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.

Sustainability 94

Sustainability Carbon-negative Carbon COP 94

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Randeep Somel is VP, Global Head of Communications and Sustainability with technology firm Iron Mountain. 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.

Business Energy Monitoring 246

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 246

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sustainability Program Challenges. Despite the continued CEO efforts and rising customer, employee, investor and political interest, many businesses are struggling to integrate sustainability into the core of their operations. In 2019, a mere 16% of executives stated sustainability as a built-in business function.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Waste Waste Organic 148

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. “We

Pollution 246

Pollution Health Microplastics Transportation 246

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The expansion of sustainable technology solutions for business The sustainable technology solutions market is expanding. For instance, according to a report by Vantage Market Research , the Global Green Technology and Sustainability Market was worth $10.9 billion in 2021, a value that’s expected to rise to $44.4

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Technology Sustainability Home Energy Monitoring 78

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.

Construction 162

Construction Carbon Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative 162

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

Over 160 experts and civil society groups are calling on the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to remove carnivorous fish farming from its definition of “sustainable aquaculture” ahead of World Ocean Day on 8 June. It is an industry that depletes the world’s wild fish stocks and destroys marine ecosystems, not sustains them.”

Sustainability 113

Sustainability Pollution Seafood Microplastics 113

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.

Carbon-negative 97

Carbon-negative Carbon Biodiversity Waste 97

DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2024

The six policies targeted by the industry include the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy, the Industrial Emissions Directive Review – which aimed to reduce climate pollution such as methane released by farms – and the Sustainable Food Systems Framework, which aimed to drive the transition to more sustainable diets.

Policy 145

Policy Carbon-negative Agriculture Fossil fuels 145

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.

Agriculture 145

Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 145

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.

Carbon 139

Carbon Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Climate change 139

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?

Building Energy Monitoring 147

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 147

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

What’s Your Unique Sustainability Story? If your company has become a more sustainable and greener business, you have a powerful and beneficial story to share with your employees, customers, partners and investors. These commitments summarize your most important sustainability goals and how you will achieve them.

Sustainability 78

Sustainability Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Waste 78

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Retail business sustainability. These 7 sustainable developments are business opportunities that arise from key market trends we’re witnessing today. Using these trends we then present retail sustainability initiatives that will help you kickstart your organization’s sustainability program.

Retail 78

Retail Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

BBC Panorama investigation claims energy company's activities in Canada breach its sustainable sourcing commitments. A company executive told the Net Zero Festival late last week that Drax meets "stringent safeguards around sustainability".

Logging 81

Logging Carbon Carbon-negative Government 81

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.”

Fossil fuels 117

Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Carbon 117

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.

Europe 98

Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Since then, leading industry associations and agrochemical companies have used their lobbying might to push back against core European measures aiming to lead the transition to a more sustainable way of farming. The documents supported our talks with our EU member organisations,” a spokesperson for COPA-COGECA told DeSmog.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Home Energy Monitoring 98

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

Amidst the growing awareness about our planet’s climate crisis , there is now a burgeoning need for more sustainable food resources. As such, startup business AKUA is set to enhance the sustainability of the snack industry with its product line of kelp-based jerky and pasta. Kelp is also appealing because of its nutritional value.

Carbon-negative 28

Carbon-negative Carbon Meat alternatives Health 28

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.

Carbon-negative 74

Carbon-negative Carbon Climate change Fossil fuels 74

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The South African PR agency had won its prize for promoting the “ sustainable development ” of Uganda’s untapped oil reserves by French oil company TotalEnergies. The following day, TotalEnergies unveiled a huge “Action for Sustainability” mural in the centre of Kampala.

Fossil fuels 140

Fossil fuels Africa Sustainability Carbon-negative 140

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 Deep South.

Carbon-negative 98

Carbon-negative Pollution Logging Carbon 98

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.

Climate change 136

Climate change Startups Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 136

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.

Carbon-negative 81

Carbon-negative Law Climate change Investment 81

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.

Carbon-negative 68

Carbon-negative Carbon Government Technology 68

Business Green

APRIL 18, 2021

The first step in making real sustainable changes, is figuring out what to change. 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.

Climate change 90

Climate change Carbon-negative Government Sustainability 90

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.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Carbon 98

Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Together, these investors have pledged to reach net zero emissions by 2050, not just for their operations but across their entire asset portfolios, and help others do the same by identifying decarbonisation pathways for strategically key, high-carbon sectors. 2050 can seem a long way off - many of us will be retired," he reflects.

Carbon-negative 99

Carbon-negative Carbon Investment Climate change 99

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 14000: Sustainable business design using environmental management systems (EMS) ISO 14000 gives the framework, requirements, and standards for the implementation of an effective company-wide environmental management system (EMS). Like SSIR and HBR, the Green Business Bureau sees the leaders that seek a sustainable business world.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Organic Energy Monitor 78

Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

RESTORE – Rethinking Sustainability for a Regenerative Future ). RESTORD also picks up on a long-held belief that that one of the most vital aspects of sustainability is to inspire the next generation to reach higher, to be bolder, more courageous and more disruptive from business as usual than our generation has been.

Carbon-negative 78

Carbon-negative Education Carbon Sustainability 78

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.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Carbon 98

Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

While Alok Sharma and his colleagues at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) had favoured the ETS, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak and his team at the Treasury had reportedly preferred some form of new carbon tax. Here BusinessGreen explores the eight key lessons from the the 170-page White Paper.

Building Energy Monitoring 87

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 87

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.

Pollution 98

Pollution Agriculture Carbon-negative Climate change 98

Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

New UBS analysis warns consumption of fast fashion items is likely to decline by up to 30 per cent over the coming decade as consumers increasingly embrace more sustainable fashion choices. But more broadly it is changing consumer preferences that are most likely to drive a shift towards more sustainable operating models.

Fashion 79

Fashion Retail Carbon-negative Demand 79

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The database compiled by Global Energy Monitor documents thousands of cases from a long line of prominent American businesses working with the same lobbyists – often the same firms, and in many cases, the same individuals – as the oil and gas industry. This is the decisive decade. Credit: Mike Mozart. (CC CC BY 2.0). Blocking Climate Action.

Energy Monitor 98

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 98

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

IMS does not make specific (quantitative) claims about emissions for meat companies or any particular organization — the main role of IMS is to promote sustainability, not certify or police it. GLEAM documentation can be found here. The LEAP document for assessing nutrient cycles can be found here.

Climate change 95

Climate change Agriculture Sustainability Methane 95

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.

Climate change 98

Climate change Fossil fuels Methane Natural gas 98