Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

A US flooring company is celebrating the launch of a range of carpet tiles that it claims suck more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they create throughout their entire lifecycle. Products that minimise carbon in the built environment are a priority for Interface and a huge focus for the building industry," he said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Global coal power generation set for post-Covid bounce driven largely by China and India, according to International Energy Agency. The influential think tank is also forecasting overall coal demand worldwide - including uses beyond power generation such as for cement and steel production - is set to grow six per cent in 2021.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

At the same time, emissions have rocketed, with global annual CO2 emissions rising to 36.3 gigatons in 2021 from 35.5 The aviation sector for example has a remaining carbon budget of 22 Gt of CO2 until carbon neutral aviation fuels must be implemented globally. gigatons in 2015, further jeopardising the 1.5C

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

Climeworks unveiled its Orca facility in Iceland in September 2021. Swiss direct air capture (DAC) start-up firm Climeworks announced on 5 April that it has signed an equity round of $650 million (CHF 600 million), an apparent milestone in the financing of the carbon removal industry. And this is what we will do starting now.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

New and updated climate commitments fall far short of what is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, leaving the world on track for a global temperature rise of at least 2.7°C C this century, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On. The clock is ticking loudly.”.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. Transport is the single biggest contributor to carbon dioxide emissions in the UK, making up 26 percent of all CO2 pollution in 2021. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

That level of support could have fully funded every major wind and solar project in Canada from 2019 to 2021 12 times over,” said Levin. “It billion in subsidies for carbon capture and storage projects, and approximately $1.8 The pipeline has been called a ‘global warming machine.’ The report also noted over $1.3

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Net Zero Festival: Leading figures from IEA, Carbon Tracker and Ceres unite in calls for more ambitious government action to shift away from fossil fuels. Campanale was optimistic that if such board-level activity grows across the high-carbon sectors, the fossil fuel industry would start to feel the economic pressure.

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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. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Vodafone launched a “Bring Back Friday” consumer campaign across several markets on Black Friday, 26 November 2021. In 2021, the mobile operator joined the Circular Electronics Partnership, which brings together companies across the value chain to drive circularity solutions for electronics. Carbon emissions and energy efficiency.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Here are four tips for having a great travel experience while reducing your carbon footprint. The post How to Vacation Sustainably in 2021 appeared first on Green Living Guy. Vacation sustainability means you reduce your impact on the planet, protect wildlife, and support local economies.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The founder and honorary president of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has announced he will be retiring from parliament. The article neglects to mention that Lawson also set up the influential Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) think tank, a major source of climate science denial and unwavering supporter of fossil fuels.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2021, China hit an all-time high for coal output, topping 4.07 China’s average temperature in 2021 was 10.7 Via The Guardian , Carbon Brief , China Daily. Coal production in China reached record high in 2021. China is the world’s biggest coal producer. billion metric tons, an increase of 4.7% View post:Â .

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GreenBiz

MAY 25, 2021

Tue, 05/25/2021 - 02:11. Consider these stories from the past week: "Carbon is now a buzzword on corporate earnings calls," reported the Financial Times. Corporate execs are uttering the word "carbon" on earnings calls at a "rapidly rising rate, triple over the past three years, to about 1,600 per quarter," the FT said.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

While the fund only invests in companies promising significant carbon reductions, it’s looking for those that can provide “capital-light” ways to get there, he said. “They can’t afford an SAP or a Siemens or a GE grid management system — it’s not in the cards,” he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

New research led by the University of Washington calculates how much warming is already guaranteed by past emissions. While previous research has explored this question for carbon dioxide, the new work includes related emissions such as methane, nitrogen oxide and aerosols, like sulphur or soot. Nature Climate Change).

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 30, 2024

More so than any other fossil fuel company, Occidental Petroleum — known as Oxy — has built its climate strategy around innovations that capture carbon before it can be emitted or pull it directly out of the air. Scientists agree that such technologies will be necessary to limit global warming.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

Mon, 03/15/2021 - 00:05. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. The goal: Move the more than 10,000 employees that normally commute to its South San Francisco campus (pre-pandemic) with the lowest carbon footprint possible, and offer its traveling salesforce across the country access to EVs.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 30, 2024

These structures have the capacity to act as natural repositories for carbon dioxide. This reaction results in the precipitation of carbonates, effectively converting CO2 from its gaseous form into a solid state 2. 3, 2021, pp. “Carbon Sequestration via Carbonate Precipitation in Iron-Rich Geological Formations.”

