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Cooking the books: The magical math of ‘climate-friendly’ meat

Corporate Knights

The world’s biggest meat-packers have announced net-zero targets, as the industry tries to reassure the public that despite the urgency of the climate emergency, there’s no need to cut back on our burgers and steaks. And Tyson isn’t the only one banking on planet-friendly meat to keep consumers coming back to the butcher.

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How Big Oil's spin doctors are influencing influencers

Corporate Knights

Cancelling oil industry greenwash There’s a growing consensus that the PR companies involved in greenwashed campaigns need to be held to account. Humble Oil (Now ExxonMobile) advertisement in Life magazine, June 1962 Edelman remains intransigent. She went on to testify before a 2022 U.S. They claim, ‘We’re good corporate actors.

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The music industry changes its tune on climate change

Corporate Knights

Agreeing to work collectively, the pact includes a commitment from each signatory to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050 and achieve a 50% reduction by 2030. Richard Trapunski is the former associate music editor at Toronto’s NOW Magazine and reports on culture and business for various publications.

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Concerns about credibility of carbon offsetting schemes expressed in UK environmental services survey

Envirotec Magazine

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. Worryingly, only 3% of those interviewed said their organisation was currently at net zero.

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AI start-up aims to predict if the world can really avoid a long-term increase in global climate temperature

Envirotec Magazine

The funding enables Permutable to combine the latest machine learning technology with Permutable’s knowledge of changing carbon emission trends to help governments and companies address the urgent sustainability issues exemplified by the current climate crisis, achieve net-zero emissions globally, and avoid greenwashing.

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Mythbusting sustainable business practices

Envirotec Magazine

We’ve got over 25 years to get to net-zero. Ultimately, we intend to cut through all the complexity, greenwashing and bureaucracy to develop our own systems to help our mostly SME customers reduce their emissions and bills, rather than simply measuring to the most accurate possible figures and endlessly planning!

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The value-add of tackling the Scope 3 emissions conundrum

Envirotec Magazine

Harriet Assem from technology and environmental planning advisory firm ITPEnergised offers a few thoughts on tackling one of the less well understood elements of emissions reduction, and one that is essential to achieving net zero goals. However, while there’s much good work being done, there’s still plenty of room for improvement.