GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

The call for a more resilient, circular and low-carbon economic model has garnered support from a growing number of businesses and governments over the past few years, and appears today more relevant than ever. Fri, 05/29/2020 - 01:00. The importance of these strategies notably have been highlighted in the U.S.,

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South. Danielle Purifoy.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 24, 2021

Pollution from oil and gas production is fueling the climate crisis, threatening our health and safety, and things have only been getting worse. Regardless, Arizonans have made recent strides towards ensuring a carbon-free future. Their impacts on our quality of life cannot be understated.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

YouGov poll indicates the environment is now the third top issue among voters behind health and Brexit. Levels of support for renewables in the regular public attitudes surveys have remained strong since the question was first asked in 2012, ranging from between 74 per cent and 85 per cent.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Household gas boilers in the UK release over double the carbon dioxide of all gas-fired power stations in the country, a new study has revealed. tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, amounting to over 92 millions tonnes annually. ” Good for Health. ” Lagging Behind.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Instead, in 2012, they converted 90 acres of pasture to native warm-season grasses, using their own money and cost-share funding from the U.S. Finally, they’d had enough.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

Its roots sequester carbon in the soil and boost soil health, making it a regenerative agriculture dream crop. Joel VanderSchaaf planted Kernza to primarily help restore soil health to his threadbare fields, but he also harvests the wheat-like grain. They also retain less carbon than their perennial counterparts.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

While transportation gets a lot of attention when we discuss carbon emissions, the food sector is also a major culprit. Between 2012 and 2017, food systems were responsible for about 16 billion tons of CO2 each year. About one-third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from food and farming. He cited the U.S.,

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 3, 2021

The organization has brought in a variety of indoor plants to improve office air quality and uses non-toxic supplies such as low-VOC paint to protect the health of staff and visitors. Throughout the year, carbon footprint analyses and commuting surveys are conducted as touch points to evaluate collective progress.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.). As the U.S.

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Elemental Excelerator

JULY 7, 2022

Since 2012, Elemental has invested in more than 130 companies, funded 100+ projects, celebrated its 20th portfolio exit, and launched a Policy Lab and Career Pathways program to strengthen the systems around our innovation economy.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2020

In 2012, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) published a study that found African American and Hispanic families are more likely than white households to live near coal-fired power plants. Of those who did leave, many could not afford to return.

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Fairsnape

JUNE 8, 2019

This diverse group make the point that buildings and construction account for approximately 40% of carbon dioxide emissions, with more action done to tackle the’ most pressing issue of our time’ Raise awareness of the climate and biodiversity emergencies and the urgent need for action among our clients and supply chains.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. It also means undermining the health of developing countries. After Yum entered Ukraine in 2012, MHP began supplying the nation’s KFCs through a chicken processing plant near Kyiv.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 15, 2020

While these proactive measures reduced the threat of wildfires, they disrupted countless businesses and posed their own threats to health and safety. For example, Montgomery County in Maryland opted for a microgrid in the wake of a 2012 storm that caused extended power outages. But cost and sustainability were also important criteria.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

When it was launched in 2013, loft and cavity wall insulation rates collapsed by 92 per cent and 74 per cent respectively compared with 2012. A recent analysis by Carbon Brief suggested that cuts to the ECO will have added £808m onto total household energy bills by summer 2022 due to 1.1 Low-carbon heating.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 19, 2021

Air pollution has grave consequences — the World Health Organization estimates it kills 7 million people a year. Indeed, recent research suggests closer to 9 million people died from exposure to air pollution caused by burning fossil fuel each year from 2012 to 2018. Mon, 04/19/2021 - 01:15.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

This deforestation inhibits carbon sequestration, which leads to higher temperatures. When production is reduced, farmers may use more chemicals in the growing process, which harms the soil and water sources, further degrading the planet and human health. In 2012, Starbucks reported its average price for green beans was $2.56

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Compared to 2012, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is predicting a massive increase in agricultural demand of 50 per cent by 2050. From a climate and carbon point of view, we know that cutting down trees at this scale is devastating. The conversion of forests to agricultural land is happening at a mind-boggling speed.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

The banks also underwrote 610 million euros of bonds for the projects from 2012-2021, the data showed. “I LNG projects since 2012, the report found. In Corpus Christi, Texas, Cheniere’s plans to double the capacity of its LNG export plant have raised public health and emissions concerns among residents. German banks lent 2.17

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv] xii] [xiii].

