GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Why IKEA is investing in sustainable mobility. For the company known for its delicious meatballs and DIY shelves, the investment isn't actually that surprising. For the company known for its delicious meatballs and DIY shelves, the investment isn't actually that surprising. Holly Secon. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 00:30.

Sustainability 514

Sustainability Investment Transportation Carbon-negative 514

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2021

Ireland’s first real-time acoustic monitoring project of cetacean species (whales, dolphins and porpoise) was launched last week off the South Coast of Ireland, with the goal of creating a near real-time detection model for these species and examining the impact rising ocean noise pollution is having on Ireland’s marine life.

Pollution 358

Pollution Energy Monitor Technology Climate change 358

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

People living in polluted cities are more at risk from Covid-19, according to health experts cited in a 16 March report from the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), an advocacy group. Even the latest diesel engines emit dangerous levels of pollution. The European Respiratory Society (ERS) is an EPHA member.

Pollution 294

Pollution Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Health 294

GreenBiz

APRIL 13, 2021

When it comes to climate investment funds, diverse management is imperative. Needless to say, investment managers and financial advisers are powerful. investment consulting firms to gain insights into gender and racial representation, only 16 responded. Marilyn Waite. Tue, 04/13/2021 - 02:00. In a 2019 study , the U.S.

Investment 515

Investment Climate change Real Estate Retail 515

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Half of the board members at the world’s six largest advertising and public relations companies have ties to polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. DeSmog’s analysis reveals that half of these directors have connections to polluting industries. None of the directors, other holding groups, or other companies responded.

Pollution 68

Pollution Fossil fuels Aviation Carbon 68

NRDC onEarth

JULY 26, 2023

The Michigan Public Service Commission approved a settlement today led by advocacy organizations on behalf of utility customers that will require DTE Energy to emit less pollution and invest more in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and assistance to low-income ratepayers.

Pollution 60

Pollution Investment Energy Energy 60

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

A new report attempts to provide a diagnostic of the scale of the ocean pollution challenge facing humanity. The Invisible Wave: Getting to zero chemical pollution in the ocean has been prodeuced by Back to Blue, an initiative of Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation.

Pollution 162

Pollution Plastics Microplastics Fossil fuels 162

GreenBiz

JUNE 27, 2023

The transition to greener chemicals offers holistic solutions to plastics pollution, climate change and biodiversity, but we need more investments to scale innovation.

Biodiversity 424

Biodiversity Plastics Climate change Sustainability 424

GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Morgan Stanley will measure CO2 impact of loans and investments. bank to commit to measuring and disclosing the climate impact of its loans and investments, announcing last week that it has joined a multi-trillion dollar group of global financial institutions developing a standardized method for carbon accounting. Finance & Investing.

Investment 443

Investment Fossil fuels Carbon Sustainability 443

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

Energy-from-waste operator enfinium has announced (on 11 April) it is progressing plans to invest around £200 million in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at the Parc Adfer energy from waste facility in Deeside, North Wales. The project could capture up to 235,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year, said the group.

Carbon-negative 147

Carbon-negative Investment Waste Waste 147

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Investors call on major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities. Companies targeted by the campaign span a number of polluting sectors, including oil and gas, consumer goods, power and transportation, and have been identified as "systematically important" to the net zero transition by the campaign. Finance & Investing.

Pollution 241

Pollution Policy Climate change Construction 241

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Sewage pollution is raising bacteria levels in Oxford’s popular swimming spots to unsafe levels after rainfall, new research appears to find. This investment is a big commitment to improving the current situation for everyone who cares about the rivers.”. Geese grazing in Port Meadown, Oxford (image credit: Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. ,

Pollution 246

Pollution Climate change Investment Sustainability 246

The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A formal proposal still needs to be issued, but it has already faced pushback on how much of those pollution cuts should come from risky tactics aimed at capturing rather than preventing pollution. It also carves out room for controversial technologies for capturing carbon dioxide pollution.

Pollution 90

Pollution Fossil fuels Carbon Technology 90

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A new partnership may pave the way for more than £400 million to be invested in recycling facilities across the UK. With this investment, we have the ability to make a significant environmental and social impact across the UK.”.

Plastics 264

Plastics Recycling Recycling Real Estate 264

Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Oil spills may be dramatic and devastating, but they’re not the biggest contributor to ocean oil pollution — not by a long shot. According to the report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “ Oil in the Sea ,” these sources are by far the largest and fastest-growing contributor to ocean oil pollution.

Pollution 142

Pollution Fossil fuels Sea level rise Stormwater 142

The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

billion in funding today to upgrade the US’s aging electric grid, the largest investment to date in the grid. And President Biden has a goal of creating a 100 percent carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035, which will help the US keep commitments it made under the Paris climate agreement.

Investment 134

Investment Power grid Electricity Pollution 134

NRDC onEarth

APRIL 4, 2024

The GGRF will direct long-overdue funding to projects that reduce pollution, lower energy costs for families across the United States, and create good-quality jobs – all while catalyzing an unprecedented wave of private sector investment.

Energy 189

Energy Energy Pollution Investment 189

NRDC onEarth

MARCH 7, 2024

California leaders can transform the state's most-polluting transportation program into climate, freight, and community benefits by supporting AB 2535 (Bonta)

Investment 78

Investment Pollution Transportation 78

NRDC onEarth

MARCH 7, 2024

California's elected leaders can convert the state's most-polluting transportation program into climate and community benefits by supporting AB 2535 (Bonta)

Transportation 78

Transportation Investment Pollution 78

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

To protect our communities and save taxpayer dollars, we need to slow these costly impacts by reducing carbon pollution now – at the same time we accelerate the clean energy solutions that will power our future prosperity. . We can stop investing in businesses that harm the planet and the people that inhabit it.

