Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

Just three months of the outbreak have left almost all countries in the world facing social isolation, economic recession, unemployment surge and panic; presenting world leaders with the unenviable dilemma of saving lives or saving the economy. Opportunities from a zero carbon economy. Ecological diversity has been destroyed.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. R oughly 45 percent of all global flights meet this standard — presenting a massive opportunity. . Media Source.

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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.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

temporarily, before hopefully stabilising back below that threshold by 2100 as negative emissions projects scale up, the report stresses. We know that a net zero economy presents huge opportunities for growth and the creation of good green jobs and so countries and companies need to accelerate that transition," he added.

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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 Meanwhile, the advance of low carbon alternatives to the hydrocarbon-driven economy has been far too slow to meet that challenge. "For

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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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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

3 the promise of hydrogen flight ; and this one is about the promise of biofuels. Aviation does not rule out the use of first generation biofuels from crops , which are proven to cause very serious environmental and social impacts such as biodiversity loss, rising food prices and water scarcity. 2, electric flight ; no.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future. On balance, this presents more good news than bad, but this development will prove highly disruptive as even fewer young people will finance the pensions of the retired.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. R oughly 45 percent of all global flights meet this standard — presenting a massive opportunity.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Students and staff garnered national media attention for creating five-minute presentations—modeled after the popular TED talks—on hot buttons like climate communication and environmental racism.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Third, assembly members gave strong support for businesses to make low carbon products that use less energy and materials.". There was strong support for hydrogen, heat pumps, and heat networks to keep homes warm, alongside retrofitting funding to boost energy efficiency. There's a willingness to embrace some lifestyle changes.

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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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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. Even then, most analyses indicate that electric, hybrid and hydrogen cars all emit less than regular fossil fuel burning cars.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

As the eternal optimist however, I present a different view. According to Carbon Trackers , we are talking about a value of between 14-129 trillion dollars for fossil fuel assets alone and revenue streams of trillions of dollars annually. This scenario is referred to by some as the ‘carbon crunch’.

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