Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As global temperatures rise from the burning of fossil fuels, researchers and policymakers have proposed solutions like installing renewable energy, replacing gasoline-powered cars with electric ones, and developing technology to suck carbon out of the air. A forest of quiver trees in Namibias biodiverse southern region.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Thu, 05/27/2021 - 01:00. Moreover, it has led to the mass production of commodity crops and the proliferation of unsustainable practices — such as clear cutting to expand production, intensive livestock production, environmental contamination through pesticide and fertilizer use, soil degradation and more. Lauren Baker.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Mon, 03/08/2021 - 00:15. 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. Its framework excludes areas such as plastics in the oceanic food chain and the loss of soil fertility.

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Grist

APRIL 15, 2021

Back in 2004, when wildfires in Alaska burned an area the size of Massachusetts , Michelle Mack wondered just how much carbon had permanently moved from the landscape into the atmosphere. Mack, an ecologist at Northern Arizona University, knew that the carbon dioxide released by these burning trees could further accelerate global warming.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Over time, they suck the soil dry of metals like nickel, zinc, cobalt, and even gold. At the midpoint of that range, a farmer would net a cool $3,800 per acre of nickel at today’s prices – which, van der Ent added, is “on par with some of the best-performing agricultural crops on fertile soils, while operating costs are similar.”.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2021

A new 'confidence survey' from the NFU has found British farmers are increasing investments in soil health, tree planting, renewable energy generation, and energy efficiency. However, he warned that the pace of the the sector's decarbonisation efforts would be shaped by the introduction of a stable post-Brexit policy environment.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

government has a new goal to make it much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. The Carbon Negative Shot is the third program in the Earthshots series. Carbon dioxide removal doesn’t directly cut emissions from any particular industry, like agriculture or aviation.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. Climate investing in 2021. But at a total of just $27.2

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Mon, 03/08/2021 - 01:40. Attending conferences like GreenBiz 21 serve as perfect soil and ground to grow meaningful connections and partnerships! Overall, I was most inspired by the organizers and members of the 2021 Emerging Leaders cohort. How 12 Emerging Leaders are embarking on sustainability career journeys.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

From 1970-2021 (52 years) one study found that, out of 202 locations, 84% had experienced warmer winters by >2°F (1°C). One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Below we explore 5 ways ski resorts can reduce their carbon footprint.

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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?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Scientists are documenting changes that are “much more widespread” and “much more negative,” she said, than anticipated for the 1.09 It will gain increasing importance as the herculean difficulty of reducing emissions to net zero and removing vast stores of carbon from the atmosphere become clearer.”. Climeworks.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

US start up secures fresh backing for pioneering technology that sequesters carbon from biomass waste in the form of thermoplastics. There may be more funding for climate tech startups floating around than ever - roughly $17bn in the first half of 2021 alone - but that doesn't mean investors aren't doing their due diligence. "It

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land. Too many companies and governments are hiding behind the smokescreen of net zero to continue dirty business-as-usual activities," he said. "A

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. Mon, 05/17/2021 - 00:01. Our honorees for 2021 are intrepid startup founders, tenacious corporate innovators and determined public servants. GreenBiz Editors. Their dreams are bright: Walkable, equitable cities. Clean energy for Native American communities. Planet-healing fast food.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As our sample, we took the communications of 14 EU players who were identified in a 2021 DeSmog investigation as key opponents of EU environmental policy reforms. And the EU’s proposed reforms, they say , do not take into account science and data that predict negative impacts. See Table.). The EU Targets Ignore Science’.

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Low Impact

APRIL 30, 2021

After death, we don’t want our corporeal form to leave a damaging legacy – but, many current practices surrounding both burial and cremation mean people often do leave a negative legacy of environmental pollution behind them for future generations. million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, accounting for around 0.02

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

The tech giant has lifted the lid on its efforts to soak up more carbon than it emits. While other organizations are focused primarily on getting to carbon neutral for current emissions, Microsoft plans to offset its entire historical emissions going back to when the company was founded in 1975.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The 2021 Lancet Countdown report has today warned the impacts of climate change pose increasing health risks and are exacerbating existing health and social inequalities. A 2021 World Health Organisation (WHO) survey found just under half of countries surveyed have national health and climate change strategies.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Six new projects to explore how to maximise nature’s ability to capture carbon and minimise climate impacts Natural England has today announced £4.3m Nature Based Solutions for Climate Change Programme, which was launched in 2021 in a bid to bolster cross-government collaboration in pursuit of the UK's climate and biodiversity goals.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thanks to growing interest in environmental social and governance (ESG) funds, investors are rapidly moving into the sector, keen to improve the green credentials of their portfolios while also capitalising on the burgeoning financial opportunities provided by sustainable timber and carbon offsetting schemes.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Another study named The Global Sustainability Study 2021 , by Simon-Kucher and Partners , revealed a significant global paradigm shift in how consumers view sustainability. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. The 2021 extreme drought is adding stress to an already overworked electrical grid because a hydroelectric power station is on the brink of turning off because water levels are so low. According to the U.S. Plant trees.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Good-faith efforts to reuse carbon, heat and steam are underway with a target to reduce the Port’s emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2025. Those that can create artificial sinks with technological carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ocean-based sequestration heats up Jim Giles Mon, 02/01/2021 – 00:30 This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 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. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

It's time for bold action to cut carbon and reverse nature decline.". While the government has been focussing on meeting net zero, it has forgotten about the risks to soil health and subsequent disruptions to food supply. Protecting and restoring nature - including habitats, soils and trees - is crucial to limiting global warming to 1.5°C

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 20, 2023

It’s a mantra by now that in addition to mitigating future emissions, we have to extract existing carbon dioxide pollution from our atmospheric and oceanic dumps. Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies often sound like science fiction—gigantic carbon-sucking vacuums, anyone? A new approach for CDR?

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ocean-based sequestration heats ups Jim Giles Mon, 02/01/2021 – 00:30 This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. You can download the entire report here. Let’s start with costs.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

But herein lies the danger: If we in the West choose to mine Indigenous culture for solutions the same way we mined Indigenous land for carbon — engaging not with people but with whatever idea of them best suits the program of our relentless prosperity — then any succor we find will be temporary, another trap we’ll have sprung on ourselves.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. Shell had other plans. corn belt.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

Nature takes root on the balance sheet Richard Mattison Mon, 03/08/2021 – 00:15 ESG issues continue to gain prominence, with climate change getting the most attention today. Its framework excludes areas such as plastics in the oceanic food chain and the loss of soil fertility.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

In 2021, the EU imported more than 40 per cent of its total gas consumption, 27 per cent of oil imports and 46 per cent of coal imports from Russia. The EU is highly dependent on imports. During the last decade, the region imported over half of its energy. The price of these resources is also increasing.

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