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What Were Europe’s Oil Majors Doing When GTM Launched in 2007?

GreenTechMedia

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. Find me on Twitter @jk_parnell if you want to say hi. It’s 2007. BP’s big pivot.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? It was about five square miles of trees’ worth of oxygen production or carbon sequestration required to set up one building. Demonizing carbon?

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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?

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Global Briefing: UN calls for rapid acceleration in European CCS deployment

Business Green

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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Are carbon offsets the answer to the climate change crisis?

Business Green

One tangible way to measure the positive contributions of investment portfolios on the climate is via reductions in carbon emissions and this is something more and more providers are reporting today, while a growing number of investment products are aligning themselves with the Paris Agreement goals. Rigorous standards. Beyond personal.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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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Does your business need natural capital accounts?

Business Green

The Natural Capital Committee, a body set up in 2012 to advise the UK government how to manage England's natural capital efficiently and sustainably, produced one of the first templates for companies to develop their own accounts. Ultimately, Business for Nature would like to see corporate natural capital accounting underpinned by law.