Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Oxford English Dictionary's Patricia Stewart charts how language related to the environment, climate change, and sustainabiliy is changing to reflect global new realities and concerns. Therefore, it can be used as a tool to understand the evolution of society and the challenges it faces at a given time. Going green or greenwashing?

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. That is why it is crucial for eCommerce companies to estimate carbon footprint on their shipping, as well as other business operations.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. It may signal that fossil fuel companies do not have much of a future powering the state’s economy, Caleb said.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

degrees Celsius above preindustrial norms (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2018), however, we are rapidly running out of time as we are already more than two thirds of the way there. An IPCC report (2018) indicates that all remaining gas and coal fired power plants need CCS technology. And we’re on the clock.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. Moreover, it offers a clear message to businesses and investors about the seriousness and complexity of these threats, and the need to plan ahead accordingly.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today. Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. And to do that, this Green Business Bureau is your guide. The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

While they're not immune to the forthcoming fiscal challenges, entrepreneurs developing solutions for addressing climate change - from agtech to decarbonization to clean energy and more - are among those proving to be the most resilient. These are businesses that accelerate the transition to a more sustainable economy," she told GreenBiz.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The problem of global warming crosses geopolitical lines and boundaries, and thus must be addressed by humanity as a whole. Singapore to Regulate E-Waste Last year, Greentech Challenge reported that global electronic waste was set to grow by a worrying 33% in 2017.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

It also highlights the experience of Cape Town in 2018, when the city came within days of becoming the first major city in the world to run out of water. Day Zero', when the taps for four million inhabitants would have been turned off, was only averted after emergency measures were implemented to cut the city's water usage in half.

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CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

We’ve made great progress driving down emissions across our own business, including meeting our industry-leading methane intensity target of 0.2 Whether natural gas can play a constructive role in the energy transition depends on aggressive measures to reduce emissions that include methane,” said Fred Krupp, EDF president. “BP

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. emissions in 2018.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Citing California’s extreme wildfire season as an example, Chris Beaufait, CEO of Sharper Shape, says that as global warming continues to threaten society, better decisions need to made. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Green business figures, politicians, environmental groups, economists and more react to leading climate experts' assessment of the solutions needed to deliver net zero. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the top reaction from business figures, politicians, campaigners, economists and more. on the table. Simply put, they are lying.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 14, 2020

These concerns were reiterated in a 2019 report from Zurich that reviewed the risks to infrastructure and the need for businesses to prepare for rising sea levels associated with global warming. Kearney has also created a site for business leaders dedicated to navigating the COVID-19 crisis.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. emissions in 2018.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

In addition, solvents used in the process often can be collected after usage and re-used continuously. "We There may also be new job creation [and] businesses around the collection, sorting and processing of post-consumer textile waste for large-scale recycling.". We make it possible to make clothes out of clothes again.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

For example, unregulated tree planting rolled out en masse in a bid to meet the government's manifesto pledges and reduce carbon emissions could inadvertently exacerbate global warming, the report suggests, highlighting how trees planted on peatland risk drying out carbon-rich soil and releasing more greenhouse gas than they capture.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In addition, 74 per cent of the poor are directly affected by land degradation globally and over 80 per cent of the human diet is provided by plants, with just three cereal crops - rice, maize and wheat - providing 60 per cent of humanity's energy intake. Business both impacts and depends upon nature. SDG 15 to the rescue?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

On a recent episode of the Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria,” American Petroleum Institute CEO and President, Mike Sommers , said that “the most important environmental movement in the world is the American oil and gas industry.”. “A ExxonMobil uses the phrase “advancing climate solutions” and “ lower emission energy future.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

The chair of a campaign by backbench Tory MPs against climate action runs a parliamentary group with a lobbyist who has an undeclared interest in the continued use of fossil fuel-powered vehicles, DeSmog can reveal. A spokesperson from his office told DeSmog: “Robert has no shares in this, or any other company in a related business.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world and its oil addiction An overview of global oil consumption The world runs on oil (1). The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. million b/d in 1986. 6) Oh yes. “The

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Unless you have good governance, any progress towards goals on healthcare, education, infrastructure, clean energy is going to be fragmentary, short-lived and quite volatile - Matthew Jenkins, Transparency International. The hope is that the plea to "recover better" can gain traction. The fear is that it won't.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The past decade has been a wild ride for America's massive electricity sector. Utilities will be front and center in America's efforts to combat global warming, from drastically cutting their own carbon emissions to assisting other sectors, like transportation, in cutting theirs. Today, no U.S. Today, no U.S.

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 5, 2021

With the world’s focus on cutting CO2 emissions to slow global warming, cutting methane emissions is often overlooked. But with more potential to warm the planet in the short-term, it’s time to tackle methane gas emissions. The International Energy Agency estimates that 75% of emissions from the oil and gas sector—some 16.5%

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