Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

To achieve this transition, we must channel resources and finance toward greenhouse gas reduction and removal projects. In the mandatory market, which governments including the UK and EU enforce over specific sectors, companies are obligated to purchase carbon credits if they are unable to meet emissions targets, or face enforcement action.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

Last week, Microsoft announced it is teaming up with Github, Accenture and Thoughtworks, a software consultancy, to inspire emissions reductions using a little-considered tool: software. Carbon-efficient applications that more efficiently use resources linked to carbon emissions, (such as energy, hardware and networking bandwidth). .

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Analysis of company public disclosures conducted by Willis Towers Watson shows that while about 11 percent of the top 350 European companies have CO2 emissions linked to their incentive plans, only 2 percent of US S&P 500 companies have it. Nonetheless, even short-term incentives can have a significant impact in terms of corporate culture.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Two years ago, Tate & Lyle began enrolling corn suppliers in a sustainability program focused on emissions reductions, soil wellness and water conservation. Corn was chosen because this crop represents the majority of the company’s emissions in the U.S. 6 percent reduction in sheet and topsoil erosion. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Within its own operations — it has 21,000 employees and offices in 50 countries — BCG is aiming to reduce direct energy and electricity emissions by 90 percent per full-time employee against a baseline measurement of 2018, according to the new set of commitments the company announced Tuesday. So far, it has delivered about $335 million.).

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GreenBiz

JULY 29, 2020

This week, Germany's BMW took the plunge and set a goal to reduce its carbon emissions per car by at least one-third by 2030. Volkswagen, which has linked electric vehicles to its comeback following the emissions scandal, says it'll be carbon neutral by 2050. "We Are the automakers doing enough when it comes to carbon emissions?

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions. The move shows the efforts that Amazon is willing to go to eke out carbon emissions across its vast network of planes, vehicles and distribution centers that deliver on-demand goods across the globe. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 07/08/2020 - 08:00. A drop in the fuel tank.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Ahead of the latest crucial round of talks this week at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), green groups are warning proposals are "an empty shell" that will have a negligible impact on the sector's emissions. To achieve 1.5 degrees [of warming] we need to decarbonize by the mid-2030s," he explained.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

Starting this week, it’s requiring that data as part of the pre-application process — and it has developed a tool, the Simple Emissions Reduction Calculator (SERC) to give entrepreneurs a leg up. Is SERC the be-all, end-all of early-stage emissions analysis? There are many ways to reduce emissions," Miller said. "We

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2021

Cargill’s new sustainability program, SeaFuther , expands its carbon reduction commitments from the terrestrial to the oceanic. The commitment focuses on Cargill’s aquaculture and aquaculture feed business, targeting a reduction in Scope 3 emissions of 30 percent by 2030, from a 2017 baseline. . Thu, 04/01/2021 - 00:05.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

Emerging carbon capture utilization (CCU) technologies potentially allow chemical companies and other manufacturers such as steel companies to convert waste carbon from industrial emissions — in the form of carbon monoxide (CO) and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) — into sustainable, value-added biofuels and chemicals. But the speed of U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 8, 2021

Last year, Unilever committed to adding emissions information to each of 400 brands, which reach 2.5 This could lead to competing emissions labels that confuse consumers and blunt the ability of food companies to translate emissions reductions into higher sales. billion people every day. Pull Quote. food policy.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Putting a price on carbon should reduce emissions, because it makes dirty production processes more expensive than clean ones, right? In a newly published paper , we set out the results of the largest study of what happens to emissions from fuel combustion when they attract a charge. Carbon pricing works, and this proves it.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Fuel of the Future: An e-Methanol Study The North Sea Transition Deal (NSTD) set out significant emissions reduction targets for the offshore energy industry. As we near those targets, it is well understood that decommissioning activities and a reduction in the number of operational assets will not solely meet the NSTD targets.

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GreenBiz

JULY 17, 2020

The specific reduction you’d see by upgrading 50,000 laptops would be 1.4 It isn’t often I have the mindspace to proactively follow up on every commitment proclaimed by the companies I cover. For you and me, that means batteries last longer. million kilowatt-hours.). I wish every company were that transparent. Information Technology.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 25, 2021

The Anglo-Dutch firm first announced plans to give its shareholders a direct say over its climate action strategy back in December , in a bid to boost corporate transparency and governance surrounding its drive to reach net-zero emissions for its core business by 2030 and across its entire supply chain by 2039.

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Charged

AUGUST 11, 2021

million funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0002553 ) to support manufacturing innovations for energy technologies to drive reductions in carbon emissions. The DOE has announced a new $42.3-million

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Despite all they're doing to address climate change with both emissions reduction plans, circular economy innovation and consumer awareness, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have been criticized — rightly so, in my mind — for their close ties to the oil and gas sector. Amazon, Google, Microsoft and the climate cloud. Heather Clancy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

greenhouse gas emissions come from industry. To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. A key route to industrial emissions reductions is electrification (replacing industrial fossil fuels with electric alternatives).

