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Carbon marketplace hawks credits in businesses that store CO2 with their products

GreenBiz

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

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Is 'net zero' much ado about nothing?

GreenBiz

For those not yet up to speed, net zero refers to the goal of emitting no greenhouse gases by a specific date, typically 2050. Is net zero the same as carbon neutral? You can become carbon neutral simply by buying offsets — for a year’s worth of driving or air travel, for example. First, what is net zero?

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What’s the difference between net-zero and carbon-neutral policies?

Renewable Energy World

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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Is Carbon-Neutral Possible for Airlines?

U.S. Green Technology

For aviation, reaching carbon neutrality to be sustainable is going to be harder than with other industries. Still, experts remain hopeful that carbon-neutral airlines will become the norm in the future. Carbon neutrality refers to maintaining a net-zero level of carbon emissions.

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The Journey Towards Carbon Neutrality

Energy Central

BACKGROUND: The first reference to climate change started towards the end of the 1950s – Spencer Weart, Retired director of Center for History of Physics, Maryland in an email expressed, “It was just a possibility for the 21st Century which seemed very far away, but seen as a danger that should be prepared for” Weart’s Discovery (..)

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Wastewater analysis at Bolivian lithium deposit explores how to avoid past environmental mistakes

Envirotec Magazine

The concentrated lithium is eventually moved from the evaporation ponds to a nearby facility for processing into lithium carbonate the material that goes into rechargeable batteries. In natural brine samples, the team measured arsenic levels between 1 and 9 ppm, as well as relatively neutral acidity.

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Climate Crisis, Global Warming, Carbon Neutral, Zero Waste: Meaningful Buzzwords or Passing Fads?

Green Business Bureau

Terms such as climate change, climate crisis, carbon neutral, negative emissions, etc. Traditional Knowledge – Referred to as local knowledge. This term refers to Indigenous peoples’ systems of observing, recording, communicating and preserving the environment around them. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5