EDF + Business

JULY 13, 2020

Roston also references the many lists that score companies on sustainability performance. By contrast, Ford, which supports the Clean Car standards and just announced a carbon neutral commitment , ranks only 41 st. It’s long past time for sustainability rankings to update their methodologies to include climate policy advocacy.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It emphasised the need to “recognize the transitional and enabling role of natural gas,” referring to two of the taxonomy’s three categories. But this didn’t suit everyone.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

In addition, from 2035 a ban on the sale of new carbon-emitting vehicles will come into effect, but in a move that has angered environmental campaigners the rules will allow for the sale of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles that make use of so-called e-fuels, which advocates maintain can be produced in a way that results in zero emissions.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Though it was later dismantled by Obama’s successor, the European Commission included funding for behavioural research projects in its European Green Deal , a 1 trillion Euro campaign aimed to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. References. Putting people at the centre. Gosnell, G.K., Bazilian, M.D.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2024

But thanks to carbon capture and storage, a technology widely touted by the oil and gas industry and some political leaders as a key solution for climate change, the field could still be producing 1.5 It’s the world’s longest-running enhanced oil recovery project using carbon capture and storage.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That’s potentially very bad news for the climate: The huge amount of methane that leaks during the production, transport and storage of LNG means that the carbon emissions associated with importing the fuel could be up to ten times higher than for the equivalent amount of Russian pipeline gas, researchers say. Political Decision’.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Polman: What we're referring to is that you can actually show that you derive profits in your business not from creating the world's problems, but from solving the world's problems. How do you deal with issues of tax, or corruption or money in politics, or human rights standards in your value chain? How is this different?

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Here are all the references to climate change from the Canadian federal leaders English Language debate that took place on October 7, 2019. We need the kind of leadership that lifts people up, that doesn’t make people feel as if politics is rather disgusting and they’d rather not look at it. Thank you. We’re going to need everybody.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The final deal also included landmark references to the need to reform decision-making at the multilateral development banks and other financial institutions to better tackle climate change. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today. C) within reach.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 11, 2023

Drax, which says it supports over 6,000 jobs in the North of England, is the UK’s single largest emitter of carbon dioxide. The Selby and Ainsty by-election coincides with a deeply uncertain time for the future of Drax, which is looking to Westminster for continued financial and political backing.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

And Nature, she suggested, was a “big big problem”, referring to the difficulties with accounting for natural capital. One solution might be carbon pricing, and the imposition of such a measure was Bordini-Staden’s “biggest hope” for COP26. But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Nature and finance.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2020

President Xi, one of around 75 world leaders scheduled to speak at the virtual UN summit, reiterated his landmark pledge from September to peak China's carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060. I welcome President Xi's commitment to achieving carbon neutrality before 2060.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

Now, after four-and-a-half-years of political turmoil and wrangling over everything from parliamentary sovereignty to the legal small print of fisheries agreements, the UK and EU have a trade deal, averting the very real threat of an economically disastrous cliff-edge Brexit. Electric vehicles.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

His speech comes just weeks before thousands of global diplomates are expected to descend on Glasgow for the crucial UN summit, which I set to be one of the largest political events ever held on British soil, and at which UK as host is under major pressure to rally countries together behind ambitious climate action.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

Meanwhile, at the national level, the Biden administration has set a bold goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Participation refers to who is included, when they are engaged in the process, and how the process is structured. For example, New York law requires a 60 percent reduction in emissions in just eight years.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A significant proportion of global carbon emissions come from farming meat. By focusing on how these institutions are sites of coproduction of knowledge and policy, this work brings to light the politics of science advice and details how these committees are contributing to an emerging global environmental constitutionalism.

Climate change 95

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Echoing earlier comments from the Biden, Johnson emphasised climate action could drive significant economic growth and jobs, as he confounded delegates with an obscure reference to how climate action had nothing to do with "bunny hugging" and could unlock myriad economic opportunities.

