Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

BNEF estimates last year's global EV sales helped avoid 1.5 per cent of total oil demand. However, despite this progress overall demand for oil was actually still a touch higher last year than it was in 2015. There is still some way to go before EVs deliver promised steep reductions in oil demand.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

Reducing carbon emissions caused by commuting and traveling saves money and your employees’ time. You will also help the environment by reducing global warming, mitigating the waste of finite materials, and reducing pollution. Operating as a sustainable business comes with many advantages. Excessive traveling.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Direct Air Capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere is one set of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategies that may play a role in mitigating climate change, particularly in the mid to latter part of the 21 st century. C report provided four scenarios (P1-P4 in Figure 1) with increasing roles for negative emissions.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Today's letter, which was coordinated by campaign group Mission2020, calls on IEA director Fatih Birol to ensure an energy scenario that shows how quickly emissions must fall to meet the Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5C is "central" to the report. by 2050 and avoiding "unpreceded human catastrophes".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That is the upbeat conclusion of a major new report today, which argues that while the chemicals industry currently lags behind many other sectors of the economy in terms of climate action, it has the potential to reinvent itself as a critical climate solution and even become carbon negative by 2040.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. According to Project Drawdown, eating a plant-based diet is "the most important contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming." Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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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. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Communities on the front line of climate change understand very starkly that keeping global warming within 1.5C Promoting distant net zero targets for themselves amount to furthering carbon injustice and inequity," the group wrote. "If could quite literally be a matter of life or death," they said.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 23, 2022

Customers Are Demanding Sustainability. Now is the time for commercial and residential landscaping and lawn care companies to make the necessary changes in order to keep up with the demands of the next generation of consumers. How Do Landscapers Negatively Impact the Environment. Negative Impact on Ecosystem.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

In what it acknowledged was a "huge task" given the scale and carbon intensity of its activities, the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate said it would aim to sell more low carbon products, reduce the CO2 intensity associated with all its activities, and work with its customers to mitigate remaining emissions from its products by 2050.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Mixing biofuels with fossil fuels for vehicles to burn initially seemed like an easy way to cut down on the 22% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions that stem from the transport sector. Biofuels are still expected to play an important part in hitting ambitious climate targets; to keep global warming under 1.5°C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit. billion and 3.6

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

About 77% of the citizens agree that a more important energy priority should be developing alternative energy resources like wind and solar power and hydrogen technology instead of increasing fossil fuel production. Green hydrogen is generated from low-carbon power or renewable energy. Versatile Fuel.

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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. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Yet as the global economy emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions are on the rise once again, presenting a monumental challenge over the next eight years if the world is to keep to the 1.5C global warming target countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement on the table.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

Curtis points to Opinium polling which found that just 27 per cent of voters would support policies to combat climate change if 'they had a negative impact on their personal finances', with 43 per cent opposing such measures. That is not to say the public are unconcerned about the potential costs of decarbonisation, though - far from it.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Oil and gas giant sets sights on developing science-based climate targets, as hydrogen, nature based solutions, carbon capture, utility business, and electric vehicle infrastructure all earmarked for increased investment. The oil and gas giant confirmed its total carbon emissions peaked in 2018 at 1.7

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Here, BusinessGreen sums up some of its key findings and recommendations for how all actors can work together to deliver a greener, more equitable, lower carbon future. To stabilise global temperature rise at 1.5C of warming by 2100, the report states, noting that ever-rising emissions mean the likelihood of limiting warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

As many commentators have noted, there is no silver bullet for tackling carbon emissions. So it stands to reason that, focusing decarbonisation efforts on just a handful of these carbon intensive sectors could make an outsized impact to the global transition to net zero.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

As such, oil demand would shrink, and with it, the power of major oil producers. If we move to keep global warming to the 2C limit set by the Paris Agreement, the energy matrix will change - and change profoundly.". However, the new scenario still expects gas demand to remain resilient.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. According to Project Drawdown, eating a plant-based diet is “the most important contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming.” As an extrovert, I have a strong need to be surrounded by people.

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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.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Although there is unlimited supply of the fossil fuels, we should go for the use of renewable energy as it is not only safe for the environment, eco-friendly but also less prone to pollutants if any. the world, there are many power plants still use fossil fuels to boil water for steam. Green Diesel, Biogas.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Over 90 per cent of global greenhouse emissions are now covered by net zero targets, and key clean technologies such as wind, solar, and electric vehicles are rapidly disrupting polluting industries and driving down growth projections for fossil fuel demand.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

The fast food chain, alongside a number packaging producers and trade associations, wrote to European policymakers at the end of April, demanding a pause to the legislation, which would champion reusable packaging in Europe. The call follows mounting pressure from industry over the past year.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

While the summit reaffirmed the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, C, a stark assessment revealed that current emission reduction pledges put the world on course for warming of 2.9°C. COP president Sultan Al-Jaber, head of the UAE’s state oil company, faced accusations of using his position to promote fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

Russia's war in Ukraine - which itself was completely unexpected by pretty much everyone this time last year, bar a handful of vindicated intelligence agents - could yet result in a stunning victory for Ukraine, a stinging defeat for tyrannical authoritarianism, and a step change in the pace of the West's transition away from fossil fuels.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Concerns continue over indirect land use change (and its associated carbon losses), the sequestration opportunity costs of converting cultivated lands into biofuel feedstocks versus reforestation, and high demand for agricultural lands to meet the food security needs of a growing population. Source: Field et al.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Don’t agree on the assessment or the different pathways to get rid of fossil fuels? This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Yet when it comes to oil demand, there is little sign of this happening (3).

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. Science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. business and political history.

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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. As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend. Clean power producers would be eligible to receive 1.5

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