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McDonald’s Leads Lobbying Offensive Against Laws to Reduce Packaging Waste in Europe

DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The call follows mounting pressure from industry over the past year.

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The case for raising up women in climate tech

GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

Four years ago this week, Project Drawdown released groundbreaking research on climate solutions that catalyzed the narrative that reversing global warming is possible. Among the 80 solutions evaluated for their potential to reverse global warming, educating girls and ensuring women have access to family planning resources ranked No.

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

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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What’s the difference between net-zero and carbon-neutral policies?

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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.” A definitive body of research has documented the negative effects of rising CO2 on crops. Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference.

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MPs table fresh legislation to 'close gaps' in UK Climate Change Act

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C It also states that only natural carbon capture methods should be used to meet the UK's net zero targets, effectively ruling out the use of negative emissions technologies and CCS as a means of meeting the targets.

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'Good money after bad': Why new coal power would be a risky post-Covid-19 investment

Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

Almost half of all global coal plants are already set to run at a loss in 2020, warns think tank Carbon Tracker. Building new coal and propping up the existing fleet with stimulus money would be throwing good money after bad," said study co-author Matt Gray, Carbon Tracker's co-head of power and utilities.

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Transition Pathway Initiative: Just 14 per cent of heavy industry is aligned with global climate goals

Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

That is the top line conclusion of a new report published this morning by the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI), which analyses nearly 170 companies working in carbon-intensive industrial sectors, including mining giant Rio Tinto, packaging company DS Smith, chemicals powerhouse BASF, cement manufacturer LaFarge Holcim, and steel major Tata Steel.

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Climate Impacts Of Scaling Up Biofuels And Bioenergy

Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In response, senators and representatives from ethanol-producing states like Iowa have been advocating for biofuel aid in the next coronavirus relief package. Modeled ecosystem carbon fluxes for different land use scenarios. To learn more refer to the past review on negative emissions and land use by John Katzenberger.)

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The IPCC's Mitigation of Climate Change report: At a glance

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 But it warns that low ambition policies increase the risk of locking-in high carbon buildings for decades.

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The Cost of Doing Business in the Heat

Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. and Canada alone. According to the U.S. Plant trees.

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The Lancet: Few countries prepared to tackle worsening climate-related health risks

Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The report also stressed that current COVID-19 recovery packages are not in line with the goals Paris Agreement and urges world leaders to commit to a green recovery that will reduce inequality by creating new green jobs, safeguarding health, and building healthier populations.

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Why Is Sustainability Important In Business?

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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). Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Our reality.

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Vodka made from captured carbon dioxide? That’s the spirit.

Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Last year, global carbon emissions hit an all-time high of 40.9 But all that carbon doesn’t have to wind up in the atmosphere. They pour in the product and, when it’s ready a few hours later, take a sip.

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'Planet-positive force': How the global chemicals industry can reinvent itself as a climate solution

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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Coronavirus Augurs Hope for Climate Action

Green Market Oracle

MARCH 26, 2020

We need government support to keep the economy from completely collapsing and government stimulus packages should include efforts to retool the economy to prepare for the world of tomorrow. It must also include carbon removal technologies like direct air capture (DAC) and carbon capture and sequestration or (CCS).

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'Half measures won't halve emissions': The green economy reacts to IPCC's climate solutions report

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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Can a global plastics treaty help tackle the pollution crisis?

Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Plastic pollution increasingly contributes to the climate and biodiversity crisis, so the cost of inaction increases basically year by year due to negative health, social and also economic impacts," he added. Many of the big global brands and others have committed to making their packaging recyclable or reusable or compostable by 2025.

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A fossil fuel demand peak is fast approaching, but will it come soon enough?

Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

The update follows a turbulent year for the energy industry - and indeed the global economy as a whole - which has suffered severe disruption from the Covid-19 as enforced lockdown measures and industry shut-downs resulted in plummeting demand for energy. carbon budget for 2100 as soon as the early 2030s.

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'We need to act now': Can COP15 bridge the nature finance chasm?

Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to the report, the figure falls drastically short of the levels required to halt biodiversity loss, limit global warming to 1.5C, and achieve land degradation neutrality, with estimates suggesting $384bn is required annually by 2025 and $484bn is needed by 2030.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

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. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.

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How can the world kick its oil habit?

Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To me, this was a particularly silly question, as I recently finished writing an article on the future of fossil fuels and oil prices were actually negative for the first time in human history. In 2019, global demand reached a record 100 million barrels a day, driven in part by the needs of rapidly industrialising emerging markets.

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CleanTech Focus

McDonald’s Leads Lobbying Offensive Against Laws to Reduce Packaging Waste in Europe

The case for raising up women in climate tech

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

What’s the difference between net-zero and carbon-neutral policies?

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

MPs table fresh legislation to 'close gaps' in UK Climate Change Act

'Good money after bad': Why new coal power would be a risky post-Covid-19 investment

Transition Pathway Initiative: Just 14 per cent of heavy industry is aligned with global climate goals

Climate Impacts Of Scaling Up Biofuels And Bioenergy

The IPCC's Mitigation of Climate Change report: At a glance

The Cost of Doing Business in the Heat

The Lancet: Few countries prepared to tackle worsening climate-related health risks

Why Is Sustainability Important In Business?

Vodka made from captured carbon dioxide? That’s the spirit.

'Planet-positive force': How the global chemicals industry can reinvent itself as a climate solution

Coronavirus Augurs Hope for Climate Action

'Half measures won't halve emissions': The green economy reacts to IPCC's climate solutions report

Can a global plastics treaty help tackle the pollution crisis?

A fossil fuel demand peak is fast approaching, but will it come soon enough?

'We need to act now': Can COP15 bridge the nature finance chasm?

Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

How can the world kick its oil habit?

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