Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 The first has to do with the carbon budget — the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the planet warms more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2022

Global tech giant Microsoft has announced it has signed a 10-year carbon removal offtake agreement with Swiss direct air capture firm Climeworks that will see it fund the removal of 10,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

New report from the Coalition for Negative Emissions argues urgent action is needed to expand carbon removals market - and businesses have a critical role to play. Most importantly, delivering net zero emissions through carbon offsets risks distracting from the need to slash emissions at source.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand. She also spoke at a webinar run by GWPF’s campaign arm Net Zero Watch last June.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

To avert catastrophic warming, the global community must rapidly reduce how much of these fuels it extracts and burns. Our new paper , published in Nature, revealed just how tight the world’s remaining carbon budget is likely to be. Our analysis showed that total fossil fuel production is limited by a global carbon budget.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

A new report from McKinsey predicts global fossil fuel demand 'will never return to its pre-pandemic growth curve', but warns the world is still on track to badly miss its climate goals. The oil industry has been particularly badly hit.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

After all, a substantial fraction of global carbon emissions arise from the production, transportation, and consumption of fossil fuels. Hydrogen is increasingly being viewed as an important tool for reducing carbon emissions, because the use of hydrogen for energy generates no direct carbon dioxide emissions.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Many economic sectors had slowed down or shuttered entirely due to lowered demand and health measures. While Nitrogen Dioxide is primarily produced by cars(EPA USA, 2016), other pollutants like Carbon Dioxide were on the fall too, with reduced global air travel reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions in the US by 17% ( Zogopoulos , 2021).

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

Reducing carbon emissions caused by commuting and traveling saves money and your employees’ time. You will also help the environment by reducing global warming, mitigating the waste of finite materials, and reducing pollution. Operating as a sustainable business comes with many advantages. Excessive traveling.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 31, 2020

Carbon marketplace hawks credits in businesses that store CO2 with their products Gloria Oladipo Mon, 08/31/2020 – 05:00 As corporate interest in carbon removal options grows, Puro.earth , a startup from Finland, is offering a twist on carbon marketplaces.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Global warming to climate change; climate change covers a broader term and now special interest groups can use it for any situation, as we have recently seen with the fires in Western Canada and now Australia.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. Climate scientists say the world must now do both to limit global warming to 1.5 Carbon Engineering.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Direct Air Capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere is one set of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategies that may play a role in mitigating climate change, particularly in the mid to latter part of the 21 st century. C report provided four scenarios (P1-P4 in Figure 1) with increasing roles for negative emissions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

UBS has become the first financial services firm to partner with Swiss direct air capture (DAC) specialist Climeworks, with the investment bank today announcing it has signed a 10-year agreement to help offset its "unavoidable" emissions and support the expansion of the nascent carbon removals sector.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

IETA sets out net zero carbon trading vision. The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) has unveiled its plan to lobby governments, companies and carbon markets to set net zero emissions targets in line with the Paris Agreement's 1.5C Denmark agrees 'landmark' climate action law.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 8, 2023

. “Chicken and Egg” Dilemma The decarbonization of the sector rests largely on the commercialization of zero-carbon fuels and technologies for ships. It must also develop practical and cost-effective pathways for the maritime sector to be in line with a pathway that limits global warming to no more than 1.5°C.

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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.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

The government must now address the market for all the low carbon energy technologies of the future, including hydrogen and CCUS, argues Siemens UK & Ireland CEO Steve Scrimshaw. The public want to see the government take even bolder steps to move the UK towards net zero carbon. I n the energy transition, there is no one silver bullet.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As industry is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change and is entirely dependent on the earth’s resources for production, it is important for business leaders and employees to understand the Anthropocene, its implications, and what it means for the future of sustainability and industry. . The Holocene. The Anthropocene.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

BNEF estimates last year's global EV sales helped avoid 1.5 per cent of total oil demand. However, despite this progress overall demand for oil was actually still a touch higher last year than it was in 2015. There is still some way to go before EVs deliver promised steep reductions in oil demand.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

That was followed by the growing popularity of ice hockey from the 1880s onward, which increased the demand for more rink construction. The main refrigerants associated with most ice-making equipment include chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), hydrocarbons, ammonia and carbon dioxide.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. According to Project Drawdown, eating a plant-based diet is "the most important contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming." Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C It also states that only natural carbon capture methods should be used to meet the UK's net zero targets, effectively ruling out the use of negative emissions technologies and CCS as a means of meeting the targets.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That is the upbeat conclusion of a major new report today, which argues that while the chemicals industry currently lags behind many other sectors of the economy in terms of climate action, it has the potential to reinvent itself as a critical climate solution and even become carbon negative by 2040.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 23, 2022

Customers Are Demanding Sustainability. Now is the time for commercial and residential landscaping and lawn care companies to make the necessary changes in order to keep up with the demands of the next generation of consumers. How Do Landscapers Negatively Impact the Environment. Negative Impact on Ecosystem.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 25, 2022

Positive (+) feedbacks reinforce changes, while negative (-) feedbacks dampen them. The constructed model compares four idealized policies: three different carbon tax policies and one generic policy of performance standards. Ultimately this led to the Low Energy Demand Scenario, represented by P1 in Figure 4. Public support.

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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. Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

ICAO, the UN body that oversees the global aviation sector, agreed its first major international climate deal six years ago, when some 191 nations agreed to establish a controversial, market-based carbon offset system dubbed CORSIA that applies to global passenger, cargo, and business flights. CORSIA progress.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Today's letter, which was coordinated by campaign group Mission2020, calls on IEA director Fatih Birol to ensure an energy scenario that shows how quickly emissions must fall to meet the Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5C is "central" to the report. The letter argues that giving a robust 1.5C

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

The alarms that are being sounded on global warming, income inequality, and humanitarian crises are the result of materialistic greed. So, limiting human strain on natural resources is the main area of concern to ensure the earth is able to fulfil increasing food demand by reducing stress on climate.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Biofuels are still expected to play an important part in hitting ambitious climate targets; to keep global warming under 1.5°C Driven by demand thanks to the U.S. This severe deforestation has undermined biofuels’ sustainability credentials, as these tropical forests are key absorbers of carbon dioxide.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Ocean: increasing amounts of CO 2 ultimately dissolve in the oceans and forms carbonic acid by altering the ocean chemistry.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Communities on the front line of climate change understand very starkly that keeping global warming within 1.5C Promoting distant net zero targets for themselves amount to furthering carbon injustice and inequity," the group wrote. "If could quite literally be a matter of life or death," they said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit. billion and 3.6

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