DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Photo by Chris Schwarz ( Flickr CC ) Rather than discussing the negative impact of continued oil production on the Global South, at least two speakers brought up the apparent death toll associated with discontinuing oil production. The IEA has been categorical in their prediction that global peak oil and coal demand will occur by 2030.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land. Too many companies and governments are hiding behind the smokescreen of net zero to continue dirty business-as-usual activities," he said. "Too

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2022

Plan to invest hundreds of millions in fledgeling carbon removal firms yet another sign of surging private sector interest in nascent sector. There has never been a better time to start a carbon removal company," Sacca wrote in a blog post. "So, The pace of progress in the science of carbon removal is blistering," he said.

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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

JULY 6, 2021

Global demand for biomass is likely to exceed environmentally sustainable supplies in the coming years as the drive to decarbonise takes hold across different industries - a situation which risks undermining climate mitigation efforts and causing major damage to biodiversity and the natural world.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thanks to growing interest in environmental social and governance (ESG) funds, investors are rapidly moving into the sector, keen to improve the green credentials of their portfolios while also capitalising on the burgeoning financial opportunities provided by sustainable timber and carbon offsetting schemes.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Global demand for electricity is also growing faster than renewables capacity post-pandemic, opening the door to more fossil fuel energy in many parts of the world. Unfortunately, it is impossible to justify the fact that public stimulus money is doing more harm than good to our climate and biodiversity, which underpin our economy.

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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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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The first has to do with the carbon budget — the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the planet warms more than 1.5 The paper uses a carbon budget of 580 billion metric tons, an amount that is estimated to give only a 50 percent chance of stabilizing the global climate at 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temperatures.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown. As for disclosure, investors expect more of it and at a more robust level, but they are also demanding goal-setting, with metrics and accountability.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

A group of leading academics, campaigners, and executives have this week issued a renewed call for governments to accelerate efforts to scale up the deployment of Nature-Based Solutions capable of simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and restoring natural habitats.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Indeed, the ingredients for negativity are all too abundant: a persistent, shapeshifting virus; political stalemates that thwart climate action; growing social and economic inequality; terrifying ecological indicators; pushback by the anti-science crowd and their media enablers. Demand for sustainability professionals outstripped supply.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. The growth in demand that this creates will increase pressure on land and other resources.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

The roadmap also sets out how the UK could modernise regulations, leverage public expenditure, and secure large-scale private investment to significantly enhance nature and biodiversity by 2030. It is also endorsed by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Water UK, and the RSPB.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Advocates of BECCS argue that by sourcing sustainable biomass feedstocks for power plants and then capturing the resulting emissions, the technology can deliver both reliable renewable power and negative emissions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Environmentalists have long warned that demand for the pellets is endangering irreplaceable primary forests in areas including parts of Estonia, British Columbia in Canada and the southeastern United States. . They have sent MEPs a version marked with their corrections. non-profit tracking biomass, who authored the comments, told DeSmog.

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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. The EU Targets Ignore Science’.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

to a carbon free economy by 2050, experts at Bloomberg and Princeton estimate that the US will have to build enough solar and wind farms to fill an area roughly five times the size of South Dakota. In the near-term, the conflict is exerting negative impacts on climate emissions. For example, to fully transition the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

In order to achieve this, there are a number of pressing environmental issues that we face, with governments, business and citizens focusing their efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and become more sustainable as a nation. Organisations should also be looking for innovative and creative ways to help make their business more biodiverse.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2023

The global decline of nature and biodiversity could pose material threats to the global economy that cost as much as $3tr every year from 2030. Biodiversity loss is fast emerging as a disaster that needs to be addressed now," said Mark Fulton, project director at IPR. Some fear such projections could prove to be an underestimate.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

🔑 Climate tech startups hit key milestones - including but not limited to - Fervo’s FOAK enhanced geothermal project operational in Nevada, Brimstone’s third-party approval of its carbon-negative cement, and Heirloom’s first commercial DAC plant.  Disaster seemed to be everywhere.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

However, flood risk is now addressed on a wider catchment scale so that initiatives in one part of a catchment do not have negative effects further downstream. The planting of shrubs and trees also helps infiltration and retention by generating a demand for soil moisture, so that soils have a greater capacity to absorb water.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

All National Grid's net zero pathways rely on significant BECCS capacity to generate 'negative emissions', claims think tank Ember. As the biomass crops store carbon from the atmosphere, by using them as a fuel feedstock while stopping the CO2 from entering the atmosphere, BECCS is designed to produce 'negative emissions'.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

In addition to these practical outcomes, the event demonstrated just how much can be achieved when people come together and demand action. Nature is in crisis, threatened by biodiversity and habitat loss, global heating and toxic pollution. The day continues to hold great significance. Earth Day in 2020. appeared first on Econaur.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Leading UK firms have signed up to a new Nature Positive Business Pledge, but reversing nature loss remains a daunting challenge After centuries of despoiling the environment and forcing nature into retreat, could the private sector play an integral role in reversing the decline in global biodiversity?

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Direct Air Capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere is one set of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategies that may play a role in mitigating climate change, particularly in the mid to latter part of the 21 st century. C report provided four scenarios (P1-P4 in Figure 1) with increasing roles for negative emissions.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Ultimately, how fast these markets rev up depends on demand from fleet buyers. One reason for all this: Batteries continue their journey down the price-experience curve, where increased demand lowers prices, further pumping up demand. Amazon continued its aggressive EV buying plans , as did both Walmart and IKEA. There’s more.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

by the end of the century, the proposed legislation also aims to address the biodiversity crisis, by placing a stronger legal requirement for the government to protect and restore forests, soils, and ecosystems so as to deliver a natural means of absorbing CO2. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

Demand for biofuels has seen significant tracts of land, much of it the Global South, repurposed for energy crop production, a trend that campaigners have blamed for driving deforestation and biodiversity destruction while exacerbating food insecurity. Regulators and investors have taken note.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

MPs are urging the government to use the upcoming Budget to usher in a major transformation of the tax system to align the UK's spending plans with its net zero and biodiversity commitments, warning time is running short to deliver on its promise of a green economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Academics from universities and research institutions across the UK have teamed up with energy and water companies, governments, science centres, and nature charities on a scheme that aims to tap the latest social science research to better drive the behaviour changes required to deliver a low carbon economy.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Biosphere (biodiversity) integrity: infinite human activities affecting eco-systems risk disintegration of natural biodiversity.

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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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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. Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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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. because they were never intended to".

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