GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

Wed, 07/22/2020 - 00:20. They also have committed to share information on investing in carbon-reduction technologies and to collectively push for public policies that accelerate the net zero transition. Transform to Net Zero: Microsoft, Nike, Starbucks team up on corporate climate alliance. Cecilia Keating.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

Mon, 05/18/2020 - 02:16. Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. The creation of a collective approach to reducing emissions for semiconductor manufacturing and cloud computing and on using technology to combat the negative impact of climate change.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Fri, 09/18/2020 - 10:45. AirMiners is the place for entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists, and designers working to extract carbon from the air. It exists to support the global carbon negative community with networking, education, inspiration and access to funding. . cecily martine….

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2020

Put simply, the term ‘cleantech’ describes a product that aims to reduce or mitigate negative environmental impact. Withers & Rogers, reviews five cleantech innovations to watch for in 2020. Accounting for eight per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, the current process for making cement is far from eco-friendly.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

Mon, 06/29/2020 - 02:00. 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. Elsa Wenzel. Ten years earlier, Bonazzi was on the other side.

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CleanTech Group

OCTOBER 14, 2020

While taking a backseat to the health crisis over the last few months, climate change increasingly shapes our daily experience. Wildfires, droughts, hurricanes.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. Textiles and the fashion industry account for about 20 percent of global wastewater pollution, 10 percent of global carbon emissions and 17 million tons of municipal solid waste.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Carbon marketplace hawks credits in businesses that store CO2 with their products. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 05:00. As corporate interest in carbon removal options grows, Puro.earth , a startup from Finland, is offering a twist on carbon marketplaces. Gloria Oladipo.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact. It’s using blockchain software from IBM to track and disclose carbon impact data related to the production of its products, marketed as carbon-negative. Hence, Covalent’s ability to make a carbon-negative claim. . Carbon Removal. Heather Clancy.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Wed, 07/15/2020 - 01:00. Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. . Arlene Karidis.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

Mon, 07/13/2020 - 01:30. About six months ago, I wrote that 2020 would be a pivotal year for environmental, social and governance (ESG), and that what happens this year and over the next decade could determine the next century. No longer, thanks to the events of 2020. An unexpected breakout year for the social side of ESG.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential. Wed, 11/11/2020 - 00:30. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Analysis by US environmental advocacy group, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), studied the emissions from wood pellets transported from pine plantations in the southeastern United States to be used in a bioenergy, carbon capture and storage (BECCS) operation by Drax in Yorkshire. Drax has disputed these figures.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 6, 2020

Thu, 08/06/2020 - 00:45. There were plenty of juicy news tidbits in Microsoft’s recent progress report about its goal to become carbon negative over the next decade. Behind Microsoft's bold plan to build social equity into clean energy buying. Heather Clancy.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Tue, 11/10/2020 - 01:00. Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere may be as difficult as getting to the moon. . Launched on Earth Day 2019, Project Vesta aims to enhance natural weathering processes to accelerate carbon capture and storage in the world's oceans. Tali Zuckerman. The Charm Industrial team.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 28, 2020

Fri, 08/28/2020 - 02:00. Today's carbon-negative fuel. The State of Green Business 2020. Episode 234: Circularity 20 highlights, talking green chemistry. Heather Clancy. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (6:45). The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance. Join the webcast at 1 p.m. Download it here.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Tue, 10/13/2020 - 01:40. That’s the message from several recent reports focusing on the role of service-sector companies in addressing — positively or negatively — climate change. Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? Joel Makower.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2020

How on-demand food delivery apps could encourage low-carbon food. Mon, 06/08/2020 - 02:00. For the environmentally minded, the increased adoption of app-based food delivery services presents a unique opportunity to affect carbon emissions in the food supply chain. Anna Zhang.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

