The Climate Web | N - Green Power Purchasing

N - Green Power Purchasing

N - Voluntary RECs as Offsets

2007/10 Little Green Lies

2012/7 A 5-step guide to buying RECs and carbon offsets

2012/7 Ski resorts around the U.S. tap renewable energy sources to combat climate change

2014/2 Green sleaze: The EPA helps corporations scrub their images while screwing the planet

2014/3 Is your green power really just green washing?

2014/5 Why greening your company’s power is harder than it looks Pt. 1

2014/6 How to fill the gap for corporate green power Pt 2

2014/9 How the home of Stanford became carbon-neutral.

2014/11 How Walmart Became a Green Energy Giant

2014/12 Decision to modify the Standard Licence Conditions (SLCs) of the electricity supply licence by inserting a new condition, SLC 21D

2014/12 No More Faking It: Companies Ditch Green Credits, Clean Up Instead

2014/12 Palo Alto Targets Carbon Neutrality

2014/12 Renewable Energy Credits Losing Luster With McDonald's, Whole Foods, PepsiCo

2015/2 How Burlington, Vermont, Became The First City In The U.S. To Run On 100% Renewable Electricity | Co.Exist | ideas

2015/4 How Fort Collins, CO plans to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050

2015/8 Microsoft’s 2-Year Journey to 285 MW of Wind Energy

2015/9 9 Massive US Companies Pledge To Go 100% Renewable

2015/9 Aspen is third U.S. city to reach 100% renewable energy

2015/9 How a green business group is transforming the way utilities sell renewables

2015/9 How Corporations Buy Their Way to Green

2015/9 NIKE Commits to 100% Renewables, Partners With MIT Climate CoLab on Materials Innovation

2015/10 Google, Walmart and corporate energy 2.0

2015/11 An Innovative Business Model Makes Solar Accessible to All

2015/11 How 5 Global Brands Use Renewable Energy

2015/11 It's easy to buy "green power." Making a difference is a little harder.

2015/11 The business guide to green power: 12 ways to invest in renewable energy

2015/11 What David Roberts Gets Wrong about “Buying” Green Power

2015/12 San Diego becomes first major US city to commit to 100% renewable energy

2016/2 Corporations Take the Lead

2016/5 A New Chapter for Renewable Energy Buyers

2016/5 Akamai will power internet with sun and wind

2016/5 Facebook, Microsoft Give Clean Energy a Boost With Buyer’s Group

2016/5 The Rise of the Corporate Energy Buyer

2016/6 Governments target 1,000 businesses to commit to 100% renewable energy

2016/8 Corporate demand for green power grows, but what will increased supply look like?

2016/9 Corporate America's Huge Appetite For Renewable Energy

2016/11 Major firms lead low-carbon energy drive

2016/11 Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)

2016/11 Why Is Green Pricing A Premium When Wind Power Is Cheap?

2016/12 A Rural Electric Cooperative Sets a 100% Renewables Target

2016/12 Google Will Achieve 100 Percent Renewable Energy in 2017

2016/12 Google, Apple, Facebook race towards 100% renewable energy target

2016/12 How forward-thinking utilities are addressing corporate demand for renewables

2016/12 US States Where Large Energy Buyers Can Buy Renewable Energy From The Grid (Interactive Map)

2017/1 The State of Green Business, 2017

2017/3 How To Green Your Electricity Supply: A Short Guide

2017/4 Biggest U.S. Companies Setting More Renewable-Energy Targets

2017/4 Washington State Spearheads a Novel Clean Energy Solution for Starbucks, REI and Target

2017/5 6 Graphics Show How U.S. Utilities Are Turning Corporate Demand into Renewables Growth

2017/5 Corporate Green Goals Playing A Key Role In Pushing Utilities Toward Renewables

2017/5 Green certificates to bolster market for renewables

2017/5 How to Increase Your Company’s Renewables Portfolio

2017/5 Why It's Mainly Giant Companies That Buy Green Power

2017/6 Finding Better Places to Buy Wind and Solar Power

2017/6 The Clean Energy Conundrum– why investing in clean energy isn’t as straightforward as you might think

2018/X Are aggregated renewables right for your company?

2018/X Are onsite power purchase agreements right for your company?

2018/X Are owned onsite systems right for your company?

2018/X Are renewable energy certificates right for your company?

