GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Shooting for the moon: 3 radical innovations to remove atmospheric CO2. Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere may be as difficult as getting to the moon. . Launched on Earth Day 2019, Project Vesta aims to enhance natural weathering processes to accelerate carbon capture and storage in the world's oceans.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In 2022, Nasdaq OneReport became the first Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) software provider to receive GRI certification for the revised Universal and Topic Standards, released in Fall 2021, through GRI’s Certified Software and Tools Provider program. The issuance equals 2.4x growth from 2021.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 8, 2020

There isn’t as much scrutiny on the company going public as there would be with a traditional IPO, which is why SPAC-enabled deals are a controversial topic right now. A SPAC can only buy one company but the team plans to evaluate carbon removal and avoidance businesses. What is CRIS looking for? Pull Quote. Climate Change.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2021

An inside look at pricing in the forest carbon market. And on July 21, Apple committed to become 100 percent carbon neutral across its entire business, supply chain and product life cycle by 2030. . Instead, carbon project developers that act as the intermediaries between the two making everything happen. . Wilder Person.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future. Beyond 2030, BCG aspires to be "climate positive" — by removing more carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere on an ongoing basis than it actually emits through its own activities. Heather Clancy. Tue, 09/01/2020 - 00:02. Corporate Strategy.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Digging into the debate over soil carbon credits (36:45). The carbon-reduction promises related to regenerative agriculture loom large, and the debate over the value of offsets related to this sequestration is just getting started. Carbon Removal. Carbon Removal. E-mail us at 350@greenbiz.com. Contributors.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

You can get carbon credits for urban forestry . Because urban forestry generally has a relatively low carbon removal impact, fewer organizations are focused on creating carbon credits for these projects. It connects businesses with urban forestry projects and then issues a certified carbon credit. .

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 29, 2020

market; removal joins the. carbon agenda. Climate’s urgent need. is restored forests! those one trillion trees. Carbontech is on the VERGE. Carbontech hits the. New Year’s Resolutions. Watch GreenFin grow, help. Big Oil shrink and build racial. justice for all. Corporate Strategy. Climate Change. Sustainability.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

This week, as the full fleet of GreenBiz weekly newsletters focuses on the topic of net zero, I thought it might be helpful to start off with some simple questions that seem to encircle that goal. Is net zero the same as carbon neutral? And even that goal sometimes gets knocked as being too little, too late. Pull Quote.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 10, 2023

Carbon removal is a hot topic in sustainability, with many companies involved in direct air capture. Read the full story at Tech.eu.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

Numbers around the carbon removal potential are far more elusive, but Boston-based venture capital firm Clean Energy Ventures (CEV) began asking for them several years ago. Carbon Removal. The company closed a $3.2 It's not just about solar panels and wind turbines. There are many ways to reduce emissions," Miller said.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 23, 2023

You’ll also find data and commentary on the state of biodiversity, from our partners at S&P Global; and on green jobs and careers, from LinkedIn.

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GreenBiz

MAY 28, 2020

How Stripe’s ‘negative emissions’ team picked its first four carbon removal projects. Among the many notes to myself about potential follow-up stories lies my scribbled reminder to check in on online payment tech company Stripe’s pledge last year to put at least $1 million annually toward carbon removal activities.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In the quest for carbon offsets, (almost) anything goes. What Joe Biden could do to cultivate carbon removal innovation (16:35) . Nonprofit Carbon180 has plenty of ideas for how the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture can collaborate to cultivate new economic opportunities centered on carbon removal.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

Can companies rely on regenerative agriculture's carbon removal impact? FedEx wants to offset its carbon footprint, and Indigo knows farmers who can help. These methods will store carbon in soils, earning FedEx carbon offsets. Soil carbon sequestration markets will grow but are unlikely carbon emissions saviors.

