Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Conservationists representing six countries and a number of different organisations – Manx Wildlife Trust, North Wales Wildlife Trust, the North West Wildlife Trusts, Scottish Wildlife Trust, Sustainable Water Network (Ireland), The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales and Ulster Wildlife – have come together to press for action.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

global warming trajectory. The VPPA was complemented by the installation of solar arrays at the company's sites around the world, delivering a further 5MW of capacity. The company said the new targets have been approved by the independent Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) as being in line with a 1.5C

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The second edition of CES Europe participants will discuss the increasingly sophisticated array of options, spread and share best practice and network with solutions provider and thought leaders. There will be more than 300 people attending this event including more than 70 corporates and 65 speakers.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 11, 2021

Spatial data scientists from the Conservancy and Defenders of Wildlife’s Center for Conservation Innovation used advanced mapping techniques to identify low-impact sites for solar arrays in Nassau and Suffolk counties and show their energy generation potential. Mid- to large-scale solar arrays, like the one at the H.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Crystal-clear liquid flows from the array into big plastic drums, which chemists wheel toward a tall metal still. Freya Burton, the company’s chief sustainability and people officer, likened the idea to fair trade coffee or organic milk. Sipping “carbon negative” vodka will hardly reduce a drinker’s contribution to global warming.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Connecticut’s Global Warming Solutions Act calls for a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and 80% by 2050. The state agency that provides financing for affordable housing developments just revised its review process to give more weight to applications for highly sustainable projects, she said.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 26, 2021

The natural process of all plants taking in carbon and releasing oxygen not only gives us clean air to breathe but also stores carbon that otherwise contributes to global warming. The study provides one tool in an array of options to reduce carbon release. Every other city in the study came in at over 200,000 trees a year.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

Both of these global retail giants sell food, clothing and an array of other products. But along with their similarities, each company's approach to sustainability highlights two very different ways of engaging their suppliers, particularly on Scope 3 emission reductions. Their supply chains are vast and complex.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Efforts to prevent global warming from worsening, known in the jargon as climate mitigation, have long dominated governments' response to the climate crisis. There is a broad variety of threats," acknowledged fellow panellist Garth Marshall, head of climate change and sustainability at Zurich Resilience Solutions.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

The stunning array of technologies emerging to decarbonize the world and make it more habitable for flora, fauna and humans goes far beyond cleantech 2.0. These are businesses that accelerate the transition to a more sustainable economy," she told GreenBiz. economy, more than 200 US startups have cut thousands of jobs.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 26, 2021

The natural process of all plants taking in carbon and releasing oxygen not only gives us clean air to breathe but also stores carbon that otherwise contributes to global warming. The study provides one tool in an array of options to reduce carbon release. Every other city in the study came in at over 200,000 trees a year.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 26, 2021

The natural process of all plants taking in carbon and releasing oxygen not only gives us clean air to breathe but also stores carbon that otherwise contributes to global warming. The study provides one tool in an array of options to reduce carbon release. Every other city in the study came in at over 200,000 trees a year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The precedent has now been set that if you want to be known as a green PR company or want to work with clients who care about sustainability, you can't work with the fossil fuel industry," says Henn. When contacted by BusinessGreen , the firm declined to comment. This is where advertising is a great driver of competition and innovation.".

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Initiatives to reverse deforestation have been underway to contribute more trees, protect woodlands and ensure the ecology , sustainability and longevity of Scotland’s forest resources. Planting trees encourages the absorption of carbon dioxide, one of the key greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. Images via Pixabay.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

It is also true that just as we've never tried to maintain a global economy in the face of runaway global warming, we've also never managed to operate a modern economy with net zero emissions. It is fair to say there are industries where decarbonisation remains technically challenging and eye-wateringly expensive.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a second step the electrolyzer arrays are being assembled locally, e.g. in the Siemens Energy manufacturing site Muelheim, or in external workshops in the Czech Republic or France or close to future project sites. The challenge is global warming, part of the solution is a gigawatt-scale factory. 

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“The precedent has now been set that if you want to be known as a green PR company or want to work with clients who care about sustainability, you can’t work with the fossil fuel industry,” Henn said. “We’re seeing that with FTI Consulting, and we’re also seeing that with Porter Novelli.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. The technology-focused “sustainable farming” partnership, which is led by the UAE and U.S., This year will be different.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 14, 2020

These concerns were reiterated in a 2019 report from Zurich that reviewed the risks to infrastructure and the need for businesses to prepare for rising sea levels associated with global warming. Sustainability Supply chain risk mitigation is a key component of sustainability.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

Sustainable mobility drives the newest employee perk. But over the past few years, the company has aggressively built out an electric commuter shuttle program for its employees, as well as developed other sustainable mobility offerings such as easy access to carpooling, transit services and ferry lines. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Before European settlers arrived, the land Pepperwood now stewards sustained around 100 trees of varying sizes and species per acre. Instead, he believed the land was improved by ethical and sustainable management.

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 15, 2021

Sustainable mobility drives the newest employee perk Katie Fehrenbacher Mon, 03/15/2021 – 00:05 This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Enabling employees to make sustainable choices about their commutes and transportation is the latest perk it can offer to an elite workforce.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Of course, many of these banks must get credit for having pledged massive sums to sustainability-related financing. Bank of America, for example, committed to "mobilize $1tr by 2030" toward "low-carbon, sustainable business activities." Citi similarly pledged $1tr by 2030 to "finance and facilitate a wide array of climate solutions."

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It was notable that yesterday's event took place just around the corner from Tufton Street, the notorious home to a coterie of free-marketeer groups, including the Institute of Economic Affairs and notorious climate-sceptic organisations Net Zero Watch and the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. I went out to tech -- you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world. That's where most of the greenhouse. Let me just finish one other thing. This is a moral issue, my friends.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The citing of concerns over its potentially inflationary effects was widely seen as a convenient cover story that allowed Manchin to torpedo a vast array of measures that would have curbed fossil fuel production. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a global warming potential many times higher than that of CO2.

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