DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In 2011, the IFC lent poultry company Ust-Kamenogorsk Poultry (UKPF) invested $2 million in refurbishing housing for chickens, among other projects. A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe.

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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 This organization launched a research programme dedicated to studying the phenomenon of global change. Negative values can be seen in 1982, 1992 and 1996. percent in 2020 compared to 2019.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Cranford, NJ, USA): Cost-competitive carbon-negative monoethylene glycol using today’s grid electricity. ? As the founding member of the M-Lab Companies, a consortium of 13 top-tier Japanese organizations based in Silicon Valley, MCA has been an industry leader when it comes to convening groups toward climate innovation and action.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. The valuing-nature goal builds on work that began in 2011 in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

Better filtration systems including HEPA filters, ionization, ultraviolet lights and active carbon have increased the quality of recirculated air, without having to increase the amount of fresh air in the building. But they also seem to have created the perfect breeding ground for infection.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Broome residents attend a 2011 protest rally against the proposed natural gas plant. Eventually the protest caught the attention of some larger organizations: the Australian Green Party, the Tasmania-based nonprofit Wilderness Society, and the Sea Shepherd, a marine conservation group. Ingetje Tadros / Getty images.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

But 'biodiversity' applies to living organisms. Natural capital includes living organisms but also includes the flow of ecosystem services from this biodiversity. The World Wildlife Fund estimates a direct cost of $10tr globally between 2011 and 2050. Is natural capital the same as biodiversity?

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products. Beginning in 2006, the Pork Checkoff paid NPPC each year for the license to this slogan — even though the slogan was retired in 2011. Although they are run by the U.S.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. More than 100 gigatons of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, must be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. Newswise — New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., July 16, 2020.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is a unique, multi-year program driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO?) New York City, N.Y.,

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 28, 2021

April 28, 2021 — The Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative), a multi-year collaboration among The Urban Future Lab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Greentown Labs , and Fraunhofer USA , has selected 10 startups for the first year of this exciting accelerator. is a platform for negative emissions. New York City, N.Y.,

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions. Currently, carbon emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation (often referred to as land-use change) are offset, in part, by new reforestation and regrowth.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. For the first time in history, oil prices were negative. Carbon Tracker states that the world is “witnessing the decline and fall of the fossil fuel system”. The transition is among us. military personnel.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Canada Revenue Agency tax records reviewed by DeSmog reveal that the True North Centre for Public Policy, a charitable organization that is the parent group of conservative website True North, has received $530,000 since 2019 from the foundation of fracking pioneer Gwyn Morgan.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. The visits were usually brief, according to four TCEQ reports filed between March 2011 and October 2012.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Fighting Public Utilities, Child Labor Laws One of the first campaigns in that spirit occurred within the electricity utility industry via an organization which eventually became known as the Edison Electric Institute. But it also had a textbook answer: putting a price on carbon. kilowatt output,” according to the book.

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