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

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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

The findings come as the banking industry receives increased scrutiny for financing polluting projects and builds upon previous analysis by DeSmog showing climate-conflicted board members at many of the UK’s top banks and across bank boards worldwide. Between 2016 and 2020, Australia’s “big 4” collectively provided $32.41

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. Site size and production capacity for LNG export terminals.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Boris Johnson has signalled he is keen for the UK to make a "big bet" on wind power, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) as part of the government's strategy for building a net zero economy by 2050, as he urged global government to step up their climate efforts ahead of COP26. We have no time to waste," he said.

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Unsustainable

JUNE 17, 2020

Their processing and manufacture is also nearly carbon neutral. It provides a secondary income to growers and is environmentally neutral. Not only does it function like leather, produce far less pollution in manufacturing, it is also 40% less expensive than good quality leather. and Frabjous Fibers all use banana fabrics.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. So why did these eminent scientists decide to come to Paris in 2015? The problem is this confuses the means with the end.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

An independent HS2 review published by the government today said there was a risk of the project running up costs as high as £100bn, almost double the £56bn budget forecast back in 2015, while also conceding that construction of the new rail network could push up carbon 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. per cent in the decade to 2021, with a corresponding rise in water pollution and declines in air quality caused by an increase in nitrogen fertiliser use. Irish Agriculture. Steep Cuts for Other Sectors.

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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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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. You must only look at the light pollution across cities at night-time to see this.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 12, 2020

Ultimately, the signatories say, government stimulus and recovery efforts can do more than just create jobs: they’re an opportunity to encourage economic diversification and innovation, cut both carbon pollution and illness-causing air pollution, and make Canada a more resilient country. Visit resilientrecovery.ca

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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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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.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We need a 45% cut in emissions by 2030 to reach carbon neutrality by mid-century.” In 2015, 200 countries made environmental pledges as part of the Paris Agreement. Related: It’s code red for Earth, says new UN study “The world is on a catastrophic pathway to 2.7 degrees (Celsius) of heating,” U.N. In the latest review, the U.N.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Founded in 2015, Arrival champions itself as a producer of electric commercial vehicles designed to help cities meet their net-zero emissions targets worldwide. The sleek design concept also allows for the installation of plexiglass dividers between passengers and no-touch stop requests via a smartphone app.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Less heralded but no less important was the commitment to reduce all pollution to levels not harmful to wildlife and ecosystems, taking in significant cuts to nutrients, pesticides, and plastic waste. All play a role in absorbing carbon.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A spokesperson for Cefic said the group supported the European Green Deal and that the European chemical industry was “uniquely positioned at the heart of European manufacturing to contribute to realizing a climate neutral society.” In 2015, major European agrochemicals supplier and ECCA member UPL Europe Ltd.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

The data on air pollution impact is limited, especially for recently-implemented schemes. These concerns ranged from increased air pollution for brown and Black communities near LTNs that saw increased motor traffic, to economic impacts on businesses contending with blocked streets, as well as access issues for disabled people.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Annual emissions from the city stood at around 34 million tonnes of CO2 in 2015, or just under 10 per cent of all of the UK's total emissions that year. At present, London lacks incentives for individuals and companies to pursue low carbon opportunities, and there is "insufficient pressure for action", according to the report.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Carbon offset. Does the carbon offset provider use sound science and accounting practices to back up the claims it makes about its carbon offsets? The FTC said in December that it expects comments on 'carbon offsets' in particular for the next Green Guides. Low carbon. Plastic neutral.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

According to recent reporting by The Narwhal, LNG Canada could increase British Columbia’s annual carbon emissions by 13 megatonnes, more than 20 percent above current levels — making it one of the largest fossil fuel expansions in recent Canadian history. The Bolloré Group as a whole reported company-wide carbon emissions of 34.8

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

For example, when a forest—which naturally absorbs and stores carbon dioxide as trees grow—is logged and converted to grazing or agricultural land, GHGs are released as trees decompose. For instance, use of plastic packaging has increased sharply in recent decades, from 2 million tons in 1950 to 381 million tons in 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That’s potentially very bad news for the climate: The huge amount of methane that leaks during the production, transport and storage of LNG means that the carbon emissions associated with importing the fuel could be up to ten times higher than for the equivalent amount of Russian pipeline gas, researchers say.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Instead, Boris Johnson's serial unseriousness, failure to engage with the detail and hypocrisy at home including rolling over to big polluters is undermining COP26 before it has begun. "We "As hosts, the UK has a unique responsibility to make the summit a success," he said. We can have no more climate delay.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Sweden’s Pledge to be Carbon-Neutral Despite uncertainties in global leadership, Sweden promised to honour the Paris Agreement made by the United Nations and cut all its greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. Our alumni Bluebenu is developing a lead technology that transforms the plastic pollution rescued from the oceans into eco-fuel.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. The industry claims that forests that are felled sustainably — for construction, say, or for burning to produce electricity in utility-scale power plants — can provide jobs and energy, stimulate the economy, and even reduce society’s net carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

COP28 will be especially significant, as it will feature the first-ever “ global stocktake ,” of how much progress — or lack thereof — countries and other stakeholders have made toward meeting the goal established in 2015’s Paris Agreement of limiting warming to “ well below ” 2º degrees Celsius. Critics argue it is anything but.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

One key goal is for Costa Rica to be recognised as a leader in establishing a carbon-neutral future. In the below video, hosted by the World Economic Forum , Costa Rica’s aims to establish a carbon-neutral future – plus more of their overarching green goals and achievements are described.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 11, 2023

Drax, which says it supports over 6,000 jobs in the North of England, is the UK’s single largest emitter of carbon dioxide. In the newsletters, Drax says advocating for BECCS technology “should be a focus of our parliamentary representative”, highlighting its ambition to achieve ‘carbon negative’ energy by 2030.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Several promising carbon reduction measures are combined which are technically viable and based on matured technology, although scaling of existing technologies and cooperation with key partners is required. It originates from Heerema’s ambition to become a carbon neutral offshore contractor.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Today, however, sustainably-sourced compressed wood pellets have enabled the Yorkshire power station - once the country's largest single source of emissions - to rapidly decarbonise, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions 85 per cent lower than in 2013. A new fuel for a low carbon power station. From biomass to negative emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2022

She wrote: “The claimants point to clear evidence of negative taxation flows in particular years; specifically negative tax flows overall in 2015-16 and 2016-17 of £2 million and £359 million respectively.”. The government disputes this, and “billions” does not appear in today’s judgment. ‘Unacceptable’ Fossil Fuel Subsidies.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In January China's largest steel producer and second largest in the world by output - state-owned Baowu - announced it would achieve 'carbon neutrality' by 2050, and - importantly - would aim to peak its emissions in 2023. It is reckoned easily to be the industry with the largest carbon footprint in the world.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

To name a few, the most common standards are: ISO 9001:2015 – Used for general organizational Quality Management Systems (QMS). ISO 14001:2015 – A set of standards under the ISO 14000 series. ISO 45001:2015 – An international standard for health and safety in the workplace.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

The EU deal formalises the bloc's goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and become the world's first 'carbon neutral continent'. A number of Member States insisted on a less ambitious target, citing fears over the impact on carbon intensive industries. The Climate Law sets the EU on a green path for a generation.

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