GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. The time is now to flatten the climate change curve.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

My message here today is one of hope not of despair” said UN chief António Guterres addressing journalists at a press conference in the Spanish capital on Sunday, after revealing the key takeaways from the World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate report, due to be published during COP25. degrees “is still within reach.”

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 4, 2022

There were certain technologies that existed and her own will to make changes to clean energy, but it was all so nascent. She wanted an impactful journey and with the threat that climate change was presenting, along with the science to back it up, she knew the importance of responding immediately. On how Keally thinks about DEI.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

We are entering socio-economic times of high risk and risk mitigation practices to mitigate the impact of human influenced climate change. The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Business is constantly changing to meet consumer demands.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. 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.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

In his response to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres noted that, “Had we been further advanced in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, we could better face this challenge.” ” Background on Earth Day.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. More than 100 gigatons of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, must be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. Collaborations such as this will help to solve the climate problems.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

Recent data shows that of the 30 raw materials the EU classifies as critical, 19 are predominantly imported from China, a country where Covid restrictions and impacts continue to negatively affect the production and supply of goods. The first problem is that few leaders take a holistic system change approach to the challenges they face.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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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 a unique, multi-year program driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO?) New York City, N.Y.,

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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. But at the same time, the market could end up undermining global efforts to tackle climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

Chris Stark, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, said: Not much to say about this Budget - a comment in itself. Suggest the most significant change is contained in the new remit of the Monetary Policy Committee. The Chancellor has dropped the green recovery ball before the try line.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The Strategy is to be underpinned by a new statutory body, the Industrial Strategy Council (ISC), which like the Committee for Climate Change would aim to ensure a future Labour government honours its commitments to deliver clean power by 2030, better harness data for public good, and build a more future-facing and resilient economy. "A

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. Estonia, and Canada – and the UK–the world’s top importer of wood pellets for biomass energy.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

I first started working on climate change in the 1990s, advising President Clinton as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the run-up to the 1997 Kyoto Conference of Parties. We understood that the potential cost of climate change was significant. . Yellen’s to the Institute of International Finance.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The wood pellets Drax produces are treated as “carbon neutral” under international accounting rules, based on an assumption that new-growth trees will capture the carbon lost by wood burnt for electricity. Drax already operates 18 wood pellet plants across the U.S. But scientists and campaigners have long disputed these claims.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

Five years ago, climate change wasn’t a topic among many conversations in Houston. Things have changed. Today is a major milestone in Houston’s broader efforts to build a more efficient and more sustainable low-carbon future. bp is thrilled to partner with Greentown Labs,” said Al Vickers, CEO of bp Wind Energy.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

“So it’s allowed us to reintroduce to the world of the business community this notion of what it means to be resilient, and not just to be agile.” Balancing efficiency with resilience, as well as considering operational risk, are likely to become more of a focus, too.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

Most notable are our warming winters , which are melting wonderlands under the brunt of climate change. In this Green Business Bureau article, we address the focal environmental challenge for the ski industry, namely climate change. Climate change challenge: Thawing winters threaten the ski industry.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. But how long can tropical forests remain one of Earth’s greatest carbon sinks?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Negative emissions technologies are critical for the earth’s climate and hitting net zero in the UK, argues Drax CEO Will Gardiner. We are all well aware the ongoing need for extra caution, cooperation and resilience in the face of this global crisis. Going net negative. This year has been unlike any in recent memory.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

The events of this year have been first and foremost a human tragedy, but they also have served as a catalyst to awakening interest and adoption of these strategies as reasonable approaches to remain resilient during these uncertain times. Negative/exclusionary screening (44.6 Indeed, in early 2020, J.P. Conclusion.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Joshua Tosteson, COO of climate conservation marketing company Everland, offers a defense of REDD+ carbon offsets. It is clear that Rome is burning - literally - as the catastrophic loss of Earth's forests drives the spread of two planetary cancers, now at stage four: climate change and species loss.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. The time is now to flatten the climate change curve.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

The WindH2 system is a central component of the SALCOS - Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking technology project, which Salzgitter AG expects to deliver significant carbon emission reductions from the steelmaking process and could the long term even achieve almost CO2-free steel production. EU ETS carbon price hits record €41.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Home to the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, UMass Amherst works with regional researchers and graduate science students to develop tools needed to help fish, wildlife, and ecosystems adapt to the impacts of climate change.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If the targets are met large swathes of land and sea that are currently exploited by businesses to produce food, extract resources, and home millions of people will see their legal status change as they are granted stronger nature protections. The bulk of the funding - some £2.5tr - was deemed neutral.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink has warned companies that they face increased scrutiny of their carbon-cutting plans and US president Joe Biden has outlined $2tr of commitments in support of climate action at a time when thousands of businesses and scores of national governments are unveiling net zero strategies.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"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. Betley feels heartened to see a young generation taking a stand on climate change.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today. 400+ sessions. But not all offsets are created equal.

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The global fight against climate change is gradually gaining momentum, with countries like Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, and the EU reaffirming commitment to the Paris Agreement, and more than 80 mayors in the US confirming that they will continue with agreed guidelines.

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2022

As distrust in ESG grows, it is critical to ensure the rush for carbon credits is harnessed for the benefit of the planet and communities most vulnerable to climate change, writes the VCMI's Rachel Kyte. Glasgow usefully began to spotlight the debate on voluntary use of carbon credits.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

. “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. Betley feels heartened to see a young generation taking a stand on climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. After decades of gridlock, the US looks set to pass sweeping climate legislation for the first time.

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