Tech must lead on carbon neutrality
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Sponsored: The tech industry is far from the biggest polluter, but it’ll be a key leader in solving the most pressing issue of our time: saving our planet.
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GreenBiz
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Sponsored: The tech industry is far from the biggest polluter, but it’ll be a key leader in solving the most pressing issue of our time: saving our planet.
Green Business Bureau
APRIL 1, 2020
An offset program like UPS’s carbon neutral service , though, can help minimize these emissions, paving the way for a new era of sustainable shipping. What Is UPS’s Carbon Neutral Shipping Program? UPS rolled out its carbon neutral shipping option several years ago and has been improving upon it ever since.
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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
Mr. Sustainability
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Summary - China considers going carbon neutral. China is considering carbon neutrality as part of its long term climate plan, the country’s foreign ministry announced following a summit with EU leaders. At the summit on Monday, EU leaders pushed China to aim for climate neutrality by 2060 or face punitive carbon tariffs.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The LIDAR data is being used to calculate above-ground carbon storage. The ARCZero (Accelerating Ruminant Carbon Zero) project has commissioned aerial mapping specialist Bluesky to record LiDAR measurements for seven commercial farms across Northern Ireland.
EDF + Business
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
That’s why Amazon’s new carbon neutralization paper is a breath of fresh air. The science says we must reduce pollution by 50% in the next 10 years. Ensuring the quality of carbon credits is crucial. Investing in carbon markets is critical to reaching net zero, but navigating their complexities is hard.
AGreenLiving
JANUARY 28, 2022
Silestone® Sunlit Days carbon-neutral technology has garnered the line a win in the Hard Surfacing, Tiles & Stone Category in 2021 Architizer A+ Product Awards. Notably, the collection is the first ever to achieve carbon-neutral status. Silestone innovates with carbon-neutral quartz collection.
Business Green
JANUARY 22, 2020
Bank of America has become the latest corporate to hit carbon neutrality, with the firm announcing yesterday it has met the target a year ahead of schedule. Being carbon neutral is core to our $300bn, 10-year environmental business initiative that is helping finance the transition to a low-carbon future.".
Terra Infirma
OCTOBER 30, 2023
One of the allegations flung at the Net Zero concept, and Carbon Neutral before it, is that the offsetting element acts like a get out of jail free card, letting polluters carry on emitting with their conscience clear. The post Does offsetting really distract from carbon reductions? appeared first on Terra Infirma.
The Guardian: Energy
MARCH 8, 2024
Research shows industry lobbying against support for solar panels and electric cars while enjoying subsidies itself The oil industry has fought against government support for clean technologies for more than half a century, the Guardian can reveal, even as vast subsidies have propped up its polluting business model.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
There’s a new kid on the block of sustainability claims being made by businesses: "plastic neutrality." And, much like the market for carbon offsets, it’s messy. . The new term "plastic neutrality" is being used to convey that a company has offset its "plastic footprint.". Consider carbon markets again.
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.
The Environmental Blog
MARCH 4, 2020
The question remains, however, how much do they actually help in the reduction of pollution? While electricity allows these modes of transportation to be carbon-neutral, they still use a pretty significant amount of non-renewable energy resources , both in the manufacturing process and during regular charges. Balance is key.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
The carbon footprint of British pig farming has reduced by almost 40% over the last 20 years, according to a new study, using a new methodology, led by the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. for Global Warming Potential (commonly known as carbon footprint); 21.2%
DeSmogBlog
JULY 27, 2023
He’s an ExxonMobil scientist in a company ad that also shows other scientists in a high-tech lab working to develop “low-carbon technologies.” Basically, polluting companies increasingly need to present themselves as green to avoid accountability for their contributions to the climate crisis. To do so, they turn to greenwashing.
The Verge: Energy
OCTOBER 16, 2023
To be sure, a completely separate report published by a different environmental group last week casts some doubt on Apple’s recent carbon neutral claims. The new Stand.earth report published today includes recommendations for companies to rein in that pollution. The Verge reached out to each of the companies in the report. “We
GreenBiz
MAY 11, 2021
Net zero can be achieved, first and foremost, by cutting or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and, secondarily, by offsetting any remaining emissions through such actions as planting trees, investing in renewable energy projects that replace fossil-fuel energy, or investing in novel carbon-removal technologies such as direct air capture.
Grist
JULY 7, 2023
Whether used to heat your house or build it, wood is often touted as carbon-neutral, especially by biofuel and lumber companies and even some environmentalists. The logic seems simple enough: Sure, logging unleashes planet-warming carbon into the air, but that can be replaced with new trees that suck carbon back out of the air.
Clean Energy Canada
MARCH 31, 2020
OTTAWA — Sarah Petrevan, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement regarding the annual increase to the federal price on pollution: “Let’s be crystal clear: Canada’s price on pollution gives money back to Canadians in the form of a tax rebate. And yet the misinformation campaign continues.
