Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Government confirms £30m of new investment in a range of projects designed to enhance natural carbon sinks. Alongside the NetZeroPlus project the government and the UK Research and Innovation agency today announced new funding for projects exploring how to use peat, rock chips, and charcoal to expand natural carbon sinks.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2023

Pioneering analysis of global nascent carbon removals sector published as leading offsets provider is accused of selling 'junk credits' The world is failing to pursure the levels of carbon removal capacity that is likely to be required to meet global climate goals, researchers at Oxford University have today warned.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

On the anniversary of its pledge to become a 'carbon negative' company, Microsoft has provided a snapshot of its decarbonisation progress to date, revealing it curbed its absolute emissions by six per cent last year while purchasing 1.3 million metric tonnes of carbon removal credits through its first offset tender process.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thanks to growing interest in environmental social and governance (ESG) funds, investors are rapidly moving into the sector, keen to improve the green credentials of their portfolios while also capitalising on the burgeoning financial opportunities provided by sustainable timber and carbon offsetting schemes.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

A year ago the government committed to making the UK a net zero emitter by 2050. In order to achieve this, there are a number of pressing environmental issues that we face, with governments, business and citizens focusing their efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and become more sustainable as a nation.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 11, 2020

billion over the next five years as it moves toward a 2050 net-zero target? dairy brand that committed to going carbon-negative by 2025 ? The twist: No one disputes that these efforts will be good for soil health. But do regenerative methods sequester as much carbon as advocates claim?

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land. It estimates that, if land alone was used to remove the world's greenhouse gas emissions in order to achieve net zero by 2050, it would require at least 1.6

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

Could Denmark deliver a carbon neutral farming sector by 2050? Whether you have a stake in Denmark's farming sector or not, the findings of the technical report, entitled A Pathway to Carbon Neutral Agriculture in Denmark , are significant. The World Resources Institute (WRI) thinks so.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

The announcement comes as the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) publishes its highly anticipated report on land use in the UK, which provides a raft of detailed recommendations on how the UK should overhaul its management of farm and natural land to help draw down greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

💨 Yard Stick , a Cambridge, MA-based soil carbon monitoring platform, raised $12M in Series A funding from Extantia Capital, Breakthrough, Lowercarbon Capital, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Pillar VC, and other investors. of oil and gas production by 2030 and total net-zero operations by 2050. CDR with one click.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Cefic stated that it did not lobby on Farm to Fork or pesticide targets, affirmed its support for the Green New Deal and stated its ambition to be “climate neutral” by 2050. billion people in 2050 even with current production levels. A full data set of the evidence behind this table is available on request from DeSmog.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

The extent of the climate impacts already baked-in to 2050 is "shocking", according to CCC chief executive Chris Stark. That is because regardless of whether the UK reaches net zero emissions by 2050 or not, myriad and costly impacts of rising temperatures are still going to occur, and indeed are already starting to happen.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

That was the stark message of the Climate Change Committee in its sixth carbon budget. The 10 Point Plan, the national infrastructure strategy, the climate change committee's sixth carbon budget and the Treasury's interim report on its Net Zero Review. or 2C relies on some degree of carbon capture.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

Every ton of carbon emitted raises the temperature a tiny bit and reduces air quality, but companies never pay for those costs to society, also known as externalities. Many leading companies internalize the externalities by putting a “shadow price” on carbon inside the business (some collect real money as a self-imposed tax).

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

But it nevertheless delivers a very straightforward conclusion: achieving net zero emissions right across the planet as soon as possible and ideally before 2050 is the only pathway forward for humanity if the worst climate impacts are to be avoided. Natural carbon sinks become less effective as emissions rise. by the 2100.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 28, 2021

With global demand for beef climbing and emissions from food production on track to rise 60% by 2050 , it’s clear that something in the livestock production system needs to change. There’s data that shows when you manage animals in that way, it has a much more dramatic impact on the soils.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Good-faith efforts to reuse carbon, heat and steam are underway with a target to reduce the Port’s emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2025. Those that can create artificial sinks with technological carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? The graph at the top shows the trajectory of global carbon emissions (and this is without the land-use figures), so no. And it’s not all about carbon emissions. These things cause negative feedback loops that make all problems worse.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

That synthesis looked impressive at first glance; it outlined how we could change global food systems, so they emit fewer greenhouse gases, occupy less land, and protect the earth’s biodiversity — all while producing ever higher volumes of food for a global population approaching ten billion by 2050. . billion by 2050 as axiomatic.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

That is the stark conclusion of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) today, which warns that these impacts from climate change in the UK are now inevitable, regardless of the success of decarbonisation through to 2050. It's time for bold action to cut carbon and reverse nature decline.".

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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. Microsoft , JetBlue and Royal Dutch Shell are among those seeking to offset a portion of their carbon footprint by investing in forest protection and reforestation.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. Nitrogen and phosphorous are both essential for plant growth, thus they are made into fertilizers that pollute waterways and coastal zones, and accumulate in the world’s soil and land.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

These figures must grow rapidly if environmental goals are to be met, through investments in sustainable supply chains and redirecting nature-negative investments towards schemes that conserve and protect biodiversity. The science is undeniable," said Inger Anderson, executive director of UNEP. "As

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Royal Society study author argues people 'should be as appalled' by badly managed soils as deforestation. Bringing together the latest evidence on the "diverse and underappreciated" functions soils perform, the science body's research points to many "win-win" benefits that arise from protecting and improving soils.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Sixth Carbon Budget report published today encompasses around 1,000 pages which offer the most detailed roadmap ever developed on how to transform a modern economy so that it delivers net zero emissions within the space of just 30 years. The Sixth Carbon Budget also brings with it a clear need to act in the short term.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Landmark IPCC report provides wave of stark warnings, but stresses that rapidly putting the global economy on course to net zero emissions by 2050 could hugely reduce the escalating impacts that will result from a warmer world.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

Current levels of investment in negative emissions technology fall far short of levels required to cap temperature rise in line with Paris goals, new coalition warns. We need action to help increase investment in proven technologies to get the scale, time and support needed for further innovation," she said.

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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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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Sustainability pushes resorts away from the negative spiral, where high carbon footprints catalyze climate change – which could ultimately render the ski industry obsolete. The benefits of sustainability for ski resorts.

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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 310 ppm. Our reality.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 20, 2023

It’s a mantra by now that in addition to mitigating future emissions, we have to extract existing carbon dioxide pollution from our atmospheric and oceanic dumps. Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies often sound like science fiction—gigantic carbon-sucking vacuums, anyone? A new approach for CDR?

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Both natural and technological means of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere must be rapidly scaled up in addition to deep cuts in emissions in the current decade and beyond if the world is to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, a fresh analysis today has warned. goal within reach, Energy Transitions Commission warns.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The latest BusinessGreen Webinar, hosted in association with Patch, reveals how there are good reasons to think the voluntary carbon market could be at an inflection point Voluntary carbon markets have endured a turbulent couple of years. I think you'll see a lot more positive stories in 2024 than you've seen in 2023."

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Economics are a primary concern in a well-designed strategy to reduce carbon. The potential ways to reduce carbon emissions vary dramatically on an economic basis. The amount of carbon abatement that a given method can accomplish also has limits in scale. Some items are shown as negative cost. Intro to MAC Curves.

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