GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. million in Neighborhood Grants. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Indeed, the ingredients for negativity are all too abundant: a persistent, shapeshifting virus; political stalemates that thwart climate action; growing social and economic inequality; terrifying ecological indicators; pushback by the anti-science crowd and their media enablers. Nature and biodiversity met the bottom line.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Leading UK firms have signed up to a new Nature Positive Business Pledge, but reversing nature loss remains a daunting challenge After centuries of despoiling the environment and forcing nature into retreat, could the private sector play an integral role in reversing the decline in global biodiversity?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That's par for the course — an exciting advancement here, political or economic pushback there. Overall, it was more positives than negatives. With good reason: The climate and biodiversity crises, combined with the social and economic equity crises, are providing momentum and incentives for staying the course.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2023

The global decline of nature and biodiversity could pose material threats to the global economy that cost as much as $3tr every year from 2030. Biodiversity loss is fast emerging as a disaster that needs to be addressed now," said Mark Fulton, project director at IPR. Some fear such projections could prove to be an underestimate.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

Our political leaders bear a genuinely world historic responsibility to try and drive the development of a net zero emission economy in less than three decades and end the obliteration of nature. If no, are you concerned that changing the target could undermine planned investment in the electric vehicle supply chain?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Asset management giant hits back at 'disturbing' trend to prioritise politics over long-term returns for investors. Florida Republicans ramp up attacks on investment firms' ESG strategies. Fiduciaries should always value performance over politics.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

The company may be headquartered thousands of miles away in California, but it has been involved in the broader campaign to save the "blue heart of Europe" - the river and biodiversity rich Balkans - being led by a network of local NGOs for more than half a decade. Where and how do they find projects? How do they find partners?

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

The study also assumes that over time economies start to adapt to more intense climate impacts, serving to curb the resulting negative economic impacts. Such outcomes would trigger huge geo-political risks that could impact the entire global economy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

MPs are urging the government to use the upcoming Budget to usher in a major transformation of the tax system to align the UK's spending plans with its net zero and biodiversity commitments, warning time is running short to deliver on its promise of a green economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

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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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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Investment firms across the globe are changing their priorities. In addition, ESG and corporate sustainability have each developed their own sets of terms, for example, ESG investing, ESG policy, sustainability program, and green business. Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. ESG and Sustainability.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2022

Perhaps inevitably, therefore, public awareness of the phrase 'net zero' has also grown, spurred on by political figures and businesses touting their commitment to climate action. Net zero isn't some sort of political device or concept, it is derived from natural science. You can't negotiate with the science," he tells BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

All the reaction from green groups, businesses, political figures to Rishi Sunak's hugely important pandemic-recovery, pre-COP26 Budget announcement. This Budget should have included a major green stimulus - bringing forward billions of pounds of investment to create new jobs and new green infrastructure.

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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

JUNE 16, 2021

Stark reasons that resilience and adaptation are seen by politicians as less-glamorous cousins to exciting net zero missions and clean tech investments, while the long-term planning required falls outside typical election cycles, leading to limited political pressure for the government to act. Stark's message was, well, stark. "We

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

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. This would result in facilities that are likely to turn into “stranded assets” with a large loss of investment.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Business as usual is not working The report is unequivocal that human-caused climate change is affecting weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe, and is set to get worse without a major acceleration in policy action and drastically increased investment in climate solutions. of warming.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That’s potentially very bad news for the climate: The huge amount of methane that leaks during the production, transport and storage of LNG means that the carbon emissions associated with importing the fuel could be up to ten times higher than for the equivalent amount of Russian pipeline gas, researchers say. Political Decision’.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism.

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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. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said: "There is a global race to develop new green technology, kick-start new industries and attract private investment.

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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. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

A case to ‘recreate’ the technical and economic prosperity of the 1920s in the 2020s, by gradual divestment in ‘old’ energy systems and investment in ‘new’ renewable industries. This scenario is referred to by some as the ‘carbon crunch’. Though this might seem ridiculous now, so was a negative oil price until only a month ago.

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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 as our thirst for oil seems insatiable, it is becoming politically and environmentally toxic. O boy, was I triggered. > (2).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This is not the time nor the issue for scoring party political points. First, there is strong support for the airline industry to take the lead in investing in greenhouse gas removals to balance remaining emissions from air travel. Broadly, members wanted the UK to quickly stop selling the most polluting vehicles on the roads - e.g

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecological disruption are global threats to humanity. The approach focuses on topsoil regeneration to increase biodiversity, improve water recycling, and support carbon capture by biosequestration. Hence, the stories and lessons presented in this documentary are relevant to everyone.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

The Strategy promises that £270m is to be invested across farming innovation funding programmes until 2029, but it does not appear to be new money and the level of funding remains relatively low compared to other clean tech sectors. Fresh funding commitments are kept to a minimum.

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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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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

The governments want to increase their GDP, improve health and sanitation, provide education and jobs, increase investment, improve infrastructure, provide electricity to people; besides the economy and jobs, most of these things are not even an issue in developed countries anymore. How much is to be invested for climate change?

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 17, 2021

The department is responsible for 422 national parks, 129 national monuments and 567 wildlife refuges, stewarding biodiversity conservation projects and protecting more than 1,000 endangered species. Currently, the country’s 154 national forests absorb about 10 percent of the nation’s total carbon emissions each year, and a U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century. The climate crisis poses enormous financial risk to investment managers, asset owners, and businesses.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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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. They are not inevitable.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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