Climate change 145

Climate change Investment Fossil fuels Ethics 145

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Water companies can expect increasing scrutiny into their environmental performance, Isle’s Zero Pollutions Conference heard. This was among messages from Helen Wakeham, deputy director of water quality at the Environment Agency, during a keynote address at the Zero Pollutions Conference 2020, hosted by technology consultancy Isle.

Pollution 130

Pollution Innovation Investment Technology 130

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The new Environment Bill needs improvement in a number of ways to meet this, including world leading WHO air pollution standards on the face of the bill, a legally binding timetable with an earlier date for reporting, and an acknowledgement of the need for resources to implement the changes at local level.

Pollution 186

Pollution Politics Health Transportation 186

DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

The study also found that this greenwashing had disturbingly persistent effects: Presenting accurate data on the companies’ actual investments in renewable energy sources, compared to their claims about it in the ads, did not fully reverse or correct the greenwashed ads’ initial impact. To do so, they turn to greenwashing.

Pollution 84

Pollution Fossil fuels Law Carbon-negative 84

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

One challenge which EMR faces is how it handles a series of non-biodegradable chemicals found in some plastics which are categorised as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). During the past 10 years EMR has invested in its plastics recycling division (MBA Polymers), developing innovative ways to separate plastics via a range of processes.

Pollution 130

Pollution Organic Plastics Recycling 130

Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

Bank's asset management arm launches exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracks that invest in firms with strong nature credentials. HSBC Asset Management has launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed to invest in companies with strong biodiversity credentials, aimed at both wholesale and institutional investors, it announced last week.

Biodiversity 79

Biodiversity Investment Pollution Climate change 79

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Investing in the ground beneath our feet could have wide-ranging benefits for the environment, animal and human health – as well as moving closer to Net Zero, according to new research. Soil acts as a carbon ‘sink’, locking in GHGs that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.

Soil 245

Soil Carbon Investment Energy Monitor 245

Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

This is another in the realm of the “business case” for sustainability (within a corporation for its own capital and investment decisions, not as an investment thesis for investors). Raising the price on carbon or other inputs drives different capital and investment decisions. They shouldn’t. Our Own Biases Trick Us.

Investment 147

Investment Sustainability Carbon-negative Fossil fuels 147

Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

England's water industry continues to face serious questions over its environmental record, with many firms still failing to live up to their regulatory responsibilities governing sewage spills and pollution incidents, according to the Environment Agency's (EA) latest assessment of the sector today.

Pollution 101

Pollution Investment Government Packaging 101

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

The fashion industry has been accused of being "blind" to the risks of water pollution by a new report from investor-backed environmental disclosure platform CDP. Yet, of 136 businesses whose investors requested impact assessments on water pollution, only 62 - or 46 per cent - provided data in 2019.

Fashion 91

Fashion Pollution Microplastics Agriculture 91

Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To mitigate financial risk, investors should request advertising companies disclose the emissions impact of their work with polluting clients, think tank argues

Fossil fuels 81

Fossil fuels Investment Pollution 81

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

To protect our communities and save taxpayer dollars, we need to slow these costly impacts by reducing carbon pollution now – at the same time we accelerate the clean energy solutions that will power our future prosperity. . We can stop investing in businesses that harm the planet and the people that inhabit it.

Climate change 78

Climate change Investment Fossil fuels Ethics 78

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Major investment funds available to UK consumers are marketing themselves as “sustainable” and “ethical” while financing fossil fuel companies, research has found. The fund, managed by BlackRock, the world’s biggest investment company, says it is composed of “leaders in the sustainability field”. Fuelling the Fire’.

Fossil fuels 92

Fossil fuels Investment Sustainability Ethics 92

EDF + Business

JANUARY 21, 2020

But what if while completing their routine routes, doing their regular jobs, these vehicles were doubling as mobile air pollution monitoring networks? This pilot will help determine the tremendous potential that innovative technologies hold for improving our understanding of air pollution. The growing air pollution monitoring market.

Energy Monitor 90

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Pollution Innovation 90

Charged

JANUARY 8, 2021

California’s Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) provides incentives to purchase low-emission medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and Clean Cars 4 All incentivizes lower-income California drivers to scrap their older, high-polluting cars and replace them with EVs or hybrids. Nichols said. Source: CARB.

Investment 119

Investment Pollution Technology 119

EDF + Business

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Air pollution from rampant wildfires is causing millions to suffer in California and the Pacific Northwest. On top of that, air pollution causes and worsens conditions that make people more vulnerable to severe COVID-19. The time for investments and innovation in sensor technology is now.

Pollution 75

Pollution Innovation Technology Demand 75

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

billion invested in Chevron, BP, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and Shell, a new analysis from Stand.earth and Climate Safe Pensions Network has found. CalPERS and CalSTRS defend their fossil fuel investments. billion over the past decade on their fossil fuel investments. CalSTRS and CalPERS collectively have over $4.3

Fossil fuels 105

Fossil fuels Investment Global warming Climate change 105

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

A positive Return On Investment (ROI) and Sustainability go hand in hand, as many sustainable business practices save money, create a competitive advantage, open new markets and attract customers and employees. Although there is a major investment upfront, the future savings typically pay for the investment in less than 10 years.

Business Energy Monitoring 158

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring 158