Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Frustration with the banking industry is gaining currency - in particular, the sector's role in financing fossil fuels. The funding was dominated by four US banks - Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo - which together accounted for a quarter of all fossil-fuel financing since 2015.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Mon, 10/12/2020 - 01:30. But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. For example, when a company is involved in an array of activities or produces a wide range of products, aggregate emissions data can get especially unwieldy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

The Circularity Gap Report 2020 finds that the world’s economy is now only 8.6% circular – of all the minerals, fossil fuels, metals and biomass that enter it each year just 8.6% This third report sparks an alarm for all governments; we need to deploy all the array of policies to really catalyze this transformation.”.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Mon, 05/11/2020 - 00:44. Polyester renewal technology , or PRT, which involves taking waste polyesters from landfills and other waste streams and transforming them back into a raw material that the company claims is indistinguishable from polyester produced from fossil-fuel feedstocks. Joel Makower. Fashion forward.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Argentine government, with the cooperation of an array of global institutions, has the country locked in an “oil and gas trap,” mortgaging the country’s future on fracking even as the financial risks continue to grow, the report warns. billion in 2020 on energy subsidies, a sum that ballooned to $12.37 The government spent $6.5

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Accelerating the build-out of clean energy will reduce costs and make the UK more secure, write Josh Freed and Isabelle Chan of US think tank Third Way, which released a new policy paper on the topic on 29 September. With the right national policies, this shift could also spur a reindustrial revolution.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Emerging solar markets will come of age in the 2020 as countries from Saudi Arabia to Pakistan to Malaysia join the “gigawatt club.” These offered policy makers a more effective tool to control deployment rates, and a way to procure increasingly low-cost power. Floating solar and the like is poised to accelerate as well.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

That doesn’t mean, however, that renewable energy groups and states pursuing clean energy policies now support the broader changes that FERC’s December order has forced on PJM, including the controversial minimum offer price rule (MOPR). in ways that could lead to FERC's order being overturned.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 16, 2022

Countries across Europe are already deep into a generational shift away from fossil fuels and toward greater efficiency, electrification, and integration of renewables. But local and national policies can address potential pitfalls and ensure that RECs can indeed be a mechanism for energy justice in the transition.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

Slow progress on microgrid policy. The CPUC’s “Track 1” decision in 2019 focused on building microgrids for the 2020 wildfire season, a tight timeline that the state's investor-owned utilities weren’t able to meet with cost-effective projects. megawatt solar array and 8.8-megawatt-hour

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2022

The government may have left businesses and campaigners frustrated with its failure to deliver new policies to boost domestic energy efficiency, but the public sector could soon unlock significant energy bill savings thanks to a major new wave of upgrade projects for public buildings.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

A case to ‘recreate’ the technical and economic prosperity of the 1920s in the 2020s, by gradual divestment in ‘old’ energy systems and investment in ‘new’ renewable industries. It is summer 2020. Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In 2016 Scientific American warned about Trump's contempt for science and in 2020 they are taking their concerns to the next level by urging voters to vote against him. As of the start of 2020 the Trump administration had already rolled back almost 100 environmental rules. President Donald Trump. Subscribe in a reader

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy. Solar is a new technology to be able to do so.".

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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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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

There is a high likelihood that states may be involved in litigation, as both defendants and plaintiffs, particularly as civil society activists seek to ensure that national-level policies and action are as ambitious as possible, and as controversies over the type and nature of new energy technologies continue to play out," they said.

