Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A recent report from the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) calls for the government to introduce a strategic policy approach to deliver rapid and widespread industrial decarbonisation, while guarding against the risk of carbon leakage.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. Below we’ve detailed eight tips on how to reduce the negative environmental and social impact of your fashion brand company. This movement encourages slower production and invites the consumer to invest in well-made, life-long products. Tip #4: Get to Know Your Suppliers and Vendors.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2022

A seltzer brand part-owned by Ellie Goulding has announced it will roll out carbon footprint labelling across its range from next month. The company revealed it was using climate impact assessment platform CarbonCloud to analyse the carbon footprint of its drinks entire value chain.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

To that end, Ofgem yesterday announced a fresh package of measures aimed at boosting financial resilience in the sector, including new stress testing all suppliers from January 2022 to measure their resilience against a range of scenarios. This is now the main obstacle holding back the UK's green industrial revolution.".

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global Energy Review notes that renewables will be the only energy source to expand in 2020 despite a dramatic nosedive in energy demand worldwide caused by Covid-19's shutdown of economic and public life. The report notes that renewables are the only energy source expected to grow against a backdrop of overall reduced electricity demand.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

Consumer demand for green products is as high as ever. It seems we have a dilemma; the demand for environmentally sound and low-impact products is high, yet consumers aren’t trusting the environmental claims of business. Pose an investment risk. Carbon Offsets. But what is driving the rise of greenwash ?

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Reports from CBI, EnergyUK, ECIU, and ScottishPower all hammer home calls for ambitious green recovery package. The government has been inundated with calls from green trade bodies, campaigners and academics for it to deliver a green stimulus package in recent weeks. The consensus keeps building.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

These factors have resulted in one of the world's most low carbon economies, substantial inward investment, and a fast growing community of clean tech start-ups. It is a price point that significantly undercuts the price of carbon on emissions trading markets, as well as many rival carbon capture technologies.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Aviation biofuels specialist Velocys and petrochemicals giant INEOS have become the latest firms to join the Zero Carbon Humber project, which is aiming to create the "world's first" net zero industrial cluster.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

🔑 Climate tech startups hit key milestones - including but not limited to - Fervo’s FOAK enhanced geothermal project operational in Nevada, Brimstone’s third-party approval of its carbon-negative cement, and Heirloom’s first commercial DAC plant.  Disaster seemed to be everywhere.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. Demand growth is expected to fall from around four per cent each year to under one per cent, it said, with demand potentially peaking as soon as 2027.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

“I was just like, ‘I don’t know if I would invest in Charm,’” he recalls telling their investor that day. “I I’m investing in the team — I’m investing in the ability for you guys to figure it out,” Meehan said the venture capitalist told them. That’s where carbon removal comes in. But the investor was undeterred.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. Demand growth is expected to fall from around four per cent each year to under one per cent, it said, with demand potentially peaking as soon as 2027.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

Just Transition Jobs Tracker details how around one in five UK jobs are likely to be affected either positively or negatively by the net zero transition, further cranking up pressure on government to deliver coherent transition plan. It found that approximately 6.3

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Turning mycelium into packaging that’s 'compatible with the planet'. The company’s first technology, MycoComposite, precipitated the subsidiary Mushroom Packaging , which I discussed with Ecovative’s business development lead, Meghan Olson. Turning algae into straws that are 'designed to disappear'.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

Consumer demand for green products is as high as ever. It seems we have a dilemma; the demand for environmentally sound and low-impact products is high, yet consumers aren’t trusting the environmental claims of business. Pose an investment risk. Carbon Offsets. But what is driving the rise of greenwash ?

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

First, it must understand the labour market impacts of decommissioning fossil fuel power plants and reskilling workers to build and manage the new low-carbon economy. Second, it must also engage with the social impacts of new low-carbon energy systems and infrastructures, with an emphasis on equity and justice concerns.

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

In order to do this we must not fall back into the trap of our pre-Covid world by continuing to reinforce carbon-intensive structures. To begin with, our post Covid-19 recovery plans must avoid unconditionally propping up and bailing out carbon-heavy industries. First, we need a global price on carbon. It has to be green.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

With governments around the world working feverishly on economic recovery packages in an attempt to cushion the impact of the worst recession in decades, the UN's annual report on the global renewable energy market could not have come at a more opportune.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. In 2011, the IFC lent poultry company Ust-Kamenogorsk Poultry (UKPF) invested $2 million in refurbishing housing for chickens, among other projects.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2020

With governments across the globe currently formulating packages for rescuing airlines, these agreements have widely been seen as a chance to bring the aviation industry to heel and agree to measures that can help net zero goals be met. per cent of worldwide jet fuel demand. Matching incentives to progress.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Maersk even advocated for a $150 per ton carbon tax on shipping fuel.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 10, 2023

We’ve spilled plenty of ink in this newsletter on carbon capture, but less on what happens after —particularly carbon-to-value. Downstream emissions result from the transportation and packaging involved in distribution, product usage itself (e.g., spinning, weaving, and knitting). incineration or landfills).

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

"Domestically the answer to cutting emissions, keeping bills under control and ensuring security of supply, is to continue to build out our world-leading offshore wind sector and invest in nuclear and hydrogen, as the government is doing," he said. It doesn't need to, and in fact, it can actually be good value for money as well.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

BP's potentially landmark write down of $17.5bn of oil assets yesterday in response to its downwards recalibration of future oil demand is just the latest evidence that the net zero transition is poised to accelerate. Can we expand natural habitats while maintaining food security and respecting farming communities' legitimate concerns?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In recent months, we have seen game changing commitments from companies such as Microsoft to go carbon negative by 2030 and BP announcing a move away from fossil fuel extraction to grow their investments in renewables tenfold. Sustainability and regeneration have never been so high on the business agenda.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

I had a surprise when I walked into the office yesterday - an unexpected package. I was finally forced to invest a few pounds in some insulation to put around a window in my kitchen to stop an icy blast coming in. But, second, Ministers are far too reluctant to talk about the role of demand as opposed to supply.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A sustainability agenda will guide investment decisions at a portfolio level. In 2018, over half of the global asset owners were currently implementing or evaluating sustainability in their investment strategy. Environmental and social disruptions cause a negative brand reputation (note BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ).

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. million in Neighborhood Grants. LinkedIn | Personal website. million acres the 4.4

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

Just days after the tech giant unveiled a sweeping new plan to become 'carbon negative' coffee giant Starbucks has followed suit, today unveiling a plan to become 'resource positive'. The preliminary targets could see Starbucks' halve water withdrawal, waste-to-landfill, and carbon emissions within the next decade, Johnson said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Other recommendations include urgently delivering clear strategies to deliver new carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen projects, setting clear and ambitious targets in the delayed Environment Bill, laying the groundwork for domestic EV battery manufacturing at scale, and aligning the UK's net zero and nature agendas.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Far more ambitious policies and investment is to help boost repair, reuse, recycling, and remanufacturing in the UK could create more than 450,000 jobs right across the country over the next 15 years, while helping combat the country's "unsustainable" approach to resource use. The UK's current approach is unsustainable," the report states.

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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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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And, much like the market for carbon offsets, it’s messy. In the same way that a company’s carbon credit may offset its U.S. Sustainability practitioners have spent the past couple of decades defining and debating the role of carbon credits in the transition to a clean economy, and plastics credits are not fundamentally different.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Without a clear and ambitious government plan zero carbon home heating by 2050 remains a pipe dream, a new analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre warns. These benefits far outweigh the negatives, and vitally these changes allow us to meet our decarbonisation targets.".

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