Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

This is reflected in a more holistic approach to nature, which considers a firm's broader role in the economy and its impact on all aspects of the environment, from emissions to biodiversity to ocean acidification. Crucially, it also assesses a business' dependence on the natural world.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As governments continue to be intransigent, and the fossil fuel industry uses its influence to hamstring transformational climate policies, courts represent an important lever to bring about change. The success of this case has inspired a wave of similar lawsuits in several other countries, many of them successful.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Human activities have similarly been breaching environmental limits, instigating biodiversity loss, depletion of freshwater, ocean acidification, soil degradation and other irreversible processes. Health-related incidents flagged by The Lancet ’s report include increased risks of low birth weight and infant mortality for newborns.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The ironic upside of the coronavirus is that it has exposed the fault lines in our civilizations and increased interest in science and fact-based government policy. This led them to conclude that the cause of the extinction was warming and ocean acidification attributable to the release of GHGs from massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Alec Taylor, head of marine policy at WWF and vice chair of the Wildlife and Countryside Link Marine Group, urged the government to seize the "unmissable opportunity to deliver a genuine blue recovery". Ocean Recovery is an investment in the UK's future, supporting jobs, tackling climate change and restoring nature," he added.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

Of course, nature-related risks are arguably even more complex to tackle than climate risks, due to the myriad threats such as water scarcity, soil erosion, ocean acidification, chemical pollution, and even - as starkly illustrated by Covid-19 - disease transmission all causing very different regional impacts.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

In addition to plastic waste, 30 to 40% of carbon emissions from cars, buses, airplanes, and manufacturing plants are absorbed by the ocean, causing chemical imbalance in sea water i.e. Ocean Acidification. Intentional implementation of ocean conservation by EVERYONE.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Despite fears about cost increases and low-sulfur fuel availability, the change was a success in terms of decreasing pollution that contributes to ocean acidification and harms the health of humans and marine life. Regulatory rewind: On Jan.1, Maersk, MSC, Evergreen).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14 A systematic review based on multiple studies concluded that emissions “differ considerably per diet, with a vegan diet having the lowest CO2eq production per 2000 kcal consumed.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

All nations, especially the G20 and other major emitters, need to join the net zero emissions coalition and reinforce their commitments with credible, concrete and enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions and policies before COP26 in Glasgow. "We We need immediate action on energy. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree

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CleanTech San Diego

APRIL 29, 2024

Navigate the Highly-Regulated Marketplace for Your Customers If your startup or brand has lofty goals of getting to net zero, you are operating within a complex regulatory and policy landscape. Therefore, you have to anticipate and adapt to evolving policy changes that may impact your operations or market opportunities.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

But to get there, we need radical collaboration across the governments, the private sector and civil society to set the right policy and investment frameworks, and we need to secure long-term offtake agreements. The Africa Green Hydrogen Alliance will go a long way in fostering these developments.". RWE issues €2bn green bond.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The almost unbearably bleak projections contained in the report are based on the assumption current climate policies and clean tech trends work and emissions start to broadly flat line over the coming decades. The single most pertinent fact contained in the IPCC's sweeping synthesis report is that global greenhouse emissions are still rising.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Agricultural shortfalls will be further exacerbated by ocean acidification, which is another corollary of rising levels of atmospheric CO2. Ocean acidification will worsen damage to coral and phytoplankton, which could cause a breakdown in the ocean food chains on which more than one billion people depend.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Agricultural shortfalls will be further exacerbated by ocean acidification, which is another corollary of rising levels of atmospheric CO2. Ocean acidification will worsen damage to coral and phytoplankton, which could cause a breakdown in the ocean food chains on which more than one billion people depend.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

continued] The post Another Day, Another Suspect Ocean Carbon Capture Technology appeared first on CleanTechnica. Carbon capture is back on the hype cycle, years after it was last being pushed upon us as the only.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In recent months I’ve returned to the overlapping subjects of geoengineering and carbon capture, both of which I’d mostly satisfied. continued] The post Electrolyzing Carbon Dioxide Out Of Sea Water Has Multiple Red Flags appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 15, 2023

However, the influx of plastics entering the world’s oceans, without immediate action to reverse the current trend, […] Plastics are very appealing to people around the world. They’re important due to their daily use and functionality because they are the most versatile materials of contemporary times.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 19, 2021

For years (and we mean many years), the ocean helped us mitigate the early effects of human emissions by absorbing greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and heat, from the atmosphere. As a result, more than 90 percent of the warming that happened on Earth between 1971 and 2010 occurred in the ocean.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We write about CO2 emissions of fossil fuels quite a bit on CleanTechnica, but there is something that bears repetition as well. It is that renewable energy typically uses much less water than other electricity sources. The overuse of water, including for our power plants, is something that critically threatens our children.

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