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Tackling Scope 3 emissions: the key to keeping 1.5°C alive

Envirotec Magazine

Randeep Somel explores an important issue pertaining to how climate targets will be reached. This November, world leaders, climate activists, and business executives have been gathering in Sharm El-Sheikh for COP27, the UN’s annual Climate Change Conference. Enabling solutions: Shrinking your digital carbon footprint.

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AstraZeneca promises to get to net zero 10 years ahead of schedule

Business Green

$1bn 'Ambition Zero Carbon' aims for zero carbon emissions across global operations by 2025, and ensure entire value chain is carbon negative by 2030. The new goals were set out in the firm's ‘Ambition Zero Carbon' strategy published yesterday, which brings forward its plans for decarbonisation in line with a 1.5C

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How behavioural science can boost the green transition

Smart Energy International

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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Not all carbon removals are created equally

Business Green

LSE's Josh Burke sets out the risks of prematurely incorporating carbon removal technologies into carbon markets. COP27, which concluded earlier this month, saw many contentious climate issues such as loss and damage, water scarcity, fossil fuel taxation and just transition at the front and centre. New net zero standards.

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How Everyday Technology Helps You to Live a Greener Lifestyle

Living Green Technology

Image via Pexels According to the Climate.gov , 2015 through 2018 were the four warmest years on record—a major indicator that our planet’s average surface temperature is increasing with each passing year. Always-on devices such as DVR and DVD players account for about 23 percent of all domestic energy consumption in the U.S.,

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New research reveals ‘megatrends’ that will affect forests in the next decade

Envirotec Magazine

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Between 2001-2015, 27% of forest disturbance was attributed to commodity-driven deforestation.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

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.