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.

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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.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

High profile international commitments like the Global Methane Pledge and the Global Methane Hub have raised the profile of methane as a powerful climate pollutant among policymakers and investors. Nitrous oxide is another potent greenhouse gas presenting opportunities for impact for the food & agriculture sector.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The ire of environmentalists seemed to be directed more at the developed countries, and Friends of the Earth’s Sara Shaw said the agreement left them “free to keep polluting” in addition to “giving the green light for massive land grabs for offsets in developing countries”. Carbon trading. Carbon capture.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

.” In early December governments from around the world were assembling for COP 15 to agree on how to halt and reverse nature loss. hectares of hard surfaces (such as roads, paths, roofs) from the drainage network flowing into the River Wandle which is helping to reduce surface water flooding and reduce pollution. What is it?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We need to kick big polluters out.”. IBM, also a sponsor, works with pesticide and fertiliser companies to promote “carbon farming” – a carbon offsetting technique that generates carbon credits for storing carbon in soils. They shouldn’t be allowed to greenwash their image through their presence at COPs.”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

VCM Global Dialogue publishes its conclusions on how to shape the voluntary carbon market from the perspective of developing countries. Today's report stresses that voluntary carbon markets must complement, rather than replace, corporate and governmental efforts to slash absolute emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Pointing to the need for an Earthscape approach to decision making, the paper identifies key ways in which the ocean both mitigates climate change by absorbing excess heat and carbon from the atmosphere and aggravates it, failure in ocean systems exacerbating extreme weather, shifting ocean currents and reducing its ability to absorb carbon.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The United Arab Emirates has been criticised for promoting oil and gas as a clean source of energy, and for backing “false solutions” such as carbon capture technology, at the UN COP27 climate summit in Egypt, ahead of hosting the event next year. A stand at the UAE pavilion at COP27 promotes the country’s carbon capture projects.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Building on the foundations of past conferences, especially Paris, to create a zero-carbon economy which will benefit our children and grandchildren. ??. In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ?? In Glasgow, the world must ramp up momentum towards a zero-carbon economy.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2023

The presence of people with ties to the fossil fuel industry and other big polluters at the annual UN climate negotiations is nothing new. More than 600 fossil fuel lobbyists attended last year’s climate talks, COP27, in Egypt, a more than 25 percent increase over COP 26.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Climate negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP, are over for another year. This was the second key issue that COP tried to grapple with and, unfortunately, failed to make any headway on. If successful, it could catalyze future deals with other emerging, carbon-intensive economies.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The awards fall just as another controversially chosen oil state, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), plays host to international climate talks, COP 28 , at which the UAE was revealed as planning to use the opportunity to make more oil and gas deals. Good sport draws public audiences in the billions like nothing else. Credit: Badvertising.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The number of delegates representing big agribusiness has more than doubled at the UN climate talks since last year, leading to concerns from campaigners at access enjoyed by high-carbon companies attending the Egypt summit. Growing Pressure from Polluters. In Somalia, record drought is expected to force more than 6.5

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry. Scott Tully of campaign group Glasgow Calls Out Polluters said: “The UK government, during our interactions, have been unwilling and afraid to confront the power of big polluters at the heart of the climate crisis.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This deforestation, that Brookfield say was legal, is estimated to be responsible for the release of carbon dioxide equivalent to 1.2 Carney will know this Declaration well, having been formally engaged as an adviser to the UK government in the run up to COP. million flights between London and New York.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This deforestation, that Brookfield say was legal, is estimated to be responsible for the release of carbon dioxide equivalent to 1.2 Carney will know this Declaration well, having been formally engaged as an adviser to the UK government in the run up to COP. million flights between London and New York.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The ocean is the world's largest carbon sink and contains 95 per cent of the planet's biosphere. Guterres said the treaty was crucial for addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. "It

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This is the first COP where participants found themselves face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5 For example, Ottawa has already offered up a generous carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) tax credit, which represents an estimated $10-billion helping hand to the oil and gas industry’s decarbonization ambitions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Following years of delays, at COP21 last year countries agreed on rules for the implementation of international carbon market mechanisms. Black carbon. Carbon market (including carbon offsets).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Branded as the most inclusive COP to date, the reality of COP26 was activists and NGOs left out in the cold, and billionaires and fossil fuel representative sitting at the negotiating table. How can we have just climate policy when the most affected communities are shut out of decision-making while the worst polluters are welcomed in?

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Alok Sharma intent on holding 'most inclusive COP ever' in Glasgow, but it is not UK's gift alone to make in-person event happen. This is what makes the next United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow, COP 26, so critical. If we are serious about 1.5C, Glasgow must be the COP that consigns coal power to history," he said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. 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. JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Only two of the 35 stalls lauding countries’ green credentials at the COP26 UN climate summit mention the need to cut fossil fuel production — the chief cause of the carbon emissions driving climate change. . We urge all leaders to put people and the planet over the profit of the fossil fuel industry.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. In some cases, the affiliation with the oil industry was publicly declared on the participant list for COP26.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Put a price on carbon. I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Despite the Covid-19 crisis, we have accelerated action, the COP has responded to the IPCC's call to close the gap towards 1.5, Phase out coal. degrees. "I and coal is in the text.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Details of Transport Decarbonisation Plan revealed to Financial Times, as separate report suggest ministers are continuing to lock horns over the best way to introduce new carbon pricing mechanisms. The EU expects to eventually raise €10bn a year from a carbon tax on imports that it plans to introduce gradually from 2023.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

The Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) gets leading consumer goods companies, waste specialists and banks to work with governments to create investment-grade plans for tackling plastic waste pollution, and then trigger the finance and projects to make it happen. Pull Quote.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Fossil Fuel Companies Made Bold Promises to Capture Carbon. By Michael Buchsbaum and Edward Donnelly Carbon capture and storage got so much buzz this year, but our reporters went beyond the hype. That figure doesn’t include a $10 billion federal carbon capture tax credit announced during COP28. Here’s What Actually Happened.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The previous timetable for updating NDCs would have meant they would only have been improved once or maybe twice before the available carbon budget for 1.5C Having recognised the desirability of achieving 1.5C of warming was completely burned through. trajectory. The counter to all of this is that 1.5C is barely alive. will surely die.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Secretary of State Robert Jenrick MP's reasoning that it is a 'local issue' undermines UK leadership: it is widely understood that climate change and air pollution related to burning coal is a global problem," they wrote. It is crucial to support West Cumbria communities in their transition to genuinely sustainable employment.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

In Canada last month almost 200 countries at COP 15 agreed a set of landmark pledges that will resonate not just through 2023, but to the end of the decade and beyond to the middle of the 21st century. All play a role in absorbing carbon.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There are doubts over the industry's ability to manage health risks like water pollution , anger over disruptive industrial activity near to homes , and fears about the earthquakes caused by fracking. At that point, the government decided that shale gas was not worth supporting and announced a moratorium on fracking. On track to net zero.

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