The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Reduced Carbon Footprint Community solar allows homeowners and renters to save on electricity bills while supporting renewable energy generation. Increased Resilience Community solar projects provide access to clean energy without owning rooftop panels. Households with incomes at or below twice the poverty level spend 3.5

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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.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. C and build resilience for current and anticipated climate change impacts. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. However, without the proper planning for when life goes back to normal, emissions are expected to rise again.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The majority of directors at the world’s biggest banks have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, a DeSmog investigation shows. There were also significant ties to banks and investment vehicles supporting polluting industries, as well as to thinktanks and lobbying groups with a history of campaigning against climate action.

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GreenBiz

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. Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. C and build resilience for current and anticipated climate change impacts. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. However, without the proper planning for when life goes back to normal, emissions are expected to rise again.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

How do you plan to make our homes and infrastructure more resilient to levels of heat that will become ever more frequent and intense? How do you plan to make the UK more resilient to the drought, wildfire, and flood risks that will also increase in the coming years? How do you plan to tackle the risk of such impacts?

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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. According to the U.S. How will businesses operate without electricity?

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

In order to do this we must not fall back into the trap of our pre-Covid world by continuing to reinforce carbon-intensive structures. To begin with, our post Covid-19 recovery plans must avoid unconditionally propping up and bailing out carbon-heavy industries. Simply put: the polluter must pay. It has to be green. per cent.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets unveils recommendations on how to scale up investment in emission reduction programmes, but environmental campaigners remain unimpressed. And it stresses that global emissions targets are likely to be missed without a fresh approach for driving investment in negative emissions projects.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

However, flood risk is now addressed on a wider catchment scale so that initiatives in one part of a catchment do not have negative effects further downstream. In the past, peats and bogs have been drained to increase cropping areas, but this damages peatlands and reduces their capacity to retain water and store carbon. NFM benefits.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis. Nature is in crisis, threatened by biodiversity and habitat loss, global heating and toxic pollution. Humanity depends on action now for a resilient and sustainable future.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Historically, public concern about the environment dips during a recession so there is a real risk that this negative messaging will lead the public to conclude that net zero is an expensive luxury that can wait. A properly funded national insulation programme will cut bills, improve the quality of our homes and slash carbon.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Endorsed by governments over the weekend, the report's 'summary for policymakers' cover text is a critical resource for business leaders and investors looking to bolster near-term resilience and boost long-term profitability amidst an ever-worsening climate crisis. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Source: Stockholm Resilience Centre PBs represent a conceptual framework of the effect of ongoing unlimited human activities on the limited capacity of the earth. The nine PBs regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system. The increased acidity reduces the number of available carbonate ions. 2009; Steffen, W.,

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

, published by a team including Lord Nicholas Stern and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz that argued that non-conditional support for high carbon industries would see a lower return on investment than green stimulus packages. Build carbon-capture-and-storage infrastructure around large industrial clusters ? They are: ?

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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.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Indeed, the ingredients for negativity are all too abundant: a persistent, shapeshifting virus; political stalemates that thwart climate action; growing social and economic inequality; terrifying ecological indicators; pushback by the anti-science crowd and their media enablers.

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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. JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Last year, global carbon emissions hit an all-time high of 40.9 But all that carbon doesn’t have to wind up in the atmosphere. Carbon doesn’t necessarily come free, in terms of its environmental burden,” Dunn said.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

However, the war in Ukraine and subsequent shocks are testing firms’ resilience. 32% consider less polluting business areas & tech ??Read Economic climate expectations have turned negative once again (declining from +27% to ?53%). EU firms made progress in #ClimateAction : ?? 57% invest in #EnergyEfficiency ??64%

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

The consensus on climate action is far from perfect (nor would you want it to be), but there is a broad agreement around how a mix of clean technology innovation and advanced R&D, low carbon infrastructure, shifting consumer attitudes, and effective policy interventions could drive rapid decarbonisation.

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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

APRIL 13, 2021

The report, published yesterday, reveals that it is not just the natural environment that is compromised by the high-carbon, high-waste practices of the disposable, 'fast fashion' industry, but the future profitability of many of the sector's major players.

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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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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

Build a resilient fashion brand company using sustainable fashion. Today, the fashion industry is widely regarded as the second most polluting industry in the world, releasing 1.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. Sustainable fashion has come to save the fashion industry. 8 sustainable fashion brand initiatives.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The Strategy is to be underpinned by a new statutory body, the Industrial Strategy Council (ISC), which like the Committee for Climate Change would aim to ensure a future Labour government honours its commitments to deliver clean power by 2030, better harness data for public good, and build a more future-facing and resilient economy. "A

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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 award was accepted by Joel Griffith, DGS and the O Street team.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Plans by biomass giant Drax to manufacture wood pellets sourced from Californian forests will endanger natural habitats and increase toxic air pollution for rural communities, campaigners warn. Drax already operates 18 wood pellet plants across the U.S. But scientists and campaigners have long disputed these claims.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

The coronavirus lockdown may have led to a fall in emissions, but assumptions that home-working automatically cuts carbon could prove to be wide of the mark. Today's analysis from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) suggested that a drastic drop in air pollution may have saved 11,000 lives over the past month.

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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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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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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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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

In January, the momentum built as Microsoft committed to becoming carbon-negative and BlackRock Chairman Larry Fink’s now-fabled letter to CEOs called the climate crisis a "defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects." The climate crisis even topped the discussion list at the World Economic Forum Annual Summit in Davos.

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