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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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. 3) It’s funding big polluters. Another is the watering down of the Climate Law, proposed in March last year. But the bank doesn’t have binding environmental criteria.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The case, supported by the environmental non-profit Uplift and the Paid to Pollute campaign, was brought by three claimants: Mikaela Loach, a climate activist and medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Kairin van Sweeden, an SNP Common Weal organiser and the daughter of a Scottish oil worker, and Jeremy Cox, a former oil refinery worker.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis. It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies.

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Front And Centered

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the next few weeks, the Washington State Department of Ecology is set to deliver a decision on whether to turn Washington’s cap and trade program into a carbon über-market tying our climate future to California and Québec. permits to pollute) into one marketplace where the permits are traded at the lowest possible cost.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Such investors rely on ESG — environmental, social and governance — scores created by ratings agencies to assess a company’s exposure to financial risks associated with issues from its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, to human rights violations in its supply chain, and executive pay. MSCI ranks all five as ‘ESG Leaders’ for carbon emissions.

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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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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. million views.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Cameron-era decisions to block onshore wind development, slash energy efficiency funding, delay green building standards, and shelve carbon capture and storage (CCS) plans undermined UK energy security and slowed the clean energy transition. Where does this rank in the halls of climate policy infamy? We should be getting clean.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Shell agreed to fund their relocation in 2002 — but Hawkins’ family was one of the few who decided to stay.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This shaped federal regulation of both indoor and outdoor air pollution. A few months later, the New York Times reported on the study, bringing national attention to the issue, and an op-ed in the Yale Law Journal described indoor air pollution, as a “menace” that required “comprehensive federal legislation.” Definitely.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Credit: TotalEnergies) Due to competition regulations from regional economic bloc COMESA, influencers in Uganda are required by law to ensure that social media users can tell the difference between authentic and paid-for content — for example, by adding “#ad” to their posts. None of the accounts did so. “If

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There’s been a 38-fold increase in sustainability-related laws and regulations since 1972. Sustainability-led initiatives help mitigate the risk of non-compliance as these laws and regulations continue to develop. Environmental and social disruptions cause a negative brand reputation (note BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ).

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

If you do not support the current target are you proposing to change the law to shift or scrap the net zero target? What would be your message to the businesses currently planning to ramp up investment in job-creating and cost competitive low carbon projects to help deliver on the UK's net zero targets?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Such investors rely on ESG — environmental, social and governance — scores created by ratings agencies to assess a company’s exposure to financial risks associated with issues from its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, to human rights violations in its supply chain, and executive pay. MSCI ranks all five as ‘ESG Leaders’ for carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The campaign resulted in a flurry of negative Telegraph opinion pieces on the subject – many falsely conflating the result with a condemnation of the UK’s net zero targets. The GWPF has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Maersk even advocated for a $150 per ton carbon tax on shipping fuel.

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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. One great example of a subsidy targeted at the community level is Clean School Bus Rebates (CSB), an Environmental Protection Agency program funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. doi: 10.1177/0739456X231163755.Zhao,

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The first is to avoid a governance gap and ensure that environmental law continues to be properly applied and enforced in a post-Brexit world. For example, healthy soils and peatland play a vital part in reducing risks from flooding and absorbing carbon. From a business perspective, legally binding targets are crucial.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Since the BRT statement there’s been a surge in aggressive carbon-reduction goals, up from just a handful of organizations a decade ago, to two-thirds of Fortune Global 500 companies with significant commitments today. The regulations have driven some companies back to a “just comply with the law” mindset (which slows their ambition).

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

As COP26 host, the UK has an enviable track record on decarbonisation and world-leading carbon, wind, and EV goals – so why then are other policy interventions continuing to push in the opposite direction? One could be forgiven for feeling somewhat confused over the government's green priorities.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Dolphins and sharks are just two other marine species that could be negatively affected by seismic surveys through behavioral changes to get away from the noise. million in compensation for the killing of 9 Nigerian activists who fought against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta during the turbulent 1990s.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. Carbon Engineering’s working pilot plant in Squamish B.C. Carbon Engineering. degrees Celsius by mid-century.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

Law and disorder. In the United States, the lack of clear, overarching climate laws has contributed to some cases. Tarantino, a partner in the San Francisco-based law firm Morrison Foerster, explained. The traditional nuisance is the factory that's flowing toxic fumes onto your property or polluting a river.

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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. Meat Industry Playbook.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

He’s an ExxonMobil scientist in a company ad that also shows other scientists in a high-tech lab working to develop “low-carbon technologies.” Basically, polluting companies increasingly need to present themselves as green to avoid accountability for their contributions to the climate crisis. That’s how PR strategies work.”

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Last year the coronavirus crisis shook the industry to its core, with the sudden drop in fuel demand from planes, cars, and power plants sparking a price crash that briefly saw the cost of a barrel of oil fall into negative territory. But are oil and gas majors actually getting the message?

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But the solutions are there On the other hand, the report stresses there is still time to deliver a low-carbon, sustainable economy where climate-resilient development becomes the norm. However, it has not afforded the same "super-deduction" style relief for low-carbon electricity generators facing a windfall tax on profits.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The federal Clean Air Act defines an indirect source as any facility, building, structure, or installation, or combination thereof, which generates or attracts mobile source activity that results in emissions of any pollutant (or precursor) for which there is an air quality standard. [6]

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The federal Clean Air Act defines an indirect source as any facility, building, structure, or installation, or combination thereof, which generates or attracts mobile source activity that results in emissions of any pollutant (or precursor) for which there is an air quality standard. [6]

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The post Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers appeared first on DeSmog.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Members of a trade association set up to encourage carpet recycling in the UK – which goes by the name ‘Carpet Recycling UK’ – are causing 128,480 tonnes of carpet to be incinerated every year – emitting dangerous toxic chemicals and significant carbon emissions, costing UK society around £16.5 Available at: [link].

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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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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