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New York City Greenery Absorbing All Traffic Emissions on Many Summer Days
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On many summer days, trees, shrubs, and grasses across the New York metro area soak up as much carbon dioxide as is generated by all cars, buses, and trucks, according to new research.
Can Scope3’s adtech execs tame the carbon emissions they once helped create?
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Adtech veteran Anne Coghlan explains how her latest gig Scope3 will help decarbonize the opaque industry she and co-founder Brian O’Kelley helped build.
A Different Kind of Pipeline Project Scrambles Midwest Politics
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Plans that would bury carbon underground rather than release it in the air have stoked debate over climate and property rights, creating unlikely alliances and stirring memories of fierce battles over oil.
Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator
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Convert emissions or energy data into concrete terms you can understand — such as the annual CO2 emissions of cars, households, and power plants.
Growing preference for SUVs challenges emissions reductions in passenger car market
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Heirloom | Carbon Capture
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We are removing 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2035, using natural processes to engineer the world's most cost-effective Direct Air Capture solution.
Subscriber Carbon Costs Now Included in French Telecom Charges
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Global Registry of Fossil Fuel Emissions and Reserves
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Artificial Intelligence Is Booming—So Is Its Carbon Footprint
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How Does Carbon Capture work?
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The idea of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to turn back the clock on climate change is an appealing one. Can these technologies deliver on their promise?
Moving Towards Ecologically Sustainable Advertising: The Five Fives
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‘Top 1%’ of emitters caused almost a quarter of growth in global emissions since 1990
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The study, published in Nature Sustainability, highlights the inequality in peoples’ greenhouse gas footprints – a cornerstone of the climate justice movement.
So, ChatGPT, Is Your Carbon Footprint Artificial, Too?
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There are lots of things Open AI’s artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT is being used for. We asked it about its carbon footprint.
Can a Start-Up Help the Film and TV Industry Reduce Their Carbon Footprint?
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AI’s challenges in 2023: ChatGPT 4, combatting climate change and less bias
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A Huge City Polluter? Buildings. Here’s a Surprising Fix.
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Carbon capture might not work for all buildings. But some are giving it a try.
The World’s Peatlands Are Climate Bombs Waiting to Detonate
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The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret
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Integrating large language models into search engines could mean a fivefold increase in computing power and huge carbon emissions.
BP, in a Reversal, Says It Will Produce More Oil and Gas
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The company said global concerns about energy security had prompted the change, as it reported record profits for 2022.
Tools and tips to track server power consumption
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Server power requirements differ for each organization, but it's still essential to monitor peak loads and track how much power your servers consume to avoid outages.
Camera Offset Project
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Going camera-off reduces the carbon footprint of a video call by 96%.
What's the carbon footprint of … the internet?
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The internet releases around 300m tonnes of CO2 a year – as much as all the coal, oil and gas burned in Turkey or Poland, or more than half of the fossil fuels burned in the UK
Looking Back on 30 Years of Carbon Taxes in Sweden
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Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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The Hague verdict and the consequences
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Europe's biggest oil company must drastically reduce its CO2 emissions following a ruling by a Dutch court. Experts are convinced that the ruling will have far-reaching consequences - and not just for the energy sector. An overview.
These activists are taking SUVs off the road, one flat tire at the time
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Is guerilla activism the way forward?
Deep Learning’s Carbon Emissions Problem
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Modern AI models consume a massive amount of energy, and these energy requirements are growing at a breathtaking rate. In the deep learning era, the computational resources needed to produce a best-in-class AI model has on average doubled every 3.4 months; this translates to a 300,000x increase between 2012 and 2018. GPT-3 is just the latest embodiment of this exponential trajectory.
UN carbon footprint calculator
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Can microplastics pose a threat to ocean carbon sequestration?
