Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

In June 2021, Dryad was named as a cool vendor in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in IoT Thingification report. A commercial business with sustainability and tech for good at its core, Dryad was set up in 2020 with a mission to digitize the forest and help protect and regrow the world’s largest carbon sinks.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

But, in part because of the treasured objects they house, museums often have outsize carbon footprints — and they are also uniquely vulnerable to climate impacts. But, she added, museums can actually be some of the most carbon-intensive buildings in cities. Southwick agrees. dedicated to the climate crisis.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Meanwhile, Michigan approves a bundle of clean energy bills, the UN irons out details for the "loss and damages" fund ahead of COP, and Flexport launches a book and claim model for SAFs.  Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For these reasons, and marginally to re-level the playing field, the Saudi kingdom has been awarded this year’s top prize at the Bad Sport Awards 2023, a new, annual scheme organised by the Badvertising campaign in association with the Cool Down Network of sport for climate action, and an expert judging panel.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Nordhaus published an article in the American Economic Review entitled Can We Control Carbon Dioxide? Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. It ended without much of a story, with the parties being called to the COP the following year.

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Grist

MAY 15, 2024

And the greenhouse effect (the mechanism by which carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere) is taught in many basic science classes. “For me, intellectually, that always felt like a little bit of a cop-out,” said Jesse Nichols, a video producer at Grist.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions. For examples, South Carolina steel-maker Nucor is working to make low-carbon steel and set a goal for net zero across value chain by 2050.

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Grist

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For advocates on the ground at COP fighting for certain outcomes, the agreements generated are just the beginning. We asked four advocates who have been involved in the conference in different ways for their reflections on the COP process and the work ahead. “That’s one thing that I do like about COP.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last few months have brought a slew of major announcements signaling ammonia’s potential future as a low-carbon fuel.  Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. Unlike hydrogen, ammonia stores and transports as easily as propane, enabling global clean hydrogen markets alongside other low-carbon uses.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

It’s a toss up from our oracles if the carbon market will fall, but all agree that losing the lower quality offsets can only be good for its health. Oxy buying Carbon Engineering was an exception that had been in the works for a while. Will the voluntary carbon market (VCM) shrink in 2024?  Nuclear on the mind.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

If we don’t get implementation right, then it’s catastrophic for carbon, and it also teaches politicians it’s not a winning issue,” Stokes told me. Every school teaches it, everybody knows who the main employers are, and sees it as cool. Heat pumps, despite their name, also cool homes.) units up every summer.”

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