Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

In 2001, five organisations came together to set out a vision for the Great Fen, with the aim of providing a more sustainable future for the area. The loss of peat has become a major concern, because, as a carbon sink, peat is hugely important in the fight against global warming.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Editor of landmark IPCC reports – who famously called global warming "a weapon of mass destruction" – has passed away in his native Wales at the age of 88. Throughout the 80s, Houghton was influential in encouraging parliament to engage with the issue of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2021

What’s the single word that fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and global warming? And if that approach feels a little familiar, maybe that’s because it’s very similar to the tactics used by another industry in the past: Big Tobacco.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Four years after the world’s governments signed the Paris Agreement, thousands of people are taking to the streets in school strikes and Extinction Rebellion protests calling for greater action to meet its target of keeping global warming as close to 1.5 Opinium surveyed 2001 UK adults between September 17th and 27th.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

But there are other GHGs that contribute significantly to human-induced global warming such as methane (CH 4 ), nitrous oxide (N 2 0), refrigerant gasses (HFCs, PFCs, and CFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ), water vapor (H 2 0), and ozone (O 3 ). This translation is based on the global warming potential (GWP) of a given GHG.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. In the decade following the dot-com bubble and including the Great Recession (1/1/2001-12/31/2010) the return to the S&P 500 was only 1.6%. That’s a grim and undisputable fact.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. In the decade following the dot-com bubble and including the Great Recession (1/1/2001-12/31/2010) the return to the S&P 500 was only 1.6%. That’s a grim and undisputable fact.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. In the decade following the dot-com bubble and including the Great Recession (1/1/2001-12/31/2010) the return to the S&P 500 was only 1.6%. That’s a grim and undisputable fact.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Equinor has not captured 1 million tonnes of CO2 per year at the site since 2001, according to the data, provided by the Norwegian Environment Agency. Equinor suggested that carbon capture could be the best-kept secret for climate action in a 2019 video , concluding that renewable energy sources such as wind and solar were not enough.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Between 2001 and 2019, the U.S. ranked third globally in forest cover lost to fires. She compares them to the academically credentialed climate deniers who once got equal attention in the news despite volumes of data about the effects of global warming. The implications extend nationwide.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Erica Mackie, P.E. – CEO and Co-Founder, GRID Alternatives During the 2001 California energy crisis, Erica Mackie, a mechanical engineer, along with Tim Sears, had a vision for free, clean, solar-driven electricity that would be practical and accessible for the low-income communities that needed it the most.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. And so they fought.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. But its problems go well beyond the farm. percent of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 21, 2022

Established in 2001 by author T. Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes is a national award that celebrates inspiring, public-spirited young people from across the U.S. and Canada. Barron, the Barron Prize annually honors 25 outstanding young leaders ages 8 to 18 who have made a significant […].

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 25, 2024

By her own admission she has “been around the block a couple of times”: she was a member of the Dutch Energy Council for 10 years, was a guest researcher at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and also Chatham House among others, and has been director of CIEP since 2001.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

To this day, a book published in 2001 and co-written by Cole with Georgetown law professor Sheila Foster titled, From the Ground Up , is considered a treatise for the type of environmental justice work he practiced and taught. It’s interesting to think about why that is, and why it remains so uncommon.”. A Personal Relationship.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. In 2001’s Whitman v. There is over $5 trillion in value-at-risk to US assets under a middle-of-the-road global warming scenario—not including the cost of market volatility.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

In 2001, MP Hökmark and several Moderates once again wrote a climate policy motion. According to a later fax to Exxon in 2001, money from Atlas also went to the Swedish translation of the book Free Market Environmentalism. In the book, the authors wrote that “excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to cooling, not warming.”

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Grist

MARCH 4, 2022

Using high-resolution satellite data, researchers found that the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, and Brazil recorded the largest acceleration in forest loss from 2001 to 2020, with the South American country responsible for the largest total emissions from clearing in the Amazon and other forest ecosystems.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This research paved the way for Keeling’s later revelatory findings on global atmospheric CO2, and the publication of the iconic “Keeling Curve,” which charts how the level of atmospheric CO2 is rising due to the effects of burning fossil fuels. Asked about Jones’ statement, Shell told DeSmog the company had “nothing to add.”

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. In 2001’s Whitman v. There is over $5 trillion in value-at-risk to US assets under a middle-of-the-road global warming scenario—not including the cost of market volatility.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. In 2001’s Whitman v. There is over $5 trillion in value-at-risk to US assets under a middle-of-the-road global warming scenario—not including the cost of market volatility.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2020

Airline ridership has slumped, and airports are as near-empty as they were in the 2001 aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. of global CO2 emissions in 2018, according to the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) — have dropped significantly. As such, aviation emissions — which accounted for 2.4% degrees Celsius.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. Note: This graph illustrates the change in global surface temperature relative to 1951-1980 average temperatures. The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Noteworthy activism and environmental awareness during the early 2000s includes Google’s first Earth Day doodle in 2001, voter registration for Earth Day in 2004, the partnership of Earth Day with the Green Apple Music and Arts Festival and the creation of the online action center earthday.org.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Noteworthy activism and environmental awareness during the early 2000s includes Google’s first Earth Day doodle in 2001, voter registration for Earth Day in 2004, the partnership of Earth Day with the Green Apple Music and Arts Festival and the creation of the online action center earthday.org.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

They will be joined by David Frost, a Conservative peer and a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group. In 2001, DeMuth wrote in the AEI’s Energy Crunch publication that “The Kyoto Treaty Deserved to Die”, and cast doubt on climate science.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Steve Brown, Orcadian’s founder, regularly shared posts on social media from his recently-deleted Twitter account that cast doubt on climate policy and modelling, including content from the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s principal climate science denying group. Read more about Siccar Point in its company profile.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In an article for the Wall Street Journal last month titled “Climate change hasn’t set the world on fire”, Lomborg cited a decline in the scope of wildfires worldwide since 2001 – despite rising temperatures making wildfires more likely and more destructive , according to experts.

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