GreenBiz

JUNE 25, 2020

Thu, 06/25/2020 - 00:30. With growing consensus on the gravity of the climate crisis, countries and companies are adopting carbon reduction targets. Pressure to make emissions visible has been around for a while: Consumers want to know how much carbon is embodied in the products they buy. Paolo Natali.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Labour’s energy spokesperson has said he stands “completely” with biomass giant Drax, despite admitting that its use of wood pellets in its North Yorkshire power station is not carbon neutral. The speakers at the panel event, “How Can the UK Build a Zero Carbon, Lower Cost Energy Future?” Completely With Them’.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Analysis of the government’s latest transparency data shows ministers at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) held 130 one-on-one meetings with energy producers between July 22 2019 and March 18 2021, of which nearly half (63) were with producers of high carbon energy. Drax Access.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

And here's Makower's: "Fraudulent misrepresentation of a company's products, policies or performance.". Commitments to net zero are worth zero without the plans, policies and actions to back it up. There's a reason why carbon is all around. How companies can reach net zero carbon and avoid greenwashing.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS? HOW ARE OFFSETS USED?

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 20, 2021

In January 2020, Microsoft launched a company-wide focus on sustainability by announcing an? to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they have emitted since they were founded. ambitious goal and a detailed plan ?to Project Highlights.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

European airlines are fully committed to decarbonize air transport and accelerate their efforts to make Europe the world’s first carbon neutral continent by 2050,” the paper says. Climate policy regulation in the form of taxes is ecologically and economically counterproductive,” the paper says. trillion infrastructure bill.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors.

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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. million on lobbying in 2019 and 2020, according to the latest available data on their lobbying spending from official EU data.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Research done in the US found that 42% of energy-related carbon emissions came from household machines, including cars.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Analysis by US environmental advocacy group, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), studied the emissions from wood pellets transported from pine plantations in the southeastern United States to be used in a bioenergy, carbon capture and storage (BECCS) operation by Drax in Yorkshire. Drax has disputed these figures.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In the spring of 2020, the European Union announced an ambitious plan to overhaul farming practices in fields and valleys across the continent. Since 2020, the world’s four largest pesticide companies have spent over 20 million euros on lobbying both EU officials and the public. See Table.).

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

By the end of 2020, global CO 2 emissions need to have dropped by 7.6% Earth day 2020 is not just the 50 th anniversary of Earth Day, but also the anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement to take climate action. Earth Day in 2020. Earth Day 2020 calls for 24 hours of actions, big and small, for people and the planet.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

While the upfront cost of EVs today remains higher than for traditional fossil fuel cars, Lyft said that with battery costs continuing to decline it expected zero emission models to be more economical for rideshare drivers than petrol and diesel vehicles by the mid-2020s.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

Mon, 06/29/2020 - 02:30. 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. Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni. Heather Clancy.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

Our future requires and depends on constant change and a new way of thinking, everything we do or design will have an impact, both positive and negative, and our goal is to enable the transition to continuous positive experiences across all sectors of society. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

An independent HS2 review published by the government today said there was a risk of the project running up costs as high as £100bn, almost double the £56bn budget forecast back in 2015, while also conceding that construction of the new rail network could push up carbon emissions.

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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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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Australian sheep meat is a “climate-neutral” product. The study found that an alternative method of quantifying the impact of methane emissions has led to a raft of industry-friendly findings that the livestock sector seems to be using to claim climate neutrality as they continue to pollute. Credit: Matt Brown/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

As chair of the Committee, Leonie Cooper explains time is now tight to build up the policy framework, skills, and infrastructure needed to transition a global city of more than eight million inhabitants to net zero emissions. "I Far more focus is therefore needed at City Hall on enhancing green skills and education provision, argues Cooper.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. With just one mention of 'renewables' in the entire text, the Paris Agreement is broadly technology neutral. What would change?

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

22, 2020 — Greentown Labs announced today that it has selected the inaugural location for its new Houston incubator, alongside Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and the Greater Houston Partnership (the Partnership). Somerville, Mass., and Houston, Texas, Sept. Projected to open in Spring 2021, the incubator will provide more than 40,000 sq.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

After all, achievement of the various air, water, and conservation targets being proposed as part of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, is heavily contingent on funds being available for the projects and schemes that can help meet those goals. Both global and domestic records on meeting voluntary biodiversity goals remain poor.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 25, 2020

Whether pandemic or climate crisis, you better get your data right Paolo Natali Thu, 06/25/2020 – 00:30 According to polls, it was mid-March when most of us in the United States understood the severity of COVID-19. Alas, to date the same isn’t true of carbon performance. Alas, to date the same isn’t true of carbon performance.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 25, 2020

Whether pandemic or climate crisis, you better get your data right Paolo Natali Thu, 06/25/2020 – 00:30 According to polls, it was mid-March when most of us in the United States understood the severity of COVID-19. Alas, to date the same isn’t true of carbon performance. Alas, to date the same isn’t true of carbon performance.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Arlene Karidis Wed, 07/15/2020 – 01:00 One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is “clean hydrogen” made from trash. Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

In 2020, local authorities implemented over 200 LTNs through the government’s Emergency Active Travel Fund, including 100 in London alone. A recent study concluded that in London, the number of people injured in road crashes halved in the 72 schemes surveyed between October and December 2020, compared to the same time period in 2019.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

2020 was the year that… Joel Makower Mon, 12/28/2020 – 02:11 It was a very long year. To recall some of the key developments, as I have done each December for more than a decade, I’ve plumbed the nearly 1,300 stories, columns and analyses we’ve published on GreenBiz.com since the dawn of 2020 — a.k.a. Remember 2019?

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

Fourteen months ago, the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Risks Report neglected to include a pandemic among its major warnings for the year ahead. The crisis has exposed not only the lack of foresight but the lack of effectiveness in mainstream business risk management policies. That’s a very different question.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Negative emissions technologies are critical for the earth’s climate and hitting net zero in the UK, argues Drax CEO Will Gardiner. In the first months of the crisis alone, China reported a 25 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Going net negative. This year has been unlike any in recent memory.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

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. Currently, carbon emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation (often referred to as land-use change) are offset, in part, by new reforestation and regrowth.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 29, 2022

For instance, a single pint of beer can have a carbon footprint as high as 900g CO 2e (for bottled beer that’s been extensively transported). This is ~14% of the daily average carbon footprint from meals per US citizen – having 2 to 3 pints ramps that percentage up to 42%. Challenge 5 : The brewing process is wasteful.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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