Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

The UK's first certification scheme for buildings and organisations looking to reach net zero emissions has been launched by Natural Carbon Solutions (NCS). With regards to its offsetting protocol, it highlighted that while offsetting is an essential component when reaching carbon neutrality, "not all carbon offset credits are equal".

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

This article includes several eco-friendly office products and supplies that will lower your carbon footprint. gluten-free) and carbon neutral shipping on all deliveries. Indoor air quality is critical to the health and wellbeing of your staff and visitors, in and beyond the lobby.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The strategy foregrounds the importance of "regenerative agriculture" practices, which prioritise improving soil health and maintaining and restoring diverse ecosystems, aiming to counter the habitat destruction caused by deforestation and other damaging practices frequently linked to global agricultural supply chains.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Latham & Watkins’ first post in this series discusses CARB’s Proposed Scenario to achieve the state’s GHG targets, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045. The Draft Scoping Plan indicates that these measures can increase soil water holding capacity while also reducing pesticide use. Climate Strategies.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

These various components, particularly Indigo Carbon, which fuels agricultural carbon sequestration, are part of the company's ambitious Terraton Initiative , which aims to sequester one trillion tons of carbon. Indigo Carbon streamlines the ability of farms to tap into the market for carbon offsets.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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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

APRIL 1, 2022

The tech giant has lifted the lid on its efforts to soak up more carbon than it emits. While other organizations are focused primarily on getting to carbon neutral for current emissions, Microsoft plans to offset its entire historical emissions going back to when the company was founded in 1975.

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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. He has used GWP* to claim that the US meat and dairy sector can become “climate-neutral” by the late 2040s by reducing emissions only two percent a year.

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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.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It’s a chemical that’s been found in water, soil, and food all over the planet: PFAS. Exposure studies have linked some forms of PFAS to thyroid disease and some cancers , but there’s very little health research on most of them. Depending on what the original gas was, some of these weapons will attack pollutants like PFAS.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

We learned we’re (1) changing the earth’s land so much that we threaten our food security and the land’s ability to capture carbon, (2) heading toward devastated oceans that are coral-free, and (3) not cutting emissions even remotely fast enough to avoid these outcomes. People are taking notice. degrees Celsius.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 7, 2022

This is not only good for the skin it touches, but also for the environment, soil health and wildlife. In contrast to bags made with petroleum-based materials, when Terra Thread bags hit the landfill at the end of life, they won’t leach chemicals into the soil or stick around for generations.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

There are some hard facts: without secure and sustainable access to the necessary raw materials, our ambition to become the first climate neutral continent is at risk," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the 2022 State of the Union Address. The Commission is preparing new rules on critical raw materials.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Microsoft , JetBlue and Royal Dutch Shell are among those seeking to offset a portion of their carbon footprint by investing in forest protection and reforestation. The Regenerative Organic Alliance developed a standard to support farmers who promote soil health. Delta lifts off with $1 billion pledge to become carbon neutral.

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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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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. If this year has shown us anything, it’s that the health of our planet and the health of humans are inextricably linked. . Media Source.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

The consumer goods giant unveiled its new Climate and Nature Fund on Monday as it set out a raft of fresh sustainability goals, which include plans to end deforestation in its supply chain and communicate the carbon footprint of every product it sells. Carbon Removal. Corporate Strategy. Supply Chain. Natural Climate Solutions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Those levers are fortunately now many and varied ranging from Biodiversity Net Gain to land-based investments in achieving net zero carbon goals and from Local Nature Recovery Strategies to the strategic development of the protected landscapes network, including the National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 18, 2023

48E: The clean electricity ITC becomes available in 2025 and features a high threshold for phase-out, likely extending its availability beyond 2032 Credit Overview Provision Description: Provides a technology-neutral tax credit for investment in facilities that generate clean electricity. Key Takeaways IRA adds $4.95

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Decarbonising in line with global climate goals could also help reduce air pollution by up to a third and deliver $280bn health-related economic benefits in C40 cities, driven in large part by a reduction in fossil fuel use. million homes, while avoiding a potential 950,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, the companies said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

To do so, they draw on friendly science, the promise of technological innovation and slick marketing campaigns – which promise “climate neutral” or “climate smart” meat and dairy – to create the idea we can continue eating vast quantities of the stuff while meeting our climate goals.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The EU Green Deal , Europe’s ambitious strategy to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, is now working to transform the agriculture sector from a carbon emitter to a promising carbon sink. The practice of carbon farming, in particular, has been singled-out to play a key role in achieving these EU climate goals. .

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But CEO Mark Schneider took pains to position this investment as one that will be “earnings-neutral.” During the briefing, Schneider and several other executives underscored the weight of consumers’ increasing expectation that brands work to reduce the carbon footprint of their products. It’s at 90 percent currently.)

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Meanwhile, for reducing the amount of cow burps, the report praises the Dutch company DSM for “its product called 3-NOP that reduces these methane emissions by 30% in tests, and does not appear to have health or environmental side effects.” . Livestock genomics and regen ag left in the dirt.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

US auto giant Ford has this week announced a landmark clean power purchase agreement with DTE Energy (NYSE: DTE), which it hailed as "a major step" towards its goal of to reaching carbon neutrality. As part of the new agreement, DTE will add 650MW of new solar energy capacity in Michigan for Ford by 2025.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 25, 2021

Both public and private entities increasingly view carbon farming as a way to achieve carbon neutrality. On the public side, both the Biden Administration and the European Union are pursuing increasingly aggressive emissions targets and have placed agriculture at the heart of ambitious carbon strategies. .

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

The large volume of gloves used in the industrial market means that often gloves are thrown into the garbage after they are soiled or worn out. To date, Replate has been able to save 819 million gallons of water, avoid 6 million pounds of harmful carbon dioxide and rescue nearly 3 million pounds of food. Ginkgo Sustainability.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to the report, the figure falls drastically short of the levels required to halt biodiversity loss, limit global warming to 1.5C, and achieve land degradation neutrality, with estimates suggesting $384bn is required annually by 2025 and $484bn is needed by 2030.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

They develop strategies to reduce a company’s overall ecological footprint and minimize their carbon emissions. Typical strategic initiatives may include a zero waste program or a carbon neutral operation. In some cases, they may also own the ESG reporting program to keep investors up to date on sustainability.

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Grist

APRIL 6, 2023

forests help mitigate climate change by storing some 15 billion metric tons of carbon in trees’ leaves, trunks, and limbs. Rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere help trees grow but also exacerbate ecological disasters associated with rising temperatures, like wildfires. The results were all over the place.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. The industry claims that forests that are felled sustainably — for construction, say, or for burning to produce electricity in utility-scale power plants — can provide jobs and energy, stimulate the economy, and even reduce society’s net carbon emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

They develop strategies to reduce a company’s overall ecological footprint and minimize their carbon emissions. Typical strategic initiatives may include a zero waste program or a carbon neutral operation. In some cases, they may also own the ESG reporting program to keep investors up to date on sustainability.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. Studies show these activities represent the majority of the sector’s emissions, yet many meat companies exclude them when calculating their carbon footprint. The AAA did not respond when DeSmog asked about its emissions claim.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2020

The consumer goods giant unveiled its new Climate and Nature Fund today as it set out a raft of fresh sustainability goals, which include plans to end deforestation in its supply chain and communicate the carbon footprint of every product it sells.

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