GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It also launched a Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark to help the fashion and textile industry take action on biodiversity. Circular models made the rounds, starting with the design department, where a lot of negative environmental and social impacts are baked into garments, usually unwittingly. And that remains a problem.

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Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fashion Upcycling 545

Business Green

MAY 25, 2021

The free-to-use module has been designed to help financial institutions understand and curb the biodiversity risk of their mining and agriculture portfolios, the NCFA said. Financial institutions are increasingly aware that biodiversity loss is an urgent issue they must tackle," she said.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Agriculture Policy 45

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

British biomass giant Drax is lobbying the Californian government to play host to its first ever “carbon negative” power plant outside of the UK, despite concerns about the sustainability of the energy source. BECCS is a controversial technology that captures carbon dioxide from burning organic matter and buries it underground.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Biodiversity Waste 91

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Pointing to the need for an Earthscape approach to decision making, the paper identifies key ways in which the ocean both mitigates climate change by absorbing excess heat and carbon from the atmosphere and aggravates it, failure in ocean systems exacerbating extreme weather, shifting ocean currents and reducing its ability to absorb carbon.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Biodiversity Carbon 264

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A new paper published in Nature Sustainability presents seaweed as a model solution for tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, joblessness, hunger and environmental damage. Our research consolidates seaweed farming as an underpinning of a sustainable future,” said lead author Professor Carlos Duarte. “Our

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Climate change Carbon-negative Sustainability Biodiversity 329

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Climate change requires immediate action, and our most urgent, non-negotiable priority must be to tackle the root cause, carbon emissions,” said AGU President Lisa J. They should clearly report any negative results. It warns that the unintended consequences of large-scale deployment are largely unknown. Inclusive Public Participation.

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Ethics Climate change Global warming Carbon-negative 221

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

However, it is crucial that as we move from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, we do not not risk disturbing our planet’s largest carbon sinks by giving the destructive deep-sea mining industry the green light and opening up a new frontier of industrial extraction, writes campaign organisation the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition.

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Carbon-negative Electric vehicle Batteries Recycling 217

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2023

The PigProGrAm project includes Membracon’s Downflow Gas Contactor (DGC), described as “a patented technology that excels in a wide variety of gas separation applications, such as industrial carbon capture.”. He said the DGC will be used “to help generate a route for the livestock sector to become truly sustainable.”

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Patents Carbon-negative Agriculture Waste 130

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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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Government Agriculture 39

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. Humanity’s destruction of biodiversity fosters the conditions for emerging diseases such as COVID-19. Eastman is one of the largest U.S. Media Source.

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Sustainability Plastics Agriculture Carbon-negative 533

Grist

JUNE 11, 2021

They will hash out their commitments under the Paris Agreement, raising their carbon-cutting ambitions or making announcements about climate-related investments. This year, 50 of the world’s leading climate and biodiversity researchers are issuing a word of caution to world leaders ahead of COP26: Climate action isn’t always a win for nature.

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Biodiversity Climate change Carbon-negative Policy 120

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential. 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. Katie Lebling. Wed, 11/11/2020 - 00:30.

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Ocean acidification Carbon Carbon-negative Energy Monitor 445

GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

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. Offsetting versus insetting.

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Carbon-negative Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Carbon 246

ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 30, 2024

The application follows a previous announcement made by Weardale Lithium on the successful extraction of lithium carbonate from geothermal brine at a former cement works site in County Durham. DLE is a low-impact, low-carbon and low-water usage method of extracting lithium and will be done so using renewable energy sources where feasible.

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Lithium Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 115

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity.

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Fashion Biodiversity Soil Health 28

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Living up to their green motto, “Less Trace, More Impact”, Concentric is the only US security risk consultancy that has been certified as a green business, achieved carbon neutrality and committed to fully decarbonizing via The Climate Pledge. MORE IMPACT.”.