Hydrogen Fuel News
OCTOBER 7, 2023
There is a difference between the use of this carbon emission-free fuel and its clean production. Those that are considered to be green H2 usually use organic waste as their energy production feedstock, while capturing and commercializing any carbon emissions produced.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Sports brand On says it is the first company in the footwear industry to use captured carbon emissions as a raw material. Swiss sports brand On has announced that it has created a shoe using carbon emissions as a raw material, making it the first company in the footwear industry to achieve the milestone.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 13, 2022
A Chinese study published in December aims to quantify the role of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) – and its predominance as a way of measuring organic pollution – in causing unnecessary GHG emissions. COD is widely used as an indicator of organic pollution in wastewater. Measurement methods compared.
Grist
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
million offset credits based on the carbon stored in its trees. million metric tons of carbon dioxide — or the equivalent of driving 560,000 cars around for one year. If a forest burns down, you didn’t keep carbon out of the atmosphere,” said Danny Cullenward, an energy economist at Stanford University. “So
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Thousands of companies have hitched themselves to the carbon-neutral bandwagon, from fossil fuel producers like BP and Shell, to other household names including United Airlines, Dell, Burger King, and Vodafone. These actors are increasingly turning to voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) to offset their emissions.
Clean Energy Canada
APRIL 16, 2021
Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. WHAT ARE OFFSETS?
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Mark Naples, General Manager at Umicore Coating Services writes: Laser absorption spectroscopy is a powerful tool for detecting trace gases and has been widely used in the monitoring of atmospheric greenhouse gases, pollution, and respiration processes, including human breath analysis.
The Environmental Blog
MAY 4, 2022
If you’re like many conscious consumers, you’re probably at least a little bit concerned about the size of your carbon footprint. Every time we buy a new product, drive a car, take a flight or flip on the air conditioner, we contribute to carbon pollution. What Does ‘Carbon-Neutral’ Mean? .
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Regenerative Agriculture Often accompanied with: carbon storage, no till, crop rotation With host country the UAE spearheading a new “Regenerative Landscapes” project in close partnership with the likes of Pepsico, Nestlé and fertilizer giant Yara, the term “ regenerative agriculture ” is likely to be a hot topic at COP28.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2020
What Ahoskie got was approximately 50 direct jobs, local tree loss, noise , heavy traffic, air pollution, and combustible dust from wood drying and processing that threatens their health and enjoyment of their homes. South, which is already bearing the brunt of climate change effects. . “As
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 4, 2024
But federal records newly reviewed by DeSmog reveal that the group’s co-founder has personally donated to the Conservative Party of Canada, whose leader Pierre Poilievre is campaigning to abolish the country’s most prominent climate policy, a nationwide tax on carbon emissions, saying it brings “misery and suffering on the Canadian people.”
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 20, 2023
The new material exhibits 68% higher adsorption of Cs+ in acidic conditions than in neutral conditions, and ushers in the possibility of designing high-performance adsorbents. It does not release air pollutants and greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide as by-products. The team found that at pH 5.5
Business Green
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
is launching a new service to help media outlets include information on air pollution levels in their weather forecasts. Between March and June, air pollution reports gave the UK a glimpse of life with less air pollution , as nitrogen oxide levels in some cities fell by around 60 per cent due to less traffic on the roads.
Business Green
JANUARY 17, 2022
The fundamental purpose of the taxonomy is to enable capital to be channelled towards economic activities that are fully compatible with the EU's commitment to climate neutrality by 2050 and reducing emissions by 55 per cent by 2030… Put simply, there is no remaining carbon budget for new investments in natural gas.".
U.S. Green Technology
AUGUST 11, 2021
Ecologists identify carbon emissions as the leading climate change culprit. In response, companies develop new technology, decreasing atmospheric pollution and increasing the carbon neutrality of future society. As eco-consciousness rises globally, individuals examine the environmental effects of their daily actions.
Business Green
APRIL 13, 2021
The action challenges Belgian National Bank's use of the ECB's Corporate Sector Purchase Programme, which is designed to improve financing conditions for Eurozone businesses but which has historically supported a number of high-carbon companies whose activities are alleged to have undermined national and global climate goals.
Business Green
JULY 29, 2021
Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiate launches alongside consultation into how carbon credits should be embedded into business strategies. In a statement, the group said it planned to address "credibility concerns" surrounding carbon offset markets and close a "number of critical gaps in voluntary carbon market integrity".
Green Living Guy
APRIL 21, 2022
Bedford 2030 envisions a carbon-neutral world and aspires to a sustainable community […]. Bedford 2030 addresses the urgent issue of climate change through the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the preservation of natural resources.
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Just over half of all directors at 30 of the world’s largest insurance companies have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, reveals an investigation by DeSmog, including several individuals holding senior roles at some of the world’s largest energy companies. Which raises the obvious question, why? Shrago said.
Smart Energy International
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
But just to refresh your memory, I’ll use the European Space Agency’s (ESA) recent definition: “When they photosynthesise, plants use sunlight to break apart water into hydrogen and oxygen, and then combine the resulting hydrogen with carbon dioxide from the air to create carbohydrates”. That includes hydrogen. Can we solve this “tiny” issue?
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.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Media Authorship. Anheuser-Busch. Anheuser-Busch.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.
Business Green
AUGUST 10, 2021
The UK is committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and this year's edition of National Grid ESO's 'Future Energy Scenarios' shows that a 2035 clean power sector driven by a massive expansion of renewables is now the benchmark for the UK if it is to reach this goal. Zero carbon power by 2035. Credit: Ember.
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