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Nature takes root on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. The valuing-nature goal builds on work that began in 2011 in partnership with The Nature Conservancy. Richard Mattison. Pull Quote.

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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

The accelerator will advance six startups’ climatetech solutions and foster potential development, investment, and commercial partnerships with Saint-Gobain Somerville, Mass. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation. and Houston, Texas, Jan. Hempitecture (Ketchum, Idaho, U.S.)

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2020 tipped the balance for British renewable energy

Renewable Energy World

The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019. Back in 2011, the UK was hovering at just 12% renewable generation, but energy policy and an appetite for change is rapidly accelerating our developments. Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. The broader picture.

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To make offices safe during COVID-19, buildings need a breath of fresh air

GreenBiz

Better filtration systems including HEPA filters, ionization, ultraviolet lights and active carbon have increased the quality of recirculated air, without having to increase the amount of fresh air in the building. . Buildings might have to embrace windows that open, increase the fresh air take up and invest in outdoor workspaces.

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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? HOW ARE OFFSETS USED?

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Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

DeSmogBlog

In 2011, the IFC lent poultry company Ust-Kamenogorsk Poultry (UKPF) invested $2 million in refurbishing housing for chickens, among other projects. In 2016, the EBRD made a $20 million equity investment in the company’s parent, Aitas, to finance the construction of a new facility to raise and process poultry.

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Not all carbon removals are created equally

Business Green

LSE's Josh Burke sets out the risks of prematurely incorporating carbon removal technologies into carbon markets. Carbon removals are needed because net zero targets - as implied by their name - are based on net emissions levels, which are important to distinguish from gross emissions. New net zero standards.

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