DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Eni’s prediction was quite accurate: Global warming in the year 2000 was exactly 0.5 ° C and CO2 concentrations were around 370 ppm. Eni also understood the need to limit fossil fuel pollution decades ago, according to the report.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As the price of energy skyrockets, it is time for Britain's political leaders to finally take action to eliminate fuel poverty, writes British Energy Efficiency Federation's Andrew Warren. million - nearly double the numbers in 2000. For years, eliminating fuel poverty had steadily slipped down the political agenda.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

By far the most politically contentious aspect of the new emissions budgets involves Ireland’s livestock-dominated agriculture sector, which currently accounts for 37.5 After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. Steep Cuts for Other Sectors.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Access to digital communication technology has grown exponentially in recent years, with a sevenfold increase in internet and mobile cellular use since 2000. Use of digital technologies. The majority of this growth has come outside industrialised countries, and is likely to have a transformational impact on the forest sector.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2022

energy use is roughly the same as it was in 2000 despite a 30% boost in economic growth. Amidst a tense and volatile political and global backdrop, homeowners can enjoy some peace of mind knowing that their everyday lives have a positive impact on the world. According to the National Resource Defense Council , U.S. Tell Them the Facts.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

By one estimate, about 23 percent of the global fish catch is turned into fishmeal and over 70 percent of farmed fish now rely on that feed, up from 60 percent in 2000. In practice, though, such measures may be difficult to agree, Walker adds: “What is fished, by who and how, is basically a political decision.”

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The metaphor surged in popularity after the pop-science writer Malcolm Gladwell published the book The Tipping Point in 2000, inspired by an idea from epidemiology for the moment when a virus starts spreading explosively. Tipping points are not, as a way of looking at the world, some inherent property of the world, Kopp said.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

Gauging the political realities. A report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which created and regulates ISOs and RTOs with its Order 2000, indicates the failure was due to unwillingness from the four different utility groups to align their separate market proposals into a unified structure.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If Exxon had back then used its vast political and financial power to aggressively push for a national carbon tax to be adopted in major economies around the world, global emissions might have already peaked by now. The surge in capital spending mitigates the impact on the economy after the year 2000,” Imperial learned. .

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

Gifford leaves behind a strong green finance legacy, having been a driving force in a number of pioneering initiatives that helped to push the once-fledgling cause to the top of the political and investor agenda.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. More than three dozen states and cities are suing oil, gas, and coal companies over their role in causing climate change.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I remember Geoff Scaife, then chief executive of Birmingham Health Authority, describing it as “one for the price of two”.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

For example, it estimates use of pesticides increased 75 per cent between 2000 and 2017, while around 109 million tonnes of synthetic nitrogen fertilisers were applied around the world in 2018. The report highlights how soils are being damaged on multiple fronts thanks to a combination of unsustainable farming and industrial practices.

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Soil Pollution Agriculture Health 84

Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

Depending on how you look at it, California — and most of the American West — has either entered its third catastrophic drought of the past 10 years, or has been in a constant, unyielding “megadrought” since 2000. The American West has been in a constant, unyielding megadrought since 2000.

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Low Impact

JULY 26, 2020

We’re swimming against the current of political economy, but we are making progress. We do have big political players who get it, but they’re also in that current, that river of political economy, and so they’re stuck, and they will be for a while. Ban Ki Moon came very close to signing the CASSE position on economic growth.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

It paints a powerful and hopeful picture of how today’s youth can solve global political and environmental crises. ro*co films was born in Cannes in April of 2000, when Annie Roney brought her first Oscar-nominated documentary film, Regret to Inform, to the international media market for licensing. Sponsor: ro*co films.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

The report, which was commissioned by the Mayor, found that between 2000 and 2018 London achieved a 57 per cent reduction in workplace greenhouse gas emissions, a 40 per cent reduction in emissions from homes, but just a seven per cent reduction in emissions from transport.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At the American Petroleum Institute’s annual meeting, president Frank Ikard announces to industry leaders that President Lyndon Johnson’s council of scientific advisors has found that continued fossil fuel use would cause climate change by the year 2000, resulting in serious global impacts. But Exxon knew it back in ‘79. FRANTA: So true.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Climate change Building Energy Monitoring 98

