Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

But the British firm stands apart from most of its peers because it is one of the few operators in the world that creates its aggregates using captured CO2 and waste materials and is already today selling the resulting carbon removal credits to blue chip clients, including tech giant Microsoft.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. Welch, 2019).

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Now is the time for real action to ensure societies stop wasting resources with all the related negative consequences. They maximize captures of high quality, high carbon-intensity material while reducing litter. MWS reduces those emissions and returns more materials to the system for incorporation into new products.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

Exelon is following through with a threat to close two of its Illinois nuclear power plants by next year unless it receives state support to boost their financial viability, a move that could undermine the state's carbon-free electricity goals. The announcement was met with strong negative reactions from Illinois state leaders.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

While Nitrogen Dioxide is primarily produced by cars(EPA USA, 2016), other pollutants like Carbon Dioxide were on the fall too, with reduced global air travel reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions in the US by 17% ( Zogopoulos , 2021). Positive and Negative Impacts of the Pandemic on the Environment. EPA USA, 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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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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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Scientists are documenting changes that are “much more widespread” and “much more negative,” she said, than anticipated for the 1.09 It will gain increasing importance as the herculean difficulty of reducing emissions to net zero and removing vast stores of carbon from the atmosphere become clearer.”. Climeworks.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Cable says that with climate-conscious deployment, the MettleWood material can be net-negative in terms of emissions due to its highly sequestrated carbon content and outstanding stability. In other words, atmospheric carbon that was captured by trees can be stored long-term in buildings in the form of wood.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

The outlook for carbon capture and storage, both with gas and bioenergy, also appears to have improved significantly over the past four years. But the encouraging outlook for gas power with carbon capture and storage (CCS) is arguably more surprising.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

In the early 2010s, climate scientists were painting a grim picture of the future: If humans didn’t curb carbon dioxide emissions, the world was headed toward 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Scientists now estimate that current emissions trajectories make a 4-degree scenario highly implausible, even as total carbon emissions continue to rise.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 27, 2020

Erosion, destruction of wildlife , water contamination and release of carbon dioxide are all real environmental threats that can be caused by natural disasters. Amid the 2016 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, an expert called for rerouting due to the high risk of landslides along the construction path.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2021

It comes as banks face growing pressure to match their 2050 net zero financed emissions targets with efforts to stop financing fossil fuel companies in the short term, with today's call to action coming just weeks a major report revealed the 60 biggest banks ploughed $750bn into fossil fuel companies in 2020, in a $40bn increase from 2016 levels.

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2022

Modwen is building a major low carbon housing development at the MG Rover site where Mini cars were once made, it said today. Modwen we have taken leaps by introducing carbon-negative homes and smart-grid powered development," said St. Modwen CEO Sarwjit Sambhi. Modwen said. It follows the launch earlier this year of St.

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

Hard coal plants, or those burning more carbon-dense and less-polluting types of coal, by contrast, will be closed via least-cost tenders. The youngest plant, Datteln 4, is both flexible and cost-competitive, and it could serve as a useful counterweight to a renewable-heavy grid, carbon emissions aside. RWE is set to receive €2.6

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

By 2016, he told GTM, prices in some markets had risen so much “I had to invent new colors.” That’s despite the fact that renewable generation is increasingly contributing to low or even negative pricing on spot markets. He used a colored map for different price bands. percent to 32.1 Eurostat figures show.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It is widely understood that human activity is having a severe negative impact on natural ecosystems all over the world, and only with greater investment in analysis and remedial action can these issues be addressed.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Michael Shermer speaking at the 2016 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Nevada. A definitive body of research has documented the negative effects of rising CO2 on crops. Scientists have found that carbon emissions deprive plants of nutrients and lead to droughts and heatwaves that wreak havoc on natural ecosystems.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 8, 2021

Innovate UK launched Women in Innovation in 2016, after research revealed that just one in seven applications for Innovate UK support came from women. Dr Emma Fieldhouse (46) from Leicester, set up Future We Want, a sustainability consultancy to help teach people about climate change and carbon footprinting. Dr Emma Fieldhouse.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. Flooding of homes, businesses, and infrastructure like airports, ports, and subways, during heavy rainstorms would have a negative effect on companies’ abilities to operate. According to the U.S. How will businesses operate without electricity?

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2021

It comes as banks face growing pressure to match their 2050 net zero financed emissions targets with efforts to stop financing fossil fuel companies in the short term, with today's call to action coming just weeks a major report revealed the 60 biggest banks ploughed $750bn into fossil fuel companies in 2020, in a $40bn increase from 2016 levels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

In October 2020, HSBC announced its ambition to be a net zero bank by 2050 at the latest, but faced criticism for not outlining plans to reduce funding for fossil fuels, in particular coal, which has risen each year since 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The National Grid aims to switch the UK securely and efficiently to a 100 percent low-carbon grid led by wind and solar energy by 2035, and expects to have stints of fully carbon-free UK electricity as early as 2025. Fossil fuels are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions warming the planet, according to the IPCC.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. In 2016, he presented the social media coverage of the company’s Make the Future London festival.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

In fact in many states, the wholesale cost of electricity moves into negative prices in the middle of the day when rooftop solar system generation peaks. One of the main actions homeowners can take to reduce their own carbon footprint is to install solar. This percentage is expected to increase progressively over next decade.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade. As of 2016, the use of mineral fertilizers, which includes nitrogen-based fertilizers produced from natural gas, accounted for 39 percent of the agriculture sector’s emissions in Europe.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 9, 2020

The gap is growing between the transmission network’s capacity and the need to link wind farms in the Great Plains and Intermountain West , solar farms in the Southwest, and hydropower resources in eastern Canada, to other regions hungry for carbon-free energy. and Tucson Electric Power.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. The Holocene.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The airline and cruise ship industries undeniably have a large carbon footprint. Quark Expeditions, the operator of the tour I was on, also touted its plans to cut carbon emissions. In late 2016, the U.S. While most wetsuits are made of neoprene, wetsuits made of nontoxic materials are now available.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

ICAO, the UN body that oversees the global aviation sector, agreed its first major international climate deal six years ago, when some 191 nations agreed to establish a controversial, market-based carbon offset system dubbed CORSIA that applies to global passenger, cargo, and business flights.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Loliware was founded in 2016 in pursuit of "a radical leap towards [a sustainable packaging] future." Sourcing algae from sustainable seaweed farmers that capture carbon as they grow their crop, Loliware is working to manufacture a variety of bio-based polymers. Turning algae into straws that are 'designed to disappear'.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

In essence, getting society on board with the net zero transition can accelerate emission reduction efforts, make it easier to deploy low carbon technologies and infrastructure, and reduce the overall cost of building a net zero emission economy. And the report offers some interesting, if potentially controversial, answers.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Berrien founded COI Energy in 2016 to create a “win-win-win-win for businesses, the environment, disadvantaged communities, and the electric grid.” million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. The company answers a persistent climate issue: the fact that commercial buildings waste up to 30 percent of the energy they consume.

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