Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) - a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide - have risen by 20 per cent from pre-industrial levels, with agriculture responsible for the lion's share of the increase, researchers from Auburn University in Alabama found.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Climate-critical forests across Brazil and South America are being decimated by meat and dairy production and Brits eat twice as much meat as the global average.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The current market situation is a stark reminder for gas-consuming countries of the importance of implementing and updating their security of supply toolboxes, including policies to protect consumers and to optimise the use of gas infrastructure, especially storage,” reads the Gas Market Report. Policy reforms in the natural gas market.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Two separate reports from WWF and Greenpeace have similarly highlighted how soy remains a major driver of deforestation, especially in South America, despite the growing number of pledges from retailers and agri-businesses to develop sustainable soy supply chains.

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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. This needs to be backed in the UK with bold policies to cut our global footprint and future trade deals that clearly reject deforestation and other poor agricultural practices.".

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 17, 2022

Our continued dependence on foreign oil has influenced American foreign policy for decades, and it has contributed to multiple military conflicts in the Middle East. The majority of global lithium reserves are in South America and Australia). As a result of the embargo, a supply/demand imbalance ensued. But just as the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 31, 2022

and South America is that lithium is present in the brines there at a concentration as high as 1,800 parts per million (ppm). Additionally, domestic sources of lithium create far lower carbon emissions since they don’t require global transport of raw and produced materials via diesel-guzzling tanker ships. In the U.S.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. But that policy change reverberated with the titans of the palm-oil industry, IOI Group, Cargill, and the biggest of them all, Singapore-based Wilmar International.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

To be sure, Saudi Arabia’s plans to increase oil production are well-known, and its climate plan relies heavily on speculative carbon capture technologies at some distant date in the future. Felipe Bayón, the CEO of Ecopetrol, the largest oil company in Colombia and the fourth largest in South America, traveled with the official delegation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Fairtrade Foundation has called on the UK government to include imported emissions that were generated overseas in the process of meeting UK consumption needs in its carbon targets, in a detailed new report published today. It also calls on the government to return to spending 0.7

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Have you read Energy efficiency needs priority in Hungary’s energy policy – IEA BSES looks to AI for efficiency improvements in Delhi. 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.

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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. For cattle, action ends with forests.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

In the UK, we did this on 23 March 2020 and we also launched a series of major policy initiatives to support businesses and individuals through the pandemic. Building the first fully-deployed carbon capture storage cluster by the mid-2020s. Supporting energy intensive industries as they move to low-carbon techniques.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2023

Multi-year droughts have also created challenges in South America (although heavy snows in July 2022 brought some relief to the Andes in Chile and Peru ). 2022) also projects declining snowpack within the American Cordillera, a series of mountain ranges across western North and South America that includes California’s Sierra Nevada.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

The names of these mills - all in South America and Asia Pacific - are public and all produce oil certified by the RSPO. The next step is ensuring that suppliers comply with Mars' own deforestation policy. We're not being binary on the carbon impact based on our self-declaration of zero deforestation", says Child.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The more than half a million dollars of ExxonMobil money that AGU has accepted over the past 15 years violates AGU’s own policy on accepting funding from groups that peddle misinformation.”. “I A Sea of High-Carbon Sponsorship”. Filling in For Governments. Examples of sponsorships in the sports world are nearly endless.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

From Europe to Australia, South America to China, Florida to Oregon, investors are asking how they should modify their portfolios. They are seeking to understand both the physical risks associated with climate change as well as the ways that climate policy will impact prices, costs, and demand across the entire economy.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

There is wide recognition that this will take monumental effort in terms of technology advancement, financing, and policy. Although it’s not geothermal, I think it’s important that we move forward quickly with Carbon Capture and Storage. Doing that depends a lot on policy.

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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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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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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. percent. .” ” (The next edition of the Forest 500 is due in late January; here’s last year’s coverage.)

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

Have you read: Octopus Energy extends reach into South America with Energisa partnership Octopus Energy and Enphase Energy announce strategic integration So, how do they do it? Additionally, earlier this month they were listed by The Times UK as one of the top 10 Best Places to Work, adding to the growing list of awards.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

As trees grow they remove carbon from the atmosphere. Spurred by the necessities of drastically cutting emissions and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to meet climate targets, many countries, including Brazil, India and China, have committed large areas to forest restoration. above pre-industrial levels.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Renewables capacity in Europe and North America grew by 57.3GW and 29.1GW, respectively, while Africa added 2.7GW of capacity, delivering a marginal year-on-year increase. Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

APAC, starting with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as the first region; India, the Russian sub-continent as the second region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as the third region, and then North and South America as the fourth region. We will be covering all these different aspects in the sessions.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Speculation is continuing to mount over whether the two high profile summits will be able to proceed as planned, given the worsening coronavirus waves currently afflicting parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Since the last climate conference took place in Madrid in 2019, we’ve seen wildfires in Greece, Australia, Canada, and South America, biblical floods in China, the UK, Germany and America, and record-breaking hurricanes, cyclones, and tornadoes across the globe.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to call on G7 leaders to back an ambitious new plan to fund low carbon infrastructure and nature-based projects in developing countries, modelled on the post-war Marshall Plan which helped rebuild Europe in the wake of World War Two.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This impact is particularly intense in South America, both in the Brazilian Amazon and in neighbouring Paraguay, where cattle ranching is responsible for some of the highest deforestation rates on earth. "Bold and urgent action from these producers is the critical first step in tackling deforestation throughout the supply chain.".

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Without keeping carbon in the ground, there's no way that we can achieve these climate goals. Yet so far, climate action and policy appears to be more mature than for nature loss, at both a corporate and political level. But likewise, we can't halt the loss of nature or biodiversity without further ambitious climate action.".

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

She has developed a vendor sustainability scorecard for a Fortune 100 company, consulted with a national brand to improve impact measurement and reporting, and quantified the carbon emissions of an industry association. He/Him) Energy Policy Manager, Maryland Energy Administration Baltimore, MD, USA New York Department of Education (‘17).

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

The geopolitical ramifications of the green energy transition have long been contemplated by foreign policy wonks. At present, hydrogen made using fossil gas dominates the global hydrogen market, and as such oil and gas firms are exploring how carbon capture systems could be used to slash emissions from the sector.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The CATF study focused on blue hydrogen production (low-carbon hydrogen that is generated with natural gas and carbon capture) simply because it can scale more rapidly than green hydrogen (electrolytic hydrogen generated from renewable electricity), which requires abundant zero-carbon electricity and is also more costly to produce.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

In deals this week, $125M for biomaterials made from CO2, $33M for grid power storage optimization, and $26M for carbon-sequestering cement. Big picture: US Nuclear Nuclear power makes up nearly 20% of electricity generation in the US and around half of America's carbon-free electricity. Not a subscriber yet?

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