The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

For example, the energy needed to keep website servers running, the materials used for packaging, and the fuel for shipping products all impact your carbon footprint as an online business. In this article, we will go over several ways that your online store can reduce its carbon footprint.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Carbon Neutral and ESG Concepts. Carbon Emission, Clean Energy. Plant a Tree Sign As climate change continues to create widespread disruptions in the form of higher temperatures and extreme weather events, switching to a carbon-neutral lifestyle has become necessary for everyone. Carbon neutrality concept.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2024

The introduction of a carbon credit scheme, enabling companies to invest in the restoration of the UK’s degraded saltmarshes and voluntarily offset their greenhouse gas emissions, would be viable, a study led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) has found. million tonnes of carbon.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 11, 2023

New “bio” ropes made from biomaterials have the potential to replace conventional plastics of fossil origin in mussel and algae cultivation, say the groups behind their development, who claim sustainability advantages including up to 34% carbon footprint reduction compared to ropes made from conventional plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Scottish Water has broken ground on a project involving what it describes as a new type of hydro energy generation scheme at Whiteadder Reservoir, East Lothian. The electricity generated will be used to offset 30% of the power used by one of East Lothian’s largest pumping stations, named Hungry Snout.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future. Beyond 2030, BCG aspires to be "climate positive" — by removing more carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere on an ongoing basis than it actually emits through its own activities. Heather Clancy. Tue, 09/01/2020 - 00:02.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

Is your team embedding equity considerations into its carbon removal projects? With carbon emissions expected to rebound this year, 2021 presents another opportunity for companies to invest in climate-saving initiatives that move the corporate world closer to a net-zero future, especially carbon removal projects.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere may be as difficult as getting to the moon. . Project Vesta: Enhancing natural weathering to capture CO2 in ocean-bound volcanic sand. Project Vesta: Enhancing natural weathering to capture CO2 in ocean-bound volcanic sand. So far, Project Vesta has raised $2.5 Tali Zuckerman.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The first thing you see on construction design giant Cundall’s website is “Achieving net zero carbon on all our projects by 2030” In this week’s episode of the Net Zero Business Podcast, Cundall Head of Sustainability NE (and co-host of the Future X podcast) Dr Olli Jones and I unpick that pledge.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Civil engineering firm Land & Water has completed works as part of the largest restoration project that has ever taken place at World Heritage Site, Blenheim Palace. The dredged material has been relocated to Great Park where a landform has been constructed and trees have been planted to offset the carbon emissions generated.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

He brings with him a wealth of experience in the sustainability, carbon reduction and ESG sphere. These services include: Net-Zero Strategies and Action Plans; Carbon Offsetting; Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR); Energy Audits; Transport Audits; TCFD & Non-Financial Disclosures; and Environment Social Governance (ESG).

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 1, 2020

An offset program like UPS’s carbon neutral service , though, can help minimize these emissions, paving the way for a new era of sustainable shipping. What Is UPS’s Carbon Neutral Shipping Program? What Is UPS’s Carbon Neutral Shipping Program? Carbon neutrality balances some of that.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

One answer is for executives to offset their airlines’ emissions through carbon mitigation and sequestration projects. While offsets are often seen as a cop-out for industries that don’t want to tackle their own pollution, airlines are clearly uniquely limited in their climate pollution mitigation options.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A satellite map technology has seemingly revealed that vast areas of peatlands in Scotland are in such a poor condition that landowners involved in rewilding projects are ‘cutting down trees’ this Christmas to help deal with the problem. It is a common misconception that planting trees is always good for the environment. license ).

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Eligibility List sets out the approved host countries, carbon crediting programmes, and methodologies that meet the established Eligibility Criteria in Singapore. The Eligibility List followed the signing of an inaugural Article 6 implementation agreement with Papua New Guinea on carbon credits cooperation.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Not only are they lining up all the best deals for you, but they’re also saving our Aussie environment with every CTP they sell. Saving The Environment, One Greenslip At A Time. For every greenslip they sell, Greenslips 4 Earth ensures that one native Australian tree is planted in its natural environment. How do they do it?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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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.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 4, 2022

Carbon Positive- Business as Usual. Though we are beginning to see a shift towards greener business practices and sweeping sustainability commitments, companies are almost all still carbon positive, meaning they produce emissions greater than zero. Carbon Offsets. Net Zero Emissions vs Carbon Neutral. In the U.S.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Is your carbon accounting system prepared to count remote work? Over the course of the pandemic, I’ve seen numerous dispatches issued by software developers touting the carbon footprint reduction potential of shifting to collaboration applications for many employee meetings. . Heather Clancy. Thu, 05/27/2021 - 02:00.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

The projects are among 26 green finance products being developed and tested, backed by £4.1 Following a six-month Discovery Phase period, all 26 Green Home Finance Accelerator projects will be able to apply for larger grant awards, between £200,000 and £2 million to enable them to pilot their green finance products and services.

