DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Forests are so unhealthy they are now emitting more carbon than they produce, according to recent s tudies. At the same time, California is counting on its forests sucking up lots of carbon from cars, factories, and power plants to meet its goals to slash carbon emissions. “If But either way, the result is more carbon emissions.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Sweden’s Pledge to be Carbon-Neutral Despite uncertainties in global leadership, Sweden promised to honour the Paris Agreement made by the United Nations and cut all its greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. Our alumni Bluebenu is developing a lead technology that transforms the plastic pollution rescued from the oceans into eco-fuel.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Though there is some domestic demand for wood pellets for electric utilities — particularly in the Northeast — the majority of wood pellets manufactured in the region are exported to the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), to fulfill global commitments to mitigate climate change by reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. Logging has been allowed in some of Europe’s most important forests.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 28, 2022

Leading forest researchers from around the world call for a global forest observatory to provide much-needed data on the current and future ability of our trees to absorb and store carbon, produce multiple goods and benefit for people, and support biodiversity.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

India is the world's second largest coal consumer after China, and also holds the fourth largest reserves of the fossil fuel worldwide. Further signs of waning interest in the global coal sector were seen in India this week, where over 70 per cent of mines put up for sale by the government attracted zero bids, according to Reuters.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

Climeworks Today, there are many ways of removing carbon from the atmosphere - from reforestation to bio-sequestration. For many, a key drawback of most methods is the inability to be fully certain of how much carbon they actually remove. Launched in 2020, his startup is "the UK's only carbon-neutral neobank."

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2021

That continued growth occurred despite President Xi Jinping's pledge to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2060, announced in September 2020. These projects are a key test of the country's pledge to peak emissions before 2030 and reach carbon neutrality before 2060.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

The European Renewable Energy Directive, or REDIII, is part of the European Green Deal, aimed at making a 55 percent cut to the EU’s carbon emissions by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. Loopholes in the current EU law allow for clear cutting of forests for fuel, as long as there is no ‘land use change’. Destructive Industry’.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2021

Located 650 miles north of Vancouver, on the traditional territory of the Gitxsan Nation, the site serves as the platform for launching Seed the North , a project that aims to regenerate large swaths of land in an effort to sequester carbon and fight the climate crisis. It’s also a place where trees could store a lot of carbon.

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