GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

That's despite this being the second pandemic in 10 years, the fourth respiratory illness in 18 years, and numerous warnings from the World Health Organization, he added at the February virtual event. Let's stop predicting the future because we've proven we're incapable of doing it," Irwin said. The risks of not sharing.

Resilience 465

Resilience Climate change Carbon-negative Blockchain 465

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

C limate projections for the UK suggest that rainfall will increase in winter and decrease in summer, and that individual rainfall events may increase in intensity, especially in winter. NFM provides protection for smaller flood events, reduces peak flooding and delays the arrival of the flood peak downstream. NFM benefits.

Energy Monitor 205

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Soil 205

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. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

Agriculture 144

Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 144

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

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. The EU Targets Ignore Science’.

Europe 96

Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 96

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. They have sent MEPs a version marked with their corrections. non-profit tracking biomass, who authored the comments, told DeSmog.

Law 87

Law Europe Carbon-negative Biodiversity 87

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.

Carbon-negative 57

Carbon-negative Government Carbon Technology 57

Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Both enter 2022 on an upward, even hockey-stick growth trajectory, in large part the result of events and commitments that have taken place since the pandemic began in early 2020. Volvo and Mercedes , for example, both embraced low-carbon steel in building vehicles. Nature and biodiversity met the bottom line.

Sustainability 88

Sustainability Aviation Biodiversity Carbon-negative 88

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.

Biodiversity 36

Biodiversity Government Carbon-negative Investment 36

Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Academics from universities and research institutions across the UK have teamed up with energy and water companies, governments, science centres, and nature charities on a scheme that aims to tap the latest social science research to better drive the behaviour changes required to deliver a low carbon economy.

Biodiversity 36

Biodiversity Carbon-negative Government Investment 36

Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Incremental improvements to production efficiency will not be enough to turn the tide on biodiversity loss. Many of the risks related to fats and oils, such as human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor working conditions, are recurring features of agricultural commodity supply chains.

Biodiversity 48

Biodiversity Agriculture Carbon-negative Health 48

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

Demand 71

Demand Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Carbon 71

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. 

Business Energy Monitoring 72

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 72

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.

Biodiversity 38

Biodiversity Carbon-negative Government Agriculture 38

Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action - from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" - are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts. Offsetting versus insetting.

Carbon-negative 50

Carbon-negative Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Carbon 50

Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

The rapid loss of biodiversity has led an increasing number of pathogens to infect humans as intermediate hosts. And the negative impact of climate change on habitat and diversity are far more profound than that caused by the wildlife trade. Opportunities from a zero carbon economy. Ecological diversity has been destroyed.

Climate change 78

Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Carbon 78

Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Just two weeks ago, the Prime Minister told the UN General Assembly that the world could not afford to "dither and delay" on tackling biodiversity loss, yet yesterday marked 200 days since the government's landmark Environment Bill was last seen in parliament. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

Policy 55

Policy Carbon-negative Government Carbon 55

Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The most important biodiversity conference in a generation is kicking off this week, with negotiating teams from around the world convening on Montreal, Canada to hammer out the terms of a new global pact for nature. As such the expectations for the COP15 Biodiversity Summit are high, fuelled by the extra-long lead up to the talks.

Biodiversity 38

Biodiversity COP Carbon-negative Government 38

Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. Or this: "Children aged 10 or younger in the year 2020 are projected to experience a nearly four-fold increase in extreme events under 1.5C

Global warming 101

Global warming Climate change Resilience South America 101

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This includes measures that work to reduce an entity’s carbon footprint , effectively manage waste , prevent pollution and conserve resources. In addition, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2022, the top risks facing our economy are climate action failure , extreme weather , and biodiversity loss.

Organic 78

Organic Ethics Government Sustainability 78

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Greentown Labs is already working closely with the City of Houston to support the goals outlined in its first-ever Climate Action Plan , which includes a commitment of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. Greentown Labs will also host a celebratory EnergyBar networking event on Sept. 22 at 10 a.m. CT / 11 a.m. 24 at 4 p.m. CT / 5 p.m.

Incubators 98

Incubators Incubators Innovation Startups 98

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But the solutions are there On the other hand, the report stresses there is still time to deliver a low-carbon, sustainable economy where climate-resilient development becomes the norm. And the private sector is playing a starring role in this collective failure, as the actors that make the real economy work.

