Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

A fresh analysis of 48 countries representing 90 per cent of the world's economy released yesterday by the insurance giant forecasts that based on current trajectories climate change will result in significant negative economic impacts by 2050, with Asian economies set to be the hardest hit by the worsening effects of rising temperatures.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

The acquisition enhances a global renewables portfolio worth over £3bn, which has seen Octopus Renewables establish itself as one of the leading investors in solar power in Europe, as well as a significant player in onshore wind and biomass.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Advocates of this approach reckon it would help catalyse investments in clean technologies and ensure investors are more cognisant of the complex and escalating risks associated with high carbon assets. An alternative approach could include setting minimum mandatory climate standards for ESG products, requiring banks to adopt 1.5C

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

The analysis, which looked at more than 3,500 fiscal policies across the world's 50 largest economies, finds that just 2.5 per cent of all Covid-induced spending to date had "positive green characteristics". Humanity is facing a pandemic, an economic crisis and an ecological breakdown - we cannot afford to lose on any front," she said.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report from the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) argues that contrary to popular opinion the CCUS sector already comprises a "vast portfolio of existing technologies that are economically viable".

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

The case for action is clear and many businesses, investors and policy makers are asking big questions in search of the best solutions, such as: Should we be growing insects to feed animals instead of importing soy linked to deforestation? There is noticeable improvement in biodiversity, soil health and rebalancing of ecosystems.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2020

Forest dynamics being disrupted like this spells trouble for ecosystem equilibrium and biodiversity. While natural disturbances — flooding , landslides, insect infestations, fungi, vine overgrowth, disease, wildfire and even wind damage — negatively impact forests , they do not compare with the magnitude of harm humans have precipitated.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

Do you regret the failures of the past decade to deliver policies that would have kept the UK on track to meet its emissions targets? What would be your message to the businesses currently planning to ramp up investment in job-creating and cost competitive low carbon projects to help deliver on the UK's net zero targets?

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

In recent years, leading green groups have branded the 21st century drive to ramp up the use of biofuels in transport - set in motion by late 2000s-era EU and US renewable fuels targets - as a " fiasco ", a " scandal " and " Europe's dumbest climate policy ". Regulatory and industry momentum. The remaining 1.2

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe.

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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. These companies are stepping up their game because the exposure they are facing is stepping up,” says Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. As recently as April, 2021, Uniper, then one of Europe’s biggest buyers of Russian gas, was forced to shelve the latest attempt to open an LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven, citing a lack of demand.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

As many commentators have noted, there is no silver bullet for tackling carbon emissions. So it stands to reason that, focusing decarbonisation efforts on just a handful of these carbon intensive sectors could make an outsized impact to the global transition to net zero.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

The analysis, which looked at more than 3,500 fiscal policies across the world’s 50 largest economies, finds that just 2.5 billion has been spent on low-carbon transport, $28.9 percent of all COVID-induced spending to date had “positive green characteristics.” billion focused on renewables and $18.5 Meanwhile, $86.1

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Moreover, more than half of respondents to the Savanta ComRes survey claimed to be aware that the current food system had negative impacts on climate change, air, water and soil pollution, and that it can drive destructive land-use changes such as deforestation. It has been getting easier.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

The fast food chain, alongside a number packaging producers and trade associations, wrote to European policymakers at the end of April, demanding a pause to the legislation, which would champion reusable packaging in Europe. But policies encouraging reuse, she says, will require “systemic change”.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions. Currently, carbon emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation (often referred to as land-use change) are offset, in part, by new reforestation and regrowth.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

Even before Covid-19, 2020 was already a big year for the tech giant and its environment lead, who spoke to BusinessGreen from his home office in mid-April as coronavirus shutdowns snowballed across North America and Europe. So, with biodiversity and carbon completed, plans for water and waste are on their way next. "But

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Overall, it was more positives than negatives. Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Sydney.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

Known as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the legislation contains a vast number of proposals relating to the economy, while also setting out hundreds of billions of dollars of investments aimed at promoting clean energy and reducing carbon emissions. It is also more effective, legitimate and sustainable.".

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