DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

ING’s climate policy is miles away from what is necessary to achieve the 1.5°C C target,” the letter asserts, referring to the Paris Agreement’s more ambitious climate objective. Related: New Shell documents, unearthed by a Dutch activist, could aid climate litigation. Credit: Sabrina Bedford.

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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. Launched this week, the EU Policy Roadmap has been developed with the support of a coalition of over 35 leading industry bodies through WorldGBC's flagship #BuildingLife project.

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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.

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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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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.

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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

MARCH 17, 2021

The overarching ambition of the Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy is to slash greenhouse gas emissions from UK industry by two-thirds within 15 years, as part of plans to develop the "world's first" low carbon industrial sector that creates and supports up to 80,000 jobs by 2050. Coking coal?

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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. In order to achieve net zero, and achieve 1.5C

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 28, 2020

Hundreds of Amazon employees have joined in solidarity, forming the advocacy group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) to protest the company’s climate policies. Last autumn, Amazon became The Climate Pledge ’s first signatory, vowing to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early. We are scared.

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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. RSVP and get session II on your calendar!

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EDF + Business

JULY 22, 2020

Before COVID-19 became an all-consuming global priority, business and investor attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance was surging, and thought leaders like Alan Murray (no relation) were redefining corporate leadership to include addressing big issues like climate change, and putting purpose on par with profit.

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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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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Although flying is one of the most carbon intensive activities a person can do, and despite growing focus on polluting behaviours in recent years, emissions from aviation have more than doubled since 1990. As a sector, aviation has so far got off lightly in the push to meet net zero.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 29, 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. RSVP and get session II on your calendar!

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

We learned we’re (1) changing the earth’s land so much that we threaten our food security and the land’s ability to capture carbon, (2) heading toward devastated oceans that are coral-free, and (3) not cutting emissions even remotely fast enough to avoid these outcomes. The costs are not theoretical any more.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Industry Voice: Schneider Electric's Kelly Becker looks down the barrel of the climate crisis and considers how to fix it. In our fight against climate change and to have the best chance of limiting temperature rises to 1.5?C, C limit set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement ten years sooner than expected. Powering Change.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2021

Last week, the UK government announced it will count emissions from international shipping and aviation in its carbon accounting from 2033, caving to long-running pressure from campaigners and climate experts. Some progress has been made.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Brazil announces 'indicative' goal to deliver carbon neutrality by 2060. Brazil this week announced a new 'indicative' goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, ahead of this week's global Climate Ambition Summit. World bank beefs up climate financing goal. Mcdonalds serves up US renewable energy deals.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Aligning with the California State University system goals to reach carbon neutrality by 2040, and in compliance with California State and California State University System energy efficiency goals and mandates, this position will: . Follow all university policies, procedures, and guidelines. . Location: .

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Aligning with the California State University system goals to reach carbon neutrality by 2040, and in compliance with California State and California State University (CSU) system energy efficiency goals and mandates, this position will: . Follow all university policies, procedures, and guidelines. . Location : .

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

DeSmog’s analysis also shows that European agribusiness has borrowed from Big Oil’s lobbying playbook, with arguments that echo tried and tested tactics and messaging used by the oil and gas industry to block action on climate change. See Table.). A full data set of the evidence behind this table is available on request from DeSmog.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2024

Achieving water security is as time critical as achieving net zero, with research suggesting that without action society could run out of much needed freshwater resources by as early as 2040. A good example of this is Morrisons , with whom we recently partnered to certify their eggs as carbon neutral.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2021

Apple creates $200 million fund for nature-based climate solutions Jesse Klein Thu, 04/22/2021 – 00:12 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.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2021

Apple creates $200 million fund for nature-based climate solutions Jesse Klein Thu, 04/22/2021 – 00:12 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.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2021

The chief sustainability officer tells BusinessGreen how the Indian business group is steering more than 150 companies behind a 2040 carbon neutrality goal. The Mahindra Group prides itself on giving its subsidiaries space to grow and innovate. But Ghosh claims the task is less complicated than it sounds.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The links revealed by DeSmog’s analysis may show a “revolving door” between insurers and high-polluting industries that may explain why, despite the risks, the sector has been slow to act on climate change, said Lucie Pinson, executive director at the environmental campaign group Reclaim Finance, reacting to the findings.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The climate crisis needs climate leadership from businesses now Maria Mendiluce Tue, 09/29/2020 – 01:00 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.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This week, dozens of corporations re-upped goals, reflecting that the private sector is internalizing what’s at stake — physically, reputationally and economically — if climate change is left unchecked. Some of the most notable (some announced in the run-up to Climate Week) include: . Morgan Stanley became the first major U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

While renewables are part of this picture, this crisis presents an opportunity to invest and support the development of new fuels like green hydrogen that complement renewables and have massive potential for making rapid cuts to carbon emissions. The current energy mix and ways of thinking are not working. The green hydrogen future.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 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. Real leadership means setting the aviation sector on a path toward net-zero climate impacts as swiftly as possible. Policy already is playing a key role elsewhere.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Scenarios 2, 3, and 4 were all designed to meet or exceed the Climate Act’s GHG limits and achieve carbon neutrality based on findings from Advisory Panel recommendations and supporting analysis, but represent different approaches to reach those goals.

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AGreenLiving

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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Announced as “the beginning of the UK’s path to net zero” the plan sets out a number of initiatives in areas such as energy, transport, carbon capture and flood defences. Prominent among these was an intention to advance faster along the timeline towards banning diesel and petrol cars – now scheduled for 2030 instead of 2040.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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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. The Climate Impact of Meat.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

In December, Coca Cola European Partners (CCEP) became the latest major company to announce a goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2040, 10 years ahead of the hard deadline set out by climate scientists and a growing number of governments around the world. Europe is kind of the epicentre of what's going on climate change," he says. "If

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

The controversy that swirled around Gary Lineker's critical tweets about the government's asylum seeker policies - which led to the eerie, silent edition of the football programme - is just the latest example of how issues of social justice have increasingly cropped up across the world of English football.

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