Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

The company is investing $40m in developing the first "satellite" pellet facility in Arkansas, USA, where it expects to create around 30 new direct jobs in the local community, with commissioning slated to begin in October, it announced late last week.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

The US investment giant has switched to 100 per cent renewable electricity, cut emissions and bought offsets. Bank of America has become the latest corporate to hit carbon neutrality, with the firm announcing yesterday it has met the target a year ahead of schedule.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For geothermal heating and cooling projects, the city will provide partial support for the initial investment costs. There will be information and public relation campaigns among citizens in order counter the negative perceptions of geothermal energy.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The first has to do with the carbon budget — the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the planet warms more than 1.5 The paper uses a carbon budget of 580 billion metric tons, an amount that is estimated to give only a 50 percent chance of stabilizing the global climate at 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temperatures.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Drax plans to turn off its two remaining coal fired power units at its North Yorkshire plant in March in order to switch the lion's share of its power generation to biomass, as it drives forward with its plan to use carbon capture technologies to become a 'carbon negative' company by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

While it’s broadly recognized that a dramatic expansion of renewables is necessary to attain climate goals, this expansion also holds great potential to reduce negative impacts on rivers, and the communities and resources, such as fisheries, that depend on healthy, connected rivers.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Sustainable investing is changing global supply chains: 4 key takeaways. Sustainable investing strategies have ascended quickly in the last 10 years. Morgan Global Equity Research estimated that the sustainable investing market is expected to reach $45 trillion in assets under management (AUM) by the end of the year.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Those are the stark findings of two separate report published today, which - less than 100 days ahead of the crucial COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow - together provide a stark assessment of the potentially carbon intensive nature of the global economic recovery. Only around 10.6 Only around 10.6 per cent this year and by 2.5

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

, published by a team including Lord Nicholas Stern and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz that argued that non-conditional support for high carbon industries would see a lower return on investment than green stimulus packages. Build carbon-capture-and-storage infrastructure around large industrial clusters ? They are: ?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2011, the IFC lent poultry company Ust-Kamenogorsk Poultry (UKPF) invested $2 million in refurbishing housing for chickens, among other projects.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

as well as a surge of renewable capacity aided by legislation aimed at curbing carbon dioxide emissions. This slowdown had a negative impact on fossil fuel demand. Meanwhile, renewables may see a small negative impact from the pandemic in the short term – but the move toward green energy may gain momentum as the COVID-19 threat fades.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

Strong income reductions are projected for the majority of regions, including North America and Europe, with South Asia and Africa being most strongly affected," said PIK scientist and co-author of the study, Maximilian Kotz. Such outcomes would trigger huge geo-political risks that could impact the entire global economy.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

One of the most striking conclusions in our report is that we’re seeing adverse impacts being much more widespread and being much more negative than expected in prior reports within the current 1.09 What happened with COVID doesn’t raise my confidence level that people are ready to make the kinds of investments we need,” he said. “I

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

Any phase out of coal financing by HSBC is particularly significant, given the bank is the second largest funder of fossil fuels after Barclays in Europe and undertakes extensive work with the coal sector in Asia. The group touted the promise as the first time a mainstream bank had taken such a stance.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A Time For Growth The need to reduce carbon emissions has enormous consequences for Europe, explains Carlsson. The producers of this type of equipment are mainly based in Asia. He invested in a number of start-ups and spent time with his family. Bloomberg estimates that 80% of global battery production comes from Asia.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The court rejected an appeal by French energy company Total, which had invested 300 million euros to convert a crude oil refinery into a biofuel plant that would use palm oil feedstock. This severe deforestation has undermined biofuels’ sustainability credentials, as these tropical forests are key absorbers of carbon dioxide.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 2, 2024

Microsoft is pumping a lot of its resources into AI offerings for its customers , investing more than $13 billion in OpenAI. That’s a problem if Microsoft is serious about its commitment to achieving carbon negativity by the end of the decade. It could cost roughly $11.5

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Their comments came during an early June conference touted as bringing “together Indigenous leaders, industry experts, policymakers, civil society organizations, scientists, engineers and investors to discuss and advance the strategies that take us ‘beyond zero’ into negative emissions and a recovering climate.”.

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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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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

million from the blockchain investment firm Polychain Capital and others, the company plans to pilot its micro-turbine technology in the ‘golden state’, which it says, will be a first. Vespene Energy is a Berkeley, California-based company with the vision of converting methane gas released from landfills into power for Bitcoin mining.

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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. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

The governments want to increase their GDP, improve health and sanitation, provide education and jobs, increase investment, improve infrastructure, provide electricity to people; besides the economy and jobs, most of these things are not even an issue in developed countries anymore. How much is to be invested for climate change?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

As burger wars wage in Brussels over whether plant-based products can deploy terminology traditionally used for meat and dairy, some of the world's most prolific meat producers have been gobbling up small plant-based start-ups in order to launch their own low carbon meat lines.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Italy announces ban on new petrol and diesel cars, EU carbon prices hit record levels, and all the green business news from around the world this week. Saudi Energy Minister confirms plans for $100bn renewables investment push. RUSAL opens new low carbon aluminium smelter.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. There are other ways to make hydrogen.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Joshua Tosteson, COO of climate conservation marketing company Everland, offers a defense of REDD+ carbon offsets. It is by now well recognised that nature-based climate solutions can provide more than a third of the carbon reductions needed to keep global warming below 2C, the target agreed at the Paris climate talks.

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Life Expectancy vs. Income in the United States 1 Many factors negatively influence average life expectancy. Prior to joining AutoGrid, he held various leadership roles at Apogee Interactive, Guidehouse (formerly Navigant Consulting), and Frost & Sullivan throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Replacing coal with gas for power generation in Asia's developing markets contributes to eight per cent of global emission reductions under our AET-2 scenario," said Massimo Di-Odoardo, vice president for global gas and LNG. By 2050, Brent may slide to $10-$18, Wood Mackenzie said.

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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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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

New trade routes are emerging, the Northern Sea Route (NSR), for example, is projected to rival Suez Canal traffic and shift trade flows between Asia and Europe. Carbon bootprints. New buildings on the military's training estate are also ' net negative' , supplied from renewable sources such as anaerobic digesters and solar farms.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Just a couple of decades ago, the notion of a major company investing in nature might have seemed absurd – today it is mission critical to the future of the economy. Even major polluters such as Shell are getting in on the act, investing in forestry protection and management projects in Peru, Indonesia, and Scotland. No time to lose.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Well, it’s not as simple as that, but the Austrian company, founded by Dr. Gregor Tegel, Dr. Günther Bochmann and Dr. Simon Rittmann, claims to be the only company creating 20 proteinogenic amino acids by feeding carbon dioxide to single-celled micro-organisms called archaea – without the need for genetic engineering. million (€2.75

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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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