DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon might seem like a good alternative to meat, in a world that needs to shift away from carbon-intensive cattle — at least the fish farming industry would have you see it that way. In 2023, DeSmog will be looking more into the aquaculture industry, its impacts, and where it seeks to influence policy. Aquaculture.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

MEPs have called on the European Commission deliver a "massive" €2tr coronavirus recovery fund next week that prioritises the proposed Green Deal agenda to transform Europe into the world's first net zero continent by 2050.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

He made the announcement at the National Farmer's Union (NFU) annual conference yesterday, where he outlined a post-Brexit approach to agriculture policy following the UK's exit from the EU.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

A sweeping €1.85tr stimulus strategy to rebuild Europe's economy from the wreckage of the coronavirus crisis has been unveiled by the European Commission today, promising a green infrastructure spending blitz to help put the continent on a path towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This is Europe's moment," she said.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report from the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) argues that contrary to popular opinion the CCUS sector already comprises a "vast portfolio of existing technologies that are economically viable".

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Burning trees to reduce our carbon footprint is oxymoronic.” Carbon Debt.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

According to leaked documents seen by Euractiv , work on the climate policies that underpin the Commission's flagship Green Deal programme are to remain a top priority, further fuelling hopes the bloc can deliver on early pledges from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and key member states to deliver a green recovery package.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

It’s a “green investment guidebook,” said Henry Eviston, spokesperson on sustainable finance at WWF European Policy Office. Initially, 10 member states, mostly in Eastern and Southern Europe, opposed the TEG’s criteria. However, the taxonomy legally requires so-called technological neutrality, the equal treatment of every technology.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

European Commission unveils flurry of major policy plans as it seeks to help deliver on 2050 net zero goal, but green groups warn bolder action is still required. The Commission estimates the plan could help upgrade 35 million buildings across Europe and create up to 160,000 additional green jobs in the construction sector by 2030.

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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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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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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. These companies are stepping up their game because the exposure they are facing is stepping up,” says Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

For now, the United States leads most of the world in both economic inequality and carbon emissions. Meanwhile, recycling is broken as the US lacks cohesive policies and infrastructure to support it. "We Social change may be threaded throughout each area but it's not explicitly prioritized, Gladek noted.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. As recently as April, 2021, Uniper, then one of Europe’s biggest buyers of Russian gas, was forced to shelve the latest attempt to open an LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven, citing a lack of demand.

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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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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

The analysis, which looked at more than 3,500 fiscal policies across the world’s 50 largest economies, finds that just 2.5 billion has been spent on low-carbon transport, $28.9 percent of all COVID-induced spending to date had “positive green characteristics.” billion focused on renewables and $18.5 Meanwhile, $86.1

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The EU Green Deal , Europe’s ambitious strategy to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, is now working to transform the agriculture sector from a carbon emitter to a promising carbon sink. CEO and Co-Founder of Gilab.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Brussels launches major package of accelerated decarbonisation measures, including tax reforms, new clean energy targets, and carbon border tariffs. Europe was the first continent to declare to be climate neutral in 2050, and now we are the very first ones to put a concrete roadmap on the table.

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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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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including EU's carbon border row with China, and fresh climate goals from Israel and Indonesia. China argues EU's carbon border tax violates WTO rules. COP15 biodiveristy summit braced for third Covid-19 delay. It violates World Trade Organisation principles.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions. Currently, carbon emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation (often referred to as land-use change) are offset, in part, by new reforestation and regrowth.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The Commission said the strategy formed "one of the main building blocks" of its proposed European Green Deal, through which it is developing a raft of policies and measures designed to help the EU become the world's first net zero continent by 2050. If adopted, the Circular Economy Action Plan would form part of the new Industrial Strategy.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A significant proportion of global carbon emissions come from farming meat. Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

She has developed a vendor sustainability scorecard for a Fortune 100 company, consulted with a national brand to improve impact measurement and reporting, and quantified the carbon emissions of an industry association. He/Him) Energy Policy Manager, Maryland Energy Administration Baltimore, MD, USA New York Department of Education (‘17).

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

Even before Covid-19, 2020 was already a big year for the tech giant and its environment lead, who spoke to BusinessGreen from his home office in mid-April as coronavirus shutdowns snowballed across North America and Europe. So, with biodiversity and carbon completed, plans for water and waste are on their way next. "But

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the promise of streamlining the planning process may also offer a much-needed boost for major low carbon energy projects such as nuclear power plants and offshore wind farms. Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

A powerful US biomass lobby group is pushing for a raft of changes that would weaken European renewable energy rules geared to better protect biodiversity and tackle climate change, DeSmog can reveal. Europe is the leading consumer region of wood pellets globally. Biomass has also raised concerns over potential harm to biodiversity.

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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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Grist

OCTOBER 20, 2019

William Moomaw has had a distinguished career as a physical chemist and environmental scientist, helping found the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and serving as lead author on five reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. How do you define proforestation?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has this week approved a €1tr 'Climate Bank' plan that will see the bank drastically increase its support for low carbon infrastructure over the coming decade. Global development banks deliver landmark climate pledge, but duck fossil fuel financing phase out.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

It's interesting to discuss SDG17 at the moment," reflects Hans Daems, group public affairs officer at Hitachi Europe. Key areas where data is needed to formulate, implement and monitor development policies and programmes are population and housing censuses. Walney offshore wind farm | Credit: Ørsted.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

based insurer to achieve carbon neutrality in 2016. . During her five years with Quantis, Bande has advised some of the world’s largest companies in the food, cosmetics and apparels sectors, helping them define science-based targets, insetting initiatives and carbon pricing approaches. Jesse Klein. Jennifer Ballen, 28 .

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Research from WWF, for example, has found 46 per cent of the UK's carbon footprint is generated overseas by goods produced to satisfy UK consumption. The environmental group said the target needed to be followed up with policy instruments that would help reduce emissions. The evidence is consistent, alarming and undeniable.".

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