Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Despite heat pumps offering well-documented operational and emissions savings compared to gas boilers, the cost of buying and installing such systems has long been seen as a barrier to mass adoption by the UK public. per cent of the nation's GDP, according to the report.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Sure we can observe and avoid excess packaging , but it’s challenging to get a deeper dive into the origin of materials or how employees at a plant halfway around the globe are treated. This information allows PaperTale to calculate an environmental footprint of the product that shows water usage and carbon emissions.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

More than 4,600 consumers across England, Scotland, and Wales were interviewed by pollster Ipsos MORI last year for the survey, which points to growing interest in electric vehicles (EVs) and their climate benefits, but far less understanding of the impact of domestic heating on greenhouse gas emissions.

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Electric vehicle Electricity Climate change Fossil fuels 68

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Investors are more aware of greenwashing and better able to avoid guilty companies. With this understanding, companies are better placed to avoid greenwash tactics. As business leaders, these seven greenwash sins act as a guide to avoid common greenwash traps. We should be thinking about how to avoid waste creation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The process of purchasing carbon offsets - whether they are focused on removals, such as those enabled by direct air capture technology, or avoidance, such as projects that protect forests and other natural carbon sinks - is still complex for corporate buyers.

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Carbon Education Technology Methane 73

Climate 4.0

APRIL 1, 2021

If we don't make serious inroads to eliminate CO2 and related emissions from our atmosphere, we face the prospect of an uninhabitable planet sooner rather than later. An index we call the Emissions Reduction Challenge (ERC) Index is part of this new work. Our other research puts a similar price tag on significantly reducing emissions.

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Climate change Africa Resilience Investment 52

Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

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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Carbon Carbon-negative Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 36

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Allowing employees to work from home – even if it’s one day a week – can result in major decreases in your employee’s commute emissions. However, investing in renewable energy such as solar, wind or geothermal can come with a steep price tag and these technologies aren’t effective in every region. Allow Flexible Work-From-Home Options.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The reasons to avoid disposable plastic are endless. During this service, audit their system to ensure it is functional and avoid costly problems before they occur. For example, Ferguson offers products like refrigerant leak detectors that can help clients minimize greenhouse gas emissions. Offer routine maintenance visits.

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HVAC Recycling Recycling Education 52

Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

The long-running debate over whether biomass energy can deliver promised emissions savings has been reignited this morning, after fresh analysis from think tank Ember warned plans for the UK's largest biomass with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) plant could undermine the UK's net zero transition and land the taxpayer with a hefty bill.

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Carbon-negative Government Carbon Technology 61

DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

but did not tag Shell, nor mention his commercial relationship with the brand. Yet this is far from the reality, as despite having a goal in place to reach net zero emissions, Shell has abandoned its plan to reduce its production of oil by 1-2 percent each year up to 2030 and has reaffirmed its plans to grow its gas production.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Labour's Party Conference kicked off yesterday, with the new tag line 'A Fairer, Greener Future' on prominent display, and the opening policy announcement coming in the form of a commitment to deliver a net zero emissions power system by 2030, a full five years earlier than the government's current 2035 target date.

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Government Policy Climate change Fossil fuels 69

Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Every year since its inception the Climate Change Committee (CCC) offers its verdict on the UK's progress against its climate goals, providing an overview of the country's decarbonisation to date, its latest economic and emissions projections, and the state of the policy landscape.

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Government Policy COP Carbon 62

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The process helps organizations highlight and target high GHG emitting operations with emission reduction strategies. As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). And to do that, this Green Business Bureau is your guide.

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Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This leads to a wide range of replacement times; a meter tagged as faulty in January 2020 could be replaced as late as December 2021, nearly two years later, while one identified in December 2020 could be replaced within a year. Furthermore, SDG&E estimates their program will save customers about $7 million to $9 million over two years.

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Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 83

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. They also sequester one-third of the earth’s anthropogenic emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 17, 2021

Retrofits offer the cost-savings and health benefits of eco-friendly homes without the large price tag of newly-built green homes. By choosing a sustainable home through a credible agency, homebuyers can avoid VOC-related health conditions and live healthier lives.

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Real Estate Sustainability Health Recycled materials 174

The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Back in 2019, New York state passed a law to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change by 85 percent by 2050. Now, more than 90 countries have made commitments to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by roughly the same date. That was pretty progressive environmental legislation at the time.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

The price tag for just this stretch of pipeline is estimated to be $7 billion dollars (page 25 of Princeton report Annex). And remember, all this to only catch a small percentage of point source emissions.) In fact it’s their only lifeline, and in the meantime it’s also really good for greenwashing and TV ads.

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Pollution Carbon Waste Waste 75

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The project was funded by Sergei Brin, one of the founders of Google, and came with a price tag of 250.000 euros for a single burger. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. Avoid beef. Is lab-grown meat better for the environment? Absolutely.

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Solar Energy Monitor Organic Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

Grist

OCTOBER 4, 2023

” Transportation contributes more to greenhouse gas emissions than any other sector, and the nation’s 480,000 school buses make up its single largest public transportation fleet — a fleet that millions of children rely on to get to school safely (and far more efficiently than if every student were to drive on their own).

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Electricity Transportation Pollution Cooling 74

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

“When we’re dealing with a world where we need to cut emissions in the next decade, direct air capture just has no meaningful place in that conversation.”. In Appalachia, for example, 90 percent of the carbon emissions the plan seeks to capture would come from existing coal-fired power plants in the Ohio River Valley.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout. This could help fund emergency support for households, and cover the vital investment needed in home insulation to help cut our energy bills and climate emissions once and for all.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With APRIL bolstering its own sustainability commitments as it sets its sights on achieving a net zero emission, deforestation-free future, is this corporate tiger fully committed to changing its stripes, or is it embarked on a great greenwash folly? Boasting a $2.33bn price tag, it is the largest single investment in APRIL's 30-year history.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

She likes to tag her thoughts on this subject #BlackLivesMatter, arguing that climate action — which she distills to “turning off all the fossil fuels immediately” — will kill a billion Africans, all while refusing to engage with the fact that African climate activists are being arrested at an alarming rate. “And

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

[link] pic.twitter.com/GQK8DFcWoc — ExxonMobil (@exxonmobil) January 12, 2023 ExxonMobil says its carbon capture facility in Wyoming has “captured the most CO2 emissions on Earth to date.” Some studies indicate the technology does little to reduce emissions, and may even increase carbon and other air pollution.

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Carbon Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98