Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Tech giant Microsoft has this week formally joined the European Corporate Leaders Group (CLG Europe), building on its recent commitment to become a net negative emission company. The company also pledged to invest $1bn to support the creation of carbon reduction and removal technologies through the Carbon Investment Fund.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As is their wont, many companies used the occasion to proclaim updated commitments — the buzzword du la semaine was "net-zero" with Walmart declaring a zero-emissions target by 2040 along with a big clean fleet promise and a pledge to "protect, manage or restore" at least 50 million acres of land and 1 million square miles of ocean by 2030.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The hottest trend of the year was the electrification of transportation, which is on the precipice of a major upswing: Less than 1 percent of fleet vehicles were electric at the beginning of the year, but that number is expected to grow to 12 percent by 2030. . Close Authorship. But solutions exist, and we wrote about them. Media Source.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

As MEPs enter talks over EU Council's €1.8tr recovery package and budget deal, many key green questions remain. Of the overall €1.8tr package encompassing the recovery funding and the 2021-27 budget, EU leaders agreed that 30 per cent should be earmarked for the bloc's climate objectives and transition to net zero.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

New European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled Europe's Green Deal on Wednesday, a package of 50 far-reaching policy ideas that are still missing many key details, calling it a "man on the moon moment" for Europe. The current target for 2030 is a 40 percent emissions reduction, up from an original 27 percent.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 20, 2022

This has resulted in lower carbon-dioxide emissions and operating costs. The pilot falls under efforts by the Finnish firm to achieve its target of becoming carbon negative by 2030. Vantaa Energy has set a target to end the use of fossil fuels by 2026 and the use of coal by 2022.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The government confirmed £77m of new funding is to be made available to support the development of next generation nuclear reactors, alongside £25m for projects to produce hydrogen using sustainable biomass and waste that could deliver negative carbon emissions.

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Fairsnape

JULY 9, 2020

Over 40% of our green house gas emissions come from degraded peat Restoring our peatland habitat would give 37% of the mitigation need to meet Paris Agreement by 2030. We rarely think about improving the carbon capture of peatlands. Visualisation of carbon sequestration in temperate peatlands. The Carbon Farmer: [link].

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The leader of Cold Lake First Nations has revealed the initiator of a major carbon capture project in Northern Alberta has not consulted with local Indigenous communities. They’re ramming it down our throats,” said Chief Jacko during a media scrum outside a Carbon Capture Canada conference held on Tuesday.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

These factors have resulted in one of the world's most low carbon economies, substantial inward investment, and a fast growing community of clean tech start-ups. It is a price point that significantly undercuts the price of carbon on emissions trading markets, as well as many rival carbon capture technologies.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Steel and concrete account for 21 percent of total emissions and are primarily used in the built environment, according to Architecture 2030. Another possible application of this insulative technology is to replace polystyrene packaging, Cable says. What, then, if we could turbocharge wood to replace these emissions-heavy materials?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints. The organization is working directly with manufacturers, including scientific instruments maker Thermo Fisher, to set benchmarks on products and packaging design. That includes moving toward 100 percent renewables and a fully electric fleet.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. The steps that the U.K. billion) a year.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This modeling showed the state is off track for its 2030 and 2045 climate goals, and must triple its historic emissions reduction pace. This year’s Draft Scoping Plan proposes a pathway to achieve the state’s target of 40 percent emissions below 1990 levels and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045. .

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

On July 14, the European Union (EU) announced a sweeping package of climate proposals that will help the continent cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030, from a 1990 baseline. But only 36 percent of them supported the interim 55 percent emissions reduction target for 2030. More than half favored weaker targets.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A growing number of oil companies in the past year have announced targets to achieve “net-zero emissions” by mid-century, seemingly signaling a monumental shift in the history of the oil business towards low-carbon solutions. Slowing down the low-carbon transition is profitable for the boards of these Carbon Majors,” the authors wrote.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A growing number of oil companies in the past year have announced targets to achieve “net-zero emissions” by mid-century, seemingly signaling a monumental shift in the history of the oil business towards low-carbon solutions. Slowing down the low-carbon transition is profitable for the boards of these Carbon Majors,” the authors wrote.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer focused spending programmes. per cent is likely to increase net air pollution.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

A series of five science-based targets to protect the world's wetlands by 2030 has been proposed by Wetland International ahead of the pre-COP15 negotiations in Nairobi this week. On average 200 new species are discovered in freshwater wetlands each year and these precious habitats store almost a third of global soil carbon.

