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How Green Bonds Will Fund a Green Future

3BL Media

Natural language processing analysis of publicly available earnings call transcripts and conference presentations tells us that ESG is one of the hottest topics in corporate boardrooms—alongside input-cost inflation, supply chain problems and labor shortages.

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Subsidies to biomass plant in Teesside must be stopped says environmental coalition

Envirotec Magazine

The letter argued that the contract was entered into under the Energy Act 2013 for the project to be treated as generating a form of low carbon energy. The Low Carbon Contracts Company should stand firm and not offer any further extensions to the project. ” Cut Carbon Not Forests was launched in June 2020.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company touts advancing responsibility for sourcing raw ingredients, such as cobalt, within its supply chain. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. and globally by 2040. Company profile.

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Non-combustible commitments? The Heat and Buildings Strategy unpacked

Envirotec Magazine

This is the first such strategy to appear since 2013, and the repeated delays presaging its appearance possibly owe something to the topic’s sensitive nature. The strategy attempts to present the first pathway to net zero emissions heating, and incentivization certainly features prominently, headlined by a ÂŁ3.9

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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

Companies release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere due to their operations and supply chain. Carbon offsets are tradeable instruments that allow companies and countries to compensate those hard-to-abate emissions by investing in projects which avoid or remove emissions from the atmosphere elsewhere.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

The number of standalone lab-greening efforts has grown since Harvard-trained neuroscientist Allison Paradise created My Green Lab in 2013, from about 10 to 90 groups that engage tens of thousands of scientists around the world. million two-liter soda bottles each year. . There's a ton of innovation happening," he said.

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Advancing Climate Justice Priorities Over Profit-Led Research

Stanford Social Innovation

The Cloud of Net-Zero. Carbon stories are a major feature of climate transition agendas. The current climate crisis R&D landscape features a broad suite of carbon-focused technologies, including carbon capture and carbon control, with net-zero and carbon neutrality as a prominent objective.

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