Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Fresh analysis backed by 40 major energy, finance, and industry companies - including Shell, BP, Volvo, and ArcelorMittal - explores actions required this decade to deliver an emissions-free economy by mid-century that is not overly reliant on carbon offsets.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Over five weeks we’re publishing a range of Stay Grounded factsheets about various kinds of techno-greenwashing provided by the aviation industry. Alternative jet fuels or so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuels” (SAF) are liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used with existing aircraft in place of kerosene produced from fossil fuels.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

Another aspect of that future is limiting carbon-intensive forms of travel. Is this a realistic version of how we might address the carbon intensity of air travel? In three vignettes, spanning 2023 to 2077, the main character grows from a young woman living in L.A. where long-distance travel is heavily restricted.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

Will well-intentioned critiques of demonstrably inadequate net zero strategies catalyse more ambitious decarbonisation plans or will they inadvertently undermine a trend that has helped successfully push climate issues up the corporate and political agenda? It's that simple.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Yesterday, in a bid to help Ministers bridge the gap, business advoacy group the Aldersgate Group published a major report that sets out how a series of policy measures enacted over this parliamentary term could steer the UK towards its 2050 net zero ambition, as well as its interim carbon reduction targets under the fourth and fifth carbon budgets.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. 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

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

"It showed it was no longer acceptable to talk about greening your finance offering, or scaling up support for renewable energy, while still being perfectly comfortable to finance fossil fuels and other non-green sectors. Firstly, it urges alliance members to engage with high-carbon companies on their decarbonisation pathways.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But the solutions are there On the other hand, the report stresses there is still time to deliver a low-carbon, sustainable economy where climate-resilient development becomes the norm. And the private sector is playing a starring role in this collective failure, as the actors that make the real economy work.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

A large donation to the Labour Party from wood-burning giant Drax has raised concerns among campaigners over the sway of big carbon emitters over Parliament. The payment from the former coal-fired power station was registered on September 12 last year, and published in December in the Electoral Commission register of political donations.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

Now, EU leaders must use the full potential of EU funds to boost climate action and exclude support to fossil fuels.". Questions also remain over the remaining 70 per cent of the recover package and budget, and whether high carbon projects and fossil fuels could be set to benefit, or how strongly a 'do no harm' principle might apply.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Businesses and investors were left bemused and frustrated at the lack of near-term action as gas prices spiked, Putin threatened a full shutdown of fossil fuel exports, and European governments rushed to deliver sweeping energy efficiency programmes.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII): Adopted in 2021 through the IMO , these measurements build on prior standards and became mandatory beginning Jan 1, 2023. IMO will assign a CII rating, with A being the best, least carbon-intensive and E being the worst, most carbon-intensive.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Players in the carbon dioxide pipeline industry canceled major pipeline projects in recent weeks, marking an inauspicious start to President Biden’s ambitious plans to develop carbon capture infrastructure as a key emissions mitigation tool. Stockman pointed out that the U.S. Midwest to be injected and stored underground.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It is in no way limited to political opponents and environmental activists whose jobs inherently require a degree of performative hostility towards government ministers. This time there is none of that. There is just cold fury, cut with a sadness deeper than any mine. This anger is also widely held. We should be getting clean.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. That's the biggest risk.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Anthropogenic climate change is at once evident and escalating, transforming natural, economic and socio-political environments. In the Arctic, melting sea ice is amplifying strategic competition as the accessibility of resources improves, particularly mineral and fossil fuel deposits. Carbon bootprints.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If governments are serious about justice and environmental integrity, then they urgently need to step up the regulation of carbon removal, explain political ecology experts Wim Carton, Inge-Merete Hougaard and Kirstine Lund Christiansen. Net zero emission pledges by countries and companies are everywhere at the moment.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

Will well-intentioned critiques of demonstrably inadequate net zero strategies catalyse more ambitious decarbonisation plans or will they inadvertently undermine a trend that has helped successfully push climate issues up the corporate and political agenda?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2023

A UK government agency has provided billions of pounds worth of financial support to the high-carbon aviation sector since the Paris climate agreement was adopted in 2015, DeSmog analysis shows. Aviation accounts for the majority of the greenhouse gas emissions currently generated by UKEF’s finance, according to its latest estimate: 8.2

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This is not the time nor the issue for scoring party political points. Third, assembly members gave strong support for businesses to make low carbon products that use less energy and materials.". Fair to people with different incomes, travel preferences and housing arrangements. Fair to people who live in different parts of the UK.".

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

Predictions for 2023 have to wrestle with the fact the most important economic and political trends are being shaped by Rumsfeldian 'known unknowns' and ‘unknown unknowns', the fog of war, and the judgements of some very old, and possibly ailing, men. They will soon outnumber the Boomers who have set the political weather for so long.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That's par for the course — an exciting advancement here, political or economic pushback there. Overall, it was more positives than negatives. Despite the bold commitments many have made to invest in climate technologies and green business growth, most banks continue to underwrite the fossil-fuel industry.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In late August, the Biden-Harris campaign came out with its strongest endorsement to date of ethanol and other biofuels, as Biden publicly criticized the Trump administration’s escalation of waivers exempting oil refineries from requirements to blend biofuels into their fuels. Modeled ecosystem carbon fluxes for different land use scenarios.

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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. Hard to decarbonise sectors such as aviation, shipping and heavy industry face immense technical challenges if they are to curb emissions. More on that shortly.

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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

JUNE 27, 2020

Aviation soon became a business. With the ‘old’, I refer to the fossil-fuel based, centralized energy industries that are reliant on conservative economic models. Despite its massive market cap, governments around the world provides numerous subsidies, both direct and indirect, to the fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. cents per kWh of electricity produced at facilities placed into service after 2024 that produce zero or negative emissions.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The topics of these articles range from the climate related impacts of Covid-19 to fossil fuels and the Trump presidency. Here are the top 100 posts from 2020.They They are ranked according to popularity as determined by viewership.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The topics of these articles range from the climate related impacts of Covid-19 to fossil fuels and the Trump presidency. Here are the top 100 posts from 2020.They They are ranked according to popularity as determined by viewership.

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