Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Floating turbines, Amsterdam's ban on fossil fuel advertising, American fridges, and all the green business stories from around the world this week. First domestic route in Denmark to use sustainable aviation fuel. France unveils plans for landmark floating offshore wind project.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

But that truism does not give policymakers licence to shelve the most pressing issue of our time - namely the work to ensure we face up to the implications and challenges of climate change. The potential human cost of climate change, above all else, should be enough to drive action. This isn't and can't be a binary issue.

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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.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Biden's goes big on low carbon aviation fuels, Kim Jong-Un calls for climate action, and NewsCorp Australia mulls a move away from climate denial. World's richest university divests from fossil fuels. Reports: Rupert Murdoch tweaks his climate position in Australia.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2021

In related news, the this week White House unveiled an additional $3bn of funding to help states bolster their resilience to escalating climate impacts. This funding will also help to ensure the advancement of equity in all communities, especially those that are disproportionately at risk from climate change impacts.".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a systemic conflict of interest at a time when the international financial sector is under increasing pressure to stop funding fossil fuels. DeSmog’s analysis found 65 percent of directors from 39 banks had 940 past or current connections to industries that could be considered climate-conflicted.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 14, 2020

From the head of the International Energy Agency who said recently that “governments have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot their economies… while accelerating the shift to a more resilient and cleaner energy future.” Over the first four months of 2020, clean energy stocks actually grew 2.2%, while fossil fuel stocks fell by 40.5%.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 18, 2022

The bill has been championed as a “climate change bill”, but it also allocates hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade to several programs designed to reduce inflation. 5 billion in grants to support fire resilient forests, forest conservation, and urban tree planting. Fossil Fuel Provisions.

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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.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The compronmise agreement sees the Greens back Labour's proposals for a 'Safeguard Mechanism', which promises to regulate emissions from Australia's 215 biggest polluting coal and gas facilities without outright banning new fossil fuel projects.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Changing Climate Change Beliefs This month, we’re highlighting big climate policy news in Illinois, how the battery materials supply chain is evolving, why sustainable aviation fuels may be a Goldilocks solution, and changing beliefs on climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Sustainable aviation fuels. Change is also happening in the skies above. This February, British Airways announced it will begin operating a number of flights partly powered by sustainable fuels as early as 2022. Meanwhile, the global crisis of climate change is accelerating.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2021

At G20 meeting in Venice, finance ministers conclude that climate pricing is among raft of tools that can be deployed to tackle climate change. They also reiterated their commitment to rationalising and phasing out "inefficient" fossil fuel subsidies that promote wasteful consumption.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. The time is now to flatten the climate change curve.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The Committee on Climate Change has today set out its detailed green recovery recommendations – here is BusinessGreen's need-to-know guide. This wasn't quite the year that we ordered," noted Committee on Climate Change CEO, Chris Stark, yesterday. The big question now is whether the government will accept the need to act.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen today declared that "the fossil fuel economy has reached its limits", as she unveiled a sweeping new policy package designed to accelerate decarbonisation efforts across the bloc and mobilise billions of Euros of investment in green infrastructure.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2020

Furthermore, in the context of COVID-19, more members urge retrofitting existing housing stock than any other action for a resilient recovery, probably for the same reasons it's finding favour with ministers. And there will always be concerns about displacing jobs in incumbent fossil fuel-based parts of the economy.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2020

In a letter sent to Boris Johnson today, more than 50 UK charities warn that preventing the worst impacts of climate change is contingent on a green recovery to the coronavirus crisis. Steele estimated that a green recovery could support "at least 210,000 jobs" and generate £90bn a year for the UK economy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

“Even so, a tripling of delegates is alarming – it drives home the urgent need for reforms that limit corporate influence at UN climate meetings.” Farmers, retailers, and processors also drive greenhouse gas emissions by clearing trees, using fossil-fuel derived synthetic fertilisers and in packing transport, packaging and storage.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

It’s not often that we have a chance to savor a history-making win on the climate change front. The $370B in climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act — the biggest climate bill ever passed — provides such a moment. airports can accommodate electrified aviation. CarbonCure ). .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation. Major food and farming corporations will be seeking to steer conversations in Dubai via an influential coalition: the AIM for Climate (Aim4C) initiative.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

Calls for sanctions on Russia to be extended to cover fossil fuel imports intensified further this afternoon, as a coalition of 25 European NGOs issued a public appeal for a full embargo on Russian oil and gas imports. Ending our oil addiction is not just a moral imperative to address climate change, it is crucial to ending this war.".

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Low Impact

AUGUST 30, 2020

This is part 2 of a conversation with Julia Steinberger, professor of ecological economics at the University of Leeds and a member of the intergovernmental panel on climate change – the IPCC. The global economy is currently too big, and too much of it is tied up in things that require fossil fuels and material resources.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2021

This pandemic highlighted the need for resilient infrastructure and industries that can withstand economic and natural shocks. The aviation industry suffered the steepest decline since its creation with passenger numbers decreasing by 51%. Basic tenets of SDG 9: Build resilient infrastructure. Foster innovation. SDG 9 Targets.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

One Nation Conservatives group of more than 100 MPs call for 2030 fossil fuel car ban, carbon tax and tree planting funding.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Endorsed by governments over the weekend, the report's 'summary for policymakers' cover text is a critical resource for business leaders and investors looking to bolster near-term resilience and boost long-term profitability amidst an ever-worsening climate crisis. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We’re grateful to partner with this latest group of innovators and, with a portfolio that’s now 117 companies strong, work together to commercialize an abundance of solutions to reverse climate change — starting today. “These are technologies that are primed for deployment and growth. Evrnu | DEMONSTRATION TRACK.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Almost every challenge governments are struggling to get a grip on has a climate angle. All these issues are either caused or exacerbated by our reliance on fossil fuels and the climate impacts that result. Climate change then becomes the economy's way of overcompensating for its rampant insecurity.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Meanwhile, young people in Portugal take 32 nations to court over inaction on climate change. Shell faces internal pressure on low-carbon business commitments, and the White House releases a National Climate Resilience Framework for the US. It is the largest global climate legal action in history.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Barbados' Mia Mottley committed to making the country fossil-fuel free and carbon neutral by 2030. "By Fossil fuel financing is the next big benchmark. Net zero targets are, of course, only useful if they rapidly shift investment flows away from fossil fuels and towards clean technology alternatives.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

During the last global economic crisis in 2008 emissions dropped in the immediate term, but stimulus packages largely failed to take climate change into account and global emissions quickly grew again throughout much of the 2010s despite increased investment in low carbon infrastructure.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2022

All the top reaction from green businesses, politicians, experts and campaigners to the Climate Change Committee's first assessment of progress on the government's Net Zero Strategy. The Glasgow Climate Pact has focused the eyes of the world on bolstering action, including getting 190 countries to agree to phasing out coal.".

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

Analysts are increasingly confident prices in both the UK's and EU's cap and trade systems could hit €100 per tonne by the end of the decade, which would render many unabated fossil fuel-based industries and processes economically unviable.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We are all well aware the ongoing need for extra caution, cooperation and resilience in the face of this global crisis. But it's vital we don't lose sight of long-term climate and energy challenges and the vital sustainability targets that must solve them. There is still a long way to go, but progress so far has been steady.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

The government went one step further and in April, set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law: to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed. However, while a lot has changed, not much has changed.

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