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Outdated carbon credits from old wind and solar farms are threatening climate change efforts

Business Green

The carbon credit system needs an overhaul to effectively help in reducing climate change, according to a UCL study. French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of ' carbon neutral liquid natural gas '. Natural gas is, of course, a fossil fuel and so can't itself be carbon neutral.

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We will not stabilise the climate without eliminating deforestation

Business Green

Joshua Tosteson, COO of climate conservation marketing company Everland, offers a defense of REDD+ carbon offsets. It is by now well recognised that nature-based climate solutions can provide more than a third of the carbon reductions needed to keep global warming below 2C, the target agreed at the Paris climate talks.

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What Is ISO 14000? Certification Checklist and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

ISO 14000 is in high demand as corporate CEOs, business leaders, and green teams recognize the seriousness of sustainability for business viability, but struggle to take action. The burning of fossil fuels to power vehicles releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and sulfur dioxide. To explain further, let’s run through an example.

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The Future(s) of Fossil Fuels - 2020

Mr. Sustainability

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. For the first time in history, oil prices were negative. The transition is among us.

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It is oil over. Or is it?

Mr. Sustainability

Due to forecasts by accountants that global oil demand may never recover to levels reached before the pandemic, amid permanent changes to how people work and travel and growing concerns about the climate crisis. Even oil company BP is now coming up with scenarios in which demand will never return to the old level. Around 2030.

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It is oil over. Or is it?

Mr. Sustainability

Due to forecasts by accountants that global oil demand may never recover to levels reached before the pandemic, amid permanent changes to how people work and travel and growing concerns about the climate crisis. Even oil company BP is now coming up with scenarios in which demand will never return to the old level. Around 2030.