Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

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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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

It found that patents are increasingly focused on low carbon and green solutions, with Europe and Japan leading the market and the United States losing ground. Harnessing the potential of hydrogen is a key part of Europe's strategy to achieve climate neutrality by 2050," said EPO president António Campinos.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

The full investment for the project is estimated to be 1.7 Qatar, whose natural-gas exports trail only those of Russia, will host the FIFA World Cup in 2022 and has pledged to make the event carbon-neutral. It bought a 60 percent stake in SunPower in 2011 and plans to retain a share of the manufacturing spinoff company Maxeon.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Sims Recycling Solutions worked with UPROSE from the beginning to become a carbon-neutral state-of-the-art facility that would serve community needs but not be an eyesore or polluting facility on the industrial waterfront. Additionally, UPROSE has received support from Patagonia since 2011.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

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. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . percent of its GDP.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Wood pellets, pictured below, are used for co-firing with coal at power plants, helping utilities and major end-users meet their carbon targets. However, Japan’s demand for the product is growing fast following the Fukushima nuclear plant accident in 2011, which sparked a major overhaul of the country’s energy policies.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 9, 2021

Startups selected to participate in the Healthy Buildings Challenge gain access to Saint-Gobain leadership and opportunities to explore potential partnership outcomes including investment, development partnerships, and commercial partnerships. With its headquarters in Somerville, Mass. billion in funding. Follow us on Twitter at @MassCEC.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The European Union has clearly laid out its position: Climate neutrality, the Council of the EU stated last month, will require “a global phase-out of unabated fossil fuels and a peak in their consumption in this decade.” It’s really about legitimizing reliance on these technologies to prolong the lifetime of their carbon assets,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This award-winning public relations drive laid the groundwork for the United Nations to choose the UAE as the host of this year’s crucial climate talks with Al Jaber as COP28 president, even though the OPEC nation plans to invest $150 billion in new oil and gas production over the next four years.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Eligible Massachusetts-based startups will also learn more about and be encouraged to apply for MassCEC’s Investments and Technology Development grant programs at the end of the Healthy Buildings Challenge. billion in sales in 2020 More than 167, 000 employees, located in 70 countries Committed to achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2050.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Velux Group's sustainability team had been plotting a 'lifetime carbon neutral' decarbonsiation concept for more than a year when, some 5,000 miles away, Microsoft garnered headlines around the world last January by dropping a similar plan to compensate for all its historic emissions. million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2041.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 24, 2022

MCA will serve as the Leading Partner on the Go Make 2022 program, which is part of MCA’s overall external innovation strategies and efforts to leverage energy transformation and digital transformation to advance a carbon-neutral society. We look forward to the next step of this endeavor.” billion in funding.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 23, 2021

The institution of a national policy would complement renewable electrification efforts given that the production of thermal energy represents a significant portion of our carbon footprint. With increased access comes increased adoption rates, subsequently driving down initial investment costs and generating cost savings in the long run.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

Since 2005, the City has reduced municipal emissions by 37 percent through building efficiency upgrades, investing in renewable energy, and converting to hybrid, electric and alternative fuel vehicles. “As the Energy Capital of the World, the City of Houston has set a strong example of how to combat climate change and lower emissions.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 19, 2022

“We’re proud to support the Go Move 2022 program, which is an important initiative in advancing our carbon neutrality efforts in the mobility industry,” said Todd Deaville, Senior Director of Technology Evaluation and Innovation at Magna. With its headquarters in Somerville, Mass. billion in funding.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future Heather Clancy Tue, 09/01/2020 – 00:02 Business strategy organization Boston Consulting Group will use remote workplace lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce per-employee travel by at least 30 percent by 2025, one key element of the $8.5

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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. Carbon Tracker states that the world is “witnessing the decline and fall of the fossil fuel system”. The transition is among us. Betting on a recovery is exactly what the second camp is doing however.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

companies are publishing a sustainability report, up from 86% in 2018, and 20% in 2011. · Companies that supported the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework will have more informed and more efficient allocation of capital and help facilitate the transition to a lower-carbon economy. ·

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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. Newswise — New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., July 16, 2020.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

3) A gradual decline is preferred, because the alternative is a carbon crunch scenario. The production of renewable products at the Rotterdam refinery in the Netherlands started in 2011. My narrative is it that the energy transition a wise and cheap investment which will generate millions of jobs and a more stable political climate.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

3) A gradual decline is preferred, because the alternative is a carbon crunch scenario. The production of renewable products at the Rotterdam refinery in the Netherlands started in 2011. My narrative is it that the energy transition a wise and cheap investment which will generate millions of jobs and a more stable political climate.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

CEO insists climate crisis demands more ambitious targets, as he earmarks £1bn of investment to help the supermarket help hit net zero 10 years ahead of the government target. Sainsbury's is responsible for around one million tonnes of carbon emissions every year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Designed and executed with care, net-zero carbon goals can offer more than sustainability window dressing for commercial buildings in the decades to come. As we're moving from what was traditionally an avoidance of carbon emissions to avoid climate change, we're now moving much more into adaptation," she said. Risk and adaptation.

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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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Greentown Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

Houston is buzzing with incredible climatetech startups, world-leading energy organizations, and a thriving investment community. Today is a major milestone in Houston’s broader efforts to build a more efficient and more sustainable low-carbon future.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The research reveals that 53 percent of these directors have a combined 499 past or current connections to industries that could be considered potentially climate-conflicted including polluting energy, mining, manufacturing, along with banks and investment vehicles known to support the fossil fuel industry. . of its P&C premiums.”

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Low Impact

JUNE 30, 2021

Another vital herb, Opium poppy, was essential for its painkilling heroin and morphine, and opium was imported via a special licence from Turkey via neutral countries, thus maintaining supplies throughout the war. Some of these were cultivated and some wild harvested. The list was similar in both world wars.

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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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Sims Recycling Solutions worked with UPROSE from the beginning to become a carbon-neutral state-of-the-art facility that would serve community needs but not be an eyesore or polluting facility on the industrial waterfront. Additionally, UPROSE has received support from Patagonia since 2011.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

The burning of fossil fuels to power vehicles releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and sulfur dioxide. Global impacts : Carbon dioxide contributes to human-induced climate change, and the effects are global. For instance, let’s say the environmental objective is to reach carbon neutrality by 2030.

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