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A new generation of corporate courses and trainings is educating employees about sustainability benefits and possibilities.

GreenBiz

Sustainability gets schooled at work

Two new species of prehistoric primate were recently identified by scientists studying fossils from Canada’s Ellesmere Island in the high Arctic.

The Conversation

Primates colonised the Arctic during a period of ancient global warming – their fate offers a lesson as climate change speeds up

As we crossed the threshold into 2023, a question echoed in the sustainability community: What are we going to do differently this year to turn things around?
To reverse biodiversity loss, to get on track for the steep emissions reductions needed, to legitimately address the devastation climate change and extractive industry are having on the historically excluded.

Can changing your mindset change everything?

T&E explains the impact of emissions pricing for shipping, aviation and cars.

Transport & Environment

What does a carbon market for transport mean?

The 10 per cent most polluting people in society are responsible for almost half of the annual greenhouse gas emissions behind climate change, creating a "strong incentive" for policies targeting the elite group, a UN-backed report has concluded.

Financial Times

Global elite produce almost half greenhouse emissions, UN says

Ahead of the United Nations’ COP27 climate conference last fall, beverage giant Coca-Cola was announced as a sponsor. Immediate backlash ensued.

Food Dive

Food companies say they can reduce their emissions this year. Experts are skeptical.

Before we can colonize the solar system and venture out to an Earth 2.0, we first have to clean up the mess we’ve made here.

Forbes

Before ‘Star Trek’ Can Become Reality, We First Have To Protect Planet Earth

The co-legislators of the EU recently reached a provisional agreement on a regulation for a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). CBAM will require importers to the EU of covered carbon-intensive products to pay a charge for the carbon embedded in such products identical to the charge imposed on EU producers under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

Mondaq

EU Reaches Provisional Agreement On Carbon Import Charge

Today’s consumers see climate-related challenges as one of the major threats to their personal economy and lifestyle, and say they expect future ICT services and apps to help them adapt to those challenges.

Ericsson

Adapting to climate change: Which technologies do consumers say they want?

Right-wing ideologues funded by fossil fuels, fame-seeking narcissists and doubt mongers monetising their content are pushing climate disinformation that undermines the fight against global warming, researchers say.

Experts interviewed by AFP outlined six key things that motivate people to deny climate change or seek to delay action.

France24

Politics, cash, fame: what motivates climate change deniers

Carbon removal technologies promise to help meet the world's emissions targets and keep climate change in check. But there are downsides.

DW News

Can 'untested' carbon removal technology BECCS deliver?

The green-gas market at this point is a Wild West frontier filled with mudslinging and smoke and mirrors — and the gunslingers are deciding the rules as they go along.

Canary Media

Inside the high-dollar race to sell natural gas as low-carbon

To reduce the severity of the problem, awareness about climate change and its effects must be spread throughout all communities

The Citizen

Key role of communities in combating climate change

Critics who dismiss voluntary carbon markets as greenwashing are overlooking people who are in desperate need of climate finance. Yes, carbon markets have problems that need fixing. 

Eco-Business

Voluntary carbon markets: a misunderstood climate solution

There needs to be greater urgency in private sector action if the world is to make improvements on biodiversity in light of the historic deal on nature positivity at COP15 in Montreal at the end in December, a webinar heard last week

Carbon Pulse

Experts call for greater urgency from private sector on biodiversity

You’re probably well aware of greenwashing - when companies make misleading claims about their environmental credentials.



Euronews

What is greenhushing? How to spot the sophisticated greenwashing tactics being used in 2023

Avoided emissions projects are supposed to be the low-hanging fruit funded before large amounts of money are spent on expensive carbon removals.

illuminem Voices

Why is it so difficult to fund projects that reduce emissions?

People said the pandemic made them want to travel more responsibly in the future.
Now new data indicates they’re actually doing it.

CNBC

Travel companies are ‘greenwashing’ — here are 3 ways to find ones that aren’t

Former Energy Minister Chris Skidmore publishes his Net Zero Review, outlining the opportunities offered by net zero

GOV.UK

Net Zero Review: UK could do more to reap economic benefits of green growth

DHL Global Forwarding (DHL GFS), the air and ocean freight specialist of Deutsche Post DHL Group, has partnered with Grundfos to implement sustainable logistics solutions leading to an overall reduction in the company’s carbon footprint. 

