GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

This article presents some key takeaways discussed at the summit and offers insights into how some of the largest suppliers of global brands are being engaged by investors on sustainability topics, as well as how sustainable finance is rising rapidly in Taiwan among institutional investors. Negative/exclusionary screening (44.6

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. As these forests disappear to feed demand for biomass, so, too, will their unique ecosystems.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2021

VIDEO: Top experts from the University of Oxford, Friends of the Earth, Vertree and the UK Green Building Council tackle the carbon offsets debate. So what, if anything, can be done to ensure carbon offsets projects are credible and deliver on their promised emissions reductions?

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 24, 2024

A recent panel discussion in Glasgow brought together representives from some of the firms helping to build a carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry in the UK. An important piece of the puzzle is storage: ensuring that captured carbon can be safely and sustainably sequestered over the long term. Europe’s storehouse?

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

McCarthy pointed out that the low demand during coronavirus lockdown offered a preview of how rising levels of renewables, combined with a lack of the grid flexibility that could be provided by increasing amounts of energy storage capacity, could begin to cause market distortions. These have become an important part of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We are increasing our personal use and depleting our useable supplies of water simultaneously, at such a rate that demand will outstrip supply by 2030**. Unfortunately, these chemicals are often still present in wastewater, even in trace levels, when they are discharged into the environment, which has been proven to cause lasting damage.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In their presentation to reporters, the authors stressed that these numbers are likely an underestimate of the scale and speed of fossil fuel production cuts required for two reasons. The first has to do with the carbon budget — the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the planet warms more than 1.5

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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. billion hectares of new forests to be planted, which would equate to an area five times the size of India, or more than all of the farmland presently on the planet.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

VIDEO: Regen CEO Merlin Hyman speaks to Drax's Rebecca Heaton, David Joffe from the Committee on Climate Change, Jenifer Baxter from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME), and Great Grimsby MP Lia Nici about the challenges and opportunities of negative emissions technologies. But what does 'negative emissions' mean in practice?

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 6, 2022

Yet, practices can lead to a vast amount of unnecessary waste, habitat destruction, and carbon emissions depending on how you choose to operate. In this article, we present 5 tips that address the environmentally damaging aspects of the solar industry for true sustainability. Tip #1: Use sustainably manufactured panels.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Below are the responses from 11 of the 12 Emerging Leaders, lightly edited for clarity and length, and presented in alphabetical order by last name. Colonialism, commercialization and co-option are still present in today’s sustainability structures, and I found it refreshingly honest to hear that brought to the fore. Kristina Chu .

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Green gas specialist CNG Fuels has opened two further refuelling stations for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in the UK this week, in anticipation of surging demand for renewable biomethane over the next year and beyond. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 29, 2022

For instance, a single pint of beer can have a carbon footprint as high as 900g CO 2e (for bottled beer that’s been extensively transported). This is ~14% of the daily average carbon footprint from meals per US citizen – having 2 to 3 pints ramps that percentage up to 42%. Challenge 5 : The brewing process is wasteful.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. With this in mind, in this Green Business Bureau article, we present eight ways you, as a fashion manufacturer, can work to be more sustainable. Below we’ve detailed eight tips on how to reduce the negative environmental and social impact of your fashion brand company.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This not only damages the equipment but also presents environmental hazards, making the technology less viable for widespread use. This dual functionality not only contributes to clean energy production but also aids in carbon sequestration, presenting a holistic approach to addressing climate change.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2022

An energy-intensive process largely reliant on fossil fuels, concrete production is estimated to account for around eight per cent of global carbon emissions - more than both shipping and air travel combined. Concrete and steel emit as much as all road transport globally, and demand is going up.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 2, 2024

This contributes to climate change and negates some of the benefits of using natural gas, which has lower carbon emissions than coal or oil. Induced seismicity, or human-caused earthquakes, presents another risk. During the drilling and fracking processes, methane, a potent greenhouse gas, can escape into the atmosphere.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

However, flood risk is now addressed on a wider catchment scale so that initiatives in one part of a catchment do not have negative effects further downstream. The planting of shrubs and trees also helps infiltration and retention by generating a demand for soil moisture, so that soils have a greater capacity to absorb water.

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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.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Replacing physical in-person meetings and events like advisory boards, training sessions, and sales and marketing conferences with virtual events can reduce a company’s carbon footprint and help protect the planet. In general, the larger the number of participants and the longer the event, the larger the negative impact on the environment.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

BeZero Carbon research points to growing commercial interest in carbon removals such as direct air capture, enhanced weathering and biochar. Over the last year, we have seen the market for carbon dioxide removal jump-started from relative obscurity to one of the highest potential growth industries in the world," he said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

The outlook for carbon capture and storage, both with gas and bioenergy, also appears to have improved significantly over the past four years. But the encouraging outlook for gas power with carbon capture and storage (CCS) is arguably more surprising. The most polluting energy source has become an irrelevance.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

A timeline from coal to negative emissions at Drax – told by the engineers who were there. Today, however, sustainably-sourced compressed wood pellets have enabled the Yorkshire power station - once the country's largest single source of emissions - to rapidly decarbonise, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions 85 per cent lower than in 2013.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Although fossil-based natural gas tends not to be low enough in carbon intensity to remain a primary energy source in our decarbonized future, the U.S. And we aren’t the only ones – many other countries will require natural gas to serve as a so-called “bridge” fuel while they continue to transition to zero- and low-carbon energy sources.

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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. CCS, which removes emissions from the atmosphere and stores them underground, has long been presented as critical to restricting global heating to 1.5C

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It was during a question and answer session with the premier that Smith rhetorically asked whether those present thought it was possible for Alberta to build the infrastructure necessary to complete a transition to net zero emissions by the year 2035. percent of summer peak demand for four hours, twice a day.” GW in place now, 5.23

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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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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

And so we present you with our 26-tip checklist guide to sustainable food management for the office cafeteria. Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment. Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy. Energy and food are intrinsically linked together.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

And according to IEA’ Renewables 2020, Launch Presentation from November 10, 2020, global wind and solar PV’s combined installed capacity will surpass that of natural gas in 2023 and coal in 2024. Renewables will become the largest source of electricity generation in 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

Concrete production accounts for 8% of global annual carbon emissions – if it were a country, it would rank somewhere between the US and India in terms of its carbon footprint. Looking towards 2030 and beyond, carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) through CO 2 mineralisation is an emerging solution.

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2021

The "world's largest" renewable biomethane refuelling station is set to open near Bristol later this year, enabling truck drivers to fill up on low carbon fuel produced from food waste, CNG Fuels announced today. per cent of UK carbon emissions, it said, and the Avonmouth refuelling station will enable up to 80 trucks to fill up every hour.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2022

Carbon Accounting, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits. What is carbon offsetting ? What is the difference between a carbon offset and a carbon credit ? Can carbon offsetting effectively mitigate climate change, or are we banking on a fruitless quick-fix solution ? What Is Carbon Offsetting?

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 2, 2022

Scott Mathieson, network planning and regulation director at SP Energy Networks, stated: “The increasingly complex needs of our energy system, coupled with the significant increase in both demand for green electricity and generation our networks need to accommodate, means it is crucial we ensure its continued security and resilience.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2022

It is a question that anyone who has ever advocated for more renewables will have heard approximately eleventy thousand times, with the challenge invariably presented in a mocking tone that suggests the world's best engineers, investors, and policymakers have missed something so blindingly obvious a climate sceptic child could spot it.

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