DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A recent study has found it is currently “not feasible” for the global livestock industry to sequester enough carbon to cancel out its planet-warming emissions — and that policy efforts geared toward that goal may be deeply misguided. 135 gigatons is roughly equal to all the carbon lost due to agriculture over the past 12,000 years.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

$1bn 'Ambition Zero Carbon' aims for zero carbon emissions across global operations by 2025, and ensure entire value chain is carbon negative by 2030. The new goals were set out in the firm's ‘Ambition Zero Carbon' strategy published yesterday, which brings forward its plans for decarbonisation in line with a 1.5C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

A timeline from coal to negative emissions at Drax – told by the engineers who were there. Today, however, sustainably-sourced compressed wood pellets have enabled the Yorkshire power station - once the country's largest single source of emissions - to rapidly decarbonise, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions 85 per cent lower than in 2013.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Scientists are documenting changes that are “much more widespread” and “much more negative,” she said, than anticipated for the 1.09 It will gain increasing importance as the herculean difficulty of reducing emissions to net zero and removing vast stores of carbon from the atmosphere become clearer.”. Climeworks.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

mandated by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Current government commitments submitted in 2015 are highly inadequate, which is why the upcoming five-year revision and upgrading of Paris pledges is so crucial. She represented the Republic of the Marshall Islands during the Paris Agreement negotiations in 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2021

Both methane and carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have reached new record highs, the study reveals. Not every data point was negative, however, and there were some signs of hope. percent, largely due to expanding carbon pricing in China. trillion between 2015 and 2019. Australia, the U.K., percent to 23.2

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

In the early 2010s, climate scientists were painting a grim picture of the future: If humans didn’t curb carbon dioxide emissions, the world was headed toward 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Scientists now estimate that current emissions trajectories make a 4-degree scenario highly implausible, even as total carbon emissions continue to rise.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Between 2001-2015, 27% of forest disturbance was attributed to commodity-driven deforestation.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

In lieu of heavy machinery, plumes of sulfur dioxide, or rivers red with runoff , you’ll find four acres of a leafy-green shrub, tended to since 2015 by local villagers. They won’t have to manually burn the crop as they are doing now – meaning the process will be carbon negative, as opposed to what van der Ent labels as carbon neutral.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Smiling into the camera, she tells viewers that “the world needs ways to reduce carbon emissions.” Speakers from diverse backgrounds then reassure viewers that, luckily, they’re working on solutions to that very problem, “like carbon capture , and clean energy from hydrogen.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The voluntary carbon market can offer the scale, demand, market infrastructure and technologies to deliver for the climate, argues SustainCERT CEO Marion Verles. More than 30 years after the first offset project was initiated by a US electric power company in Guatemala, the voluntary carbon market finds itself at the dawn of a new era.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The resulting model estimated pollution exposure levels and the number of premature deaths with varying values of pollution control, socioeconomic trends and climate warming over the years 2015 to 2100. However, lower pollution concentrations alone did not necessarily lower the projected number of deaths.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2022

She wrote: “The claimants point to clear evidence of negative taxation flows in particular years; specifically negative tax flows overall in 2015-16 and 2016-17 of £2 million and £359 million respectively.”. A BEIS spokesperson said: “We welcome today’s judgment. An OGA spokesperson said: “We welcome the judgment.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

As trees grow they remove carbon from the atmosphere. Spurred by the necessities of drastically cutting emissions and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to meet climate targets, many countries, including Brazil, India and China, have committed large areas to forest restoration. above pre-industrial levels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

HSBC is Europe's second largest financier of fossil fuels, after Barclays, according to the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), which found the bank had provided $87bn to some of the world's largest fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Already, politicians and major corporations, including oil and gas producers, are hard at work promoting the idea that the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goals can be met if the financial world coalesces around “net-zero” climate initiatives. special envoy on climate, has called humanity’s “last best chance” to curb the climate catastrophe.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 6, 2020

