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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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

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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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

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.".

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our science track demonstrated the robust research applications for Planet’s datasets, highlighting key findings in climate change and carbon farming initiatives. During the second day of Explore 2021, our customers shared how they are enabling global transparency and supporting critical sustainability research. All Rights Reserved.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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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. Campaigners and experts oppose Drax’s bid to create the world’s largest carbon capture plant, citing potential harms to wildlife and poor mis-use of land for energy crops.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

On Earth Day 2016, the United Nations formally adopted the Paris Agreement, articulating the commitment of nations to limit global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celcius over pre-industrial levels; and to strengthen the ability of countries to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change. Earth Day in 2020.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 11, 2021

The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review , continues to get a lot of climate press coverage, but not that I have noticed within the built environment sector. Welcome to Regen Notes issue 4, a fortnightly newsletter of regenerative news, stories and more with a sideways focus on the built environment, curated by Martin Brown.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade.

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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. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

The rapid loss of biodiversity has led an increasing number of pathogens to infect humans as intermediate hosts. And the negative impact of climate change on habitat and diversity are far more profound than that caused by the wildlife trade. Opportunities from a zero carbon economy. Ecological diversity has been destroyed.

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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

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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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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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. With just one mention of 'renewables' in the entire text, the Paris Agreement is broadly technology neutral. What would change?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. He has used GWP* to claim that the US meat and dairy sector can become “climate-neutral” by the late 2040s by reducing emissions only two percent a year.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Greentown Labs is already working closely with the City of Houston to support the goals outlined in its first-ever Climate Action Plan , which includes a commitment of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. Microsoft’s VP Energy Industry Darryl Willis will join Greentown Houston’s Founding Advisory Board.

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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

MARCH 18, 2020

I was very keen to bring this agenda into the Economy Committee, because I think that people were talking very blithely about net zero carbon and the skills that we need for the future green industrial revolution, and yet who has started to look at what we actually need to do?" Cooper tells BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

But the fact that the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity , published by HM Treasury earlier this month, explicitly calls for economic success to be measured differently is just one sign of rumblings in the tectonic plates of economic thinking. Questioning the negative repercussions of shareholder primacy is now commonplace.

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Business Green

MAY 2, 2022

The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative is poised to publish claims guidance for businesses hoping to tap credits to help reach net zero goals - Co-chair Rachel Kyte gives BusinessGreen a peek at what to expect. How do you create the rules for a brand new market? It is a question that occupies much of Rachel Kyte's time.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the percentage reduction in carbon emissions committed and the deadline set? I am delighted by the 'race to zero' among large and small companies setting bolder carbon targets. It mitigates its most material negative impacts, enjoys and perhaps amplifies its most material positives. And how are you judging that?

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

Just days after the tech giant unveiled a sweeping new plan to become 'carbon negative' coffee giant Starbucks has followed suit, today unveiling a plan to become 'resource positive'. The preliminary targets could see Starbucks' halve water withdrawal, waste-to-landfill, and carbon emissions within the next decade, Johnson said.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

Nick Mabey, chief executive of E3G, said: "Ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, this Budget was a missed opportunity by failing to set out an unequivocal direction of travel towards a green, zero carbon future. The Chancellor has dropped the green recovery ball before the try line.".

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AGreenLiving

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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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The new Air Quality Positive (AQP) and Air Quality Neutral (AQN) planning guidance requires developers to mitigate avoidable sources of emissions and make an "active contribution to improving air quality" throughout new developments. I have made it a top priority as Mayor to tackle London's air pollution and the climate crisis," Khan said.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 14000 frameworks Environmental management system (EMS) An environmental management system aims to reduce the negative impacts a business has on the environment by integrating policy, procedures, and processes for measuring, analyzing, and reporting an organization’s impact on the natural world. Objective Results to be achieved.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

That synthesis looked impressive at first glance; it outlined how we could change global food systems, so they emit fewer greenhouse gases, occupy less land, and protect the earth’s biodiversity — all while producing ever higher volumes of food for a global population approaching ten billion by 2050. .

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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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