Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global carbon emissions are set to drop a record eight per cent this year, with lockdowns on public and economic life introduced to tackle the coronavirus pandemic delivering an unprecedented blow to fossil fuel demand, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). A recent analysis by Carbon Brief noted that emissions have to fall 7.6

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

Slow UK growth in output and real wages over the past lost decade-and-a-half has meant these metrics are barely any better than they were prior to the 2008 financial crisis. Yet if real wages had grown at the same rate as they did before 2008, we would be on average almost £200 per week better off.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I wanted to see how much it knew and how well it could contextualise the broad and complex range of technologies under the climate tech umbrella - everything from clean energy to water treatment to e-bikes to carbon capture - and what it understood about corporate sustainability in general. And it's just getting started.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Whether driven by animal welfare, health, or environmental concerns - or a combination of all three - more and more people are either becoming vegan and vegetarian or reducing their meat consumption and eating greater proportions of plant-based food. There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In addition to these financial risks, greenwashing can also harm businesses by: Exposing employees and consumers to toxic, dangerous, and environmentally damaging products by not investing in the appropriate health and safety measures as a true sustainable business would. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Speaking shortly after that call to BusinessGreen from his makeshift home office - aka his bedroom - Stark is, like many working in the green economy, continuing to wrestle with what coronavirus could mean for the climate fight, alongside the wider fears about public health and economic uncertainty that everyone shares.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The inclusion of biodiversity is part of Textile Exchange’s Climate+ strategy, which focuses on urgent climate action and recognizes that soil health, water and biodiversity will play a key role in this transition. Global Compact member since 2008. They’ve been committed to sustainability for decades and a U.N.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixable,” according to a newly published report. In addition, vast quantities of carbon and methane pollution are released into the atmosphere. This article was originally published by Gas Outlook.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In addition to these financial risks, greenwashing can also harm businesses by: Exposing employees and consumers to toxic, dangerous, and environmentally damaging products by not investing in the appropriate health and safety measures as a true sustainable business would. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. He died in 2008. This fast-evolving legal strategy has placed a premium on new archival research. Shell had other plans.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

” Issues of health, the working poor and racial justice are making people uncomfortable, and with the supply chain disruption with the closing of meatpacking cesspools, Jonathan Safran Foer writes, “Our hand has been reaching for the doorknob for the last few years. I moved from the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A Blank Canvas’: Crafting a Convenient Narrative In response to a series of detailed questions, as well as requests for an interview and comments for this story, a spokesperson for Neom emailed a statement to DeSmog: “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2060. We needed to bring the truth to the front page.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. From a historical perspective however, warning about the negative effects of our food consumption are commonplace. About Food What is food? This is called photosynthesis. Absolutely.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) Ice that survives for at least one year is called multi-year ice, sometimes perennial ice, which gives an indication of the health of the ice at the end of the melt season. Sea Ice extent is going down. feedback loops will cause this melting to possibly accelerate.

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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 92

Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 20, 2024

Surprisingly typical: Real (inflation-adjusted) gasoline prices in 2023 were middle of the pack since 2008, ranking 7th highest out of 16 total years. January and February 2024 prices were both the 9th highest out of 17 since 2008. January and February 2024 prices were both the 9th highest out of 17 since 2008.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The steps that the UK takes to rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic can accelerate the transition to a successful and low-carbon economy and improve our climate resilience. Ian Johnston, CEO of Engenie said: "We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to bring about a step-change in low carbon transport.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this.” According to Carbon Trackers , we are talking about a value of between 14-129 trillion dollars for fossil fuel assets alone and revenue streams of trillions of dollars annually. This scenario is referred to by some as the ‘carbon crunch’.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 26, 2020

Health care systems are being overwhelmed and people are sick and dying. Climate change is the cause of a wide range of diseases and other health concerns. It must also include carbon removal technologies like direct air capture (DAC) and carbon capture and sequestration or (CCS).

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Since its inception in 2008, The Green Market Oracle has published 7,731 articles which have been viewed on this site a total of 4,012,438 times. As this year ends I want to take a moment to thank our readers and let you know that the new year will bring some exciting changes and additions.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Since its inception in 2008, The Green Market Oracle has published 7,731 articles which have been viewed on this site a total of 4,012,438 times. As this year ends I want to take a moment to thank our readers and let you know that the new year will bring some exciting changes and additions.

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