DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Department for Transport revs up automotive transportation plans and unveils new EV charge point concept, as governments prepare wave of new initiatives to tackle auto, aviation, and shipping emissions. Similarly, new initiatives are to be launched to tackle aviation and shipping emissions. million to 5.3

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The global chemicals industry has a huge opportunity to transform itself from a major polluter into a "planet-positive force" that could drive decarbonisation across the wider economy over the coming decades, while doubling in size and creating 29 million new jobs in the process.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Hopes will also be high that ministers and civil servants on Whitehall are now digesting the report's many recommendations ahead of the Treasury's hotly-anticipated economic stimulus package, which is expected to emerge early next month. Covid-19 climate impacts have been huge, but may not last.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Fossil fuel companies, which have promoted hydrogen as a catch-all solution to climate change, rank among the top spenders and outnumber clients from every industry, including the renewable energy sector, the analysis shows. That is an extremely lucrative place for the fossil fuel industry to be,” she said. “If

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

Companies also struggle with long approval and procurement windows and the need to compete with inefficient and outdated fossil fuel subsidies. Additionally, in the climate technology space, many companies are building B2B (business to business) solutions to upgrade outdated or heavy-polluting systems.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Readers also sought glimmers of hope in this year; you were drawn to stories about COVID-19’s positive impact on air pollution and what the sustainability field can do to be more actively anti-racist and pro-diversity. In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

To prevent the most devastating effects of climate change, it’s essential to cut greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out fossil fuel use. I think that building a monument to climate change in the form of some temple that memorializes humanity’s past sins of polluting would be really poignant,” said Meissner.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

What's in the energy support package, and who is going to pay for it? A sweeping support package has been promised, potentially worth up to £100bn, but what will be in it and why were these proposals such a closely guarded secret throughout the leadership campaign? What will you do about all the sewage?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A slew of initiatives designed to accelerate the electric vehicle (EVs) transition in emerging and developing markets has been launched this morning by the UK, as fresh figures have highlighted the transition away from polluting cars and trucks is occurring at drastically different rates around the world.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The Strategy was also criticised for failing to provide sufficient detail on how the government planned to tackle emissions from certain sectors, such as farming and land use and aviation. What would happen if we moved it to 2060 or 2070? We're not going to be here. Let's be realistic.".

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

We can invest in fossil fuels, whose markets are volatile and whose emissions lead to lethal air pollution. Guterres cited new research on G20 recovery packages released this week that shows that twice as much recovery money has been spent on fossil fuels as clean energy.

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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. Amsterdam bans fossil fuel advertising on subway system.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

But players across the green economy were quick to point out the government's package of policies and tax changes was notably bereft of focus on three other critical 'E's that are planks of a prosperous economy: environment, energy, and efficiency.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

Analysis of the shipping impact of major US retailers finds 15 companies are responsible for as much sulphur oxide, nitrous oxide, and particulate matter pollution as tens of millions of vehicles. All 50,000 of the merchant vessels on the seas today are powered by fossil fuels, making the sector responsible for between 2.5

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2022

These solutions reduce waste, business emissions, and pollution, ultimately reducing the ecological footprint of an entity. Bakeries are energy-intensive and create excessive amounts of waste during the packaging and baking processes. billion tonnes of CO 2e annually (which is 19x the commercial aviation industry).

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

This is the largest climate funding package Congress has ever passed. airports can accommodate electrified aviation. States and cities can continue to raise ambition and fill this void, but we need a national north star of climate and equity targets to ensure major funding packages like this drive toward impact over time.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

More than a year after the pandemic began to wreak havoc on the global economy, the majority of recovery policies and packages unveiled by governments have failed to drive sustainable development and enhance protection for nature.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Green Deal fiasco and Boris Johnson's repeated failure to deliver on his promise of a 'Rooseveltian' green stimulus package represented huge-missed opportunities. Fossil fuels should be phased OUT - not up.". And in the end all it had to offer was the brief revival of an extractive, polluting, and declining industry.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

When UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for a ‘quantum leap in ambition' to tackle the ever-worsening climate emergency, we needed a bold and visionary package to meet the scale of the climate emergency we face - yet the Government barely moves an inch.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

According to some research, from production to disposal, it is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the aviation industry. This pollution problem is made worse, experts say, by the fact that even the small share of plastic that does get recycled is destined to end up, sooner or later, in the trash heap.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

The costs for such a refinery would be in the billions, with fuel prices ranging from €900 to €3,000 per metric ton. Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe. Download Hydrogen Cost Tool.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? We however are not interested in replacing all fuels. You have to start somewhere.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Readers also sought glimmers of hope in this year; you were drawn to stories about COVID-19’s positive impact on air pollution and what the sustainability field can do to be more actively anti-racist and pro-diversity. In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste.

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Sustainability Plastics Climate change Agriculture 28

Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

When you think of the biggest contributors to climate change, it is sectors such as oil and gas, mining, aviation, and chemicals that tend to come to mind. The material is already being used in packaging, says Borst, but it is trickier to create fibres that can be used in clothing. Not T-shirts and handbags.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2020

New Energy Policy Tracker reveals support for fossil fuel industries has outstripped support for clean energy across the G20, but is there time to change course? Meanwhile, economies that had already begun a transition to clean energy are now using stimulus and recovery packages to make this happen even faster.". So does the EU.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act last year, a decades-long effort to get a major climate package through Congress is over. The fuel has the potential to replace oil, gas, and coal in a range of applications, from aviation to industrial processes like steelmaking and chemical manufacturing. About 60 percent of U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

Now the coronavirus crisis has ensured the decade will start with a sharp reduction in annual emissions, but the question as to whether emissions will now rebound or begin a sustained decline rests to a huge degree on the decisions governments make as they mobilise their imminent economic stimulus packages.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

All these issues are either caused or exacerbated by our reliance on fossil fuels and the climate impacts that result. The entire global economy is made inherently unstable by its reliance on fuels where the price can be manipulated and the polluting externalities are not accounted for. It just is.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2020

As such, aviation emissions — which accounted for 2.4% The decrease in congestion is critical, as idling vehicles emit more pollution. What’s happening with fossil fuels during the pandemic? When the pandemic called for lockdowns, paralyzing both air and ground travel, the demand for fuel was likewise decimated.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Fundamentals of Circular Packaging (Workshop): An increase in consumer awareness, corporate engagement and regulatory action has led more companies to set ambitious goals to reduce and reimagine their use of plastics and packaging. But more chemicals generally means more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

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. One study found that fossil-fuel financing from the world's 60 largest banks reached nearly $4.6tr in the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 18, 2022

Grants to Reduce Air Pollution at Ports, funded at $3 billion, support the purchase and installation of zero-emission equipment and technology at ports. $1 Tax credits and grants to support the domestic production of biofuels, and to build the infrastructure needed for sustainable aviation fuel and other biofuels.

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Grist

AUGUST 13, 2021

Senate and hailed by Joe Biden as a key tool to tackle the climate crisis includes billions of dollars to support a supposedly clean fuel that is potentially even more polluting than coal, new research has found. But others are more upbeat about the use of hydrogen to help lower emissions in some stubbornly polluting sectors.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

However, the conference also delivered encouraging signs that some governments are responding to growing calls for them to strengthen their climate action plans and deliver green economic recovery packages.

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