Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

Another aspect of that future is limiting carbon-intensive forms of travel. Is this a realistic version of how we might address the carbon intensity of air travel? That 2019 law was the first of its kind in the nation, and the ruling casts doubt on the dozens of cities that had followed Berkeley’s lead.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Whether it’s a new build or a retrofit (also referred to as greenhabbing , or green rehabbing an older building to be more eco-friendly), the real estate industry is moving towards sustainability because a low-carbon building is proven to have lower operating costs, improved resale value and higher occupancy rates. Lower carbon footprint.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems. Adhere to the “Good Fish Guide”.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Through media briefs, we aim to provide journalists with useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. 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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

West Cumbria Mining's plan to open UK's first coal mine in 30 years to be reviewed 'in light of new information', says council. It also warned allowing the coal mine to go ahead risked creating a "negative impression" of the UK's climate priorities in the run up to COP26.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2021

The government said it was committed to working with businesses that are "taking real steps towards net zero" as part of the talks, pointing to Microsoft's pledge to become a 'carbon negative' organisation by 2030 and remove from the environment all the carbon it has emitted since its founding by mid-century.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

Under the state’s landmark AB 32 climate law, CARB is required to evaluate the state’s progress toward its goals and make recommendations every five years. This year’s Draft Scoping Plan proposes a pathway to achieve the state’s target of 40 percent emissions below 1990 levels and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045. .

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But now Europe is poised to enact laws that would not only recognise the harms of chemical-intensive agriculture, but also to ensure that synthetic pesticide and fertiliser use is significantly reduced. Major fertiliser company Yara informed DeSmog of its commitment to decarbonising EU’s agriculture and the overall industry.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. Carbon Engineering’s working pilot plant in Squamish B.C. Carbon Engineering.

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

Most of the UK’s environmental protections stem from EU law and so could be changed as a result of Brexit. Georgia Elliott Smith launched a new campaign video for her legal challenge of the UK Government over incineration pollution and carbon emissions. Also noted in respect of new books is “Design Studio Vol. Zoom Regenerative.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies. Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us Ian Kearns Tue, 02/09/2021 – 02:00 A radical increase in available carbon emissions data may be just around the corner. Their asset values and prospects will be damaged by sudden negative shifts in both consumer and investor sentiment as a result.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

On the one hand, population aggregation and transnational mobilisation - results of urbanisation and globalisation - create a complex and highly beneficial 'super network' of interwoven resources, information, means and skills; but on the other hand it makes civilization more vulnerable than ever. Opportunities from a zero carbon economy.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. Carbon Engineering’s working pilot plant in Squamish B.C. Carbon Engineering.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Responding to detailed questions from CIC, AGA’s President and CEO Karen Harbert acknowledged that the gas industry has “collaborated” with “experts” to “inform and educate regulators” about the safety of gas stoves. Our focus is on the facts and independent analysis,” said Harbert. The documents, however, suggest otherwise.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

What’s needed isn’t silence, but rather information and education. These are difficult for consumers to interpret and may also suggest an item or service has no negative environmental impacts. Carbon Offsets. The time frame for carbon-offset emission reductions should be included in the claim.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Maersk even advocated for a $150 per ton carbon tax on shipping fuel.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There’s been a 38-fold increase in sustainability-related laws and regulations since 1972. Sustainability-led initiatives help mitigate the risk of non-compliance as these laws and regulations continue to develop. Environmental and social disruptions cause a negative brand reputation (note BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ).

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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 European Parliament is expected to vote on the law in the next 12 months.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

Companies might already hold some of the necessary information in departments other than finance, explains Dickie, and natural capital accounting gives them a place to link it up. Dickie expects more information about natural assets to be required publicly in future as a natural extension of corporate carbon accounting.

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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. A spokesperson from Fertilizers Europe said “transition to green and low-carbon production cannot be done overnight and will take more than 5-7 years.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

What’s needed isn’t silence, but rather information and education. These are difficult for consumers to interpret and may also suggest an item or service has no negative environmental impacts. Carbon Offsets. The time frame for carbon-offset emission reductions should be included in the claim.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? It was about five square miles of trees’ worth of oxygen production or carbon sequestration required to set up one building. Demonizing carbon?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

This information dictates what questions are put forward in the B Impact Assessment. The below information has been adapted from The B Corp Handbook: How You Can Use Business as a Force For Good , by Ryan Honeyman and Tiffany Jana. For more information, we recommend you use this resource. You can also check the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Such investors rely on ESG — environmental, social and governance — scores created by ratings agencies to assess a company’s exposure to financial risks associated with issues from its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, to human rights violations in its supply chain, and executive pay. MSCI ranks all five as ‘ESG Leaders’ for carbon emissions.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

For example, New York law requires a 60 percent reduction in emissions in just eight years. Meanwhile, at the national level, the Biden administration has set a bold goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. projects, both offshore and onshore, that could inform the transition to scale. Though Europe has examples, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Such investors rely on ESG — environmental, social and governance — scores created by ratings agencies to assess a company’s exposure to financial risks associated with issues from its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, to human rights violations in its supply chain, and executive pay. MSCI ranks all five as ‘ESG Leaders’ for carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The campaign resulted in a flurry of negative Telegraph opinion pieces on the subject – many falsely conflating the result with a condemnation of the UK’s net zero targets. The GWPF has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Project Canary compiles details about each well, including information about the well’s construction, the wastewater it produces, and its track record on spills and accidents. “And then we’re going to create a carbon offset by plugging and abandoning that well, so it never leaks methane again.”

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

He is author of several landmark studies of the industry going back to 2012, when he wrote a paper on the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis production. That jibes with a recent United Nations finding that the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis cultivation is "16 to 100 times larger" than that of outdoor cultivation. Inside out.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

Obviously we're all conscious about where we all need to get to - the trillions of dollars that need to flow into zero carbon goods and services and into resilience, and to support the 'just transition'. "The key thing now is for all of the parts of the finance sector to start to make this a reality," Preston tells BusinessGreen.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Black carbon released by flares can be a powerful — if short-lived — greenhouse gas in its own right. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Shell over allegations that flaring at the site violated the Clean Air Act and state law. But we will not get that information for quite a few days,” she added. “As

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

As a valuable carbon sink, America’s public lands and waters are an essential part of a successful federal climate strategy, writes Alison Kelly, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Currently, the country’s 154 national forests absorb about 10 percent of the nation’s total carbon emissions each year, and a U.S.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This new report focuses not just on how bad things could get if we don’t take decisive action to reduce carbon emissions, but on how bad things already have gotten, with climate impacts hitting every part of the country and threatening the things Americans hold most dear. Then] there’s federal policies such as the Robert T.

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