Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

Operating as a sustainable business comes with many advantages. Minimizing waste through reducing, reusing, and recycling and being more energy efficient will also lower your costs. Reducing carbon emissions caused by commuting and traveling saves money and your employees’ time. Sustainability Initiatives for Consulting Firms.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Increased awareness of the negative impact of business on the environment is driving companies to develop sustainable and climate-friendly goods and services. The new industry could mean big benefits for businesses that pay attention to these trends and work to take advantage of the new category.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

2020 was an unusual year in many respects, but for OTT Hydromet, one of the more remarkable features of the year was an unprecedented level of orders for water level and flow monitoring equipment. Flood risk is now addressed on a wider catchment scale so that upstream initiatives do not have negative effects further downstream.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Global Witness have all raised concerns about the creeping reliance on unproven carbon removal methods in companies' decarbonisation strategies, but some scientists maintain carbon capture is essential if net zero goals are to be met.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

If there is one issue that transcends all the different areas of modern journalism, then climate change is it. According to an independent study, commissioned by Clim8 Invest, climate change is the number one concern for 61 per cent of UK consumers. per cent of 2018 GDP. Taking action.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2021

EY confirmed on Monday it aims to become 'carbon negative' this year by significantly reducing its absolute emissions and removing and offsetting more carbon that it emits. The goal is in support of a longer term target to become a net zero emission organisation by 2025.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Now is the time to make up for years of little progress in developing and deploying this essential technology, writes LSE's Esin Serin, policy analyst at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) will be essential to achieve net zero emissions.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Berrien is from a small Pennsylvania town, where her family experienced energy poverty. As an adult, she went into the energy industry—a decision, she explains, that she didn’t realize was fueled by her previous experiences with energy. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Negative emissions technologies are critical for the earth’s climate and hitting net zero in the UK, argues Drax CEO Will Gardiner. But it's vital we don't lose sight of long-term climate and energy challenges and the vital sustainability targets that must solve them. Going net negative. Work remains to be done.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Policymakers met with fossil fuel and biomass producers nine times as often as with their renewable energy counterparts, DeSmog can reveal, raising fresh concerns over the depth of the government’s commitments to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Our record on renewable energy speaks for itself,” they said. “In

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The connections with oil and gas lobbyists, the researchers say, undercut the highly public positions the companies have taken on addressing climate change. There is no ‘separate’ when the climate crisis will affect almost every issue before a state legislature — health care, infrastructure, taxes, and the whole economy,” he said.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In January, the world's largest asset manager issued a warning shot that the status quo on climate change is not going to cut it. In his annual letter, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink wrote: “We don’t yet know which predictions about the climate will be most accurate, nor what effects we have failed to consider.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The falling cost of wind and solar power significantly reduces the need for carbon capture and storage technology to tackle climate change, a new paper has argued. Neil Grant, a PhD candidate at Imperial College who led the research, said the past decade had “seriously changed the game for CCS”. Renewables.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau article, we wanted to help you support a sustainable food supply model on a global level, starting at a smaller scale with your organization’s cafeteria. Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment. Energy and food are intrinsically linked together.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

The public-private Energy Research Partnership warns all new decarbonisation incentives must include 'behaviour change enabling plans' for corporates and the public.

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Econaur

MAY 6, 2020

As the effects of climate change are getting more visible across the globe, developing nations like India are switching to sustainable building engineering. According to the Green Business Certification Inc. million sq meters of green building space and this statistic is from the end of 2018. This adds up to more than 24.81

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Cleaner Electricity Grids Equal Longer Life Expectancy By Nils Frenkel, Sales Director, North America When I was working with the City of San Antonio’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan a few years ago, I learned about a shocking statistic in the city I call home. Peaker Plants Are Located Throughout the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Retail business sustainability. These 7 sustainable developments are business opportunities that arise from key market trends we’re witnessing today. For this article we’ve analyzed the business landscape to identify such trends. What is retail sustainability? ” – Target CEO Brian Cornell.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

L earn how governments and organizations leverage broad area management to monitor change across vast geographies and timescales. Traditional data sources like drones and aerial imagery are often not collected frequently enough to spot changes early. This is where Planet comes in.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk. As business leaders and employees , we must understand the nature of corporate greenwashing. In this Green Business Bureau article, we define corporate greenwash. What is corporate greenwash?

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Changes in people’s buying habits need to be consistent to speed up the green transition, say experts. Putting people at the centre.

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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. Planet’s daily imaging data enables powerful agricultural insights through the integration of machine learning capabilities. All Rights Reserved. planet.com.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The groups said the summit disregarded “the urgent need to address the gross power imbalances that corporations hold over food systems.”. Companies have also been promoting the use of better technology for the application of fertilizers and pesticides, along with backing efforts to store more carbon in the soil. Corporate Capture.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

The group, which includes 15 institutional investors and 117 individual shareholders, has now agreed to withdraw its resolution, after the bank announced it would put forward its own climate proposal at its annual general meeting on 28 May. The group touted the promise as the first time a mainstream bank had taken such a stance.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

This has led to many voices calling for a green and equitable recovery, able to combine social and environmental concerns in climate change policy. First, it must understand the labour market impacts of decommissioning fossil fuel power plants and reskilling workers to build and manage the new low-carbon economy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Key amendments are needed to deliver a world leading environmental regime and an investible proposition for business, argues Nick Molho of the Aldersgate Group. The Bill, which is of critical importance to the environment, society, and business, has two key functions. Legally binding green targets have strong backing from business.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

The pandemic hit at a critical time when climate action started to gain momentum - we must now renew that momentum, writes Arçelik CEO Hakan Bulgurlu. Suddenly you realise that power, beauty and money are worthless, and won't get you the oxygen you're fighting for. Yet, the world continues in its beauty and only puts humans in cages.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Such investors rely on ESG — environmental, social and governance — scores created by ratings agencies to assess a company’s exposure to financial risks associated with issues from its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, to human rights violations in its supply chain, and executive pay. MSCI ranks all five as ‘ESG Leaders’ for carbon emissions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We're tackling our water consumption in two ways: reducing our water use intensity - or the water we use per megawatt of energy used for our operations - and replenishing water in the water-stressed regions we operate," Microsoft president Brad Smith, explained in a blogpost announcing the commitment yesterday.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

$1bn 'Ambition Zero Carbon' aims for zero carbon emissions across global operations by 2025, and ensure entire value chain is carbon negative by 2030. The new goals were set out in the firm's ‘Ambition Zero Carbon' strategy published yesterday, which brings forward its plans for decarbonisation in line with a 1.5C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Josh Burke at LSE's Grantham Research Institute navigates the costs, opportunities, advantages and disadvantages of different carbon capture and negative emissions technologies. This was made clear in the Committee on Climate Change's landmark advice to government on reaching net zero by 2050, published last May.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the top comments from business, politics, academia, think tanks and civil society.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Much of the media coverage about heat pumps features Mike Foster, a former Labour MP and the chief executive of the Energy and Utilities Association trade body.

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