Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

Iceland's start-up community is looking to go global with its efforts to bolster the clean energy transition. The country is endowed with excellent resources, with geothermal energy pulsating just under its surface and thundering rivers providing hydropower galore. Icewind: Energy for extreme conditions. Greetings from Iceland!

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Strong, clear climate policies across power, transport and heavy industry, would help to support businesses to achieve climate goals, argues Volvo Car's. As we approach the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement, I've been reflecting on the climate action journey that Volvo Cars has been on since 2015.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 19, 2021

Local community solar projects enhanced by one-stop shop digital systems are set to play a crucial role in the global energy transition. The History of Civilization is in many ways the History of Energy. The control of energy has been a key – some say the key – factor in geopolitics and capitalism.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

Energy giant announces it is offer new range of solar, energy efficiency, EV charger, and insulation services to households across the UK British Gas has this week announced a new range of services for domestic customers designed to make it easier for them to install the latest cost-saving clean technologies.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Engie is on the lookout for more clean energy acquisitions in the U.S., With a long history in fossil fuels and nuclear energy, Engie has pivoted dramatically toward renewables over the past few years — a strategy that included the U.S. Engie supplies the city of Houston with solar power from its Holman project in Texas.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Transition Deal echoed the fossil fuel lobby by emphasising the importance of hydrogen power and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to the green transition. The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with net zero.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 13, 2021

This is the most important year for climate action since the Paris Climate Agreement was passed in 2015. Meaningful progress on climate change in this decade will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land use.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

MSIM said the new 1GT fund will be part of the investment bank's $200bn alternative investments business, and will target investments in private companies which are based predominately in North America and Europe with a focus on companies whose products and services enable meaningful improvement in their respective clients' carbon footprint.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. Hopes that energy-related emissions could peak in the next few years feel more fragile than ever.

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Grist

MAY 10, 2024

But trees are increasingly being prized for one thing: their ability to capture carbon and counteract climate change. Billions of dollars are flowing into projects to plant and protect trees so that governments and businesses can claim they’ve canceled out their emissions. Forests can also help people adapt to a warming world.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

You’ll also learn about key technology areas that are driving momentum to equitably tackle the climate crisis, and explore the plentiful opportunities for everyone to be a part of the energy transition that’s already unfolding. Read more about the expansion announcement here in the Boston Business Journal. in Somerville, MA!

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change (IPCC), published in August 2021, painted a stark picture of our world. In the years since 2015’s Paris Climate Accord, many industrial businesses have begun using carbon offsetting strategies to balance the emissions of their operations.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Ahead of world leaders gathering in Egypt for the COP27 climate summit in November, here is an A-Z of common terms: 1.5°C. This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

Seven years after the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, a large majority of country signatories and hundreds of companies have committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. gigatons in 2015, further jeopardising the 1.5C gigatons in 2015, further jeopardising the 1.5C gigatons in 2021 from 35.5

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Dr Azad Camyab, founder and CEO of the London-based company Pearlstone Energy, talks about the challenges and opportunities of virtual power plants (VPPs) in the burgeoning UK market with Smart Energy International. The cleanest and greenest energy is the energy not used!”. Have you read?

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Finnish forestry business UPM has become one of the first businesses in the world to link repayments on a €750m loan to its performance against long-term biodiversity and climate targets. UPM has developed a range of indicators and methods to monitor a net positive impact on biodiversity, he added.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 25, 2021

Buildings account for nearly 40% of energy-related CO2 emissions, according to WRI. But they are also the biggest, most cost-effective climate mitigation solution available – making up 58% of urban mitigation potential, the organization added in a press release.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The effects of climate change are worsening as countries around the world experience more heat waves and unpredictable weather. In that light, let's take a look at how these five countries are acknowledging climate change, and what steps they are taking to reduce its impact.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Changes in people’s buying habits need to be consistent to speed up the green transition, say experts. Putting people at the centre.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Mars CEO calls for corporate net zero goals which are 'fit for purpose' as multinational ramps up science-based targets to cover entire business and value chain. Climate change is already impacting the planet and people's lives," he said. "To Since 2015, Mars has cut emissions across its full value chain by 7.3

