ESG Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Based in Silicon Valley, CarbonZero.Eco was launched by Moss, reportedly driven by a passion to make a positive impact on the planet, and following engagement with experts in carbon capture and carbon offset. milliontons of almond shells which would normally decompose and release their carbon in to the atmosphere into biochar.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Last year, experts with Penn State’s PlantVillage project, which helps smallholder farmers adapt to climate change, arrived to train Kitol and others in the area on a clever way to turn mathenge from a problem into an asset. They’re helping mitigate climate change while adapting to its ravages.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

As a result, to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, the aviation sector will need to rely on carbon offsets and removals to neutralize residual emissions. American also partners with Cool Effect, a leading nonprofit provider of carbon offsets, to give our customers the opportunity to purchase offsets.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As awareness of climate change grows, so does the responsibility of organizations to minimize their environmental impact. Events, from corporate meetings to large-scale conferences, can have a significant carbon footprint if not managed with sustainability in mind. Location: Look for venues that prioritize sustainability.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Climate change can impact our timberlands and operations in both negative and positive ways. Impacts are more likely to be opportunities, leveraging the benefits of forests and wood products as natural climate solutions.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: At Qualcomm, we believe we can help address the environmental, social, and economic impacts of climate change by working together across all sectors of society. How can Qualcomm technologies be used to address the climate crisis? SOURCE: Qualcomm. Why did Qualcomm decide to commit to net-zero? Why 2040 vs 2050?

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Globally, there is an urgent need to take climate action and address related risks and opportunities as we transition to a lower carbon economy. The physical and transition effects of climate change can influence a business’ bottom line and its ability to compete in the future.

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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.

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3BL Media

APRIL 13, 2022

DESCRIPTION: We believe that climate change is a serious environmental, social and economic threat that calls for immediate and concerted action among all sectors of society. We expect our manufacturing suppliers to reduce water waste and to treat wastewater according to regulatory standards prior to any discharge or disposal.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

At the same time, we have defined targets to reduce waste and water use. One of our critical sustainability goals is to mitigate climate change while improving the efficiency of our operations. Carbon: The race to zero. C, and reaching net-zero global carbon emissions by 2050. Carbon offsets.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2024

While almost a third of those questioned (33%) believed carbon offsetting is a viable strategy for achieving net-zero emissions, just 37% have employed it as a strategy to reduce their businesses’ environmental impact.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2022

CORSIA, or Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, is a carbon offset and carbon reduction scheme to lower CO2 emissions for international flights, helping to curb the aviation impact on climate change.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

While Net-zero carbon means making changes to reduce carbon emissions to the lowest amount – and offsetting as a last resort. The offsetting is used to counteract the essential emissions that remain after all available reduction initiatives have been implemented. Projects can offer a range of benefits.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We’ve all experienced huge changes in the workplace over the past few years. We’ve dealt with a global pandemic, an energy crisis, an increasing awareness of climate change, and all this and more has taken its toll. For example, AI can help businesses simulate the carbon impact of different IT purchasing decisions upfront.

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3BL Media

JULY 18, 2022

While specific to the aviation industry, the organization provides guidance to 193 countries by creating policies and updating Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) on carbon emissions for aircrafts. Seek only the highest-quality carbon-reducing projects to supplement your company’s existing efforts to reduce emissions.

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3BL Media

MAY 4, 2022

Waste management. Guided by the SmartGreen Philosophy, Aflac identifies and evaluates environmental risks, including climate change, based on financial impact and probability. Climate Risk Management. Carbon neutrality in all Scopes by 2040 and net zero emissions by 2050. Strategic sourcing and procurement.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The European Emission Trading System forms one of the EU’s key policy tools addressing climate change, putting a price on carbon emissions.

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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. AI technologies are already helping companies cut waste, improve resource use, and lower their environmental impact.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

SAF is generally produced from sustainable resources, like waste oils and agricultural residues. United Airlines has committed to fully reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 without relying on carbon offsets. United CEO Scott Kirby, said: “Solving climate change is doable but it requires hard work and real leadership.

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ESG Today

APRIL 22, 2024

Microsoft, carbon capture technology company Aker Carbon Capture and carbon removal project developer CO280 announced the launch of a new collaboration aimed at scaling up the carbon removal market across the full value chain, from physical project development to digital measurement, tracking, verification and reporting.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

In Aotearoa New Zealand, 85% of buildings and construction steel waste is recycled 3 - making it an important part of the circular economy, where materials are reused, repaired, refurbished, and recycled for as long as possible. Zero-carbon steel isn’t yet commercially available. Steel will continue to be a go-to material.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Facility optimization is the process of conducting assessments of a company’s sites in order to find opportunities for improvement, whether it is in energy, water, waste, or any other resource. Carbon Offsets: A carbon offset is the avoidance or sequestration of greenhouse gases outside of the reporting company’s operations.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And how can businesses tackle them in order to pursue their climate change goals? You can’t offset until you’ve reduced to the minimum. Businesses don’t need to make the choice between reducing carbon emissions and offsetting, they can do both in tandem. Reducing carbon emissions is boring and complicated.

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3BL Media

MAY 27, 2022

The 2017 goals were to purchase 100% renewable power and to reduce its energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, water use and waste sent to landfills by 2022. Divert 75% of waste from going to landfills (previously 20% waste reduction goal). Divert 75% of waste from going to landfills (previously 20% waste reduction goal).

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3BL Media

MAY 9, 2022

The 2017 goals were to purchase 100% renewable power and to reduce its energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, water use and waste sent to landfills by 2022. Divert 75% of waste from going to landfills (previously 20% waste reduction goal). Divert 75% of waste from going to landfills (previously 20% waste reduction goal).

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 12, 2024

Building on a long-held interest in the impact of climate change on the financial sector, Gosling has conducted much work in the area, including joint research with the UK Investment Forum. “In And in that, he includes asset owners. This is actually where I think the investment industry has generally done too little,” he insisted.

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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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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 30, 2022

The reasoning is simple: A traditional carbon offset only prevents additional CO 2 from entering the atmosphere (instead of removing already-emitted CO 2 ). As a result, since it does not physically undo the emissions of the purchaser, there is no quantity of traditional offsets that can, at scale, get the world to net-zero.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As Carbon Tracker CEO Mark Campanale noted recently: “There’s going to be an awful lot of oil refinery capacity the world doesn’t need in a 1.5°C Carbon markets’ culture clash – Is the problem with carbon offsets as much cultural as scientific? C world, that’s going to have to be written down.”

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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). Ensure carbon market compliance and maximize the potential to lower emission reduction costs.

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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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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Over the past decade, these mandatory Building Performance Standards (BPS) policies have gained momentum, as an increasing number of local jurisdictions act to mitigate climate change impacts and support building decarbonization. In 2023, 10 more local jurisdictions across the country joined the growing list of BPS implementation.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2024

Just recently, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) provoked a backlash – including from within the organisation itself – when it revised its Corporate Net Zero Standard to let companies use environmental attribute certificates, including carbon offsetting schemes. Taking swipes at each other merely wastes precious time.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Schneider Electric Buildings play a critical role in the race to meet science-based climate targets Climate change is one of the biggest challenges to human and planetary well-being. Meanwhile, maintaining our current pace in tackling climate change means that we will fail to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

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