GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Yet just as efforts toward that goal are finally scaling up — via the EU’s amplified climate targets, China’s new carbon-neutral target for 2060, and other examples — the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a massive dose of uncertainty. “We need more policy support than is available today.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

Collaboration will investigate uses for hydrogen at Uniper's retiring coal plants as it takes aim at becoming carbon neutral by 2035. Its low carbon power capacity, on the other hand, accounted for just 6MW, split between hydroelectricity and nuclear.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The climate champions who attended were recognised for their individual efforts towards moving Canada to net-zero carbon emissions.”. Under her leadership, Teck has set an objective to be carbon neutral by 2050 as part of our overall commitment to taking action on climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

ING’s climate policy is miles away from what is necessary to achieve the 1.5°C Akin to that demand, Milieudefensie now seeks to compel ING to cut its CO2 emissions roughly in half by 2030 and align its policy with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C Since that agreement’s adoption in December 2015, ING has issued 83.2 Credit: Sabrina Bedford.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Between 2016 and 2020, Australia’s “big 4” collectively provided $32.41 A Westpac spokesperson declined to comment, and instead pointed DeSmog to the banks’ sustainability and climate change policies on its website. billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry. Buckley contrasted this with the situation in Australia.

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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. So, in 2016, we set an ambition to have global climate neutral manufacturing operations by 2025. They need to do this through clear long-term policies and direction.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

2019 Sustainability Report confirms oil giant is making progress with a raft of low carbon initiatives, but concerns remain over incremental pace of decarbonisation. The report confirms progress against these short term targets is now linked to executive remuneration policy. Shell shares this sense of urgency.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

It is close to five years to the day since the now defunct Energy and Climate Change Select Committee released its report detailing how policy uncertainty was hindering the low carbon transition. Does this annual circus risk killing effective carbon prices in other sectors before they even start? For now though, nobody knows.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In addition the company said it would be working with third-party brands that retail via the site, and aims for two-thirds of the external brands it works with to have set climate targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative by 2025, in addition to asking partners to sign up to ASOS's ethical trade policy by 2025. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The new guides came as industry actors called on the government to do more to support the development of greener buildings, as one analysis warned the £650m of new funding committed in the Spending Review could cover barely a thousandth of the cost of retrofitting UK homes built between 2016 and 2025.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

By planting varied crops, by not tilling, and by actually encouraging wild plant and animal life, she believes that we can restore the land to its natural balance while sequestering carbon. Join us for a discussion of innovation in agriculture and advocacy facilitated by Climate Solutions' Gregg Small.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

In March 2016, OES Oilfield’s executive chairman Richard Upshall wrote that: “Having recently met with James Wharton MP, the Minister for the Northern Powerhouse and some other members of Parliament, including Boris Johnson, who have declared themselves as part of the ‘out’ camp, I can see the opportunities ‘Brexit’ can bring.”

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Wood pellets, pictured below, are used for co-firing with coal at power plants, helping utilities and major end-users meet their carbon targets. However, Japan’s demand for the product is growing fast following the Fukushima nuclear plant accident in 2011, which sparked a major overhaul of the country’s energy policies.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In this role, she coordinated energy and water audits, contributed to the university’s climate neutrality strategic plan, worked on environmental justice advocacy and fostered corporate and community partnerships. 2016 – Elizabeth Turnbull Henry. 2016 – Jenny McCulloch. 2016 – Jaxon Love. The William K.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2021

The chief sustainability officer tells BusinessGreen how the Indian business group is steering more than 150 companies behind a 2040 carbon neutrality goal. However, the more energy efficiency you do and the more renewable energy and planet-friendly technologies you adopt, you reduce your carbon footprint and modify your processes.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 29, 2020

By planting varied crops, by not tilling, and by actually encouraging wild plant and animal life, she believes that we can restore the land to its natural balance while sequestering carbon. Join us for a discussion of innovation in agriculture and advocacy facilitated by Climate Solutions' Gregg Small.

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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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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Let’s halt bioenergy, reduce emissions and protect natural carbon sinks and landscapes rather than relying on false solutions.” Burning trees to reduce our carbon footprint is oxymoronic.” Carbon Debt.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

On Earth Day 2016, the United Nations formally adopted the Paris Agreement, articulating the commitment of nations to limit global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celcius over pre-industrial levels; and to strengthen the ability of countries to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

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.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

. · Companies that supported the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework will have more informed and more efficient allocation of capital and help facilitate the transition to a lower-carbon economy. · Major global companies face $284 billion carbon pricing costs in 2025, representing 13% of earnings.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

One of the world’s largest oil and gas companies is betting that the future of flying is carbon-neutral. CORSIA applies only to international flights, which account for the majority of aviation’s carbon footprint and around 1.3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to ICAO. Fuels rush in.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

” Yevgeny Shrago, a policy counsel in climate change for advocacy group Public Citizen. There are two major sets of risks for insurers being involved in fossil fuels,” explained Yevgeny Shrago, a policy counsel in climate change for advocacy group Public Citizen. The first risk is what we call transition risk,” Shrago said.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Likewise, European campaigners fear that the continent’s scramble to replace Russian pipeline gas with imported LNG will undermine a European Union target to slash carbon emissions 55 percent from 1990 levels by 2030, and lock countries such as Germany and Poland into dependence on imported fossil fuels for decades. “As

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The recent interest and commitment to water pledges has diverted scarce resources and funds from actions such as watershed conservation and protection, reuse, technology innovation and adoption, public policy innovation, etc. Do you have a water replenishment/balance/neutrality/positive goal? If not many, see the question above.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The recent interest and commitment to water pledges has diverted scarce resources and funds from actions such as watershed conservation and protection, reuse, technology innovation and adoption, public policy innovation, etc. Do you have a water replenishment/balance/neutrality/positive goal? If not many, see the question above.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 22, 2021

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. Policy already is playing a key role elsewhere. That may have been shortsighted.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

As those two states have some of the most ambitious environmental agendas and public policies in the country, some are adopted from existing local and statewide goals and initiatives. Our energy systems will be increasingly decarbonized and distributed, with variable and firm low-carbon energy sources gaining increasing market share.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

Around the world, SUVs alone emit more carbon pollution than Canada or Germany , and are causing a bigger increase in climate pollution than heavy industry. In 2016, for the first time, more bicycles than cars made journeys around the city over the course of that year. Half a century ago, the Danish capital was dominated by cars.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Kurten, an outspoken critic of national lockdown measures who has previously denied the harmful impacts of rising carbon dioxide levels on the climate, spoke at a number of anti-LTN rallies across London, including in Tooting, Islington, Barking, and Lambeth. Cox declined to comment for this article.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete. I moved from the U.S.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

Forest and Fields, Rondônia, Brazil, July 18, 2016; Farms and pastureland carve their way into tropical forestland in the western Brazilian state of Rondônia. One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Joshua Tosteson, COO of climate conservation marketing company Everland, offers a defense of REDD+ carbon offsets. require deforestation to decline by 91 per cent by 2030 from 2016 levels; the third requires deforestation to decline by 77 per cent. This is now settled science.

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