Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2022

Bridgestone has now invested more than $100m in guayule research, as part of its effort to deliver 100 per cent renewable tires by 2050. The company announced that it has made the investment to establish commercial operations to farm the shrub, and has further plans for additional investment and expansion through to 2030.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. . There are other ways to make hydrogen.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

According to a press release about the event, the International Net Zero Local Leadership Summit is being compared to the Paris City Hall Declaration in 2015, which paved the way for the Paris Climate Agreement at COP21. Ensuring the new UK Infrastructure Bank has a Net Zero mandate to deliver local investment in Net Zero projects.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The university outlined a staggered approach to divestment through to 2030, and said it will invest instead in renewable energy. The University of Cambridge has committed to divest from all direct and indirect investments in fossil fuels by 2030, as the institution works towards its goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2038.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2023

But she also warned that firms looking to deliver on their climate goals through cheap or low-integrity carbon offset credits should prepare for increasing pressure from stakeholders, noting that the going price for a carbon offset currently is just a slither of the ‘real' cost of carbon.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2020

Both Evian and Volvic also set to become 'carbon neutral' in the UK in 2020, claims the French food and drinks giant. Hugh Jones, managing director for advisory at the Carbon Trust, said Danone's efforts demonstrated "real commitment to achieving significant carbon reductions".

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2023

Companies serious about building a healthy, liveable planet should be making targeted investments in nature-based climate solutions, argues Pinwheel's Amber Rudd As the new Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in May 2015, I led the UK delegation at the historic 2015 UN climate talks in Paris.

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

Sweden's Electrolux has today revealed that it has reduced absolute carbon dioxide emissions from its operations by 75 per cent since 2005, speeding past its previous target to halve its emissions by 2020. Electrolux said it planned to remedy this shortfall by investing further in green research and development efforts.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

million offset credits based on the carbon stored in its trees. million metric tons of carbon dioxide — or the equivalent of driving 560,000 cars around for one year. If a forest burns down, you didn’t keep carbon out of the atmosphere,” said Danny Cullenward, an energy economist at Stanford University. “So

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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 At the same time, emissions have rocketed, with global annual CO2 emissions rising to 36.3

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Writing on Twitter, Adani said the gallery would “explore how we can power the future through low carbon technologies” and be “a reminder of the power of the sun and the wind in our daily lives.”. It comes after board member, Chris Rapley, resigned over the museum’s “willingness to accept oil and gas company sponsorship”.

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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. The tech giant is increasingly confident it can, and this week unveiled a sweeping package of new investments and initiatives designed to slash emissions across its sprawling global supply chain.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2023

I’ve covered dozens of energy and climate change conferences around the world, including the 2015 Paris climate talks, and this is the first one I’ve ever been denied entry to,” he said. “I When operational, LNG Canada could produce carbon emissions equivalent to adding 800,000 internal combustion vehicles to roads in a year.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

Deep coal mining, once the backbone of the UK's economy, ended in December 2015 when the Kellingley colliery in North Yorkshire was shuttered. the claim the mine is, ahem, 'carbon neutral'.". It regrets the delay to important new job creation in west Cumbria, to new investment and to our plans to deliver the project.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 26, 2022

Constraints, queues, and investment cues. That means we are spending money to waste low-carbon, zero-marginal cost power, and then spending again to ask gas generators to burn more fossil fuels instead. This is not a model that will scale to allow us to achieve zero-carbon electricity economically by 2035.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

He’s an ExxonMobil scientist in a company ad that also shows other scientists in a high-tech lab working to develop “low-carbon technologies.” All over the world, carbon-intensive industries and corporations are being challenged over their greenwashing strategies, and the number of relative cases in litigation is multiplying.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

