EDF + Business

JULY 10, 2020

But as economic activity picks up, so does pollution — and if the habit of doing more shopping online persists, we could end up with worse air quality from fleets of diesel-powered delivery trucks. In fact, Amazon’s carbon emissions climbed 15% in the last year alone — even before coronavirus — due to increased sales.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ( NYSERDA ) and the Consulate General of Canada in New York. New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

The WSPA’s description of its dinner says that “nothing is off the table” — adding that “we want to hear from you and answer any questions you may have about the oil and gas industry’s role in the energy transition.” To get there, industries need to lead the way with innovative technologies and solutions.”

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals. Elsa Wenzel.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The basalt aggregate produced at the Orrock Quarry has made its way in roads, bridges, paving, and buildings and been used in tar and cement production for the best part of 50 years. But now an industry is growing around the promise of fast-tracking this natural carbon sequestration process to help tackle climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In addition to these financial risks, greenwashing can also harm businesses by: Exposing employees and consumers to toxic, dangerous, and environmentally damaging products by not investing in the appropriate health and safety measures as a true sustainable business would. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK. Whether driven by animal welfare, health, or environmental concerns - or a combination of all three - more and more people are either becoming vegan and vegetarian or reducing their meat consumption and eating greater proportions of plant-based food.

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Cleaner Electricity Grids Equal Longer Life Expectancy By Nils Frenkel, Sales Director, North America When I was working with the City of San Antonio’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan a few years ago, I learned about a shocking statistic in the city I call home. Peaker Plants Are Located Throughout the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

And DeSmog can also reveal that a growing group of ethical investors are demanding that ad and PR companies come clean about their true climate impact. An outpouring of criticism of French ad giant Havas — a self-styled climate leader — for taking a global media buying contract with oil major Shell is another clear indicator of this trend.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In addition to these financial risks, greenwashing can also harm businesses by: Exposing employees and consumers to toxic, dangerous, and environmentally damaging products by not investing in the appropriate health and safety measures as a true sustainable business would. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

And DeSmog can also reveal that a growing group of ethical investors are demanding that ad and PR companies come clean about their true climate impact. An outpouring of criticism of French ad giant Havas — a self-styled climate leader — for taking a global media buying contract with oil major Shell is another clear indicator of this trend.

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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. Today, there are over 6,000 certified B Corps , in more than 8 countries and over 150 different industries.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Coast Guard for floating LNG projects off Grande Isle, Louisiana , were moderated by third-party contractors who offer permit expediting services for industry. Credit: Julie Dermansky The diversion project lies at the intersection of two crises: the state’s alarming coastal land-loss rate and the essential threat of climate change.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

Regain your power, and use this article alongside the ISO 14000 family of standards to approach sustainability with an actionable manual to get things done. Today, there are over 22,600 different types of ISO standards, spanning many industries. ISO 45001:2015 – An international standard for health and safety in the workplace.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

The global food system is complex, requiring inputs from a diverse set of industries, such as agriculture, transportation logistics, plus marketing, and retail. Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment. Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy. In the U.S.,

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

EQT’s move comes on the heels of a similar announcement from Chesapeake Energy, one of the pioneers of fracking which recently emerged from bankruptcy. Industry advisors are increasingly offering up new ideas about how oil and gas companies can use the language of ESG to market their fossil fuel as different from the competition’s.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

On a recent episode of the Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria,” American Petroleum Institute CEO and President, Mike Sommers , said that “the most important environmental movement in the world is the American oil and gas industry.”. “A Some researchers have called this “fossil fuel solutionism.” . Learn how his work is shaping our future.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Suddenly business sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and achieving gender equality. Squandering finite resources, creating extravagant amounts of waste, and the excessive release of carbon emissions is causing our planet to belch at the seams. Carbon in our atmosphere is 280 parts per million (ppm).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I wanted to see how much it knew and how well it could contextualise the broad and complex range of technologies under the climate tech umbrella - everything from clean energy to water treatment to e-bikes to carbon capture - and what it understood about corporate sustainability in general. And it's just getting started.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Because the price of keeping the status quo grows steeper every year, from the human and economic toll of climate-related disasters, fires, heatwaves, and other environmental stresses to the jobs left on the table by not accelerating towards a carbon-free, regenerative economy. And now, please help us welcome: CIRCULAR ECONOMY.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

The pandemic hit at a critical time when climate action started to gain momentum - we must now renew that momentum, writes Arçelik CEO Hakan Bulgurlu. Suddenly you realise that power, beauty and money are worthless, and won't get you the oxygen you're fighting for. Yet, the world continues in its beauty and only puts humans in cages.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

“This process adds to air pollution because it leads to flaring off excess toxic gases , together with natural gas and oxygen, to keep the chemicals from building up to dangerous pressures.”. Black carbon released by flares can be a powerful — if short-lived — greenhouse gas in its own right. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Combining permaculture principles with smart technology to monitor plant health, the myfood smart greenhouses aim to change people’s relationships with food as a means of reducing the global carbon footprint. For urban dwellers, the startup developed the 3.5-square-meter

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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. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Introduction Climate Change. According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. From a historical perspective however, warning about the negative effects of our food consumption are commonplace. Deforestation. Loss of biodiversity.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) Sea Ice extent is going down. The more multi-year ice, the better it is for the Arctic.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Advertising Association president Keith Weed outlines the industry's new action plan to decarbonise the UK advertising industry. Ad Net Zero is calling for immediate, collective industry action to help achieve real net zero carbon emissions from the development, production and media placement of advertising by the end of 2030.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

Climate tech companies that attracted substantial funding for their innovations in 2021 and 2022 are now reaching important proof points on the journey to commercial scale. ⚡ Fervo Energy shared successful results from a 30-day flow test of its enhanced geothermal system at its pilot site in Nevada.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Decarbonized buildings. I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. GreenBiz Editors.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 20, 2022

We had a simple theory of change: you can’t manage what you don’t measure, and the Earth was not being measured nearly fast enough to address a wide array of global challenges. We’d also need to grapple with terabytes of data per day, and build a business that required forging new markets. The first step is measurement.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

Microsoft has vowed to build a new 'planetary computer' and protect more land than it uses by 2025 as part of a suite of sustainability initiatives unveiled today that build on the tech giant's high profile plan to be carbon negative within the next 10 years.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Decarbonized buildings. “I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun,” he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment.

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