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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

The losses will especially be felt in the southern states from California to Florida according to a study published in Climatic Change. According to the same study in Climatic Change , “up to 1.8 worker, could be lost annually over the next three decades due to extreme heat caused by climate change.”

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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. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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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. "A

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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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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

Nature takes root on the balance sheet Richard Mattison Mon, 03/08/2021 – 00:15 ESG issues continue to gain prominence, with climate change getting the most attention today. The Financial Stability Board recognized that climate change presents a financial risk to the global economy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thanks to growing interest in environmental social and governance (ESG) funds, investors are rapidly moving into the sector, keen to improve the green credentials of their portfolios while also capitalising on the burgeoning financial opportunities provided by sustainable timber and carbon offsetting schemes.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ocean-based sequestration heats up Jim Giles Mon, 02/01/2021 – 00:30 This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

DeSmog’s analysis also shows that European agribusiness has borrowed from Big Oil’s lobbying playbook, with arguments that echo tried and tested tactics and messaging used by the oil and gas industry to block action on climate change. See Table.). A full data set of the evidence behind this table is available on request from DeSmog.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

Looking to the future, though, the only way to reduce fragmentation is through systemic change, where cooperation replaces exploitation, and circular economies leave people and the planet less open to disruption and destruction. The first problem is that few leaders take a holistic system change approach to the challenges they face.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ocean-based sequestration heats ups Jim Giles Mon, 02/01/2021 – 00:30 This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. You can download the entire report here. Let’s start with costs.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. Daimler, the largest truck maker in the world, expects to have the 250-mile-range Freightliner eCascadia model in production during 2021. Eastman is one of the largest U.S. Media Source.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Climate Change Committee has just delivered its most detailed and ambitious work yet to the government, in what the advisory body's CEO Chris Stark this week called "one of the most important things we've ever published". Doing so will be critical for successful international climate leadership from the UK in 2021.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. We cannot win the fight against climate change without addressing nature loss.? It is my hope that this new benchmark will help transform biodiversity commitments into actions.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Another study named The Global Sustainability Study 2021 , by Simon-Kucher and Partners , revealed a significant global paradigm shift in how consumers view sustainability. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%.

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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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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

Mon, 07/19/2021 - 02:00. On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. Accelerating climate change will keep the federal research and development spigot open. Economists are rethinking core assumptions.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Many experts and nonexperts alike consider the idea of deliberately mucking about with Earth’s climate systems to counteract centuries of mostly accidental mucking about in Earth’s climate systems ethically dubious and potentially highly dangerous. And yet: Last year, the global average temperature was almost 1.5

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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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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Another study named The Global Sustainability Study 2021 , by Simon-Kucher and Partners , revealed a significant global paradigm shift in how consumers view sustainability. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%.

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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. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Mon, 03/08/2021 - 01:40. Attending conferences like GreenBiz 21 serve as perfect soil and ground to grow meaningful connections and partnerships! Overall, I was most inspired by the organizers and members of the 2021 Emerging Leaders cohort. How 12 Emerging Leaders are embarking on sustainability career journeys.

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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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Climate Tech VC

JULY 20, 2023

It’s a mantra by now that in addition to mitigating future emissions, we have to extract existing carbon dioxide pollution from our atmospheric and oceanic dumps. Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies often sound like science fiction—gigantic carbon-sucking vacuums, anyone? A new approach for CDR?

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. Daimler, the largest truck maker in the world, expects to have the 250-mile-range Freightliner eCascadia model in production during 2021. Eastman is one of the largest U.S.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

The creeping tides were a product of worsening climate change, a far greater threat than Woodside had ever posed. From WARMTH by Daniel Sherrell, to be published on August 3, 2021, by Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2021 by Daniel Sherrell.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Home to the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, UMass Amherst works with regional researchers and graduate science students to develop tools needed to help fish, wildlife, and ecosystems adapt to the impacts of climate change.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. Mon, 05/17/2021 - 00:01. Our honorees for 2021 are intrepid startup founders, tenacious corporate innovators and determined public servants. GreenBiz Editors. Their dreams are bright: Walkable, equitable cities. Clean energy for Native American communities. Planet-healing fast food.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism.

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