DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse. Laws Drafted by Industry Campaigners say that industrial farming lobbies have major political clout.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. However, the taxonomy legally requires so-called technological neutrality, the equal treatment of every technology. But this didn’t suit everyone.

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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. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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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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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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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. He has used GWP* to claim that the US meat and dairy sector can become “climate-neutral” by the late 2040s by reducing emissions only two percent a year.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That’s potentially very bad news for the climate: The huge amount of methane that leaks during the production, transport and storage of LNG means that the carbon emissions associated with importing the fuel could be up to ten times higher than for the equivalent amount of Russian pipeline gas, researchers say. Political Decision’.

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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. The European Green Deal to make that continent climate-neutral by 2050 has nine major policy areas explicitly about material matters such as agriculture, biodiversity, energy, mobility and buildings. Leadership.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

65 leaders - including from Canada, Mexico, Pakistan, the UK and the EU - endorsed a Leaders' Pledge for Nature - which aims to turn the tide o n nature and biodiversity loss and instead place it on a path to recovery by 2030. Last week something significant happened. This is a new framework that will set the global ambition for nature.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

I was very keen to bring this agenda into the Economy Committee, because I think that people were talking very blithely about net zero carbon and the skills that we need for the future green industrial revolution, and yet who has started to look at what we actually need to do?" Cooper tells BusinessGreen.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

A large donation to the Labour Party from wood-burning giant Drax has raised concerns among campaigners over the sway of big carbon emitters over Parliament. The payment from the former coal-fired power station was registered on September 12 last year, and published in December in the Electoral Commission register of political donations.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

All the reaction from green groups, businesses, political figures to Rishi Sunak's hugely important pandemic-recovery, pre-COP26 Budget announcement. Rebecca Newsom, head of politics at Greenpeace UK, said: "For all the talk of a green recovery, this Budget suggests the Chancellor has failed to clock the urgency of the climate emergency.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

That synthesis looked impressive at first glance; it outlined how we could change global food systems, so they emit fewer greenhouse gases, occupy less land, and protect the earth’s biodiversity — all while producing ever higher volumes of food for a global population approaching ten billion by 2050. . Wide-ranging, radical change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

How do you deal with issues of tax, or corruption or money in politics, or human rights standards in your value chain? So net positive would really say that you move in the direction of Microsoft - that you not only become carbon neutral, but you take the carbon out since you started in 1975.

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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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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

It was not until the early 1990s that political leaders realized the need for change, to significantly improve the environmental and social systems that the country’s economy relied on. One key goal is for Costa Rica to be recognised as a leader in establishing a carbon-neutral future. Sustainability policies established.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Commission still lacks a clear plan to phase out fossil fuels in our heating and cooling system, which is badly needed to reduce emissions and achieve climate neutrality by 2050.". Yet the EU Commission's Strategy goes further than current UK plans. Again, however, concerns were raised that the plans are insufficiently ambitious.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, communities hosting wood pellet facilities are not only further burdened by pollution and other local dangers, they are also entangled in yet another climate damaging trend — the destruction of biodiverse hardwood forests and the rise of monoculture tree plantations to produce energy that appears to pose climate threats similar to coal.

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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. Indonesia submits updated 2030 climate plan.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Its conclusions have since been endorsed with apparent sincerity by the UK government, which announced in June that it was committing to ensuring that more of the UK’s largest new infrastructure projects “leave nature and biodiversity in an overall better state than before development”. Putting a price on pollution. Problems and solutions.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

His speech comes just weeks before thousands of global diplomates are expected to descend on Glasgow for the crucial UN summit, which I set to be one of the largest political events ever held on British soil, and at which UK as host is under major pressure to rally countries together behind ambitious climate action.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

Anyone who tuned into the pundit-less broadcast of Match of the Day on 11 March will have had a first-hand experience of elite football world's growing embrace of political protest. When football stars take on the authorities, they tend to win - could the climate-threatened sector adopt sustainabilty as its next cause?

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A significant proportion of global carbon emissions come from farming meat. By focusing on how these institutions are sites of coproduction of knowledge and policy, this work brings to light the politics of science advice and details how these committees are contributing to an emerging global environmental constitutionalism.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Number 10 made a decision to brief media on the nuclear deterrant, defence and cyber aspects of the review, but the commitment to climate is clear from PM Johnson in the foreword: "In 2021 and beyond, Her Majesty's Government will make tackling climate change and biodiversity loss its number one international priority.".

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Both biodiversity loss and climate change having been ranked as two of the top five threats facing humanity in the current decade by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which estimates more than half of the world's GDP - or $44tr - is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

It's vital for all of us to show that this is not all about some expensive politically correct green act of ‘bunny hugging' or however you want to put it," he said of climate action. I have determined that Brazil's carbon neutrality be achieved by 2050, bringing forward by 10 years our previous commitment.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As ever, scores of leading thinkers and influential organisations in business, finance, economics, academia, science, politics and civil society have offered their views on the IPCC's latest findings today, and here BusinessGreen pulls some of the most insightful. Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone - now.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

It's vital for all of us to show that this is not all about some expensive politically correct green act of ‘bunny hugging' or however you want to put it," he said of climate action. I have determined that Brazil's carbon neutrality be achieved by 2050, bringing forward by 10 years our previous commitment.".

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described climate change as “one of the greatest challenges of our time” and pledged that New Zealand would have a carbon-neutral government by 2025. ori Party supported the motion, which noted an “alarming trend in species decline and global biodiversity.” The Green Party and the M?ori

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2021

In his first non-political role, the former UKIP and Brexit Party leader has been hired as the first member of the advisory board for carbon offsetting business Dutch Green Business Group. I want to do something positive for forests and biodiversity which will eat up carbon too. DGB is a company with ambitious plans.

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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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