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Making sense of the alphabet soup: the common themes across carbon credit integrity guidance

EDF + Business

First and foremost, businesses must commit to reducing emissions from their operations and value chain in line with science. Companies have a responsibility to go above and beyond their science-based goals – including beyond value chain mitigation. Due diligence to ensure environmental and social integrity is key.

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'Giant opportunity': Why achieving a net zero emission supply chain could be cheaper than you think

Business Green

Setting ambitious net zero targets for company's core business is one thing, but achieving deep decarbonisation across the entire supply chain is quite another. Similarly, producing a zero carbon pair of jeans or a basket of groceries might add just €1 onto the price tag, according to the report.

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Unfriend: Why is Facebook restricting climate-related ad campaigns from green businesses?

Business Green

The science is unambiguous and the need to act grows more urgent by the day. Facebook's information pages confirm this, noting that all ads are reviewed, with the turnaround for political and social issues-based ads taking up to three days , and other ads up to one day. "In Climate change is real," the company stated.

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How the Integrity Council's new global benchmark could prove a watershed moment for the carbon market

Business Green

ICVCM said the new Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) have been developed using input from hundreds of organisations throughout the voluntary carbon market and will set out fundamental principles for high-quality credits which deliver real, verifiable emissions reductions based on the latest science and best practices.

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Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Are Using British Influencers to go Viral

DeSmogBlog

but did not tag Shell, nor mention his commercial relationship with the brand. I’ve definitely copped a lot of criticism for it [working with Shell],” he said, yet adding that Shell offered him, “a younger person”, the opportunity to “feel represented” and “build more trust” in their so-called “nature based solutions”.

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'Green product scarcity' is looming: How can businesses remove the cleantech bottleneck?

Business Green

It also points out that in most major value chains the market share of downstream firms - i.e. those closest to the consumer - with science-based climate targets in place for their supply chains is greater than the proportion of upstream suppliers of raw materials that are crucial to the former reaching their climate goals.

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'Sensible incentives' and 'plumbing reforms': Leading figures mull pathway from Covid-19 crisis to net zero economy

Business Green

An essay collection published late last week by centre right think tank Bright Blue and professional services firm WSP argued the government should prioritise market-based reforms over vast public spending programmes as it works toward delivering on its net zero goal in the wake of the coronavirus crisis that has devastated the economy.

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