2018/X What you need to know about additionality

2018/2 Salesforce, Cargill and others share secrets for buying clean power

2018/7 Do renewables always reduce carbon emissions? – Tomorrow

2018/7 We need to talk about green energy tariffs

2018/8 Apple, Akamai, Etsy and Swiss Re partner on largest renewable energy aggregation to date

2018/8 What Are You Getting If You Buy Clean Electricity? – Energy Institute Blog

2018/9 Why green electricity contracts fail to deliver green electricity

2018/10 100% renewable energy: the public wants it, and quick

2018/10 New rules to crack down on 'greenwash' in corporate clean energy claims

2018/10 What are Power Purchase Agreements Renewable Energies

2018/12 The Year of the Corporate PPA

2019/2 As corporate renewable buying surges, innovative PPAs pressure utilities to improve green tariffs

2019/7 How Can Innovative PPAs Help Businesses Go 100% Green?

2019/9 Google Announces 1.6GW of Renewables Purchases

2019/15 US Corporations Driving Up Demand for Renewable Energy - SACE

2020/1 Fueled by flexible PPAs, corporate clean energy purchases surged to 19.5 GW in 2019: BloombergNEF

2020/5 Making sure organisations’ climate change targets are not part of a zero-sum game

2020/12 5 Things Sustainability Leaders Should Know About VPPAs

2022/7 With enhanced energy attribute certificates, energy customers can use their voluntary procurement to send more powerful and targeted market signals for systemic grid decarbonization

2022/8 Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) and Scope 2 Emissions Management

2022/12 What you should know about Virtual Power Purchase Agreements

2022/12 Who gets to govern virtual power purchase agreements?

2024/2 European Firms Nearly Doubled Purchase of Clean Power in 2023

Carbon Offsets TOC

Renewable Energy TOC

Risks - Business TOC

N - Business Brand Protection

N - Business Commitments Strategies

N - Business Initiatives

N - Energy Top Level

N - Renewable Energy

I:GreenPowerPurchases

I:RenewableEnergyProcurement

I:100%RenewableEnergy

I:BusinessOffsetStrategies

I:CarbonInsetAccounting

I:CarbonNeutrality

I:CarbonOffsetAlternatives

I:CarbonOffsetCritiques

I:CarbonOffsetPrices

I:CarbonOffsetsasGreenwishing

I:CarbonOffsetsinCorporateBranding

I:CarbonOffsetsinPolicy

I:CarbonOffsetSupply

I:CarbonOffsetTypes

I:CommonAdditionalityDetours

I:EnergyStorageSolutions

I:EnvironmentalAdditionality

I:EnvironmentalIntegrity

I:EvaluatingCarbonOffsets

I:EvaluatingOffsetAdditionality

I:FinancialAdditionality

I:KeyOffsetPrinciples

I:LowCarbonTransitionPolicy

I:MarketMechanisms (Deep Dive)

I:OffsetAdditionality

I:OffsetCobenefits

I:OffsetDesign

I:OffsetIntegrity

I:OffsetMarkets

I:OffsetPricing

I:OffsetProjects

I:OffsetProtocols

I:OffsetProviders

I:Offsets

I:OffsetScoringvsTesting

I:OffsetStandards

I:OffsettingEvents

I:RegulatoryAdditionality

I:RemovalsvsReductions

I:RenewableEnergyEconomics

I:RenewableEnergyTechnologies

I:ScoringCarbonOffsets

I:Type1vsType2ErrorinAdditionalityTesting

I:VoluntaryOffsetMarkets

S - Carbon Offset Sources (General)