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GreenBiz

JULY 28, 2020

billion in annual revenue in 2019, and Dickerson estimated its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions — mainly from the power used to run its labs and factories — was the equivalent of 145,000 metric tons of CO2 in 2019. operations) and to cut its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 50 percent over the next decade. It generated more than $14.6

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sustainability manager: Setting science-based targets for company greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions . As shown in Figure 3, targets could help the company understand the reduction in emissions needed to move to a low-carbon economy and enhance innovation. Investor relations manager: Publishing a TCFD-aligned report .

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

emissions through the carbon mitigation associated with a forest planted in Rwanda or a direct air capture project in Canada, a plastic credit could go to paying waste collectors in Bangalore or expanding a plastic processing facility in Indonesia. . In the same way that a company’s carbon credit may offset its U.S. Given that U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

And over the past 10 years, it has reduced its energy consumption by 392,851 gigajoules and its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent. Building on the 26 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions — and using a 2009-2010 baseline — Gillette plans to boost that number to a 50 percent reduction by 2030.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

A telework transition won't slash emissions unless we make car-free lifestyles viable. Does less commuting mean less traffic and so, less carbon emissions? Reorienting life around local amenities could help permanently reduce transport emissions. Hannah Budnitz. Tue, 10/20/2020 - 00:02. Clem Onojeghuo/Unsplash , CC BY-SA.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Regardless, pressure has been on aviation to join other sectors in dramatically cutting greenhouse gas emissions. body, set a course for airlines to offset emissions of international flights above a 2019-20 baseline. In other words, aviation emissions wouldn’t grow beyond the baseline, even as air travel increased.

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38 North Solutions

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

is set to double thanks to new manufacturing, data centers, and electrification–much of which is spurred by the Inflation Reduction Act. The post Hot Topics: Skyrocketing Demand and Hydrogen Tax Credits appeared first on 38 North Solutions. According to a report by Grid Strategies, load growth in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

With misconceptions remaining around the topic of sustainable business practices and given the increasingly challenging economic landscape we find ourselves in, there’s a risk that the offsetting of carbon emissions could be overlooked by large and small businesses. Reducing carbon emissions is boring and complicated.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Editor's note: Last week's Foodstuff discussion on the impact of regenerative grazing on emissions from meat production prompted a flurry of comments from the GreenBiz community. I’d argued that regenerative grazing could cut emissions from beef production , helping reduce the outsized contribution cattle make to food’s carbon footprint.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

For the first time, those organizations have the opportunity to verify their emissions reduction plans against the goals of the Paris Agreement. I'm fairly certain that campaigns are already ramping up to get the world's largest financial institutions on board. Follow the money, indeed. Corporate Strategy. Policy & Politics.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

Food waste is responsible for generating close to 6 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions: for perspective, that's three times the amount generated by the aviation industry. What we have seen is like a 50 percent [reduction] of waste, and then also a double-digit growth of sales. "I Pull Quote. Food & Agriculture. Climate Tech.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

The model is entirely voluntary versus "marketplaces such as the EU emissions trading system (ETS) [that are] compliance-based," allowing companies to take initiative on their own terms when it comes to achieving carbon removal goals. . The fight against greenhouse emissions is still a challenge facing our world today. Carbon Removal.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 15, 2024

With energy accounting for 80% of carbon emissions, the energy transition is central to decarbonisation,” said Peter Herweck. Skills partnership for digitalisation in Europe’s energy sector European energy bosses join IEA’s call for grid action Action from the private sector – by companies around the globe – is key to lowering emissions.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

Here’s the first thing to understand about the concept of Absolute Zero as it applies to corporate climate action: It’s not all about you, and it’s not all about reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit global temperature increases to below 1.5 If it’s outside boundaries, then it should be considered enabling reductions [for others].

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2021

Data from a broader group of respondents that year, 783, showed that even though companies have wizened up to the risk, only 29 percent had set water-reduction targets. Likewise, a recent report from Ceres on climate commitments from fast-food chains shows progress being made on setting emissions reductions targets, but not so much on water.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Over the course of the pandemic, I’ve seen numerous dispatches issued by software developers touting the carbon footprint reduction potential of shifting to collaboration applications for many employee meetings. . Consulting firm Anthesis Group in February published a guide to help companies start researching answers.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 12, 2021

Lehman said these sectors were picked because of their outsized potential to decrease the carbon footprint of the global economy, pointing to estimated emissions reductions related to transitioning to clean energy and to industrial production. The latter area might include, for example, carbon credit exchanges and marketplaces.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The report, presented as an attempt to probe deeply into this under-researched topic, seems to incorporate results from fresh data via a bespoke, nationally representative survey of 1,200 smaller businesses, and analysis of public data sources. Image credit: Nenad Stojkovic , CC BY 2.0 The early stages of transition.

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