Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

However, flood risk is now addressed on a wider catchment scale so that initiatives in one part of a catchment do not have negative effects further downstream. In the past, peats and bogs have been drained to increase cropping areas, but this damages peatlands and reduces their capacity to retain water and store carbon. NFM benefits.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2021

Without the proper procedures and policies, marinas and boatyards have a major negative impact on the environment, hurting their reputation, their business and the planet. Fossil-fuel and carbon discharge – Boat motors idling, buildings burning oil and gas are adding to our planet’s carbon footprint and driving dangerous climate change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Insect protein developer has created a patented process for cultivating mealworm to produce low carbon feed for fish, pet and livestock. In addition, the firm said the new facility in France would be carbon negative, and use a circular economy model than generates zero waste.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. And although this revolution is generally framed as crucial for stabilizing the planet’s climate, it is poised to deliver another benefit: conservation of some of the planet’s most important rivers.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

At least it did, before the ocean swallowed the carbon emissions belched out by industrializing nations and began to swell. But the benefits of the project outweigh the negatives. Louisiana has never been hard to pinpoint on a map — it’s the only state in the U.S. that looks like a giant boot.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

Directors were found to have a wide range of experience in high carbon sectors, including in polluting energy, aviation, mining, manufacturing, and banks and investment companies known to support the fossil fuel industry. Ties to companies that work in or serve high-carbon industries were most pronounced in the U.S. In the U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Its 2007 report stated that the warming of the climate was "unequivocal". There would also be notable improvements for air quality and human health by taking the pathway to net zero over the next 30 years, followed by negative emissions efforts thereafter, which could then see temperatures stabilise below 1.5C by the 2100.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

He participated in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. He is author of several landmark studies of the industry going back to 2012, when he wrote a paper on the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis production.

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Sustainability Transportation Carbon-negative Policy 82

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Google announced that it has now invested in enough high-quality carbon offsets to essentially erase its carbon footprint , compensating for all the carbon the company ever emitted. Google first became carbon-neutral in 2007. Microsoft plans to be carbon-negative by 2030. Via BBC Image via Pawe?

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

The fashion industry is on course to take-up 25 per cent of the world's carbon budget, yet despite this huge impact, the UK government is failing to tackle the negative impact of fashion. A current lack of policy and leadership.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

Reel back to autumn 2007. As Simon Evans of Carbon Brief has set out, demand reduction measures are big quick wins, that deliver the triple bonus of reduced dependence on gas imports, lower bills, and reduced emissions. There was no need for the sweater - though it looks fun. Many people will think energy saving is not for them.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. Recent wildfires in the northern territories were reported to have acute and long-term negative impacts for mental and emotional well-being. ” December 10 2007.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Turning mycelium into packaging that’s ‘compatible with the planet’ Founded in 2007, New York based Ecovative Design leverages the naturally binding properties of mycelium — mushroom’s root structure — in several sustainable materials. Here’s what I uncovered. a new material in tow, and had founded London-based Ananas Anam.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 14, 2020

Based on the MEWR's recommendations, individuals are encouraged to take simple actions such as reducing shower times and increasing air-conditioner temperatures, to help lessen energy usage and carbon emissions. A combined 69,650 kg of carbon dioxide emissions was also reduced, equivalent to the amount absorbed by 38,694 trees a month.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average, due to the vast amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide that humans have added to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. Solar geoengineering, for example, does nothing to ameliorate ocean acidification, which occurs when the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Solar Energy Monitor Carbon-negative Climate change Cooling 119

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

By 2007 , 82 businesses were certified by B Lab. Hold unconscious bias training to help employees understand how such biases work and how they can negatively affect team members and team interactions. You can use this protocol alongside carbon footprint calculating software such as Green Business Bureau’s partner, Aclymate.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In 2007, the TCEQ raised its annual guideline from an average of 1 ppb to 1.4 On the afternoon of April 19, 2007, however, K-Solv grabbed just about everybody’s attention. In September 2007, the TCEQ toxicology department responded with an interoffice memo to Matt Baker, the new director of enforcement, and other agency officials.

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Enervee

JANUARY 2, 2020

Backtracking on bulb standards agreed in 2007 In a Grinch-like move just before the holidays, the Trump Administration announced that it will block the energy-saving lightbulb standards signed into law by President George Bush in 2007 from entering into effect as planned on January 1, 2020. Overall, you save 83% with the LED.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

Since its 2007 founding, this site you’re on now grew from a slim-staffed startup with a flair for incisive coverage of the then-fledgling solar, smart grid and energy storage industries, to the news arm of a global energy industry research and analysis firm. Greentech Media closes its doors this week.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

But it also had a textbook answer: putting a price on carbon. Economists called this solution a “Pigouvian tax”—after the Cambridge economist Arthur Pigou, who in the early twentieth century had helped develop the concept of negative externalities. Congress from ratifying the Kyoto protocol to the U.N. It would have been timely.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

The effect wouldn't only be allowing some fossil plants that might otherwise close or never be built to continue emitting carbon for years to come. But for Illinois, the FRR has become the key to escaping the negative consequences of FERC’s PJM order — if the state can pass legislation authorizing it, Kolata said.

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