Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In fact, many of us are flying more – air travel over Thanksgiving week in the US was the busiest ever , and annual demand for flights is growing rapidly in markets like India and China.   But all this travel comes at a steep carbon cost. Other vegetable oils face land use and carbon footprint concerns.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Replacing physical in-person meetings and events like advisory boards, training sessions, and sales and marketing conferences with virtual events can reduce a company’s carbon footprint and help protect the planet. In general, the larger the number of participants and the longer the event, the larger the negative impact on the environment.

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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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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Maersk even advocated for a $150 per ton carbon tax on shipping fuel.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Fossil fuels, a vision of the future or something our children will see in history books? While it is expected fossil fuel demand will rise, the broad consensus amongst most outlooks is that the growth will eventually plateau due to energy efficiency and developments in renewables. What is up with the world?

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

A blanket dismissal of the net zero concept demands not that polluters come forward with credible strategies that could work in both principle and in practice, but rather fuels the impression any and all plans are 'greenwash' and are not worthy of consideration. It's that simple. Real world action.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. Perhaps we each have our favourite technologies and we react negatively to the other technologies. What would change?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Yesterday, in a bid to help Ministers bridge the gap, business advoacy group the Aldersgate Group published a major report that sets out how a series of policy measures enacted over this parliamentary term could steer the UK towards its 2050 net zero ambition, as well as its interim carbon reduction targets under the fourth and fifth carbon budgets.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. Yet, rather than meet the demands of environmentalism, many corporations chose to hide dirty operations under a green sheen. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. Posing an investment risk.

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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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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

Roman Krznaric’s book " The Good Ancestor " is an important antidote to redirect our thinking away from apathy and fear. On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. Yet, rather than meet the demands of environmentalism, many corporations chose to hide dirty operations under a green sheen. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. Posing an investment risk.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Singling out a handful of Canadian oil companies as investment ideas, Goldman Sachs wrote in a report to its clients on August 16: “We recognize, in the near-term, that the group is facing three negative equity narratives.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau likes to champion his government’s climate action, and he has implemented a carbon tax.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2) Helping fleet partners access government incentive plans to upgrade equipment and transport trucks to reduce fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. That’s a big win in our book.”. Our customers want it, our employees want it and I demand it.”. Duro Cleaners. Web Hosting Canada. Green should not just be a buzzword.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It answers questions in a human-like way, pulling from myriad sources across the digital universe as well as from books, academic journals and who-knows-what-else. AI can be used to support and enhance various climate technologies and solutions, such as renewable energy, carbon capture and climate modeling.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Italy announces ban on new petrol and diesel cars, EU carbon prices hit record levels, and all the green business news from around the world this week. RUSAL opens new low carbon aluminium smelter. Our smelter in Taishet will help to address the high global demand for low carbon aluminium.".

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Does your company have an open-book management process that allows employees to access all financial and operational data?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Despite the region’s shrinking wetlands, the government continues to permit new LNG export facilities on the Gulf Coast , and is encouraging hydrogen and carbon capture sequestration developments , though they too will lead to further land loss. Jurisich and Copper see this as bad form.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. This is a summary of the book ‘Kweekvlees, Fake Vlees & Pizza’s uit de Printer’ from Sebastiaan van de Water. This is called photosynthesis.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree I am asking corporate leaders to support a minimum international carbon price and align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement. Does he want his premiership to be remembered as pioneering and bold - or left out of the history books because he was no match for the task at hand?".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

And now, as Reuters reports, many are trying to sell-off “dozens of oil and gas fields and refineries worth more than $110 billion to curb both their ballooning debt and their carbon footprints.”. BP gets to tell investors it's reducing carbon impact. Banks including JPMorgan did not want to lend Hilcorp $5.6

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Roman Krznaric’s book ” The Good Ancestor ” is an important antidote to redirect our thinking away from apathy and fear. On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

And now, as Reuters reports, many are trying to sell-off “dozens of oil and gas fields and refineries worth more than $110 billion to curb both their ballooning debt and their carbon footprints.”. BP gets to tell investors it's reducing carbon impact. Banks including JPMorgan did not want to lend Hilcorp $5.6

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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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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Environmental change can truly have a ton of negative outcomes. In the event that electrical conveyors are joined to the positive and negative sides, framing an electrical circuit, the electrons can be caught as an electric current - that is, power. Low efficiencies imply that bigger clusters are required, and that implies higher cost.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year. Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. Shell had other plans.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The approach focuses on topsoil regeneration to increase biodiversity, improve water recycling, and support carbon capture by biosequestration. Named after the young activist Greta Thunberg, I Am Greta tells Greta’s story as she demands climate justice. These choices demand self-reflection regarding our fossil fuel use and what we eat.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

It acknowledges the goal of ensuring residual emissions of greenhouse gases are balanced by technologies to remove them from the atmosphere is "a great idea, in principle", just as it accepts how "in principle there is nothing wrong or dangerous about carbon dioxide removal proposals".

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Negative prices are genuinely unprecedented and they provide a glaring signal as to quite how bad the economic crisis is fast becoming. As such, it is important not to overstate what happened yesterday as US oil futures briefly went negative, sparking further price slumps around the world. In fairness, this time is different.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 30, 2021

Increasing population and affluence subsequently increases overall demand, be it in the form of food, water or energy. In the book “The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Duelling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World” two scientists present two different paths to escape a humanitarian crisis.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. For the first time in history, oil prices were negative. The transition is among us.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

Mister Yergin is the author of the well-known book the Prize , for which he won the prestigious Pulitzer prize, and is considered an authority in the field of energy. His latest book The New Map comes just when the industry is turned upside down. Mr. Sustainability’s view (1) I read the book, it is a great work. Around 2030.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

Mister Yergin is the author of the well-known book the Prize , for which he won the prestigious Pulitzer prize, and is considered an authority in the field of energy. His latest book The New Map comes just when the industry is turned upside down. Mr. Sustainability (1) I read the book, it is a great work. Around 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. kilowatt output,” according to the book. Science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

As explained by Nina Munteanu in a Vancouver Sun article , the reason that conservative men are so negatively disposed towards female environmentalists is because these women threaten their gender identity. Compared to men, women litter less, recycle more, and leave a smaller carbon footprint." kilograms of carbon per day.

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