Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

A group of leading academics, campaigners, and executives have this week issued a renewed call for governments to accelerate efforts to scale up the deployment of Nature-Based Solutions capable of simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and restoring natural habitats.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Policy documents released yesterday offer a glimpse into how big a role the government envisages for technologies such as carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in supporting its Net Zero Strategy.

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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. Adhere to the “Good Fish Guide”.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

Directors were found to have a wide range of experience in high carbon sectors, including in polluting energy, aviation, mining, manufacturing, and banks and investment companies known to support the fossil fuel industry. Ties to companies that work in or serve high-carbon industries were most pronounced in the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

Influential Future Energy Scenarios report stresses how policy and investment choices could see net zero goal reached early - or missed entirely. The heat and road transport sectors would be largely decarbonised, and the power sector would achieve net negative emissions as early as 2033.

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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. rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Business as usual is not working The report is unequivocal that human-caused climate change is affecting weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe, and is set to get worse without a major acceleration in policy action and drastically increased investment in climate solutions. of warming. of warming.

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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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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

DECEMBER 7, 2022

And faced with an energy crisis that shows no signs of abating it has rushed to sign off a wave of policies that Sunak was previously blamed for blocking or delaying. It wasn't billed as such, but last week was ‘climate week' for the government as Ministers delivered a flurry of new policies designed to accelerate climate action.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Together, these investors have pledged to reach net zero emissions by 2050, not just for their operations but across their entire asset portfolios, and help others do the same by identifying decarbonisation pathways for strategically key, high-carbon sectors. 2050 can seem a long way off - many of us will be retired," he reflects.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 25, 2020

According to a report by the European Parliament , continuing on the current trajectory with no intervention will lead the aviation industry to account for 22% of global CO2 emissions by 2050. Or will it always be seen as the bad boy for carbon emissions? But what’s standing in the way of the aviation industry?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I've been writing about the UK climate policy landscape for 15 years and I genuinely can't recall a reaction like it. 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.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

Markus Trilling, finance and subsidies policy coordinator at environmental coalition Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, therefore welcomed these crucial headlines from the EU Council's agreement. There were disappointments for the green economy in the EU Council deal, too.

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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

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 5, 2021

One of the many downsides of political tribalism is the myopia it induces. The big worry for the green economy and the net zero transition is that the myriad weaknesses and misjudgements of the past few months could have significant negative implications for the UK's climate agenda. It's no way to run a country.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

On Christmas Eve the UK and EU averted a damaging no-deal scenario, but the resulting trade deal still leaves many outstanding questions about the UK's environmental policy prospects unanswered. The Brexit rollercoaster ride that has defined modern British politics may have entered a lull, but it is far from over. Electric vehicles.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

Under the headline "Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap", the University of Exeter's James Dyke, the University of East Anglia's Robert Watson, and the University of Lund's Wolfgang Knorr condemned the "fantasy of net zero" and concluded "current net zero policies will not keep warming to within 1.5C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The report sets out around 50 core policy recommendations to government, backed by around 25 principles for governing the net zero transition, and contained within this framework are myriad lessons and learnings for the green economy, and indeed the climate movement as a whole. Don't be scared, be bold," he said.

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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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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 30, 2020

Ask most investors, fund managers, and bankers whether they have heard of Carbon Tracker, and you're likely to be met with a blank face. Under Mark Campanale's leadership, Carbon Tracker was the think tank which took the theory of a 'carbon bubble' into the mainstream. Carbon Tracker has not been working in isolation, of course.

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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 2, 2020

But it is hard not to feel a little buoyed by yesterday's encouraging findings from climate scientists and policy experts at the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) initiative, who have assessed the planet's potential global warming pathway should countries and world leaders deliver on the emissions reductiuon promises they have made to date.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Political pressure over biofuel requirements have escalated in recent months as profit margins for oil revenues have plummeted and the cost of biofuel credits (also known as RINs) have risen. Biofuels are also a relatively low-cost alternative to the high-energy density fuels needed in aviation and shipping. Source: Field et al.

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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. Some larger insurers are taking a stand, denying policies for new oil and gas facilities and other activities deemed to be harmful, as Munich-based Allianz has done.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To me, this was a particularly silly question, as I recently finished writing an article on the future of fossil fuels and oil prices were actually negative for the first time in human history. Even as our thirst for oil seems insatiable, it is becoming politically and environmentally toxic. O boy, was I triggered. million b/d in 1986.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Asset management giant hits back at 'disturbing' trend to prioritise politics over long-term returns for investors. The move marks the biggest divestment to date by a Republican-led state in protest at ESG policies. Fiduciaries should always value performance over politics.".

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy. Aviation soon became a business. According to Carbon Trackers , we are talking about a value of between 14-129 trillion dollars for fossil fuel assets alone and revenue streams of trillions of dollars annually.

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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. Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.

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