Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

We are currently battling the coronavirus outbreak, but we must not lose sight of our long-term sustainability objectives, including making Europe climate-neutral by 2050," said Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission's Executive Vice-President for an Economy that Works for People.

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Grist

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In recent years, Moomaw has turned his attention to working on natural solutions to climate change and has become a leading proponent of what he calls “proforestation” — leaving older and middle-aged forests intact because of their superior carbon-sequestration abilities. Cutting trees to burn them is not a way to get there.”. billion tons.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In related news, Transport for London this week published its first sustainability report and corporate environmental plans, documents that set out how the transport authority aims to support the Mayor of London's drive to make London 'carbon neutral' by 2030 and align with the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

COP15 Biodiversity Summit reportedly facing further delays. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit that was slated to take place in Kunming, China in May could be delayed for a fourth time, according to reports in the New Scientist. China unveils plan for giant Gobi Desert renewables projects, plots new carbon-saving policies.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2021

The campaign has also tightened the language it uses when defining residual emissions, sources, and credits in its criteria document in an attempt to provide more specificity about what types of carbon sink projects can legitimately be included in net zero strategies.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

Leaked documents reveal the EU is likely to delay some parts of its Green Deal work programme, but 2030 climate targets remains a top priority. However, the documents also confirm that some components of the Green Deal strategy are set to be delayed until 2021. A new programme will be published in the coming weeks.".

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. The industry claims that forests that are felled sustainably — for construction, say, or for burning to produce electricity in utility-scale power plants — can provide jobs and energy, stimulate the economy, and even reduce society’s net carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

DeSmog documented meetings held by six MEPs from the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), the largest group in parliament. Around 20 percent of the MEPs’ meetings were with unregistered groups, and at least one in six meetings documented by DeSmog was not declared on the parliamentary website.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

However, today's 'vision statement' warns that the MCCF sector must surmount considerable social and environmental challenges to meet its full potential, including tackling the deforestation and biodiversity impacts caused by raw material sourcing. We must reduce carbon emissions from fibre and material production by 2030.".

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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. Big Ag’s Delay Tactics.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Finance will obviously be the enabling factor in making the kind of transition that is required, so it’s a problem if accounting systems continue to act as if nature is “free to use”, a key issue pinpointed earlier this year by The Dasgupta Review , hailed at the time as a landmark document. Putting a price on pollution.

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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. As such, the guidance stresses that companies should prioritise reducing their absolute emissions before investing in any NCS credits.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Biodiversity Investment 40

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. The documents leaked in the Corporate Europe Observatory investigation were “part of lobbying work that is done in all stakeholder groups.

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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. The complexity surrounding emissions reduction pathways, net-zero targets, carbon credits and company claims is a barrier to many companies taking action," he said.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

However, today's 'vision statement' warns that the MCCF sector must surmount considerable social and environmental challenges to meet its full potential, including tackling the deforestation and biodiversity impacts caused by raw material sourcing. We must reduce carbon emissions from fibre and material production by 2030.".

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Business Green

MAY 2, 2022

The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative is poised to publish claims guidance for businesses hoping to tap credits to help reach net zero goals - Co-chair Rachel Kyte gives BusinessGreen a peek at what to expect. How do you create the rules for a brand new market? It is a question that occupies much of Rachel Kyte's time.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

A wave of new services are emerging that promise to bring greater credibility to the fast-expanding carbon offsets market. After years of volatility, the voluntary market for carbon offsets is booming. Yet even as the market has surged, debate about the quality of carbon credits remains.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

The burning of fossil fuels to power vehicles releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and sulfur dioxide. Global impacts : Carbon dioxide contributes to human-induced climate change, and the effects are global. For instance, let’s say the environmental objective is to reach carbon neutrality by 2030.

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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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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a gift or have set a New Year’s resolution to be more organized, having a weekly planner is a great way to keep a record of important dates and documents. It means that the area is monitored to maintain biodiversity and replanting schedules.

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Low Impact

JUNE 30, 2021

The documentation of the use of herbs in Britain in the two World Wars reminds us that we still have our own medicinal resources here in the UK. 300 years later, and less than a century ago, we in Britain were to depend once again almost totally on homegrown herbs for all our healthcare needs. The list was similar in both world wars.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Sustainability questions are being embedded into requests for proposal documents and onboarding materials. based insurer to achieve carbon neutrality in 2016. . For example, on Earth Day 2019, Allbirds committed to carbon neutrality from that year forward through an internal carbon tax. Jesse Klein.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction - now. The Treasury commissioned the Dasgupta review to look at the economics of biodiversity. The carbon budget clock is ticking, and the UK government needs to show that its proposed measures will deliver the necessary emissions cuts.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A significant proportion of global carbon emissions come from farming meat. Reducing the 24 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions from stationary and mobile sources is a gigantic task involving both technological challenges and monumental financial and societal costs. Marselle, Jutta Stadler, Horst Korn, Katherine N.

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