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The East Sussex city seemingly committed itself to the agenda set out by the UN’s Paris Agreement in 2015, and set a course for carbon neutrality by 2030 – it began reducing its carbon emissions through a series of initiatives targeting business and domestic outputs. Air quality seemed to improve during 2020 with 46.6%

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It doubles down on the need to swiftly switch to renewable energy while minimizing the use of technologies that are still largely in demonstration and prototype phase today, including carbon capture and hydrogen fuels. So far, the history of [carbon capture] has largely been one of unmet expectations,” the IEA’s new report says.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

UK household carbon emissions increased less than expected in 2021 despite the easing of national lockdown restrictions, according to new research by consulting firm Accenture. Under-30s became ‘carbon conflicted’. households’ CO2 emissions in 2021, though overall emissions in this category dropped.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

The main causes are nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons but hydrogen-powered vehicles emit none of these but only H2O and warm air. Green hydrogen is generated from low-carbon power or renewable energy. Clean and Sustainable Energy. This is mostly because it is a clean fuel that produces only water.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

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. By empowering women and girls globally, Project Drawdown calculated that we could avoid 120 billion tons of emissions by 2050.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

While Nitrogen Dioxide is primarily produced by cars(EPA USA, 2016), other pollutants like Carbon Dioxide were on the fall too, with reduced global air travel reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions in the US by 17% ( Zogopoulos , 2021). Available at: <[link] [Accessed 28 March 2021]. <[link] 28 March 2021].

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As the impacts of fossil fuels and air pollution on the world’s climate became ever more apparent in 2021, it was easy to miss some of the slower-brewing stories of the past year. mcf in 2021, EIA data shows. We now live in a world that’s 1.1 Fossil Fuels Drove Inflation, Volatility. supplies to demand abroad.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

The newest publication is an attempt to distill everything the panel has said since August 2021, when it began releasing its sixth assessment of global warming. There’s no new research in this latest report, but it injects new urgency into scientists’ and activists’ calls for rapid, systemic action from global decision-makers.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 29, 2021

If you’ve been following environmental news in 2021, like every year, has highlighted atrocities around the globe. Yet, there are countless stories of policy changes, local cleanup efforts, impactful corporate action and innovations all aimed at decreasing carbon, conserving trees, protecting wildlife and so much more.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

Carbon-Intensive Industry The largest polluting donation to the Conservatives came from Amit Lohia, a petrochemicals executive whose business interests include a Russian textiles plant, as previously revealed by DeSmog. Dirty money from fossil fuels, highly polluting industries, or climate deniers should have no place in our politics.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 20, 2023

A think tank with ties to senior Conservative politicians has appointed a businessman who claims environmentalism is part of a “totalitarian” plan to control the public, and says there is “no causal link” between human-made carbon emissions and global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

But when Canadians went searching on Google for additional information about accusations of “greenwashing,” one of the top results they may have encountered was sponsored content from the Pathways Alliance claiming that the country’s biggest polluters “are working to reduce carbon emissions from oil sands.” (In

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) capacity is a key feature of the UK’s strategy to reduce emissions and hit its climate targets. But the recent failure of the Gorgon project in Western Australia to meet its five-year CCS target shows that storing carbon is no small feat. . percent of global yearly CO2 emissions at most.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 9, 2021

Renewable energy advocates offered reactions on Monday to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that warned of a “code red for humanity” due to global warming. link] pic.twitter.com/EG6YyAstdc — IPCC (@IPCC_CH) August 9, 2021. carbon emissions by over 60 percent.”.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

Paris-based Vincent Callebaut Architectures has revealed new photos of Tao Zhu Yin Yuan, a LEED Gold-certified high-rise slated for completion in the second half of 2021. The architects estimate that the 21-story building will absorb around 130 tons of carbon a year. Here is the original post:Â . "Carbon-absorbing"

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies.

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