DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk. As business leaders and employees , we must understand the nature of corporate greenwashing. In this Green Business Bureau article, we define corporate greenwash. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk. As business leaders and employees , we must understand the nature of corporate greenwashing. In this Green Business Bureau article, we define corporate greenwash. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2023

The world’s mangroves alone sequester more than 31 million tons of carbon in their soils and biomass each year. These ecosystems really are a great ocean-climate link, and part of our strategy is to unlock this blue carbon potential for climate mitigation,” said Lindsey Smart, Climate and Ocean Scientist at TNC.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ocean-based sequestration heats up Jim Giles Mon, 02/01/2021 – 00:30 This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019. And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

If you’re in the US, your 2020 likely included living through record-breaking temperatures , hurricanes , and/or wildfires , as the academic warnings of climate change quickly became a reality (my personal experience was Blade Runner in SF ). believing the government was doing too little to reduce the effects of climate change.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. At Starbucks, that expanded focus also blends with its climate leadership initiatives.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ocean-based sequestration heats ups Jim Giles Mon, 02/01/2021 – 00:30 This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019. And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Business interest in plant-based food is growing, but many consumers are still in the dark over the environmental sustainability of their eating habits. There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK. That breaks down into a 13.7g increase in white meat consumption over the period.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

It’s important that businesses understand which gases matter and how to measure these gases using the common approach of carbon dioxide equivalents. The three main sources of human-induced CO2 emissions are transportation, electricity, and industry. Greenhouse Gases and their Carbon Dioxide Equivalents. Greenhouse gas emissions.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Most often, climate change is associated with a decrease in groundwater, fueled by worsening drought and evaporative demand. Pavement is degrading faster.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources will take place on November 25-26, 2019 in Rome, Italy. The theme is "Renewable Energy for a Better Future" and the it will include: Keynote talks, Plenary sessions, Discussion Panels, B2B Meetings, Poster symposia, Video Presentations, and Workshops.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

The sweeping package of measures is aimed at lowering agricultural emissions – that make up 10 percent of the bloc’s overall greenhouse gases – and protecting the healthy soils and ecosystems on which farming relies. We need to change the concept of climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MARCH 14, 2023

A great deal of progress has been made in decarbonizing the power sector through deployment of clean electricity generation technologies such as wind and solar. On the federal front, the Department of Energy (“DOE”) has set a goal of powering at least 40 million U.S. homes with renewable geothermal by 2050.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We’re grateful to partner with this latest group of innovators and, with a portfolio that’s now 117 companies strong, work together to commercialize an abundance of solutions to reverse climate change — starting today. “These are technologies that are primed for deployment and growth.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

In a new report published on Monday the committee delivered a sharp warning that the current "siloed" approach to climate change, where efforts are split between different departments and bodies with minimal overall coordination, will "fail to deliver the intended outcome and could even contribute to further degradation of the natural environment".

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tree Planting: July 29th, 2019 – Ethiopia breaks the record for the most trees planted in a single day. Deforestation is a major cause of climate change, and it also has serious effects on local conditions. words Jeremy Williams A hundred years ago Ethiopia was a forest nation, with over 40% of its land forested.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Sometimes the dynamics of this saturation are so complex and inscrutable that our strides unsettle sand that is several meters away, so that with each step we see little bursts of light up ahead of us, wherever the water is wicking through the grains. Local businesses started sending food and supplies up to the camp.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Introduction Climate Change. Soil degradation. According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Sustainability. Deforestation. Loss of biodiversity. Water scarcity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In 2019 76 per cent were at good status for invertebrates, which are a critical part of the food chain for thriving river wildlife. But our ability to protect our waters depends on us having the powers and resources to do that, and that hasn't always been the case. Two years ago I gave a speech called Defusing the Weatherbomb.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations). Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The facility, called Clearwater, was built by the Denver, Colorado-based oil and gas extraction company, Antero Resources, and an affiliate of Veolia, the multinational French waste, water and energy management company. Antero was to own the treatment plant and supply it with fracking waste from its nearby oil and gas extraction operations.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

If his soil could be healthier, his crop yield higher, his profit margins wider, he makes it happen. Big businesses often find it cheaper to pay somebody like Garrett to trap more carbon than it is for them to change their ways. Humanity will have to use every tool available to have a shot at reversing climate change.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 28, 2020

We’ve spent the past ten years working to accelerate solutions to climate change and deploy those solutions in the communities that need them the most. We are excited to enter the next decade with a focus on equitably scaling climate fixes at a global level.” — Dawn Lippert, CEO. What do we look for in a startup?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Needless to say, with the bulk of RGE's business rooted in the production of wood pulp or palm oil, its various subsidiaries have faced plenty of criticism over the years for their records on deforestation, land disputes, and drainage of carbon-rich peatland habitats.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

On Tuesday, the United States government published the Fifth National Climate Assessment — an exhaustive summary of the leading research on climate change and how it affects life in every part of the country. Between 2005 and 2019, greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. It may come as no surprise that its findings are dire.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

I’ve come to Stone House Farm from Brooklyn to learn more about how regenerative agriculture — the nature-based approach to farming generating all kinds of buzz around its climate mitigation potential — actually works. The marketplace is one of a number of new platforms born in anticipation of huge corporate demand for soil carbon credits.

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