed by DeSmog’s analysis may show a “revolving door” between insurers and high-polluting industries that may explain why, despite the risks, the sector has been slow to act on climate change, said Lucie Pinson, executive director at the environmental campaign group Reclaim Finance, reacting to the findings.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Forests are so unhealthy they are now emitting more carbon than they produce, according to recent s tudies. At the same time, California is counting on its forests sucking up lots of carbon from cars, factories, and power plants to meet its goals to slash carbon emissions. “If But either way, the result is more carbon emissions.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Carbon offset. Does the carbon offset provider use sound science and accounting practices to back up the claims it makes about its carbon offsets? The FTC said in December that it expects comments on 'carbon offsets' in particular for the next Green Guides. Low carbon. Plastic neutral. degrees [Celsius].

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

The UN Climate Change Conference is only a few months away, and to say that expectations are high would be an understatement. She believed good progress was being made on Adaptation (the effort to secure protection for habitats and communities against the effects of climate change). What are the big priorities for COP?

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. is California’s aggressive push toward a carbon-neutral future.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Negotiators at COP28 will also aim to make progress on key climate issues including loss and damage finance, a just energy transition, and closing the emissions gap. Al Jaber, the person leading these global climate negotiations, is the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). Critics argue it is anything but.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In the short term, the lockdowns impacting billions of people have marked a step change for global decarbonisation. In the first months of the crisis alone, China reported a 25 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. A global 5-10 per cent drop is predicted by the end of the year. Work remains to be done.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 29, 2022

For instance, a single pint of beer can have a carbon footprint as high as 900g CO 2e (for bottled beer that’s been extensively transported). This is ~14% of the daily average carbon footprint from meals per US citizen – having 2 to 3 pints ramps that percentage up to 42%. Sustainable Brewing Tip #4: Reduce your carbon footprint.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Those were the words of then UK deputy prime minister John Prescott in 2000 after a failed round of UN climate negotiations. It's rare to see a UK politician as senior as Prescott at a UN climate summit. Gordon Brown and David Cameron attended the 2009 and 2015 summits, but otherwise it's left to ministers and officials.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Europe is kind of the epicentre of what's going on climate change," he says. "If If you look at the markets we operate in - whether it is the UK, Sweden or Norway - most of our markets have the most ambitious policies for carbon neutrality or net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This logo marks the biggest difference between the fossil fuel industry’s PR machine and that of animal agriculture: The animal agriculture industry’s efforts to minimize their products’ climate impact are paid for from a pot of public funds to which all beef and pork farmers and ranchers are required to contribute. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What few may realize, however, is that Al Jaber’s ascent to the highest levels of climate diplomacy began 16 years ago, and Edelman , the largest public relations firm in the world, played a crucial role. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently reviewed by DeSmog show that from 2007 to 2009, Edelman carried out a $6.4 Under the U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

This ‘active ingredient’ in natural gas, is up to 28 to 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. And yeah sure, I am not a climate scientist. Back in 2009, for my minor in Space and Earth Observation on the TU Delft, I wrote an article about a virtual satellite constellation for Arctic ice changes.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If the targets are met large swathes of land and sea that are currently exploited by businesses to produce food, extract resources, and home millions of people will see their legal status change as they are granted stronger nature protections. The bulk of the funding - some £2.5tr - was deemed neutral.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 29, 2020

This article is what led to my larger piece about climate leadership which went up on HBR last week. The business world has recently started acting on climate change in earnest. While the call to action was vague, it was an important message from some heavy industry players that they wanted pro-climate policies.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

It was through this side gig that Garrett first seriously considered carbon capture. He figured he could tweak his agricultural techniques to suck planet-warming carbon out of the atmosphere and get paid by corporations looking to “offset” their carbon emissions. It turned out Garrett didn’t need to do much to get paid.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2020

Following the sold-out success of “I Am Not a Plastic Bag” in 2007, designer brand Anya Hindmarch has launched a new product, called “I Am a Plastic Bag”, aimed at recycling single-use plastic and leaving behind a net-zero carbon footprint from production. alone used 10.6bn plastic bags, and this figure dropped to 6.1bn in 2010.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2020

Following the sold-out success of “I Am Not a Plastic Bag” in 2007, designer brand Anya Hindmarch has launched a new product, called “I Am a Plastic Bag”, aimed at recycling single-use plastic and leaving behind a net-zero carbon footprint from production. alone used 10.6bn plastic bags, and this figure dropped to 6.1bn in 2010.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

But it is hard not to feel a little buoyed by yesterday's encouraging findings from climate scientists and policy experts at the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) initiative, who have assessed the planet's potential global warming pathway should countries and world leaders deliver on the emissions reductiuon promises they have made to date.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

But some analysts suggested the meeting provided a boost for the upcoming fortnight of negotiations in Glasgow, arguing that the leaders of the world's leading economies sent a clear signal that they plan to accelerate climate action over the coming decade. as a common goal.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Their study challenges the notion that PR agents are neutral mediators merely working to carry out their clients’ wishes. Carbon footprint. Astroturfing hit a peak around 2009, when Congress was about to pass climate legislation, which is generally when they “crank up their PR machines,” Brulle said.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If you listen to Joe Biden on climate change, you might feel the urge to junk your car and invest in wind power. You might find yourself wondering, does Trump believe in climate change? What’s actually in Joe Biden’s climate change plan? As the U.S. Now, the U.S. Now, the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Under Kerry the US doubled its financial contributions to vulnerable countries impacted by climate change. Kerry helped to craft Biden's climate agenda which includes a plan that will seek to make the U.S. carbon neutral by 2050. However polls suggest that climate action may help to unite Americans.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Under Kerry the US doubled its financial contributions to vulnerable countries impacted by climate change. Kerry helped to craft Biden's climate agenda which includes a plan that will seek to make the U.S. carbon neutral by 2050. However polls suggest that climate action may help to unite Americans.

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