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Why Land Remediation Is the Future of Carbon Offsets

3BL Media

A recent report from McKinsey & Company offered some hard evidence for what environmentalists have long known to be a mounting concern: The current carbon offset market will struggle in the next thirty years to meet the exponentially increasing demands placed on it by corporate America’s collective drive to meet their carbon pledges.

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Etsy takes aim at shipping and packaging in setting 2030 net-zero goal

GreenBiz

In addition to the net-zero goal, the e-commerce site has set two science-based targets using a baseline year of 2019, which are pending validation from the SBT i. In recent years, Etsy has been working on addressing the carbon impact of its marketplace, which is made up of nearly 4.5

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Is carbon offsetting enough?

Envirotec Magazine

How carbon offsetting compares to carbon reduction. It made clear that more must be done to reduce and offset carbon emissions. In the years since 2015’s Paris Climate Accord, many industrial businesses have begun using carbon offsetting strategies to balance the emissions of their operations.

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Nestlé Moves Away from Carbon Offsets to Focus on Emissions Reductions Across Brands

ESG Today

In the statement, the Nestlé spokesperson said: “We are moving away from investing in carbon offsets for our brands to invest in programs and practices that help reduce GHG emissions in our own supply-chain and operations, where it makes the most difference to reach our net zero ambition.”

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Can Shell help pilot a new era of sustainable aviation?

GreenBiz

Over the past year, I’ve been working with Royal Dutch Shell’s aviation division — a relatively small slice of the $344 billion (2019 revenue) energy behemoth — to develop a series of video interviews focusing on what it will take to make aviation sustainable. (I Passenger volumes took a nosedive, down precipitously from 2019 levels.

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Delivering Tangible Climate Action Through the Circular Economy

3BL Media

Additional ways to reduce your carbon footprint While reduce emissions is always the goal, sometimes it’s necessary to look at additional ways to reduce your carbon footprint. Carbon offsetting is a tangible way for businesses to take responsibility for their carbon emissions.

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Fifth Third Bank Makes BLINK Festival Carbon Neutral in Cincinnati

3BL Media

29 that is measuring the carbon impact and providing verified carbon offsets for the lighting installations at BLINK, Illuminated by ArtsWave, in Cincinnati. The Bank has been an active participant in BLINK since 2019.

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