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Fairsnape

JANUARY 7, 2020

This is Part 2 of Zero Carbon Series. See Part One Carbon That Was then This is Now. Construction projects are carbon-positive: Strict carbon planning and management is key. Remaining carbon emissions after all carbon management improvements have been made are addressed with restorative offset programmes.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

The UK's first certification scheme for buildings and organisations looking to reach net zero emissions has been launched by Natural Carbon Solutions (NCS). With regards to its offsetting protocol, it highlighted that while offsetting is an essential component when reaching carbon neutrality, "not all carbon offset credits are equal".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One tangible way to measure the positive contributions of investment portfolios on the climate is via reductions in carbon emissions and this is something more and more providers are reporting today, while a growing number of investment products are aligning themselves with the Paris Agreement goals. Rigorous standards.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 12, 2021

2, I spoke to Laura about Clearloop delivering one million watts of solar power to a carbon-intensive region and what that means for homeowners, children, teachers, and electrical engineering students living nearby the project. In anticipation of Clearloop’s upcoming groundbreaking in Jackson, Tennessee on Sept.

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Fairsnape

JULY 9, 2020

There were a number of Key Actions discussed, but the most important, in my opinion, was that of Education in respect of peat free compost, but perhaps more importantly awareness on peatlands negative and positive contribution to the carbon emergency we face. We rarely think about improving the carbon capture of peatlands.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Stockholm Environment Institute scientist Derik Broekhoff presents the case for carbon offset buyers relinquishing their claims to the credits so they are instead counted only towards national climate goals. We simply cannot offset our way out of climate change. But what if 'offsetting' doesn't make sense anymore?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Thousands of companies have hitched themselves to the carbon-neutral bandwagon, from fossil fuel producers like BP and Shell, to other household names including United Airlines, Dell, Burger King, and Vodafone. These actors are increasingly turning to voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) to offset their emissions. The Taskforce.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Future of Carbon Policy Forum Is where you want to be on January 4th at Amazon’s Seattle Campus We have become accustomed to beginning meetings with land acknowledgements and we will certainly do that at our Future of Carbon Policy Forum on January 4th. We look forward to hearing him speak at the Forum.

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Grist

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And researchers are now studying how creating new oyster reefs could help fight climate change by sequestering carbon. And scientists are studying two ways that oyster reefs suck up and store carbon. Organic matter has carbon in it, so the oyster reefs can store that carbon and keep it from warming the planet.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Offsetting is back in the news, and with the same old debate: is it a good idea to get someone else to reduce/absorb carbon emissions for you? Allied with a number of press reports on failed offset schemes, these broadsides holed most offsetting below the waterline. How is that a win for the environment, he asked?

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Grist

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And researchers are now studying how creating new oyster reefs could help fight climate change by sequestering carbon. And scientists are studying two ways that oyster reefs suck up and store carbon. Organic matter has carbon in it, so the oyster reefs can store that carbon and keep it from warming the planet.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Construction company outlines plan to achieve zero carbon across its own operations and its building developments by 2030 without the use of carbon offsets. All buildings and major refurbishments will also be delivered with net zero embodied carbon by 2040, the firm said. global warming pathway.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2023

Pioneering analysis of global nascent carbon removals sector published as leading offsets provider is accused of selling 'junk credits' The world is failing to pursure the levels of carbon removal capacity that is likely to be required to meet global climate goals, researchers at Oxford University have today warned.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

The firm says it matches environmental need – such as carbon reduction and offsetting – with funding partners. Senior ecological consultant Lewis Pate said: “As our climate changes we see the effects both directly and indirectly on the natural environment around us.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 16, 2022

Summit Coffee views sustainability broadly to consider the community and the environment, while also focusing on developing positive and collaborative relationships across their entire value chain. The post Summit Coffee Co: Protecting the Environment with Certified Sustainable Coffee appeared first on Green Business Bureau.

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