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GreenBiz

JULY 21, 2020

Apple embeds racial justice into new supply-chain carbon neutrality pledge. With its latest set of combined sustainability commitments, Apple is pushing for carbon neutrality across its entire business by the end of this decade, including its supply chain and the life cycle for its products. Heather Clancy. Tue, 07/21/2020 - 04:13.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Inside Cargill’s experiment to pay farmers for carbon sequestration. Like many other food companies, it’s dedicating resources to promoting regenerative agricultural practices among the farmers and seeking ways that farms can profit from their efforts to sequester carbon dioxide. Carbon Removal. Carbon Removal.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Traditionally, offset markets have been focused on credits for atmospheric carbon sequestration or restoration projects. Similar to carbon credits, these reef credits are sold by farmers or project developers to organizations and companies looking to offset their environmental footprints. Jesse Klein. Mon, 12/07/2020 - 01:45.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While our stakeholders' expectations and demands vary by topic and timing, it is our responsibility to navigate the ambiguity in a way that honors our commitment to people, the planet and prosperity for current and future generations.” Northern Trust managed its business operations to achieve carbon neutrality for the first time in 2022.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Hopeful because it felt that an overwhelming number of climate conversations explored specific topics deeply, were centered on action today , and strove to rise above, or even slice through, the depths of jargon that often make it difficult to get to the “so what really are we going to do about it?”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 25, 2021

Jope also explained Tuesday that achieving net-zero by 2039 would mean ensuring that the emissions associated with Unilever's products are reduced towards zero "as far as possible, with residual emissions balanced by carbon removals, through either natural technological carbon sequestration such as reforestation or carbon capture and storage.".

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea. Carbon capture will play an important role in reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions, but there's no reason it needs to be limited to stationary applications," said Michael Traver, head of OGCI's transport workstream. Michael Holder.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

the 106-year-old Australian recycling giant, points out that in conversations about climate and carbon, topics like renewable-energy investments and offshore wind farms tend to attract the lion’s share of the attention paid to problems and solutions. tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions compared to producing steel from raw materials.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Is your carbon accounting system prepared to count remote work? Over the course of the pandemic, I’ve seen numerous dispatches issued by software developers touting the carbon footprint reduction potential of shifting to collaboration applications for many employee meetings. . Heather Clancy. Thu, 05/27/2021 - 02:00.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Biomass is fast becoming a topic of interest for governments looking for solutions to the climate crisis and cleaner energy sources. Of its multiple potential uses, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) may be one of the best ways it can help achieve net-zero emissions goals. Read the full story from the World Resources Institute.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us. A radical increase in available carbon emissions data may be just around the corner. Sustainable investments should grow as divestment from carbon-intensive industries intensifies. The age of radically transparent and democratised carbon emissions data is coming.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Added to this, FLAG activities offer opportunities to remove carbon from the atmosphere, which is critical in achieving net zero and keeping global warming below 1.5°C. We still have a long way to go, but this work has undoubtedly enhanced our maturity in this topic. Scientists agree that warming beyond 1.5°C

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Beyond human rights disclosures embedded in GRI’s Universal Standards 2021 and GRI’s social topic standards, the GRI Climate Change exposure draft places a great focus on the human aspect of climate change and the concept of just transition.

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GreenBiz

JULY 29, 2021

"I’ve always been interested in design and construction, but I only recently learned the game-changing impact the construction industry can have in improving the environment by adoption of innovative, lower-carbon techniques," Keaton said when the relationship was announced in April. Carbon Removal. Pull Quote. Infrastructure.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 7, 2020

The result, according to the method’s proponents , is complex ecosystems perfectly suited to local conditions that improve biodiversity, grow quickly and absorb more carbon dioxide. Carbon sinks. It’s estimated that new or restored forests could remove up to 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2050.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

Using waste carbon feedstocks to produce chemicals. Moreover, using waste carbon to make chemicals also can reduce manufacturers’ reliance on fossil fuels such as crude petroleum and natural gas, an important factor, particularly for the European Union and China, given the volatility in sourcing and pricing of fossil fuels.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The goals were based on a key-topics assessment that helped the company identify and prioritize the issues most relevant to the business and its stakeholders. Content within this report has been reviewed and approved by the company’s ESG Council, internal experts and vice presidents who oversee relevant ESG topics across the business.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Carbon 'rainbow': Unilever pledges $1.2B The new program, Clean Future, is largely focused on identifying and commercializing alternative sources of carbon for surfactants, the petrochemical molecules found in cleaning products that help remove grease from fabrics and surfaces. Unilever's "carbon rainbow" classification system.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 18, 2021

From an established forest carbon marketplace? "We Of course, there’s also the expectation, with Pachama’s involvement, that these projects will originate new carbon offsets, which are in increasingly short supply as big businesses shower the world with net-zero pledges. Carbon Removal. Pull Quote. Tree Planting.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

Growing a carbon market for urban forests (34:45). The process of issuing carbon credits for reforestation projects in places such as rainforests as well established — not so much when it comes to trees growing in the shadow of skyscrapers. Carbon Removal. You must subscribe to each newsletter in order to receive it.

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