Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012. To help businesses create their individual decarbonisation strategies, Siemens has published a new whitepaper suggesting a range of specific steps towards carbon neutrality. Shift to low-carbon heat.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Most people seem to believe some form of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be necessary, although many are stil sceptical of an arguably “unproven” and ambitious technology. The same document said that CCS was “not on a trajectory” to meet the 2ºC target of over 400 MtCO2 being stored per year in 2025. Envirotec writes.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Scope 3 emissions can account for over 70% of many businesses’ carbon footprint, which means that organisations – and the world – cannot reach net-zero without taking huge strides to reduce their indirect emissions. Enabling solutions: Shrinking your digital carbon footprint. What’s next?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

British biomass giant Drax is lobbying the Californian government to play host to its first ever “carbon negative” power plant outside of the UK, despite concerns about the sustainability of the energy source. BECCS is a controversial technology that captures carbon dioxide from burning organic matter and buries it underground.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project. Boredom turned into negative thoughts, and negative thoughts turned into depressing thoughts.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2024

Powerful Meat and Dairy Industry Associations InfluenceMap’s analysis found that meat and dairy trade associations were particularly negative about climate policies, and were critical on behalf of their member companies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Despite a growing global consensus that carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) technology is too expensive and too inefficient to be a viable climate change mitigation strategy, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith promoted CCUS over renewables during a public address Tuesday. And look at where we are today.” This is false.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Compiled by a multidisciplinary group of experts – including engineers, ecologists, medics, and air quality analysts – the document provides a detailed rundown on topics such as what happens to tyres when we drive, what kind of particles are produced, where they end up, and the implications for health and the environment.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Documents seen by DeSmog and the Guardian show that the meat industry is poised to “tell its story and tell it well” in the lead up and during the Dubai conference, which comes on the heels of the world’s hottest ever year. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2021

Creates resilience : For instance, during the COVID-19 pandemic, sustainable companies experienced less negative shock returns than their unsustainable competitors. Carbon footprint calculations have become a popular metric among organizations and individuals alike. STEP 1: Document your processes.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Yorkshire-based biomass giant is among over a dozen signatories to an industry-backed document that claims bioenergy could increase its output to nearly threefold, and reduce net global emissions by over one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050. Despite this, the document offers an optimistic take on bioenergy.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Smiling into the camera, she tells viewers that “the world needs ways to reduce carbon emissions.” Speakers from diverse backgrounds then reassure viewers that, luckily, they’re working on solutions to that very problem, “like carbon capture , and clean energy from hydrogen.”

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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. E.g. Delta Air Lines and Microsoft Corp pledged to drastically curb their carbon emissions, taking into account the carbon footprint of their associated law firms. Recycle more than just paper.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

The goal of such a transition: all-electric buildings powered by solar, wind, and other sources of zero-carbon electricity. A growing body of research is documenting the danger posed by indoor air pollution in homes with gas stoves. What sort of technology is involved in building electrification? Heat pumps are the big one.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Scientists are documenting changes that are “much more widespread” and “much more negative,” she said, than anticipated for the 1.09 It will gain increasing importance as the herculean difficulty of reducing emissions to net zero and removing vast stores of carbon from the atmosphere become clearer.”. Climeworks.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

AI technology is used to read through documents, analyze keywords, and save data from relevant files, keeping them available when the time comes to report results. IMM software accounts for all areas of business operations, including carbon use, waste disposal, and community service.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

For one, Harvard University has documented that kelp plays a significant role in reducing global warming. Kelp is also able to naturally remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mitigating rising temperatures and climate change. ” Minimizing its carbon footprint is another crucial mission for AKUA.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Drax has come in for renewed scrutiny over the environmental sustainability of its supply chain, with a major investigation having found evidence of carbon-rich primary forests in western Canada being felled to supply wood pellet feedstock for Britain's biggest power station in North Yorkshire.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The world's top climate scientists have updated their guidance on carbon removals technologies, arguing they are likely to prove essential to stablising global temperatures, but only if they are developed judiciously. The summary to policymakers document notes that CDR deployment is "unavoidable" if net zero emissions are to be achieved.

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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One document reviewed by DeSmog referenced a course about “population growth, innovation and human flourishing,” to be taught by Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley, co-authors of a book called Superabundance. A definitive body of research has documented the negative effects of rising CO2 on crops.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Policy documents released yesterday offer a glimpse into how big a role the government envisages for technologies such as carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in supporting its Net Zero Strategy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Research body argues government must fix 'uneven' decarbonisation policies that continue to drive customers towards high carbon activities. Stable and enduring policies that cover all key emitting economic sectors and reward investment and innovation in reducing emissions will be needed," he said.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 9, 2020

But a growing number of European corporations now have 100 percent renewable targets and other low-carbon targets, and the falling cost of solar and offshore wind in particular are forcing the rest to reassess the opportunity. Others have not had the right regulatory framework in place for corporate PPAs, and demand has been slow to build.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Just this month, a pledge from HSBC to achieve net zero financed emissions by mid-century was slammed by campaigners for having "zero ambition" due to a lack of phase out targets or plan to end near-term financing of carbon-intensive industries.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2020

Health impacts related to the toxic emissions spewing from these places — especially the tinier particles that enter deep into the lungs — are well documented : asthma, heart disease, pregnancy complications, and lower life expectancies make up a non-exhaustive list. All of the bees showed similar results.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

UK biomass giant Drax has pulled out of two industry conferences following weeks of negative publicity, DeSmog can reveal. billion in government subsidies for a carbon capture project. manufacturing plants. The jig is up for Drax,” Megan Corton Scott, a political campaigner at Greenpeace UK told DeSmog. “An

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Whether it’s a new build or a retrofit (also referred to as greenhabbing , or green rehabbing an older building to be more eco-friendly), the real estate industry is moving towards sustainability because a low-carbon building is proven to have lower operating costs, improved resale value and higher occupancy rates. Lower carbon footprint.

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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. Microsoft will use third-party evaluators to help quantify and document both the social and environmental outcomes.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 15, 2023

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mama Our Filipino Grandma (@ourfilipinograndma) While the video racked up around 40,000 likes across both platforms, it also attracted dozens of negative comments from Sangalang’s fans, some of whom said they would be unfollowing her account. Juarez and Sangaland declined to comment.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The wood pellets Drax produces are treated as “carbon neutral” under international accounting rules, based on an assumption that new-growth trees will capture the carbon lost by wood burnt for electricity. Drax already operates 18 wood pellet plants across the U.S. But scientists and campaigners have long disputed these claims.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Not only have I documented the aftermath of extreme weather events, but I have also lived through a major hurricane that caused catastrophic damage. The airline and cruise ship industries undeniably have a large carbon footprint. Quark Expeditions, the operator of the tour I was on, also touted its plans to cut carbon emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2021

The document is 66 pages long, complete with hard-to-understand jargon and confusing illustrations with lots of arrows pointing in different directions. We have also created some additional documents to help at this level. So why is this process so difficult? The government's own guidelines date back to 2009. Light reading, then.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

But despite pressure for a tougher regulatory regime behind the targets, environmental group's calls fell on deaf ears, as IMO member states today agreed a set of draft rules for meeting the industry's near-term 2018 goal to reduce carbon intensity from global shipping by 40 per cent over the next decade from a 2008 baseline.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2021

The campaign has also tightened the language it uses when defining residual emissions, sources, and credits in its criteria document in an attempt to provide more specificity about what types of carbon sink projects can legitimately be included in net zero strategies. because they were never intended to".

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