Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

SDGs are driving governments, individuals, universities, and businesses to adjust their practices to achieve benchmarks and secure a sustainable future by 2030. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Many of these goals are scaled for national government implementation.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

For many observers the only thing worse than the publication of the government's Food Strategy was the puns it unleashed. For farming and environmental groups alike the frustration with the long-awaited strategy was palpable. However, the wider focus on agricultural innovation is not without its merits.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, a group of 14 heads of government [3], ‘The expected impacts of climate change on the ocean economy’ assesses global to local climate impacts on three of the largest sources of ocean-based revenue and jobs – coral reef tourism, wild capture fisheries and marine aquaculture.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity. Corporations are also working to build momentum around soil carbon markets, where carbon is trapped in the earth and plants’ roots.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

As fresh reports emerged suggesting that a major building retrofit programme could provide one of the centrepieces for the government's imminent economic stimulus package, three major new reports have been published this week further strengthening the case for an explicitly green recovery.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. 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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Farmer Martin Lines, chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, puts forward the case for a robust payment framework to incentivise carbon sequestration in UK agriculture. Pricing greenhouse gas emissions at a level that is consistent with net zero opens new routes for a lucrative market in 'negative' carbon emissions.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

For all the growing interest in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing and high profile investor demands for corporates to tackle escalating climate risks, many asset managers remain 'blind' to the threat to their portfolios posed by global biodiversity loss and are consistently failing to engage with carbon intensive businesses.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

scenario ahead of an upcoming report that is set to guide governments' coronavirus recovery efforts. The leaders also urge the IEA to take a "continued precautionary approach" towards negative emissions technologies, which are still expensive and yet to be deployed at scale. is "central" to the report. "In

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global carbon emissions are set to drop a record eight per cent this year, with lockdowns on public and economic life introduced to tackle the coronavirus pandemic delivering an unprecedented blow to fossil fuel demand, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). This is a historic shock to the entire energy world," he said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Retailers to face ban on sales of peat-based compost to private gardeners, with a potential ban covering professional horticulture also being discussed by government. Peatlands are the UK's largest natural carbon store as well as critical habitats for flora and fauna.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But it is also a handbook for how businesses, governments, and investors can work together to avert the worst case scenarios faced by civilisation, setting out the levers that need to be pulled to secure a more liveable and prosperous future for humanity. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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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 kinetic nature of the building enables a more verdant and calming environment.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. degrees unless more drastic action is taken, said the UN chief, but 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

Ultimately the Covid-19 crisis shows us that investors, companies, and governments need to do more to anticipate tail and mega risks and create actionable strategies to prepare for them. As this storm passes, we must prepare for the inevitable transition to a zero-carbon economy.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is a unique, multi-year program driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO?) New York City, N.Y.,

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The findings are sure to prompt renewed calls for more urgent action from global governments, businesses, and civil society to do everything possible to rapidly reduce emissions and enhance the resilience of critical infrastructure in the face of worsening cimate risks.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The British energy company has partnered with Golden State Natural Resources, a government-linked nonprofit which plans to build two industrial plants in rural California counties that would produce one million tonnes of compressed wood fiber pellets a year. Drax already operates 18 wood pellet plants across the U.S.

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Living Green Technology

APRIL 9, 2020

Professor Vogt is an expert on carbon and nutrient cycles at the ecosystem level and has worked around the world. She is particularly intrigued by the role that human and natural disturbances play in controlling processes in ecosystems such as species diversity, land-use activities, social resilience and ecosystem sustainability.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

About six months ago, I wrote that 2020 would be a pivotal year for environmental, social and governance (ESG), and that what happens this year and over the next decade could determine the next century. While calculating a carbon footprint is comparatively easy, how does one create science-based targets for worker welfare or racial injustice?

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Schools of all types can minimize negative environmental impacts by changing how they operate starting with a few simple green practices and instilling this eco-mindedness into students. Below you will find an introductory guide providing a description of cost effective, easy to implement green initiatives targeted for K-12 schools/districts.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

It is incumbent upon all of us to alter our lifestyles to address this threat, and it is the responsibility of every government to do everything they can to reverse this trend, in spite of the temporary but necessary cost to quality of life. By Sarah Nicholas I was at my first Fridays for Future protest in Mumbai. 1 = 1 Indian rupee.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Morten Nilsson explains why the BTPS is aiming to be net zero on carbon emissions by 2035, and how it plans to get there. Increased health problems (resulting from factors such as increased heat or air pollution). This raises potentially serious consequences for less resilient assets and companies. Reduced economic growth.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Ultimately, all the targets should support the goal set out in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the UK government's new Environmental Improvement Plan to reverse nature loss by 2030. But they also come against a backdrop of continued biodiversity loss on almost all fronts.

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Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Whenever we put anything on our plates, or into our mouths, we should think about: The carbon cost of both growing the food and transporting it to us. We all have a fundamental entitlement to food, which would ideally be enshrined as a basic right informing government policy. The human cost of food growth and production.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

That’s despite this being the second pandemic in 10 years, the fourth respiratory illness in 18 years, and numerous warnings from the World Health Organization, he added at the February virtual event. Balancing efficiency with resilience, as well as considering operational risk, are likely to become more of a focus, too.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America.

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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. We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete. Business as usual wasn’t working.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Our climate and nature goals need to become a core part of how decisions are made on all aspects of policy - and in particular economic and fiscal policy, with a test to make sure public spending aligns with the government's net zero commitments.

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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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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

Our goal is to take this 'whole-of-government' approach and turn it into a 'whole-of-economy' approach. government is fully committed to rejoin the fight against climate change. President Biden has outlined an ambitious strategy to transition the United States to net-zero emissions and has mobilized the entire government to achieve it.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

Our future requires and depends on constant change and a new way of thinking, everything we do or design will have an impact, both positive and negative, and our goal is to enable the transition to continuous positive experiences across all sectors of society. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

With this in mind, the Green Business Bureau has developed a more thorough evaluation of a company’s environmental, social, and governance credentials, to build even better businesses. AND1 also worked with their oversea factories to ensure the health and safety of workers, professional development, and access to fair wages.

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