Environment + Energy Leader

A Sustainable Logistics Solution Reducing CO2 Emissions Along the Supply Chain

A well-functioning, high-quality forest carbon market that pays for reduced forest emissions at the national or state level – as agreed by all countries under the Paris Agreement – is essential to achieve this goal.

Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative

How carbon markets done right help stop deforestation

The company offers estimates of the emissions impacts of flights and recipes. Businesses with sales at stake are pushing back.

Wired

Airlines and Cattle Farmers Have Beef With Google’s Climate Math

Experts agree that climate change is already affecting livelihoods, creating many challenges.

Strategies to tame climate change

Each year, the United States spends almost a trillion dollars attempting to combat metallic corrosion, an electrochemical reaction which occurs when metals oxidize and begin to rust. Now, a team of researchers led by the Ohio State University (OSU) has estimated how much corrosion is gradually worsening global carbon emissions. 

earth.com

Steel corrosion is a major contributor to climate change

Rivers and lakes that have nurtured communities since civilisation’s dawn are drying up, as drought leads to hunger, displacement and simmering conflict



The Guardian

Death in the marshes: environmental calamity hits Iraq’s unique wetlands

In the world of board games, most titles involve total victories over adversaries in zero-sum competitions. In the new genre of climate-themed games, creators like Leacock make collaboration the key to success.

Can board games teach us about the climate crisis? Game creators say yes

A number of organizations have charted a path to a decarbonized world by 2050 and broken down required action into four areas or “pathways.”

CleanTechnica

Carbon Sequestration (For Dummies)

As companies race to expand renewable energy and the batteries to store it, finding sufficient amounts of rare earth metals to build the technology is no easy feat. That’s leading mining companies to take a closer look at a largely unexplored frontier – the deep ocean seabed.

EcoWatch

Deep Seabed Mining Plans Pit Renewable Energy Demand Against Ocean Life in a Largely Unexplored Frontier

The number of Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) at corporations globally is skyrocketing. According to a May 2022 study in Reuters, the number of CSOs holding an executive level position increased to 28% in 2021, more than tripling from 9% in 2016. A recent PwC study found that global companies in 2020-21 appointed about as many CSO's as in all prior 8 years combined.

The Challenge Of Chief Sustainability Officers: Creating A New Mindset Throughout An Entire Global Organization

In 2020, a study suggested that fear was a "useful motivator" to trigger better population engagement. However, this fear, mixed with fatalistic data on the state of the planet, has created another danger: "climate doomism", reports RTBF.



Brussels Times

Climate doomism gaining ground of social media channels

Avoided deforestation should not be used as a basis for creating carbon credits, says David Humphreys, while Paul Steele and Anna Ducros introduce biocredits and Dirk Forrister defends current methodologies



Carbon credits: towards net zero or zero credibility?

Today's carbon credit market is fragmented and complex. With limited pricing data, how do buyers know whether they are paying a fair price, and how do suppliers manage the risk of carbon-offsetting projects? The unified role of regulators is a major player in the carbon credits game, writes Lisa Esterhuyzen.



News24

When it comes to carbon credits, absence makes the price fall further

The daily average price of WTI in 2023 will be between $83/bbl and $88/bbl

Energy Sector Predictions For 2023

Nine out of 10 Brits are anxious about climate change, according to research by ad agency CPB London.



Metro 

8 realistic things you can actually do to tackle climate change

Hunted and exterminated, the last thylacine is thought to have died in the 1930s. Meet the scientists who want to bring it back.
Wearing a hooded sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers, with a notebook and pen in his hand, Andrew Pask bounds through the gothic sandstone arches of Melbourne University's historic quadrangle on a chilly October afternoon.

Al Jazeera

Can scientists resurrect the Tasmanian tiger?

During the summer months of 2018 and 2019 there was a striking water shortage in Central Europe.
Since then, there has been no significant rise in ground water levels, with levels remaining constantly low.
The severe drought is damaging natural habitats, affecting agriculture and creating major energy shortages, a new study reveals.
The effects of this prolonged drought were evident in Europe during the summer of 2022.

The Independent

Europe on verge of water catastrophe as groundwater reserves dry up, scientists warn

Government provision of basic human needs, like healthcare and housing, can fight price shocks and save the planet.



New Statesman

How universal public services can end the cost-of-living crisis

Cutting carbon dioxide emissions to curb climate change is possible but not easy


Science News

It’s possible to reach net-zero carbon emissions. Here’s how

Companies operating globally will soon face mandatory sustainability reporting requirements, which must be audited. Initially, the checks will be less strict than for financial reporting, but that is expected to change.



