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. We tend to blame cows’ methane-filled burps for these gases, but around a quarter of livestock emissions come from fertilizer used to grow animal feed.

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Grist

JULY 18, 2024

” Nonetheless, just three years after the international maritime community slashed sulfur emissions in 2020, the cloud physicist with Florida State University published an award-winning paper studying clouds along a shipping lane in the southeast Atlantic. Cutting carbon dioxide is, of course, critical. percent to 0.5

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

After all, a substantial fraction of global carbon emissions arise from the production, transportation, and consumption of fossil fuels. Hydrogen is increasingly being viewed as an important tool for reducing carbon emissions, because the use of hydrogen for energy generates no direct carbon dioxide emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos. Chevron Corp.,

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

Cemvita Factory applies synthetic biology to decarbonize and reduce the environmental footprint of heavy industries in three ways: capturing CO 2 or methane for use as a feedstock, reducing emissions from energy-intensive chemical reactions, and replacing processes that use harmful chemicals. percent of global emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In its Net-Zero Emissions scenario the IEA expects demand to increase fivefold from 2020 to 2050. Today, most hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels through steam methane reforming, generating 830 Mt of annual CO2 emissions. However, there are a few important limitations to overcome for hydrogen to become competitive.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2021

From devastating wildfires to rising methane emissions, Earth’s vital signs are continuing to deteriorate, scientists warn. Both methane and carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have reached new record highs, the study reveals. Not every data point was negative, however, and there were some signs of hope.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

Our future requires and depends on constant change and a new way of thinking, everything we do or design will have an impact, both positive and negative, and our goal is to enable the transition to continuous positive experiences across all sectors of society. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 20, 2021

In January 2020, Microsoft launched a company-wide focus on sustainability by announcing an? to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they have emitted since they were founded. ambitious goal and a detailed plan ?to Project Highlights.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The public health benefits of realizing 100 percent zero carbon electricity by 2035 would be enormous. Moreover, avoiding all these negative health impacts creates massive economic productivity gains – getting to 100 percent in 2035 would avoid losing about 1.7 could get 90 percent of its electricity from zero carbon sources by 2035.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

That was the stark message of the Climate Change Committee in its sixth carbon budget. The end of 2020 saw a flurry of publications from the government and relevant agencies on the green agenda. The end of 2020 saw a flurry of publications from the government and relevant agencies on the green agenda.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 13, 2020

The public health benefits of realizing 100 percent zero carbon electricity by 2035 would be enormous. Moreover, avoiding all these negative health impacts creates massive economic productivity gains – getting to 100 percent in 2035 would avoid losing at least 1.6 Public health benefits of reaching 100% zero carbon energy.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that, while the market for carbon offsets is forecast to see rapid growth and reach over $1 billion this year, the “offsets” themselves can vary widely in their quality and effectiveness at actually reducing pollution. “The There’s no question that climate change is here — and accelerating.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2020, the European Commission ran an extensive cross-sector sweep of websites to identify instances of greenwash.They found that in 42% of cases, green claims were exaggerated, false, or deceptive. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. Posing an investment risk. Sin #7: The Sin of Fibbing.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Summary -In September 2020, ice volume in the Arctic Ocean was just one quarter of what it was in 1979. After 2020 however, in which the Arctic was literally on fire , it felt to me like we had only have a few years left until the first ice-free summer can be declared in the Arctic. And we are dangerously close.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Here, BusinessGreen sums up some of its key findings and recommendations for how all actors can work together to deliver a greener, more equitable, lower carbon future. above pre-industrial levels, greenhouse gas emissions must then reduce by 43 per cent by 2030, according to the scientists, with emissions of methane cut by a third.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential Katie Lebling Wed, 11/11/2020 – 00:30 To meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. degrees Celsius 2.7

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential Katie Lebling Wed, 11/11/2020 – 00:30 To meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. degrees Celsius 2.7

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

million on lobbying in 2019 and 2020, according to the latest available data on their lobbying spending from official EU data. The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2020, the European Commission ran an extensive cross-sector sweep of websites to identify instances of greenwash.They found that in 42% of cases, green claims were exaggerated, false, or deceptive. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. Posing an investment risk. Sin #7: The Sin of Fibbing.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

Unveiling its new name this morning, the group said it was set to play a growing role in the UK's energy transition, through licensing and permitting carbon storage projects, monitoring the industry's emissions, testing the climate compatibility of new developments, and stewarding domestic production.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Despite the additional complications posed by the coronavirus pandemic a record 312 institutions participated in Sierra's annual Cool Schools rankings in 2020. Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. The Golden Bears are also retrofitting an art museum into Berkeley’s first zero-carbon building.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

More reflections about regenerative grazing and the future of meat Jim Giles Fri, 09/25/2020 – 01:30 Editor’s note: Last week’s Foodstuff discussion on the impact of regenerative grazing on emissions from meat production prompted a flurry of comments from the GreenBiz community. This essay advances the dialogue.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Moreover, concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are higher now than at any time in the last two million years, with concentrations continuing to increase in 2020 despite the temporary dip in annual global emissions that resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic. Natural carbon sinks become less effective as emissions rise. by the 2100.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2021

There is some evidence these tech interventions could help drive the carbon-intensive sector towards a greener future. Meanwhile, it is also working on sustainable aviation fuel with Shell and on a pioneering carbon capture project in Norway with a number of European oil majors.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Due to human activity - largely the burning of fossil fuels - concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are higher than at any time in the last two million years, with concentrations continuing to increase in 2020 despite the temporary dip in annual global emissions that resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the report.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. IMO will assign a CII rating, with A being the best, least carbon-intensive and E being the worst, most carbon-intensive. Regulatory rewind: On Jan.1, What’s new?

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