Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. Estonia, and Canada – and the UK–the world’s top importer of wood pellets for biomass energy.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECLAIMED LUMBER. RECYCLED PLASTIC.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

During the second day of Explore 2021, our customers shared how they are enabling global transparency and supporting critical sustainability research. Our science track demonstrated the robust research applications for Planet’s datasets, highlighting key findings in climate change and carbon farming initiatives. General John E.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

But now is not the time to take your foot off the accelerator on sustainability ambitions.". The wildlife-borne pandemic was testament to the need to protect the delicate balance between humans and planet, Microsoft said, and it was time to bolster its headline-grabbing carbon reduction programme with other climate priorities.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The biggest national-level news of the week came out of the United Nations General Assembly, where Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that the country aims to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. Amazon signs more Climate Pledgers, curates sustainable products shopping site. Criteria for accountability .

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

Despite positive steps towards a sustainable COVID-19 recovery from a few leading nations, the world has so far fallen short of matching aspirations to build back better," said Brian O'Callahan, lead researcher at the Oxford University Economic Recovery project. billion has been spent on low-carbon transport, $28.9 Meanwhile, $86.1

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Following the investigation, the company issued a statement expressing confidence that its “biomass is sustainable and legally harvested.” The wood pellets Drax produces are treated as “carbon neutral” under international accounting rules, based on an assumption that new-growth trees will capture the carbon lost by wood burnt for electricity.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Arbitrary Targets Are Not The Solution’.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Analysis of the government’s latest transparency data shows ministers at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) held 130 one-on-one meetings with energy producers between July 22 2019 and March 18 2021, of which nearly half (63) were with producers of high carbon energy. Drax Access.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

As the quest for sustainable energy intensifies, biomass emerges as a pivotal player in the arena of renewable resources. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Apple has launched a "first-of-its-kind" $200m forestry fund aimed at removing "at least" one million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, promising to scale and support projects that sequester CO2, improve biodiversity and adhere to "strict environmental and social standards".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Since then, leading industry associations and agrochemical companies have used their lobbying might to push back against core European measures aiming to lead the transition to a more sustainable way of farming. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. Credit: Pixabay.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Fewer than six out of 400 companies surveyed in 2020 legal filings said there was a potential pandemic problem, Rodney Irwin, managing director of redefining value at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, said during GreenBiz 21. Consider compliance. The risks of not sharing. The power of metaphor.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2021

The potential of nature-based solutions - actions that protect, restore and sustainably manage natural ecosystems - to help combat the climate crisis is now widely recognised. This follows analysis last year by The Nature Conservancy and others that found the biodiversity financing gap is roughly $711bn per year.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 11, 2021

The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review , continues to get a lot of climate press coverage, but not that I have noticed within the built environment sector. The UK is to set up green finance hubs in Leeds and London , as part of efforts to encourage lenders and insurers to invest in renewable energy and sustainable industry.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Fresh analysis warns plans for UK's largest BECCS facility in North Yorkshire could prove more expensive for billpayers than Hinkley Point C, but developer Drax rejects calculations and insists carbon capture technology is likely to prove a crucial component of the net zero transition.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Sustainability as the foundation of value creation and route to survival leads to different thinking in business, explains Forum for the Future's Caroline Ashley. But right now, as explored in our latest Future of Sustainability report , we're seeing them all around us along with compelling signals of change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Joshua Tosteson, COO of climate conservation marketing company Everland, offers a defense of REDD+ carbon offsets. The recently-released United Nations Global Biodiversity Outlook opens with these words: "Humanity stands at a crossroads with regard to the legacy it leaves to future generations.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Simply exploiting a market opportunity does not count as sustainability ambition - businesses need to turn the dial further, writes Forum for the Future's Caroline Ashley. Who has the most ambitious sustainability strategy? By the percentage reduction in carbon emissions committed and the deadline set?

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

In his response to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres noted that, “Had we been further advanced in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, we could better face this challenge.” ” Background on Earth Day. Earth Day in 2020.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land. Too many companies and governments are hiding behind the smokescreen of net zero to continue dirty business-as-usual activities," he said. "Too

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

🔑 Climate tech startups hit key milestones - including but not limited to - Fervo’s FOAK enhanced geothermal project operational in Nevada, Brimstone’s third-party approval of its carbon-negative cement, and Heirloom’s first commercial DAC plant. 

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers Holly Secon Mon, 12/28/2020 – 01:30 At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. READ THE FULL STORY: 8 electric truck and van companies to watch in 2020.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Many schools including the schools on this list have demonstrated that they are both resourcefulness innovative in their efforts to achieve their sustainability objectives. Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. The university boasts a robust branch of Engineers for a Sustainable World.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The new Air Quality Positive (AQP) and Air Quality Neutral (AQN) planning guidance requires developers to mitigate avoidable sources of emissions and make an "active contribution to improving air quality" throughout new developments. I have made it a top priority as Mayor to tackle London's air pollution and the climate crisis," Khan said.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces. All of these corporate efforts, on paper at least, promise to both conserve nature and capture millions of tonnes of CO2.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

Neither a sustainable public health system nor a sustainable human civilization should be built on risk blindspots. The rapid loss of biodiversity has led an increasing number of pathogens to infect humans as intermediate hosts. Opportunities from a zero carbon economy. Climate in crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Its researchers proudly brandished a 96-page “synthesis” of its World Resources Report: Creating A Sustainable Food Future. The CFS, Herren’s institute, has by the way recently published its own report into how to feed the world sustainably. . The same group behind Impossible’s own LCA conducted the report.). “

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Companies accelerated the route to sustainable mobility The rise of electric vehicles has been a perennial story for nearly a decade, but 2020 saw the pace of change accelerate. Sustainable fashion became material Fashion is another long-simmering environmental story that has finally reached a boiling point. And that remains a problem.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

CEO Kevin Johnson outlines major new sustainability strategy for the coffee giant, promising tough environmental targets will 'create greater value for all stakeholders'. Today, more than ever, the world needs leadership in environmental sustainability," said Johnson. "We It seems Microsoft was just the start of a trend.

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