Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

When it comes to the climate crisis, it's not just what you make and sell, it's what you do, and for whom you do it. That's the message from several recent reports focusing on the role of service-sector companies in addressing - positively or negatively — climate change. Four firms receive an A while 26 received an F.

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Michael Grossman

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

One of life's ultimate paradoxes is the nearly impossible task of changing a person’s mind while at the same time public opinion is never static. When it comes to climate change, we exist somewhere in the middle, painfully awaiting large swaths of the general public to accept proven facts. Reality Bites…Hard.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Increased awareness of the negative impact of business on the environment is driving companies to develop sustainable and climate-friendly goods and services. The new industry could mean big benefits for businesses that pay attention to these trends and work to take advantage of the new category. The Basics of ClimateTech.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? Joel Makower Tue, 10/13/2020 – 01:40 When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. Four firms receive an A while 26 received an F. That, too, is ramping up.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? Joel Makower Tue, 10/13/2020 – 01:40 When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. Four firms receive an A while 26 received an F. That, too, is ramping up.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2021

Nearly all SRI and corporate sustainability strategies focus on changing companies and addressing symptoms, such as climate change, poverty and other major environmental and social challenges. For example, the solution to climate change and deforestation largely does not involve addressing these problems directly.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2021

Ireland’s national broadcaster has publicly apologised for failing to link recent extreme weather events to climate change, pledging to set up a dedicated climate reporting unit in the run-up to COP26. In response, RTÉ appears to have since edited the article to include reporting on the climate angle.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2020

Yet just one in ten firms listed climate risk assessments as a priority, according to new survey results published today by earth science AI firm. The poll reveals that 60 per cent of companies in the UK are concerned that climate change will prove damaging for their business.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They found that by far the biggest factor was work on research and development, particularly in chemistry and materials science. This outweighed the gains achieved through economies of scale, though that turned out to be the second-largest category of reductions.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

In a post EU era, we now have the freedom to move towards a system that focuses on nature’s recovery as well as its preservation, and which places more emphasis on science and less emphasis on legal process. This change in approach will help us in the pursuit of the targets we are setting under the Environment Act.’”. Air quality.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Yet regardless of the outcome, there’s one thing that won’t change: companies and investors must help lead the charge to build a more sustainable, equitable and resilient future. At the start of 2020, business and investor attention to climate change and ESG performance was surging at last. Earlier this week, major U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The categories, however, seem to be a mere formality because, “once you’re in the taxonomy, you’re classified as sustainable regardless of what category you’re put into,” Eviston said. This science-based threshold — considered necessary to achieve emissions targets by 2050 — excluded all fossil fuels from being in the taxonomy.

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Better Ventures

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This is the first in a series of posts on our investment themes, which will be followed by deeper dives into each of the three categories below. Several of our existing portfolio companies are mentioned, and we’re looking to add more in each of these categories as we get to work on Fund IV.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Air Grants and Green Funding : Includes competitive grant funding announcements for projects and programs relating to air quality, transportation, climate change, indoor air, and other related topics. Fundly : Being one of the largest platforms for crowdfunding, Fundly has many different categories of projects.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

ICVCM said the new Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) have been developed using input from hundreds of organisations throughout the voluntary carbon market and will set out fundamental principles for high-quality credits which deliver real, verifiable emissions reductions based on the latest science and best practices.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Climate commitments across institutions may have similar bumper stickers — Paris Alignment, climate alignment or net zero by 2050 — but what’s under the hood? These categories represent critical questions facing a financial institution that has committed or may be looking to commit its portfolio to alignment with a climate goal.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

While the advert will no doubt seem enticing to BusinessGreen readers, the final wording of the post came as a disappointment to the digital marketing specialist behind the campaign, who had hoped to entice young people to the event with the more punchy appeal to "discover your role in the fight against climate change".

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 12, 2022

VanderSat achieved remarkable success, helping monitor nearly 30 million hectares of agricultural land and supporting groundbreaking research in climate science. Today, we mark the next phase of our journey by announcing the release of a new category of Planet product, what we call Planetary Variables.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

This is greenwashing-101, and it’s utterly misleading,” said Geoffrey Supran, research associate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, reacting to DeSmog’s findings. And 54 promos in total (1 percent of all posts) showcased companies engaging positively with legislators and other policymakers on climate change.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

’” But even on the apps, young people are increasingly looking for matches who share their climate concerns. According to data from OKCupid , climate change was the top issue that daters cared about in 2022, with a 368 percent increase over the previous five years in climate and environmental terms on users’ profiles. .

