The Verge: Energy

MAY 6, 2024

Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, speaks during a climate initiative event at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, on Thursday, January 16th, 2020. Photo: Getty Images Microsoft is doubling down on a controversial plan to capture carbon dioxide emissions from wood-burning power plants.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The UK has recognised climate change as the world's biggest threat–collaboration between businesses, government and individuals is crucial to delivering net zero, writes AXA's UK & I chief executive Claudio Gienal. Driving long-term sustainability and tackling climate change has never been more important.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With this in mind, this article presents the 20 best climate change and sustainability documentaries. These documentaries exhibit how video storytelling can be used to promote sustainability and climate action. Summarized below are 20 of the best climate change and sustainability documentaries.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

UN Conference on Trade and Development fears that slowdown in foreign investment could impact flows of climate-related finance. Investment in projects that tackle climate change is expected to decline in 2022 as global foreign direct investment flows drop, according to a report published by the UN Conference on Trade and Development.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But now Europe is poised to enact laws that would not only recognise the harms of chemical-intensive agriculture, but also to ensure that synthetic pesticide and fertiliser use is significantly reduced. As pesticide trade body CropLife Europe says: “let’s focus on transition, not just targets”.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2020

In addition to cheap sources of green energy, Gore says we need to price carbon. There are 43 jurisdictions around the world that already have a price on carbon such as Europe and China. EVs will be cost-competitive within two years, and then will continue falling in price. US States like California are also doing it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

If there is one issue that transcends all the different areas of modern journalism, then climate change is it. According to an independent study, commissioned by Clim8 Invest, climate change is the number one concern for 61 per cent of UK consumers. Taking action. Standard Life Aberdeen is one such business.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

It would have been the largest gas plant in Europe and, unsurprisingly, drew the attention of environmental groups. ’s climate change laws. It plans to add carbon capture and storage to the biomass plants, taking them to a negative-emissions status. Plans for a new 3.6-gigawatt ’s largest power plant.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2020

Several European countries who are considered leaders in climate protection owe their apparently good emission reductions to biomass. These might turn out to look quite different in the future, if carbon-accounting under the Emissions Trading System (ETS) were to be based on science and the real effects on climate.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The asset manager has faced significant criticism from green campaigners in the past for failing to use its hugely influential position to lead robust environmental stewardship of the companies it engages with, and for not taking radical enough action to back away from carbon-intensive investments. They ask us about it nearly every day.".

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

These threats range from populist leaders and global tensions right through to the climate crisis and resource depletion. When we are bombarded with negative news and potential threats regularly, it can take a toll on our well-being and overall happiness. Slowed Climate Change. Reduced Carbon Footprint.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A recent study has found it is currently “not feasible” for the global livestock industry to sequester enough carbon to cancel out its planet-warming emissions — and that policy efforts geared toward that goal may be deeply misguided. 135 gigatons is roughly equal to all the carbon lost due to agriculture over the past 12,000 years.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Tech giant becomes latest big name addition to the European Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change. Tech giant Microsoft has this week formally joined the European Corporate Leaders Group (CLG Europe), building on its recent commitment to become a net negative emission company.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

Green hydrogen may get all the headlines, but the prospect of it fueling Europe's future hydrogen economy on its own looks increasingly questionable. Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology scooping up the resulting CO2. ’s Committee on Climate Change, the [U.N.'s

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Australian firm Worley appointed by Drax to provide the front-end engineering and design work on the first two carbon capture units at its Yorkshire biomass plant. The move comes in support of its target announced last December to become a 'carbon negative' company within 10 years.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

There is a strong link between economic activity and global carbon dioxide emissions, due to the dominance of fossil fuel sources of energy. This coupling suggests we might be in for an unexpected surprise due to the coronavirus pandemic: a slowdown of carbon dioxide emissions due to reduced energy consumption. Andy Rain/EPA.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Shopify and Stripe announce latest $11m investment round through Frontier negative emissions fund. Ecommerce tech giants Shopify and Stripe have announced the latest round of investment as part of the Frontier negative emissions technology initiative, securing $11m worth of carbon removal credits through six new deals.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2020

While natural disturbances — flooding , landslides, insect infestations, fungi, vine overgrowth, disease, wildfire and even wind damage — negatively impact forests , they do not compare with the magnitude of harm humans have precipitated. Go here to see the original: Climate change, deforestation lead to younger, shorter trees.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

But in the context of one of the world's biggest security issues - climate change - threats and adaptations are evolving at pace. In summer 2021, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raised the threat level posed by climate change to a ' code red for humanity'. Carbon bootprints.

