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Collecting Air Emissions Data for Compliance and Carbon Reduction

3BL Media

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides an Emission Factor Database (AP-42) that offers emission factors for a variety of industries and pollutants. Scope 3, or other indirect emissions, are all other indirect emissions in the value chain, such as from employee commuting, transportation, waste management, and product use.

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New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald's, Netflix

GreenBiz

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Jenna Jambeck, known for advancing an understanding of marine plastic waste, has been named Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering at the University of Georgia.

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Empowering Young Leaders to Solve the World’s Energy Challenges: Insights From Nine Business Case Studies Highlight Paths to a Sustainable Future

James Militzer

C threshold (above pre-industrial levels) stipulated in the Paris Agreement. In retrospect, how should the VW CEO have reacted to the news from the EPA? As we move further into 2023, it can take a lot of energy to think about energy. The world has a daunting task in front of us if we hope to limit global warming to the 1.5°C

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ESG Explainer: Managing the Methane Menace

Chris Hall

The Observatory will initially focus on methane emissions from the fossil fuel sector, expanding to other emitting sectors including agriculture and waste. Methane causes 17% of global GHGs from human activities, principally from energy, agriculture and waste industries. To keep a global 1.5?

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

This law will help America to reduce energy waste, and improve resiliency. The final agreement requests parties to come to COP27 next year in Egypt with updated plans on how to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Under the Paris Agreement, countries were only obliged to update their goals by 2025.

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Sustainability Backsliding Doesn’t Have to Mean Back to Square One

Stanford Social Innovation

The head of the EPA has asked the White House to repeal the endangerment finding, which says that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare, contradicting climate science. For some, maintaining sustainability is a strategic imperative that cannot be quickly abandoned or hidden.

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Biden’s Climate Ambition Weathers a Political Storm

Chris Hall

billion metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2020 alone, said the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA). After the four wasted years of the Trump administration, President Joe Biden has been left with the difficult task of both undoing the damage done and attempting to forge a new consensus at a time of division and contention. .