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Are carbon offsets the answer to the climate change crisis?

Business Green

If there is one issue that transcends all the different areas of modern journalism, then climate change is it. According to an independent study, commissioned by Clim8 Invest, climate change is the number one concern for 61 per cent of UK consumers. Taking action. Standard Life Aberdeen is one such business.

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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Those that can create artificial sinks with technological carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

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Lowercarbon Capital raises $350m to scale up carbon removal industry

Business Green

Plan to invest hundreds of millions in fledgeling carbon removal firms yet another sign of surging private sector interest in nascent sector. There has never been a better time to start a carbon removal company," Sacca wrote in a blog post. "So, The pace of progress in the science of carbon removal is blistering," he said.

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The problem with COP26

Low Impact

Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? The graph at the top shows the trajectory of global carbon emissions (and this is without the land-use figures), so no. The main problem is that the solutions generated will assume that no fundamental changes to the economy are required.

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How Patagonia helped save Europe's last wild river - and navigated a path for others to follow

Business Green

The company may be headquartered thousands of miles away in California, but it has been involved in the broader campaign to save the "blue heart of Europe" - the river and biodiversity rich Balkans - being led by a network of local NGOs for more than half a decade.

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It's not totally unlike a comet

Business Green

The IPCC report is genuinely terrifying and Russia's attack on Ukraine has revealed the complacency contained in suggestions worst case climate scenarios can be definitively ruled out - the only good news is that the world knows what needs to be done and has the tools to do it. We really did have everything, didn't we? billion and 3.6

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Climate Crisis, Global Warming, Carbon Neutral, Zero Waste: Meaningful Buzzwords or Passing Fads?

Green Business Bureau

We are entering socio-economic times of high risk and risk mitigation practices to mitigate the impact of human influenced climate change. The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Business is constantly changing to meet consumer demands.