Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

. “It’s because we have these really strict regulations on keeping temperature and relative humidity at certain levels in the name of preserving the collections,” said Caitlin Southwick, a former art conservator who now runs an organization called Ki Culture that helps museums transition to more sustainable practices.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Machine learning, AI, automation and other solutions can slash firms' carbon emissions and energy usage while boosting their productivity, writes IBM's Ana Paula Assis. Understanding the energy and carbon footprint of a firm's assets can be complex. But we have only scratched the surface on the changes that can be made.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. The streaming media giant just started reporting on its renewable energy usage last winter.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Credit: Stripe eadership from corporations to be committed first customers for products that can decarbonize the economy Several announcements around COP 26 highlighted corporates who had made commitments to be early customers for new technology solutions, in order to help create market pull?—?this

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Energy transition. This refers to the global energy sector's shift from energy consumption and production based on fossil fuels to low carbon sources. Glasgow Climate Pact.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

It is also vital for achieving ocean-related goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework," he said, referring to the so-called 30x30 pledge made at last year's COP15 Summit to protect a third of the world's land and sea for biodiversity by 2030. "It

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Much of the media coverage following the conclusion of the COP26 summit in Glasgow focused on India and China's intervention to weaken the language around the phase out of coal power in the Glasgow Climate Pact. What stood out clearly in Glasgow is that COP26 was the first COP where the real economy turned up in force.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Clearly it will be a major achievement for the UK government if the UK can hold a successful COP, so one can only assume the will is there to try to bring it off. Where are the main challenges? Nature and finance.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The new business strategy rewards farmers for minimising output emissions including in feed, fertiliser efficiency, biogas usage, biodiversity and renewable farming. That is why I was so happy to see so many direct agents of change, like farmers at COP and not just those still essential, policymakers and opinion-formers.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The latest report from the Energy Transitions Commission has set out a roadmap for how the world can move on to a 1.5C Or, to take the question the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) has sought to answer: what precise actions does the world need to take to limit global warming to 1.5C threshold set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Planned legislation covering energy, transport, and a clamp down on environmental protests was unveiled in today's Queen Speech. Energy Security Bill.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Arguing that "the time is now" for the UK to be a global climate leader, it calls for immediate policy action to ensure that by 2030 all homes are highly energy efficient, petrol and diesel car sales are phased out, wind and solar generation triples, and 10 million heat pumps are installed in homes.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The High Seas Treaty attempts to close this regulatory gap, giving countries new legal powers to create and manage a network of "ecologically representative and well-connected" marine protected areas in international waters, with sustainable development permitted where scientific evidence allows.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Sustainability and biodiversity leads from blue chip corporates mingled in pop-up cafes and shared stages with campaigners and politicians at the Nature Positive Pavilion, an area co-hosted by a host of NGOs and green business coalitions. There's been a complete shift," he said. I was the biodiversity guy at BP," he explained.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Eric Soubeiran, the company's vice president of nature and water cycle, explained that weaning the company off intensive farming is at the core of its new sustainability mission. If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well," Soubeiran said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

Powers, vice president for global cleantech and renewables at Schneider Electric, who explores how public-private sector collaboration can help unshackle the surging demand for renewable energy. I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald’s, Netflix Elsa Wenzel Wed, 10/07/2020 – 02:01 Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Former UK energy and climate minister Claire O’Neill’s World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is running a series of events at the conference on private sector efforts to tackle climate change. Campaigners said the news demonstrated a “classic case of the revolving door” between “big polluters” and governments.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This is the first time that a COP agreement has been made on coal at this level. One is to accelerate commercial viability of renewable energy projects and technology. Working on hardware solutions that will make coal power obsolete is one way to force coal use down in the long term. Global curbs to methane.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. This was coupled with another statement , that of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which also recognized the importance of limiting warming to below 2ºC. It ended without much of a story, with the parties being called to the COP the following year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

And it sees countries back a "phase down" of unabated coal power, after a dramatic 11th hour intervention from India on the conference floor saw the initial "phase out" phrasing weakened. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

They are choking our planet, based on their vested interests and historic investments in fossil fuels, when cheaper, renewable solutions provide green jobs, energy security, and greater price stability. Inflation is rising, and the war in Ukraine is causing food and energy prices to skyrocket.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Eric Soubeiran, the company's vice-president of nature and water cycle, explains that weaning the company off intensive farming is at the core of its new sustainability mission. If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well," Soubeiran says.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The problem is that terrestrial ecosystems can quickly flip from sources of life-sustaining abundance into actively hostile environments when they are exploited unsustainably. Cristiana Pa?ca SDG 15 to the rescue?

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Eric Soubeiran, the company’s vice president of nature and water cycle, explained that weaning the company off intensive farming is at the core of its new sustainability mission. “If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well,” Soubeiran said. .

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Oliver Griffith explains how a Wildlife Works Carbon forest conservation project is helping to both protect the environment while also sustaining local livelihoods in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Moreover, the people that depend on it are getting access to health, education, food security, and sustainable livelihoods.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

  Ship Orders  Yara Eyde, a joint venture between Yara Clean Ammonia and North Sea Container Line, aims to be the  world’s first clean ammonia-powered container ship. Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. Startup Amogy converts ammonia to hydrogen onboard fuel cell-powered vehicles.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The electric competition is head and shoulders above the legacy automakers and scrappy startups racing to turn EV strategies into production and deliveries, and the trends of Tesla in the US and BYD in China illustrate some of the larger geopolitical tensions in the EV supply chain. Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do the next best thing and read our COP reflections.  The pledge also calls on international banks to include nuclear in energy lending policies to help finance project-killing infrastructure expenditures. Last COP featured the conference’s first nuclear-themed pavilion, and this year boasted eight. Happy Monday! 

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Global energy shortages and a recent spike in oil prices to a three-year high above $80 a barrel, have dimmed hopes that governments will announce bold new plans to rapidly ditch fossil fuels at the October 31st to November 12th summit. With just a few days to go until COP26 kicks off, her pessimism is widely shared. goal within grasp.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

A government spokesperson said the situation was being monitored closely. "We Given this is an evolving situation we are keeping the situation under careful review and are in frequent contact with the UN, Chile (as current COP president) and other partners.". It may well be the case that we will see 2020 emissions decline," he said. "In

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And frankly, a company shouldn't be allowed to attend a COP meeting, or sponsor things at a university without having brought its certificate of good behavior, its audited corporate political footprint statement," Whitehouse said. How can businesses exert their power to advance climate action that ultimately works its way into policies?

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