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Global climate change has attracted worldwide attention. The ocean is the largest active carbon pool on the planet and plays an important role in global climate change. However, marine plastic pollution is getting increasingly serious due to the large consumption and mismanagement of global plastics. The impact of marine plastics on ecosystem responsible for the gas exchange and circulation of marine CO2 may cause more greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, in this paper, threats of marine microplastics to ocean carbon sequestration are discussed. Marine microplastics can 1) affect phytoplankton photosynthesis and growth; 2) have toxic effects on zooplankton and affect their development and reproduction; 3) affect marine biological pump; and 4) affect ocean carbon stock. Phytoplankton and zooplankton are the most important producer and consumer of the ocean. As such, clearly, further research should be needed to explore the potential scale and scope of this impact, and its underlying mechanisms.
Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows
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Investigation into Verra carbon standard finds most are ‘phantom credits’ and may worsen global heating
CO2 emissions from various means of payment
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How to measure the power consumption of your backend service
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The Hidden Financial Pipelines Supporting New Coal
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The continued expansion of global coal infrastructure and new coal projects is one of the biggest threats facing humanity. One-third of the world’s carbon emissions come from burning coal, making it the world’s single largest contributor to climate change. Coal also contributes to toxic air and water pollution, which kills millions of people each year. The latest IPCC report unequivocally stated that no new coal facilities can be added to the existing global fleet to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Additionally, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero by 2050 report advised that unabated coal use for electricity must end in advanced economies by 2030 and globally by 2040. While significant progress has been made to phase out the global coal fleet, there is much work to be done to ensure the world gets on track to accelerate the transition away from coal to renewable energy, and achieve a Paris-aligned pathway. Ending coal funding is the key to stopping new coal, because without funding, the coal industry will cease to operate. With coal remaining a major part of the world’s electricity grid, it is critical to uncover how funding flows to coal infrastructure and identify solutions to curb coal’s growth.
A space tech company stumbled on a new way to cut emissions on Earth
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Steel factories emit around 3 billion tons of CO2 a year. A new way of producing it eliminates direct CO2 emissions and cuts energy use in half.
Microsoft Discourages Corporate Travel by Raising Own Carbon Fee 600 Percent
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Future of Media: what net-zero carbon means for supply chains, plus Christmas ad innovations
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Is your company really reducing CO2? The crucial difference between offsetting and insetting.
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The carbon footprint of ChatGPT
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When something as big as OpenAI ChatGPT comes along, the first thought of the community at ClimateAction.Tech isn’t “Ooh, let’s try it!”, but rather “Hmm, I wonder what the carbon footprint of it is?”. Since the internet is the planet’s largest coal-powered machine, anything that gets a lot of traffic is likely to be emitting a lot of CO₂.
Fuel efficiency: Why airlines need to switch to more ambitious measures
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The airline industry has dramatically improved its fuel efficiency over the past 15 years. Future gains will be harder to achieve.
ChatGPT’s Carbon Footprint
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In recent months, ChatGPT has become highly popular and has transformed the world of web writing. Despite its effectiveness and comprehensiveness, the use of this artificial intelligence system also contributes to its environmental impact and thus it is important to be aware of its digital footprint.
Carbon emissions of richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of the poorest half of humanity
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The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity during a critical 25-year period of unprecedented emissions growth.
ESG AND CRYPTO INVESTMENT - A CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
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Because of their energy-intensive validation mechanisms, some blockchain protocols have come under criticism. Although a European ban on the particularly energy-hungry proof-of-work process is off the table, at least for now, upcoming sustainability regulations may hold the next challenge for these types of protocols.
A 17-minute flight? The super-rich who have ‘absolute disregard for the planet’
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CO2 emissions to rise further in 2022
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The Global Carbon Project expects greenhouse gas emissions to rise significantly in 2022. This also reduces the remaining CO2 budget to meet the 1.5-degree target. But there are also positive developments.
Domestic flights as scapegoats for the climate crisis
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We analyzed the emission of greenhouse gases by means of transport, and put it in relation to overall
How China, the world’s top polluter, avoids paying for climate damage
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United Nations still considers China, now the world’s second-largest economy and biggest annual polluter, a developing country
Effective ad campaigns are making UK’s carbon emissions problem worse
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How to Recycle a 14-Story Office Tower
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Buildings are responsible for nearly 40 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. In Amsterdam, they are trying to create a blueprint to do something about it.
