DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

So they’re just going to try and squeeze out every last bit of profit they can and give it fancy new names like carbon capture and sequestration. It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. It’s not new.” The greenwashing term for it is liquefied natural gas.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

But concerns persist about the reliability of data metrics measuring carbon output. to support the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050?or or sooner currently stands at 87, representing $37tr AUM, more than a third of global assets under management, according to the latest Net Zero Asset Managers initiative figures.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

BT's £55bn pension scheme - the largest in the UK - has pledged to decarbonise its portfolio within 15 years, as it today became the latest pension fund to commit to a net zero investment strategy in order to mitigate the financial risks from climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Industry Voice: Companies with ambitious plans to decarbonise can be climate leaders, no matter what their industry - and it will give them a competitive advantage, according to Schroders. The urgent need to tackle climate change has been made evident by the events of this summer. How do we find these companies?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the effort to limit global warming to 1.5C – the legally-binding limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Climate change will disproportionately affect young people.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

THE IMPORTANCE OF CARBON FOOTPRINTS. Businesses today need to know and understand their carbon footprint in order to make progress toward becoming a more sustainable and eco-friendly business. You can also use it to determine the amount of carbon offsets to purchase in order to get to carbon neutral. .

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Climate Impacts. F by 2050 and 5.6°F–8.8°F

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2022

The United Nations secretary-general has become increasingly outspoken about the failure of the world’s financial sector to stop investing in new fossil fuel projects and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. New funding for fossil fuels is delusional,” Guterres said on June 14. And there is precedent.

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EDF + Business

JULY 13, 2020

Who’s responsible for solving climate change? According to the Yale Program on Climate Communication , businesses top the list. Over 70% of registered voters across party lines say corporations and industry should do more to address global warming, above citizens and the U.S. Look to lobbying.

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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. (If

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

Church and Italian insurer are latest to join growing group of world's largest pension funds and insurers committed to fully decarbonising their investments by 2050. As a financial services operator we feel the responsibility of contributing to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050," he said.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

It also argued that despite a temporary rebound in 2021, global coal demand is set to slow down from this year onwards. The researchers stress that green hydrogen - hydrogen produced without emissions using clean power and electrolysis - is set to be major driver of power demand between 2035 and 2050. or $1.7tr," the report states.

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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, we must halve global emissions by 2030. The power is in our hands.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2022

As major polluters, all companies have a fundamental role to play in lowering emissions and helping us avoid the worst effects of climate change. As fires rage across Europe and the UK reached its hottest temperature on record, it's clear that the effects of climate change are upon us.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The 84,431-square-kilometer country is determined to fight climate change by planting 440 million trees by 2040; 70 percent will be conifers and the remainder broad-leaf. The initiative is part of Ireland’s larger goal to become carbon-neutral by 2050. Ireland is about to get a whole lot greener.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Developed nations cannot stop climate change on their own, but if we want others to leapfrog the dirty technology that did so much for us, then we have a moral and a practical obligation to help them do so," he said.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

New report from the Coalition for Negative Emissions argues urgent action is needed to expand carbon removals market - and businesses have a critical role to play. Should businesses invest in offset credits, carbon neutrality, carbon removals, or whichever moniker they choose to apply to the practice of procuring so-called negative emissions?

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Of all the tools we have to curb climate change, devoting land to growing bioenergy crops is among the most contentious. The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage. The case for negative emissions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

More than 75 of the UK's leading businesses are lobbying the Prime Minister to substantially enhance the UK's existing 2030 climate target to align it with a net zero pathway before the end of the year, warning the current carbon budget falls short of the emissions reductions required to meet global climate goals.

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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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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 26, 2021

The natural process of all plants taking in carbon and releasing oxygen not only gives us clean air to breathe but also stores carbon that otherwise contributes to global warming. The study is based on information available through the Global Carbon Atlas Global City Emissions dataset, which measures emissions levels.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Yet IRENA cautioned that the encouraging trends for clean energy jobs worldwide would have to be sustained in order to spur a worldwide shift away from fossil fuels towards renewables in line with international climate change targets. As many as 5.5 In order to ensure contined growth in the sector that supports a 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Members of the Atlas Network have campaigned against legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions and have questioned the presence and severity of human-caused climate change. Consumer Choice Center was part of US-based Students for Liberty until 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman has unveiled ambitious plans for a linear car-free city designed to produce zero carbon emissions, with construction earmarked to begin during the first quarter of this year. China sets out carbon capture push in climate policy guidelines.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. Newswise — New York City, N.Y.,

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Fee levels are still being considered as the Authority engages with ship owners about how the new system would work in practice, but charges are likely to incorporate several factors such as operational efficiency of ships and the use of zero carbon or carbon neutral fuels. per cent, between 2021 and 2025, Reuters reports.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Japan has a goal to achieve carbon-neutrality by the year 2050. Although Suga did not give an elaborate plan on how he intends to achieve this new objective, he said that it is possible to achieve carbon-neutrality without jeopardizing the economy. Japan aims to be carbon-neutral by 2050.

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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. Australia drops Kyoto carbon credit demand from Paris Agreement plan.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 26, 2021

The natural process of all plants taking in carbon and releasing oxygen not only gives us clean air to breathe but also stores carbon that otherwise contributes to global warming. The study is based on information available through the Global Carbon Atlas Global City Emissions dataset, which measures emissions levels.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 26, 2021

The natural process of all plants taking in carbon and releasing oxygen not only gives us clean air to breathe but also stores carbon that otherwise contributes to global warming. The study is based on information available through the Global Carbon Atlas Global City Emissions dataset, which measures emissions levels.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

But the new six-month Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V) acceleration program is all about ways to capture and convert carbon dioxide into something useful. Inhabitat: Please give us just a little history about the Carbon to Value Initiative. Most business accelerators focus on community economic development.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collapse, the city undeniably lives in a climate changed world.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

But the new six-month Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V) acceleration program is all about ways to capture and convert carbon dioxide into something useful. Inhabitat: Please give us just a little history about the Carbon to Value Initiative. Most business accelerators focus on community economic development.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The final deal also included landmark references to the need to reform decision-making at the multilateral development banks and other financial institutions to better tackle climate change. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. We need to act now.".

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