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Grist

AUGUST 24, 2021

on Saturday as a Category 3 hurricane. Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at MIT, said it was difficult to pin any of the specific events on climate change. These events give us an occasion to talk about how climate change affects hurricanes and floods,” Emanuel said.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Dorian slammed into the Bahamas as a category 5 storm bringing with it widespread flooding and wind speeds gusting up to 220 miles per hour. Five people are known to have died but the casualty count could increase even thought the storm has weakened to a category 3 storm. In its wake buildings have been damaged and destroyed.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A Tory MP who suggested it is “morally wrong” to discourage poor countries from pursuing high-carbon growth on climate change grounds has a financial interest in numerous fossil fuel and mining companies. Between 2016-2020, Citi lent £178 billion to the fossil fuel industry, while Bank of America financed £148.7

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A Tory MP who suggested it is “morally wrong” to discourage poor countries from pursuing high-carbon growth on climate change grounds has a financial interest in numerous fossil fuel and mining companies. Between 2016-2020, Citi lent £178 billion to the fossil fuel industry, while Bank of America financed £148.7

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Shepherd, an atmospheric sciences professor at the University of Georgia, would like the phrase “it’s just a tropical depression” to disappear. Meteorologists measure a storm’s wind speed to determine whether it’s a hurricane and, if so, which category. Yep, it’s climate change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The targets are outside of the policy statement because targets can evolve, and we have science based targets at the 1.5 Business travel and commuting fall under the category of Scope 3 emissions which also includes purchased goods and services and leased assets. degree level that sit alongside and drive that transformation.".

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 25, 2023

Crayons of the Seas is a science-meets-art collaboration that created one-of-a-kind hues of biodegradable crayons representing twelve colors of the ocean based on Planet’s satellite imagery of our watery highways. What do crayons, satellites, and marine biodiversity have in common? As we say at Planet, you cannot measure what you cannot see.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It grew to include interventions for other infectious diseases — and, more recently, climate change. ’” A second category of interventions amounts to various forms of subsidies. More than 2,100 teams from 96 countries registered for the prize, with two winners announced in 2021.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

Every business in the world can be put into one of these categories. Until December 2019 the top line issue of concern was climate change. Its subsets were fossil fuels, plastics, and land-use change/deforestation. Runaway climate change, supercharged by feedback, will obliterate most of us.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

This year's honours list saw a number of people involved in tackling climate change and advancing the net zero transition awarded titles, including Sharma, who received a knighthood for services to tackling climate change following his work as President of the COP26 Climate Summit held in Glasgow in November 2021.

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Enervee

APRIL 4, 2019

For all other categories, market transformation approaches that tackle underlying behavioral and market barriers are needed to scale savings cost effectively. The Marketplace webpage provides customers efficiency scores for both rebated and non-rebated product categories. Efficient markets. No incentives needed.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

Every business in the world can be put into one of these categories. Until December 2019 the top line issue of concern was climate change. Its subsets were fossil fuels, plastics, and land-use change/deforestation. Runaway climate change, supercharged by feedback, will obliterate most of us.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This would include the year that a carbon credit was purchased and the year emissions reduction began, the co-benefits of the credit - such as its impact on the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) - and whether the project falls into the 'avoidance/reduction' or 'removal/sequestration' category, the report states.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2023

Category 3 heat waves are then named in reverse alphabetical order — the month after Seville launched its effort, Zoe became the world’s first named heat wave. Seville’s system ranks heat waves on a scale from 1 to 3, with 3 being the most severe. No … seriously!)

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Andrew Winston

MAY 26, 2022

First, the nature of the systemic risk that climate change poses is becoming clearer. They are creating real costs to business, and regulators are moving quickly to mandate that companies understand and report on the material impacts of climate-related risks on their operations and strategies. I see three big reasons.

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Business Green

JULY 4, 2021

But now the technical and engineering skills shortfall could be about to be felt more acutely than ever before, as a chronic shortage of skilled workers threatens to hamper progress towards the UK's climate goals. But the UK's pool of workers in both categories is limited, it says.

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