Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The startup won $25,000 from the New Climate Ventures Sustainability Investment Prize at the 2023 Rice Business Plan Competition; took home the grand prize and audience choice award at the MIT $100K LAUNCH Competition ; and was selected for both the 2023 Cleantech Open Northeast and Venture For ClimateTech cohorts.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

First, it must understand the labour market impacts of decommissioning fossil fuel power plants and reskilling workers to build and manage the new low-carbon economy. Second, it must also engage with the social impacts of new low-carbon energy systems and infrastructures, with an emphasis on equity and justice concerns.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

On the southern coast of Africa, local community groups and environmental activists have been celebrating a significant legal victory over a major oil player. Dolphins and sharks are just two other marine species that could be negatively affected by seismic surveys through behavioral changes to get away from the noise.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

Meanwhile, academic studies have detailed how the emissions produced by clearing land and fertilising, farming, and shipping many 'energy crops' can be almost as large, and in some cases larger, than the emissions resulting from the fossil fuels they are designed to replace. Regulators and investors have taken note.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

warming will disproportionately negatively impact disadvantaged and vulnerable populations. In the letter, the farmers warn global food security is being compromised by a failure to curb emissions and invest in climate resilience. "We Earlier this week, 1.8

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In mid-December, Vietnam will reveal its just energy transition partnership using public money to leverage private investment, following on from South Africa and Indonesia, and with a cab rank of other countries wanting something similar. That requires more and better diplomacy, not less. The relationship with India is critical.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 29, 2020

of warming, our emissions need to immediately start reducing rapidly towards zero and then on to negative figures.We Although sustainable investments and policies are laudable, they are grossly insufficient. Arresting our use of fossil fuels is key and this includes ending both investments and subsidies, as well as divestment.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

One moment a speaker discussed the inevitability of a transition away from fossil fuels; in the next, another suggested the impossibility of bringing populations out of poverty without fossil fuels. The contradictions and tension pervading Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week were both apparent and invisible.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Meanwhile, the advance of low carbon alternatives to the hydrocarbon-driven economy has been far too slow to meet that challenge. A farmer-led scheme called TIST has spread to over 150,000 subsistence farmers in East Africa, because it supports farmers to share these practices and learn from one another," he explains.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that, while the market for carbon offsets is forecast to see rapid growth and reach over $1 billion this year, the “offsets” themselves can vary widely in their quality and effectiveness at actually reducing pollution. “The

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. There were also successful precedents, says Weiss, pointing to the decisions TRS made to jettison investments in South Africa in the mid-1990s, and firearms in the 2010s. trillion in cash and investments.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree We need immediate action on energy.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

Paris Olympics plans to halve carbon footprint of meals served at the Games. Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet this week unveiled the catering strategy for the upcoming Olympic Games in the French capital, revealing a goal to halve the average carbon footprint of meals served during the Games. RWE issues €2bn green bond.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UN reports that temperature increases in the Sahel region of Africa will be 1.5 In the Arctic, melting sea ice is amplifying strategic competition as the accessibility of resources improves, particularly mineral and fossil fuel deposits. Carbon bootprints. times higher than the global average. Arctic militarisation.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

We are seeking a single standard for disclosure, especially around climate and carbon-related issues and emissions," said Mark Wiedman, head of international and corporate strategy at BlackRock, during a mainstage interview. Scott Mather, chief investment officer for U.S. Support for carbon pricing may be deep. That is No.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a result, many fossil fuel majors now have net zero goals in place and are - to varying degrees - investing in green technologies in a bid to diversify their revenue streams. But it isn't just cheap and abundant wind, solar and batteries which threaten the dominance of oil and gas.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2021

“We are seeking a single standard for disclosure, especially around climate and carbon-related issues and emissions,” said Mark Wiedman, head of international and corporate strategy at BlackRock, during a mainstage interview. ” Scott Mather, chief investment officer for U.S. “That is No. 1 on our list.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2021

“We are seeking a single standard for disclosure, especially around climate and carbon-related issues and emissions,” said Mark Wiedman, head of international and corporate strategy at BlackRock, during a mainstage interview. ” Scott Mather, chief investment officer for U.S. “That is No. 1 on our list.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole. Myisha Majumder.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

Russia's war in Ukraine - which itself was completely unexpected by pretty much everyone this time last year, bar a handful of vindicated intelligence agents - could yet result in a stunning victory for Ukraine, a stinging defeat for tyrannical authoritarianism, and a step change in the pace of the West's transition away from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Since September alone, China has pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, and Japan, South Korea, South Africa, and Canada have also set their sights on net zero by 2050. China's 2060 pledge appeared to trigger a tipping point that saw Japan, South Korea, South Africa, and others follow in the space of just weeks, he explains.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Don’t agree on the assessment or the different pathways to get rid of fossil fuels? This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below. The article was called ‘can the world kick its oil habit?’.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. This may prove to be terminal. Money is gone.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

. “I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun,” he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole.

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