Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

” “By harnessing the power of nature alongside our traditional flood defences, we can not only help keep communities safer, but also create wildlife havens and tackle the climate emergency.” ” In early December governments from around the world were assembling for COP 15 to agree on how to halt and reverse nature loss.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

The “solar-powered digital nose” in situ. The first live demonstration of the group’s Silvanet system of solar-powered gas sensors was recently conducted successfully in a forest near Berlin, says the firm. . By adding additional sensors, the network can also be used to monitor tree health and growth.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Reported from France today, geothermal and lithium group Arverne, created by former oil companies to take advantage of geothermal energy, enters the stock market today. The company specializing in drilling hopes to boost the activities of its subsidiaries, from the production of lithium for batteries to geothermal energy for all.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Industry Voice: From UNFCCC to NDCs and IPCC to 1.5°C, This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Black carbon. Carbon sequestration.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. The former U.K.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Machine learning, AI, automation and other solutions can slash firms' carbon emissions and energy usage while boosting their productivity, writes IBM's Ana Paula Assis. Understanding the energy and carbon footprint of a firm's assets can be complex.

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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. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The ocean is the world's largest carbon sink and contains 95 per cent of the planet's biosphere. We praise countries for seeking compromises, putting aside differences and delivering a Treaty that will let us protect the oceans, build our resilience to climate change and safeguard the lives and livelihoods of billions of people."

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

But Ministers insist end to financial support for overseas fossil fuel energy projects, £16bn transition plan for North Sea, and climate compatibility test for new projects can put UK on track to net zero emissions. We will not leave oil and gas workers behind in the United Kingdom's irreversible shift away from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Planned legislation covering energy, transport, and a clamp down on environmental protests was unveiled in today's Queen Speech. Energy Security Bill.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Clearly it will be a major achievement for the UK government if the UK can hold a successful COP, so one can only assume the will is there to try to bring it off. Where are the main challenges? Nature and finance.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The latest report from the Energy Transitions Commission has set out a roadmap for how the world can move on to a 1.5C Meanwhile, global emissions are spiralling upwards again as the economy recovers and surging fossil fuel prices are driving fears that a new wave of high carbon infrastructure investment could yet be unleashed.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The high seas cover some 42 per cent of the Earth's surface, are a major carbon sink, and home to vast amounts of biodiversity. But at the same time the oceans are the backdrop to globally significant economic activity, ranging from fisheries to shipping routes, as well as emerging sectors such as deep sea mining and carbon removal projects.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Analysis by E3G and Global Energy Monitor calculates pipeline for pre-construction coal plants has plummeted 76 per cent since 2015. Moreover, it claims a further 16 countries only have one new coal power plant each in development, putting them just "one project away from a future without coal".

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Arguing that "the time is now" for the UK to be a global climate leader, it calls for immediate policy action to ensure that by 2030 all homes are highly energy efficient, petrol and diesel car sales are phased out, wind and solar generation triples, and 10 million heat pumps are installed in homes.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

For a food company, that means knowing how and where you source your ingredients, what your customers want, and understanding the provenance of your direct and indirect carbon emissions. Concretely, when you look at Danone, 60 percent of our carbon footprint is from agriculture," Soubeiran acknowledged.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

Powers, vice president for global cleantech and renewables at Schneider Electric, who explores how public-private sector collaboration can help unshackle the surging demand for renewable energy. I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Former UK energy and climate minister Claire O’Neill’s World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is running a series of events at the conference on private sector efforts to tackle climate change. Campaigners said the news demonstrated a “classic case of the revolving door” between “big polluters” and governments.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It’s not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you’ll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. The former U.K.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

If the Paris Agreement is anything to go by, the impact of the agreement is set to soon ripple through the real economy, as the private and public sector work together to bring entire industries and economies in to line with its goals. Rules on carbon markets finally wrapped. Polluters have been put on notice.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

They are choking our planet, based on their vested interests and historic investments in fossil fuels, when cheaper, renewable solutions provide green jobs, energy security, and greater price stability. Inflation is rising, and the war in Ukraine is causing food and energy prices to skyrocket.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Saudi Arabia and Australia are assumed to be working hard to strip any mention of fossil fuels from the final text, in line with COP tradition, while reports this afternoon indicated China was fiercely opposed to any mention of a coal phase out. depends on new oil, gas or coal projects.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Saudi Arabia and Australia are assumed to be working hard to strip any mention of fossil fuels from the final text, in line with COP tradition, while reports this afternoon indicated China was fiercely opposed to any mention of a coal phase out. depends on new oil, gas or coal projects.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

One key takeaway from COP26, however, is the role the technology industry must play if we want to reach net zero targets by 2050. This is the first time that a COP agreement has been made on coal at this level. One is to accelerate commercial viability of renewable energy projects and technology. Fossil fuels - an end in sight?

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

For a food company, that means knowing how and where you source your ingredients, what your customers want, and understanding the provenance of your direct and indirect carbon emissions. Concretely, when you look at Danone, 60 per cent of our carbon footprint is from agriculture," Soubeiran acknowledges.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. Unless we reverse nature loss, trillions of dollars will be wiped off the world's economies, industries will be disrupted and the lives of millions will be affected," the group says.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

For a food company, that means knowing how and where you source your ingredients, what your customers want, and understanding the provenance of your direct and indirect carbon emissions. “Concretely, when you look at Danone, 60 percent of our carbon footprint is from agriculture,” Soubeiran acknowledged.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last few months have brought a slew of major announcements signaling ammonia’s potential future as a low-carbon fuel.    Ship Orders  Yara Eyde, a joint venture between Yara Clean Ammonia and North Sea Container Line, aims to be the  world’s first clean ammonia-powered container ship.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

About 200 countries are presently convened for the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 25 in Madrid. The Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP) is tasked with making sure the agreements under the Paris Climate Accord are met. Over the past decade, consumption of renewable power in the U.S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Oliver Griffith explains how a Wildlife Works Carbon forest conservation project is helping to both protect the environment while also sustaining local livelihoods in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the UN's recent COP 26, over 140 world leaders promised to end deforestation by 2030, pledging over $19bn to do so.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

For the fourth year running the number of coal-fired power plants under development around the world declined steeply in 2019, as the CO2-intensive fossil energy source continued to face an increasingly chilly reception from many governments and investors won over by competition from low cost green energy.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The electric competition is head and shoulders above the legacy automakers and scrappy startups racing to turn EV strategies into production and deliveries, and the trends of Tesla in the US and BYD in China illustrate some of the larger geopolitical tensions in the EV supply chain. Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do the next best thing and read our COP reflections.  The pledge also calls on international banks to include nuclear in energy lending policies to help finance project-killing infrastructure expenditures. Last COP featured the conference’s first nuclear-themed pavilion, and this year boasted eight. Happy Monday! 

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Global energy shortages and a recent spike in oil prices to a three-year high above $80 a barrel, have dimmed hopes that governments will announce bold new plans to rapidly ditch fossil fuels at the October 31st to November 12th summit. above pre-industrial times by 2100 based on existing policies. warming target remains within reach.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

A government spokesperson said the situation was being monitored closely. "We Given this is an evolving situation we are keeping the situation under careful review and are in frequent contact with the UN, Chile (as current COP president) and other partners.". It may well be the case that we will see 2020 emissions decline," he said. "In

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And frankly, a company shouldn't be allowed to attend a COP meeting, or sponsor things at a university without having brought its certificate of good behavior, its audited corporate political footprint statement," Whitehouse said. How can businesses exert their power to advance climate action that ultimately works its way into policies?

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