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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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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

The process helps organizations highlight and target high GHG emitting operations with emission reduction strategies. One of the main agreements made by COP26 was the commitment to end and reverse deforestation, along with securing global net zero targets by the mid-century and keeping 34.7°F C) within reach.

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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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Everything you need to know about the UK's landmark Energy White Paper

Business Green

Recent weeks have seen a new 2030 emissions target, the National Infrastructure Strategy, the Treasury's Spending Review, the confirmation of an end to overseas financing of fossil fuel infrastructure, and, of course, Boris Johnson's Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution. There are currently around 1.7 There are currently around 1.7

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Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture

DeSmogBlog

The Democrat-led committee wrapped up the investigation in December, before Republicans took control of the House, and concluded, based on hearings and subpoenaed documents, that the oil and gas industry is continuing to mislead the public about its climate commitments.

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Status Quo is Not an Option: Environmental literacy and classrooms that can save the world

Green Technology

We also have a strong agricultural base. There was also a call to action from our own state standards and from our own education code, having environmental literacy and the Environmental Principles and Concepts embedded in the Next Generation Science Standards framework, the health framework, the history and social studies frameworks.