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 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The IPCC report stresses that global emissions must peak by 2025 at the very latest to keep alive any hope of limiting temperature increases to the 1.5C Thereafter, as previous IPCC reports have indicated, global emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030, in addition to a reduction in methane emissions of around a third, from 2019 levels.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

global warming pathway are to be kept alive. In snap analysis published yesterday, the IEA said it had calculated the impacts of the net zero pledges and emissions targets announced in recent days, and concluded that if national climate pledges are delivered as promised, the planet could potentially limit warming to 1.8C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The world is not remotely on track to limit global warming to 1.5C In contrast, scientists have recommended emissions reductions of 45 per cent are required by 2030 to meet the Paris Agreement's more ambitious goal of limiting warming to 1.5C warming pathway. Achieving the Paris 1.5C within reach.".

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

It calls for CO 2 emissions to be reduced by 45% by 2030 relative to 2010 levels and for CO 2 emissions to reach “net zero” by “around mid-century”. It also encourages parties to reduce methane emissions by 2030.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

To limit global warming to a peak of 1.5C, which the impacts we are experiencing at 1.35°C °C warming (based on an average of the last 10 years) make clear is a higher than desirable goal. The challenge. gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

alive", it states that "rapid, deep and sustained" reductions in carbon emissions are needed, and crucially it quantifies those reductions, putting on the record that emissions need to fall 45 per cent by 2030 relative to 2010 levels, before then achieving net zero around mid-century, "as well as deep reductions in other greenhouse gases".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Since 1990, methane emissions from agriculture have increased nearly 17 percent , largely because of the way manure is managed on large farms. The audit also found that in 2010 and 2011 the NCBA charged the travel costs of at least 20 staffers traveling to D.C.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The graph, co-created by Mann, shows that while global average temperatures have been rising for the past 500 to 2,000 years, the rate of heating has sharply accelerated since the start of the industrial revolution in the West, and particularly during the 20th century. On Monday, former Minnesota GOP Rep.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 9, 2020

Melting permafrost Warming Arctic temperatures are releasing carbon and methane , the two most serious GHGs. For years scientists have observed massive quantities of methane emanating from melting ice on the sea floor in the Arctic. The absorption of sunlight further increases warming. million square kilometers (4.77

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”. There are several ways to produce hydrogen , but almost all of it currently in production uses methane as the feedstock, with non-renewable energy powering that production.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense. Because of global warming, our natural environment is also hotter and drier than ever before, making fires caused by failed power lines more likely and extreme. million.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

“A Fragile Thing” Later documents obtained by Hüzeir shed new light on the ever-more granular understanding Shell was developing of the risks climate change posed to global stability. National Academy of Sciences that explicitly warned of the risks human-induced global warming could pose to earth’s weather and “ecological balances,” the U.S.-based

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

3 Its author is Duncan Brack, who was an adviser to Chris Huhne when he was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012. S Fairlie, Meat: a Benign Extravagance, Permanent Publications, 2010, pp 35-43; also “Eating the Platter Clean”, The Land 24, 2019. Brack’s report caused quite a stir.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 average. In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture. As water vapor itself is a potent greenhouse gas, more water vapor in the atmosphere means accelerated global warming. Lot’s of Methane.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Anne-Marie Trevelyan – Transport Secretary.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. In 2019, the board approved a controversial methane gas pipeline over the protest of communities in its path.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

In 2010 Harris became the first Black woman to be elected as California attorney general, before her election to the Senate in 2016 where she carved out a reputation as an influential member of the Judiciary Committee, probing the many scandals to engulf the Trump administration.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Oil and gas production accounted for by private companies has more than trebled in the past ten years, from eight percent in 2010 to 30 percent in 2020. Buffett has also helped fuel the development of oil and gas projects over the years, including betting big on the future of fracked oil in the US’s controversial Permian Basin.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2021

It also predicts that Biden will introduce new rules to target methane leaks from oil and gas operations, curb pollutants such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and gas from landfills, and strengthen climate risk reporting requirements for all corporates.

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