Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

The truth is that the climate crisis is about the economy and the environment, which is to say it is about everything. Our political leaders bear a genuinely world historic responsibility to try and drive the development of a net zero emission economy in less than three decades and end the obliteration of nature.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

While attention now is rightfully on the now-crystalized risks of Covid-19, climate-related risks continue to mount, and there is much to learn from current events on how to manage them. As to the actual nature of Covid-19 compared to climate risk, there are obviously some differences to acknowledge upfront. So too with climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Endorsed by governments over the weekend, the report's 'summary for policymakers' cover text is a critical resource for business leaders and investors looking to bolster near-term resilience and boost long-term profitability amidst an ever-worsening climate crisis. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Some of the criticism was interesting and arguably justified - it is true the film had little to say about the world outside America and by extension matters of climate justice; for me, the decision to abort the attempt to save the world felt implausibly nihilistic. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit. billion and 3.6

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As green groups slam the government's 'attack on nature', the opposition is this week seeking to make bolder climate action central to its offer to the country. Luke Murphy, associate director for energy and climate at think tank IPPR, said the new target could deliver a significant boost to the UK economy right across the country.

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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

MARCH 3, 2021

All the reaction from green groups, businesses, political figures to Rishi Sunak's hugely important pandemic-recovery, pre-COP26 Budget announcement. Chris Stark, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, said: Not much to say about this Budget - a comment in itself. — Chris Stark (@ChiefExecCCC) March 3, 2021.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

According to the EIB , EU firms continue to lead the fight against climate change compared to the US and across the EU. In the survey, 88% of firms say they have taken action to address Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions with more than half of EU firms having already invested in climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9 Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

Directors were found to have a wide range of experience in high carbon sectors, including in polluting energy, aviation, mining, manufacturing, and banks and investment companies known to support the fossil fuel industry. Climate conflicted banks. Regional variations.

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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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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

A denial in implementing the Paris Agreement, without offering an alternative solution, is an unconscious action against the seriousness of the threat of climate change. A huge number of scientist and climate activist are worried and have argued that the richest must invest more as they have a greater ability to exploit nature.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Accelerating climate change will keep the federal research and development spigot open.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Last year the coronavirus crisis shook the industry to its core, with the sudden drop in fuel demand from planes, cars, and power plants sparking a price crash that briefly saw the cost of a barrel of oil fall into negative territory. per cent of their total capital expenditure in 2020.

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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

MARCH 10, 2020

In this digital, mobile and social media age, we are constantly bombarded with new environmental, economic, social, geo-political and technical terminology that creates confusion, misguided actions and misinterpretation. The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change.

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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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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Suddenly business sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and achieving gender equality. Squandering finite resources, creating extravagant amounts of waste, and the excessive release of carbon emissions is causing our planet to belch at the seams. Carbon in our atmosphere is 280 parts per million (ppm).

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the critical lessons for business, investors, and the government if the UK is to build a decarbonised power system by 2035 When the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has something to say, it is usually well worth listening. The CCC's analysis tested the resilience of a zero carbon grid very strenuously indeed.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree We need immediate action on energy.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Since the Fourth National Climate Assessment in 2018 , a lot has changed. But the report also reflects just how far the climate conversation has come in the past five years — and how every part of the country is taking steps to address and adapt to the crisis we’re facing. . I definitely think so.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

As a valuable carbon sink, America’s public lands and waters are an essential part of a successful federal climate strategy, writes Alison Kelly, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Currently, the country’s 154 national forests absorb about 10 percent of the nation’s total carbon emissions each year, and a U.S.

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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

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. And yet these leaders risk missing a looming threat that could have an even more immediate impact on their prosperity and security.

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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

JUNE 25, 2020

The climate crisis is here but we are still walking when we should run'. Meanwhile, the global crisis of climate change is accelerating. The steps that the UK takes to rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic can accelerate the transition to a successful and low-carbon economy and improve our climate resilience.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 17, 2021

Public land-based solutions As a valuable carbon sink, America’s public lands and waters are an essential part of a successful federal climate strategy, writes Alison Kelly, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Sustainability is a much broader idea, focusing on a company’s role in society, how it creates value by managing its environmental and social impacts (both positive and negative), and how its actions affect a wide range of stakeholders. First is the political theater, mostly in the U.S., of the “anti-woke” movement. It is not ‘woke.’

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Negative prices are genuinely unprecedented and they provide a glaring signal as to quite how bad the economic crisis is fast becoming. As such, it is important not to overstate what happened yesterday as US oil futures briefly went negative, sparking further price slumps around the world. In fairness, this time is different.

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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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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 23, 2020

During the short 60 day session, the Washington State Legislature made critical strides to reboot a conversation on the value of comprehensive carbon policy. Cap & Invest is a system that combines the best aspects of market-based carbon pricing while generating resources to be smartly invested in community needs.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 23, 2020

During the short 60 day session, the Washington State Legislature made critical strides to reboot a conversation on the value of comprehensive carbon policy. Cap & Invest is a system that combines the best aspects of market-based carbon pricing while generating resources to be smartly invested in community needs.

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