GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. body, set a course for airlines to offset emissions of international flights above a 2019-20 baseline. The sooner that the costs of carbon control are included in the costs of doing business, the sooner new technologies will be developed. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

I was paid by Shell for this work but not to write this article, which has not been reviewed by the company.) CORSIA has helped catalyze a new generation of biofuels and carbon offsets, the two primary tools for reducing the aviation industry’s contribution to climate change. Leisure travel was down even more.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

degrees Celsius as a result of climate change, the UN reports that we must collectively achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Here’s what you need to know to get started right now: What Is Climate Neutrality? Climate neutrality must be accompanied by climate adaption and biodiversity strategies.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 5, 2023

It’s an effective form of climate action due to the power exerted by advertising on public perception and social norms. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has underscored the importance of reducing demand for flying in the first place, something significantly hindered by adverts that downplay its environmental impact.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Carbon offset markets have always been complex and controversial instruments to fight climate change. Reading this article, you will better understand the carbon offsets market, carbon offsets controversy and the key initiatives to follow. Carbon Offsets Markets size.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 25, 2022

Operational audits and implementation of changes. As an article published by the investment management firm BlackRock Inc. Many companies are weighing significant choices about the future, as this online McKinsey article explores. When it comes to mitigating this risk, much of it comes down to clarity and context in messaging.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

Examples of this dynamic include projects such as a hydroelectric plant in Guatemala ( later linked to egregious human rights abuse ) and forest preservation projects in Brazil ; both offered Western companies opportunities to gain carbon offset credits, but the reality of their impact from a human rights standpoint was less understood. .

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at how the carbon finance options defined at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) can help cut greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction costs for power utilities and large energy consumers. What are the implications of Article 6?

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The Fine Print on Carbon Credits The definitions in the federal document take a fairly expansive view of “inefficient” subsidies that “encourage wasteful consumption, reduce our energy security, impede investment in clean energy sources, and undermine efforts to deal with the threat of climate change,” as the G20 defined the term in 2009.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

COP28 could mark a step toward a closer relationship between voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) and compliance markets, depending on Article 6 negotiations on issues such as eligibility on new activities. Article 6.4 The details and rules for operationalising Article 6.4 negotiations in Dubai is vital.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The state's environmental leadership also extends to climate change mitigation policy. In 2011, enforcement began of the state's low-carbon fuel standard , the world's first. They require the disclosure of climate-related information by most public companies in the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This is generally a voluntarily self-imposed deadline, usually decades away, by which the institution’s emissions will not necessarily actually reduce to zero, but rather by which they will at least be ostensibly canceled out by carbon offsets. This article originally appeared in Grist.

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B the Change

AUGUST 14, 2022

How Companies Can Best Address Climate Change Through Measurements and Accountability Climate change is already a problem, as anyone who follows the headlines can see. all follow from changing weather patterns. In the battle against climate change , companies are important actors.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore the impact of AI on carbon emissions and the climate change crisis. Understanding the Carbon Footprint of AI AI’s carbon footprint can be substantia l. Can AI be used to reduce emissions, and do these benefits outweigh the environmental costs?

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at three Cooperative Approaches as a market-based path toward net zero in advance of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). Japan works with 17 partner countries under the JCM to facilitate uptake of leading low-carbon technologies.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As our world seeks to transition to a low-carbon economy, the demand for land and renewable forest products is on the rise. We believe these resources will play a key role in addressing the impacts of climate change and the excess carbon in the atmosphere. Department of Energy.

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B the Change

JULY 28, 2022

Businesses May Soon Face New SEC Requirements By Chelsea Hicks-Webster As the Earth warms and humans experience the negative impacts of climate change , investors and society are pressuring companies to react. This pressure has led to a host of standards dictating how companies should report on their carbon performance.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 16, 2023

Carbon credit investment is going through an “ethical shakedown,” said Ivan de Klee, the head of natural capital at the U.K.-based There is a “cry for integrity” for real data, rather than modeling-based carbon offset options, de Klee added. This article was first published by Mongabay. In the U.K.,

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 26, 2024

This is in contrast to today’s most prevalent climate reporting regime, in which companies tally up the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their own operations, the electricity they buy, and the products they sell to customers — known as Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, respectively. This article originally appeared in Grist.

