Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

AXA has teamed up with a host of environmental and agricultural groups on a fresh initiative to study the impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss on hundreds hectares of forest that the insurance and investment giant owns in France, with a view to developing fresh solutions for restoring damaged forests and boosting climate resilience.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 1, 2024

| Photo by George Rose / Getty Images 2023 can now boast a terrifying record: planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions from global energy use hit a record. It’s been almost a decade since the adoption of the 2015 Paris climate agreement to stop global warming. It has demonstrated its resilience.”

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 15, 2021

To learn more about this project, visit our Carbon Mapper page. . In addition, the Carbon Mapper consortium announced its plan to deploy a ground-breaking hyperspectral satellite constellation with the ability to pinpoint, quantify and track point-source methane and CO 2 emissions. To read the press release in full, click here.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 16, 2024

More from Davos Schneider Electric chief warns Davos leaders: ‘No time to wait for tomorrow’s climate solutions’ “The ambition to limit global warming and mitigate human-created climate change effects demands a scaling up of climate action.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The trees absorb carbon dioxide which contributes to global warming. Forests are essential for agriculture and preventing climate change. about 10 million hectares of forest are cut down each year. So, how can we save our forests? One idea is to turn deserts into forests, a technique known as desert greening.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 8, 2023

And thanks to the ingenuity of a new wave of carbon removal solutions, they could become the building blocks for a carbon-free future. Solutions are all around us Vesta Co-Founder & President Kelly Erhart shared that we need to increase the scale of CO2 removal by a factor of about 10 million to limit global warming.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 31, 2022

The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) welcomes seven new and existing signatories to the updated Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment: CannonDesign, Deutsche Bank, GI Quo Vadis, Grab, Lamington Group, QIC Real Estate (QICRE), and Schneider Electric.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, To have any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, To put this number into perspective, carbon dioxide emissions alone are expected to reach 33 gigatonnes in 2021. Eleven targets are enshrined in law, covering 12 per cent of global emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

One 1979 memo distributed to Exxon management , about a report conducted by Steve Knisley of Exxon’s Research and Engineering Department, accurately predicted the growth of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations by 2010 and referenced the “ecological consequences of increased CO2 levels.”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A major new Horizon Europe project is seeking to reduce the release of a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential more than 25,000 times higher than CO2. Gas-insulated electrical switchgear is one of the few applications that still uses sulphur hexafluoride.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Efforts to prevent global warming from worsening, known in the jargon as climate mitigation, have long dominated governments' response to the climate crisis. This disparity in the focus enjoyed by climate mitigation and climate resilience is replicated within many corporate climate plans. Here are some of the key takeaways.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s "emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950." Risk & Resilience. His point was to make it clear that "we are not climate change deniers."

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

The newest publication is an attempt to distill everything the panel has said since August 2021, when it began releasing its sixth assessment of global warming. There’s no new research in this latest report, but it injects new urgency into scientists’ and activists’ calls for rapid, systemic action from global decision-makers.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

In 2019, Lance Bottoms and Lyles testified before Congress on Atlanta’s and Charlotte’s steps to create a more climate resilient city. From the carbon footprint of city buildings and housing to energy policy, mayors are on the front lines of sustainability. The bold leadership of these women mayors is inspiring.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere. A new study from a research team at the University of Michigan found that even a relatively small temperature increase of 1.6

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 17, 2021

Many people have heard about their carbon footprint and would like to find ways to become more environmentally conscious. Your carbon. The post Reducing Your Carbon Footprint appeared first on Green Living Guy. The news is filled with the horrible consequences of human impact on the environment.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. For example, its analysis found that using electrified drying for the recycled paper industry could avoid 16 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2050. Sponsored Article.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The GlobalABC’s Global Buildings Climate Tracker found that there have been some incremental improvements in action to decarbonize and improve the energy efficiency of the sector. Buildings’ resilience needs to increase to future proof our homes and work spaces. Some small progress, but not enough.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Last year, global carbon emissions hit an all-time high of 40.9 But all that carbon doesn’t have to wind up in the atmosphere. They pour in the product and, when it’s ready a few hours later, take a sip.

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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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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Climate change refers to a broad array of environmental degradation that is predicted to result from increasing levels of atmospheric CO2, including global warming , alterations in precipitation, sea level changes, and more extreme weather events. It is also one of the most complex challenges humanity has ever faced.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership was asked to convene and facilitate the work of the Taskforce. Road transport accounts for 28% of the UK’s total energy consumption and 25% of carbon emissions. The Taskforce states that “the transition to electric motoring is now well under way”, but that the pace must increase.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. Newswise — New York City, N.Y.,

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2020

Energy utility companies around the world are continuing to invest heavily in fossil fuel-based power generation, advancing strategies that threaten to undermine the transition to net zero emissions and blow a hole in the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C, a major new study has found.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Cutting methane emissions is the most immediate opportunity we have to slow the global warming rate and prevent irreversible damage to the planet. Methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere. while reducing emissions per gallon of milk.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Carbon intensive companies in the U.S. The letter, sent to 47 company chairs and chief executives, calls on emissions-intensive firms to align all direct corporate lobbying activity and indirect lobbying activity managed by trade associations with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5 Risk & Resilience.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

The chairs of 14 major UK pension firms collectively managing £267.9bn of assets have come together to form a new net zero alliance, pledging to align their investment portfolios with the Paris Agreement's more stretching target of capping global warming at 1.5C.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

Vulcan is already producing geothermal energy from the site, with which it is planning to produce zero carbon lithium hydroxide without using fossil fuels as part of its Zero Carbon Lithium Project. It is encouraging to see a leading automaker investing in local, low carbon lithium production for electric vehicles.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

An area of seagrass and rock on the seabed, Mediterranean sea, France: “Blue carbon” ecosystems could prevent approximately 1 gigatonne of CO2e from entering the atmosphere by 2050, says the report. Ocean-based climate action can play a much bigger role in shrinking the world’s carbon footprint than was previously thought.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

global warming goal is 'not fully safe', scientists warn. Scientists have today raised the alarm that the world is currently at greater risk of triggering key climatic 'tipping points' than previously thought, which could lead to irreversible and accelerating climate breakdown that would devastate economies and communities globally.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

To avoid the worst consequences of global warming, report after report has stressed the importance of cutting emissions. Climate-resilient infrastructure. More climate-resilient infrastructure adds about 3 percent to upfront costs but provides $4 in benefits for every $1 of cost. Making water resources more resilient.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

It added it has previously been involved in partnerships with the World Economic Forum, UN High Level Climate Change Champions, successive COP presidencies, SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative), CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, and First Movers Coalition.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The Irish Sea will also be affected by global warming. Blue carbon is the absorption and storage of atmospheric carbon in the marine environment. Oceans store 20-35 per cent of human-made carbon emissions. Read the Irish Sea Network’s Vision Statement and 2022 Review at: www.irishseanetwork.org.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Decisive government and business action can trigger a transition of our energy system to help build a resilient, carbon-free future.". Climate scientists have warned that limiting global warming to 1.5C At present, however, G20 nations' current climate targets put the world on a pathway towads missing the 1.5C

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