42% of all energy used across the country through 2020 came from wind, solar, tidal and hydro. The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019. The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019. The broader picture.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Elsa Wenzel.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Indeed, in early 2020, J.P. Negative/exclusionary screening (44.6 As the financial sector undergoes a fundamental reshaping — best described by BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink — the FSC introduced in 2020 new reporting requirements for companies to better address investors’ preferred reporting framework choices.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Tue, 11/03/2020 - 00:30. That means low-carbon deliveries for businesses that want to operate in these locations. "So Maybe you can't even get a job because it's just too far, and then you're stuck in a very negative spiral of poverty. Why IKEA is investing in sustainable mobility. Holly Secon.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Fourteen months ago, the World Economic Forum's 2020 Global Risks Report neglected to include a pandemic among its major warnings for the year ahead. Irwin looks back on 2020 with "somewhat rose-tinted glasses" because it has proven the need to take the relationship between nature and society seriously. Reframe as vulnerability.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

But Imperial College London analysis warns emerging technologies and negative emission power plants are likely to be needed to unlock full decarbonisation of the grid. Wind and solar alone generated around 30 per cent of Britain's electricity in 2020, while biomass provided seven per cent, and hydropower made up 1.6

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Tue, 10/20/2020 - 00:15. IMO member states are meeting this week for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 percent compared to 2008 levels. Cecilia Keating.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

It plans to add carbon capture and storage to the biomass plants, taking them to a negative-emissions status. “[Thursday’s] announcement is part of Drax renewing its focus on renewables and pioneering bioenergy with carbon capture and storage technology (BECCS),” the company representative said in an email.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

When she realized microbes could create carbon-negative materials for applications across vegan leather, insulation, packaging, and more, González co-founded SpadXTech with mechanical engineer Connor Crawford in 2020. The pair got married this summer. “My

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

BlackRock added net inflows of $391 billion in 2020 and compensation increased by $571 million, or 13 percent. . In 2021, how a company performs on all factors — including ESG factors — on a strategy executed within its rapidly shrinking carbon footprint, not just reporting data, should determine investment decisions.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Fri, 09/25/2020 - 01:30. I’d argued that regenerative grazing could cut emissions from beef production , helping reduce the outsized contribution cattle make to food’s carbon footprint. You can imagine a future in which some beef, probably priced at a premium, comes with a carbon-negative label. Sounds great, right?

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

After years of debate over the definition of materiality, 2020 has brought a consensus that materiality is double — meaning that businesses should report on financially material topics that influence enterprise value as well as topics material to the economy, environment and people. This article originally was published in the BSR Insight.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

Fri, 05/29/2020 - 02:15. The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action — from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" — are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Mon, 06/15/2020 - 02:00. 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. . To make offices safe during COVID-19, buildings need a breath of fresh air. Jesse Klein.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In January 2020, Brad Smith, the President of Microsoft, announced that the company had set a target of becoming carbon negative by 2030. What does going carbon negative actually entail? Investments in its portfolio cover carbon removal, carbon marketplace innovation and the circular economy, among others.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

“With the UK hosting COP26 in Glasgow in 2020, the country’s actions will be under close scrutiny and there will be nowhere to hide if we fall short of doing our part,” said Kiran Sura of PwC. UK leads the G20 having the most rapid decarbonisation rate since 2000, at 3.7%. If the UK is able to achieve the required 9.7%

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012. To help businesses create their individual decarbonisation strategies, Siemens has published a new whitepaper suggesting a range of specific steps towards carbon neutrality. Shift to low-carbon heat.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

Mon, 06/01/2020 - 00:00. services sector posted its biggest contraction in more than a decade and the price of oil turned negative for the first time in history. ADM to pioneer biofuels, more carbon capture projects. Is sustainability undergoing a pandemic pause? Joel Makower. When the U.S. More than 300 companies push U.S.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Thu, 12/03/2020 - 01:00. Science Based Targets Network, 2020. Such an approach focuses on maximizing positive and minimizing negative aspects of nature-based adaptation strategies and options. New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion. Liesl Truscott. This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec.

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