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Elemental Excelerator

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and electric vehicles are becoming mainstream and cost effective, allowing us to transition much faster away from fossil fuels. Recycling minerals from e-waste presents an array of climate concerns. Policy Tailwinds. The clean energy economy is here and ramping up in full force.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

Still, the cheniers and the surrounding wetlands provide critical habitat for fish, shrimp, ducks, and an array of migratory birds travelling across the Gulf of Mexico. John Allaire, a former environmental engineer in the oil industry, photographed with fossil fuel infrastructure behind.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2021

Indigenous peoples in Canada and a coalition of environmental groups launched a “Global Week of Action” for June 14-21 , aimed at pressuring an array of insurance companies to cut ties with a long-distance tar sands pipeline under construction in Canada. They should know and understand that the fossil fuel industry is in a state of demise.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

In recent years, this lag in utility recognition has become increasingly problematic, risking the health, environmental, and financial impacts of over-investment in large fossil fuel power plants. When the first solar arrays were installed at homes, it made electric meters — as unprepared as the utility that owned them — run backward.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said. As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

But this year Congress finally passed serious legislation—the Inflation Reduction Act—that allocates hundreds of billions of dollars to the task of transforming the nation so that it burns far less fossil fuel. Or is it simply too big a task, especially in the face of ongoing opposition from the fossil-fuel industry? “So

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Here are the climate related excerpts from the ninth Democratic primary debate, that took place in Las Vegas Nevada on Wednesday, February 19, 2020. I went out to tech -- you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world. That is more important than the profits of the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A study published in Science last year found that even if emissions from fossil fuels ceased right away, projected eating habits would make it impossible to keep global average temperature rises to 1.5C. In a video released in 2020, Vion’s CEO Ronald Lotgerink stated that “in 2050, we have to feed 10 billion mouths.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

They represent a wide array of actions and are presented in no particular order. Tred "Due to their fossil fuel investing, having £100,000 in a high-street business bank account can cause the same CO2 emissions as 127 return flights from London to Rome," Will Smith, co-founder of Tred , told GreenBiz. That's an area 1.65

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And businesses felt little pressure to respond to early COPs, shackled for years by US-led doubts that human greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels were the main driver of climate change, and by the reluctance of many nations to make a wrenching economic shift away from fossil fuels. Business pressure.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. I think the biggest risk that sits before the global mission on net zero is the risk of fossil fuel lock-in," warns Stark. "If You're going to see big problems potentially if we make the wrong decisions.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2022

We’ve built a vertically-integrated startup accelerator model to back this, which unites investors, corporates, market and policy experts, and startups to work together to increase the success and speed to market for climate innovation. . Since our launch in December last year, our ecosystem includes $3.3T That is our mission.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

Finally, the Odyssey 21 proved its mettle on the course at the 2020 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia. Diesel generators would betray the goals of the electric series (some protestors have accused Formula E of hypocrisy because of the large number of fossil-fuel vehicles required to stage the races). The green ship St.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Does your company offer an explicit policy for transgender healthcare coverage? An open-book management policy builds trust, which lays the foundation for strong relationships. ” – Chris McKee of Venturity Financial Partners Such a policy also helps your employees think like bottom-line business owners.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Yosie Mon, 09/21/2020 – 00:30 Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. ESG investors were not unwise.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

In February 2020, BLM and the U.S. Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals. BLM spokesperson Jillian Aragon declined interview requests for this article, saying that the agency isn’t commenting on pending policies while management in Washington, D.C., May 27, 2020.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. cities are drafting plans and testing out developing zero emission zones in downtown areas, banning fossil-fuel-burning vehicles and developing progressive pricing signals. What can we learn from these early implementations?

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

Dutch firm Avantium manufactures plant-based plastics from fructose, and is also exploring captured CO2 as a future feedstock for fossil-free materials. That FDCA can then be taken to polymerisation plant to be turned into PEF, which has a vast array of potential end uses, according to Van Aken.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

My perspective began to shift in August 2020 when I attended a class led by Clint McKay, the Indigenous education coordinator at Pepperwood Preserve , a research station in eastern Sonoma County on the traditional homeland of the Wappo people. This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule David Parham Mon, 10/12/2020 – 01:30 Carbon is everywhere. But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. emissions in 2018. Of course, reality is always messier.

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