Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. What alternatives can businesses invest in to make them more resilient? So far this summer, more than 840 people have died from heat (hyperthermia) in the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

And indeed overall, the discussions on adaptation, resilience and damage illustrate how far we all have to go to reckon with the disruptive, damaging effect that climate impacts inevitably involve. We have a growing race to zero and race to resilience, and a new financial alliance with commitments to shift the tens of trillions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

From tackling deforestation to curbing methane emissions, the various multilateral commitments are focused on areas where they can have real impact. All over the world not nearly enough is being done to enhance climate resilience, leaving communities and economies exposed. The fossil fuel problem is being named.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Decision to quit three US trade bodies stems from differences over carbon pricing policies and methane regulation, as oil giant looks to build on net zero plans. Scope 3 emissions refer to greenhouse gases emitted from the full value chain of an organisation, including the end-use of products.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

After hours of tense negotiations and dramatic interventions on the conference floor a compromise deal was reached that rejected the proposed reference to phasing down fossil fuels, and broadened the focus of the energy section of the agreement beyond renewables. warming target.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

To put it in perspective, by changing our frame of reference from the abstract of climate change to a more tangible and relate it to people, you can start to see yourself in the resolve, then the importance and interpretation will take a different perspective. Traditional Knowledge – Referred to as local knowledge.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

That will not happen until true net zero emissions is achieved and a global economy has been built that is resilient to the dangerous new world we have unleashed. COP26 has not solved the climate crisis. But the Glasgow Summit did deliver a critical new platform on which that net zero emission economy can be built.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Backers say the coalition aims to unlock new technologies that can help reduce the sector’s major contribution to climate change and make harvests more resilient. Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”. Second, it would only reduce methane emissions from the cattle.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center estimates that governments spent about $120m in 2019 trying to clean Caribbean beaches, with limited success. Researchers have even found that certain types of seaweed used as feed supplement for cattle can reduce methane emissions from cow farts.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fossil Fuel Lock-in The meat and dairy industry’s high methane emissions are increasingly well known. How do we instead use this to create more resilience in the food system? “We cannot transform food systems and make them climate friendly until we have weaned our food systems — alongside other economic sectors — off oil and gas.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As such it highlights the need for the rapid deployment of wind and solar in places where renewables are already the cheapest form of power generation; the tapping of methane leakage at mines and oil and gas plants and pipelines; and renewed efforts to enhance energy efficiency. Net zero scenario planning is the new normal.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Phase out coal.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The majority of climate finance to date has gone towards emissions reduction - for instance clean energy - over schemes that boost countries' resilience to escalating climate impacts. Methane faces a reckoning. Campaigners and energy experts have long dubbed methane emissions as the 'low hanging fruit' of climate action.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 9, 2022

Systemic barriers, including persistent structural racism, often have left such groups with fewer resources to protect themselves and to build resilience. Such a holistic approach could transform overburdened communities into high energy-performance communities that are safer and more resilient. Source: Perkovi?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The most contentious elements of what became the Glasgow Climate Pact were references to coal and fossil fuel subsidies, which led to the late drama in the Summit as the language on unabated coal power was watered down from "phase-out" to "phase down". Adaptation, resilience, loss and damage. Nature and biodiversity.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By energy purchased, we’re referring to electrical energy. A carbon dioxide equivalent is a standard unit for counting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regardless of whether they’re from carbon dioxide or another gas, such as methane. For simplicity, when defining scope 2 emissions, think bought.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

The reports show that the facility has released numerous chemicals, including benzene, a known human carcinogen, and methane. While natural gas burns cleaner than coal, the advantage of using it is negated by the methane emitted in its production. And we hope the world will not surrender in building a climate-resilient future.”

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We select a subset of companies to go through technical and financial due diligence, product evaluation, reference checks, commercial analysis, and most importantly getting to know the founding teams on a deeper level. ” And finally, the twin threats of a pandemic and economic calamity made this a year unlike any other in memory.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

She did it patiently and incisively, referring to her role in her ACLU cases as “a kind of a kindergarten teacher… because the judges didn’t think sex discrimination existed.” As a member of the that court, she fought for voters’ rights (Shelby County v. Holder), comprehensive healthcare coverage (Burwell v.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

She did it patiently and incisively, referring to her role in her ACLU cases as “a kind of a kindergarten teacher… because the judges didn’t think sex discrimination existed.” As a member of the that court, she fought for voters’ rights (Shelby County v. Holder), comprehensive healthcare coverage (Burwell v.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

She did it patiently and incisively, referring to her role in her ACLU cases as “a kind of a kindergarten teacher… because the judges didn’t think sex discrimination existed.” As a member of the that court, she fought for voters’ rights (Shelby County v. Holder), comprehensive healthcare coverage (Burwell v.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was previously referred to the parliamentary standards watchdog for failing to declare in debates that his investment firm, Somerset Capital Management, held shares worth around £3 million in mining firms, £2.4 There are question marks over whether he stands to gain financially from any of these policies.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

But she has also championed development of Alaska’s substantial oil, coal, and methane gas deposits. We saw this happen starting in Copenhagen,” she said, referring to the 2009 climate talks. Rodgers was expected to lead one of the House delegations, but unexpectedly dropped out citing a scheduling conflict, as reported by Politico.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

It also specifically orders the government to start the process of reinstating methane emission, fuel efficiency, energy efficiency, and air quality standards that were scrapped by the Trump administration. As such, it instructs all government departments and agencies to conduct a full review of all Trump-era regulatory moves.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 15, 2020

Here is a comprehensive summary of references to climate change from the CNN/Des Moines Register Democratic debate at Drake University on January 14th 2020. Here are the candidates references to climate change in the order that they appeared during the debate. Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen.

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