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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 360 ppm. Our reality.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. Angelini was instrumental in setting two signature goals for 2030. Myisha Majumder.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

Almost half of all global coal plants are already set to run at a loss in 2020, warns think tank Carbon Tracker. Building new coal and propping up the existing fleet with stimulus money would be throwing good money after bad," said study co-author Matt Gray, Carbon Tracker's co-head of power and utilities.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Here, BusinessGreen sums up some of its key findings and recommendations for how all actors can work together to deliver a greener, more equitable, lower carbon future. above pre-industrial levels, greenhouse gas emissions must then reduce by 43 per cent by 2030, according to the scientists, with emissions of methane cut by a third.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2020

Today [April 28] the European Corporate Leaders Group (CLG Europe) released a new report revealing how a transition to a net-zero labour market can alleviate some of the most negative impacts of future megatrends and lead to better outcomes for Europe. Stimulus spending.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Despite all the negativity, one of the silver linings emerging from the pandemic is how it has hit the reset button on nature. In the first four months of the year, carbon dioxide emissions declined by 17 per cent compared to the average levels in 2019. This time the seasonal effect overlapped with lockdowns.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

She promoted Walmart’s goal of achieving 100 percent renewable energy for its operations by 2030, and zero emissions by 2040. Microsoft also positions itself as a climate champion, publicly vowing to reach 100 percent renewable energy for its operations by 2025 and to become a “carbon negative” company by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The company plans to continue producing internal combustion engine cars at the Cowley plant for export to markets such as the US, Japan, and the Middle East beyond the UK's domestic fossil fuel car sales phase-out from 2030, it said.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Reports from CBI, EnergyUK, ECIU, and ScottishPower all hammer home calls for ambitious green recovery package. The government has been inundated with calls from green trade bodies, campaigners and academics for it to deliver a green stimulus package in recent weeks. The consensus keeps building.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

trillion opportunity by 2030. Turning mycelium into packaging that’s ‘compatible with the planet’ Founded in 2007, New York based Ecovative Design leverages the naturally binding properties of mycelium — mushroom’s root structure — in several sustainable materials. trillion opportunity by 2030.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

This study complements a previous University of Oxford working paper, Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change? Build carbon-capture-and-storage infrastructure around large industrial clusters ? They are: ?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In recent months, we have seen game changing commitments from companies such as Microsoft to go carbon negative by 2030 and BP announcing a move away from fossil fuel extraction to grow their investments in renewables tenfold. Sustainability and regeneration have never been so high on the business agenda.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

At COP15, governments acknowledged the bulk of funds required to meet the treaty's apex goal of halting and reversing nature loss by 2030 would need to come from the private sector. The UK was praised at COP15 for being a driving force for an ambitious global agreement which included a goal to protect 30 per cent on land and sea by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

The final coal deal, approved by Germany's parliament last month, will see all of the country's capacity closed by 2038, with more than half of it shut down by 2030. Hard coal plants, or those burning more carbon-dense and less-polluting types of coal, by contrast, will be closed via least-cost tenders.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

With governments around the world working feverishly on economic recovery packages in an attempt to cushion the impact of the worst recession in decades, the UN's annual report on the global renewable energy market could not have come at a more opportune. gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. per cent, up from 12.4 per cent in 2018 and 5.9

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The news follows a trend of abandoned projects that could capsize the White House’s hopes for 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030.   The EU also announced a “ Wind Power Package ” to speed up project permitting, improve auction design, and index auction prices and tariffs to better absorb increasing costs. 

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Yet while many have started to rapidly address their direct emissions, it's become clear that many targets will be missed unless more is done to tackle indirect supply chains emissions - where commonly 80 per cent of a firm's carbon footprint resides. Then there's policy shocks. All these impacts will affect large firms first.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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