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Charged

AUGUST 26, 2020

That makes electric cars a problem: they take time to explain to shoppers. Now, we have proof that educating both salespeople and shoppers about electric-car charging actually boosts sales of EVs. Teske refined the system and, like any good entrepreneur, had to figure out a business model behind it.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2020

Government sets out plan to establish business models and funding mechanisms to deliver carbon capture and storage at scale in the 2020s. A similar CfD approach is also being touted by the government for developing low carbon hydrogen production , including through CCUS or via electrolysis using renewable electricity.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Tech giant announces raft of fresh sustainability measures and investments to address emissions across its global business. Could Apple - one of the world's largest, most successful, and most visible companies - really become a fully net zero business by the end of the decade?

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

With the UK lagging behind on meeting its emissions reductions targets, according to the latest estimates from the Climate Change Committee , it is more important than ever that the government swings into action and makes the case for broad-based, credible environmental tax reform.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

pathway - first announced in 2015 - by more than a decade. The move will see AstraZeneca accelerate its plans to cut carbon, with the firm promising yesterday to double energy productivity, use 100 per cent renewable energy, and reduce total energy consumption by 10 per cent from a 2015 base, all by 2025.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For SMEs, which make up 99 per cent of companies in the UK and account for half of the business community's carbon emissions, compiling this information is extremely challenging. Costs are extremely important when you're running a business," and a vital motivator, Telford noted. The ambition of this venture is huge.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

These sectors have also driven innovation that increased the productivity of factories and delivered key technologies like electric railways and steam engines that enabled the development of public and commercial transportation networks. In the past, this has led certain energy intensive users to move their operations to Europe (e.g.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

And it has been at pains to insist that the move away from polluting energy, products, and services towards cleaner alternatives will avoid the mass unemployment prompted by poorly managed industrial transitions of the recent past. But the LCREE survey provides a somewhat patchy snapshot of green jobs in the UK. It is a challenging balance."

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Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 20, 2020

1PointFive and Carbon Engineering have signed a licensing agreement enabling the commercial development of the world’s largest DAC facility, a first step toward their aspiration to deliver this technology on an industrial scale throughout the United States. and is a critical next step in the commercialization of DAC technology.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2021

Echoing similar warnings from the likes of the UN and the International Energy Agency, the inaugural edition of the tracker warns time is coming out to move the global economy onto the rapid emission reduction trajectory needed to meet international climate goals. "For

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

A decade of pressure on companies to report on and reduce their contribution to climate change has created something of a blueprint for investors to demand the same in terms of the separate but interconnected biodiversity crisis. “It is a positive step, but we have to see the detailed evidence in practice.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It comes less than two months to go until the crucial COP26 climate change summit in November, ahead of which countries are expected to come forward with enhanced emissions reduction plans, and Climate TRACE said it hoped the data released today could help inform world leaders' negotiations in Glasgow.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A report published this morning by the Public Accounts Committee highlights how the combination of increased housing development on flood plains, poor flood defences, unaffordable flood insurance, and the growing number of flooding events present major risks to the UK's homes, businesses, infrastructure, food supplies, and ecosystems.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2023

Even so, every algae researcher who spoke to the Guardian said a real effort to commercialize biofuels, algal or otherwise, requires several billion dollars, and a long-term dedication to overcoming seemingly fundamental biological limitations of wild organisms. Then the fracking boom went bust in 2015, and one by one they dropped out.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. He helped develop the fusion bomb, which is immensely more powerful than even the atomic bomb.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2023

So, the protection and restoration of these environments is critical for supporting biodiversity, combating climate change, and helping communities to thrive, and new tools to map, monitor, and quantify these ecosystems are key to aid in their conservation. The red coloring in the NIR false color composite indicates vegetation.

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