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The National Grid aims to switch the UK securely and efficiently to a 100 percent low-carbon grid led by wind and solar energy by 2035, and expects to have stints of fully carbon-free UK electricity as early as 2025.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This includes measures that work to reduce an entity’s carbon footprint , effectively manage waste , prevent pollution and conserve resources. Modern businesses operate in a world that has tight social regulations, and one that creates a diverse and equal workforce while also reinforcing human rights and workplace health and safety.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 3, 2021

Our estimates show that it could provide some 13 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity, which is about half of the new sources the state needs to add to meet its clean electricity goals : 60% from carbon-free sources by 2030 and 100% renewable by 2045. Installing solar panels over the canals makes both systems more efficient.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Society’s hierarchy of energetic needs can be represented graphically as a pyramid , with extracting and refining energy at the bottom and delivering education, health care, arts and so on at the top. ” Of all the carbon-free generation options studied, only hydropower emerged as a promising energy source, with an EROI of 84:1.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The wood pellets Drax produces are treated as “carbon neutral” under international accounting rules, based on an assumption that new-growth trees will capture the carbon lost by wood burnt for electricity. They are also concerned that the facilities could harm local communities, some of which face high health burdens.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The next-generation technologies we will depend upon to achieve “net-zero”, remote working, e-health, and ever-increasing media consumption will depend on interoperability and conformance like never before. Analogue switch off of broadcast television began in 2007 and was completed in October 2012. Proprietary solutions are inadequate.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

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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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

To help the recovery, an economic stimulus which embeds green criteria will be central to this solution, to simultaneously get the country back on track and direct investment towards the low carbon industries we will need in future. It is estimated that, in 2012, poor air quality had a total productivity cost of up to £2.7bn.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Forests are so unhealthy they are now emitting more carbon than they produce, according to recent s tudies. At the same time, California is counting on its forests sucking up lots of carbon from cars, factories, and power plants to meet its goals to slash carbon emissions. “If But either way, the result is more carbon emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

Incorporating SDG 7 “Affordable and Clean Energy, into your business will empower you to tackle the unique challenges of energy insecurity, increase self-reliance, reduce your carbon footprint and show your customers you prioritize the needs of all. million deaths in 2012 with women and girls accounting for 6 out of every 10.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

Related: Amazon rainforest is becoming a carbon source due to deforestation “Who is going to stop a poor man from Cuzco or Juliaca or Puno who earns $30 a month from going to Madre de Dios and starting to dig?” Environmental toll Peruvian gold mining poses many risks to both the environment and human health.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 16, 2021

The City has set some of the most aspirational climate goals in the country, including carbon neutrality by 2050 and achieving 100% renewable electricity in 2030. In addition to Environmental Services , the service area also includes the Departments of Social Sustainability and Economic Health.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 29, 2020

The call for a more resilient, circular and low-carbon economic model has garnered support from a growing number of businesses and governments over the past few years, and appears today more relevant than ever. The importance of these strategies notably have been highlighted in the U.S.,

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For its natural gas business, it will adopt a new net zero by 2050 goal that includes upstream methane and carbon emissions related to purchased gas and downstream carbon emissions from customers' consumption. "As Reports: New York pension fund to divest from shale projects.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Apart from preventing a clear view of the night sky, light pollution can cause damage to wildlife and ecosystems as well as to human health and safety. billion dollars and increases the release of carbon dioxide at the rate of 21 million tons per year. IDA estimates that wasted outdoor lighting costs the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

Incorporating SDG 7 “Affordable and Clean Energy, into your business will empower you to tackle the unique challenges of energy insecurity, increase self-reliance, reduce your carbon footprint and show your customers you prioritize the needs of all. million deaths in 2012 with women and girls accounting for 6 out of every 10.

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