Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

A few weeks ago, the federal government announced a consultation on a proposed greenhouse gas offset system. Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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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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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 23, 2022

How Do Landscapers Negatively Impact the Environment. Harmful Carbon Emissions from Equipment and Vehicles . The current standard for machinery and equipment is gas powered, which releases carbon into the atmosphere when in use. Negative Impact on Ecosystem.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. That’s where carbon removal comes 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

MARCH 7, 2023

Compiled by almost 9,000 botanists over the past 20 years, Plant Atlas 2020 dug up a raft of negative trends in British and Irish flora since the 1950s, most startlingly revealing that non-native plants now outnumber their native counterparts in the wild. But it's not too late to stop this catastrophe.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. Flooding of homes, businesses, and infrastructure like airports, ports, and subways, during heavy rainstorms would have a negative effect on companies’ abilities to operate. Lobby governments on behalf of climate change. Plant trees.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

As such WWF has today added its voice to the growing chorus of calls for the government to accelerate the development of a more sustainable and climate-friendly approach to farming in the UK.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

Our economy relies entirely on inputs from the natural world, from the things we grow and dig up to the harder-to-measure benefits, such as providing a free dumping ground in the sky for pollution. Raising the price on carbon or other inputs drives different capital and investment decisions. Solution: Price the unpriced.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. The Holocene. The Anthropocene. In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Other findings suggest that nearly 570 million people could face risks of increased flooding, bigger storms, and soil and water salinification that could result in them being permanently forced to leave their homes. At best the trends in emissions, renewable energy and tackling pollution have improved only very slightly.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

This biodiversity crisis is unleashing equally well documented risks for human civilisation, including but not limited to diminished soil fertility, pollinator loss, increased flood and wildfire impacts, eroded food security from land and sea, rising greenhouse gas emissions, resource insecurity, and, of course, new and dangerous disease vectors.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade. The idea of ‘green fertilizers’ to market the company’s products as less polluting, however, is seen by some as corporate greenwashing.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The analysis argues the onus for plugging this nature finance gap should fall on private investors, conceding that governments are unlikely to increase existing financial flows to nature as they battle severe economic headwinds. We need to act now.". Both global and domestic records on meeting voluntary biodiversity goals remain poor.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. Its framework excludes areas such as plastics in the oceanic food chain and the loss of soil fertility.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Climate Change Committee has just delivered its most detailed and ambitious work yet to the government, in what the advisory body's CEO Chris Stark this week called "one of the most important things we've ever published". With that in place, business, government and society stand ready to deliver.".

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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. Non-organic, mono-crop agriculture damages soil, as well as using harmful pesticides and herbicides that pollute the environment and disrupt the wild food chain.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

According to the recent National Food Strategy , the independent review commissioned by the government, UK meat consumption needs to fall by another 30 per cent by 2032, against 2019 levels, in order to help deliver a net zero emission economy. Meanwhile, businesses are themselves grappling how to drive sustainable behaviour change.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Royal Society study author argues people 'should be as appalled' by badly managed soils as deforestation. Bringing together the latest evidence on the "diverse and underappreciated" functions soils perform, the science body's research points to many "win-win" benefits that arise from protecting and improving soils.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. There will be critical skill shortages in key professions, fewer consumers will drive future growth and social interactions and culture will be experienced very differently.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Attending conferences like GreenBiz 21 serve as perfect soil and ground to grow meaningful connections and partnerships! Plastic pollution is a problem greatly impacting the health of NYC waterways. Additionally, my experience at GreenBiz 21 reaffirmed my passion for corporate governance, strategy, equity and youth leadership.

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Low Impact

APRIL 30, 2021

After death, we don’t want our corporeal form to leave a damaging legacy – but, many current practices surrounding both burial and cremation mean people often do leave a negative legacy of environmental pollution behind them for future generations. Allow poisonous substances to enter our ecosystems and pollute the environment.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The specific criteria set by the ESG framework endeavor to define environmental, social, and governance systems as sustainable. 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 the atmosphere is 310 ppm.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Following the General Election, the government re-introduced its Environment Bill on 30 January. The Bill, which comes 25 years after the last Environment Act, is a major piece of legislation which has the potential to put environmental considerations at the heart of Government policy and business decision-making.

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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. With over 500 initiatives to choose from – compared to B Labs 250 – GBB raises the bar in sustainability certification.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 20, 2023

It’s a mantra by now that in addition to mitigating future emissions, we have to extract existing carbon dioxide pollution from our atmospheric and oceanic dumps. Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies often sound like science fiction—gigantic carbon-sucking vacuums, anyone? A new approach for CDR?

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. There will be critical skill shortages in key professions, fewer consumers will drive future growth and social interactions and culture will be experienced very differently.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces. Without keeping carbon in the ground, there's no way that we can achieve these climate goals.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

“It has been widely discussed and debated, in public view, among scientists, media, governments, business and society as a whole.” Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Speaking this morning during the launch of the Climate Assembly's report, one of its members - named by organisers simply as Mark - summed up the overriding message to the government. Government must take the lead, but business has a key role. Don't be scared, be bold," he said.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I The Ottawa-based startup is bringing to scale a process that generates hydrogen by capturing carbon dioxide from the air, then storing it within seawater, mimicking the ocean’s natural processes to create a carbon sink.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Momentum is building as businesses and governments transform their organizations to be more efficient and resilient. 400+ sessions.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Zack Angelini, 29 Senior Environmental Stewardship Manager, Timberland; Malden, Massachusetts LinkedIn Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole.

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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. cents per kWh of electricity produced at facilities placed into service after 2024 that produce zero or negative emissions.

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