Business Green

MAY 19, 2022

Holyrood reveals the six islands have signed up to Carbon Neutral Islands project, which aims to reach net zero emissions 10 years ahead of the rest of the UK. Could some of the UK's most remote communities show the rest of the country how to build a net zero emission economy?

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

Apple creates $200 million fund for nature-based climate solutions. Nature-based solutions to climate change are having a moment, and Apple is riding the trend with a $200 million fund dedicated to related investments. . What started as a $10 million investment became the $100 million Right Now Climate Fund. Jesse Klein.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In partnership with the Carbon Literacy Project, the university will offer students access to a climate course during their induction. The further training covers climate change, carbon footprints, and how people can take action to curb emissions.

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GreenBiz

JULY 29, 2020

BMW, Ford, other automakers rev up carbon commitments. The world's biggest automakers are ramping up their carbon commitments even as they struggle to build back in the wake of the pandemic. . This week, Germany's BMW took the plunge and set a goal to reduce its carbon emissions per car by at least one-third by 2030.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Japanese firm secures approval from Science Based Targets initiative to eradicate emissions from its core business by 2040. climate action strategy from the Science Based Targets initiative, as it yesterday unveiled further details of its plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The climate crisis needs climate leadership from businesses now. As the world grapples with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequality and more, the impacts of climate change cannot be ignored. They’re a reminder that climate action cannot wait for calmer times. . Climate Change.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Google announced that it has now invested in enough high-quality carbon offsets to essentially erase its carbon footprint , compensating for all the carbon the company ever emitted. Google first became carbon-neutral in 2007. Microsoft plans to be carbon-negative by 2030. Via BBC Image via Pawe?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Claims that tournament is 'carbon neutral' challenged, as criticism mounts from footballers and athletes over FIFA's questionable carbon accounting and use of offsets. As criticism mounts around shameful human rights violations in Qatar, carbon neutrality claims are being used as a distraction.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Pledge, launched by the tech giant and NGO Global Optimism in September 2019 to galvanise corporate climate action, requires signatories to pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2040, 10 years ahead of the deadline recommended as being in line with the Paris Agreement.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Komatsu is aiming to reduce its global emissions by a whopping 50% by 2030, with a further goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. On the other hand, GM has set a target to achieve full carbon neutrality in both its products and operations by 2040. The mining industry is no exception.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

Scientists at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands have employed Vaisala carbon dioxide sensors in their research greenhouses for over a decade. The Dutch horticultural sector aims to be climate-neutral by 2040. Carbon dioxide in greenhouses. Monitoring carbon dioxide.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply. The sooner that the costs of carbon control are included in the costs of doing business, the sooner new technologies will be developed.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a mobility provider, we recognise that we are part of the problem of climate change and ha ve a responsibility to act. In short, climate action is critical to our future success. So, in 2016, we set an ambition to have global climate neutral manufacturing operations by 2025.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The city of Kansas City, MO announced last week that it is committing to an all-electric fleet for new vehicle purchases as part of its’ pledge to reach climate neutral citywide by 2040. Electrification of our fleet is a necessary step to reach the city’s goal of carbon neutrality for municipal operations by 2030.”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Within the supply chain alone, steel, aluminium and batteries are particularly carbon intensive - steel alone accounting for 20 per cent of the production emissions of an EV. So, Volvo Cars is aiming to reduce our lifecycle emissions per vehicle by 40 per cent by 2025, on our way to becoming a climate neutral business by 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Ultimately, the challenge faced by California and Germany with high-level penetrations of renewables is one that many federal and local governments must grapple with as they pursue policies in an attempt to mitigate the most dangerous impacts of climate change. and even more so for the myriad targets that have been adopted globally.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

New goals in support of net zero by 2040 target are to take in Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. Sainsbury's said that as part of its new Scope 3 target it will work with selected suppliers to set their own Scope 1 and 2 carbon reduction targets, encouraging them to sign up to industry disclosure initiatives such as CDP and the Higg Index.

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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. We're proud of our environmental journey and the ambitious roadmap we have set for the future," she added. "We

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

The government has urged UK businesses to accelerate the pace of migrating their data onto cloud-based storage in order to help curb their carbon emissions and support climate change efforts. BEIS is also supporting the UK Business Climate Hub Initiative , which asks participants to become net zero entities by 2050.

