Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

When shipping giant Maersk announced last month it would operate a “carbon-neutral” vessel by 2023, the Danish company committed to using a fuel that’s made from renewable sources, is free of soot-forming pollutants — and is currently in scarce supply. E-methanol is made by combining hydrogen with carbon dioxide.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We began our sustainability journey over 25 years ago, and since then have made good progress, particularly in cutting carbon emissions. By 2030, Dow will reduce its net annual carbon emissions by five million metric tons versus its 2020 baseline. And by 2050, Dow intends to be carbon neutral. Our commitments.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

The publisher also unveiled a new advertising service through a partnership with data company Scope3, which will offer brands the opportunity to deliver 'carbon-neutral' advertising campaigns. According to Vox Media, the company's various editorial brands reach more than 95 million self-identified eco-friendly users.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

That’s why Amazon’s new carbon neutralization paper is a breath of fresh air. Not all carbon credits are created equal , but companies can purchase high-quality, verified forest carbon credits through organizations like Emergent , which develops REDD+ tropical forest carbon credits. .

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

Military alliance announces target to cut emissions 45 per cent by 2030, Australia explores carbon pricing plans, and all the big green stories from around the world this week. However, military emissions are often exempted from countries' official carbon targets. NATO confirms plan to deliver net zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority's (SYPA) investment portfolios must be carbon neutral by 2030 under a set of new climate targets which secured backing from its members last week. The authority is also set to work alongside the Border to Coast Pensions Partnership on its carbon neutral goal.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2022

As the EU aims for climate neutrality in agriculture and land use by 2035, as well as becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, the “greening” of agriculture becomes a top priority. Müller and Lucas shared their perspectives on Earth observation (EO) as an essential tool for greening agricultural policy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

In the document, the science advisory group calls for far-reaching policy action. Renovating a building to reduce its energy consumption makes little sense if there is no control of the carbon-intensive materials and components used for the renovation, and if these are transported over long distances.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Company becomes first jewellery firm to join Science Based Targets Initiative with pledge to become 'carbon neutral' by 2025. Specifically, the Denmark-headquartered company said it has set a target to become 'carbon neutral' across its own options by 2025.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation released new rese arch evaluating California’s climate progress and identifying a policy pathway that would reaffirm California as a climate leader. includes important new metrics to track the economic, environmental, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate policies. By Olivia Ashmoore.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

Energy independence is a key motivation for Chinese energy policy, but it will be only partly achieved. Strong policy support is reflected by the rapid uptake of green technologies. However, policy has turbocharged the sector and today wind is China’s largest source of electricity after coal and hydropower, delivering 9.4%

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts continues its work to build a geothermal system that will contribute to making the campus carbon-neutral by the end of the decade. The geothermal project is expected to be completed by 2028, towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Global body calls on governments to establish 'credible and irreversible' climate policies that drive 25 per cent cut in emissions by 2030. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the cost of climate inaction will dwarf the economic hit of a managed transition to a lower carbon economy over the next eight years.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 3, 2021

Interagency Climate-Workforce Policy Specialist | CA Workforce Development Board | Sacramento. The post Interagency Climate-Workforce Policy Specialist appeared first on Women in Cleantech & Sustainability. Job Description and Duties. Position exists in downtown Sacramento. For more information and to apply please click here.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“Other brands need to send similarly clear signals to their suppliers,” Gary Cook, global climate policy director for the nonprofit Stand.earth that published the report , said in a press release. Most power grids don’t have enough solar and wind farms online yet to fulfill companies’ goals of becoming carbon neutral.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Three California cities have been awarded $1 million each to attain carbon neutrality by 2030. All the cities were required to submit plans that did not include carbon offsets. Plans developed by the cities offer both bottom-up and top-down moonshot climate solutions in terms of policy, technology and market development.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Research Manager Emil Panzaru and Latam Policy Fellow Antonella Marty both completed internships at the Cato Institute, while Marty is also Associate Director of the Center for Latin America at the Atlas Network. The warnings were repeated in an article from the group’s public policy analyst in 2023.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2022

DAC works by capturing CO2 in the air and then either sequestrating it or using it to manufacture carbon neutral fuel. The report added that as part of the Government’s Net Zero 2050 roadmap, CCUS should be included alongside other air transport energy policies. CCUS has both engineering and nature-based solutions.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

ClientEarth has filed a legal challenge against Belgium's central bank, accusing it of breaching legal obligations to consider environmental protection when buying corporate bonds in a landmark case that could help 'green' the monetary policy of a number of European nations.

