Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

This could be by reducing an organization’s carbon footprint while also establishing a healthy work-life balance for employees. There’s heightened market demand for sustainable practices with robust and transparent disclosure. This is having negative knock-on effects impacting environmental and social systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.

Building Energy Monitoring 130

Building Energy Monitoring Carbon Technology Energy Monitor 130

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

The goal of such a transition: all-electric buildings powered by solar, wind, and other sources of zero-carbon electricity. Yes, including public health and safety. What sort of technology is involved in building electrification? Heat pumps are the big one. Economy-wide electrification (including transportation) could increase U.S.

Building Energy Monitoring 246

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 246

Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

IndiNature says investment will help scale up production of its 'carbon negative' building material. Carbon negative insulation for homes and commercial properties is to be produced in Scotland for the first time following a £3m investment in a pioneering green materials firm from the Scottish National Investment Bank.

Investment 101

Investment Carbon-negative Construction Carbon 101

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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Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Methane 148

Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

Demand 69

Demand Hydrogen Technology Energy 69

Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2020

In addition to cheap sources of green energy, Gore says we need to price carbon. There are 43 jurisdictions around the world that already have a price on carbon such as Europe and China. Customers, investors, boards, executive teams, and their families are demanding that businesses become more sustainable.

Climate change 80

Climate change Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Demand 80

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.

Government 100

Government Carbon-negative Climate change Biodiversity 100

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Plastic pollution is a problem greatly impacting the health of NYC waterways. The keynotes echoed the overwhelming demand from communities, consumers and even investors for sustainable, equitable change. I was particularly interested in the discussions around plastic packaging and waste throughout the event.

Sustainability 375

Sustainability Plastics Innovation Education 375

Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

In order to limit the negative environmental impact, prudent businesses are seeking ways to address the top environmental issues in the construction industry: Improper waste disposal and management with very little recycling. Carbon emissions from operations, vehicles and material engineering. Reduce Waste and Use Recycled Materials.

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Construction Sustainability Waste Waste 148

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.

Sustainability 77

Sustainability Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Biodiversity 77

Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

A new report from McKinsey predicts global fossil fuel demand 'will never return to its pre-pandemic growth curve', but warns the world is still on track to badly miss its climate goals. The influential consultancy giant today published a new report detailing how it expects global oil demand to peak in 2029, with gas demand peaking in 2037.

Fossil fuels 56

Fossil fuels Demand Hydrogen Carbon-negative 56

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

In recent years, seaweed has been quite a catch for health-conscious consumers, in turn, making kelp, a brown macroalgae, one of the more in-demand types of seaweed offerings. Kelp is also able to naturally remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mitigating rising temperatures and climate change.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Meat alternatives Health 28

Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

The world may be reeling from unprecedented public health crisis, but the UK's latest greenhouse gas figures offer genuine cause for optimism. Even key players in carbon intensive sectors such as aviation, steel, cement, mining, farming, shipping,and oil and gas are starting to set net zero targets. UK emissions are down.

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Carbon-negative Transportation Aviation Electric vehicle 100

Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment. Additionally, conventional farming practices reduce the levels of carbon retained in the soil – an important medium for carbon sequestration. Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Waste Waste 148

Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Advocates of BECCS argue that by sourcing sustainable biomass feedstocks for power plants and then capturing the resulting emissions, the technology can deliver both reliable renewable power and negative emissions.

Policy 82

Policy Carbon-negative Carbon Government 82

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2) Helping fleet partners access government incentive plans to upgrade equipment and transport trucks to reduce fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. Our customers want it, our employees want it and I demand it.”. Businesses and individuals need to do their part to neutralize mankind’s negative impact on our planet’s health.

