Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

New report from PwC models a tiered carbon pricing framework proposed by the IMF earlier this year and finds it would broadly pay for itself, while slashing carbon emissions. per cent at a cost of less than one per cent of GDP. per cent at a cost of less than one per cent of GDP.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. The MEPs invited were spoiled for choice, as BASF generously delivered six small bottles of fine wines for their enjoyment.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

It meant that anyone continuing to bet on a high carbon future was tacitly accusing governments of either being incapable of delivering on their stated goal or engaged in a global conspiracy to deceive the public about their true intentions. The number of businesses with net zero targets has more than trebled to over 1,500.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

” With more than $6 trillion of investments under management and influence in boardrooms of nearly 1,800 companies, what BlackRock says carries big weight across the corporate and political world. Peabody’s annual report points glumly at the negative sentiments of sections of the financial community.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Increased federal incentives for “carbon management” technologies are catalyzing a surge in proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the United States, from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest to California. use the captured carbon to drill for more oil in a process called enhanced oil recovery.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This can leave a lasting impact on the health of our oceans as well as communities who rely on fishing for stability. This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. Commercial fishing businesses must transition to more sustainable fishing practices.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Every five years the Climate Change Committee (CCC) conducts a root-and-branch review of the UK's preparedness for escalating climate impacts, such as heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts, coastal erosion, and their threats to public health, food security, power supplies, homes, offices, and infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Reforms Will Jeopardise Food Production’.

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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. Global average levels of carbon dioxide reached 407.8

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dozens of local grassroots groups formed to oppose them, voicing concerns over poor implementation, lack of consultation, and feared exacerbation of existing economic and health inequalities. But these schemes also attracted fierce opposition. Mayoral Rhetoric.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

Recent data shows that of the 30 raw materials the EU classifies as critical, 19 are predominantly imported from China, a country where Covid restrictions and impacts continue to negatively affect the production and supply of goods. The price of these resources is also increasing. Today we are experiencing a polycrisis.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

A good pandemic forecast may have foreseen both the health crisis and the fragmented, forceful, and disorderly policy response that has ensued because of inadequate preparation. So too with the impacts of climate change, and the societal and political response to it. This pandemic is a lesson for what happens when we don't prepare.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Its Director General Tim Davie has said that while the BBC will cover debate on climate policy, human-caused climate change is not “politically controversial” and “the overwhelming consensus is that we, as humanity, are causing global warming”. Porter has also been associated with political groups leading the charge against climate action.

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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. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

It is also active in political lobbying, spending a total of $17.5 Records show that the company has lobbied during the past three years on California’s climate strategy, toxicity provisions, low carbon fuel standards, as well as its oil and gas production policies.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Argentina’s risky gamble on fracking has led to massive environmental and public health costs , and despite years of government support , the industry remains on shaky financial ground. Unaccounted for environmental and health costs of continuing to expand Vaca Muerta could total $2 to $4.5 trillion over the lifetime of the basin.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

Will well-intentioned critiques of demonstrably inadequate net zero strategies catalyse more ambitious decarbonisation plans or will they inadvertently undermine a trend that has helped successfully push climate issues up the corporate and political agenda? It's that simple.

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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. But today’s politics are ignoring science data and gives preference to decisions supporting economic gain and/or status. This is followed by health, then culture, and finally economics. You know the rest.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

In the worst cases, both political momentum and public support can be forfeit. There are big differences a focus on domestic energy efficiency and heating can make to people's lives today in the cost of living crisis - their finances and wellbeing, the value of their homes, and of course, their carbon footprint.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. For more than 100 years, the company has had a significant economic and social impact on the region.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

DarkBlack Carbon was only officially founded four months ago, but believes it is already primed to be a market leader for biochar in the UK "It's got everything, hasn't it?" says Liz Casely, co-founder of UK start-up DarkBlack Carbon. It is a catalyst for helping to restore natural balances," explains Casely.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

The report - titled Principles for a low-carbon, sustainable and net-zero aligned economic recovery post COVID-19 - suggests five key government interventions aimed at harnessing growing political, business, and consumer will to tackle the climate emergency, as well as a raft of specific policy recommendations.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

IETA sets out net zero carbon trading vision. The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) has unveiled its plan to lobby governments, companies and carbon markets to set net zero emissions targets in line with the Paris Agreement's 1.5C French citizens' climate assembly opposes 28 hour working week.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2023

When climate and nature objectives collide At first blush, the Albanian government's move to block new energy development in the midst of an energy crisis looks like a political minefield. But it takes partnership, it takes creating a vision and it takes consistency of just showing up and doing the work." That's b t."

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

That’s the message from several recent reports focusing on the role of service-sector companies in addressing — positively or negatively — climate change. health insurers are all invested in the fossil fuel industry” and will call on insurers to divest from these companies, calling them “the greatest threat to human health.”

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But the solutions are there On the other hand, the report stresses there is still time to deliver a low-carbon, sustainable economy where climate-resilient development becomes the norm. And the private sector is playing a starring role in this collective failure, as the actors that make the real economy work.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. ESG topics are interlinked and draw attention to the multifaceted risks of social, technological, political, environmental, and economic business aspects. Employee health and safety: With 89% of employees feeling that AstraZeneca is a great place to work. Economic Sustainability.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv]

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

Defra insists the Strategy needs to be seen in conjunction with the Treasury's plans to tackle inflation and the cost-of-living crisis, upcoming health strategies focused on obesity and diet, and on-going post-Brexit trade negotiations and farming subsidy reforms. However, the wider focus on agricultural innovation is not without its merits.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

That’s the message from several recent reports focusing on the role of service-sector companies in addressing — positively or negatively — climate change. health insurers are all invested in the fossil fuel industry” and will call on insurers to divest from these companies, calling them “the greatest threat to human health.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

These figures must grow rapidly if environmental goals are to be met, through investments in sustainable supply chains and redirecting nature-negative investments towards schemes that conserve and protect biodiversity. The nature financing chasm urgently needs bridging and the benefits of doing so have never been more obvious.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. As Schulz, who just helped deliver Germany's €40bn green recovery package , observed there are good political and economic reasons for prioritising clean energy investment. At the same time, renewables improve air quality thus protecting public health. per cent, up from 12.4 per cent in 2009.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the top comments from business, politics, academia, think tanks and civil society.

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