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

In your company, you might have responsibility for: Preparing a product marketing campaign Shaping net zero strategy Deciding on the company’s affiliations and public positions This article gives you concrete guidance on how to avoid greenwashing in all these areas. This distracts from the urgency of the climate crisis and slows action.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Innovative pilot schemes are attracting interest after failed COP28 negotiations on carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Despite limited progress on carbon trading rules at COP28 , experts believe recent trial projects will unlock investment opportunities for private investors.

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3BL Media

MARCH 11, 2022

Sustainability experts rank climate change as the top development challenge of our day, along with biodiversity loss, water scarcity, destructive resource extraction, water pollution, and poverty. Pursuing these sustainable energy practices can significantly reduce your carbon footprint. SOURCE: NRG Energy.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

We are now at the tipping point of nature-based carbon solutions, says Phil Cohn, Executive Director, Pollination. Investment into nature-based solutions (NBS) must play a critical role in mitigating the twin crises of climate change and nature loss. Leveraging the voluntary carbon market. billion by the end of this year.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In this article, we make the case that the social innovation field deserves more concerted investment and collective action to create the conditions that can unleash the best ideas for social transformation. Finally, investing in novel ways to measure the impact of social innovation will support efforts to tell our story.

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B the Change

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

By using plant-based products, ALOHA reduces carbon emissions and water waste while minimizing agricultural land use and mitigating climate change. Building on its commitment to sustainability, ALOHA is beginning the process of obtaining climate neutral certification.

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B the Change

OCTOBER 27, 2022

How Companies Can Center Most Affected Communities in Climate Action Work (Photo by Rodrigo Flores on Unsplash ) With the future of our planet under threat, more business leaders are taking action on climate change. To guide Certified B Corporations and other sustainable businesses on this climate justice work, B Lab U.S. &

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Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The social sector is not the first sector to grapple with measurement—fields like health care, genetic research, and climate change share similar complications: highly differentiated participants, infinite combinations of interventions, complex outcomes, and lots of exogenous variables. Climate Change: Carbon Registries.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Increased use of carbon offsets by corporates among drivers of future market expansion. Two new reports predict strong growth in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) this year as increasing numbers of companies globally set carbon neutrality and other climate goals that will rely partly on use of carbon offsets.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In this article, I’ll summarise key events defining 2022 and present four sustainability trends that will prepare you to create an impact in 2023. As I wrote in my article , the many sustainability frameworks suck companies’ resources and confuse stakeholders. 2022 Sustainability Summary.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Eron Bloomgarden, Founder and CEO at non-profit Emergent, noted the urgency of climate risks, with the world increasingly likely to miss the 1.5°C Under Article 6, countries can transfer carbon credits earned from the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to help one or more countries meet climate targets.

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Carlos Sanchez

MAY 7, 2020

So here you have the most boring article I had written up to now: a sustainability Jargon dictionary. Since this jargon can be a bit overwhelming, I decided to create this Sustainability Jargon Dictionary to allow you to talk to other people about Climate Change and other sustainability topics in a language they can understand.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Its primary purpose is to assess the collective progress of signatory countries in addressing climate change and limiting global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C. The CfRN is an intergovernmental organisation that was established in 2005.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

The ASA could therefore consider complaints under the social responsibility rules contained in the CAP Code in light of the “increased focus on the role of consumer behaviour change to achieve net zero targets. It differs among jurisdictions and may also differ among sectors.

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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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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As media investigations reignite the debate on the viability of carbon offsets, academics argue for wider stakeholder engagement and changes to carbon accounting approaches to build robustness. Greta Thunberg said it showed “the ugly truth of carbon offsetting”.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2022

Further, no companies disclosing from G20 countries had more than a 4% disclosure rate against the 24 key indicators in the CDP questionnaire relating to climate transition plans. Corporate strategies verified by the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) can only rely on carbon offsetting for 5-10% of their total emissions.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 5, 2024

Social impacts on local communities can make or break carbon sequestration projects. The prime purpose of voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) is to limit climate change, by allocating capital to projects that offset, remove or avoid emissions through the generation and sale of credits.

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