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

This consumption demand has driven fashion retailers to producing almost twice the amount of clothing than they did in 2000. . Hold manufacturing facilities to the highest environmental and social standards: Power with renewable energy if geographically and politically available. The average U.S. Environmental Impact.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. In 2000, he began using models to unlock renewable energy solutions. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This is compared to around 380 in 2010 and approximately 40 in 2000. . Taken together, climate lawsuits around the world are a growing legal trend pushing for more concrete, global climate action on multiple fronts — not just legally but also politically and policy-wise as well as on the economy and social justice fronts.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As the capital and political pressures increase for industries to decarbonize their processes and prove a commitment to Paris Climate Goals, there is a genuine threat to the sector as steel comes under increasing scrutiny. yearly growth in CO² emissions impact since 2000. For every one tonne of steel made, 1.85

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed Inc. Even as the concept of “regenerative ranching,” a method of cattle farming that tries to restore degraded soil and reduce emissions, has secured a toehold in the industry, “climate change” remains a political term in farm country, one that is largely avoided.

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Soil Cooling Climate change Agriculture 145

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

She also worked for state-run energy company Eskom, where fellow board member Thulani Gcabashe served as CEO from 2000-2007. In South Africa, Standard Bank director Nomgando Matyumza, previously worked as the CEO of Transnet Pipelines, the principle operator of the country’s fuel pipeline system. Industry executives.

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Unsustainable

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Such reframing of the narrative might not only free us up to finally make progress, it would help us start building resiliency into our communities and political structures, our means of food production, and Earth’s ecosystems. Instead, we should switch mental gears and work on preparing ourselves for catastrophic climate change. Earth Syst.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Building upon years of research on activism, democracy, and climate politics, Fisher explores the state of the climate movement today to understand how radical direct action is evolving as the climate crisis worsens. Fisher answers this critical question in her new book, Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Government Demand 131

Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Global plastic waste production almost doubled between 2000 and 2019, and at current rates is on course to triple by 2060, according to the OECD, with huge ramifications for human and environmental health, as well as the planet's climate given the material is a product of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Shortly after starting his job at NW Natural in 2000, Dye discovered that the company was losing less gas than it assumed, partly because of inaccuracies in how the utility accounted for variations in temperature and pressure across its service territory. Dye oversaw the accuracy of NW Natural’s more than 700,000 meters from 2000 until 2012.

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Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 97

AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

” Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato ” by Rebecca Earle Rebecca Earle tells the story of the potato and its journey from a relatively unknown crop to a staple in modern diets around the world. McKenna also offers a way forward and outlines ways that stakeholders can make food safer again.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 6, 2021

In 2000, VEIC entered into a contract with the Vermont Public Service Board to implement a major, multimillion-dollar program that transformed the organization and catapulted it to a new level of scale, impact, and visibility. billion. . VEIC administers Efficiency Vermont , the nation’s first “efficiency utility”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2023

Dubbed FPS + Nature (FPS + N), the scenario analyses potential political and policy responses to both climate change and nature loss through to 2030 and 2050, building on IPR's previously published climate-focused 1.8C Forecast Policy Scenario to create a "realistic assessment to help investors respond to the climate and nature emergency".

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Her matter-of-fact, intelligent, non-emotional critic of gender politics as they play out at major solar industry events is a testament to her ability to organize and inspire the female contingent of the industry to stand in their power. In 2006, Wentworth along with her husband, Stuart Wentworth, created Quick Mount PV.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed Inc. Even as the concept of “regenerative ranching,” a method of cattle farming that tries to restore degraded soil and reduce emissions, has secured a toehold in the industry, “climate change” remains a political term in farm country, one that is largely avoided.

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Soil Cooling Climate change Agriculture 52

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2024

But thanks to carbon capture and storage, a technology widely touted by the oil and gas industry and some political leaders as a key solution for climate change, the field could still be producing 1.5 A major Canadian oil field in the province of Saskatchewan would likely have reached the end of its life eight years ago.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

By the year 2000 there will be about 25 percent more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere than at present.” It also emphasized that this increase in CO2 would likely affect the Earth’s climate, causing a parallel increase in average temperatures near the Earth’s surface.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new report from consumer watchdog group Public Citizen details how 111 known members of the Chamber — including major polluters and banks that back fossil fuels — have violated state and federal laws at least 15,896 times since 2000, totaling more than $156 billion in fines and penalties. Credit: USFWS. (CC CC BY 2.0). The origin of U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Topics ranged from divestment to debt, justice to jet engines, politics to pigeons.   By 2030, the US is on track to reduce its GHG emissions by 22% a year , relative to 2000 levels — but that’s far lower than the 50% cut needed to meet national Paris Agreement goals.

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