DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Global coal power use, however, must drop by 14 percent per year to achieve the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C As Ember reported, coal power is losing out to renewable energy around the world but the transition isn’t happening nearly fast enough to address climate change.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Elsa Wenzel.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2025

The analysis used public complaints about rats and inspection records from 16 cities between 2007 and 2024, which collectively served as a proxy for rat populations. Beyond the physiological factors that influence breeding, rat behavior changes with temperature, too. In 11 of those cities, rat numbers surged during that period.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere. A new study from a research team at the University of Michigan found that even a relatively small temperature increase of 1.6

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In NC, Economic Costs of Climate Change?—?And North Carolinians are beginning to realize that climate change is no longer just an environmental issue, but also an economic issue. Now, North Carolina has the opportunity to enact other policies to keep those jobs and investments growing while also combatting climate change.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

“The IPCC report should be a sort of rallying call to lawyers,” said Rupert Stuart-Smith, a climate researcher at the University of Oxford, “to ensure that they are making use of the most up-to-date developments in climate science.”. The plaintiffs said the erosion had been exacerbated by climate change. But the U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

Mann has been a hugely influential figure in efforts to further global understanding and awareness of human-caused climate change for more than 25 years. He contributed - along with other IPCC authors - to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which was given to Al Gore for helping to boost awareness of climate change.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 13, 2021

Meaningful progress on climate change in this decade will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land use. But real change, Pichai explained, happens when such actions spread outside the company. .

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Guided by Fontaine, Mann set the record straight, testifying that he had received a certificate from the IPCC acknowledging his contributions towards the group’s receipt of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which it shared with Al Gore. Many other scientists on the IPCC panel have also said they won the 2007 award, Mann testified.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) was founded by Margaret Thatcher’s former Chancellor Nigel Lawson in 2009 in order to combat what it describes as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change. percent of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans.

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

The reality of climate change came home for Dr. Samantha Ahdoot one summer day in 2011 when her son was 9 years old. She is the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newly updated policy statement on climate change, which appeared earlier this year. There was a heat wave.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

The contract, announced in November, is part of ongoing technical assistance provided by the World Bank to the Romanian Ministry of Environment, Water and Forests, and will aid efforts to help the country meet the requirements of the EU Floods Directive 2007/60/EC.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

Apple Forest, Tien Shan, Kazakhstan (2007) (image credit: Forestry England/Crown copyright). Forestry England is inviting colleagues from across the forestry industry to help create Treeline – a new film by international artist Ruth Maclennan about forests and the climate emergency.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Writing in a blog post announcing the tech giant's "third decade of climate action", CEO Sundar Pichai said the company had used carbon offsets to achieve 'carbon neutral' status since 2007, but it had now moved to offset emissions released prior to 2007. "As This means that Google's lifetime net carbon footprint is now zero.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

After decades of intense public debate and misinformation campaigns, nearly three-quarters of Americans now accept that climate change is happening ; not only that, more than half understand it is caused by human activity. But science education advocates aren’t too worried about the impact of the materials.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. But as our climate changes, the effect of altering weather patterns on public health has also been the subject of considerable study, and increasingly, media attention.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This research helped establish that burning fossil fuels has been the main driver of climate change, and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included the hockey stick graph in its 2001 assessment report on climate science.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The study shows a worldwide decline in coal-fired power generation with significant falls of 24 per cent in the EU and 16 per cent in the US in 2019, taking coal generation to around half the level seen in 2007 in both regions. remains "extremely difficult" to meet.

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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? The risk of climate change and its potential impacts on society and the ecosystem are widely recognized ,’ says another the following year.”.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

The project, which is one plank of a larger effort to protect and restore the Louisiana coast called the Louisiana Coastal Master Plan — a $50 billion plan created in 2007, two years after Hurricane Katrina walloped the state — will serve as a pilot for other parts of Louisiana experiencing severe land loss.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

It also confirmed a new member would be appointed to the University's Investment Committee, with "experience of both endowment management [and] an additional focus on climate-conscious investment". per cent of the endowment to 2.6 As such, just 0.6 As such, just 0.6

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Charged

JUNE 18, 2020

Many industry observers believe that the country’s prominent push for electrification has little to do with concern about climate change, and much to do with the country’s quest for a seat at the top table of the global auto industry. Great Wall Motor and Qoros Auto also were worsted and retired from the field.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic caused CO2 emissions from buildings and construction to fall significantly in 2020, but a lack of real transformation in the sector means that emissions will keep rising and contribute to dangerous climate change, according to the 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Two teams, Ambersail-2 and AkzoNobel Ocean Racing, carried scientific equipment onboard to capture samples of microplastics as they raced, while a third boat, 11th Hour Racing Team, took measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2), sea temperature, PH levels and salinity – key indicators of climate change. Int-Veen, I., Chiggiato, J.,

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Google timed its “largest-ever” commitment to be announced one day before the recent climate protests around the globe, which involved Google employees who have found fault with their employer’s action on climate change. remain at the forefront of the growing commercial and industrial sector.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cranky Uncle , an app released on Tuesday, uses this approach to teach people the ins and outs of anti-science propaganda — you know, the kind of myths that convince people climate change is a Chinese hoax. I always knew that cartoons had this potential to engage people about climate change,” Cook said.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Launching a consultation on the agency’s flood strategy, she said: “We can’t win a war against water by building away climate change with infinitely high flood defences.” Many NFM measures help in the fight against climate change.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Discouragingly for many, it may already seem too late to stave off the worst impacts of climate change. California is in the middle of another unprecedented fire year.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Even with concerted efforts to curb climate change, it’s clear we are already living through the effects of a warming world. In 2007, we had, at the time, the largest solar array in North Carolina. Reducing energy usage and choosing renewable energy sources One of the biggest impacts on the climate is energy usage.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JULY 24, 2024

Immediate Environmental Impact : The adoption of zero-emission vehicles leads to a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to a cleaner environment and supporting global efforts to combat climate change. It serves several major clients, including Starkist, CJ Logistics, and logistics giant Maersk.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A new review of the climate disclosures of some of the world's biggest insurance firms has identified "significant improvements" in the incorporation of climate change considerations into investment and underwriting strategies.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The researchers suggest that the new diagram should replace a widely used, more simplified graphic, introduced in 2007, which focused on the natural processes that shape the critical zone without addressing human impact on landscapes. Critical zones and SDGs: One of the diagrams featured in the paper.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

An all-you-need-to-know guide to the IPCC's must-read scientific dossier on the true scale of the climate crisis now facing the global economy. For 30 years, the science underpinning climate change, and humanity's role in driving it, has never been in much doubt. Warming is likely to reach 1.5C within next 20 years.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

Alberta’s 2022 Fiscal Plan describes it as “a centrepiece of Alberta’s approach to climate change and emissions management.”. Canada does have some claim to credibility on the climate action front,” reads a National Geographic story referring to the oil sands as the “most destructive oil operation” in the world. “As

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JULY 5, 2024

In fact, Google reached its initial carbon neutrality level back in 2007 and has been aiming to achieve a lifetime net zero carbon footprint by 2030. For years now, Google emissions have been dropping due to – among other things – the company switching to alternative and renewable energy sources to power its operations.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tropical forests are large and complex ecosystems that are a vital part of the solution to addressing the effects of climate change. Fortunately, organizations around the world are using Planet data to help protect these forests, including mission-based company Permian Global.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

She then crossed over to Whitehall in 2007 when she became a special advisor to Ed Miliband, working closely with the then Energy and Climate Change Secretary on what would become the landmark Climate Change Act 2008, which established the Committee on Climate Change and statutory UK climate targets.

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