Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As industry is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change and is entirely dependent on the earth’s resources for production, it is important for business leaders and employees to understand the Anthropocene, its implications, and what it means for the future of sustainability and industry. . The Holocene. The Anthropocene.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But it is also a handbook for how businesses, governments, and investors can work together to avert the worst case scenarios faced by civilisation, setting out the levers that need to be pulled to secure a more liveable and prosperous future for humanity. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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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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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Governments approve landmark report that warns window for action is fast closing to avoid catastrophic climate change, but affordable technologies exist across every sector to slash emissions this decade. temporarily, before hopefully stabilising back below that threshold by 2100 as negative emissions projects scale up, the report stresses.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

That is the stark consensus of the world's leading climate scientists in a landmark UN report today, which offers the clearest picture yet of both the scale of global warming already being experienced and the likely impacts of further temperature rises that are set to play out over the coming decades.

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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. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit. billion and 3.6

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

To no one's surprise that was the conclusion of the CCC's latest assessment today , a 1,500-page review, which sets out the stark and inevitable impacts from climate change that the UK is already facing, and does not hold back in criticising the government for its failure to take these threats seriously in its policymaking and public messaging.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. While Labour has a bold climate investment pledge of £28bn extra each and every year to 2030, the government offers a tiny fraction of that.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. It is incumbent upon all of us to alter our lifestyles to address this threat, and it is the responsibility of every government to do everything they can to reverse this trend, in spite of the temporary but necessary cost to quality of life.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Yet as the global economy emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions are on the rise once again, presenting a monumental challenge over the next eight years if the world is to keep to the 1.5C global warming target countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement on the table.

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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

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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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. The public and private sector must work together to ensure a just and rapid transformation to a net zero global economy. window shutting.".

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Due to the significant extra cost, governments should provide financial support for biofuels , so that aviation industry growth is not affected. The cultivation of energy crops in large monoculture fields increases the use of fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides; with devastating environmental, biodiversity and health impacts.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The document should serve as a clarion call for businessses, governments, and investors to get behind the net zero transition, with its headline warning that the Paris Agreement's 1.5C To stabilise global temperature rise at 1.5C Don't have time to read the whole document? The science.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Awareness of environmental, social and governance issues reached new levels around COP26 in Glasgow, and more corporations are clamouring to share their good environmental intentions lately, including net zero goals. However, this tipping point is a negative one, Polman at the GreenBiz 22 event in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Tuesday.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Plastic pollution increasingly contributes to the climate and biodiversity crisis, so the cost of inaction increases basically year by year due to negative health, social and also economic impacts," he added. It's really about designing a roadmap for governments to embark on the journey wherever they are currently.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Republican attacks on investment firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies kicked up a gear this week, after Florida's chief financial officer announced on Thursday the state would pull up to $2bn worth of its assets from funds managed by BlackRock. Florida Republicans ramp up attacks on investment firms' ESG strategies.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To me, this was a particularly silly question, as I recently finished writing an article on the future of fossil fuels and oil prices were actually negative for the first time in human history. The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that if governments continue with current policies, global demand will reach 121 million b/d by 2040.

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