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Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change?

GreenBiz

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. According to the group’s scorecard , Vault 100 firms: litigated 286 cases exacerbating climate change (versus three cases mitigating it).

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Geophysical experts call for ethical framework in geoengineering deployment

Envirotec Magazine

The report , facilitated by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and advised by a global panel of experts, says any research into large-scale interventions in Earth’s climate system must be grounded in sound ethical principles so society can make informed choices about whether to deploy them. They should clearly report any negative results.

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What does digital art have to do with sustainability?

GreenBiz

Minutes before midnight March 22, two art collectors got into a heated bidding war at a charity auction for a climate organization. The auction was benefitting digital advocacy organization Open Earth Foundation , which ended up raising a total of $6.6 What does digital art have to do with sustainability? Ben Soltoff.

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The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets

GreenBiz

And, much like the market for carbon offsets, it’s messy. . In the same way that a company’s carbon credit may offset its U.S. However, there is no formal or standardized definition for plastics crediting, and such claims are inconsistently defined and applied differently from organization to organization.

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A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us

GreenBiz

A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us. A radical increase in available carbon emissions data may be just around the corner. Central to this shift is likely to be is a collaborative endeavor called Climate TRACE. Ian Kearney. Tue, 02/09/2021 - 02:00. Vice President Al Gore.

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

Consider this: In April, Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest companies in the world, announced its intent to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. No doubt Shell is counting on some miracle like carbon capture to preserve its adherence to a century-old business model of selling oil. And who could blame it? What happened?

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The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers

GreenBiz

From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 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.