Sustainability 147

Sustainability North America Plastics Carbon-negative 147

Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

For all the growing interest in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing and high profile investor demands for corporates to tackle escalating climate risks, many asset managers remain 'blind' to the threat to their portfolios posed by global biodiversity loss and are consistently failing to engage with carbon intensive businesses.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Policy Investment 97

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Peabody’s annual report points glumly at the negative sentiments of sections of the financial community. ” Peabody warns that such moves could reduce demand for its products, increase its cost of borrowing and deflate its share price (which is down more than 70 percent in 2020). In 2018 BlackRock held around 6.3

Energy Monitor 130

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 130

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. Business is constantly changing to meet consumer demands.

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Global warming Carbon-neutral Waste Waste 99

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The European Dairy Association told DeSmog it was at COP29 to take part in two side events on the theme of animal health and on the need for “more innovation” in the sector. The EDA is working to address climate change and implement the best sustainability practices in the dairy supply chain,” the spokesperson told DeSmog.

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COP Agriculture Methane Fossil fuels 145

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. This adds to global waste, emissions and an exhausting demand for new material. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. However, without the proper planning for when life goes back to normal, emissions are expected to rise again.

Climate change 88

Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Resilience 88

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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Pollution Agriculture Carbon-negative Climate change 98

Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

The report - titled Principles for a low-carbon, sustainable and net-zero aligned economic recovery post COVID-19 - suggests five key government interventions aimed at harnessing growing political, business, and consumer will to tackle the climate emergency, as well as a raft of specific policy recommendations.

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Carbon-negative Packaging Government Resilience 96

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. Demand growth is expected to fall from around four per cent each year to under one per cent, it said, with demand potentially peaking as soon as 2027.

Plastics 56

Plastics Carbon-negative Demand Carbon 56

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. This adds to global waste, emissions and an exhausting demand for new material. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. However, without the proper planning for when life goes back to normal, emissions are expected to rise again.

Climate change 78

Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Resilience 78

AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Life Expectancy vs. Income in the United States 1 Many factors negatively influence average life expectancy. Particularly egregious are so-called peaker power plants , which run only when demand for electricity is high. Peaker plants are typically the most polluting and expensive resources in the system.

Energy Monitor 71

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 71

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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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 123

Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

From nurturing ocean carbon sinks to encouraging marine clean tech, there are steps all businesses can take to accelerate progress towards SDG14. For their part, officials have often been more than happy to accede to industry representatives demands for higher quotas, according to Professor Callum Roberts from York University. "In

Carbon-negative 89

Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Plastics Carbon 89

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. Demand growth is expected to fall from around four per cent each year to under one per cent, it said, with demand potentially peaking as soon as 2027.

Plastics 53

Plastics Carbon-negative Demand Carbon 53

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

The Commission’s proposals have been met with a barrage of lobbying from industry, which claims that single-use paper products have lower carbon emissions and use less water and plastic than reusable alternatives. We’re worried about an increase in demand: where would the paper come from?” We’ve lost our health.”

Packaging 77

Packaging Recycling Recycling Plastics 77

Energy Innovation

JULY 6, 2020

Remarkably, the birthplace of coal-based industrialization met power demands for more than two months without firing up a single coal plant. Their study meticulously sums monetized estimates of coal damages to nearby ecosystems and human health, comparing those with the direct policy costs of different phase-out scenarios.

Fossil fuels 69

Fossil fuels Policy Health Carbon-negative 69

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. as clients.

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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 123

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. billion people in 2050 even with current production levels.

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Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 98

Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

I have great optimism about the future of capitalism and the future health of the economy - not in spite of the energy transition, but because of it.". It has reminded us how the biggest crises, whether medical or environmental, demand a global and ambitious response.".

Climate change 101

Climate change Carbon-negative Global warming Investment 101

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. Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

Agriculture 145

Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 145

EDF + Business

JULY 10, 2020

At-home delivery is contributing to growing demand for freight movement, which is driving increased consumption of fossil fuels, especially diesel, and worsening air pollution. In fact, Amazon’s carbon emissions climbed 15% in the last year alone — even before coronavirus — due to increased sales.

Pollution 52

Pollution Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Investment 52