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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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Fee levels are still being considered as the Authority engages with ship owners about how the new system would work in practice, but charges are likely to incorporate several factors such as operational efficiency of ships and the use of zero carbon or carbon neutral fuels. China tables five-year green industry plan.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. 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.

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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.

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Rinexii

JUNE 18, 2021

An example of this is the infamous Volkswagen scandal , when Volkswagen sold a line of diesal engines as the most environmentally friendly ever, when they were in fact so off the charts bad they were 400x over the legal limit for pollution. Despite a drop in emissions of around 5%, 2020 was not enough to reverse the trend in carbon emissions.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2021

Apple creates $200 million fund for nature-based climate solutions Jesse Klein Thu, 04/22/2021 – 00:12 Nature-based solutions to climate change are having a moment, and Apple is riding the trend with a $200 million fund dedicated to related investments.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2021

Apple creates $200 million fund for nature-based climate solutions Jesse Klein Thu, 04/22/2021 – 00:12 Nature-based solutions to climate change are having a moment, and Apple is riding the trend with a $200 million fund dedicated to related investments.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Tony Juniper reflects on the outcome of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit and what is now needed to deliver on the agreement signed by governments in Montreal. All play a role in absorbing carbon. nJanuary is a time for new beginnings and new resolutions to drive self-improvement, and that applies to nations just as much as individuals.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2022

72 per cent of us are concerned or fearful about climate change, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer, which surveys people all over the world. And in Europe, according to Pew Research Center, climate change is seen as an even bigger threat than coronavirus.

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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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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

New guidance is geared at helping corporates embed natural climate solutions in their climate strategies in a credible manner while supporting the development of a robust carbon market. Appropriate guidance to help businesses structure their climate strategies is needed.".

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Of all the tools we have to curb climate change, devoting land to growing bioenergy crops is among the most contentious. The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage. A right time and place?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

For a start, when all the sectoral targets are tallied up, they represent – at best – a 43 per cent reduction, according to the government’s own Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC). Climate Budget Fight. Steep Cuts for Other Sectors.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Guidance is geared at helping corporates embed natural climate solutions in their climate strategies in a credible manner and support development of a robust carbon market. Appropriate guidance to help businesses structure their climate strategies is needed.".

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

IPPR has today called on the government to establish a 'new deal' for farmers that sets out how it plans to curb the agricultural sector's heavy toll on the climate and biodiversity while enabling workers to navigate various challenges related to Brexit, an ageing workforce, technological disruption, and environmental impacts.

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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. They argued that, given the scale and urgency of climate change, no clean energy option should be off the table.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Just today, a group of MPs and campaigners set out demands for a major green recovery drive in the UK , while a report by financial analyst McKinsey estimated that mobilising €75-150bn of capital towards low carbon projects could yield €180bn-350bn in benefits and cut carbon emissions by up to 30 per cent by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. The pandemic and subsequent stay-at-home orders had an unintentionally positive and significant initial impact on air pollution. Planes remain among the most polluting means of transport.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

With droughts affecting the UK for much of last summer, the project, from Westcountry Rivers Trust and South West Water, will not only contribute to better hydrated wetlands, woodlands and fields, but can help farms manage water demand through dry weather, as well as boost aquatic biodiversity.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.

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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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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. Each facility would source wood from a 100-mile radius, an area that includes eight National Forests and a major biodiversity hotspot.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

In January 2021, representatives from the clean energy sector sent a joint letter welcoming the criteria recommended by the TEG and stating that “the inclusion of power generation with a carbon intensity above this limit would not only deviate from science, but would also harm the EU’s decarbonisation trajectory and its 2050 net-zero objectives.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the percentage reduction in carbon emissions committed and the deadline set? I am delighted by the 'race to zero' among large and small companies setting bolder carbon targets. Now, finally picking up the pace on climate, firms are willing to commit to targets for which they don't yet have the tools.

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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

JUNE 28, 2022

Leading forest researchers from around the world call for a global forest observatory to provide much-needed data on the current and future ability of our trees to absorb and store carbon, produce multiple goods and benefit for people, and support biodiversity.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

It is a challenge highlighted by the London Assembly's Economy Committee in a new report due for release shortly, marking the first time it's members have examined the potential impacts of climate change and the net zero transition on the city's workforce. Cooper tells BusinessGreen.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A New Yorker may not think about the forested Catskills Mountain Range upstate as she pours a glass of water. Londoners probably don’t consider the Amazon rainforest as they watch the rain falling on city parks. And folks in Addis.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The Taxonomy sends a signal to the world that the EU recognises this urgency and the role of the financial sector in delivering a transition to a carbon neutral and resilient future by 2050," explained Spors. If fully adopted, the impact of the recommended taxonomy criteria could be significant.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

In the fight against climate change, the $300-billion U.S. logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. The idea is intuitive: Trees are the ultimate renewable resource.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

“A lot of new fossil infrastructure is being installed, and environmental and climate experts are very worried that this could go far beyond the infrastructure needed for the short term, and create new fossil lock-ins,” said Nina Katzemich of LobbyControl, a transparency campaign group based in Berlin and Cologne. It’s fossil fuel madness.”.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With recognition of the vital role of both subnational and national governments in the climate agenda, the G7 Roundtable on Subnational Climate Actions was established by the G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers Meeting in 2023 under the presidency of Japan.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

The UN recognized the country’s role in protecting nature and commitment to ambitious policies to combat climate change. The policies are based on a detailed plan to decarbonize the country’s economy by 2050, which is aligned with the commitments of The Paris Climate Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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