Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

Alphabet, Meta, Shopify and McKinsey launch Frontier Fund to bring down costs of carbon removal technologies that scientists acknowledge will be critical to meeting climate goals.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

As the quest for sustainable energy intensifies, biomass emerges as a pivotal player in the arena of renewable resources. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Since then, leading industry associations and agrochemical companies have used their lobbying might to push back against core European measures aiming to lead the transition to a more sustainable way of farming. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. Credit: Pixabay.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Analysis of the government’s latest transparency data shows ministers at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) held 130 one-on-one meetings with energy producers between July 22 2019 and March 18 2021, of which nearly half (63) were with producers of high carbon energy. Drax Access.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

In his response to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres noted that, “Had we been further advanced in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, we could better face this challenge.” ” Background on Earth Day. Earth Day in 2020.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

New planning guidance announced by the Mayor of London will mean future developments have to include measures to mitigate impacts on air quality Developers in London will have to assess the impact new building projects could have on local pollution levels before proceeding with construction, under plans unveiled by Mayor Sadiq Khan yesterday.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers. At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. We named eight of the biggest players in the space so sustainability professionals know what and who to watch out for.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Biomass power stations, such as Drax in northern England, burn wood pellets to generate electricity – which is treated in the EU and UK as a renewable energy source if the process meets certain sustainability criteria. They have sent MEPs a version marked with their corrections.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Simply exploiting a market opportunity does not count as sustainability ambition - businesses need to turn the dial further, writes Forum for the Future's Caroline Ashley. Who has the most ambitious sustainability strategy? By the percentage reduction in carbon emissions committed and the deadline set?

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

Grant aims to support group's work to establish more robust governance mechanisms for voluntary carbon markets sector. Our theory of change is simple: first build a voluntary carbon market with integrity, and scale will follow," she said.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 11, 2021

The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review , continues to get a lot of climate press coverage, but not that I have noticed within the built environment sector. The UK is to set up green finance hubs in Leeds and London , as part of efforts to encourage lenders and insurers to invest in renewable energy and sustainable industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

However, flood risk is now addressed on a wider catchment scale so that initiatives in one part of a catchment do not have negative effects further downstream. In the past, peats and bogs have been drained to increase cropping areas, but this damages peatlands and reduces their capacity to retain water and store carbon. NFM benefits.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. especially when it comes to sustainable farming.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

Despite positive steps towards a sustainable Covid-19 recovery from a few leading nations, the world has so far fallen short of matching aspirations to build back better," said Brian O'Callahan, lead researcher at the Oxford University Economic Recovery project. per cent is likely to increase net air pollution.

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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 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.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage. The case for negative emissions.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

Compiled by almost 9,000 botanists over the past 20 years, Plant Atlas 2020 dug up a raft of negative trends in British and Irish flora since the 1950s, most startlingly revealing that non-native plants now outnumber their native counterparts in the wild.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Green Business Bureau has created the below ESG image infographic to help you understand Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria, and how this criteria relates to corporate sustainability. Teaching Sustainable Business NEWSLETTER. ESG image to understand how criteria relate to corporate sustainability.

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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. Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Biosphere (biodiversity) integrity: infinite human activities affecting eco-systems risk disintegration of natural biodiversity.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Direct Air Capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere is one set of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategies that may play a role in mitigating climate change, particularly in the mid to latter part of the 21 st century. C report provided four scenarios (P1-P4 in Figure 1) with increasing roles for negative emissions.

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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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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s important for business owners and global citizens to understand the source of this change to be empowered to anticipate and adapt to these changes and potentially help reverse them through intentional, sustainable action. . The Holocene. The Anthropocene.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

Basil Demeroutis, managing partner at real estate investor FORE Partnership, offers a whirlwind guide to the complex world of net zero carbon. There is a lot of excitement about creating net zero carbon buildings, and rightly so. Not many property professionals can tell you what net zero carbon actually means. Not so fast.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A new briefing paper from Imperial College London attempts a deep dive on the pollution produced by the particles sloughed off from vehicle tyres. Even if all our vehicles eventually become powered by electricity instead of fossil fuels, we will still have harmful pollution from vehicles because of tyre wear. “We

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Better design and reuse of buildings are crucial to cutting their carbon impact, writes Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Tansy Robertson-Fall. The Climate Action Pathway for Industry 2021 report, released by the UNFCCC, emphasises the need for a more socially responsible and environmentally sustainable industrial system.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

ICVCM said the new Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) have been developed using input from hundreds of organisations throughout the voluntary carbon market and will set out fundamental principles for high-quality credits which deliver real, verifiable emissions reductions based on the latest science and best practices.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Plans by biomass giant Drax to manufacture wood pellets sourced from Californian forests will endanger natural habitats and increase toxic air pollution for rural communities, campaigners warn. Following the investigation, the company issued a statement expressing confidence that its “biomass is sustainable and legally harvested.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Farmers must avoid the pitfalls of a "false choice" between nature protection and food production, as building nature recovery into Britain's agricultural practices is the only way to put both society and the economy on a sustainable footing, Natural England chair Tony Juniper is expected to say later.

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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. However, it has not afforded the same "super-deduction" style relief for low-carbon electricity generators facing a windfall tax on profits.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

It’s so clear that these investments are not consistent with any coherent notion of sustainable development,” Kari Hamerschlag, deputy director for the food and agriculture program at Friends of the Earth US, told DeSmog. The resolution process is ongoing. MHP has denied wrongdoing.)

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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. This dialogue should be rooted in values and metrics set by the sustainable development goals. The goal is decarbonisation.

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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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