Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

New 20-year partnership with WWF aims to help roof window specialist offset 100 years of carbon emissions through global reforestation and afforestation projects. million tonnes of carbon dioxide - by investing in forest and biodiversity projects developed for Velux by WWF. Embracing a commitment aligned with a 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2024

After a year-long planning process, Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho on Wednesday gave the green light to Drax’s carbon capture (CCS) proposal for two of its large biomass units. Drax’s official plan is to capture four million tonnes of CO2 a year from 2030, and eight million tonnes from 2035.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

Net zero is going to have to become net negative. That is according to some of the world's leading climate experts, who have today raised the alarm that governments must quickly move beyond net zero and establish net negative strategies if they want to cap global temperature increases at 1.5C by the end of the century.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Analysis of the government’s latest transparency data shows ministers at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) held 130 one-on-one meetings with energy producers between July 22 2019 and March 18 2021, of which nearly half (63) were with producers of high carbon energy. Drax Access.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Apple has launched a "first-of-its-kind" $200m forestry fund aimed at removing "at least" one million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, promising to scale and support projects that sequester CO2, improve biodiversity and adhere to "strict environmental and social standards".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Joshua Tosteson, COO of climate conservation marketing company Everland, offers a defense of REDD+ carbon offsets. The recently-released United Nations Global Biodiversity Outlook opens with these words: "Humanity stands at a crossroads with regard to the legacy it leaves to future generations.". This is now settled science.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Photo by Chris Schwarz ( Flickr CC ) Rather than discussing the negative impact of continued oil production on the Global South, at least two speakers brought up the apparent death toll associated with discontinuing oil production. The IEA has been categorical in their prediction that global peak oil and coal demand will occur by 2030.

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Fairsnape

JULY 9, 2020

Over 40% of our green house gas emissions come from degraded peat Restoring our peatland habitat would give 37% of the mitigation need to meet Paris Agreement by 2030. We rarely think about improving the carbon capture of peatlands. Visualisation of carbon sequestration in temperate peatlands. The Carbon Farmer: [link].

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Energy firm announces it will not develop new gas fired power at its site in North Yorkshire as it looks to focus on biomass and carbon capture plans. Our carbon intensity is one of the lowest of all European power generators. We aim to be carbon negative by 2030 and are continuing to make progress.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2021

Nature-based solutions can cost-effectively provide roughly a third of the climate action needed by 2030 and, unlike other carbon removal technologies, are available and proven now. This follows analysis last year by The Nature Conservancy and others that found the biodiversity financing gap is roughly $711bn per year.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Around the world, 1.6 The rise of the middle class.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The initiative is designed to create green spaces to support the physical and mental wellbeing of local communities, while boosting biodiversity. We are proud to work in partnership to accelerate action against climate change, promote biodiversity, and raise awareness of the value reforestation brings to society and human health.".

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

Specifically, the company said that by 2030 it wanted all its "preferred vendors" to have net zero plans in place by 2030 and ensure that 65 per cent its waste is diverted to landfill. The company also indicated it planned to reduce its reliance on carbon offsetting schemes as it looks to deliver on its own net zero goal.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2021

Survey commissioned by Cut Carbon Not Forests highlights public concern over environmental impact of biomass power in the run up to COP26 Climate Summit. The group alleges that much of the wood burned for electricity in the UK is sourced from overseas forests that are home to some of the planet's most important biodiversity and ecosystems.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Advocates of BECCS argue that by sourcing sustainable biomass feedstocks for power plants and then capturing the resulting emissions, the technology can deliver both reliable renewable power and negative emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

However, the report also highlights the enormous scale of the challenge to move from a situation where global emissions are currently still rising to a scenario where emissions have nearly halved by 2030. temporarily, before hopefully stabilising back below that threshold by 2100 as negative emissions projects scale up, the report stresses.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

These include flood attenuation, water quality improvement, carbon storage, greater biodiversity and socio-economic benefits to local businesses through wildlife tourism. The ROBT partnership has recommended an approach to management to help avoid the negative impacts of these creatures whilst allowing benefits to be maximised.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The most important biodiversity conference in a generation is kicking off this week, with negotiating teams from around the world convening on Montreal, Canada to hammer out the terms of a new global pact for nature. As such the expectations for the COP15 Biodiversity Summit are high, fuelled by the extra-long lead up to the talks.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. They have sent MEPs a version marked with their corrections. non-profit tracking biomass, who authored the comments, told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

A large donation to the Labour Party from wood-burning giant Drax has raised concerns among campaigners over the sway of big carbon emitters over Parliament. The payment from the former coal-fired power station was registered on September 12 last year, and published in December in the Electoral Commission register of political donations.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The biggest risks to food security stem from climate change and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services,” said the letter, which was sent to all Members of the European Parliament. “We Nature Under Pressure Agriculture is currently responsible for over 10 percent of EU carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2021

DeSmog can now also reveal that Heaton’s colleague on Drax’s PR and public affairs team, Tanisha Beebee, advised on the CCC’s Sixth Carbon Budget over the course of several meetings last year. However, it produces 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year. Sixth Carbon Budget. Conflict of Interest?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One tangible way to measure the positive contributions of investment portfolios on the climate is via reductions in carbon emissions and this is something more and more providers are reporting today, while a growing number of investment products are aligning themselves with the Paris Agreement goals. per cent of 2018 GDP. Taking action.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Given the Paris Accord’s aspirations, the climate challenge facing humanity can be expressed in simple terms: halve annual carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions by 2030, halve them again by 2040, and again by 2050. Here we focus on some aspects of land-use and negative emission technologies (NET) dependent on the land.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Fresh analysis warns plans for UK's largest BECCS facility in North Yorkshire could prove more expensive for billpayers than Hinkley Point C, but developer Drax rejects calculations and insists carbon capture technology is likely to prove a crucial component of the net zero transition.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. The EU Targets Ignore Science’.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. In its list of 2030 commitments to support the European Green Deal, CropLife said that it will “invest 10 billion euros into innovation in precision and digital technologies by 2030.”

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Tucked away in the report is this: “The available NDCs of all 191 Parties taken together imply a sizable increase in global GHG emissions in 2030 compared to 2010, of about 16%”. Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? And it’s not all about carbon emissions.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

The paper identifies five core green policy areas that policymakers should focus on - green energy, low carbon transport, natural capital, green building upgrades, and green research and development (R&D) - and highlights succesful green spending programmes to date.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Farmer Martin Lines, chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, puts forward the case for a robust payment framework to incentivise carbon sequestration in UK agriculture. Pricing greenhouse gas emissions at a level that is consistent with net zero opens new routes for a lucrative market in 'negative' carbon emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2021

The campaign has also tightened the language it uses when defining residual emissions, sources, and credits in its criteria document in an attempt to provide more specificity about what types of carbon sink projects can legitimately be included in net zero strategies. because they were never intended to".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It is critical we get the financiers and businesses to really become a key element of [resource mobilisation for nature], partly because a lot of our nature-based solutions will achieve biodiversity, as well as reduce emissions," she said. We will play our role to mobilise that," she added.

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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. ENGIE hails 'world first' gas from waste breakthrough.

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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. "Too

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The reality is that the UK simply cannot switch to an all-electric car, heat pump, and zero carbon grid economy without very significant contributions from solar PV and onshore wind, alongside storage. We want to see the best solar and onshore wind schemes supported, including those that deliver improvements to local biodiversity.

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