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Report: Nobody talks about ‘global warming’ anymore

Grist

Big news: Global warming is over. They found that searches for global warming , once the most common phrase for our overheating planet, are down 73 percent since 2010. Climate change began to outpace global warming around 2015 , and the newly popular climate crisis might someday catch up if current trends continue.

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French Oil Company Total ‘Knew About Global Warming Impact in 1971’, Study Finds

DeSmogBlog

French oil giant Total knew that its fossil fuel extraction could contribute to global warming as early as 1971 but stayed silent about it until 1988, according to a new study. Emissions from fossil fuels are the primary cause of global warming, according to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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IPCC: ‘Limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy sector’

Smart Energy International

The report examines the sources of global emissions, explains developments in emissions reduction and mitigation efforts and assesses the impact of national climate pledges. One of the report’s key findings is that limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy sector. Emissions growth rates.

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The 1.5C global warming limit is not impossible - but without political action it soon will be

Business Green

Limiting global warming to 1.5C warming involves two distinct questions. So scientifically speaking, humanity can still limit global warming to 1.5C An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 2018 synthesised hundreds of studies and found rapidly escalating risks in global warming between 1.5C

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Majority of companies to miss net-zero targets, analysis shows

Envirotec Magazine

However, the study found that just one in 20 (5%) of the European companies in the study are on track to achieve their net-zero target dates in their own operations, covering scope 1 and 2 emissions, if they continue the pace of emissions reduction that they achieved between 2010 and 2019, with only 9% on course to meet a 2050 target.

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Office furniture giant Steelcase sets 2030 'carbon negative' goal

Business Green

global warming trajectory. global warming trajectory. The firm is aiming to cut absolute emissions from its own operations in half by 2030 against a 2010 baseline, in addition to scaling back on business travel and waste generation.

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Immediate action on organic waste needed to meet Paris targets, says biogas group

Envirotec Magazine

1) While a carbon gas, methane caused by human activity is identified as being responsible for ~20% of global warming. While methane typically stays in the atmosphere for 35 years, its global warming potential is far greater than CO2. As we have 10 years to act, tackling methane is the key to achieving net zero. (2)To

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