GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Today's carbon-negative fuel. Why placing environment, social and governance principles at the center of COVID-19 recovery places makes sense for resilience and the bottom line. Exploring the potential for fleet emissions reductions through renewable natural gas. Register here for the discussion at 1 p.m.

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Packaging Waste Waste Plastics 226

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. Birds and plants, and forests’ important carbon stores, are being damaged by this industry.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2024

Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Puro Renewables upcycles carbon-negative biowaste to reduce the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and carbon footprint associated with typical plastic products. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.

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Building Energy Monitoring Startups Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 105

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Twenty startups joined our community in Q3 2021, working on innovations as diverse as carbon-negative fats, energy-efficient membrane materials for chemical separations, and scalable electric vehicle charging solutions for high-density urban settings. Circe Bioscience tailor-makes fats through a carbon negative fermentation process.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits. The Holocene.

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Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2025

BlueShift whose electrochemical systems unlock resilient, rapidly scalable critical mineral supply chains and cost-effective CO 2 removalclosed a $2.1M Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative) alum Capture6 , which removes carbon from the atmosphere while producing clean water and other industrial products from saltwater, raised $27.5M

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Renew CO 2 offers cost-competitive, carbon-negative monoethylene glycol. Resiliency + Adaptation. Transportation. Nfinite Nanotech ’s smart nanocoating enables sustainable packaging to keep products fresh and eliminate waste at scale. WIP International Services provides pure drinking water from humidity in air.

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Startups Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

UK, Germany, South Korea among nations offering up green stimulus measures but these are still dwarfed by carbon-intensive bailouts, according to Vivid Economics. Across 17 major economies, announced stimulus packages will pump trillions of dollars directly into sectors that have a large and lasting negative impact on nature.".

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Packaging Carbon-negative Transportation Resilience 84

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

But discussions of natural gas’ negative aspects — namely excessive, typically underreported methane emissions that are considerably worse for the climate than carbon emissions — did not take place. Renewable carbon gases is a euphemism for biomass and hydrogen, among others.

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Natural gas Methane Fossil fuels Climate change 116

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Creating sustainable ski resorts builds resilience. Sustainability pushes resorts away from the negative spiral, where high carbon footprints catalyze climate change – which could ultimately render the ski industry obsolete.

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Sustainability Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Climate change 148

Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

This lifecycle starts with the sourcing of natural resources via agriculture, to the distribution of ingredients to manufacture food items, and then the transportation of these food items across the globe for their consumption and disposal. Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment.

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Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Waste Waste 148

Smart Energy International

JUNE 2, 2022

Scott Mathieson, network planning and regulation director at SP Energy Networks, stated: “The increasingly complex needs of our energy system, coupled with the significant increase in both demand for green electricity and generation our networks need to accommodate, means it is crucial we ensure its continued security and resilience.

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Electricity Resilience Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 98

Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

With major global economies on lockdown in a bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus, demand for oil from transport and energy has taken a dramatic downturn, while low cost producing countries such as Saudi Arabia and Russia have made moves this year to slash their prices.

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Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Resilience Investment 77

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Climate change is directly caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from electricity and heat production, buildings, transportation, land use and degradation, and most importantly, industry. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Resilience 88

Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Climate change is a transnational challenge which threatens global resilience and our shared security and prosperity," said Sir Mike Wigston KCB CBE ADC, air chief marshal and chief of air staff. "I The flight was made the Ikarus C42 the "first aircraft powered by synthetic fuel", according to the Guinness World Records.

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Fossil fuels Aviation Carbon-negative Carbon 101

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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Logging Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Health 145

Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

The report - titled Principles for a low-carbon, sustainable and net-zero aligned economic recovery post COVID-19 - suggests five key government interventions aimed at harnessing growing political, business, and consumer will to tackle the climate emergency, as well as a raft of specific policy recommendations.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 24, 2024

Greentown Boston) Ensovi’s enzyme-based process for creating organic chemicals from CO 2 , renewable power, and water is carbon-negative and can be competitive with petroleum. It also functions as a strategic placement service, helping energy companies find and hire technical experts.