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Business Green

APRIL 11, 2021

Report commissioned by energy firm argues BECCS technology offers climate and cost benefits for decarbonising UK energy system. The project is unique as a relatively inexpensive source of negative emissions that can be deployed before 2030 and is an important first step in a wider UK BECCS programme," states the report.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Insurance giant's stress test of 48 major economies finds climate impacts are on course to make world trillions of dollars poorer. Climate change is on course to slash up to 18 per cent off global GDP by 2050, making the world trillions of dollars poorer if mitigating action is not taken and global temperatures soar to 3.2C

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

From its source in the Pindos Mountains in north-west Greece to its meeting with the Adriatic Sea in Albania, the Vjosa river flows uninterrupted for more than 270 kilometres, making it the longest free-flowing river in Europe outside of Russia. But the picture is much more complicated.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Majority of risk experts and the general public in the UK view climate change as the number one threat facing society, ahead of future pandemics and economic instability. Moreover, he said that London's financial sector had a major role to play in leveraging its world-renowned risk expertise to tackle the climate crisis. "It

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Any shortfall in that support should be covered by federal funding, including proceeds from the new carbon tax, Teyssen said Tuesday. Reduced demand during the coronavirus lockdown, coupled with ample wind and solar generation, has seen German power prices go negative, even more so than usual.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Labour Party has been accused of helping biomass energy giant Drax engage in “green spin” by holding a climate event at its upcoming conference sponsored by the North Yorkshire company. million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2020, including 13.2 Drax – which emitted 19.4 at the Labour conference in Brighton on Monday.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

Major new analysis from the Potsdam Institute warns climate impacts through to 2050 could do significantly more economic damage than previously expected How bad could it get? One of the biggest uncertainties surrounding climate change is precisely how severe climate impacts could prove to be.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

Solutions to the world's biggest problems, including climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, are studied in research laboratories across the globe. But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints. Elsa Wenzel. Tue, 01/19/2021 - 00:30.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Now is the time for real action to ensure societies stop wasting resources with all the related negative consequences. In many places, the pandemic helped to meet Paris Climate Agreement goals,” underlines Volker Rehrmann, Executive Vice President and Head of TOMRA Recycling/Mining & Circular Economy Division.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. Rakos has also come under fire from Laurence Tubiana, a former French diplomat and an architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, over his claims.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

It is the first of three pellet plants in the pipeline for Drax in North America, which once operational will have a combined capacity to produce around 120,000 tonnes of biomass pellets each year for its North Yorkshire power plant, where the company is testing carbon capture technology.

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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. and Canada to meet a rising demand for biomass-fuelled energy in Europe and Asia. Indicator Maps.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 7, 2021

Power plant engineering and construction giant Bechtel is partnering with a renewable energies company to explore the potential of bioenergy production sites combined with carbon capture and storage. The EPC firm announced its strategic agreement with Drax to create Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) plants around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The biggest risks to food security stem from climate change and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services,” said the letter, which was sent to all Members of the European Parliament. “We Furthermore the effect on climate change is minimal.” billion) in losses due to droughts caused by climate change.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

The paper identifies five core green policy areas that policymakers should focus on — green energy, low-carbon transport, natural capital, green building upgrades and green research and development (R&D) — and highlights successful green spending programs to date. billion has been spent on low-carbon transport, $28.9 Climate Change.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

When 175 world leaders gathered in Paris in 2015 to agree a landmark treaty to combat climate change, it felt like action and investment would be accelerated as the world worked together to deliver a sustainable low carbon future. But since then we haven't moved far from the starting line - when we should be winning the race.

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