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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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

The letter also takes issue with pollution from fish farms. Their operations pollute the surrounding marine environment with microplastics, antibiotics, and chemicals such as formaldehyde, as contaminated water flows through nets into the open sea.

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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. An autumn of scandal has chipped away at their carefully curated green image, exposing the company as little more than a big polluter.”.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 15, 2023

A “granfluencer” known as “our Filipino grandma” is among an army of US-based influencers being used by fossil fuel giants to promote major polluters to younger audiences, DeSmog can reveal. No energy transition can be successful if people are not aware of the alternatives available to them. Juarez and Sangaland declined to comment.

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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.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

million from fossil fuel and polluting interests in 2022. Fossil fuel giants have been committing countless climate crimes, polluting our planet and reaping obscene profits – while everyone else faces sky-high energy bills and a cost of living scandal,” she told DeSmog. As DeSmog reported in March, the Conservative Party received £3.5

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. “Eni took a bath of green paint,” Abbate said.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

We are, as has been well documented, deep into a great extinction event as flora and fauna are forced into ever smaller enclaves. Most important of all, plummeting clean tech costs point a path towards how the market failure that leads to climate change - the failure to put a price on polluting externalities - could be rectified.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

The adverts regularly highlight the companies’ preferred solutions to climate change — from carbon capture and storage, to experimental algae biofuels, and investment in renewable energy sources — without being open about the small percentage of overall investment allocated to these technologies, nor their various limitations.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets unveils recommendations on how to scale up investment in emission reduction programmes, but environmental campaigners remain unimpressed. And it stresses that global emissions targets are likely to be missed without a fresh approach for driving investment in negative emissions projects.

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

The library, a free reference management tool that allows the user to manage bibliographical data and documents such as websites, videos, scientific articles, books and PDFs. Georgia Elliott Smith launched a new campaign video for her legal challenge of the UK Government over incineration pollution and carbon emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 14000 frameworks Environmental management system (EMS) An environmental management system aims to reduce the negative impacts a business has on the environment by integrating policy, procedures, and processes for measuring, analyzing, and reporting an organization’s impact on the natural world. raw materials, energy) and outputs (e.g.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Environmental Impact of Biomedical Waste The improper management of biomedical waste can lead to negative consequences for the environment. When this waste is not disposed of properly, it can cause pollution of soil, water, and air. Additionally, it can pose health risks to humans and animals.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Campaigners have long claimed the advertising industry provides a platform for polluters to ‘greenwash' their activities at a time when a rapid wind-down of the exploration and extraction of coal, oil, and gas is critical to stabilise global temperatures at safe levels. The biggest threat to our future is climate change," they write.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

These incidents — documented via video taken at protests, interviews with the campaigners, and police records — took place both before and after the video was published on the Silverback website in March. According to the European Environment Agency , a tree can absorb an average of 22 kilos of carbon dioxide (CO2) each year.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

The report, published yesterday, reveals that it is not just the natural environment that is compromised by the high-carbon, high-waste practices of the disposable, 'fast fashion' industry, but the future profitability of many of the sector's major players.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

The UK-EU trade deal is thought to be among the first to explicitly embed mutual commitments to climate action and the net zero transition, with the text of the document stating that "each party reaffirms its ambition of achieving economy-wide climate neutrality by 2050". Carbon pricing and energy. Firstly, the good news.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. The House of Commons’ Science and Technology Select Committee has determined that low carbon hydrogen will at best have a limited role in heating homes.

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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. Big Ag’s Delay Tactics. The EU Targets Ignore Science’.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The documents leaked in the Corporate Europe Observatory investigation were “part of lobbying work that is done in all stakeholder groups. The documents supported our talks with our EU member organisations,” a spokesperson for COPA-COGECA told DeSmog.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Campaigners have long claimed the advertising industry provides a platform for polluters to ‘greenwash' their activities at a time when a rapid wind-down of the exploration and extraction of coal, oil, and gas is critical to stabilise global temperatures at safe levels. The biggest threat to our future is climate change," they write.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

Document and Share Your Sustainability Commitments. It can include commitments related to being more energy efficient, reducing waste, reducing your carbon footprint, minimizing pollution, eliminating plastic, changing how you manufacture, and sourcing from other sustainable companies. Appropriately Time Based.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental and social disruptions cause a negative brand reputation (note BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ). This gives you a documented baseline regarding your eco profile. How can we reduce waste and prevent pollution? Are there areas to improve supply chain efficiency in terms of lowering waste and carbon emissions?

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 28, 2024

This entails the transition to low, zero and negative emissions technologies and systems in the energy and mobility sectors by 2050 at the latest while boosting their competitiveness and benefit for users and civil society and reducing their environmental footprint.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

Unfortunately, contemporary ice-making and maintenance technologies consume large amounts of energy and produce refrigerant gases that cause pollution , making them environmentally harmful. HFCs heighten the greenhouse effect, while carbon dioxide similarly intensifies global warming.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The virus has caused a 17 percent reduction in atmospheric carbon during parts of this year and may decrease CO2 emissions by 4.2-7.5 Negative values can be seen in 1982, 1992 and 1996. The negative index values in 1982 reflect the demise of the Soviet Union. percent in 2020 compared to 2019. There was a 2.6 ppm less than that.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

In addition, 52 percent of those surveyed reported a negative effect on their quality of life. T The authors demonstrate that the net emissions impact of EV adoption is likely negative, as CO2 reductions from a transition to EVs would outstrip the increase in emissions due to increased consumption of electricity.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

A blanket dismissal of the net zero concept demands not that polluters come forward with credible strategies that could work in both principle and in practice, but rather fuels the impression any and all plans are 'greenwash' and are not worthy of consideration. It's that simple. Real world action.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Third, assembly members gave strong support for businesses to make low carbon products that use less energy and materials.". Broadly, members wanted the UK to quickly stop selling the most polluting vehicles on the roads - e.g Nearly two thirds of Assembly members - 62 per cent - also backed enhancing the storage of carbon in the soil.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The Bill seeks to do this by embedding environmental principles - such as the 'polluter pays principle' - in policy decision-making and by creating the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), a new body tasked with overseeing the proper application and enforcement of environmental law by ministers and public bodies.

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