An avalanche of net zero and carbon neutral targets have swept the private sector in recent years, as companies have sought to reassure customers and investors of their climate credentials and commitment to driving the transition to a low carbon economy. warming scenario, the stretch goal of the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Since 2015, Mars has cut emissions across its full value chain by 7.3 Mars insisted it was committed to ensuring that any residual emissions it could not eradicate would be "neutralised with real, durable and socially beneficial carbon credits based on removing carbon from the atmosphere", in line with the SBTi's recommendations.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The move shows the efforts that Amazon is willing to go to eke out carbon emissions across its vast network of planes, vehicles and distribution centers that deliver on-demand goods across the globe. Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

trillion into oil, gas, and coal projects since the Paris Agreement was signed at the end of 2015. A section on thermal coal says the bank’s current portfolio — which makes up a fraction of its investments overall — has been subject to “strict quality requirements.”. Buckley contrasted this with the situation in Australia.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the effort to limit global warming to 1.5C – the legally-binding limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Until April 2023 he was a non-executive director at Net Zero Infrastructure plc, a green investment firm.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Electric school buses don’t just eliminate the carbon and pollution emissions of their diesel-fueled counterparts, they cost less to fuel and maintain over the long haul. Unfortunately for cash-strapped school districts, an electric school bus still costs more than twice as much as a diesel bus today. executive chairman Bill Ford.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Back in 2015 it managed to generate 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy sources for 299 days, and in 2016, it ran for 271 days on everything but fossil fuels. It's also worthwhile to note that Costa Rica was one of the few countries which had the prescience to refrain from investing in fossil fuels in the first place.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

Despite not securing a Contract for Difference in the UK government's auction for low carbon power, VEWF remains fully committed to building the Viking Wind Farm and intends to take its final investment decision as soon as possible.".

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

It is this prescience that means the Green Deal offers both the direction for recovery and an essential template for long-term stability through the transition to a climate neutral, prosperous and fair continent by 2050. Investing in clean industrial innovation can help to renew Europe's industrial base and secure its future competitiveness.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

Church and Italian insurer are latest to join growing group of world's largest pension funds and insurers committed to fully decarbonising their investments by 2050. As a financial services operator we feel the responsibility of contributing to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050," he said.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In 2015, Radhika was a fellow at Blue Shield of California where she made recommendations on sustainability targets as well as on solar power purchase agreements which were implemented in 2018.Radhika Phoebe was well qualified for this position thanks to her 2015 Climate Corps fellowship at Huston-Tillotson University.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

Since 2005, the City has reduced municipal emissions by 37 percent through building efficiency upgrades, investing in renewable energy, and converting to hybrid, electric and alternative fuel vehicles. “As the Energy Capital of the World, the City of Houston has set a strong example of how to combat climate change and lower emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Since the EU-wide lifting of milk quotas in 2015, Ireland’s dairy sector has expanded rapidly , adding around half a million cows. While agriculture has come out with the lowest targets, Ireland’s electricity sector has been handed the hugely challenging objective of a 75 per cent carbon reduction by 2030. Irish Agriculture.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Analysis backed by top green figures indicates net zero transition is set to rapidly escalate in 2020s, leaving carbon-intensive industries looking increasingly uncompetitive. With the right policy support, zero carbon technologies and business models can outcompete old carbon-intensive industries across multiple sectors by 2030.".

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

And the report echoes growing confidence across industry that the zero-emission fuel could play a key role in decarbonising hard to abate sectors, such as iron and steel, alongside carbon capture and storage technologies that can prevent emissions generated at energy-intensive plants from reaching the atmosphere. temperature rise target.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future Heather Clancy Tue, 09/01/2020 – 00:02 Business strategy organization Boston Consulting Group will use remote workplace lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce per-employee travel by at least 30 percent by 2025, one key element of the $8.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

C limit set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement ten years sooner than expected. Awareness is high, with around three quarters (75 per cent) of UK respondents to recent consumer research now concerned about the threat of carbon emissions to the planet. billion tonnes in 2021, taking the total to 33 billion tonnes.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The move shows the efforts that Amazon is willing to go to eke out carbon emissions across its vast network of planes, vehicles and distribution centers that deliver on-demand goods across the globe. Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

The Jadar mine was regarded as one of Serbia's biggest foreign investment projects, but environmental groups criticised the plan, claiming it risked polluting land and water in the area. Shell takes flak over Canada carbon capture project. million petrol cars, despite having been fitted with the pioneering technology.

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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. million in Neighborhood Grants. LinkedIn | Personal website. million acres the 4.4

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