GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Consider this: In April, Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest companies in the world, announced its intent to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. No doubt Shell is counting on some miracle like carbon capture to preserve its adherence to a century-old business model of selling oil. And who could blame it? What happened?

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These early-stage startups are working on innovations from vertical-axis wind turbines to carbon-negative concrete. Carbon Negative Solutions (Rock Hill, N.Y.) is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Its founder is Andre Gafford. Its founder is Keith Crossland.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 13, 2020

By that same token, the current headwinds for oil companies could mean a negative impact on carbon-reduction measures that would also be considered by the industry as discretionary spending. budget announcement had climate change woven throughout. It's a discretionary spend,” she added.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Morten Nilsson explains why the BTPS is aiming to be net zero on carbon emissions by 2035, and how it plans to get there. Implications of climate change. Increased frequency of extreme weather events. Managing the risks posed by climate change. Food and water shortages. Increased displacement of people.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Take the topic of climate change. Severe weather events may affect the company’s manufacturing sites or supply chain security, or climate regulation may mean that some of its products and services are no longer relevant. On the other hand, conflict minerals has not proven to negatively affect enterprise value. .

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 4, 2022

Climate experts are beginning to urge companies instead to focus on real zero emissions, which stops emissions from being produced before they enter the atmosphere. Carbon Positive- Business as Usual. Carbon Offsets. “Net zero” or “real zero”, what’s the difference? In the U.S. We’ll discuss “true zero”, a.k.a.

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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. Glen Peters/CICERO.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

That's despite this being the second pandemic in 10 years, the fourth respiratory illness in 18 years, and numerous warnings from the World Health Organization, he added at the February virtual event. The question is whether states can regulate and try cases having to do with climate change. "As The risks of not sharing.

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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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Greentown Labs

MAY 10, 2021

The three-year Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative —a partnership among Greentown Labs, Urban Future Lab , and the Fraunhofer USA TechBridge Program —is creating a first-of-its-kind collaborative ecosystem for carbontech startups and leading corporations with the end goal of making carbontech cost-effective and achieving its deployment at scale. “We

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Their comments came during an early June conference touted as bringing “together Indigenous leaders, industry experts, policymakers, civil society organizations, scientists, engineers and investors to discuss and advance the strategies that take us ‘beyond zero’ into negative emissions and a recovering climate.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

New report from the Coalition for Negative Emissions argues urgent action is needed to expand carbon removals market - and businesses have a critical role to play. Most importantly, delivering net zero emissions through carbon offsets risks distracting from the need to slash emissions at source.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Climate change is directly caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from electricity and heat production, buildings, transportation, land use and degradation, and most importantly, industry. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Improve climate change education.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

C limate projections for the UK suggest that rainfall will increase in winter and decrease in summer, and that individual rainfall events may increase in intensity, especially in winter. NFM provides protection for smaller flood events, reduces peak flooding and delays the arrival of the flood peak downstream. NFM benefits.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

The losses will especially be felt in the southern states from California to Florida according to a study published in Climatic Change. According to the same study in Climatic Change , “up to 1.8 worker, could be lost annually over the next three decades due to extreme heat caused by climate change.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

An all-you-need-to-know guide to the IPCC's must-read scientific dossier on the true scale of the climate crisis now facing the global economy. For 30 years, the science underpinning climate change, and humanity's role in driving it, has never been in much doubt. Warming is likely to reach 1.5C within next 20 years.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But increasing pressures by agribusiness lobbies and the industry’s limited climate commitments risk derailing efforts to transition global food systems towards more just and environmentally-friendly operations, experts say. Sharma likened accepting the industry’s proposed climate solutions to “‘putting band aids on an extractive system”.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Climate change is directly caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from electricity and heat production, buildings, transportation, land use and degradation, and most importantly, industry. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Improve climate change education.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Turning down a client contract to run a major PR campaign for an oil major that consistently has lobbied against climate action and has not even signaled its intention to be part of a future net-zero economy is one thing, but more clients from carbon-intensive industries do not fall quite so easily into the climate laggard category.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We reached out this spring to check in, asking those inclined to weigh in on how current events have changed their world views. 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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

This year’s London Climate Action Week marks a key moment in the run-up to November’s COP26 in Glasgow. Search its website for the term and a whole host of events and organisations pop up, such as “Bankers for Net Zero”, or “Get Net Zero Right”, a town hall debate promising a “frank conversation”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Research by DeSmog shows that Porter has a track record of publicly casting doubt on established science on human-caused climate change. The BBC regularly covers climate change and the dangers of climate misinformation. She also spoke at a webinar run by GWPF’s campaign arm Net Zero Watch last June.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2021

Tech giant joins sponsor roster for vital climate talks, as shareholders urge firm to consider benefits of providing customers with better access to repair services. COP26 President Alok Sharma welcomed Microsoft's support of the event, arguing that businesses would have a "key role" in ensuring the talks were a success. "I

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy. Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This month, they presented their incredible climate technologies at an ACCEL Showcase at Greentown Houston. Check out a recording of the event below, and read on to learn about each startup, the climate impact of their technologies, and their progress during the program! megatons of carbon in the same period.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

As a result, oil prices have plummeted and yesterday even went negative for the first time in history as global storage capacity for oil filled up, meaning in theory oil producers would have had to pay customers to take oil off their hands, rather than selling it at over $30 a barrel as they were just weeks ago. That is evolving.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Climate change is a transnational challenge which threatens global resilience and our shared security and prosperity," said Sir Mike Wigston KCB CBE ADC, air chief marshal and chief of air staff. The flight was made the Ikarus C42 the "first aircraft powered by synthetic fuel", according to the Guinness World Records.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

By 2030, we will need to increase the amount of waste we recycle from 45 per cent to 70 per cent, choose to buy 15 million electric cars, and decide to install five times as much cavity wall insulation as we do today, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC). At the last election 95.5

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

In fact in many states, the wholesale cost of electricity moves into negative prices in the middle of the day when rooftop solar system generation peaks. Increasing Climate Change Awareness. One of the main actions homeowners can take to reduce their own carbon footprint is to install solar.

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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

MARCH 11, 2021

Despite the pandemic, 2020 proved a landmark year for investor action on climate change, with significant resolutions being passed, while many others were narrowly defeated. Then join us at the Net Zero Finance pathway event , as part of the Net Zero Festival 2021 , which will take place online on March 16th.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent annually up until 2049, a year ahead of the UK’s net zero emissions target. In a submission to the inquiry seen by The Independent , Hudson said that recent extreme weather events and the UK’s leadership role as hosts of the upcoming COP26 climate summit had led to his change of heart.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

As a result, oil prices have plummeted and yesterday US future contracts went negative for the first time in history as global storage capacity for oil continued to fill up. It is a bit of a complicated financial instrument so we shouldn't over interpret the negative effect," he said.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

Now, more than ever, we feel the urge for humanity to address a future inevitable crisis, one poised to be bigger and even longer-lasting than the current crisis we are facing - climate change. And the negative impact of climate change on habitat and diversity are far more profound than that caused by the wildlife trade.

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