Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

From an established forest carbon marketplace? "We This company is a big deal in South America with 132.5 Of course, there's also the expectation, with Pachama's involvement, that these projects will originate new carbon offsets, which are in increasingly short supply as big businesses shower the world with net-zero pledges.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

million—that’s how much the company recently invested in E3 Lithium , a Calgary-based company that has developed a technology to extract the naturally occurring lithium from oilfield brines. The brine contains less than 1 percent petroleum, but may have a concentration of lithium carbonate as high as 95 percent. How much would you pay?

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

We need to be installing wind energy three to four times the current pace, which means we need governments to urgently raise their ambition, simplify red tape, invest in grid and revamp energy markets,” said Ben Backwell, CEO at GWEC. billion tonnes of carbon emissions – equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of South America.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Agency's forecast suggests 2021 could prove to be peak year for power sector carbon emissions. per cent as declines in Europe and South America outweigh growth in North America and the Middle East. In contrast, gas power demand is expected to fall by 2.6

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Charged

MAY 10, 2021

To date, Europe has been importing the bulk of its lithium from the “lithium triangle” in South America, and from Australia. Both sources have substantial local environmental impacts, in addition to the carbon cost of shipping the lithium around the world. The company plans to invest 1.7

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

The car maker has this week unveiled a new arm of its business which will be solely focused on EV production and strategy Japanese auto giant Honda has announced it is creating a new dedicated electric vehicle (EV) division to help drive efforts to deliver on its ambition to become carbon neutral by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 1, 2021

We are proud to be able to bring quality jobs and invest in the local economy in Lancaster County, PA through this green hydrogen production facility.”. “This is another step in our quest to build the green hydrogen economy in the USA and globally thereafter,” said Andy Marsh, chief executive officer of Plug Power. “We

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Tech and retail giant announces raft of new renewables investments during New York Climate Week. The company announced its latest green investments at New York Climate Week, confirming plans for its first project in South America in the form of a solar farm in Brazil, as well as its first solar farms in India and Poland. "We

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

2C Investing Initiative launches new initaitive to support growing band of banks committed to bringing their investments into line with the Paris Agreement. It also helps banks to identify their exposure to transition risks associated with a disruptive shift to a low-carbon economy.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

The merger will establish Statkraft as one of the most prolific solar developers in Europe, giving the firm access to a 6GW pipeline of solar assets across the continent, as well as an expanding portfolio in South America.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Bankers without Boundaries and the reforestation company Terraformation team up to try and catalyse investment in natural carbon sinks. The existing classes of capital, like all RFPs for carbon credits, all those billions of dollars of green bonds, they're just not well suited to start a forest.". Forests need angel investors.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2021

About 100 miles off the coast of Guyana, along the northern edge of South America, the drillship Stena Carron spent Saturday, June 5 drilling a new exploratory well on behalf of ExxonMobil. 1 Impacts Ripple South. The company isn’t the only oil giant pushing into the waters of South America. Engine No.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2021

An inside look at pricing in the forest carbon market Wilder Person Tue, 03/02/2021 – 00:05 On June 23, Amazon commenced its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund to further endeavors to become net-zero by 2040. In January 2020, Microsoft committed to invest $1 billion over the next four years as part of their Climate Innovation Fund.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Today, we are excited to announce new details of our hyperspectral constellation, which is being brought to market through a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership with the Carbon Mapper Coalition.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The first has to do with the carbon budget — the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the planet warms more than 1.5 The paper uses a carbon budget of 580 billion metric tons, an amount that is estimated to give only a 50 percent chance of stabilizing the global climate at 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temperatures.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 18, 2021

Latin American e-commerce giant invests in Brazilian ecosystem restoration Heather Clancy Thu, 03/18/2021 – 01:00 The tech sector’s fascination with tree restoration as a climate solution apparently isn’t unique to U.S. From an established forest carbon marketplace? This company is a big deal in South America with 132.5

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But while solar and wind have an obvious role to play in helping miners control their carbon emissions, the mining industry faces steep decarbonization challenges, analysts say. Cutting mining’s carbon footprint to zero is complicated by the fact that electricity use only accounts for around 40 percent of direct emissions.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 31, 2022

