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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It has increased carbon capture and storage, biodiversity, and green jobs through work at its two estates – Bunloit and Beldorney. It is also now targeting becoming a net carbon neutral business. improvement on energy storage, leading to significant carbon savings. Its primary project, PRISMA, provides a 20.5%

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2022

As the EU aims for climate neutrality in agriculture and land use by 2035, as well as becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, the “greening” of agriculture becomes a top priority. Are you interested in how EO data can help empower the sustainable agriculture revolution? Leading by example for the land’s well-being.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 4, 2021

Planet has joined the newly formed European Carbon+ Farming Coalition to accelerate progress toward European Green Deal carbon neutrality goals. Earth observation data is a powerful tool for monitoring and assigning value to these natural resources in order to edge closer to carbon neutrality.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Named the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), a pilot for the scheme will begin in the autumn, with farmers able to express their interest in participating and helping shape the project from March, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

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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. ” 2. .”

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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.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Following the investigation, the company issued a statement expressing confidence that its “biomass is sustainable and legally harvested.” The wood pellets Drax produces are treated as “carbon neutral” under international accounting rules, based on an assumption that new-growth trees will capture the carbon lost by wood burnt for electricity.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 18, 2021

At the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, President Xi announced a 400 gigawatts solar and wind project. Back in Western Europe, an average sized wind project on the North Sea gives you about 350 MW of energy. It will produce more renewable energy than all of India Summary - Wow. Do you know more on this project?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest development in this years-long fight came on Monday, when the European Commission’s scientific expert group, the Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF), pushed back against including gas and nuclear in the EU taxonomy, an official guide on sustainable investments. The Push for Gas and Nuclear.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

Action plan for Europe’s grids launched Site visit: Europe’s biggest offshore wind port To reach the 2030 ambitions of around 182GW, annual installations of approximately 25.5GW have to be installed, with EU countries needing to deliver 15GW and Norway and Great Britain together 10.5GW each year.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Speaking of giving credit where credit is due, nominations are open for the seventh annual Women in Sustainability Leadership Awards, to be conferred by the Women in Sustainability Alumnae Group at a virtual ceremony May 19. This list, selected subjectively, celebrates a diverse, intergenerational set of leaders. percent of its GDP.

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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

APRIL 16, 2020

The leaked document suggests that work to update the bloc's Sustainable Finance Strategy, deliver a new 2030 Climate Target Plan, and introduce a new building renovation programme should continue with a view to delivery by the third quarter of the year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Newly-incorporated French company aims to develop nature-based projects that deliver high-quality carbon removals or avoidances. The company will benefit from AXA IM Alts' impact investing and project finance capabilities as well as Engie's expertise in carbon markets and risk management, the partners said.

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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. We needed a name for that, so I began thinking about names.

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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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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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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

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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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2022

Across the world, people are voting with their feet for sustainable choices. And in Europe, according to Pew Research Center, climate change is seen as an even bigger threat than coronavirus. At Google, we've seen searches for online sustainable goods increase by five times in the last five years.

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Rinexii

JUNE 18, 2021

Recently, I’ve struggled in finding sustainable dish soap, laundry detergent, and of all things, underwear. Our climate is rapidly overheating, and many concerned citizens are trying to do their part to stop choosing carbon polluting products, unnatural fibers, and plastics. Paraphrased from their press release.).

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Environmental groups and green businesses broadly welcome strategy, which aims to 'make sustainable products the norm'. If adopted, the Circular Economy Action Plan would form part of the new Industrial Strategy. There is a huge potential to be exploited both for businesses and consumers.".

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Experts appointed by the EU Commission presented their final recommendations for what investments and activities should be considered 'sustainable' - but there remain several key unanswered questions. Financial flows to these green areas will result in an investment boom in sustainable sectors and is expected to create lots of new jobs.".

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

Neither a sustainable public health system nor a sustainable human civilization should be built on risk blindspots. The rapid loss of biodiversity has led an increasing number of pathogens to infect humans as intermediate hosts. Opportunities from a zero carbon economy. Climate in crisis.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 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. Many leaders in this cohort happen to have climbed the ranks at one company for decades.

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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.

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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. The meeting was branded "another wasted opportunity" by divestment campaign group 350.org.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

For now, the United States leads most of the world in both economic inequality and carbon emissions. We have to disrupt existing industries," said Eva Gladek, founder and CEO of Metabolic, a sustainability consultancy and software provider. "We How are people connected?"

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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. WILHELMSHAVEN, Germany — For 150 years, heavy industry has been the lifeblood of the German port of Wilhelmshaven, a hub for shipbuilding, plastics, coal and steel. It’s fossil fuel madness.”.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

But now is not the time to take your foot off the accelerator on sustainability ambitions.". 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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

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. With Europe the world's second biggest producer of chemicals - accounting for 16.9 With Europe the world's second biggest producer of chemicals - accounting for 16.9

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

We are proud to introduce our fifth annual cohort of twentysomethings who are sustainability leaders within — and without — their companies, nonprofits and communities. Grateful appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment for helping us spread the word.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Sustainability and business 3. A significant proportion of global carbon emissions come from farming meat. This book aims to provide an overview of the relevant discourses, but also—and above all—a stimulus for fresh thinking, with new suggestions for the defence and further development of the concept of sustainable development.

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