Global Registry of Fossil Fuel Emissions and Reserves
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The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels is constantly collecting new data. It contains data from 139 fossil fuel producing countries, which amounts to 99% of fossil fuel production aggregated to the national level.
Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall
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The wealthiest people in the UK burn through more energy flying than the poorest use in every aspect of their lives, according to new research.
Germany’s Cheap Summer Train Fares Prevented 1.8 Million Tons of Carbon Pollution
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NFT, AI and Co: What progress costs us
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What is the size of the carbon footprint of AI, blockchains and smart home applications?
CLIMATE TRACE
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INDEPENDENT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRACKING
308 tons of CO2 emissions from government flights
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It was only two weeks ago that Chancellor Scholz and members of the German government committed to the 1.5-degree target of the Paris climate agreement at the climate summit in Egypt. However, their CO2 footprint from traveling to and from the summit by plane was enormous.
Who’s Driving Climate Change? New Data Catalogs 72,000 Polluters and Counting
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A nonprofit backed by Al Gore and other big environmental donors says it can track emissions down to individual power plants, oil fields and cargo ships.
Svante | Carbon Capture & Removal Solutions
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We make filters and machines that capture and remove CO2 from industrial emissions and the air. Our proven carbon capture technology is based on unique solid sorbents — and it’s scalable, eco-friendly, and commercially available today.
Clickbait sites have huge carbon footprints and advertisers urged to snub them
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Research finds that made-for-advertising websites provide no value to businesses while generating excessive amounts of CO2 emissions.
BP dials back climate pledge amid soaring oil profits
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The energy giant is aiming for a 20 to 30 percent reduction in carbon emissions, backing off of an earlier goal of 35 to 40 percent
Canada is sitting on 12 'carbon bombs.' Here's where they are
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If fully tapped, these projects could obliterate Canada’s climate goals
UNEP Food Waste Index Report 2021
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The fact that substantial amounts of food are produced but not eaten by humans has substantial negative impacts: environmentally, socially and economically. Estimates suggest that 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions are associated with food that is not consumed.
NeoCarbon | Reversing climate change doing Direct Air Capture with cooling towers
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NeoCarbon uses existing infrastructure in the form of cooling towers to perform DAC at up to 10x lower costs and time, which makes DAC mass-market ready.
Solugen
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The first carbon negative molecule factory that can scale to meet the world’s needs.
Artists Back 'Green' NFT Sale Citing Concerns Over Crypto's Environmental Impact
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The collaborative effort involving RNDR, Nifty Gateway and Beeple includes carbon offsets and a donation to the Open Earth Foundation.
U.S. Proposes Green Steel Club That Would Levy Tariffs On Outliers
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A concept paper sent to the European Union suggests a new trade approach to tax metal made with higher carbon emissions in countries like China.
Why ad agencies think net-zero carbon can offset media supply’s destructive global impact
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The Roads to Decoupling: 21 Countries Are Reducing Carbon Emissions While Growing GDP
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51% of digital advertising businesses aren’t measuring their carbon emissions
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A report by IAB Europe found marketers agree that measurement is the key to reducing digital’s carbon footprint – but they are lagging on action.
U.S. emissions rose slightly in 2022. They need to be falling rapidly.
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U.S. emissions saw a modest increase in 2022, even as renewables surpassed coal, report says
We Analyzed the Emissions 4 Families Generated in a Week. Here's What We Learned About Living Greener
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New law forces French operators to disclose carbon footprint to public
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The French Senate has passed a law that aims to reduce the environmental footprint of digital technology, which includes an obligation for French telecoms operators to disclose to the public what they are doing to this end.
Cruise Ship Invasion
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Take a typical Alaska cruise and see the damage in its wake. The evidence is clear: the industry needs an overhaul.
Why American Aluminum Plants Emit Far More Climate Pollution Than Some of Their Counterparts Abroad
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Increased in 2022 as Crises Roiled Energy Markets
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Global emissions from fossil fuels are likely to reach record highs this year, new data shows, putting nations further off track from stopping global warming.
The Carbon Footprint of ChatGPT
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This article attempts to estimate the carbon footprint of the popular OpenAI chatbot called ChatGPT
Who Were the Worst Climate Polluters in the US in 2021?
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The worst of the worst included a coal-fired power plant in Alabama, a coal mine in Pennsylvania and a nylon plant in Florida, recent EPA data shows.
The climate controversy swirling around NFTs
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Carbon offset prices set to increase tenfold by 2030
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Current carbon credit prices are 'unsustainably low' but could surge to $50 per tonne of CO2 by the end of decade as corporate demand surges, new research indicates.
Twelve | carbon transformation company
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We make the world's most critical chemicals, materials and fuels from air, not oil with our revolutionary carbon transformation technology. We're reinventing what it means to be a chemical company in the climate era, on a mission to eliminate global emissions and build a fossil-free future.
Server Rack Power Consumption Calculator
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Truly climate neutral?
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Heating with wood is not climate-neutral, says the German Environment Ministry. Forest farmers are angry about this statement, environmentalists in turn about the promotion of wood heating.
'Dark Data' Is Leaving a Huge Carbon Footprint, And We Have to Do Something About It
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Leilac | Cement Decarbonisation Solution
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Leilac is accelerating the transition to net zero by providing the most compelling decarbonisation solution for global cement and lime.
Carbon Tracker Initiative
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Carbon Tracker is an independent financial think tank that carries out in-depth analysis on the impact of the energy transition on capital markets and the potential investment in high-cost, carbon-intensive fossil fuels.
The Secret Behind Japan’s Delicious Strawberries: Kerosene
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The growing season has become completely reversed thanks to kerosene-burning greenhouses and the big prices paid for the earliest, best berries.
Airbus boss warns of delay in decarbonising airline industry
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Guillaume Faury expresses concern at pace of investment in facilities producing alternatives to fossil fuels
Advertising adds extra 32% to annual carbon footprint of every person in the UK
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Latest research from Purpose Disruptors paints a stark picture of the C02 emissions caused as a result of advertising-driven consumption.
Big Oil’s green PR disproportionate to its investment, finds research
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Polestar’s new car is an electric SUV — but its carbon-zero goal feels far away
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Making greener luxury cars
How Much Does an Ad Impression Emit Carbon?
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We Need to Talk About Meat
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The rearing of livestock generates 14 per cent of all carbon emissions, similar to the amount generated by all transport put together. Currently, farmed animals occupy nearly 30 per cent of the ice-free land on Earth. The livestock sector generates a seventh of global greenhouse gas emissions and consumes roughly one-third of all freshwater on earth.
France wants to reduce the ecological impact of digital technology
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Europe Met a Climate Target. But Is It Burning Less Carbon?
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The European Union promised to reduce its emissions 20 percent by 2020. Did it happen?
As France Swelters, Private Jets Come Under Attack
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UN Carbon Offset Platform
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This platform features UNFCCC certified projects that reduce, avoid or remove greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere.
Don’t Be Fooled by ‘Carbon Neutral’ Shipping
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Online shoppers are sometimes given the choice to pay a little more to make their purchase “carbon neutral” or use so-called carbon neutral shipping. In theory, for a few extra bucks, you can negate the greenhouse gas emissions caused by your online purchase.
What’s the carbon cost of the Super Bowl advertising frenzy?
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Super Bowl advertising in 2021 generated as much CO2 as 100,000 Americans that year. Does the industry’s showpiece event need a green overhaul?
‘We must go further, faster’: 5 key takeaways from the Ad Net Zero Global Summit
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One year on from its inaugural gathering at Cop26 in Glasgow, the Ad Net Zero Global Summit kicked off in London yesterday (November 9) to help advertisers and marketers address the climate crisis. Here’s what we learned.
U.S. Carbon Emissions Grew in 2022
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Emissions ticked up 1.3 percent last year, even as renewables surpassed coal.
Anchovies and Sardines Are a Climate Solution in a Can
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Tinned fish are among the lowest-carbon animal protein available, with potential to curb the world’s enormous emissions from food
How the industry must tackle digital advertising’s massive carbon footprint in 2023
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While most marketers express concern over climate change, programmatic advertising’s formidable carbon footprint persists. As part of our Data and Privacy Deep Dive, sustainability experts outline what needs to be done.
Carbon Pulse
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News and intelligence on carbon markets, greenhouse gas pricing, and climate policy
How digital marketing is directly contributing to climate change
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The planet is on fire – and digital marketing is partly to blame, argues columnist Samuel Scott.
Why advertisers think we’ve hit peak Black Friday carbon emissions
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A titanic onslaught of Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaigns resulted in what will likely be the highest carbon emissions from advertising this year. The Drum explores how brands can change their ways before next year’s retail event.
The United States has caused the most global warming. When will China pass it?
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For thousands of years, we made things with our hands. But in the mid-1700s, people in Britain began to make things with machines that ran on fuels which, when burned, released an invisible gas called carbon dioxide — not much at first, but that would change.
‘Carbon timebomb’: climate crisis threatens to destroy Congo peatlands
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Vast carbon store may be close to point where it could flip from absorbing CO2 to releasing it, research shows
Global carbon dioxide removal totals 2 billion tonnes per year - report
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About two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide are being removed from the atmosphere every year, according to a report published on Thursday, but nearly all of it is accomplished through forests, despite growing investments in new technologies.
Will Plans to Decarbonize the Aviation Industry Fly?
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Getting there by 2050 will require trillions of dollars in coordinated investments.
The dirty secret of Netflix: These numbers are shocking
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Whether Netflix, Disney+ or Amazon Prime Video: The winners of the Corona pandemic include providers of streaming services. Using Netflix as an example, a study now shows what devastating consequences this has.
Data Centres and Data Transmission Networks
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Demand for digital services is growing rapidly. Since 2010, the number of internet users worldwide has more than doubled, while global internet traffic has expanded 20-fold. Rapid improvements in energy efficiency have, however, helped moderate growth in energy demand from data centres and data transmission networks, which each account for 1-1.5% of global electricity use. Significant additional government and industry efforts on energy efficiency, RD&D, and decarbonising electricity supply and supply chains are necessary to curb energy demand and reduce emissions rapidly over the coming decade to align with the Net Zero by 2050 Scenario.
When the sea emits CO2
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The ocean absorbs much of the man-made CO2. In this way, it mitigates climate change. But the process has limits: In some areas, the Mediterranean Sea already releases more CO2 than it absorbs.
a tip: tap
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a tip: tap e.V. advocates drinking tap water to save plastic waste, CO₂ and money.
Just Plane Wrong: Celebs with the Worst Private Jet Co2 Emissions
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The environmental impact of today’s transport types
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Ranking all major urban transport modes based on their carbon-emission output.
Germany’s Ultra-Cheap Train Ticket Saved 1.8 Million Tons of CO2
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Which food is better for the planet? Salmon or cod?
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Knowing what to eat to minimize impact on the planet can feel like an impossible task: Eat locally? Skip meat? Opt for organic, free range, humanely raised?
Air Company
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We are a carbon utilization company working with industries to create planetary change. Our patented and proprietary AIRMADE™ Technology takes Earth's excess CO2 and converts it into carbon-negative alcohols and fuels.
In Australia’s Outback, a controversial cash crop is booming: Carbon
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A few years ago, during a severe drought, Godfrey and her husband Lindsay, the former mayor of Cunnamulla, had almost been forced to sell this sprawling family farm in the south of the state of Queensland. But then they turned to carbon farming. Last year, carbon credits earned them half a million dollars.