S - 100% Renewable Energy Transition

S - Abrupt Climate Change

S - Additionality of Offsets

S - BECCS Biomass w CCS

S - Board of Directors/Trustee Liability

S - Business Use of Offsets

S - Carbon Intensity/Footprint as Business Risk

S - Carbon Markets

S - Carbon Neutrality

S - Carbon Pricing Policy as Business Risk

S - CDM Clean Development Mechanism

S - Clean Tech

S - Climate Change Systemic Risk

S - Climate Change Tipping Points

S - Climate Uncertainties Unknowns

S - Compliance Offset Markets

S - Divestment

S - Economic/Political Disruption as Business Risk

S - Economics of Extreme Events/Disasters

S - Electric Sector Climate Risk Assessment

S - Emerging Risks

S - Evaluating the CDM

S - Forestry Offsets

S - Fossil Fuels and Fossil Free Investing

S - Historically Low Probability Outcomes as Business Risk

S - Impacts - Electric Sector

S - Infrastructure Impacts

S - Innovation and Disruption in the Electric Sector

S - Investing Under Uncertainty

S - Investor Action as Business Risk

S - Investor Expectations

S - Litigation Outcomes as Business Risk

S - National Climate Law

S - Nuisance, Negligence, and Strict Liability

S - Offset Design

S - Offset Evaluations/Critiques

S - Offset Guides

S - Offset Leakage

S - Offset Permanence

S - Offset Projects

S - Offset Standards

S - Offset Strategies

S - Offset Supplies and Costs

S - Offset Types

S - Offsets as Aviation Mitigation Strategy

S - Offsets in Policy

S - Operational Risk

S - Policy Outcomes as Business Risk

S - Public Beliefs and Knowledge

S - REDD and REDD+

S - Renewable Energy

S - Renewable Energy Futures

S - Renewables Policy

S - SCC in Litigation

S - Sector-Based Offsets

S - Sectoral Climate Impacts

S - Social Activism Movements and Climate Change

S - Solar Energy

S - State and Local Climate Law

S - Stranded Assets

S - Supply Chain Disruption as Business Risk

S - Technology Futures

S - The Offsets Business

S - Voluntary Carbon Offset Markets

S - Wind Energy

N - Carbon Offsets

N - 100% Renewable Future

N - A Policy Tipping Point?

N - Aviation Offsets

N - Barriers to Low Carbon Transition

N - Biofuels

N - Biomass Energy

N - Bounding Energy Outcomes

N - Business Policy Advocacy

N - Carbon Markets

N - Carbon Neutrality

N - Carbon Offset Critiques

N - Carbon Offset Defenses

N - Carbon Offsets Round 2

N - Climate and Security

N - Climate Emergency

N - Corporate Offset Commitments

N - Corporate Sustainability Reporting

N - Credit Rating Impacts

N - Divestment

N - Electric Sector News - Topical

N - Energy Futures

N - Energy Prices

N - Evaluating Business Action

N - Evaluating Carbon Offsets

N - Fossil Fuel Subsidies

N - Geothermal News

N - Hydrogen Energy

N - Indirect Impacts of Climate Change

N - Keystone pipeline and offsets

N - Land Use Offsets

N - Materiality of Climate Risk

N - Operational Risks

N - Pitching Carbon Offsets

N - Policy Regulatory Risk

N - Public Opinion Tipping Points?

N - Real Estate Values and Sea Level Rise

N - REDD and REDD+

N - Renewable Economics

N - Renewables as Investment

N - Renewables Policy

N - Solar Energy

N - Stock/Asset Price Impacts

N - Systemic Climate Risk

N - The Business of Offsets

N - Tipping Point Coal

N - Using Carbon Offsets

N - Wind Energy

T - Carbon Offset Networks

T - Carbon Offset Providers

T - Climate Litigation Websites

T - Offset Individuals

T - Offset Projects

T - Offset Protocols

T - Offset Standards

T - Renewables

T - Social Movements

T - Systemic Risk

T - Tech Innovation

V - Carbon Trading and Offsets

V - Market mechanisms

V - Tipping Points

E - Carbon Offset Knowledgebase

E - 100% Renewable Transition

E - Additionality Under the Paris Agreement

E - Brand Risks

E - Business Risk Assessment

E - Business Risk Disclosure Topics

E - Business Risk Scenarios

E - Business Risk Timing

E - Business Risks by Types

E - Business Sectors Top Level

E - Business Value at Risk

E - Carbon Asset Risks

E - Carbon Neutrality

E - CC and Equity Value

E - Climate as Investment Risk

E - Climate Impact on Returns

E - Climate Impacts on Corporate Ratings

E - Climate Impacts/Risks by Sector

E - Climate Risk and ERM

E - Climate Risk Scenario Extracts

E - Communicating shifting extremes

E - Dangerous Change

E - Evaluating Carbon Offsets

E - Fiduciary Responsibility

E - Impacts by Business Sector

E - Insurance Sector Risk

E - Land Use Based Offsets

E - Liability Risks

E - Manifestations of climate risk

E - Mid-Term Risk

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