GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

It might, for example, buy carbon offsets to kickstart action in the short term without delay, then move on to supporting initiatives that directly affect its operations, such as installing new technologies for energy efficiency or clean energy. How might Absolute Zero apply to your own strategy?

Carbon-negative 267

Carbon-negative Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Carbon 267

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

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Business Green

DECEMBER 26, 2022

At the COP15 Biodiversity Summit which ended last week, much focus was on the depletion of natural capital, the world's stock of natural assets. Corporate measures could also go some way to reversing the loss of biodiversity and address about 60 per cent of chemical and plastic pollution. Yet fatalism would be misplaced.

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Business Energy Monitoring Agriculture Plastics Biodiversity 36

Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Aldersgate Group's Signe Norberg reflects on how business and government can make the most of the Environmental Improvement Plan 2023 has already been a busy year for nature. As such, it is important the EIP provides a stable framework in which businesses can operate and unlock private investment.

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GreenTech Gazette

AUGUST 21, 2020

Sustainability is big business! But how much of this is investment in green innovation, and how much of it is marketing bluster. But which are the companies putting the effort in, and which are simply making a few strategic changes to their packaging? Image by Geralt via Pixabay. Clean Air / One Tree Planted. EcoLogic Studio.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Industry insiders have privately criticised the government for failing to fast track support for the nascent sector, noting how UK-based firms such as Shell and British Airways have in recent years invested in green fuel companies and projects in the US and Canada to bolster their access to SAF production capacity.

Building Energy Monitoring 72

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Small-scale growers, selling via farmer-focussed supply chains, are better able to deliver public goods due better calibrated supply and demand and to customer understanding of issues such as seasonality, waste and packaging avoidance and trade-offs between crop damage and agrochemical use.

Building Energy Monitoring 74

Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Energy Monitor Soil 74

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

Sustainability 518

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2023

Analysis of climate claims being made by major food and drink producers concludes that greenwashing has become a 'major business risk' for the sector Greenwashing is rife across food packaging and advertising, misleading consumers, undermining companies that are genuinely embracing sustainable practices, and putting investors at risk.

Carbon-neutral 36

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Energy-Efficient Homes One of the most impactful steps towards eco-friendly living in Canada is ensuring that your home is energy-efficient. Start by investing in proper insulation, energy-efficient windows, and doors to regulate indoor temperatures, reducing the need for excessive heating or cooling.

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Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Sustainability Energy Monitor 195

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Called Common Grounds, in honor of the idea that finding common ground is the basis for meaningful change, the program focuses on greening every step of the business cycle. Replanting and maintenance of the forest led to the current 7,100 acres held and monitored by OFS and the Menke family. OFS Images via OFS.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

It might, for example, buy carbon offsets to kickstart action in the short term without delay, then move on to supporting initiatives that directly affect its operations, such as installing new technologies for energy efficiency or clean energy. How might Absolute Zero apply to your own strategy?

Carbon-negative 56

Carbon-negative Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Carbon 56

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. Hence, certified B Corps often experience bottom-line benefits helping the business thrive. What is B Corp?

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 78

Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

By zero waste, we mean the conservation of all resources utilizing responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials. We calculated that this represents 5% of the estimated total global emissions for 2050 (based on business-as-usual models). Types of Waste In Your Business.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Here are some of the latest commitments, along with perspective on progress so far: Procure most electricity from renewable sources by 2025 and decrease energy usage by 15 percent. Decrease water usage by 20 percent at high-risk sites and 15 percent overall by 2025 (per metric ton of product made).

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Agriculture Building Energy Monitoring 28

Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

On top of that, the land plays host to much of the planet's biodiversity, providing incalculable benefits to humanity and the global economy, starting with the pollination that underpins the global food system. Essentially, without biodiversity, we would not exist, let alone develop". Cristiana Pa?ca

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Biodiversity Climate change Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 82

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Eco friendly retail packaging guide. In this Green Business Bureau eco friendly retail packaging guide, we explore sustainable packaging solutions for 6 of the most common types of packaging materials used. Retail packaging defined: The impact of packaging waste and the rise of the ethical consumer.

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Packaging Retail Innovation Sustainability 78

Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

But it also warns that with agriculture currently accounting for around 11 per cent of the UK's total greenhouse gas emissions, the UK's net zero emission goals cannot be achieved without significant new investment in more sustainable farming practices and technologies.

Government 36

Government Sustainability Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring 36

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Despite stated commitments to reduce antibiotic use in their operations, none of the major animal pharma companies has adequate policies for addressing AMR, according to a 2021 report from FAIRR, a UK-based research network that aims to raise investors’ awareness of business risks in the global food system. percent from 2021 to 2022.

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Building Energy Monitoring Medicine Health Agriculture 99

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

All the top reaction from leading business figures, politicians, campaigners and experts to Kwasi Kwarteng's first major fiscal statement as Chancellor. But the promise of streamlining the planning process may also offer a much-needed boost for major low carbon energy projects such as nuclear power plants and offshore wind farms.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2022

The UK now has a Critical Minerals Strategy , a document which sets out a broad vision for securing a steady and secure supply of minerals and metals needed to build the technologies that form the bedrock of a net zero economy, from electric vehicles to wind turbines. Reuse, recycling and energy efficiency. Diversifying supply chains.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As usual, it was another year of ups and downs for sustainable business. Two steps forward, one step back: the sustainable business cha-cha, as I've long described it. With good reason: The climate and biodiversity crises, combined with the social and economic equity crises, are providing momentum and incentives for staying the course.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 11, 2024

Consider this an important first, a base to build further disclosure mandates off of, and a harbinger of the increasing politicization of investing and climate.  In deals there’s $283m for electrolyzers across two deals, $16m for energy efficient processors, and $11m for DAC.    Thanks for reading!

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Comprising 130,000 hectares on the Kampala Peninsula, alongside another 20,000 hectares on nearby Padang Island to the north, RER was set up a decade ago to restore and protect an area of unique, biodiverse, peatland-rich rainforest that is twice the size of nearby Singapore which lies just over 100 miles eastward.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

SDG17's vision of a sustainable future driven by cross-border partnerships has been under siege for the past four years, but is a change coming in the way governments and businesses tackle global challenges? Meanwhile, a fightback is gathering momentum. The SDGs in general, and SDG17 in particular, are suddenly back in vogue.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

For the fourth year running the number of coal-fired power plants under development around the world declined steeply in 2019, as the CO2-intensive fossil energy source continued to face an increasingly chilly reception from many governments and investors won over by competition from low cost green energy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

All the green business news from around the world this week. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has this week approved a €1tr 'Climate Bank' plan that will see the bank drastically increase its support for low carbon infrastructure over the coming decade. EIB gives green light to 'Climate Bank' plan.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Solar Energy Monitor 63

Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. Our usage has jumped 62 per cent over the course of a few decades — up from 61.6 And can any drop in oil usage happen quickly enough? (5)

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