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Sustainability Carbon-negative Biodiversity Carbon-neutral 148

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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Carbon-negative Climate change Government Carbon 101

EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A new consensus on forests from the world’s leading carbon market governing body marks a significant turning point for voluntary carbon market (VCM) buyers. The ICVCM’s Core Carbon Principles (CCP) label is emerging as a global marker of carbon credit quality. Why Should Corporate Buyers Care About the ICVCM?

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Carbon Carbon-negative COP Climate change 59

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. And it gets worse: carbon cannot be captured without the infrastructure to transport and then depose of (or utilise) it.

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Carbon Carbon-negative North America Government 133

GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

One immediate way progressive food company leaders are doing this is by applying true cost accounting to their operations: assessing and measuring the negative impacts and positive benefits of their business practices and taking stock of their dependence on ecological and human resources.

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Organic Agriculture Soil Health 322

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

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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Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 93

Fairsnape

JULY 9, 2020

There were a number of Key Actions discussed, but the most important, in my opinion, was that of Education in respect of peat free compost, but perhaps more importantly awareness on peatlands negative and positive contribution to the carbon emergency we face. We rarely think about improving the carbon capture of peatlands.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Biodiversity Fossil fuels 78

Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

Alphabet, Meta, Shopify and McKinsey launch Frontier Fund to bring down costs of carbon removal technologies that scientists acknowledge will be critical to meeting climate goals.

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Carbon Technology Carbon-negative Demand 98

Grist

AUGUST 20, 2024

All told, the ground beneath our feet houses the most biodiverse habitat on the planet. Degradation causes significant biodiversity decline, hampering soil’s vital ecosystem services , such as water cycling, and results in colossal consequences for the world’s agricultural productivity, curbing crop yields and livelihoods.

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Soil Agriculture Health Organic 97

Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The world's top climate scientists have updated their guidance on carbon removals technologies, arguing they are likely to prove essential to stablising global temperatures, but only if they are developed judiciously.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Climate change Fossil fuels 72

Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Today a 600-page Review on the Economics of Biodiversity aims to similarly influence opinion on how best to turn the tide on the ongoing destruction of the natural world, which it warns threatens the wellbeing and livelihoods of humanity unless transformative action is urgently taken to address market and governmental failures.

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Biodiversity Climate change Policy Government 32

Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Global demand for biomass is likely to exceed environmentally sustainable supplies in the coming years as the drive to decarbonise takes hold across different industries - a situation which risks undermining climate mitigation efforts and causing major damage to biodiversity and the natural world.

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Sustainability Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Biodiversity 74

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Policy Carbon-negative 111

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Since the BRT statement there’s been a surge in aggressive carbon-reduction goals, up from just a handful of organizations a decade ago, to two-thirds of Fortune Global 500 companies with significant commitments today. The world’s biggest challenges — climate change, inequality, biodiversity destruction — are getting worse.

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Politics Sustainability Biodiversity Ocean acidification 78

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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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

A group of leading academics, campaigners, and executives have this week issued a renewed call for governments to accelerate efforts to scale up the deployment of Nature-Based Solutions capable of simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and restoring natural habitats.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

But they also stressed that the Voluntary Carbon Market was driving much needed investment into forest protection projects that were delivering significant environmental benefits. Signatories include leaders at BeZero Carbon, Earthshot Labs, Ecosphere +, Ecologi, EcoAct, and the REDD+ Business Initiative, among others.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Biodiversity Investment 87

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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Carbon Carbon-negative Climate change Biodiversity 42

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Agriculture’s role in fuelling the climate and biodiversity crisis has become increasingly apparent in recent years. JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity. based environmental organization.

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Soil Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Carbon-negative 98

Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Those are the stark findings of two separate report published today, which - less than 100 days ahead of the crucial COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow - together provide a stark assessment of the potentially carbon intensive nature of the global economic recovery. Only around 10.6 Only around 10.6 per cent this year and by 2.5

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Packaging Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Biodiversity 93

Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

million hectares of peatland are in a degraded state and are no longer actively sequestering carbon, citing figures that suggest the habitat could now be emitting more carbon annually than the nation's agricultural sector. If we're serious about carbon in UK we have to look after our peatlands first.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Climate change Carbon 50