Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

government has a new goal to make it much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. The Carbon Negative Shot is the third program in the Earthshots series. Carbon dioxide removal doesn’t directly cut emissions from any particular industry, like agriculture or aviation.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

The tech giant has lifted the lid on its efforts to soak up more carbon than it emits. While other organizations are focused primarily on getting to carbon neutral for current emissions, Microsoft plans to offset its entire historical emissions going back to when the company was founded in 1975.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

“I was just like, ‘I don’t know if I would invest in Charm,’” he recalls telling their investor that day. “I I’m investing in the team — I’m investing in the ability for you guys to figure it out,” Meehan said the venture capitalist told them. That’s where carbon removal comes in. But the investor was undeterred.

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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. These investments, however, would be impacted should the EU’s pesticides reduction target be adopted.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

Land and property values for forestry and afforestation have skyrocketed over the past couple of years - could this unlock much needed investment in nature restoration? In 2021 the sector enjoyed yet another "extraordinary" record-breaking year, according to the recent UK Forest Market Report.

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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. You can download the entire report here.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Scientists are documenting changes that are “much more widespread” and “much more negative,” she said, than anticipated for the 1.09 It will gain increasing importance as the herculean difficulty of reducing emissions to net zero and removing vast stores of carbon from the atmosphere become clearer.”. Climeworks.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. The 2021 extreme drought is adding stress to an already overworked electrical grid because a hydroelectric power station is on the brink of turning off because water levels are so low. According to the U.S. Plant trees.

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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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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.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Good-faith efforts to reuse carbon, heat and steam are underway with a target to reduce the Port’s emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2025. They invest in less bad instead of different and better. . Where Gail sees despair, Fred sees opportunity.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

And, perhaps, to set us on a more bullish course for 2021. Circular models made the rounds, starting with the design department, where a lot of negative environmental and social impacts are baked into garments, usually unwittingly. The Regenerative Organic Alliance developed a standard to support farmers who promote soil health.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Fri, 02/19/2021 - 00:40. Sourcing algae from sustainable seaweed farmers that capture carbon as they grow their crop, Loliware is working to manufacture a variety of bio-based polymers. Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies. By 2013, following several years of studying, research and development, Hijosa had a Ph.D.,

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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. Its framework excludes areas such as plastics in the oceanic food chain and the loss of soil fertility.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

It's time for bold action to cut carbon and reverse nature decline.". While the government has been focussing on meeting net zero, it has forgotten about the risks to soil health and subsequent disruptions to food supply. I encourage the government to take this report seriously. — Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) June 16, 2021.

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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. Posing an investment risk.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Daimler, the largest truck maker in the world, expects to have the 250-mile-range Freightliner eCascadia model in production during 2021. Why H&M, other big brands are investing in garment recycling. In 2020, food companies delved even deeper into how agricultural practices can sequester carbon in the land rather than release it.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Sixth Carbon Budget report published today encompasses around 1,000 pages which offer the most detailed roadmap ever developed on how to transform a modern economy so that it delivers net zero emissions within the space of just 30 years. Doing so will be critical for successful international climate leadership from the UK in 2021.

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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. Posing an investment risk.

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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. Historically, the private sector invested in research and development to produce world-changing innovations.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Thu, 05/27/2021 - 01:00. Moreover, it has led to the mass production of commodity crops and the proliferation of unsustainable practices — such as clear cutting to expand production, intensive livestock production, environmental contamination through pesticide and fertilizer use, soil degradation and more. Lauren Baker.

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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. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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). Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Our reality.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

IEMA members are at the heart of a transition to a more sustainable, zero carbon economy; Sir Patha's review is more powerful evidence of how vital this transition is.". To secure nature is to invest in our own self-preservation.". — George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) February 1, 2021. This is its ultimate expression.

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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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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

And, perhaps, to set us on a more bullish course for 2021. Circular models made the rounds, starting with the design department, where a lot of negative environmental and social impacts are baked into garments, usually unwittingly. The Regenerative Organic Alliance developed a standard to support farmers who promote soil health.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Private equity venture capital investors B Lab has collected publicly available information for more than $2 billion of investment in B Corps and benefit corporations by more than 150 venture capital firms to date, with every major silicon valley venture capital having invested in a certified B Corp and a benefit corporation.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies Suz Okie Fri, 02/19/2021 – 00:40 Creating human-made materials from living or biological sources is by no means a new development, yet newly invented bio-based materials are garnering significant hype as of late. a new material in tow, and had founded London-based Ananas Anam.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Without fully realizing it, I’d become invested in the idea of the songline being “saved,” as if the expulsion of the gas company had created a permanent haven, beyond the reach of our planetary crisis. Copyright © 2021 by Daniel Sherrell. This shouldn’t have been surprising but was, somehow. Ingetje Tadros / Getty Images.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Daimler, the largest truck maker in the world, expects to have the 250-mile-range Freightliner eCascadia model in production during 2021. Why H&M, other big brands are investing in garment recycling 4. In 2020, food companies delved even deeper into how agricultural practices can sequester carbon in the land rather than release it.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

Accounting for all the pluses and minuses in food systems Lauren Baker Thu, 05/27/2021 – 01:00 The economic foundations of today’s food and agricultural systems continue to be dominated by a singular focus on productivity and increased yields.

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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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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Just a couple of decades ago, the notion of a major company investing in nature might have seemed absurd – today it is mission critical to the future of the economy. Even major polluters such as Shell are getting in on the act, investing in forestry protection and management projects in Peru, Indonesia, and Scotland.

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