Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

ESG and Sustainability. The terms ESG and sustainability are often used interchangeably, yet it is incorrect to do so. In this article, you’ll learn how ESG and corporate sustainability are similar, but also how they can be distinguished. What’s the difference between ESG and Corporate sustainability?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic, horrific as it's been, has been reasonably kind to the worlds of sustainable business and climate tech. There's enough progress to turn even the most hardbitten sustainability skeptic optimistic. Demand for sustainability professionals outstripped supply.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2021

75% of sustainability professionals polled by the Business for Social Responsibility believe that integrating sustainability objectives and practices into a business enhances its ability to address environmental degradation. The Benefits of Measuring Sustainability. What Does Sustainability Look Like as an Internal Process?

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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. This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power.

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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. Arbitrary Targets Are Not The Solution’.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 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. billion has been spent on low-carbon transport, $28.9 Meanwhile, $86.1

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

BBC Panorama investigation claims energy company's activities in Canada breach its sustainable sourcing commitments. Drax has long maintained that all the wood pellets it uses for its operations are derived from sawmill residuals and waste wood.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Fewer than six out of 400 companies surveyed in 2020 legal filings said there was a potential pandemic problem, Rodney Irwin, managing director of redefining value at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, said during GreenBiz 21. Consider compliance. The risks of not sharing. The power of metaphor.

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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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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Those are the stark findings of two separate report published today, which - less than 100 days ahead of the crucial COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow - together provide a stark assessment of the potentially carbon intensive nature of the global economic recovery. Only around 10.6 Only around 10.6 per cent this year and by 2.5

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Business Green

JUNE 12, 2024

Highly Commended: Carbon Limiting Technologies Highly Commended: Greengage Hospitality Firm of the Year Compass Group UK & Ireland In an all-new category for this year, Compass Group emerged victorious with the judges praising the scale and ambition of its industry-leading transition plan.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Energy firm announces it will not develop new gas fired power at its site in North Yorkshire as it looks to focus on biomass and carbon capture plans. Our carbon intensity is one of the lowest of all European power generators. We aim to be carbon negative by 2030 and are continuing to make progress.

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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

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.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

Demand for biofuels has seen significant tracts of land, much of it the Global South, repurposed for energy crop production, a trend that campaigners have blamed for driving deforestation and biodiversity destruction while exacerbating food insecurity.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2020

All National Grid's net zero pathways rely on significant BECCS capacity to generate 'negative emissions', claims think tank Ember. As the biomass crops store carbon from the atmosphere, by using them as a fuel feedstock while stopping the CO2 from entering the atmosphere, BECCS is designed to produce 'negative emissions'.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

Analysis of 50 major economies' post-Covid spending programmes concludes policymakers are wasting major opportunity to a build safer world and greener economy in wake of pandemic. The analysis, which looked at more than 3,500 fiscal policies across the world's 50 largest economies, finds that just 2.5

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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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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Its researchers proudly brandished a 96-page “synthesis” of its World Resources Report: Creating A Sustainable Food Future. Reduce growth in demand (replace food loss and waste; shift diets; achieve replacement level fertility rates; phase out crop based biofuels). The same group behind Impossible’s own LCA conducted the report.). “

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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. ENGIE hails 'world first' gas from waste breakthrough.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

CEO Kevin Johnson outlines major new sustainability strategy for the coffee giant, promising tough environmental targets will 'create greater value for all stakeholders'. Today, more than ever, the world needs leadership in environmental sustainability," said Johnson. "We It seems Microsoft was just the start of a trend.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. An industrialist turned venture investor, Fred knows that the Port is becoming one of the world’s most sustainable industrial clusters. Those that can create artificial sinks with technological carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Companies accelerated the route to sustainable mobility. Sustainable fashion became material. In 2020, several new developments help put sustainability in fashion. It also launched a Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark to help the fashion and textile industry take action on biodiversity. And that remains a problem.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

The features of a sustainable food management system. Sustainable food management is a systematic approach that concentrates on reducing wasted food, supporting local communities and employees, and mitigating the environmental impact of operations over the complete life cycle of food items.

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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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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We look forward to catalyzing the Houston ecosystem’s support for climatetech startups as we work together toward a sustainable future for all.”. Our world requires all of us to come together to enable long-term sustainability. Microsoft’s VP Energy Industry Darryl Willis will join Greentown Houston’s Founding Advisory Board.

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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

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

JUNE 14, 2022

As such the Strategy is a deliberately narrow response to Dimbleby's independent review and is designed to focus on "longer-term measures to support a resilient, healthier, and more sustainable food system that is affordable to all" rather than short term measures to tackle rising food prices. Fresh funding commitments are kept to a minimum.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

These continuous changes result in increases in waste, emissions, resource depletion and high energy consumption. The problem we face today, is really the problems associated with population growth, consumption, waste and disposal. Terms such as climate change, climate crisis, carbon neutral, negative emissions, etc.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

Of the 15 technology areas PWC analysed, the areas that represent over 80 per cent of future emission reduction potential by 2050 - such as solar power, wind power, food waste technology, green hydrogen production, and alternative protein - received just 25 per cent of recent climate tech investment between 2013 and the first half of 2021.

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