Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Yet efforts to adapt to the changing climate and improve resilience are not keeping pace with the growing threats, according to the CCC. The government is not taking climate resilience seriously enough. Indeed, 60 per cent of the risks and opportunities assessed in the report have been given the highest urgency score.

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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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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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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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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Across the 1,500 pages of the climate advisory body's latest UK climate risk assessment - which it carries out every five years - it sets out in stark detail the challenge to build in resilience and adaptation into UK infrastructure, and just how far behind government policy currently is on these issues.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The production of cement, steel, paper, aluminium, chemicals, and other heavy-duty industrial materials is responsible for roughly a quarter of global greenhouse emissions, yet the biggest firms in these crucial sectors remain woefully underprepared for the net zero transition, having largely failed to roll out credible corporate climate strategies.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The analysis, due to be published on 18 June, is expected to include recommendations to governments on how to stimulate economies and revive a moribund energy investment climate following the pandemic while also generating jobs and building a more resilient and cleaner energy sector. is "central" to the report.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Source: Stockholm Resilience Centre PBs represent a conceptual framework of the effect of ongoing unlimited human activities on the limited capacity of the earth. The nine PBs regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system. The increased acidity reduces the number of available carbonate ions. 2009; Steffen, W.,

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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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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

The alarms that are being sounded on global warming, income inequality, and humanitarian crises are the result of materialistic greed. Considering potential risks, the Paris Agreement-2015 is the latest global initiative to keep the increase of the earth’s temperature (global warming) below 1.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

That is the stark consensus of the world's leading climate scientists in a landmark UN report today, which offers the clearest picture yet of both the scale of global warming already being experienced and the likely impacts of further temperature rises that are set to play out over the coming decades.

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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. In its comment to DeSmog, the AHDB spokesperson also used GWP* to claim that “methane from UK livestock since 1990 has not caused global warming”.

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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. According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. Newswise — New York City, N.Y.,

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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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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. A small kingdom in Asia seems to be offering an alternative At a time when citizens are desperately asking their governments to take action, there is one country that is already carbon negative; it is the land of the Thunder Dragon, Bhutan.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

A warming world doesn’t bode well for a sport that skates on frozen water. One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Yet there are ways resorts can mitigate their climatic impact, to help curb global warming and become more sustainable.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It has been compared to the hugely influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 15 years ago, which famously framed global warming as the greatest and most wide-ranging market failure ever seen.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Joshua Tosteson, COO of climate conservation marketing company Everland, offers a defense of REDD+ carbon offsets. The recently-released United Nations Global Biodiversity Outlook opens with these words: "Humanity stands at a crossroads with regard to the legacy it leaves to future generations.".

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Fortunately, with current solar, battery and heat pump technology every building with a sunny roof under two stories can be a net generator of energy — essentially carbon negative. Moreover, with grid-connected batteries, buildings can easily provide the resiliency that our grid needs during power shortages and blackouts.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

While the transition will inevitably be complex and difficult, it is essential to building a more resilient economy that benefits more people. It has reminded us how the biggest crises, whether medical or environmental, demand a global and ambitious response.".

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

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. The scenario modelling shows that by 2050, our global composite gross refining margin is negative," Wood Mackenzie stated.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The latest BusinessGreen Webinar, hosted in association with Patch, reveals how there are good reasons to think the voluntary carbon market could be at an inflection point Voluntary carbon markets have endured a turbulent couple of years. I think you'll see a lot more positive stories in 2024 than you've seen in 2023."

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree I am asking corporate leaders to support a minimum international carbon price and align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement. The public and private sector must work together to ensure a just and rapid transformation to a net zero global economy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

million tons of carbon dioxide a year, two known carcinogens, and other emissions that are harmful to the environment, including particulates and oxides of nitrogen. Methane, the main component of natural gas, heats the planet at a much greater rate than carbon dioxide in the short term. Credit: Julie Dermansky. “I

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The resilience of the [reef] to recover from climate change impacts is substantially compromised.". EU unveils carbon removal regulatory framework. However, the prospect of the reef being officially classified as "endangered" remains highly controversial.

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

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