GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

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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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

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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GreenTech Gazette

AUGUST 2, 2020

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%.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

There is a strong link between economic activity and global carbon dioxide emissions, due to the dominance of fossil fuel sources of energy. This coupling suggests we might be in for an unexpected surprise due to the coronavirus pandemic: a slowdown of carbon dioxide emissions due to reduced energy consumption. Glen Peters/CICERO.

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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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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Ocean: increasing amounts of CO 2 ultimately dissolve in the oceans and forms carbonic acid by altering the ocean chemistry. The increased acidity reduces the number of available carbonate ions. 2009; Steffen, W., There are nine planetary boundaries identified. I invite you to join me there and share your thoughts.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2021

The government's own guidelines date back to 2009. Understanding and increasing your organisational awareness of consumption, spend and associated carbon emissions can help you identify opportunities for improvements leading to operational cost savings. So why is this process so difficult? Light reading, then.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

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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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution formally recognizing the day as International Mother Earth Day. In addition to these practical outcomes, the event demonstrated just how much can be achieved when people come together and demand action. The day continues to hold great significance. Earth Day in 2020.

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

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Negative emissions technologies are critical for the earth’s climate and hitting net zero in the UK, argues Drax CEO Will Gardiner. In the first months of the crisis alone, China reported a 25 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Going net negative. This year has been unlike any in recent memory.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

per cent in 2009. gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. The record renewables deployment in 2019 brought the share of renewables, excluding large hydro, in global generation to 13.4 per cent, up from 12.4 per cent in 2018 and 5.9 All of which brings us back to the increasingly intense debates over governments' economic recovery packages.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

A timeline from coal to negative emissions at Drax – told by the engineers who were there. Today, however, sustainably-sourced compressed wood pellets have enabled the Yorkshire power station - once the country's largest single source of emissions - to rapidly decarbonise, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions 85 per cent lower than in 2013.

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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

MAY 12, 2020

So I don't think it's as easy as saying it's going to be harder or easier, but I am very, very clear that there are some very problematic risks to achieving net zero and the Paris goals if we take the wrong response to the recovery, as we did in 2009.". Building back better.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

As long as the UK is drawing power from gas plants running without carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, it cannot have a genuinely clean energy system, a fact that has led the UK's Climate Change Committee (CCC) to recommend a 2035 phase out date for unabated gas. As it stands, "the legislation is not fit for purpose," Ember states.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixable,” according to a newly published report. In addition, vast quantities of carbon and methane pollution are released into the atmosphere. This article was originally published by Gas Outlook.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) This could lead to yet another negative feedback loop that could wreak havoc on the Arctic, drastically increasing the melting of not just sea ice but also Greenland's ice-sheets. Sea Ice extent is going down. feedback loops will cause this melting to possibly accelerate.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There are plans for huge “SAF” refineries in Paraguay using soybeans as a feedstock and such fuels are permitted under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) , which is the only internationally agreed policy and runs until 2035.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The ecosystem services that underpin the global economy should recover, providing greater climate resilience, enhanced natural carbon sinks, and improved food and water security. Meanwhile, more than three per cent, £82bn, went to activities that had a 'negative' or 'strongly negative' impact on the environment.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Since Mitloehner came out with his criticism of Livestock’s Long Shadow in 2009, the Checkoff programs have continued to fund his research, which argues that livestock’s environmental impact has been misrepresented. And since consolidation leads to larger herd sizes, it also has the potential to negatively impact the climate.

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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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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

Microsoft hit headlines at the start of year with a hugely ambitious plan to be 'carbon negative' by 2030 , backed by a pledge to - by mid-century - retroactively remove all carbon dioxide the company has ever emitted since it was founded in 1975, in an announcement that sent shockwaves across the corporate world.

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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. viii] Due to warmer winters, cases of Lyme disease increased more than 300% between 2009 and 2015. Download this brief here. [i] Saenen, Nelly D., Ameloot, Marcel, Nawrot, Tim S.,

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. Shell had other plans. corn belt.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Last year, the company announced two major initiatives: Carbon renewal technology , or CRT, which breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. We knew that the circular economy and being a lot more efficient with carbon was a good idea.".

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Home is a 2009 French documentary film directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The approach focuses on topsoil regeneration to increase biodiversity, improve water recycling, and support carbon capture by biosequestration. Communicate how non-desire for sustainability negatively impacts your business and society.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2020

There are a number of things, but two of the most cogent are that governments are due to put forward enhanced commitments to cut carbon by 2030 - so-called Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) - and to submit longer-term decarbonisation plans, to 2050, which ought logically to focus on reaching net zero emissions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Since September alone, China has pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, and Japan, South Korea, South Africa, and Canada have also set their sights on net zero by 2050. We need to go to net zero and afterwards to net negative, so removing CO2 emissions from the atmosphere.".

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The nations of the world agreed in 2009 to hold global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 That’s not negativity or pessimism; that’s a cold, hard reading of the situation, much like an honest cancer diagnosis from a doctor. The business community is moving on carbon and clean tech. The so-called “1.5-degree The news is bad.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The nations of the world agreed in 2009 to hold global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 That’s not negativity or pessimism; that’s a cold, hard reading of the situation, much like an honest cancer diagnosis from a doctor. The business community is moving on carbon and clean tech. The so-called “1.5-degree The news is bad.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

Last year, the company announced two major initiatives: Carbon renewal technology , or CRT, which breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. We knew that the circular economy and being a lot more efficient with carbon was a good idea.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The reports said the accident released about 3,000 pounds of xylene, which can cause headaches and irritate the eyes, nose and throat, and 240 pounds of carbon monoxide, which can cause fatigue and confusion. In fact, I’ve seen data that shows it might have a negative health benefit.”

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