Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Consider this: In April, Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest companies in the world, announced its intent to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. No doubt Shell is counting on some miracle like carbon capture to preserve its adherence to a century-old business model of selling oil. Sponsored Article. What happened?

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

They've expanded their markets and slashed carbon footprints along the way, cementing reputations as innovators. Buying 100 percent-recycled nylon from Aquafil has helped Interface reduce the carbon footprint of its carpet tile by 69 percent. What happens when your circularity efforts are ahead of what most consumers are demanding?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

I’d argued that regenerative grazing could cut emissions from beef production , helping reduce the outsized contribution cattle make to food’s carbon footprint. You can imagine a future in which some beef, probably priced at a premium, comes with a carbon-negative label. Sponsored Article. Sounds great, right?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Richard Mattison.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 25, 2020

With growing consensus on the gravity of the climate crisis, countries and companies are adopting carbon reduction targets. Pressure to make emissions visible has been around for a while: Consumers want to know how much carbon is embodied in the products they buy. Alas, to date the same isn’t true of carbon performance.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Better filtration systems including HEPA filters, ionization, ultraviolet lights and active carbon have increased the quality of recirculated air, without having to increase the amount of fresh air in the building. . Demand control CO2 sensors measure the number of people in a room based on breath and can adjust the systems accordingly.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

In a recent article in Business Insider , the authors note that Hertz is scaling back its EV rental fleet due to high repair costs. In addition, 52 percent of those surveyed reported a negative effect on their quality of life. A 2023 Consumer Reports poll found that EVs are less reliable overall, compared to combustion engine vehicles.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown. As for disclosure, investors expect more of it and at a more robust level, but they are also demanding goal-setting, with metrics and accountability.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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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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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In 2021, how a company performs on all factors — including ESG factors — on a strategy executed within its rapidly shrinking carbon footprint, not just reporting data, should determine investment decisions. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Leadership.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Environmentalists have long warned that demand for the pellets is endangering irreplaceable primary forests in areas including parts of Estonia, British Columbia in Canada and the southeastern United States. . However, Tubiana, the ECF’s chief executive, tweeted that the article had misinterpreted her organisation’s position.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This growth is tied with heightened demand for companies to operate sustainably, with businesses facing pressure from key stakeholders – consumers, employees, investors, governments and NGOs. IMM software accounts for all areas of business operations, including carbon use, waste disposal, and community service. billion by 2028.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2020

How on-demand food delivery apps could encourage low-carbon food Anna Zhang Mon, 06/08/2020 – 02:00 The COVID-19 crisis has affected most aspects of daily life, including how we get our food. Adopting these habits has the potential to reduce carbon emissions by 66 gigatonnes CO2-equivalent, according to Project Drawdown.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2020

How on-demand food delivery apps could encourage low-carbon food Anna Zhang Mon, 06/08/2020 – 02:00 The COVID-19 crisis has affected most aspects of daily life, including how we get our food. Adopting these habits has the potential to reduce carbon emissions by 66 gigatonnes CO2-equivalent, according to Project Drawdown.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

A major cold snap led to record electricity usage in the Canadian province of Alberta over the weekend, culminating in demands from provincial utilities to limit consumption. Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. Is this the best second life for trash?

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In the previous article , I discussed the growing importance of Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) for companies. After all, a substantial fraction of global carbon emissions arise from the production, transportation, and consumption of fossil fuels. zero carbon emissions (NZE) by 2050. According to the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

A new Greenpeace report notes that Microsoft, Amazon and Google are undermining their public carbon commitments through by providing services that allow oil and gas firms extract fossil fuels from the earth. Amazon, which has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2040, had not replied to a request for comment ahead of this article's publication.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The One for One campaign's calls for regulators investors to do far more to guard against carbon bubble risks should be heeded. But in over a decade of reporting on the so-called 'carbon bubble' hypothesis I am yet to hear a credible argument that debunks its central analysis. Fossil fuel assets are badly overvalued.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. With this in mind, in this Green Business Bureau article, we present eight ways you, as a fashion manufacturer, can work to be more sustainable. Below we’ve detailed eight tips on how to reduce the negative environmental and social impact of your fashion brand company.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2022

It is also worth noting that the levels of renewables on the grid pretty much anywhere in the world are still a long way short of the level where it becomes genuinely difficult to manage the balancing of supply and demand. As COP26 President Alok Sharma observed this weekend as the UK grid hit 74 per cent zero carbon, "it's working".

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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. This wording, along with other phrases, has since been altered to read “spark conversations” following a request for comment on this article from DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 27, 2020

In a previous article , I reported that gasoline demand had plummeted to the lowest demand number in more than 50 years. The steep drop in gasoline demand has had a domino effect, also crushing the nation’s ethanol demand, and subsequently corn demand. Josh: We are absolutely seeing a decline in corn demand.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 23, 2022

This article is a guide on how landscaping and/or lawn care businesses can become more environmentally friendly and reap the benefits of being a sustainable business. Customers Are Demanding Sustainability. How Do Landscapers Negatively Impact the Environment. Harmful Carbon Emissions from Equipment and Vehicles .

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 11, 2021

The is the fourth article in a series on BP’s recently-released Statistical Review of World Energy 2021. Previous articles provided an overview of this year’s Review, an examination of the data on carbon emissions, and a look at oil supply and demand trends. Among all countries, the U.S. In 2020, U.S. To put U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

per cent on the year, low carbon power accounted for over 54 per cent of the electricity mix, renewables capacity rose nearly seven per cent, coal generation was negligible, even transport emissions ticked downwards. Renewables' share of the power mix will soar (and we will get a snapshot view of how the grid copes) as energy demand slumps.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The CHIPS and Science Act, a $280bn bill aimed at revitalising the American semiconductor industry, with a quarter of that accelerating the growth of zero-carbon industries. electricity grid to 80 per cent carbon free power by 2030. With the new tax credits under the IRA, demand for new projects is set to surge. Second, U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

The report's recommendations include establishing new demand-side drivers for nature recovery, reforming economic and environmental regulation to incentivise a more efficient delivery of environmental outcomes, and establishing a governance and institutional architecture for fledgling UK environmental markets.

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Clean Energy Trust

APRIL 23, 2020

Link Credit: Angus Mordant / Reuters file WTI oil prices dipped into negative territory with demand down, storage nearing capacity, and futures contract holders needing to offload their contracts before they’d be required to take delivery. Will the coronavirus cause the world to hit peak carbon? Be extremely skeptical?—?while

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

The library, a free reference management tool that allows the user to manage bibliographical data and documents such as websites, videos, scientific articles, books and PDFs. Georgia Elliott Smith launched a new campaign video for her legal challenge of the UK Government over incineration pollution and carbon emissions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

The carbon credit system needs an overhaul to effectively help in reducing climate change, according to a UCL study. French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of ' carbon neutral liquid natural gas '. Natural gas is, of course, a fossil fuel and so can't itself be carbon neutral.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Indeed, the ingredients for negativity are all too abundant: a persistent, shapeshifting virus; political stalemates that thwart climate action; growing social and economic inequality; terrifying ecological indicators; pushback by the anti-science crowd and their media enablers. Demand for sustainability professionals outstripped supply.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

One final note: Be sure to check the end of this article for quick job updates from others who responded to our outreach but chose not to comment on the two questions. We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete.

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