Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

After years of R&D there is growing evidence that carbon capture and utilisation technologies are edging towards the crucial commercialisation phase. This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects. What's on my mind?

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The majority (50%) of organizations thought sustainability was “ fairly well ” integrated, as opposed to an ideal “ extremely well ” target. It’s a living, integral part of your business that needs room to grow organically, adjust flexibly, and evolve to your company’s changing needs. If not, how can we offset our carbon emissions?

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Global average levels of carbon dioxide reached 407.8

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. USDA Organic.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Shell Norco Manufacturing Complex.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

During the most recent determination of the NHL’s total carbon footprint , it was estimated to emit 530,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases , an amount rivaling the yearly emissions from 110,000 cars, says the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). HFCs heighten the greenhouse effect, while carbon dioxide similarly intensifies global warming.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. USDA Organic.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Yet the material itself did feel fairly stale, taking 2010 as its benchmark year while looking forward to 2050. Current trends are sliding to a nearly 600 million-hectare “land gap,” between global agricultural land area in 2010, and expected agricultural expansion by 2050. That’s an area nearly twice the size of India.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These documents, along with other findings, also demonstrate how multiple industries have employed this strategy to deny the health and environmental hazards of asbestos , lead , plastics , toxic chemicals , CFCs , and carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. This study ( Samet et al., The science has also grown.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects. Rising corporate support of carbontech and carbon removal technologies writ large is one of the biggest reasons driving my optimism that the market is about to take a turn.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions. Currently, carbon emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation (often referred to as land-use change) are offset, in part, by new reforestation and regrowth.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

In particular, the plan adopts a technology-neutral Clean Electricity Standard, which puts us on the path to achieving 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. We can continue to leverage the carbon pollution-free energy provided by existing sources like nuclear and hydropower. communities — especially in communities of color.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

That is, more and more studies indicate business sustainability delivers greater prosperity, and designs organizations to last. If we apply this definition in a business context, we define a sustainable business as an endlessly operational organization. Carbon in our atmosphere is 280 parts per million (ppm). Our reality.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products. The OIG’s investigation began after a 2010 audit of the equivalent of only 9 days of NCBA’s work found that the trade association was improperly charging expenses to the Beef Checkoff, including lobbying.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Despite the region’s shrinking wetlands, the government continues to permit new LNG export facilities on the Gulf Coast , and is encouraging hydrogen and carbon capture sequestration developments , though they too will lead to further land loss. It hails the MBSD project as a key element of its $50 billion master plan to do just that.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Economics are a primary concern in a well-designed strategy to reduce carbon. The potential ways to reduce carbon emissions vary dramatically on an economic basis. The amount of carbon abatement that a given method can accomplish also has limits in scale. Some items are shown as negative cost.

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GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2021

With corporations oriented towards net-zero goals, more organizations are considering the emissions avoided as a result of clean energy deals, rather than just counting the megawatts. Since 2010, energy storage has seen an 88 percent reduction in prices, making it a more attractive option in clean energy deals.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Join me on this quest in which we start by looking into how the Arctic is doing, before making an overview of predictions on ‘when everything is gone’ by various renowned organizations. million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 average. Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) How is the Arctic doing?

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

A confidential October 1989 Shell publication titled “ SCENARIOS 1989 – 2010 ” outlines a high-emissions “global mercantilism” scenario in which average global temperatures rise by “considerably more” than 1.5 degrees Celsius. The report warned that “many species of trees, plants, animals and insects would not be able to move and adapt.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. He did, however, sue the EPA nine times in 2010 for “unlawfully commandeering Texas' environmental enforcement program.” You have to report them all.”

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

Co-founders Scott Clavenna and Rick Thompson launched Greentech Media as a combination research, events and news organization, aimed at providing unsparingly tough but fair industry intelligence similar to how their previous venture, Light Reading, had covered the telecommunications industry. Unsung heroes at GTM also deserve a shoutout.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. For the first time in history, oil prices were negative. Carbon Tracker states that the world is “witnessing the decline and fall of the fossil fuel system”. The transition is among us. Why is oil so cheap right now?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. But it also had a textbook answer: putting a price on carbon. business and political history.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

work toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in all areas of the nation’s economy by midcentury, reaching net negative emissions beyond that. greenhouse gas emissions 88 percent from 2010 levels by 2050. Energy Innovation’s analysis showed the recommendations would slash U.S. degrees Celsius of warming.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

As explained by Nina Munteanu in a Vancouver Sun article , the reason that conservative men are so negatively disposed towards female environmentalists is because these women threaten their gender identity. Compared to men, women litter less, recycle more, and leave a smaller carbon footprint." kilograms of carbon per day.

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