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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Ridley wrote last year that global heating was “mostly beneficial”. Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate denial group, which is based on Westminster’s Tufton Street. Its author said that the UK climate “remains absolutely benign”.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Almost immediately in response to the Clean Creatives campaign, communications consultancy Porter Novelli announced it would end its working relationship with the American Public Gas Association from 2021. Clean Creatives hopes others soon could follow suit. "We For example, last year 20 U.K. For example, last year 20 U.K.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. The losses will especially be felt in the southern states from California to Florida according to a study published in Climatic Change.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

The government must now address the market for all the low carbon energy technologies of the future, including hydrogen and CCUS, argues Siemens UK & Ireland CEO Steve Scrimshaw. However, the need for a climate strategy to avert the risks of irreversible climate change isn't stopping. The public wants climate action.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and staving off most of the worst effects of climate change, experts say.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. The initiative comes as corporations are redoubling promises to address climate change. Carbon Engineering.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. By better understanding and preparing for the coming changes, the UK can prosper, protecting its people, its economy, and its natural environment.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

The latest figures compiled by Bloomberg New Energy Finance yesterday show that globally zero emission vehicles enjoyed a more than 100 per cent sales increase worldwide to reach 6.6 million in 2021, with 70 per cent of those pure battery electric, and 30 per cent plug-in hybrids. In order to keep the sector in line with a 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

Polls consistently show significant public concern over the climate crisis and a strong desire for action, but are the right questions being asked? If climate change is - among many, many other struggles - a battle for hearts and minds, then it is one that has in recent years seen momentum finally turning in a greener direction.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including Denmark's new climate law and the Australian mining sector's net zero pledge. IETA sets out net zero carbon trading vision. global warming ambition, as its members predicted EU prices would average €32 per tonne over the next decade.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. The initiative comes as corporations are redoubling promises to address climate change. Carbon Engineering.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

But the new six-month Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V) acceleration program is all about ways to capture and convert carbon dioxide into something useful. They narrowed down more than 130 applications from 26 countries and chose 10 startups for 2021. Most business accelerators focus on community economic development.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

But the new six-month Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V) acceleration program is all about ways to capture and convert carbon dioxide into something useful. They narrowed down more than 130 applications from 26 countries and chose 10 startups for 2021. Most business accelerators focus on community economic development.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It has been compared to the hugely influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 15 years ago, which famously framed global warming as the greatest and most wide-ranging market failure ever seen.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Almost immediately in response to the Clean Creatives campaign, communications consultancy Porter Novelli announced it would end its working relationship with the American Public Gas Association from 2021. Clean Creatives hopes others could soon follow suit. "We

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While virtually everyone agrees that anthropogenic methane emissions play a huge role in climate change, different approaches to measuring that impact can result in dramatically different narratives. This approach makes methane’s potency clear: A pound of methane warms the climate 30 times more than a pound of CO2.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

Most notable are our warming winters , which are melting wonderlands under the brunt of climate change. From 1970-2021 (52 years) one study found that, out of 202 locations, 84% had experienced warmer winters by >2°F (1°C). Climate change challenge: Thawing winters threaten the ski industry.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. on the table. And it is damning.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Suddenly business sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and achieving gender equality. Squandering finite resources, creating extravagant amounts of waste, and the excessive release of carbon emissions is causing our planet to belch at the seams. Carbon in our atmosphere is 280 parts per million (ppm).

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree We need immediate action on energy.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Almost immediately in response to the Clean Creatives campaign, communications consultancy Porter Novelli announced it would end its working relationship with the American Public Gas Association from 2021. “The sector can help businesses drive positive change,” says Woodford. For example, last year 20 U.K.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Earlier this year , a campaign NCBA began in 2021 called “ Beefing up Sustainability ,” and a corresponding campaign targeted to kids , advanced to the final round. Both were part of NCBA’s multi-pronged PR campaign about how beef is actually a climate-conscious food.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

The case for raising up women in climate tech. Thu, 04/15/2021 - 01:30. Four years ago this week, Project Drawdown released groundbreaking research on climate solutions that catalyzed the narrative that reversing global warming is possible. Carbon removal. Shana Rappaport. Yes, you read that correctly.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Language around climate solutions is particularly susceptible to this treatment, especially as polluting companies invest in strategies and tactics to present themselves as part of the solution to climate change when, clearly —as they continue to prioritize drilling for globe-warming fuels — they are not. Cleaner burning.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

However, this tipping point is a negative one, Polman at the GreenBiz 22 event in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Tuesday. Whatever it is, if it's poverty or if it's climate change or plastics in the oceans, optimising a current system that simply is not designed anymore to deliver will only bring you so far. Pursue systems change.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2022

The new chairman of GB News has a history of sharing articles that dismiss the threat of climate change, sharpening concerns about the TV channel’s role as a platform for opponents of climate action. McCormick’s tweets about climate change, reviewed by DeSmog, mostly consisted of an article headline and a link without comment.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2022

Soon after taking office in January 2021, President Joe Biden mentioned Cancer Alley by name before signing executive actions meant to tackle climate change, create jobs, and restore scientific integrity to government agencies, a move that Grijalva praised on Saturday. Tammy Duckworth, in March 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They include climate crisis deniers like Judith Curry , Steven Koonin , Richard Lindzen , Alex Epstein and Bjorn Lomborg. This is especially worrying to climate scientists and disinformation experts because Peterson for years has been actively courting alienated males in their 20s and younger. links here.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It has been amended upon and received comments by Mr. Sustainability in italic , with the knowledge of the events of the latter part of 2020 and 2021. To me, this was a particularly silly question, as I recently finished writing an article on the future of fossil fuels and oil prices were actually negative for the first time in human history.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

And despite a dip in polluting activities due to the pandemic, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to its highest level in 3.6 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 Globally averaged, monthly mean atmospheric methane abundance.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

And despite a dip in polluting activities due to the pandemic, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to its highest level in 3.6 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 Globally averaged, monthly mean atmospheric methane abundance.

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