Business Green

JULY 21, 2020

Apple has become the latest US tech behemoth to step up its net zero ambitions, today pledging to be 'carbon neutral' throughout its entire business, manufacturing supply chain and product life cycle by the end of the decade. With our commitment to carbon neutrality, we hope to be a ripple in the pond that creates a much larger change.".

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The settlement ends a long disagreement about projects tied the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), which requires utilities to pay regulator-approved “avoided cost” rates to qualifying solar facilities. Now many utilities are pushing state policies that make PURPA projects unattractive.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

The outlook for carbon capture and storage, both with gas and bioenergy, also appears to have improved significantly over the past four years. Under the low scenario offshore wind's LCOE could fall to a once inconceivable £36/MWh in 2040. In contrast, the projected LCOE for gas power, including carbon costs, has barely moved.

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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. CC BY 2.0).

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Given the Paris Accord’s aspirations, the climate challenge facing humanity can be expressed in simple terms: halve annual carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions by 2030, halve them again by 2040, and again by 2050. Here we focus on some aspects of land-use and negative emission technologies (NET) dependent on the land.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 17, 2020

Around the same time Amazon updated its communication policy for employees requiring them to seek prior approval before speaking about the company in any public forum. On September 19 Amazon announced that they would be participating in The Climate Pledge and promising to zero out carbon emissions by 2040.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Elemental’s Policy Lab team unpacked the major national, subnational, and private sector commitments that emerged from COP 26 for climate technology innovation in the United States and beyond. Carbon Negative Shot is a U.S. Department of Energy–backed research effort to bring the cost of carbon removal below $100 a ton by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Rapidly falling clean technology costs alongside mounting investor pressure, consumer demand for change, and tightening government policy is pushing more companies to ramp up their climate targets towards net zero and beyond. Carbon credits will play an essential, but controversial, role in hitting net zero," the report states.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The Treasury should set in stone a new fiscal rule for an annually-increasing carbon price in the UK, argues SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies. Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow I think it's imperative the Treasury installs a new fiscal rule: the need for an annually increasing carbon price.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As our sample, we took the communications of 14 EU players who were identified in a 2021 DeSmog investigation as key opponents of EU environmental policy reforms. Instead, the message – which echoes positions often used by the fossil fuel lobby – is that EU policy should optimise incentives. See Table.). The EU Targets Ignore Science’.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

This article is more of an amalgamation of several outlooks to establish what is perceived as the broad consensus among major policy makers, such as the UN, International Energy Agency, IRENA and BP. The OECD regions minus the USA will most likely peak in between 2020-2025, with the USA expected to peak at around 2040.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

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. Now, companies themselves are seeing the business benefits of proactive forestry policies. It’s not just the climate impacts of concern to investors. There’s more.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

Renewables procurement, carbon credits, materials sourcing and supply chains, public advocacy, employee and consumer engagement, and nature protection were all covered in a wide-ranging conversation, which dove into the latest guidance from WWF on how companies can move beyond simply setting a net zero target.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Business as usual is not working The report is unequivocal that human-caused climate change is affecting weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe, and is set to get worse without a major acceleration in policy action and drastically increased investment in climate solutions. of warming. of warming.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Population growth will plateau after 2030-2040, causing energy demand to stabilize and decline afterwards. This article is more of an amalgamation of several outlooks to establish what is perceived as the broad consensus among major policy makers, such as the UN, International Energy Agency, IRENA and BP.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

The facility forms part of the company's ambitions to become a net zero business by 2040, and to then become Britain's first 'net negative' emissions wate management company by 2045 by adding carbon capture technologies to some of its 10 UK waste-to-energy facilities.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

It can include commitments related to being more energy efficient, reducing waste, reducing your carbon footprint, minimizing pollution, eliminating plastic, changing how you manufacture, and sourcing from other sustainable companies. Document and Share Your Sustainability Commitments.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Together, these investors have pledged to reach net zero emissions by 2050, not just for their operations but across their entire asset portfolios, and help others do the same by identifying decarbonisation pathways for strategically key, high-carbon sectors. 2050 can seem a long way off - many of us will be retired," he reflects.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

