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. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 16, 2021

NetCarbon is the winning startup of the Copernicus Masters competition Planet See Change, Change the World Challenge 2021 edition. . NetCarbon i s a French startup that has the aim to use space technologies powered by Artificial Intelligence to deliver carbon knowledge and have a big impact on climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest development in this years-long fight came on Monday, when the European Commission’s scientific expert group, the Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF), pushed back against including gas and nuclear in the EU taxonomy, an official guide on sustainable investments. The Push for Gas and Nuclear.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 14, 2024

The recent strides in green hydrogen production have brought about a sea change in our approach to sustainable energy. The latter has the potential to rejuvenate oxygen-deprived ‘dead zones’ in our oceans, thereby fostering biodiversity and ecological balance.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Mon, 03/08/2021 - 01:00. Fewer than six out of 400 companies surveyed in 2020 legal filings said there was a potential pandemic problem, Rodney Irwin, managing director of redefining value at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, said during GreenBiz 21. Elsa Wenzel. You're not alone. Consider compliance.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Regenerative Agriculture Often accompanied with: carbon storage, no till, crop rotation With host country the UAE spearheading a new “Regenerative Landscapes” project in close partnership with the likes of Pepsico, Nestlé and fertilizer giant Yara, the term “ regenerative agriculture ” is likely to be a hot topic at COP28.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2022

As the EU aims for climate neutrality in agriculture and land use by 2035, as well as becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, the “greening” of agriculture becomes a top priority. Are you interested in how EO data can help empower the sustainable agriculture revolution? Leading by example for the land’s well-being.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

However, the documents also confirm that some components of the Green Deal strategy are set to be delayed until 2021. We commit to support an environmentally sustainable and inclusive recovery," the statement reads. "We A new programme will be published in the coming weeks.".

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, communities hosting wood pellet facilities are not only further burdened by pollution and other local dangers, they are also entangled in yet another climate damaging trend — the destruction of biodiverse hardwood forests and the rise of monoculture tree plantations to produce energy that appears to pose climate threats similar to coal. .

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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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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

Our members continue to amaze us with their commitment to sustainability and their innovative green and social responsibility initiatives. Now that 2021 is over, we’d like to take this time to recognize some of our member companies via our 3rd Annual “Best of GBB” Awards. Operating in most major U.S.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers. At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. We named eight of the biggest players in the space so sustainability professionals know what and who to watch out for.

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Rinexii

JUNE 18, 2021

Recently, I’ve struggled in finding sustainable dish soap, laundry detergent, and of all things, underwear. 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. Paraphrased from their press release.).

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Just today, a group of MPs and campaigners set out demands for a major green recovery drive in the UK , while a report by financial analyst McKinsey estimated that mobilising €75-150bn of capital towards low carbon projects could yield €180bn-350bn in benefits and cut carbon emissions by up to 30 per cent by 2030.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2021

Apple creates $200 million fund for nature-based climate solutions Jesse Klein Thu, 04/22/2021 – 00:12 Nature-based solutions to climate change are having a moment, and Apple is riding the trend with a $200 million fund dedicated to related investments.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2021

Apple creates $200 million fund for nature-based climate solutions Jesse Klein Thu, 04/22/2021 – 00:12 Nature-based solutions to climate change are having a moment, and Apple is riding the trend with a $200 million fund dedicated to related investments.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

New guidance is geared at helping corporates embed natural climate solutions in their climate strategies in a credible manner while supporting the development of a robust carbon market. NCS credits should be considered an enabling solution that will support long-term sustainable land use," it notes.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Guidance is geared at helping corporates embed natural climate solutions in their climate strategies in a credible manner and support development of a robust carbon market. NCS credits should be considered an enabling solution that will support long-term sustainable land use," it notes.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

And, perhaps, to set us on a more bullish course for 2021. Companies accelerated the route to sustainable mobility. Sustainable fashion became material. In 2020, several new developments help put sustainability in fashion. But getting to zero — or neutral or positive or some other goal — is not without controversy.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Projected to open in Spring 2021, the incubator will provide more than 40,000 sq. We look forward to catalyzing the Houston ecosystem’s support for climatetech startups as we work together toward a sustainable future for all.”. Our world requires all of us to come together to enable long-term sustainability.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land. Too many companies and governments are hiding behind the smokescreen of net zero to continue dirty business-as-usual activities," he said. "Too

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

CEO Kevin Johnson outlines major new sustainability strategy for the coffee giant, promising tough environmental targets will 'create greater value for all stakeholders'. Today, more than ever, the world needs leadership in environmental sustainability," said Johnson. "We It seems Microsoft was just the start of a trend.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That’s potentially very bad news for the climate: The huge amount of methane that leaks during the production, transport and storage of LNG means that the carbon emissions associated with importing the fuel could be up to ten times higher than for the equivalent amount of Russian pipeline gas, researchers say. It’s fossil fuel madness.”.

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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. and globally by 2040.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Following the investigation, the company issued a statement expressing confidence that its “biomass is sustainable and legally harvested.” 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.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

“Despite positive steps towards a sustainable COVID-19 recovery from a few leading nations, the world has so far fallen short of matching aspirations to build back better,” said Brian O’Callahan, lead researcher at the Oxford University Economic Recovery project. billion has been spent on low-carbon transport, $28.9

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The EU Green Deal , Europe’s ambitious strategy to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, is now working to transform the agriculture sector from a carbon emitter to a promising carbon sink. The practice of carbon farming, in particular, has been singled-out to play a key role in achieving these EU climate goals. .

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

Net Zero and environmental sustainability are now a core part of the government's economic policy. — Chris Stark (@ChiefExecCCC) March 3, 2021. — Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) March 3, 2021. — Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) March 3, 2021. Budget2021.

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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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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

The risky business of climate risk: ‘Stop predicting the future’ Elsa Wenzel Mon, 03/08/2021 – 01:00 Blindsided by how COVID-19 quickly dominated the planet? Its governance, risk management and ESG teams work together, and compensation for the board of management is tied directly to meeting sustainability goals.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, communities hosting wood pellet facilities are not only further burdened by pollution and other local dangers, they are also entangled in yet another climate damaging trend — the destruction of biodiverse hardwood forests and the rise of monoculture tree plantations to produce energy that appears to pose climate threats similar to coal.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Brussels launches major package of accelerated decarbonisation measures, including tax reforms, new clean energy targets, and carbon border tariffs. Europe was the first continent to declare to be climate neutral in 2050, and now we are the very first ones to put a concrete roadmap on the table.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers Holly Secon Mon, 12/28/2020 – 01:30 At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. Eastman is one of the largest U.S. But it claims to have a response to these concerns.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 14000: Sustainable business design using environmental management systems (EMS) ISO 14000 gives the framework, requirements, and standards for the implementation of an effective company-wide environmental management system (EMS). Like SSIR and HBR, the Green Business Bureau sees the leaders that seek a sustainable business world.

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