Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

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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Grist

JULY 20, 2021

Governments across the world have been too slow in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and global warming continues apace,” Fowler said. As of March, the world’s collective commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions put us on the path to reducing emissions by less than 1 percent by 2030, compared to 2010 levels.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A “sustainable development” conference taking place in London gave a platform to two prominent climate science deniers, who used the event to claim that coal-fired power is “clean” and call global warming a “religion”. In 2010 he led Tea Party crowds in the U.S. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

One 1979 memo distributed to Exxon management , about a report conducted by Steve Knisley of Exxon’s Research and Engineering Department, accurately predicted the growth of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations by 2010 and referenced the “ecological consequences of increased CO2 levels.”

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the past ten years, vocabulary moved from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’ to ‘climate crisis.’. The report highlights how attitudes to the environment have shifted, how discourse was becoming more urgent and how Covid-19 has affected the global online climate conversation. On March 1, BayWa r.e. Covid-19 takes over.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

As the number of global internet users has grown, so too has demand for data center services, giving rise to concerns about growing data center energy use. percent of global electricity use in 2010. On global electricity usage of communication technology: trends to 2030. percent and 1.5 Challenges, 6(1), pp.117-157.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Bradley testified that when Congress held hearings in 2010 pertaining to the hockey stick graph as well as the materials in the email hack, it was a way to “tangle us up in demands for documents,” and was “clearly aimed at making us three prominent scientists look as though we’d done something wrong.” On Monday, former Minnesota GOP Rep.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Solar power is the "new king" of global electricity markets, with the International Energy Agency calling it the cheapest form of electricity in history in its annual centerpiece World Energy Outlook report. Just a decade ago, in its 2010 Outlook , the IEA called coal “the backbone of the global electricity system.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that he wants to “max out” the UK’s oil and gas reserves, despite the International Energy Agency stating that new oil and gas fields are “incompatible” with the legally binding 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Graham Stuart MP was listed as a keynote speaker on Tuesday at the four-day Global Investment in Sustainable Development conference in London, hosted by the CC Forum, a company which touts itself as the “green Davos”. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?” in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2023

Titled “ SCENARIOS 1989 – 2010 ,” the Shell memo outlines a high-emissions “global mercantilism” scenario in which average global temperatures rise by “considerably more” than 1.5 The Shell “ SCENARIOS 1989 – 2010 ” report cited in the brief filed on April 7. degrees Celsius. Conflicts would abound.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C by the end of the century – a temperature that will result in the planet facing climate disaster. beyond CO?)

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

The report also measured how IFs communicated their strategic aims to the public and found only 188 environment related tweets across all 32 IFs since 2010. Global warming has contributed to a temperature increase of around 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

Stephen Davies, an academic who has worked in educational outreach roles at the IEA since 2010, appeared several times in Climate The Movie: The Cold Truth – a new film directed by climate science denier Martin Durkin. In the documentary, Davies claims that climate activists want to impose an “austere” life on ordinary people.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

global warming pathway. The company - which has been a net zero business since 2012 thanks to its investments in offsetting, alongside a reduction in its carbon emissions intensity of 61 per cent since 2010 - said it would now cut all of its own carbon emissions to zero by 2030 without the use of offsetting.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

"With COP26 just a few weeks away, businesses and governments across all parts of the world need to focus their efforts on concrete action that follows robust targets to meet the challenge our world faces to reach net zero by mid-century and hold global warming to 1.5C.".

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Ocean acidification, global warming, pollution: the causes of these threats are many and particularly difficult to address, insofar as they are extremely diffuse, and result from our entire development paradigm. Between 2010 and 2019, the amount of algae has increased by 20 per cent, corresponding with declines in hard coral cover.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

As there are only about 10 years left before the door closes for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 While a Directive on the energy performance of buildings has been in place since 2002, recast in 2010 and revised in 2018, the results so far have been underwhelming”, says Gillett. The challenge, however, is huge. “75%

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The first report, which the United Nations secretary-general called a “ code red for humanity ,” was released last summer and addressed the physical science of climate change , warning that global warming was “widespread, rapid, and intensifying.” Dan Kitwood / Getty Images.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From 2015 to 2023, he was a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group. He added that “peer-reviewed scientific research states that the rapid [global] warming is substantially due to the methane, nitrous oxide, and fossil fuel emissions we produce.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Policy Exchange and Climate Change Policy Exchange was co-founded in 2002 by Michael Gove, who has been a mainstay in the cabinet since 2010. He was also recently appointed as a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – the UK’s principal climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It also contains supportive quotes from 13 MPs, including Steve Baker and Graham Stringer , both trustees of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), as well as Conservative peer Peter Lilley , a former GWPF trustee.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

The comments came as the latest annual update from the WMO documented how global climate impacts are continuing to intensify, while the global economy remains "way off track" to meet the decarbonisation goals that could help stabilise the climate.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

global warming scenario - the more ambitious goal in the Paris Agreement - palm oil prices could rise by 29 per cent and the cost of undeveloped plantation land could rise by 52 per cent, presenting significant challenges for Indonesia's palm oil industry. The research warns that under a 1.5C

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 28, 2019

Although the provincial government under Premiere Rob Ford has systematically dismantled climate action in Ontario, students in that province can still have access to the facts about global warming. Related Comprehensive Green School Information and Resources 2010 - 2018 Subscribe in a reader For more information click here.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I was fortunate to interview Jacobson for an Energy Boom story in 2010 about the real cost comparison between coal and wind power. He focused on his training as an athlete to center himself and instinctively opened with, “So Dave, we’re developing science-based plans to eliminate global warming and air pollution, including the 2.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Fresh analysis published this afternoon by the United Nations climate body the UNFCCC calculates the combined impact of 48 revised national emission reduction plans published in 2020, which together account for just under a third of global emissions. per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 2010.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 20, 2020

In 2010, climate and environmental risks were altogether absent in the WEF risks report. The report also includes infectious disease and we know that global warming will increase water-borne illnesses and diseases like Zika. The 2020 report squarely acknowledges "climate action failure".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Ruth Porter, who will be Truss’s senior special advisor and ran her election campaign, was communications director from 2010 to 2013 at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an influential anti-regulation think tank with a record of opposing climate policies. BP-Funded Think Tank. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2022

Since 2010, wind energy costs have plunged 55 percent — and the costs of solar energy and lithium-ion batteries dropped even further , a stunning 85 percent reduction. To limit warming to 1.5 C, global coal use must drop 95 percent by 2050, the IPCC said. It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Costs of climate change Since 2010, the costs of weather-related disasters and catastrophic events have amounted to about 5% to 6% of Canada’s annual GDP growth, up from an average of 1% in previous decades, according to the Canadian Climate Institute. This is expected to climb to 65% if global warming reaches 2°C.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Lighting giant Signify has today announced a series of sustainability milestones, claiming it has achieved 'carbon neutral' status for its global operations, which it said are now also powered by 100 per cent renewable electricity.

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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 Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

percent per year since 2010, to 2.6 In 2019, total greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high of 59.1 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e). Emissions have increased from an average 1.4 percent in 2019. A total of 33.1

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

Six years on, her campaign is being run by the leading opponent of net zero in parliament – Steve Baker MP, a trustee of the UK’s most prominent climate denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), and deputy chair of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG). Foreign Secretary.

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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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