Carbon-neutral 93

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. When there is no sea ice and no continental glaciers whatsoever on the planet, it is commonly referred to as greenhouse Earth.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Greenpeace UK head of politics Rebecca Newsom said: "With this Queen's Speech Boris Johnson is throwing in the towel on some of the biggest challenges our country faces and pandering instead to the whims of his backbenchers.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Echoing earlier comments from the Biden, Johnson emphasised climate action could drive significant economic growth and jobs, as he confounded delegates with an obscure reference to how climate action had nothing to do with "bunny hugging" and could unlock myriad economic opportunities.

Carbon-neutral 50

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The ecosystem services that underpin the global economy should recover, providing greater climate resilience, enhanced natural carbon sinks, and improved food and water security. The word 'business' is mentioned three times in the text, amid a smattering of further references to the private sector and its activities.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), any group working for a foreign country to conduct political activity or public relations in the U.S. political strategy group GMMB , to lobby for the UAE to host the newly created International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), an intergovernmental body. Under the U.S.

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Michael Grossman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

I haven’t gone off the deep end and gone into denial about the scale and urgency of reducing carbon emissions. Marketers and political consultants have been perfecting these arts for thousands of years, even before those jobs had titles. org to represent carbon emissions zooming past 350 PPM. Don’t worry.

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Grist

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In recent years, Moomaw has turned his attention to working on natural solutions to climate change and has become a leading proponent of what he calls “proforestation” — leaving older and middle-aged forests intact because of their superior carbon-sequestration abilities. Cutting trees to burn them is not a way to get there.”. billion tons.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Even as our thirst for oil seems insatiable, it is becoming politically and environmentally toxic. A 5 per cent improvement in the average efficiency of new European internal combustion engine vehicles would lead to an annual reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of 1.8 The problem is absolutely immense.

Building Energy Monitoring 78

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels 78

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. Carbon Tracker states that the world is “witnessing the decline and fall of the fossil fuel system”. The transition is among us. Betting on a recovery is exactly what the second camp is doing however.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Espinoza refer to in their book Strategic Nature as “strategies of silence”: the role of PR agents has been to create and execute strategies for their clients while remaining completely invisible. Their study challenges the notion that PR agents are neutral mediators merely working to carry out their clients’ wishes. Carbon footprint.

Fossil fuels 98

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

It provides a clear geo-political overview of energy in the 20st century. (2) 3) A gradual decline is preferred, because the alternative is a carbon crunch scenario. And what about politics? Daniel Yergin 'Politics certainly has a lot of influence on that, especially in Europe, but there are limits to that too.

Fossil fuels 78

Fossil fuels Politics Demand Carbon-neutral 78

Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

It provides a clear geo-political overview of energy in the 20st century. (2) 3) A gradual decline is preferred, because the alternative is a carbon crunch scenario. And what about politics? Daniel Yergin 'Politics certainly has a lot of influence on that, especially in Europe, but there are limits to that too.

Fossil fuels 78

Fossil fuels Politics Demand Carbon-neutral 78

Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Why is a cap approach better than a carbon fee, especially an accelerating fee? How does popular support for a carbon tax change if coupled with a rebate/dividend of the proceeds? We have seen this play out in Washington with two carbon tax or fee initiatives voted down by a comfortable margin in 2016 and 2018.

Carbon 40

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Her opponents tried to carve out a neutral position on the project, as many other Oregon Democrats did for many years. . In April 2018, Jordan Cove sent $40,000 to a group called Oregonians to Maintain Community Standards, a political arm for a coalition of building trades unions. Coos Bay, Oregon, in 2012. Joe Manchin III (D-WV). “So,

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This is a crisis, and a lot of our plans are very similar to get to carbon neutral by 2045, 2050, something like that. But when it comes to putting a price on carbon -- this is very important, Chuck -- we have to make sure that that money goes back directly as dividends to the people that are going to need help for paying their bills.

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Business Green

JANUARY 8, 2021

China also joined Japan, South Korea, and Canada in announcing new carbon neutrality targets, while the support for the net zero transition among companies, investors, and even major oil and gas firms continued to go from strength to strength. New rating downgraded one level to "Highly Insufficient" [link] pic.twitter.com/D3sZTteu5i.

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