Bloomberg

Why Global ESG Audits Will Be ‘Limited’ at First

These clothing labels have become ubiquitous as consumers continue to grow more concerned about the industry’s significant environmental, climate and social impacts, prompting many brands to rush to signal that they too care about the planet and its people.

The Washington Post

'Vegan,' 'sustainable': How to spot misleading fashion claims

Tesla’s carbon credit sales are making headlines again as it reached a new record in 2022. The company reported that Q4 carbon credit sales jumped 47% year over year.

Tesla has been generating revenue from the sale of carbon credits for at least 8 consecutive quarters.

Carbon Credits.com

Tesla Carbon Credit Sales Reach Record $1.78 Billion in 2022

Rock weathering has helped keep Earth’s climate relatively stable for millions of years, but the process isn't fast enough to keep up with human carbon emissions

New Scientist

Earth's 'geological thermostat' is too slow to prevent climate change

At least 2,400 critically affected families in 13 wards in the vast district of Longido will share the donated food, but that is not sufficient


How indigenous Tanzanians cope with climate change

Republicans appear ready to cast off their label as the party that sidesteps or denies climate change.
That doesn't mean the GOP will embrace President Joe Biden's agenda -- quite the opposite -- but the evidence suggests lawmakers are investing new energy into formulating a Republican response to the crisis, at least on paper.

Politico

Does the GOP finally have a climate plan?

Teenage athlete asks not to be considered for world cross country championships because of impact of air travel.



Runner says no to competing for GB in Australia over flight climate concerns

A growing number of insurance companies, already feeling the brunt of a warming climate, have decided that providing coverage to fossil fuels is not in their future


Corporate Knights

Is the insurance industry walking away from fossil fuels?

In the past, planes always used a “stairstep” procedure as they descended, repeatedly leveling off and coordinating with air traffic controllers at each step to avoid any conflicts with planes landing on nearby runways. Now, they’re able to descend in a smooth, continuous path, which makes it possible to save fuel and cut emissions on each flight.



Fast Company

You next flight might land differently because of climate change

Progress in key areas has stalled because of Covid, conflict and the climate crisis, but peaceful nations are performing better



Africa has become ‘less safe, secure and democratic’ in past decade, report finds

Fires, land conversion, logging and water shortages have weakened resilience of 2.5m sq km of forest, says study



Human activity and drought ‘degrading more than a third of Amazon rainforest’

A new study published today in Nature Sustainability has found that using hydropower dams to generate low emission energy can cause problems for other economic sectors such as food production unless smart designs are employed.


The University of Manchester

Low emission energy systems can create water conflict without smart design

Editorial | Environmental Sustainability

There is a growing global consensus that clean hydrogen is an indispensable vector in achieving net-zero emissions in 2050, an objective now set by close to all G20 countries and beyond. 

How to Kick start the North-West European Clean Hydrogen Market

Europe is taking another big step toward cutting its energy ties with Russia, banning imports of diesel fuel and other products made from crude oil in Russian refineries.
The European Union ban takes effect 5 February following its embargo on coal and most oil from Russia. The 27-nation bloc is trying to sever its last uses of Russian energy and stop feeding the Kremlin's war chest as the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine nears.

Will Europe's ban on Russian diesel hike global fuel prices?

Communities in India's China-bordering Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh are resisting plans to build what would be the country's largest hydroelectric project, complicating efforts to ensure water security amid fractious relations between the neighboring powers.




Nikkei Asia

India's hydroelectric dam duel with China sparks local resistance

In this article, we will be taking a look at the 15 countries that produce the most hydropower in the world.

Yahoo Finance

15 Countries That Produce The Most Hydropower

Environmentalists are celebrating a major clean energy win, after University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers converted an old oil well into a geothermal energy storage system. Their work, which was published to the science journal Renewable Energy, detailed how they were able to upcycle something that was once highly pollutive, to a clean energy alternative.

Green Matters

Swapping Oil Wells for Geothermal Energy Storage: What Are the Pros and Cons?

Wind and solar are rapidly growing, but Texas Republicans want to throw a lifeline to natural gas.

Clean energy is taking over the Texas grid. State officials are trying to stop it.

Smart-home devices make life more convenient, more secure, and even a little more fun, but when used right, they excel at making your home more energy and resource efficient, too.

