Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

Bank of America has become the latest corporate to hit carbon neutrality, with the firm announcing yesterday it has met the target a year ahead of schedule. Being carbon neutral is core to our $300bn, 10-year environmental business initiative that is helping finance the transition to a low-carbon future.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The falling cost of wind and solar power significantly reduces the need for carbon capture and storage technology to tackle climate change, a new paper has argued. While CCS deployment has stagnated, renewables have surged and their costs have plummeted – and so the picture today is very different to what it was in 2010,” he told DeSmog.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

Devon Wildlife Trust’s Mark Elliott has led the charity’s beaver work since its beginnings in 2010. These include flood attenuation, water quality improvement, carbon storage, greater biodiversity and socio-economic benefits to local businesses through wildlife tourism.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Despite all the negativity, one of the silver linings emerging from the pandemic is how it has hit the reset button on nature. In the first four months of the year, carbon dioxide emissions declined by 17 per cent compared to the average levels in 2019. parts per million (ppm) a year since 2010.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Tucked away in the report is this: “The available NDCs of all 191 Parties taken together imply a sizable increase in global GHG emissions in 2030 compared to 2010, of about 16%”. Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? And it’s not all about carbon emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Global average levels of carbon dioxide reached 407.8

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

There is a strong link between economic activity and global carbon dioxide emissions, due to the dominance of fossil fuel sources of energy. This coupling suggests we might be in for an unexpected surprise due to the coronavirus pandemic: a slowdown of carbon dioxide emissions due to reduced energy consumption. Glen Peters/CICERO.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

We have limited time to move from a system where around 80 per cent of our primary energy supply comes from fossil fuels, to one where low-carbon technologies dominate. She was formerly Convervative MP for South Thanet from 2010-15. While the exact trajectory to the 2050 target remains uncertain, the broad end goal is clear enough.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. Since 2010, the big five fossil fuel companies alone – Shell, BP, Total, ExxonMobil and Chevron – have spent more than €250m lobbying the EU.

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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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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The virus has caused a 17 percent reduction in atmospheric carbon during parts of this year and may decrease CO2 emissions by 4.2-7.5 Negative values can be seen in 1982, 1992 and 1996. The negative index values in 1982 reflect the demise of the Soviet Union. In 2010 atmospheric CO2 rose to 389.6 There was a 2.6

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. A hypothetical example would be saying that a diesel car causes zero carbon dioxide emissions. Following the oil spill, BP’s stock price plummeted ~50% over two months. Posing an investment risk.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As such, the crop yield potential for maize has decreased by six per cent, for wheat by three per cent, and for rice by nearly two per cent, compared to 1981-2010 levels. This gives us an opportunity to take a safer, healthier, low carbon path, but we have yet to do so.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental and social disruptions cause a negative brand reputation (note BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ). Are there areas to improve supply chain efficiency in terms of lowering waste and carbon emissions? If not, how can we offset our carbon emissions? Are we sourcing products from the closest source?

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

So-called nature-based solutions to climate change - harnessing trees, soils, and seagrass to such up carbon - are very much in vogue at the moment, and are increasingly being looked at by companies seeking to offset their own emissions while boosting biodiversity. It is a task that becomes even more challenging as temperatures increase.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

But the British firm stands apart from most of its peers because it is one of the few operators in the world that creates its aggregates using captured CO2 and waste materials and is already today selling the resulting carbon removal credits to blue chip clients, including tech giant Microsoft.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects. Rising corporate support of carbontech and carbon removal technologies writ large is one of the biggest reasons driving my optimism that the market is about to take a turn. .

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

It said it will take action to slash its emissions and neutralise any remaining emissions with "additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets" in order to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040, which is 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement targets of 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These documents, along with other findings, also demonstrate how multiple industries have employed this strategy to deny the health and environmental hazards of asbestos , lead , plastics , toxic chemicals , CFCs , and carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. This influence continued over subsequent decades.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Economics are a primary concern in a well-designed strategy to reduce carbon. The potential ways to reduce carbon emissions vary dramatically on an economic basis. The amount of carbon abatement that a given method can accomplish also has limits in scale. Some items are shown as negative cost. Intro to MAC Curves.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Yet the material itself did feel fairly stale, taking 2010 as its benchmark year while looking forward to 2050. Current trends are sliding to a nearly 600 million-hectare “land gap,” between global agricultural land area in 2010, and expected agricultural expansion by 2050. That’s an area nearly twice the size of India.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

New planning applications will have to include specific proposals to mitigate any negative effects on local air quality and protect interiors from exposure to pollution. The first-of-their-kind regulations are part of Khan's wider plans to tackle dangerously high levels of air pollution in the capital.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

temporarily, before hopefully stabilising back below that threshold by 2100 as negative emissions projects scale up, the report stresses. Even if emissions are halved by 2030 and methane is cut by a third in the same timeframe, it is "almost inevitable" warming will rise above that 1.5C

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. A hypothetical example would be saying that a diesel car causes zero carbon dioxide emissions. Following the oil spill, BP’s stock price plummeted ~50% over two months. Posing an investment risk.

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GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2021

According to the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA), as the energy market has matured, so has the energy buyer mindset regarding the true impact of renewable energy projects with an intensified focus on optimizing carbon reduction. Many rely too heavily on offsets or nascent carbon capture technologies. They’re also concerning.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

These figures must grow rapidly if environmental goals are to be met, through investments in sustainable supply chains and redirecting nature-negative investments towards schemes that conserve and protect biodiversity. Both global and domestic records on meeting voluntary biodiversity goals remain poor.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

They’ve expanded their markets and slashed carbon footprints along the way, cementing reputations as innovators. Buying 100 percent-recycled nylon from Aquafil has helped Interface reduce the carbon footprint of its carpet tile by 69 percent. For Interface, the journey was a solo one that began back in 1994.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

In particular, the plan adopts a technology-neutral Clean Electricity Standard, which puts us on the path to achieving 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. We can continue to leverage the carbon pollution-free energy provided by existing sources like nuclear and hydropower. communities — especially in communities of color.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

The plan also includes mobilizing 100 billion euros to support investments in low-carbon solutions and a “just transition” away from fossil fuels. In 2010, only 18 percent of all the cars sold in the world were SUVs. “Everybody really has to get behind the idea of a circular carbon economy,” Sieminski said.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

The adverts regularly highlight the companies’ preferred solutions to climate change — from carbon capture and storage, to experimental algae biofuels, and investment in renewable energy sources — without being open about the small percentage of overall investment allocated to these technologies, nor their various limitations.

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