But seasoned observers fear that growing calls for a bolder and more ambitious global policy framework are continuing to founder on the rocks of vested interests and short term cost concerns. It is a dynamic that has left environmental campaigners increasingly frustrated.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

In April last year, oil prices dipped briefly into negative territory and scores of oil majors, including global players such as ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP, have announced thousands of job cuts and written down the value of their assets by billions of dollars. carbon budget for 2100 as soon as the early 2030s.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

Directors were found to have a wide range of experience in high carbon sectors, including in polluting energy, aviation, mining, manufacturing, and banks and investment companies known to support the fossil fuel industry. Ties to companies that work in or serve high-carbon industries were most pronounced in the U.S. In the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Seasoned observers fear that growing calls for a bolder and more ambitious global policy framework are continuing to founder on the rocks of vested interests and short-term cost concerns. It is a dynamic that has left environmental campaigners increasingly frustrated.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Humber Estuary is the most carbon-intensive stretch of the UK, home to 55,000 jobs and a huge slice of British economic value, but it is also one of the most climate vulnerable regions in the country - BusinessGreen sat down with the people working to turn the region into a world-leading green hub. Developing a Zero-Carbon Cluster.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

Meanwhile, carbon capture and storage paired with bioenergy could be responsible for more than 60 million metric tonnes of negative emissions by mid-century, a rate of removal critical to the UK meeting its climate goal, it states. The UK government is currently consulting on phasing-out fossil fuel car sales by 2035 or earlier.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement. However, today's publication of the Energy White Paper marks a significant milestone in the UK's net zero transition, representing the first detailed policy framework to be delivered in support of Johnson's new 'green revolution'.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

The world's largest technology companies are largely failing to exert their significant influence to encourage governments to adopt more ambitious climate policies, despite being among the most powerful businesses in the world and having commited to bold corporate climate agendas.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The UK government's decision to invest £350m in support of the construction of new gas power stations through back-up supply contracts that run up to 2040 risks undermining the UK's net zero transition and derailing its claims to be a climate leader in the run-up to COP26, analysts have warned.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Italy announces ban on new petrol and diesel cars, EU carbon prices hit record levels, and all the green business news from around the world this week. RUSAL opens new low carbon aluminium smelter. Our smelter in Taishet will help to address the high global demand for low carbon aluminium.".

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

The letters, which are co-signed by CIFF's chairman Graeme Sweeney, argue the banks should "take more tangible actions" to end financing, underwriting, and other financial services to companies with significant coal activity, before ending such financing altogether by 2030 in OECD countries and 2040 elsewhere.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

All nations, especially the G20 and other major emitters, need to join the net zero emissions coalition and reinforce their commitments with credible, concrete and enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions and policies before COP26 in Glasgow. "We Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

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. Now, companies themselves are seeing the business benefits of proactive forestry policies. It’s not just the climate impacts of concern to investors.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There are plans for huge “SAF” refineries in Paraguay using soybeans as a feedstock and such fuels are permitted under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) , which is the only internationally agreed policy and runs until 2035. replacing fossil fuel fertilisers) and transport sectors.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

The firm, which was founded by former US Vice President Al Gore and former Goldman Sachs Asset Management senior partner David Blood, and has set its own net zero financed emissions goal for 2040. That includes, for example, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), which is being touted as a means of delivering negative emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

By 2040, the latter is expected to double in Europe, and to account for almost a fifth of the global carbon budget worldwide. Jean-Pierre Schweitzer, Deputy Policy Manager for Circular Economy at European Environmental Bureau (EEB), described the law as the “most lobbied on file that many people in the Parliament have witnessed.”

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Thirteen years ago, this ahead-of-its-time cool school eliminated plastic water bottles (though it's had to temporarily suspend the policy due to COVID-19). The Golden Bears are also retrofitting an art museum into Berkeley’s first zero-carbon building.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink has warned companies that they face increased scrutiny of their carbon-cutting plans and US president Joe Biden has outlined $2tr of commitments in support of climate action at a time when thousands of businesses and scores of national governments are unveiling net zero strategies. How are investors responding?

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