Business Green

JUNE 28, 2022

As awareness surrounding the scale of the crisis facing the planet's natural world has grown, so businesses and investors have come under increasing pressure to better understand the ways in which they rely on the myriad services nature provides - and therefore the risks they are exposed to. We must turn the tide.". "We

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

The fossil fuel industry really was trying to turn the Pacific Northwest into a coal, oil, and gas export hub,” Emily Moore, a senior researcher at Sightline Institute, told DeSmog. “We We could be looking at a really different picture right now if all of those had gone through.”. But the industry’s blitz is not yet over.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

Ibstock won over the judges with their highly innovative approach to slashing emissions in the high carbon world of brick manufacturing, where the company has pioneered a raft of new approaches and provided a crucial template for others to follow. Here are all the winners and highly commended entries from the night: Consultancy of the Year.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

World Environment Day first launched in 1974. With our social, economic and environmental crises intensifying every second, the stakes have never been higher - yet the sustainability movement and the world still finds itself firmly on a treacherous climate-warming path. Shifting mindsets for a just and regenerative future.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

As such, this is a party that genuinely is a work event. If you were shortlisted for these awards you really have beaten scores of other entries and have much to be rightly proud of. The opening speech from this year's BusinessGreen Leaders Awards - in full. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the 12th annual BusinessGreen Leaders Awards.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

To advocates, scaling up the markets where companies go to offset their greenhouse gas emissions will unlock billions of dollars to plant forests, restore ecosystems, and spur a global roll-out of machines to scrub carbon dioxide (CO2) from the sky. Few dispute that the quality of these credits has varied. ” – Derik Broekhoff. .

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

The town of Sønderborg in southern Denmark was last week christened as the "energy efficiency capital of the world" by International Energy Agency (IEA) boss Dr Fatih Birol in his opening remarks at a summit of energy ministers dedicated to energy conservation. But it is not undeserved.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

The government’s new Food Strategy has sparked an angry response from environmental and farming groups alike, but is it really as bad as its critics suggest? Half baked', 'flatter than a pancake', a plan to 'cook the planet itself'. For farming and environmental groups alike the frustration with the long-awaited strategy was palpable.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2022

The difference this year, however, is that the UK now has a Net Zero Strategy in place, a host of new emissions reduction targets for the 2030s, and still holds the COP26 Presidency, having helped steward the world towards agreeing the landmark Glasgow Climate Pact last November. The UK government's spokesperson said:?. "We

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

Conservative in-fighting may be once again reaching one of its periodic crescendos, but there is another perennial occurrence evident in Westminster today: pleas for the government to do more to tackle the UK's appalling levels of energy waste. Going green will cut people's energy bills," he will say. "By

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2022

Sixty per cent of the world has set net zero targets for 2050 and we have just under 30 years to achieve those targets. What does Rio tell us about how much can be achieved in three decades? What does Rio tell us about how much can be achieved in three decades? Too early to say", he replied. Too early to say", he replied.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2022

Consequently, the last two weeks in Bonn have seen the focus on the deeply technical negotiations relating to carbon markets, emissions reporting, and verification mechanisms that has dominated the talks in recent years shifted slightly towards the critical question of how to deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

On a recent episode of the Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria,” American Petroleum Institute CEO and President, Mike Sommers , said that “the most important environmental movement in the world is the American oil and gas industry.”. “A Fossil Fuel Solutionism.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 14, 2022

At Interactive 2022: We welcomed 450+ people from all over the world. We hope that you will learn something new and come away feeling the way we did at the end of the day — grateful for the grit, empathy, and ingenuity on display from so many people working across industries to ensure a better future for people and planet.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2022

As such, the move would provide consistency across the world's largest market and all but guarantee that sales of EVs will continue to surge over the coming years. A day of high drama in Brussels ended with a huge boost to efforts to phase out petrol and diesel cars and a row over reforms to the EU's emissions trading scheme.

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