Climate change 36

Climate change Carbon-negative Global warming Resilience 36

Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. Energy for Humanity organised a series of events. What would change? What would the effect be?

Carbon-neutral 95

Carbon-neutral Climate change Nuclear Power Carbon-negative 95

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. The Holocene. The Anthropocene. The next question when determining if we have entered the Anthropocene is determining when it began.

Resilience 78

Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. Humanity’s destruction of biodiversity fosters the conditions for emerging diseases such as COVID-19. Eastman is one of the largest U.S. Media Source.

Sustainability 539

Sustainability Plastics Agriculture Carbon-negative 539

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

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. Drax already operates 18 wood pellet plants across the U.S. But scientists and campaigners have long disputed these claims.

Logging 132

Logging Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Health 132

Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

Nick Mabey, chief executive of E3G, said: "Ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, this Budget was a missed opportunity by failing to set out an unequivocal direction of travel towards a green, zero carbon future. The Chancellor has dropped the green recovery ball before the try line.".

Building Energy Monitoring 62

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative Home Energy Monitoring 62

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

A large donation to the Labour Party from wood-burning giant Drax has raised concerns among campaigners over the sway of big carbon emitters over Parliament. The company has sponsored major events at both Conservative and Labour Party conferences. Labour has declined to comment on receipt of the donation.

Pollution 95

Pollution Fossil fuels Politics Carbon-negative 95

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Due to ongoing melting of glaciers and polar ice sheets, sea levels are likely to rise by an average of 28-55cm by 2100 and potentially 76cm by 2150, even under a scenario which sees the world slash emissions to net zero by the middle of the current century, followed by shifts towards net negative emissions thereafter.

Sea level rise 77

Sea level rise Ocean acidification Climate change Global warming 77

Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Meanwhile, the advance of low carbon alternatives to the hydrocarbon-driven economy has been far too slow to meet that challenge. And I think the same argument would hold for other goals like reversing the decline of biodiversity and trying to become so-called 'nature positive' by 2030.

Policy 36

Policy Carbon-negative Climate change Technology 36

Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It is critical we get the financiers and businesses to really become a key element of [resource mobilisation for nature], partly because a lot of our nature-based solutions will achieve biodiversity, as well as reduce emissions," she said. The first is to urgently accelerate the transition to nature positive and net zero economies," she said.

Biodiversity 43

Biodiversity Agriculture Government Carbon-negative 43

AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

That’s despite this being the second pandemic in 10 years, the fourth respiratory illness in 18 years, and numerous warnings from the World Health Organization, he added at the February virtual event. “Let’s stop predicting the future because we’ve proven we’re incapable of doing it,” Irwin said.

Resilience 28

Resilience Climate change Carbon-negative Blockchain 28

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

Our future requires and depends on constant change and a new way of thinking, everything we do or design will have an impact, both positive and negative, and our goal is to enable the transition to continuous positive experiences across all sectors of society. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5

Global warming 99

Global warming Carbon-neutral Waste Waste 99

Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

However, this tipping point is a negative one, Polman at the GreenBiz 22 event in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Tuesday. Companies seeking to reach net zero carbon by, say, 2050 or 2060 avoid fulfilling their obligations to eliminate the root causes of their emissions by emphasising solutions such as carbon capture and storage, Polman added.

Carbon-negative 41

Carbon-negative Plastics Recycling Recycling 41

Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

But too often the Treasury's environmental pledges have felt like a bolt-on to the main event. Meanwhile, those policy measures that have been announced have delivered tangible results, driving down UK emissions faster than any other G20 economy. Hopes were running high that yesterday would be a little different.

Policy 58

Policy Carbon-negative Packaging Government 58

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree I am asking corporate leaders to support a minimum international carbon price and align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement. This summer, we have already seen the extreme weather events caused by a heating world. We need immediate action on energy.

Sea level rise 77

Sea level rise Climate change Fossil fuels Government 77

DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

By 2040, the latter is expected to double in Europe, and to account for almost a fifth of the global carbon budget worldwide. They added that, “while reusable packaging may be one of many potential solutions to explore further, we are concerned about the potential negative environmental consequences.”

Packaging 98

Packaging Law Europe Waste 98