Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Stark reasons that resilience and adaptation are seen by politicians as less-glamorous cousins to exciting net zero missions and clean tech investments, while the long-term planning required falls outside typical election cycles, leading to limited political pressure for the government to act. Stark's message was, well, stark. "We

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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

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

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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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Later in her Katowice speech, Thunberg said simply that “Until you start focusing on what needs to be done rather than what is politically possible, there is no hope.” His startup has just created Panorama, an open-source software to map out Sweden’s path to a carbon-neutral future. But first of all, does it pass the Thunberg test?

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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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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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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.

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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

MARCH 1, 2023

The mapping project aims to establish the location and scale of current seagrass carbon sinks, providing a baseline from which projects to protect and expand the habitats can work. Waiting another 10 years for further confirmation of these negative trends is not acceptable. the UK region.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average, due to the vast amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide that humans have added to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. Solar geoengineering, for example, does nothing to ameliorate ocean acidification, which occurs when the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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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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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Economics are a primary concern in a well-designed strategy to reduce carbon. The potential ways to reduce carbon emissions vary dramatically on an economic basis. The amount of carbon abatement that a given method can accomplish also has limits in scale. Some items are shown as negative cost. Intro to MAC Curves.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The joint statement calls on the government to urgently provide more "vision, clarity, and detail" over the rollout of its Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes, which were envisaged as post-Brexit replacements for the EU's Common Agriculture Policy but have been beset by political wrangling and repeated ministerial changes within government.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 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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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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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. Political advocacy.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Environmental change can truly have a ton of negative outcomes. In the event that electrical conveyors are joined to the positive and negative sides, framing an electrical circuit, the electrons can be caught as an electric current - that is, power. Industrial production of Hydrogen is 4 trillion cubic feet annually.

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AGreenLiving

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.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

But the gleaming image of Ireland’s agri-produce hides a number of inconvenient truths, among them the damage the sector is wreaking on Ireland’s climate targets, as well as its waterways and soils. Since then, The map also outlines a number of crucial policy groups, including Ireland’s agri-food strategy committees.

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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. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This is not the time nor the issue for scoring party political points. Third, assembly members gave strong support for businesses to make low carbon products that use less energy and materials.". Nearly two thirds of Assembly members - 62 per cent - also backed enhancing the storage of carbon in the soil.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Since September alone, China has pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, and Japan, South Korea, South Africa, and Canada have also set their sights on net zero by 2050. As the Trump experiment demonstrated, the political consensus on climate action can be fractured quickly, undermining investment in the net zero transition.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Political pressure over biofuel requirements have escalated in recent months as profit margins for oil revenues have plummeted and the cost of biofuel credits (also known as RINs) have risen. Modeled ecosystem carbon fluxes for different land use scenarios. The results are annual averages across the first 30 years of simulation.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 29, 2020

Certainly, it appears that significant drops in pollution levels all over the world as carbon emissions plummet from a stumbling global economy is a good thing. The intended consequence of doing so will be a significant reduction in carbon emissions leading to a permanent and lasting halt of our climate crisis.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Rewilding habitats, carbon sinks, natural flood defences, healthy soils and forested uplands, a burgeoning forestry industry providing clean power and negative emission timber buildings, the idea of farmers as true stewards of the land, all of this becomes not just possible, but likely.

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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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