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TechCrunch: Climate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We’re talking about Apple’s commitment to be 100% carbon neutral by 2030. We’re going to hear a lot about that subject when Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environmental, policy and social initiatives, joins us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt […] It’s an ambitious and necessary goal.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Just 13 financial players out of hundreds assessed from around the world have restrictions in place against funding oil and gas industry expansion, according to the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker. Now, the tracker has broadened its reach, assessing the fossil fuel policies of 369 banks, insurers, and investors.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The IEA has released its annual review of Hungary’s energy policy, stating that energy efficiency needs to be central in the coming years for the European country to reach its net zero targets, The Hungary 2022 Energy Policy Review states how Hungary has significantly increased its climate ambitions since the last review.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The envisaged Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) implementation at LIPOR’s Energy Recovery Plant consists of capturing, extracting and purifying the biogenic part of CO2, present in about 60% of the carbon dioxide emissions generated as a result of the incineration process.

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Fairsnape

JUNE 11, 2020

Over 50 existing policies from leading cities have been evaluated, categorised, and scored according to their potential, cost efficiency, ease of implementation, and enforceability. It is a substantial source of carbon emissions in cities that can be dramatically reduced through the legal and regulatory powers of zoning and land use policies.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation Policy and Technology LLC® and the Innovative Green Development Program (iGDP) released the latest China Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , an open-souce and peer-reviewed model that estimates the environmental, economic, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies up to 2060.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

The Restore Fund money will go to investing in working forests to transition them to more sustainable management practices that will sequester more carbon from the atmosphere to balance Apple’s carbon footprint in its hardware supply chain, while the timber production will produce financial profits for Apple as an investor.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The recent interest and commitment to water pledges has diverted scarce resources and funds from actions such as watershed conservation and protection, reuse, technology innovation and adoption, public policy innovation, etc. Do you have a water replenishment/balance/neutrality/positive goal? If not many, see the question above.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Goods deemed “Climate Neutral” are coming to stores soon thanks to a user-friendly approach to carbon accounting. See the original post: The new labeling scheme designed to help companies go carbon neutral.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Businesses who fail to act on decarbonisation risk exposing themselves to potential risks from policy-driven increased operating costs, increased energy costs or increased compliance costs. Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012. Shift to low-carbon heat.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2020

Pandora’s 100 percent recycled silver and gold commitment comes after the disclosure in January of its aspirational pledge to become carbon neutral in the company’s own operations by 2025. He noted that shifting from partially virgin metals to 100 percent recycled metals will make a big difference in Pandora’s carbon footprint.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Evaluating regulations, subsidies, pricing mechanisms, and hybrid policies. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. In its simplest form, a carbon tax or fee reduces emissions due to the elasticity effect.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Glasgow moved us a step closer to this goal, with almost 200 countries pledging to “phase down” unabated coal power in the final text (“unabated” refers to coal power without carbon capture and storage). The post The Glasgow Climate Pact: What does it mean for Canada’s climate policy? Finance is shifting away from fossil fuels .

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

53% of emissions can be reduced, eliminated or captured through a combination of fuel switch, power sector decarbonisation and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS). Making Net Zero Concrete and Cement Possible appears to show, through its Net Zero scenario, how the sector can reach net zero GHG emissions and comply with a 1.5°C

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AGreenLiving

JULY 21, 2020

Apple embeds racial justice into new supply-chain carbon neutrality pledge Heather Clancy Tue, 07/21/2020 – 04:13 Apple already has ventured far beyond most other companies when it comes to pushing for climate action within its supply chain. Now, it’s wandering farther into uncharted territory.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

UK energy utility Drax has unveiled plans to build the world’s largest carbon capture facility with the goal of removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than it produces, and thereby securing “carbon negative” status. But campaign groups continue to insist that the maths behind biomass doesn’t add up.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The report’s author and IEMA’s Policy and Engagement Lead, Nick Blyth, said: “We know from IEMA members’ experience that a range of carbon reduction measures are available and are being deployed. Good practice should continue to see carbon reduction targets addressed separately from compensation measures.

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Solar Power World

APRIL 14, 2022

By Linden Speranza, construction program manager and technical service coordinator for Labella Associates Renewable energy policy is gaining momentum across the country. Twenty-four states have already enacted net-zero carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission electricity production goals.

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