The authors find that many (though not all) regions see net gains without considering any climate benefits, and all regions of the world see substantial net economic benefits when adding in the social cost of carbon at $100 per ton (see bold pink line in Figure 1). b, Benefits of coal-exit scenario for year 2050 in absolute terms.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? The graph at the top shows the trajectory of global carbon emissions (and this is without the land-use figures), so no. And it’s not all about carbon emissions. Also, most countries will miss their targets. It’s magical thinking.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. So why did these eminent scientists decide to come to Paris in 2015? The problem is this confuses the means with the end.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Paris Summit in 2015 was a genuine turning point in the world's response to the climate crisis that will define the century one way or another, and as such it should be remembered by historians as an event of global import. In some ways this is an absurd contention.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

An independent HS2 review published by the government today said there was a risk of the project running up costs as high as £100bn, almost double the £56bn budget forecast back in 2015, while also conceding that construction of the new rail network could push up carbon emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. Economic sustainability refers to indefinite economic production to support long-term business prosperity, without negatively impacting the social and environmental aspects of a business. Waste: With a 2% reduction in waste since 2015. Economic Sustainability.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Indeed, the ingredients for negativity are all too abundant: a persistent, shapeshifting virus; political stalemates that thwart climate action; growing social and economic inequality; terrifying ecological indicators; pushback by the anti-science crowd and their media enablers.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. “Eni took a bath of green paint,” Abbate said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2020

Over the next ten years, carbon reduction efforts will be a central element of Capgemini's work with its clients, which include some of the world's largest automotive, telecommunications, consumer goods and retail companies. The company's carbon reduction prerogramme, which is currently being validated, is now aligned with a 1.5

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Ocean: increasing amounts of CO 2 ultimately dissolve in the oceans and forms carbonic acid by altering the ocean chemistry. The increased acidity reduces the number of available carbonate ions. Climate: severe climate change and increasing levels of atmospheric CO 2 have been noticed since 1950. 2009; Steffen, W.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

Records show that the company has lobbied during the past three years on California’s climate strategy, toxicity provisions, low carbon fuel standards, as well as its oil and gas production policies. Veolia was hired by the city in February 2015 to help address the problem.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

If global oil demand peaks, as a result of legislation designed to reduce carbon emissions, and more specifically an electrification of the transportation fleet, then the oil industry may follow the steep decline the coal industry has experienced. Thus, investor sentiment for the energy industry is decidedly negative.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

When homeowners choose these options, they can lessen their carbon footprint while also gaining a more reliable energy source. And with the increased impact of climate change and the negative repercussions of fossil fuel, generating clean energy is an even higher priority for homeowners and nations alike.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

When homeowners choose these options, they can lessen their carbon footprint while also gaining a more reliable energy source. And with the increased impact of climate change and the negative repercussions of fossil fuel, generating clean energy is an even higher priority for homeowners and nations alike.

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Living Green Technology

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Image via Pexels According to the Climate.gov , 2015 through 2018 were the four warmest years on record—a major indicator that our planet’s average surface temperature is increasing with each passing year. Read on to learn more about these everyday technologies that can help to promote a more environmentally friendly lifestyle.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The campaign resulted in a flurry of negative Telegraph opinion pieces on the subject – many falsely conflating the result with a condemnation of the UK’s net zero targets. The GWPF has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The reality is that the UK simply cannot switch to an all-electric car, heat pump, and zero carbon grid economy without very significant contributions from solar PV and onshore wind, alongside storage. We want to see the best solar and onshore wind schemes supported, including those that deliver improvements to local biodiversity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

LSE's Josh Burke sets out the risks of prematurely incorporating carbon removal technologies into carbon markets. Carbon removals are needed because net zero targets - as implied by their name - are based on net emissions levels, which are important to distinguish from gross emissions. New net zero standards.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental and social disruptions cause a negative brand reputation (note BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ). Despite this, it’s reported that a mere 6% of sustainability programs set the pace on employee engagement (although this figure is from 2015 and needs updating). If not, how can we offset our carbon emissions?

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