DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

DeSmog recently reported how HealthforAnimals, a Belgium-based organization representing some of the world’s biggest animal pharmaceutical companies, presented “misleading” information to back their current business models. based sustainable farming research organization. And some experts remain sceptical.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

If you are familiar with issues of climate change and all, you most definitely know that greenhouse gas emissions are part of the causes of this phenomenon. You therefore hear people talking about reducing carbon footprints on the environment. Although both are made from organic matter, HVO and biodiesel are different.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

There were plenty of juicy news tidbits in Microsoft's recent progress report about its goal to become carbon negative over the next decade. We do not know whether the community process will be equitable, transparent or consultative," she wrote on the community solar organization's blog. I'll definitely be asking.

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Econaur

MAY 6, 2020

The “Green Building” approach ensures minimal negative impacts on the natural environment of the space as opposed to traditional construction that have been exploitative and wasteful. billion people, it is definitely not easy reaching sustainability targets. Sustainable & Organic Solutions. billion sq ft by the end of 2019.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. Sustainable fashion definition. Below we’ve detailed eight tips on how to reduce the negative environmental and social impact of your fashion brand company. Tip#1: Choose organic sustainable fabrics. Sustainable fashion has come to save the fashion industry.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Well, it’s not as simple as that, but the Austrian company, founded by Dr. Gregor Tegel, Dr. Günther Bochmann and Dr. Simon Rittmann, claims to be the only company creating 20 proteinogenic amino acids by feeding carbon dioxide to single-celled micro-organisms called archaea – without the need for genetic engineering.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that, while the market for carbon offsets is forecast to see rapid growth and reach over $1 billion this year, the “offsets” themselves can vary widely in their quality and effectiveness at actually reducing pollution. There’s no question that climate change is here — and accelerating.

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Business Green

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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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 10, 2023

We’ve spilled plenty of ink in this newsletter on carbon capture, but less on what happens after —particularly carbon-to-value. In the meantime, Rubi aims to capture the CO2 from industrial processes and use it to make apparel inputs carbon-negative. Do they come directly from living organisms?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Since then, the facility’s operational hiccups have caused it to leak toxic air pollution above permitted levels — including carbon monoxide, particulate matter pollution, volatile organic compounds, and nitrogen oxides — and prevented it from reaching commercial operation. to Europe in 2022 and 2023, according to the company.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

Supporting these findings, the Harvard Business Review reports 99% of large company CEOs want to address sustainability issues as a must for the future success of their organization. The ISO 14000 standards address a need to standardize EMSs on a global scale, meaning comparisons between organizations can be made. What is ISO?

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And, much like the market for carbon offsets, it’s messy. . There is no industry standard or definition . In the same way that a company’s carbon credit may offset its U.S. There’s a new kid on the block of sustainability claims being made by businesses: "plastic neutrality." We’ve seen this movie before.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Using these trends we then present retail sustainability initiatives that will help you kickstart your organization’s sustainability program. Thinking about this definition, we ask: Is it possible for the retail industry to be sustainable ? For this article we’ve analyzed the business landscape to identify such trends.

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Charged

MAY 8, 2023

That means we can bring the meter negative. But buses, school buses, all those things will definitely be a part of it. FERC [the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission] is the federal organization that regulates the independent system operators. A regular demand response program, you go down to zero and then that’s it.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

After years of debate over the definition of materiality, 2020 has brought a consensus that materiality is double — meaning that businesses should report on financially material topics that influence enterprise value as well as topics material to the economy, environment and people. This is the first post in a four-part series on materiality.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

COVID-19 will definitely change the world, and I truly hope that this will bring a new priority for sustainability topics. We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete. Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ).

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

The data seems to indicate that infections occur in dense inside areas with shared airspace, compounded by recirculating that air - the definition of a modern office building. These denser, more shared office buildings were considered more sustainable because they used less energy and contained more people on a smaller carbon footprint.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 28, 2021

In addition to improving profitability and productivity, the technology enables better grazing techniques that can improve soil health, stimulate grass productivity and root growth, and turn our vast grasslands into more efficient carbon sinks. And if it did, it would actually have a negative impact on the entire globe.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

org, finds that the hidden costs associated with the Vaca Muerta — negative health impacts, carbon pollution, environmental damages from oil and gas spills, and economic risks of stranded assets — could reach as high as $5.6 But it’s not at all clear the bet will pay off. The new Profundo report , commissioned by 350.org,

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These documents, along with other findings, also demonstrate how multiple industries have employed this strategy to deny the health and environmental hazards of asbestos , lead , plastics , toxic chemicals , CFCs , and carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. Definitely. This study ( Samet et al.,

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

This blog is the first in a series on common understandings and approach to waste mitigation, resource optimization and organization adaptive modernization. Terms such as climate change, climate crisis, carbon neutral, negative emissions, etc. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

Every ton of carbon emitted raises the temperature a tiny bit and reduces air quality, but companies never pay for those costs to society, also known as externalities. Many leading companies internalize the externalities by putting a “shadow price” on carbon inside the business (some collect real money as a self-imposed tax).

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

These arguments are being termed “the new climate denial” by watchdog organizations such as the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). A definitive body of research has documented the negative effects of rising CO2 on crops.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

‘Every Inch of Land’ Cork dairy farmer Donal Sheehan benefited from the derogation until 2018, when he decided to cut back his use of nitrates fertiliser after becoming more aware of the negative impacts of intensive farming on his land. After reducing his herd from 75 to 65 cows, Sheehan began a transition to organic farming last year.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Join me on this quest in which we start by looking into how the Arctic is doing, before making an overview of predictions on ‘when everything is gone’ by various renowned organizations. Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) How is the Arctic doing? And we are dangerously close. Sea Ice extent is going down.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. Shell had other plans.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products. Many of NCBA’s claims that beef is more sustainable than it seems rely on the beef lifecycle assessment , an ongoing study that has been funded by the Checkoff and organized by the NCBA.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

Meanwhile, at the national level, the Biden administration has set a bold goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Figure 1 summarizes these insights as suggestions for wind planning processes, organized by theme. Further, the poor appearance and fit of the turbines with the landscape were cited as negative.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This new report focuses not just on how bad things could get if we don’t take decisive action to reduce carbon emissions, but on how bad things already have gotten, with climate impacts hitting every part of the country and threatening the things Americans hold most dear. I definitely think so.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average, due to the vast amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide that humans have added to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. Solar geoengineering, for example, does nothing to ameliorate ocean acidification, which occurs when the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions. Currently, carbon emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation (often referred to as land-use change) are offset, in part, by new reforestation and regrowth.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And, much like the market for carbon offsets, it’s messy. There is no industry standard or definition WWF defines a plastic credit as a “transferable unit representing a specific quantity of plastic that has been collected and possibly recycled from the environment.”

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