DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

The sweeping package of measures is aimed at lowering agricultural emissions – that make up 10 percent of the bloc’s overall greenhouse gases – and protecting the healthy soils and ecosystems on which farming relies. In its 2024 manifesto, PVV says it plans to “overhaul” European climate and energy policies.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

According to recent reports, VCs invested $60B in climate tech between 2013–2019 with an 84% CAGR in capital deployed, with no signs of slowing in 2020 (see below). Thus far we have made investments towards reducing the climate impact of our food, industrial production, and energy systems, and we are eager to make more.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Sometimes the dynamics of this saturation are so complex and inscrutable that our strides unsettle sand that is several meters away, so that with each step we see little bursts of light up ahead of us, wherever the water is wicking through the grains. Local businesses started sending food and supplies up to the camp.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Soil degradation. Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Some plants and micro-organisms can make food ‘out of thin air’ by simply rearranging carbon, water and oxygen molecules using energy from the Sun. Introduction Climate Change. Deforestation. Loss of biodiversity. Water scarcity. Animal suffrage.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The company’s first technology, MycoComposite, precipitated the subsidiary Mushroom Packaging , which I discussed with Ecovative’s business development lead, Meghan Olson. By 2013, following several years of studying, research and development, Hijosa had a Ph.D., trillion opportunity by 2030. Producing just 2.69

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations). Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Then there is the moral hazard argument against geoengineering: If humans began cooling the Earth with solar geoengineering, wouldn’t that give citizens a false sense of security—and companies an excuse to pump the brakes on decarbonization of energy systems and proceed with fossil-fuel-burning business as usual?

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Needless to say, with the bulk of RGE's business rooted in the production of wood pulp or palm oil, its various subsidiaries have faced plenty of criticism over the years for their records on deforestation, land disputes, and drainage of carbon-rich peatland habitats.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The facility, called Clearwater, was built by the Denver, Colorado-based oil and gas extraction company, Antero Resources, and an affiliate of Veolia, the multinational French waste, water and energy management company. On the same day that Antero filed its lawsuit, Veolia filed counterclaims for more than $118 million.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. Right now, over in North, you can't name 10 Black businesses — they ain't there," she said. "If

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Grist

APRIL 23, 2020

Data from the network and its partner stations is behind some of climate science’s greatest hits, including the Mauna Loa observatory’s long-running CO2 measurements, which alerted the world that Earth’s atmosphere breached the ominous 400 parts per million threshold in 2013 and that it’s been logging new CO2 records ever since.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. ” “I got the first results of the monitoring; it scared the heck out of me,” he said.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Standing alone in the open field, the solar-powered equipment Sheffer shows me could be mistaken for some sort of high-tech scarecrow, but it has a far different job: to monitor and measure the CO 2 in the soil at this farming operation and research center in New York’s Hudson Valley. . But in a way, it doesn’t matter.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2024

No state agency has authority over how these wastewater pipelines are constructed, operated and monitored, not Pennsylvanias Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), or the states Public Utility Commission, and as a result there are no standards, says David Hess, who led DEP from 2001 to 2003. We just hope. Credit: U.S.

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