Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

The commitments formed the centrpiece of the automakers second annual Integrated Sustainability and Financial Report, which was released yesterday, confirming Ford's long term goals to to achieve carbon neutrality no later than 2050, backed by science-based interim emissions targets for 2035.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Burning trees to reduce our carbon footprint is oxymoronic.” Carbon Debt.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

The US-based organisation – which has links to a network of fossil fuel funded think tanks and advocacy groups – has opposed climate-friendly measures in Europe, such as the phase-out of petrol cars and green farming reforms, despite being removed from the lobby register over a year ago.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. To prove this is possible, the Commission claims that between 1990 and 2017 Europe’s CO2 emissions decreased by 22% while its economy grew by 58%.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The task force was established by the state’s House of Representatives last November to explore prospects for shipping regionally produced shale gas to Europe in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. LNG companies shipped to Europe at soaring premiums. Texas and Louisiana produced record amounts of shale gas last year, which U.S.

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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. Europe is the world’s largest wood pellet market, consuming about 29 million tonnes in 2018. They’ve selected us because we’ve got our foot on the ground in Vietnam and we went there early.

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Rinexii

JUNE 18, 2021

Our climate is rapidly overheating, and many concerned citizens are trying to do their part to stop choosing carbon polluting products, unnatural fibers, and plastics. Plan A , a leading carbon emission and ESG management software company, launched a Europe-wide movement against greenwashing. Interview with Plan A.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2022

And in Europe, according to Pew Research Center, climate change is seen as an even bigger threat than coronavirus. From this year, Google Maps will offer eco-friendly routing: defaulting to the route with the lowest carbon emissions when the estimated time of arrival is similar to the fastest route.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. Peter Terium is a Dutch business executive and was the Chief Executive Officer of innogy from 1 April 2016 until 19 December 2017. That $1 trillion-plus stimulus package will try to make the continent carbon-neutral. “By

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Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

Fully-electric vehicles (EVs) are set to dominate the growing plug-in market, with the report projecting they will comprise three-quarters of the plug-in segment by 2025 and up to 39 per cent of all vehicle sales in the leading markets of China and Europe by the same year.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

The two new stations - one in Warrington, which it claims is the largest in Europe, and another in Northampton - are together capable of refuelling over 1,000 trucks a day, more than doubling the firm's existing renewable biomethane refuelling capacity in the UK.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. Peter Terium is a Dutch business executive and was the Chief Executive Officer of innogy from 1 April 2016 until 19 December 2017. That $1 trillion-plus stimulus package will try to make the continent carbon-neutral. “By

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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. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks. Company profile.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

For now, the United States leads most of the world in both economic inequality and carbon emissions. African-Americans are 75 per cent more likely than others to live near hazardous waste facilities, according to research released by the NAACP and Clean Air Task Force in 2017.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Designed and executed with care, net-zero carbon goals can offer more than sustainability window dressing for commercial buildings in the decades to come. As we're moving from what was traditionally an avoidance of carbon emissions to avoid climate change, we're now moving much more into adaptation," she said. Risk and adaptation.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Headquartered in the outskirts of Paris, the Bolloré Group — under the name of its holding company, Compagnie de l’Odet — sits at 177 on the Fortune 500 Europe list of largest companies for 2023 , with 19.77 A 2017 YouTube video depicts on-the-ground logistics management for “an operation dedicated entirely to Shell” in Port Gentil, Gabon.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With Our Responsible Journey, Samsonite strives to lead the lifestyle bag and travel luggage industry across key sustainability indicators, including the use of recycled materials in its products and packaging and achieving carbon neutrality across its owned and operated facilities.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The wood pellets Drax produces are treated as “carbon neutral” under international accounting rules, based on an assumption that new-growth trees will capture the carbon lost by wood burnt for electricity. Forest Service trail camera captured wolves in the Lassen Pack, whose territory includes parts of Lassen County, in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The company, they said, aims to gradually decarbonize its investment portfolio to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Elsewhere in Europe, AXA-director, Patrizia Barbizet, has been director of the European oil giant TotalEnergies since 2008. A Generali spokesperson said coal, oil, and gas production “stood at less than 0.1%

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Despite closing its coal plants in 2017 and promising to decarbonise its power supply, Iberdrola has built two gas-fired power stations in Mexico since 2019 and has been pushing to open two more, although an Iberdrola spokesperson said it did not expect these to proceed due to opposition from the Mexican government. Wind and Gas.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Two of Europe's top engineering giants have this week moved forward with plans to accelerate the roll out hydrogen fuelled trains, with projects advancing in both Germany and Italy. Only then can DB be climate-neutral by 2050. South Korea signals plan to strengthen 2030 carbon targets. within our administration's term?for

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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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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

JANUARY 5, 2021

The UK-EU trade deal is thought to be among the first to explicitly embed mutual commitments to climate action and the net zero transition, with the text of the document stating that "each party reaffirms its ambition of achieving economy-wide climate neutrality by 2050". Carbon pricing and energy. Electric vehicles.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

According to a 2017 study , Europeans use 36 billion disposable straws annually. Across Europe, a single-use plastic ban will come into effect from 2021, targeting straws, cotton buds, and disposable cutlery, among other products. Transitioning from Plastic to Biodegradable Paper Reduces Your Carbon Footprint.

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AGreenLiving

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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EDF + Business

APRIL 30, 2021

In June 2020, Ford expanded its climate change goals and set a target to be carbon neutral by 2050. GM has committed to carbon neutrality in global products and operations by 2040, with an aspiration to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035. General Motors. General Motors , the largest U.S.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 11, 2020

Carbon neutral by 2050 is the go-to metric (to align with IPCC report goals). Dominion and BP made 2050 pledges; Consumers Energy in Michigan took a big step by committing to carbon neutrality by 2040, moving itself to the front of the pack in this space. (It

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A significant proportion of global carbon emissions come from farming meat. Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, edited by Wei-Yin Chen, Toshio Suzuki, Maximilian Lackner, 2017 There is a mounting consensus that human behavior is changing the global climate and its consequence could be catastrophic.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The campaign promoted the state-owned renewable energy company Masdar and Masdar City — the UAE’s futuristic “zero-carbon” metropolis — while casting Al Jaber, the head of the Masdar company, as the face of the petrostate’s promised clean energy future. Architecture in Masdar City, January 2017.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

Even before Covid-19, 2020 was already a big year for the tech giant and its environment lead, who spoke to BusinessGreen from his home office in mid-April as coronavirus shutdowns snowballed across North America and Europe. So, with biodiversity and carbon completed, plans for water and waste are on their way next. "But

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

She has developed a vendor sustainability scorecard for a Fortune 100 company, consulted with a national brand to improve impact measurement and reporting, and quantified the carbon emissions of an industry association. She/Her/Hers) Sustainability Strategist, Futerra London, UK, Europe J. Praneet Singh Arshi. every month.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise. And What They Deliver.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

It's interesting to discuss SDG17 at the moment," reflects Hans Daems, group public affairs officer at Hitachi Europe. Bilateral ODA (overseas development assistance) to least developed countries fell by three per cent in real terms from 2017, aid to Africa fell by four per cent, and humanitarian aid fell by eight per cent," the UN said.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. Carbon Tracker states that the world is “witnessing the decline and fall of the fossil fuel system”. One example of a company already leading the charge is Chemport Europe. in 2017. +

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