GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Mon, 02/01/2021 - 00:30. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Mon, 02/01/2021 - 00:30. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Mon, 03/08/2021 - 00:15. ESG issues continue to gain prominence, with climate change getting the most attention today. We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. Pull Quote.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. The Big Stories of 2021. Here we go. Business defends democracy.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Those that can create artificial sinks with technological carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 01:30. And, much like the market for carbon offsets, it’s messy. . In the same way that a company’s carbon credit may offset its U.S. Consider carbon markets again. The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets. Lauren Phipps. This essay first appeared in Circularity Weekly , our free email newsletter.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Thu, 02/04/2021 - 02:11. His 2021 letter to CEOs mentions "accelerate" eight times. He has rightly earned praise for speaking up on climate, investment and economic transition. For investors, the acceleration question is: What are the companies in your portfolio doing in 2021 to cut pollution by 10 to 15 percent this year?

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. Climate investing in 2021. But at a total of just $27.2

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Wed, 02/24/2021 - 01:20. Take the topic of climate change. Severe weather events may affect the company’s manufacturing sites or supply chain security, or climate regulation may mean that some of its products and services are no longer relevant. Here's why companies should assess double materiality. Denielle Harrison.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

While the global economic slowdown reduced major drivers of climate change around the world, the true picture of the pandemic’s effect on our planet’s resources and ecological health is somewhat more nuanced. Positive and Negative Impacts of the Pandemic on the Environment. Available at: <[link] [Accessed 28 March 2021].

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

New study reveals that for some of the world's largest businesses their biggest source of carbon emissions is to be found in their cash reserves. What is the largest source of carbon emissions for most businesses? Anyone who has been involved in a corporate carbon footprinting exercise knows the answer lies in the supply chain.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Released yesterday after a public consultation, the LSE said its new admission and disclosure rules for offsets would drive more capital into projects that slash carbon emissions and help grow the voluntary carbon market.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

We can now harness the carbon scavenging power of Japanese knotweed and other invasive plants, explains Nic Seal, Founder and MD of Environet, a UK specialist in the topic. According to our data, almost 70% of customers opted for excavation of Japanese knotweed during 2021, an increase of +10.6% over the same period. Bagged biochar.

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Grist

JUNE 11, 2021

This fall, world leaders will meet in Glasgow, Scotland, for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP26. They will hash out their commitments under the Paris Agreement, raising their carbon-cutting ambitions or making announcements about climate-related investments.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

The carbon credit system needs an overhaul to effectively help in reducing climate change, according to a UCL study. French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of ' carbon neutral liquid natural gas '. Why the carbon market is growing.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. 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. Elsa Wenzel. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

Fri, 03/12/2021 - 01:30. The paper identifies five core green policy areas that policymakers should focus on — green energy, low-carbon transport, natural capital, green building upgrades and green research and development (R&D) — and highlights successful green spending programs to date. Climate Change. Cecilia Keating.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2020

We’ve also seen an extension to the renewable heat incentive (RHI) tariff guarantee until 2021, plus government consultations on future support for biogas. As well as policy changes, 2020 has also seen new information emerge and increased understanding of the potential for AD. “In million homes,” he said.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

The risky business of climate risk: 'Stop predicting the future'. Mon, 03/08/2021 - 01:00. The question is whether states can regulate and try cases having to do with climate change. "As Elsa Wenzel. Blindsided by how COVID-19 quickly dominated the planet? You're not alone. The risks of not sharing. The power of metaphor.

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Grist

APRIL 15, 2021

Back in 2004, when wildfires in Alaska burned an area the size of Massachusetts , Michelle Mack wondered just how much carbon had permanently moved from the landscape into the atmosphere. Mack, an ecologist at Northern Arizona University, knew that the carbon dioxide released by these burning trees could further accelerate global warming.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

IMO member states are meeting this week for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 percent compared to 2008 levels. It is a dynamic that has left environmental campaigners increasingly frustrated. .

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We cannot win the fight against climate change without addressing nature loss.?. Such an approach focuses on maximizing positive and minimizing negative aspects of nature-based adaptation strategies and options. It is my hope that this new benchmark will help transform biodiversity commitments into actions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2021

EY confirmed on Monday it aims to become 'carbon negative' this year by significantly reducing its absolute emissions and removing and offsetting more carbon that it emits. The goal is in support of a longer term target to become a net zero emission organisation by 2025.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures — the target named in the Paris Agreement that would prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. The first has to do with the carbon budget — the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the planet warms more than 1.5 Climate stabilization at 1.5

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 1, 2024

Mars Materials is disrupting this market with a captured-carbon-based acrylonitrile that serves as a drop-in replacement for the traditional chemical. “We And Mars Materials’ process is the only commercially validated, carbon-negative approach for acrylonitrile production.” and fast-growing acrylamide market.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

Less than one per cent unabated fossil fuels and at least 80 per cent wind and solar in the power mix required to meet UK climate targets, according to Ember's Tom Harrison. Future Energy Scenarios 2021. This year's edition updates its predecessor's pathways to reaching economy-wide net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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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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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. A sort of climate boomerang. It was a critical message that was easy to miss.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, said the editors of The Telegraph had “lost their minds when it comes to climate change”. Both newspapers [The Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] are campaigning against climate policies,” Ward told DeSmog.

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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?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Six new projects to explore how to maximise nature’s ability to capture carbon and minimise climate impacts Natural England has today announced £4.3m in new funding for a wave of projects that aim to trial the most effective ways of capturing CO2 and bolstering climate resilience using nature-based solutions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

VIDEO: Dr Steve Smith from Oxford University's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment chats to James Murray about the challenges and potential of negative emissions technologies. As such, it is now increasingly recognised that negative emissions technologies will play a vital role in helping the world reach net zero.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

New report warns climate change is putting humanity at greater risk from infectious diseases and food insecurity. The 2021 Lancet Countdown report has today warned the impacts of climate change pose increasing health risks and are exacerbating existing health and social inequalities. We have a choice.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

As outlined by the residential SolarReviews annual review , extreme weather and disasters across the United States disrupted and threatened utility stability in 2021. During the Texas power crisis in February 2021, solar inquiries rose 850%. Throughout the summer wildfires in California, solar inquiries were up 358%.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

As outlined by the residential SolarReviews annual review , extreme weather and disasters across the United States disrupted and threatened utility stability in 2021. During the Texas power crisis in February 2021, solar inquiries rose 850%. Throughout the summer wildfires in California, solar inquiries were up 358%.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

If you said no, Greentown Houston member Cemvita Factory is here to change your mind. Its team is leveraging the powers of microbes and synthetic biology to fight climate change. The climate impact? The 35-person company raised its Series A in 2021. Let’s start simple. percent of global emissions.

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