Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity published this week hammered home a point that has long been clear: the transition towards a more nature-positive and climate-responsible economy requires a major overhaul of core business assumptions and an embrace of new metrics for gauging economic success.

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Vote Solar

JULY 5, 2017

Late last year, the SunShot Initiative announced its Solar in Your Community Challenge. all for teams that can come up with innovative, replicable, and scalable business models that can unlock solar access for low- and moderate-income communities. This project will serve as an example of a community- owned project.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

The Treasury’s net zero review in the autumn is the perfect opportunity to reconsider a tax system fit for a zero carbon future, argues Green Alliance's Libby Peake. "In This modern invention wasn't introduced in the UK until 1973, when we joined the European Economic Community. Taxes can change over time to suit need.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2022

It also has worsened inequality within countries between the rich and the poor: The impacts of drought, floods, hurricanes, and extreme heat are disproportionately felt by low-income communities and communities of color. The following conversation was edited for brevity and clarity. How does it do that?

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

The government may have secured plaudits this morning for its new £3bn energy efficiency package , but calls are continuing to build for the Chancellor to deliver a wider green recovery package when he delivers his economic update to Parliament tomorrow.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

There is no better example of this than in the case of climate breakdown. Reeves called on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to match the ambitious investment commitment in the Treasury's upcoming Spending Review. Value for money means knowing when and where not to spend," Reeves said. No dither, no delay.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In my annual review of big themes in sustainability and business — in other words, how companies manage environmental and social issues and opportunities — I’ve always included a changing climate as a big story. But it’s now not an annual story; it’s permanent. But sadly, it’s now the norm. The climate protest movement explodes.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before.

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2021

Bringing together a raft of recent research exploring the economics of nature restoration - including the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity commissioned by the UK government - the report urges businesses, individuals, associations, and governments to get behind a broad and ambitious restoration agenda.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said: "I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this. The facts are undeniable.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

People living in a small, unincorporated community east of Houston are routinely breathing dangerous levels of benzene, a chemical linked to leukemia and other blood cancers. For nearly 20 years, Texas environmental regulators have kept a disturbing secret. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Indeed, it was the breakup of Standard Oil that tripled his wealth and made him the wealthiest man in the world. This article is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of news outlets strengthening coverage of the climate story. After all, it has made consuming its products seem like a human necessity. T he John D.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

This story originally was published on Gas Outlook and is the second of a two-part long read on LNG expansion in Louisiana and its impacts on the local community. Entire sections of wetlands are being filled in and paved over to build LNG export terminals, which will ship fracked gas to Europe and Asia. Read the first part here.

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Low Impact

MAY 23, 2020

This is the first of three articles in three days about ‘community wealth building’ (CWB) and mutual credit. Today we’re explaining community wealth building, and reviewing a book: The Case for Community Wealth Building. Here’s a review, plus some more thoughts about CWB.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This blog reveals why we are addicted, and provides a possible methadone that is needed to transform the transportation, buildings and industry sector. This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below.

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