Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Oxford English Dictionary's Patricia Stewart charts how language related to the environment, climate change, and sustainabiliy is changing to reflect global new realities and concerns. Humanity's response to climate change continues to give rise to new words and phrases, and we continue to monitor them. Going green or greenwashing?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. He helped develop the fusion bomb, which is immensely more powerful than even the atomic bomb.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Four years after the world’s governments signed the Paris Agreement, thousands of people are taking to the streets in school strikes and Extinction Rebellion protests calling for greater action to meet its target of keeping global warming as close to 1.5 degrees as possible. However, government support could generate much more action.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate adaptation and resilience should be baked into all Department's policy decisions, backed by more public funding, stronger incentives for private investment, measurable targets, and monitoring of progress towards a clear overarching vision, the independent climate advisory body said.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Thus far we have made investments towards reducing the climate impact of our food, industrial production, and energy systems, and we are eager to make more. Saildrone (Series B | $86M | $260M): wind- and solar-powered autonomous sailing drones collecting and relaying real-time ocean data. Overstory (Seed | $1.8M Applications.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the top comments from business, politics, academia, think tanks and civil society.

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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). In addition, globally, over 22,000 companies disclosed environmental data – with a focus on business emissions – to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in the same year.

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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 warming trajectory over the course of the coming decade. The US and EU are planning to launch a Global Methane Pledge at COP26 which has already won the backing of several other nations, including the UK.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources will take place on November 25-26, 2019 in Rome, Italy. The theme is "Renewable Energy for a Better Future" and the it will include: Keynote talks, Plenary sessions, Discussion Panels, B2B Meetings, Poster symposia, Video Presentations, and Workshops.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available,” Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer, wrote in 1948, “a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Exxon completes an “Atmospheric CO2 Scoping Study,” which concludes that reducing fossil fuel use through efficiency and renewable energy is the only foreseeable option. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point. One of them is called “Energy in Depth.”

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

Despite the (slow) migration to electric-powered cars, consumer trends are making driving even more wasteful and unequal. A recent analysis found the emissions saved from electric cars have been more than cancelled out by the increase in gas-guzzling Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs). Reducing car use in cities.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

The state leads the country by housing about half of the nation’s total installed solar capacity, according to the latest data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). We really need to work together to build the political power necessary to win. It’s no secret that California is king when it comes to the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Without this ice cap, global warming will accelerate as less sun is reflected out into space. Each business has the power to create solutions and drive sustainable change. Plus 91% of banks monitor the ESG performance of investments. 2040 : The artic will become ice-free in the summer. The benefits of sustainability.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

That’s ExxonMobil touting its “lower-emission solutions” and staff working to “develop our global strategy for creating sustainable energy” while planning a $10 billion investment in new oil and gas reserves in South America. ExxonMobil uses the phrase “advancing climate solutions” and “ lower emission energy future.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. As long as there is ice in a body of water, any surrounding heat energy is carried towards the ice to make it melt.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Risks A report from Zurich reviewed the risks to infrastructure and the need for businesses to prepare for rising sea levels associated with global warming. They also single out a study which suggests sea levels could rise more than two meters by the end of this century. meters by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

In his spare time, David Levy, owner of Petrotechnologies, a company that makes specialty parts for the oil and gas industry, monitors the fossil fuel industry across southwest Louisiana from the sky. Levy believes orphaned wells aren’t being monitored properly. Credit: Julie Dermanksy. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

The chair of a campaign by backbench Tory MPs against climate action runs a parliamentary group with a lobbyist who has an undeclared interest in the continued use of fossil fuel-powered vehicles, DeSmog can reveal. Political Ties. Cox worked with the GWPF on the APPG report and has campaigned alongside CAR26 , another denial group.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

But the proposals represent one of the remarkably rare areas in US politics where there is a high degree of bipartisan support. Campaigners maintain the move could improve health, boost economic activity, and lead to lower energy demand and carbon emissions. or 2C of global warming.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5 electricity sector by 2035, and the cost imperatives of U.S. A new report from the Sierra Club finds that almost no U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world and its oil addiction An overview of global oil consumption The world runs on oil (1). The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. million b/d in 1986. million b/d in 1986.

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Grist

JUNE 30, 2021

The electric vehicle or EV revolution owes its existence to lithium batteries, and those batteries have a cocktail of specialized minerals to thank for their high performance. Department of Energy is now proposing that we eliminate cobalt and nickel from batteries altogether. meet its climate targets. degrees Fahrenheit).

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Unless you have good governance, any progress towards goals on healthcare, education, infrastructure, clean energy is going to be fragmentary, short-lived and quite volatile - Matthew Jenkins, Transparency International. Power corrupts. The hope is that the plea to "recover better" can gain traction. The fear is that it won't.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The past decade has been a wild ride for America's massive electricity sector. Utilities will be front and center in America's efforts to combat global warming, from drastically cutting their own carbon emissions to assisting other sectors, like transportation, in cutting theirs. Today, no U.S. Today, no U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Responsible for nearly a third of global warming and a quarter of global energy, methane matters. Methane tracking takes off  Global methane tracker (Source: IEA ) Climate tech has methane on the brain these days, and for good reason. On the ground. Made to measure. The IRS just called. Super duper emitters.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

Donald Trump is the world's most powerful advocate of the industry that is at the heart of the climate crisis. It is an irrefutable scientific fact that if we are to minimize global warming we must stop burning coal, oil and gas. The Trump administration has massively expanded dirty energy infrastructure.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

He nonetheless empowered federal prosecutors to investigate “irregularities,” but the 16 federal prosecutors in charge of monitoring the election told Barr there is no evidence of substantial voting irregularities. Trump also fired top intelligence officials at the pentagon replacing them with political hacks who will do Trump’s bidding.

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