The New York Times

These 6 Gadgets Make Life Easier and More Energy Efficient

Customers are growing significantly more aware of energy impacts on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies of the companies they do business with, both from a personal and professional standpoint. But one of the things the most companies consider fairly easy to score wins on is the environmental factor – particularly with power savings.

Verdict

The connection between energy, ESG, and IT

The National Green Hydrogen Mission, approved by the Union Cabinet earlier this month, identifies a significant role for green hydrogen in decarbonizing the steel sector to meet India’s climate goals.



Economic Times

Decarbonizing India’s steel sector: opportunities and challenges  

Natural gas prices extended a months-long decline on Monday—falling to the lowest level in nearly two years as analysts expect the unseasonably warm winter could continue to depress the market for natural gas in the coming weeks, ultimately keeping prices below recent highs for at least another year.

Natural Gas Prices Crashing Amid Warmest January In 15 Years

Big Oil had a record year in 2022, earning billions from the imbalance between oil and gas demand and supply, and from the massive uncertainty that geopolitical events and decisions in Europe precipitated.

Oil Price

Big Oil Reports Record Profits, But There's A Catch

Lithium batteries are at the heart of electric cars, phones, wearable electronics, energy storage, and so much more powering our increasingly digital and cord-free lives. It's no wonder they are big business. The batteries' tendency to catch fire when damaged, however, at least in several highly publicized instances, is a problem the industry has to fix if consumers are to regain confidence in major lithium-battery-powered products.



Additive Manufacturing For Batteries Of The Future: Will 3D Printing Transform Battery Making?

It’s widely accepted that turning away from Russian energy has committed Europe to long-term dependence on costly imports of liquefied natural gas, raising questions about the competitiveness of its industry for many years to come.

Europe’s Growing Dependence on Costly LNG Isn't Inevitable

Brunei LNG will start supplying liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. (JAPEX) from April as the company seeks to stabilise finances by boosting shipments to its largest export destination, reported Nikkei Asia.

Energy Voice

Brunei set to expand long-term LNG supply to Japan

The climate change effects, pollution costs, and environmental awareness are driving towards alternative solutions to diesel and petrol vehicles in recent years, so clean energy fueling choices are gaining popularity. 

Hydrogen Central

Hydrogen: A Fuel of the Future?

The energy crisis and how it could be resolved through the clean energy transition were in the spotlight at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos this month.

World Economic Forum

Davos 2023: Key takeaways on the clean energy transition

The refining industry is a major component of the global economy, with countries around the world processing petroleum products to generate energy and fuel. Refining capacity is an important measure of a country's ability to produce oil and gas products, and in this article, we'll take a look at the countries with the largest refining capacity.

15 Countries With The Largest Refining Capacity

Peaking plants are meant to be a backstop, but their profits and exemption from windfall tax are controversial in an energy crisis

The gas-fired plants tasked with keeping UK lights on – but at what cost?

Russia spent almost 50 years building its energy market in Europe. President Vladimir Putin destroyed it in under 50 weeks. Finding a replacement will be almost impossible.

Russia Can’t Replace the Energy Market Putin Broke

The government has been in talks with friendly governments in the Middle East, including Qatar, for the sale of at least two out of four LNG-based power plants, the most efficient so far, on a G2G basis to raise more than $2 billion direly needed to support fast diminishing foreign exchange reserves. 

Dawn 

Divestment of LNG plants

Windfall taxes, price caps, and calls for more oil and gas production marked 2022 in oil and gas. It looks like we’re in for a lot more of the same this year, especially with Western governments doubling down on their emission-reduction ambitions.

Oil And Gas In For Turbulent Year As Governments And Industry Butt Heads

Mike Hewitt, CEO of nuclear power development company IP3, says there are “so many reasons” nuclear should be a key part of Australia’s energy mix.



Sky News Australia

‘So many reasons’ nuclear power should be a ‘key part’ of our energy mix

BP has trimmed its outlook for oil and gas demand in its latest annual forecast, arguing that the upheaval unleashed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will push countries to pursue greater energy security over the next decade by investing in renewables.


BP cuts long-term forecast for oil and gas demand

"Climate change is the problem, but water is the messenger." So observes Jose Ignacio Galindo, co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Waterplan, an early-stage software firm helping Amazon, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Danone, Diageo, McCain and Meta understand their operational impact on watersheds where they do business.



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