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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

JANUARY 13, 2025

Coming at the end of what is going down as the hottest year on record, it was easy to feel that the annual meetings of signatories to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), plus the circus of non-governmental organizations, lobbyists and negotiators that has grown up around them, have failed to deliver.

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Driving Sustainability: FedEx's Commitment to Carbon Neutral Operations and a Greener Global Supply Chain by 2040

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Further, the company continues to address the challenges presented by climate change as it works toward a goal of carbon neutral global operations by 2040, guided by our strategy: decarbonize whats possible, co-create with purpose, and neutralize whats left.

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Algae-to-Biofuel Company Viridos Raises $25 Million from Bill Gates, United Airlines & Chevron After Exxon Exits

ESG Today

MARCH 13, 2023

Viridos had formed an R&D partnership with Exxon in 2010, collaborating on the development of next-generation biofuels from algae. Breakthrough Energy Ventures’ Carmichael Roberts said: “Decarbonizing the heavy transportation industry is critical for addressing climate change and therefore a top priority for BEV.

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Meet the Climate Scientists Taking Arctic Icebergs-in-a-Bottle to Glastonbury

3BL Media

JUNE 22, 2022

The Arctic Basecamp team is serving up a climate change warning — in a bottle. The idea of Arctic Basecamp emerged from a scientific trip through the NorthWest Passage on a Canadian research vessel in 2010. SOURCE: Global Citizen. DESCRIPTION: A bottle of water. It looks ordinary enough. OK, now for the actually serious stuff.

Climate Scientist

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The Global 100 list: How the world’s most sustainable corporations are driving the green transition

Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

Sims recycles scrap metal in 30 countries, and Brambles rents recycled shipping pallets and containers around the globe. Nowhere is that more true than with regard to climate change and the clean energy transition. Two Australian companies, Sims Ltd. and Brambles Ltd., top the 2024 ranking.

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Ramping up wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles can’t solve our energy problem

Gail Tverberg

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Energy-Complexity Spiral from 2010 presentation called The Energy-Complexity Spiral by Joseph Tainter. I wonder if we are already starting to see simplification in trade, especially international trade, because shipping (generally using oil products) is becoming high-priced. Other measures similar to EROEI make a similar mistake.

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New Murals Celebrate the Farmers Behind Our Food

3BL Media

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Because of their affiliation with Fairtrade, Carlixta and Francisco have received trainings about climate change and best practices for adjusting to changing weather. Climate change is a reality. The climate has changed a lot, and we have been affected.

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Today’s Energy Crisis Is Very Different from the Energy Crisis of 2005

Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Unconventional oil production has been rising since, say, 2010, so this approximation is better for years 2010 and subsequent years on the chart, than it is for earlier years. This natural gas could be shipped as liquefied natural gas (LNG) around the world at great cost. The top line is total world crude oil production.

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4 Steps Your Company Can Take to Move Toward Net Zero

B the Change

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

How to Set Business Targets That Help Address Climate Change (Photo by Andreas Gücklhorn on Unsplash ) This article by Matthew Lynch , Rob Klassen , and Chelsea Hicks-Webster is part of “ The Basics ” series by the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS) that provides essential knowledge about core business sustainability topics.

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Study proves bits of DNA in seawater correlate to the weight of netted fish, say researchers

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New tool will help census oceans from surface to seafloor, monitor fish, track shifting marine life due to climate change, around coral reefs, aquaculture or wind farms, oil rigs, and more. Humanity is seemingly a step closer to answering one of the most ancient of questions – “how many fish in the sea?”

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Climate Talks - Episode 05: Counting Carbon

3BL Media

DECEMBER 1, 2022

SOPHIA LI: So what are the most effective steps we can take—as individuals that feed into the collective—to slow the rate of climate disruption? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from the United Nations is one of the most trusted sources of information we have on the climate.

Decarbonize

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Cod in Decline – The Long View of Fishery Sustainability

Sense and Sustainability

MAY 27, 2020

But fisheries, i.e. concentrated fishing areas where fish live and spawn, are vital both in the economic bonds linking the bounties of nature to our basic needs, and in the story of climate change and environmental degradation.

Shipping

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How Energy Transition Models Go Wrong

Gail Tverberg

JUNE 18, 2021

Instead, world leaders find a different problem, namely climate change, to emphasize above other problems. Conveniently, climate change seems to have some of the same solutions as “running out of fossil fuels.” This bias would be expected to lead to overstated estimates of future climate change.

Climate Change

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Study proves bits of DNA in seawater correlate to the weight of netted fish, say researchers

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

New tool will help census oceans from surface to seafloor, monitor fish, track shifting marine life due to climate change, around coral reefs, aquaculture or wind farms, oil rigs, and more. Humanity is seemingly a step closer to answering one of the most ancient of questions – “how many fish in the sea?”

Shipping

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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

Climate Change

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Understanding Deglobalization: What the Backlash to Trade Liberalization Means for Business Growth and Global Inequality

James Militzer

MARCH 14, 2023

These smaller enterprises faced barriers to participating in the export market, which included substantial costs, such as government registration fees and insurance and shipping expenses, that small firms were too credit-constrained to overcome. High-income countries are arguably the biggest proponents of this retrenchment.

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Russia’s War From a Climate Perspective

Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

Russia has lost its ‘most favored nation’ status and Russian airplanes and ships are banned in many countries. Both climate change and Putin’s invasion are directly tied to fossil fuels. Russia’s Dismal Climate Change Policy and Silencing of Environmentalists.

Climate Change

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Electric Trucks Are Already Lower Carbon Than Rail In Much Of North America

CleanTechnica

MAY 17, 2024

In 2010, I was consulting to Canadian National Railroad, at the time with the legendary Hunter Harrison as CEO. It was one of many times my decarbonization proposals bounced off of organizations, something that’s been inordinately useful in helping me understand how hardcore businesses view the space.

Decarbonize

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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

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Algae-to-Biofuel Company Viridos Raises $25 Million from Bill Gates, United Airlines & Chevron After Exxon Exits

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Meet the Climate Scientists Taking Arctic Icebergs-in-a-Bottle to Glastonbury

The Global 100 list: How the world’s most sustainable corporations are driving the green transition

Ramping up wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles can’t solve our energy problem

New Murals Celebrate the Farmers Behind Our Food

Today’s Energy Crisis Is Very Different from the Energy Crisis of 2005

4 Steps Your Company Can Take to Move Toward Net Zero

Study proves bits of DNA in seawater correlate to the weight of netted fish, say researchers

Climate Talks - Episode 05: Counting Carbon

Cod in Decline – The Long View of Fishery Sustainability

How Energy Transition Models Go Wrong

Study proves bits of DNA in seawater correlate to the weight of netted fish, say researchers

IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Understanding Deglobalization: What the Backlash to Trade Liberalization Means for Business Growth and Global Inequality

Russia’s War From a Climate Perspective

Electric Trucks Are Already Lower Carbon Than Rail In Much Of North America

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