Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS? HOW ARE OFFSETS USED?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The wood pellets Drax produces are treated as “carbon neutral” under international accounting rules, based on an assumption that new-growth trees will capture the carbon lost by wood burnt for electricity. Drax already operates 18 wood pellet plants across the U.S. But scientists and campaigners have long disputed these claims.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 9, 2022

This is particularly relevant with 'Generation Z' (members of society born between 1997-2012 and aged 10-25), who have been reported to only support brands with values that reflect their own and will happily change if these brands disappoint. BSI is fuelled by our mission, neutrality, expertise, and ability to bring the right people together.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

million square kilometers, the second lowest in the 42-year satellite record, behind only September 2012. Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) This could lead to yet another negative feedback loop that could wreak havoc on the Arctic, drastically increasing the melting of not just sea ice but also Greenland's ice-sheets.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2012, a group of farmers who saw the payments as a legal loophole allowing the Pork Board to cover NPPC’s lobbying expenses joined with the Humane Society to sue the USDA. NCBA and the Beef Checkoff have j oined the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef , which has an initiative to certify certain products as “low carbon beef enrolled.”

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

Microsoft hit headlines at the start of year with a hugely ambitious plan to be 'carbon negative' by 2030 , backed by a pledge to - by mid-century - retroactively remove all carbon dioxide the company has ever emitted since it was founded in 1975, in an announcement that sent shockwaves across the corporate world.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Her opponents tried to carve out a neutral position on the project, as many other Oregon Democrats did for many years. . Coos Bay, Oregon, in 2012. Val Hoyle, 2012. A very negative campaign. The proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal site is in the lower left. Credit: RBrittsan , CC BY SA 3.0. “I

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. cents per kWh of electricity produced at facilities placed into service after 2024 that produce zero or negative emissions.

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