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new solar array is part of Evergy’s plan to be carbon neutral by 2045. Combined, it is 50-percent carbon free. Evergy plans call for the retirement of nearly all remaining coal generating plants by 2040 with the addition of nearly 4,500MWs of renewable and zero-carbon emitting resources over the second decade of the plan.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

ING maintains that it is making progress in its transition towards a lower carbon portfolio and says it strongly believes that engaging with its clients is where it can make the most impact, as opposed to exiting certain clients or sectors — though it has parted ways with several coal firms over this issue. “We’re

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Volvo Trucks has announced that its heavy electric trucks are to soon include parts made of "fossil-free" steel, as part of the automakers' plan to slash the carbon footprint of its zero-emission vehicle range.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

New report sets out how policymakers could help accelerate the adoption of low carbon building technologies and practices. It is the first of its kind at EU scale to address the whole life carbon impact of the built environment, across multiple policy routes, WorldGBC said.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 10, 2023

Kansas City has taken several steps to help us reach our goal of climate neutrality for city operations by 2030. Our goal is to reach climate neutrality by the year 2040,” Mayor Quinton Lucas said. LED Streetlight Conversion – The city owns and operates nearly 100,000 streetlights citywide.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2022

The five vehicles replace diesel HGVs and should result in up to 100,000 annual road miles being fuelled with renewable electricity instead of diesel, preventing 170 tonnes of carbon emissions. Amazon is one of the first companies in the world to put electric heavy goods trucks on the road," he said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

With Salesforce's suppliers contributing more than half of the company's Scope 3 value chain emissions, the new 'sustainability exhibit' appendix attached to its contracts is set to play a major role in its drive to achieve net zero emissions by 2040.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2021

Rothesay is aiming to be carbon neutral, or negative, across its direct operations by 2023, and net-zero carbon emissions across its investment portfolio by 2050, both compared to a 2020 baseline date. tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per full-time employee. Railpen to slash emissions 25-30 per cent by 2025.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Mimi Casteel of Oregon's Hope Well Wine uses regenerative practices to combat climate change. By planting varied crops, by not tilling, and by actually encouraging wild plant and animal life, she believes that we can restore the land to its natural balance while sequestering carbon.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Reid said "the scale of global intervention [to tackle climate change] must be bolder and faster", and warned that companies risked undermining the credibility of net zero goals by not setting "material, interim targets". Climate change is already impacting the planet and people's lives," he said. "To

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2021

She said the IEA report showed “how fundamental the transition must be to achieve net zero emissions by 2050” and that Equinor was planning to increase its investments in renewables and other “low-carbon solutions” to 50 percent of its overall spend by 2030. The company was “leading in carbon efficient production of oil an gas,” she added.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

DeSmog’s investigation found messaging that touts companies’ climate pledges without being transparent about their large emissions contributions is widespread across advertising campaigns and social media promotions. percent of its investment in new projects going to low carbon sources between 2010 and 2018. Drax – “Beyond Coal”.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

One obvious way to deliver more energy with less carbon, Looney said, is "more renewables and gas, pushing coal out of power.". We need to compare gas to zero carbon — how will we decarbonize it?” ” On climate change, Looney has taken a softer tone than many of his peers in the oil business. billion ($1.67

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

In signing up to the Climate Pledge campaign, all three companies have committed to joining Amazon in reaching 'carbon neutrality' by 2040. Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded the Pledge to encourage more companies to use their size and scale to fight climate change," he wrote.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ryan Moore, CEO of Mode, said there was "no reason why any crypto or payments platform should be contributing to climate change". "We It has initially set a target to encourage energy-intensive fintech blockchains to run on 100 per cent renewable power by 2025 and achieve net zero by 2040.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Stockholm Environment Institute scientist Derik Broekhoff presents the case for carbon offset buyers relinquishing their claims to the credits so they are instead counted only towards national climate goals. We simply cannot offset our way out of climate change. The real goal: financing climate change mitigation.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The target aims to set the path for climate neutrality by 2050. Green , and James Bee On 6 February 2024, the European Commission (Commission) presented its recommendations for the EU’s 2040 climate target, following a detailed impact assessment on potential emission reduction pathways. Davies , Michael D.

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