Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 4, 2022

Carbon Positive- Business as Usual. Though we are beginning to see a shift towards greener business practices and sweeping sustainability commitments, companies are almost all still carbon positive, meaning they produce emissions greater than zero. Carbon Offsets. “Net zero” or “real zero”, what’s the difference?

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

We don’t have the luxury of time to waste. That’s why Amazon’s new carbon neutralization paper is a breath of fresh air. Not all carbon credits are created equal , but companies can purchase high-quality, verified forest carbon credits through organizations like Emergent , which develops REDD+ tropical forest carbon credits. .

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. They’ll be measured and reported on, just like another other sustainability metric and the company’s leadership will be held accountable for them, said Todd Brady, senior director of global public affairs and sustainability at Intel. Sustainable.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A research team at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a system capable of converting waste from sewage, food crops, algae and other renewable carbon sources into hydrogen fuel. It then removes carbon from wastewater, allowing the clean water to be reused.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

That’s why Greentown and Saint-Gobain partnered to launch Go Build 2023, which specifically sought innovations to extend product life cycles, find alternative raw materials, and enable technologies for waste revalorization. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECLAIMED LUMBER. RECYCLED PLASTIC.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

As the quest for sustainable energy intensifies, biomass emerges as a pivotal player in the arena of renewable resources. This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power.

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POWER Magazine

MARCH 1, 2024

GW Drax Power Station in northeastern England—once Western Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant—is poised to pioneer bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a negative emissions The post UK’s Drax Eyes U.S. for Bioenergy CCS Expansion Drive appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

Rossella Nicolin is European Head of Sustainability at engineering and construction firm Laing O’Rourke, a founding member of ConcreteZero. Concrete production accounts for 8% of global annual carbon emissions – if it were a country, it would rank somewhere between the US and India in terms of its carbon footprint.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

What’s Your Unique Sustainability Story? If your company has become a more sustainable and greener business, you have a powerful and beneficial story to share with your employees, customers, partners and investors. These commitments summarize your most important sustainability goals and how you will achieve them.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

Despite positive steps towards a sustainable COVID-19 recovery from a few leading nations, the world has so far fallen short of matching aspirations to build back better," said Brian O'Callahan, lead researcher at the Oxford University Economic Recovery project. billion has been spent on low-carbon transport, $28.9 Meanwhile, $86.1

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 15, 2021

New program will enable Web Hosting Canada customers to verifiably demonstrate their sustainability. Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with Web Hosting Canada (WHC) to bring the GBB sustainability program, framework and certification to Canada’s business community. Green should not just be a buzzword.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Producing metal by growing plants, or phytomining, has long been tipped as an alternative, environmentally-sustainable way to reshape – if not replace – the mining industry. In Italy’s Tuscany region, for example, researchers planted various cottonwood and willow species over arsenic-contaminated pyrite waste. rufuschaneyi.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 13, 2022

New program will enable Canada Sporting Goods Association members to verifiably demonstrate their sustainability. Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with the Canada Sporting Goods Association (CSGA) to bring the GBB sustainability program, framework and certification to Canada’s sporting goods industry.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2022

The band is aiming to make its upcoming world tour 'as sustainable as possible' by utilising waste-derived biofuels to power its tour buses, flights, and staging operations. Frontman Chris Martin added: "We've tried to put sustainability at the centre of this tour because it just feels like the only option.".

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors. The award was accepted by Joel Griffith, DGS and the O Street team.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

June 22 marked the publication of the fifth annual GreenBiz 30 Under 30 , our report celebrating rising young professionals in the field of corporate sustainability. . Do you think the COVID-19 crisis marks a turning point for the sustainability movement? . Sustainability must be a must have and not a nice to have.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Fewer than six out of 400 companies surveyed in 2020 legal filings said there was a potential pandemic problem, Rodney Irwin, managing director of redefining value at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, said during GreenBiz 21. Consider compliance. The risks of not sharing. The power of metaphor.

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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. Arbitrary Targets Are Not The Solution’.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Sustainable Development Goal 13: Putting Climate Action in the Hands of Businesses. SDGs are driving governments, individuals, universities, and businesses to adjust their practices to achieve benchmarks and secure a sustainable future by 2030. This adds to global waste, emissions and an exhausting demand for new material.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 14, 2021

In a bold move last January, Adidas acknowledged its contribution to plastic waste, noting the waste’s negative impacts on the world’s oceans. Adidas’s new Outdoor line stays true to this environmental commitment with clear sustainable features. Adidas Images via Adidas. View original post here:Â .

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 4, 2022

We call this, sustainable eCommerce. From carbon emissions via the shipping, manufacturing, and order fulfillment processes, to excess packaging on the consumer end. New business owners looking to reduce waste and negate the environmental impact of their online company have plenty of tools at their disposal.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 20, 2021

In January 2020, Microsoft launched a company-wide focus on sustainability by announcing an? to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they have emitted since they were founded. ambitious goal and a detailed plan ?to Project Highlights.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Sustainable Development Goal 13: Putting Climate Action in the Hands of Businesses. SDGs are driving governments, individuals, universities, and businesses to adjust their practices to achieve benchmarks and secure a sustainable future by 2030. This adds to global waste, emissions and an exhausting demand for new material.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2020

Consultancy giant's head of corporate sustainability James Robey explains how the firm plans to tackle 'the biggest business change problem we've ever seen'. And that is precisely where Capgemini's expertise comes in, explains James Robey, the firm's head of corporate sustainability. degree climate science.".

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

These continuous changes result in increases in waste, emissions, resource depletion and high energy consumption. The problem we face today, is really the problems associated with population growth, consumption, waste and disposal. Terms such as climate change, climate crisis, carbon neutral, negative emissions, etc.

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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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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 10, 2023

Now the CEO of Rubi Laboratories , Mashouf wants to clean up the industrial sector and create processes that harness the powerful systems of the natural world to create a sustainable manufacturing ecosystem. Read more about the industry’s footprint in our sustainable fashion deep dive ]. What to watch Grab a partner.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

The tech giant has lifted the lid on its efforts to soak up more carbon than it emits. Microsoft is one of those companies we write about a lot at GreenBiz , as it has often been at the forefront of sustainability. million metric tons and collected carbon emissions data from 87 percent of its suppliers.

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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. ENGIE hails 'world first' gas from waste breakthrough.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers. At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. We named eight of the biggest players in the space so sustainability professionals know what and who to watch out for.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

Allbirds put its best foot forward when it stepped into the sustainable footwear sphere. Made with rubber, vegetable oil and other natural ingredients, this leather alternative, aptly named Plant Leather, has 40 times less carbon impact than animal-derived leather and 17 times less carbon impact than synthetic leathers made from plastics.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

It said it will take action to slash its emissions and neutralise any remaining emissions with "additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets" in order to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040, which is 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement targets of 2050.

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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.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

CEO Kevin Johnson outlines major new sustainability strategy for the coffee giant, promising tough environmental targets will 'create greater value for all stakeholders'. Today, more than ever, the world needs leadership in environmental sustainability," said Johnson. "We It seems Microsoft was just the start of a trend.

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