In a nutshell, it’s because China has invested heavily into developing its lithium supply chain, while the U.S. Further, CATL presently has eight factories under construction at a price tag of over $14 billion, underscoring the investments China is making toward securing continued market control. 2) Government investment in DLE.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 17, 2022

The majority of global lithium reserves are in South America and Australia). investments have lagged significantly behind, which has enabled China to build a robust lithium supply chain. investments have lagged significantly behind, which has enabled China to build a robust lithium supply chain.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions. . There is definitely increasing urgency around this issue," Waxman says. percent. . "All

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Key impacts include loss of natural coastal and flooding protection, disappearance of natural carbon storage sinks, and steep rises in prices of key commodities. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

Dear CEO, As an asset manager, BlackRock invests on behalf of others, and I am writing to you as an advisor and fiduciary to these clients. For many years, investors have said they can’t pursue sustainable investing because of their fiduciary responsibility — the assumption being that sustainability is not profitable. [I’m

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We've long been calling for this introduction as E10 is one of the quickest, easiest and most cost-effective ways of the UK reducing its carbon emissions whilst providing an economic boost to sustaining the British biofuels industry and the local and national economy," he said. "We

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

While an exact tipping point remains difficult to identify, experts believe the Amazon could soon reach a crisis point that would trigger dieback and turn much of the forest into savannah, with major impacts on biodiversity, global carbon storage, and climate change. The suppliers identified included Cargill, Bunge and Glencore.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

The industry is attracting investment as new technologies for cultivating meat are emerging and start ups edge towards commercialisation. According to the Good Food Institute, in 2021 cultivated meat companies attracted $140m of investment in Europe.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

And protecting and preserving wild spaces such as wetlands, peatlands, and forests from human development has the two-pronged effect of sequestering carbon dioxide and preventing the spread of disease to humans by limiting contact between wild animals and people. I think COVID is a warning. We don’t have this.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

As SIGWATCH data shows (see graph above), while campaigning on meat divestment has a way to go before it reaches the dizzying heights of carbon divestment, it is seeing a sustained increase that correlates with greater attention on industrial agriculture's contribution to climate change and environmental degradation.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Because finance and investment are the lifeblood of net zero projects - and we can only meet this challenge together. I know the drive to deliver a return on investment and the search for growth areas in the economy. Building the first fully-deployed carbon capture storage cluster by the mid-2020s. clean transport.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

These advances might not matter as much in rain-soaked Europe but in much of Africa, South America, Central and Southeast Asia they are vital to continuity of life. Through the deployment of smart electric grids, we can reduce carbon emissions from the utility industry by 25%.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In South America, around 71 per cent of rainforest has been replaced by pasture and a further 14 per cent has been lost to the production of animal feed. From a climate and carbon point of view, we know that cutting down trees at this scale is devastating. But even with support, there must also be demand for the end product.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

While the palm oil commitment requires zero deforestation in all sourcing regions, soy and cattle mainly focus on South America's Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco regions. Grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and other carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems are also being plowed up too. But land won't rehabilitate itself.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As pressure on the industry grows to phase out dirty energy and take responsibility for the climate crisis, buying goodwill may be a better marketing investment than ever. A Sea of High-Carbon Sponsorship”. Filling in For Governments. Examples of sponsorships in the sports world are nearly endless.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

"My hope is that they can help farmers diversify their production systems and sequester carbon," says Eric Smith, investment officer for the trust. "In billion worth of investment assets in the U.S. Some of the largest chocolate companies in the world are investing in agroforestry. "We land production in agroforestry.".

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The City Fix

JULY 10, 2023

To date, over 90 countries have set net-zero emissions targets, committing to help prevent the most harmful impacts from climate change. But questions remain around the credibility of many of these pledges and whether these goals will be met. Together, countries with net-zero targets — which.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 14, 2021

Around 75 percent is believed to be in salt flats in South America. In South America, lithium concentrations are mixed with water to form a brine and evaporated in great ponds. Many transit agencies are investing in battery electric vehicles as a quick and easy way to reduce carbon emissions.

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T Rex Group

JANUARY 26, 2022

T-REX, with its advanced support for private credit and ESG-driven investments, will become part of Riverstone’s Decarbonization Growth Equity platform. “We are more excited than ever about T-REX’s impact as both a strategic investment and a valuable tool for our businesses.”

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