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A corporate water strategy manifesto: We can and will do better

GreenBiz

700 million people worldwide could be displaced by intense water scarcity by 2030 ( Global Water Institute, 2013 ). The World Resources Institute has revised its predictions of the water supply-demand deficit to 56 percent by 2030. Do you have a water replenishment/balance/neutrality/positive goal?

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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Aviation is plotting a sustainable course

GreenBiz

In 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a U.N. The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply. Canada implemented a carbon tax on domestic flights, based on the amount of fuel used.

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How To Calculate Your Carbon Footprint

Green Business Bureau

THE IMPORTANCE OF CARBON FOOTPRINTS. Businesses today need to know and understand their carbon footprint in order to make progress toward becoming a more sustainable and eco-friendly business. You can also use it to determine the amount of carbon offsets to purchase in order to get to carbon neutral. .

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3 Things Policymakers Should Know to Accelerate Climate Tech Deployment from the Latest IPCC Report

Elemental Excelerator

The IPCC report notes that some of the most effective tools for creating more access to climate technologies are policies that expand research and development, funding for demonstration and pilot projects (particularly in overlooked communities), and incentives, standards, and other policies and programs that create demand and scale.

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Tanaka to boost production plant hydrogen energy use with new system

Hydrogen Fuel News

The company has already launched Operation Polaris*2, for the purpose of meeting its 2050 goal of being carbon neutral.   This process generates electricity without resulting in the production of carbon dioxide emissions, unlike many other sources of electricity generation that use fossil fuels such as coal or natural gas. 

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Aviation is plotting a sustainable course

Business Green

In 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a UN body, set a course for airlines to offset emissions of international flights above a 2019-20 baseline. The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply.