Supply chain climate engagement is needed!
A report published by Net-Zero Tracker late last year found the post-COP26 stocktake of net-zero targets included an “explosion” of interest in the private and public sectors [...]
DHL’s innovative carbon reduction program
DHL Express, the world’s leading provider of international shipping services, will reduce its fleet carbon emissions by installing solar panels on its US pickup and delivery trucks. [...]
LFP battery switch proves wise with Russian nickel cut
If the price of nickel goes from US$20,000 to US$50,000, this adds US$1580 in costs to the typical 60 kWh electric vehicle battery pack, and the price of [...]
Carbon offset prices – where to?
Demand for carbon offset credits is set to soar in the coming decades as companies look to deliver on their net-zero targets and governments seek to encourage investment [...]
How to succeed reaching carbon reduction targets
This week’s blog is a summary of the McKinsey Report called “On target: How to succeed with carbon-reduction initiatives” found at: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/on-target-how-to-succeed-with-carbon-reduction-initiatives The report is based on a [...]
Carbon Offsetting – Part 2
This Blog is a follow up to our Blog of 19 January 2022 titled Carbon - Offsetting Part 1 and found here. The diagram below is an [...]
Carbon Offsetting – Part 1
The content for the first Everlution blogs of 2022 are being provided by CarbonView and the third in the series outlining what the term net zero means found [...]
Reducing Carbon Emissions
The content for the first Everlution blogs of 2022 are being provided by CarbonView and the second in the series outlining what the term net zero means found here.The [...]
Net Zero – What’s In It For Me?
The content for the first Everlution blogs of 2022 is to be provided by CarbonView with the first one found at https://carbon-view.com/net-zero-whats-in-it-for-me/ and reproduced here: This series of [...]
How net zero by 2050 will affect Aussie jobs and trade
The phrase ‘net zero by 2050’ has been everywhere lately, because it is the year that governments around the world are committing to end carbon emissions. According to the Climate [...]
The uses and impacts of different plastics
Today’s blog is a review of different types of plastics; their uses and impacts. It also includes actions you can take to reduce plastics use. PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) [...]
Bigtime investment in carbon offsets needed
At the UN General Assembly this week, US President Joe Biden announced that he was doubling the country’s commitment to overseas climate aid to more than $11bn annually [...]
The world needs a crash course to net zero now
In this week’s blog, Everlution is reproducing an article from the Guardian titled Earth’s tipping points could be closer than we think by George Monbiot. We agree wholeheartedly [...]
Singapore’s Green Building Plan 2030
The drive down Clementi Road might be peppered with greenery alongside several schools, but the National University of Singapore’s School of Design and Environment is still a sight to behold. [...]
6 Countries Saying No to Fossil Fuels
Not Australia, that’s for sure. Our politicians seem to have defaulted to being crusaders for fossil fuel. Other countries are taking a different approach, further motivated by one [...]
You beaut! An emission-free CO2 grid scale battery
Italian start-up Energy Dome says that its new long-duration “CO2 battery” system, which only uses off-the-shelf equipment will achieve a levelised cost of storage (LCOS) of [...]
UK’s Lidl supermarket cutting plastics bigtime
After removing more than one billion pieces of plastic from UK stores, Lidl GB has set new ambitions to reduce plastic packaging further (unlike Aussie supermarket chains). The [...]
The big end of town seeks nature-based offsets
Whilst there are recalcitrant political leaderships (like that of Australia) that are failing to adopt policies that will help mitigate against climate change, there are countries and international [...]
Carbon debt – a way to start paying now
Marcus Thomson, a postdoctoral scholar at the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis at UC Santa Barbara is a co-author of a research article just published in Nature that [...]
Carbon prices must treble by 2030
The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, whose members manage $6.6trn of assets, is warning that the world won't decarbonise rapidly enough to deliver the Paris Agreement without a [...]
An open plea to my local member of parliament
Dear Susan Templeman, This letter is addressed to you as the local Labor Federal member of Parliament for the Macquarie electorate (covering the Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury areas). [...]
My niece is committed to a no plastic life
I asked my niece, Skye to send me the story of the commitment she and her partner Mitch have made – not to use any plastic. It is [...]
Humans have to stop shitting in their own nest
The recently released Global Status Report indicates that the share of fossil fuels in the total global energy consumption mix has remained steady between 2009 and 2019. Coal, [...]
Regenerative agriculture – a MUST!
Soil is the start and end point for all terrestrial life. We rely upon the health of our soil just as heavily as we rely upon clean water [...]
UK retailers get stuck-in with carbon reduction
UK home-improvement retail giant, Kingfisher has committed under the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to reducing Scope 1 (direct) and 2 (power-related) emissions by 38% in absolute terms [...]