Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

The company said it has now reduced its Scope 1 and 2 direct emission intensity by 87 per cent since 2006 and is "well on track" to becoming carbon-neutral in its own energy generation and operations by 2025. A sustainable future for our planet requires a rapid transition to renewable energy and limiting global warming to 1.5C.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cluff was a director of the CPS between 1995 and 2006, coinciding with the executive directorship of the late Tessa Keswick. Its founder, Algy Cluff, told DeSmog that they had “wound the company up” because they “found the premium being asked by governments for the right to explore not to be consonant with the rewards”.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

These grim warnings have prompted more researchers to apply technological solutions that intervene in the earth’s climate systems to slow the impacts of global warming, also known as “geoengineering.” to host the First Annual Global Climate Restoration Forum to discuss geoengineering solutions.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Covid-19 restrictions will result in a drop in CO2 emissions of between four and seven per cent through 2020, according to further analysis from the Global Carbon Project finds, with daily global CO2 emissions falling by an unprecedented 17 per cent during early April 2020 compared to the previous year.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 2, 2021

In order to stop global warming, there is no way around the Paris climate targets. Back in 2006, he posted his first Master Plan, which involved the creation of electric cars that are so compelling for car buyers; the behemoth that is traditional auto will start shifting its efforts to electric mobility.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 16, 2021

” Carbon emissions are the top reason for global warming and a major factor in extreme weather events and ocean acidification. The project first started in 2006. . “Basically, we are just doing what nature has been doing for millions of years, so we are helping nature help itself.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Around the same time, the group published an article refuting the idea that weather variations were becoming more extreme, and stated on its website that “those who would like to see massive cuts in energy use associate bad weather with global warming in an effort to promote their cause.” .

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

New research published in Nature Climate Change in March, which was able to pinpoint the warming caused by livestock emissions for the first time, has added to the pressure. In 2006, he famously challenged the methodology of the UN’s landmark Livestock’s Long Shadow report. Mitloehner is a controversial figure.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense. More on the CI landscape and market opportunity below.) Why Climate Intelligence?

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 4, 2019

SF6 is the most potent GHG, with a global warming potential (GWP) tens of thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide. Assembly Bill 32 (2006) (AB 32) requires that the State reduce GHG emissions to the 1990 level by 2020, and the SF6 Regulation was adopted as an early action measure under AB 32 due to the high GWP of SF6.

Electricity 40

Electricity Global warming Hydropower Technology 40

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 4, 2019

SF6 is the most potent GHG, with a global warming potential (GWP) tens of thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide. Assembly Bill 32 (2006) (AB 32) requires that the State reduce GHG emissions to the 1990 level by 2020, and the SF6 Regulation was adopted as an early action measure under AB 32 due to the high GWP of SF6.

Electricity 40

Electricity Global warming Hydropower Technology 40

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Signed into law in 2006, the legislation created a mandate to put 3,000 megawatts of solar on California roofs by the end of 2016. The Million Solar Roofs initiative was created in 2006, and suddenly $3.2 What challenges has CALSEIA had to overcome in the race to stay on par with California’s growing solar markets?

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2019

The authors illustrate their method’s value through four very different case studies: excessive flooding in Thailand (2010), an exceptionally cold winter in Peru (2013), extreme rainfall in Colombia (2006), and drought in Somalia (2010-11).

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In 2006, Wentworth along with her husband, Stuart Wentworth, created Quick Mount PV. Over six years, from 2006-2012, Quick Mount PV experienced 4,000 percent growth, as astronomical amount for a start up company.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

One key player was the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) — an international industry lobbying group that was instrumental in early efforts to deny climate change and generate opposition to policy action to reduce emissions. A report that AccuWeather produced minimizing the impact of global warming on extreme weather in 1994.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It has been compared to the hugely influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 15 years ago, which famously framed global warming as the greatest and most wide-ranging market failure ever seen.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 And ultimately it will disrupt the trade that criss-crosses the planet and restrain the global economy's ability to grow. degrees, that human activity is unequivocally to blame, and that we were on track to breach the 1.5 degree limit within reach.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Why, after all this time, do 15 percent of Americans fall for the lie that global warming isn’t happening? Spreading lies about global warming like these can further social divisions and undermine public and political support for action to reduce emissions, according to the Climate Action Against Disinformation’s report.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 2, 2024

India remains in third place globally, but over the past decade its emissions have grown at an average annual rate of 4.1% — by far the fastest growth rate of the top three. could get carbon emissions to zero, it would only amount to the increase in China’s emission increase since 2006. The economic argument is that even if the U.S.

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Grist

JULY 14, 2024

Moser warns that ice cores are highly vulnerable to increased melting through global warming. In that way, we are unlikely beneficiaries of global warming.” She is now working to see what kinds of information can still be salvaged from corrupted cores. This is why we need to retrieve them, where possible,” she says.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Beginning in 2006, the Pork Checkoff paid NPPC each year for the license to this slogan — even though the slogan was retired in 2011. The United Nations Environmental Programme’s assessment found that methane has accounted for more than 30 percent of global warming in the modern era.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

With our distinctive mix of investigative journalism, research databases, issue expertise on a range of energy and environmental issues, and global reach, DeSmog will continue to provide a unique and valuable service to our readers, who range from government workers and journalists to activists and industry employees.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

From 2006 until the board was disbanded in 2016, those tax records reveal, the foundation gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in charitable donations annually to Canadian think tanks with long records of questioning the science of climate change and attacking government policies that could address the crisis.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

In 2006, a group of preeminent scientists met for a two-day conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to discuss cooling the Earth by injecting particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight into space. At some point, one of the conference rooms became overheated. Keith still leans towards the latter. “I

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

In 2006, a federal judge found the mine had violated the Clean Water Act over 600 times. Citing global warming as the cause, the suit alleged that, “sea ice forms later in the year, attaches to the coast later, breaks up earlier, and is less extensive and thinner, thus subjecting Kivalina to coastal storm waves and surges.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Despite successful counterexamples like Tesla, Nest, Enphase and Silver Spring Networks, those failures, combined with the Great Recession starting in 2008, led to the loss of roughly half of the $25 billion in venture capital invested in the sector from 2006 to 2011, according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading climate science body, states it is “unequivocal” that human influence has caused “unprecedented” global warming. “Climate denial has no place in our politics,” Liberal Democrat climate and energy spokesperson, Wera Hobhouse MP, told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

At a conference at the employers organization Almega in January 2005, Lindsö presented graphs of the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and noted that these data correlated well with global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2024

We left New Orleans in 2006, less than a year after Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans and south Louisiana stand as a harbinger for global warming and environmental injustice — which means that as researchers and activists we can’t take our eyes off the catastrophe.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

We had a massive flood in 2006 which basically put Georgetown underwater, and people were living on the first floor of their houses because the flooding was so bad, and that basically cost almost two-thirds of Guyana’s GDP. We’re on track for probably three degrees centigrade now, and that was a story of false hope.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

In 2006, major tobacco firms were convicted of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in litigation brought by the DOJ. In a letter sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday, the 20 congressional signatories, led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Ted Lieu (D-Calif.),

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