Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies are being adopted too slowly to achieve even the IPCC’s 2.0° upper limit for global warming, according to a new McKinsey study. CCUS needs new business models; state subsidies alone may not create needed growth, says says McKinsey & Company report.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

UK household carbon emissions increased less than expected in 2021 despite the easing of national lockdown restrictions, according to new research by consulting firm Accenture. Specifically, 61% agreed that the energy price cap rise will negatively impact their efforts to be more sustainable. Under-30s became ‘carbon conflicted’.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” A definitive body of research has documented the negative effects of rising CO2 on crops. Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

government has a new goal to make it much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. But we don’t yet have economical ways to fly airplanes, power large ships, make key materials like steel or cement, or grow food without sending planet-warming emissions into the atmosphere. .

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Canadian climate science denier Jordan Peterson’s new right-wing project launched this week with claims that carbon emissions have “declined” and that the climate crisis is a “secular religion”. Abbott is a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. At the conference, U.S.

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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. Besides being a food innovator, AKUA is also committed to leaving a positive impact.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2022

Global tech giant Microsoft has announced it has signed a 10-year carbon removal offtake agreement with Swiss direct air capture firm Climeworks that will see it fund the removal of 10,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The production of cement, steel, paper, aluminium, chemicals, and other heavy-duty industrial materials is responsible for roughly a quarter of global greenhouse emissions, yet the biggest firms in these crucial sectors remain woefully underprepared for the net zero transition, having largely failed to roll out credible corporate climate strategies.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The difficulty of the task increases the longer peak emissions are delayed, as does the ultimate amount of negative emissions needed by 2100. 2017, Faulk, 2019).

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. In addition, sufficient siting of facilities at scale is needed to capture and process the (CO 2 ), whether the carbon is sequestered underground or put to beneficial use. The IPCC 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Powering the rig with offshore wind power will “remove up to 20,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, equivalent to taking more than 4,000 cars off the road”, Cerulean says. Twenty-three million barrels of oil equate to 9,890,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, using an emission factor of 0.43

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

per cent less Global Warming Potential than current models. per cent less Global Warming Potential (GWP) than propellants currently used in respiratory medicines. Our goal is to reduce respiratory healthcare carbon emissions without restricting patient choice or risking improvement in health outcomes.". "We

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As human society has continued to innovate exponentially, largely at the expense of the planet, scientists have hypothesized that we are beginning to enter a new epoch, or period of time in history, defined by human impact on the earth known as the Anthropocene. The Holocene. The Anthropocene.

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Low Impact

APRIL 30, 2021

After death, we don’t want our corporeal form to leave a damaging legacy – but, many current practices surrounding both burial and cremation mean people often do leave a negative legacy of environmental pollution behind them for future generations. Globally, cremation emits over 6.8 percent of world carbon dioxide emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

New report from PwC models a tiered carbon pricing framework proposed by the IMF earlier this year and finds it would broadly pay for itself, while slashing carbon emissions. per cent at a cost of less than one per cent of GDP. per cent at a cost of less than one per cent of GDP.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

UBS has become the first financial services firm to partner with Swiss direct air capture (DAC) specialist Climeworks, with the investment bank today announcing it has signed a 10-year agreement to help offset its "unavoidable" emissions and support the expansion of the nascent carbon removals sector.

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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. In its comment to DeSmog, the AHDB spokesperson also used GWP* to claim that “methane from UK livestock since 1990 has not caused global warming”.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet growth in global emissions has also slowed, and the authors of today's report maintain that mobilising the finance, scaling up the technologies, and incentivising behaviour changes needed to drive a "substantial reduction in overall fossil fuel use" remains eminently feasible and - crucially - affordable. °C," he said.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. But it also had a textbook answer: putting a price on carbon. business and political history.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree I am asking corporate leaders to support a minimum international carbon price and align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement. The public and private sector must work together to ensure a just and rapid transformation to a net zero global economy.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. and Canada alone. According to the U.S. Plant trees.

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Green Tech Challenge

JULY 10, 2019

Ocean acidification has negative effects on sea-life and the ecosystem. Aquaculture and Ocean Acidification When mixed with seawater, carbon dioxide produces an acid which corrodes calcium, making shell formation and bone growth particularly difficult. Some innovations are already available. million metric tons.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 25, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Positive (+) feedbacks reinforce changes, while negative (-) feedbacks dampen them. See the article’s Table 1 for an excellent summary of social factors represented in the model.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 8, 2023

. “Chicken and Egg” Dilemma The decarbonization of the sector rests largely on the commercialization of zero-carbon fuels and technologies for ships. It must also develop practical and cost-effective pathways for the maritime sector to be in line with a pathway that limits global warming to no more than 1.5°C.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 31, 2020

Carbon marketplace hawks credits in businesses that store CO2 with their products Gloria Oladipo Mon, 08/31/2020 – 05:00 As corporate interest in carbon removal options grows, Puro.earth , a startup from Finland, is offering a twist on carbon marketplaces.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The nations of the world agreed in 2009 to hold global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 That’s not negativity or pessimism; that’s a cold, hard reading of the situation, much like an honest cancer diagnosis from a doctor. The business community is moving on carbon and clean tech. The so-called “1.5-degree

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Both natural and technological means of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere must be rapidly scaled up in addition to deep cuts in emissions in the current decade and beyond if the world is to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, a fresh analysis today has warned.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Secondly, with regard to production, plastic bags contribute to global warming by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Eco friendly bags reduce the carbon footprint of operations Most plastic bags are made of polyethylene – a substance made from crude oil refinement and natural gas processing.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Turning down a client contract to run a major PR campaign for an oil major that has consistently lobbied against climate action and has not even signalled its intention to be part of a future net zero economy is one thing, but more and more clients from carbon intensive industries do not fall quite so easily into the climate laggard category.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The nations of the world agreed in 2009 to hold global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 That’s not negativity or pessimism; that’s a cold, hard reading of the situation, much like an honest cancer diagnosis from a doctor. The business community is moving on carbon and clean tech. The so-called “1.5-degree

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

But the new six-month Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V) acceleration program is all about ways to capture and convert carbon dioxide into something useful. Inhabitat: Please give us just a little history about the Carbon to Value Initiative. Most business accelerators focus on community economic development.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Here, BusinessGreen sums up some of its key findings and recommendations for how all actors can work together to deliver a greener, more equitable, lower carbon future. To stabilise global temperature rise at 1.5C But it warns that low ambition policies increase the risk of locking-in high carbon buildings for decades.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C by the end of the decade - a chance that is now wafer thin - global greenhouse gas emissions need to peak no later than 2025. Consequently, the question of how to spur lower carbon behaviour change among the wealthy represents a huge challenge for the net zero transition.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

But the new six-month Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V) acceleration program is all about ways to capture and convert carbon dioxide into something useful. Inhabitat: Please give us just a little history about the Carbon to Value Initiative. Most business accelerators focus on community economic development.

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