Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Aviation industry hails first ever long-term climate goal for sector, but green groups remain sceptical over credibility of new target. But today's decision marks the first-time nations have agreed to establish a long-term climate goal, albeit one that is non-binding in nature. But setting a goal is one thing.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Changes in people’s buying habits need to be consistent to speed up the green transition, say experts. Putting people at the centre.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Much of the media coverage about heat pumps features Mike Foster, a former Labour MP and the chief executive of the Energy and Utilities Association trade body.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Last year, the UK was the first country in the world to pass legislation to become a net zero emissions economy by 2050. This has led to many voices calling for a green and equitable recovery, able to combine social and environmental concerns in climate change policy. This commitment was ambitious at conception.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2021

The question of Drax’s influence on national climate policy has come under renewed scrutiny after it emerged for a second time in two months that a senior PR executive advised on government climate strategy with an apparent conflict of interest. However, it produces 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

National Infrastructure Commission urges government to act quickly to drive development of first wave of BECCS and DACS plants, arguing carbon removals will be a cornerstone of the UK's future economy. Calls for the UK to start scaling up negative emissions technology are becoming shriller.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Josh Burke at LSE's Grantham Research Institute navigates the costs, opportunities, advantages and disadvantages of different carbon capture and negative emissions technologies. This was made clear in the Committee on Climate Change's landmark advice to government on reaching net zero by 2050, published last May.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

The group, which includes 15 institutional investors and 117 individual shareholders, has now agreed to withdraw its resolution, after the bank announced it would put forward its own climate proposal at its annual general meeting on 28 May. The group touted the promise as the first time a mainstream bank had taken such a stance.

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Living Green Technology

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If we don’t begin to change many of our everyday behaviors, some experts believe we could see unprecedented weather conditions by the year 2050. Always-on devices such as DVR and DVD players account for about 23 percent of all domestic energy consumption in the U.S., totaling around $40 billion per year.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Around the world, 1.6

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

Trillions of dollars will be spent to stimulate the global economy after the pandemic - we must not continue the mistake of fossil fuel dependency, argues Mainstream Renewable Power CEO Andy Kinsella. In order to do this we must not fall back into the trap of our pre-Covid world by continuing to reinforce carbon-intensive structures.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. By better understanding and preparing for the coming changes, the UK can prosper, protecting its people, its economy, and its natural environment.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. Credit: Anne Rolfes In 2021, Shell launched its “Powering Progress” strategy outlining how it plans to “transform into a net-zero emissions energy business.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Global Witness have all raised concerns about the creeping reliance on unproven carbon removal methods in companies' decarbonisation strategies, but some scientists maintain carbon capture is essential if net zero goals are to be met.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Elsa Wenzel.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Climate Change Committee has just delivered its most detailed and ambitious work yet to the government, in what the advisory body's CEO Chris Stark this week called "one of the most important things we've ever published". The Sixth Carbon Budget also brings with it a clear need to act in the short term.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ( NYSERDA ) and the Consulate General of Canada in New York. New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., Brazil, and Europe.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

There are high hopes the rock could play a major role in the industrial-scale carbon removal scientists have warned is required to slow spiralling global temperatures. But now an industry is growing around the promise of fast-tracking this natural carbon sequestration process to help tackle climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As industry is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change and is entirely dependent on the earth’s resources for production, it is important for business leaders and employees to understand the Anthropocene, its implications, and what it means for the future of sustainability and industry. . The Holocene. The Anthropocene.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

Here, green businesses, campaign groups and political figures - who have been pushing heavily for ambitious efforts to put the UK on a pathway to net zero by 2050 - give their views on a today's crucial Budget announcement. Suggest the most significant change is contained in the new remit of the Monetary Policy Committee. "The

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Katie Lebling. Wed, 11/11/2020 - 00:30.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 14, 2020

Scheduled to run from April 1 to June 5, 2020, this year's campaign tackles Goals 7, 12 and 13 of the United Nations' (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - namely Affordable and Clean Energy, Responsible Consumption and Production, and Climate Action. Clean energy is a growing topic of interest in Singapore and Asia Pacific.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Now is the time to make up for years of little progress in developing and deploying this essential technology, writes LSE's Esin Serin, policy analyst at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) will be essential to achieve net zero emissions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Negative emissions technologies are critical for the earth’s climate and hitting net zero in the UK, argues Drax CEO Will Gardiner. But it's vital we don't lose sight of long-term climate and energy challenges and the vital sustainability targets that must solve them. Going net negative.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 25, 2020

According to a report by the European Parliament , continuing on the current trajectory with no intervention will lead the aviation industry to account for 22% of global CO2 emissions by 2050. With freight transport forecast to grow by 100% by 2050, how can air cargo combat its own demons in the fight against climate change?

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. And it is damning.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Suddenly business sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and achieving gender equality. 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).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

EQT’s move comes on the heels of a similar announcement from Chesapeake Energy, one of the pioneers of fracking which recently emerged from bankruptcy. “And then we’re going to create a carbon offset by plugging and abandoning that well, so it never leaks methane again.”

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We're tackling our water consumption in two ways: reducing our water use intensity - or the water we use per megawatt of energy used for our operations - and replenishing water in the water-stressed regions we operate," Microsoft president Brad Smith, explained in a blogpost announcing the commitment yesterday.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential Katie Lebling Wed, 11/11/2020 – 00:30 To meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. degrees Celsius 2.7 billion tons of CO 2 in 2018.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential Katie Lebling Wed, 11/11/2020 – 00:30 To meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. degrees Celsius 2.7 billion tons of CO 2 in 2018.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Introduction Climate Change. According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. From a historical perspective however, warning about the negative effects of our food consumption are commonplace. Deforestation. Loss of biodiversity.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 11, 2020

Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing Top Topics Large oil and gas and utility companies are making net-zero pledges , as they look to get ahead of consumer and regulatory trends.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Overall, it was more positives than negatives. Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy. Electrification amped up.

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