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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

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.

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Swedish EV maker declares intent to develop “a truly climate neutral car by 2030”

Envirotec Magazine

The Polestar 0 project will aim to cut carbon emissions by changing the way that cars are made, says the firm, rather than using traditional processes and then planting trees to offset CO2e. Offsetting is a cop-out,” said Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO. “By They need to be given the right tools to make informed and ethical decisions.

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? Alterra’s $30B bridge for climate financing #176

Climate Tech VC

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges. Al Jaber as Chairman of Alterra, and also host of COP28, has already stirred controversy due to his role as President of ADNOC and rumored intention to broker fossil fuel deals during COP. Happy Monday!  Execution questions marks.

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Book Review: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro

Terra Infirma

The holocaust is obviously an extreme case, but ‘Ruined by Design’ by web/UX designer Mike Monteiro makes the case that far too many of us designers/engineers leave our ethics at home when we rock up to work. He sets out a code of ethics which blows away the whole “just doing my job/following orders” cop-out.

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Following COP26 it is clearer than ever that businesses must lead the repair of our planet

Business Green

A significant feature of COP was businesses joining with activists to demand faster progress. With consumers increasingly choosing to spend their money with ethics in mind, companies that stand out for doing the right thing will flourish. It also risks limiting the effectiveness of vital carbon sinks like mangrove forests.

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'More frequent and more deadly': How the escalating climate crisis is impacting global livelihoods

Business Green

per cent of global carbon emissions as well as sitting in the bottom third of countries least ready for climate change. In contrast, Oxfam found that polluting industrialised nations such as those of the G20 - which control 80 per cent of the world's economy - are together responsible for over three-quarters of the world's carbon emissions.

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Community climate action is critical - but it needs patient, flexible and affordable finance to scale

Business Green

In addition to fundamental and immediate questions about the UK's energy supply, we had the Prime Minister Boris Johnson stating his ambition to move our power supplies entirely away from fossil fuels by 2035, the pre-COP meeting in Milan and warnings from the Environment Agency to prepare for rising seas, floods and droughts.