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Startups HVAC Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral 59

Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 19, 2025

Mote Hydrogen Secures $7M to Advance Carbon-Negative Biomass-to-Hydrogen Technology Mote Hydrogen, a trailblazer in biomass-to-hydrogen production, has recently raised $7 million in funding, marking the first phase of its Series A round. Importantly, this funding is not merely about building infrastructure.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

With major global economies on lockdown in a bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus, demand for oil from the transport and energy sectors has taken a dramatic downturn, pushing down prices that were already falling thanks to moves by OPEC to maintain production even as demand slowed.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Climate change is directly caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from electricity and heat production, buildings, transportation, land use and degradation, and most importantly, industry. There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Resilience 78

Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The steps that the UK takes to rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic can accelerate the transition to a successful and low-carbon economy and improve our climate resilience. Transport contributes our highest emissions as a country, but progress is necessary across the board. We can and must do more.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Government Policy 87

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. As seen with Green Business Bureau’s EcoPlanner , initiatives can be categorized by business areas such as office space, bathroom and break room, and transportation.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

Our future requires and depends on constant change and a new way of thinking, everything we do or design will have an impact, both positive and negative, and our goal is to enable the transition to continuous positive experiences across all sectors of society. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Schools of all types can minimize negative environmental impacts by changing how they operate starting with a few simple green practices and instilling this eco-mindedness into students. Encourage alternative transportation. Parents will agree as, “more than 80% of parents in the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

First, it must understand the labour market impacts of decommissioning fossil fuel power plants and reskilling workers to build and manage the new low-carbon economy. Second, it must also engage with the social impacts of new low-carbon energy systems and infrastructures, with an emphasis on equity and justice concerns.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 87

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Fortunately, with current solar, battery and heat pump technology every building with a sunny roof under two stories can be a net generator of energy — essentially carbon negative. Moreover, with grid-connected batteries, buildings can easily provide the resiliency that our grid needs during power shortages and blackouts.

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Electricity HVAC Natural gas Carbon-negative 130

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Increased awareness of the negative impact of business on the environment is driving companies to develop sustainable and climate-friendly goods and services. This includes tech and offerings like electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, sustainable travel programs, as well as clean energy solutions — like wind, solar and geothermal.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Last year, global carbon emissions hit an all-time high of 40.9 But all that carbon doesn’t have to wind up in the atmosphere. They pour in the product and, when it’s ready a few hours later, take a sip.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Plastics Startups 79

Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

That is the top line conclusion of a new report published this morning by the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI), which analyses nearly 170 companies working in carbon-intensive industrial sectors, including mining giant Rio Tinto, packaging company DS Smith, chemicals powerhouse BASF, cement manufacturer LaFarge Holcim, and steel major Tata Steel.

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Carbon-negative Climate change Carbon Recycling 81

Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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Demand Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Transportation 56

Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

How do you plan to make our homes and infrastructure more resilient to levels of heat that will become ever more frequent and intense? How do you plan to make the UK more resilient to the drought, wildfire, and flood risks that will also increase in the coming years? How do you plan to tackle the risk of such impacts?

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 28, 2024

The focus for the Horizon Europe climate, energy and mobility ‘cluster’ for its forthcoming three years is on the green and digital transitions and EU resilience. Moreover, many challenges in the energy and transport sectors are closely interlinked and must be addressed in a holistic, inclusive and mission-driven approach.

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Energy Energy Europe Carbon-neutral 52

Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Whether governments use their economic recovery plans to support decarbonisation and long-term economic resilience is now the single biggest question at the top of the climate agenda. Meanwhile, public polling suggests bailing out high carbon companies without attaching carbon reduction targets would be an unpopular move.

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Carbon-negative Climate change Politics Government 78

Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Sustainability is a much broader idea, focusing on a company’s role in society, how it creates value by managing its environmental and social impacts (both positive and negative), and how its actions affect a wide range of stakeholders. On the ESG front, there are two different forms of backlash going on. of the “anti-woke” movement.

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