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Net Zero vs Real Zero Emissions and What It Means for Your Business’ Goals

Green Business Bureau

However, current net zero plans fall short of what is required to stop the effects of global warming, leading one to question whether net zero is truly the optimal solution. Carbon Positive- Business as Usual. Global warming is likely to reach 1.5°C Carbon Offsets. In the U.S.

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Carbon-negative snack company AKUA offers kelp jerky and pasta

AGreenLiving

For one, Harvard University has documented that kelp plays a significant role in reducing global warming. Kelp is also able to naturally remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mitigating rising temperatures and climate change. ” Minimizing its carbon footprint is another crucial mission for AKUA.

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Data snapshot: Climate-related agrifoodtech in majority of upstream African investment, but more funding needed

AFN Sustainable Protein

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. These were BIV’s first African startups.

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The Climate 4.0 Economy

Climate 4.0

Economy will be achieved only when global warming is held to 1.5°C The Climate Economy is one that, when achieved, is carbon-negative (not just “zero”), circular, sustainable, reparative of the past, and regenerative for the future. Digital Transformation of the global economy now well-underway.

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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

DeSmogBlog

Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” These arguments are being termed “the new climate denial” by watchdog organizations such as the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Clean Creatives is backed by the same organizations and individuals that helped trigger the fastest divestment movement in history, convincing thousands of investors to ditch fossil-fuel assets and arguably doing more damage to fossil-fuel companies' license to operate than any other campaign. "The For example, last year 20 U.K.