Grist

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

degrees C of warming, the goal set by nations in the Paris Agreement in 2015. Accelerating the uptake of renewable energy and clean transportation is an example of that.”. I don’t want to throw in the towel, but for some things that are likely, such as sea-level rise and coral reef loss, it would be prudent to be planning.”.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 13, 2021

This is the most important year for climate action since the Paris Climate Agreement was passed in 2015. 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.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Happy Earth Day 2021!

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

But climate control represents a particularly bedeviling problem, since more energy use contributes to climate change, which in turn causes greater temperature extremes that necessitate even more energy use to maintain a controlled indoor environment (sometimes known as the “doom loop” of AC ).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

Climate groups are increasingly concerned about a lack of action from the government ahead of the summit, the largest of its kind since the historic Paris Agreement was signed in 2015. It will warn of a rise in heatwaves, destruction of 90 percent of global reefs, accelerated sea level rise and stronger hurricanes and typhoons.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

“It is easy to set ambitious climate targets for 30, 40 or even 50 years in the future — but it is much harder to enact policies today that shift energy systems towards a more sustainable future,” they wrote. degrees C — the target that became a global rallying cry following the advocacy of vulnerable island nations during the 2015 U.N.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Sea-level rise is also irreversible — the heat collecting in ice sheets and the ocean will continue to drive sea-level rise long after the temperature is stabilized or even lowered. Scientists say sea level rise is one of the irreversible impacts of an overshoot scenario.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Time-lapse satellite imagery of ice breaking off the Pine Island Glacier from 2015 to 2020. A giant bubble machine off Antarctica would require a continuous supply of energy, which would have to be renewable. He agrees that there are other important causes of current and future sea-level rise. So what can be done?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. Found in the book “ Energy and Man: A Symposium ” Provenance: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2015, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling — subsequently upheld on appeal — in a climate lawsuit brought by Urgenda and Dutch citizens against the national government. A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Melting ice caps and ocean expansion have contributed to sea-level rise of nearly eight inches, heat waves and flooding have become more prevalent, and damage to the natural world is worse and more widespread than ever before. Drawing on the IPCC’s previous publications, the report says global temperatures have risen 1.1

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. We need immediate action on energy. We need to match our energy for climate action to the fierceness of our burning climate.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 3, 2020

s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. In 2013 the stock of manageable assets was $143 trillion as estimated by the Financial Stability Board, updated based on EIU data in 2015 suggests that number is $207 trillion. According to the U.K.’s

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Overview: The 2015 Paris Agreement includes a requirement for countries to submit more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (greenhouse gas emissions targets) every five years. Between 2015 and 2020, Canada delivered $2.65 The post Media Brief: COP26 and the implications for Canada appeared first on Clean Energy Canada.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

If all shipping that currently uses heavy fuel oils in the Arctic were to switch to distillate fuels or other clean energy sources, black carbon emissions in the region could be reduced by 44 per cent, according to the Clean Arctic Alliance.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. In a 2015 viewpoint article , Bowles anticipates climate change will further diminish the availability of traditional food sources for Indigenous Australians, forcing greater migration.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

billion in 2015. But that’s not likely to happen with current levels of commitment in global governments: The important Paris climate accord of 2015, in theory, agrees to hold warming to 2 degrees Celsius. Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

billion in 2015. But that’s not likely to happen with current levels of commitment in global governments: The important Paris climate accord of 2015, in theory, agrees to hold warming to 2 degrees Celsius. Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. We already have the practical, clean-energy solutions to make a real impact and help stop the destruction from extreme weather events from getting ever-worse. Heat Pumps for Sustainable Heating and Cooling (Green Energy and Technology) by Y.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. Business has an important role to play in helping to bring climate justice and racial equity front and center while shifting the finance for the energy transition.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The central message from the latest review of climate science is remarkably bleak: The world is running out of time to stabilise global temperatures at relatively safe levels, with current policies and levels of investment nowhere near sufficient to secure a liveable future for all. global warming.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2021

However, the economists reported being broadly optimistic about the economic promise of low emissions technologies, with a consensus that many of the technologies emerging now are likely to replicate the drastic cost reductions seen in the solar and wind energy sectors over the last 10 years.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

My ears perked up when Bren Haase, the current executive director of the CPRA, profusely thanked Eric Beightel, the head of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council established in 2015. T-shirts with sponsors’ names worn by guests at a Katrina 10-year anniversary event in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward on August 29, 2015.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. Leverage influence and advocate for public policy Call on all levels of government to integrate a justice lens into their climate solutions.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Clair — to teach students the science behind the greenhouse effect, sea-level rise, and intensified weather events. A spotter keeps an eye on a wildfire near Omak, Washington, in August 2015. In the United States, it’s up to individual schools or school districts — and solitary teachers like St.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2022

The case brought by West Virginia demanded the EPA should not have the authority to devise emissions caps based on the generation shifting approach the Agency took in the Clean Power Plan in 2015 – in essence limiting emissions across whole states. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. “An

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

The implications of this court-ordered corporate climate goal go well beyond the energy sector. Water scarcity, ecosystem collapse, sea-level rise and many other climate-related calamities could become the basis for mounting "duty of care" human rights litigation, even if a company is hewing to the law of the land.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

The fossil fuel industry is driving feedback loops that include both melting permafrost and sea level rise. The pipeline was acquired by the Canadian federal government after it agreed to pay Texas energy giant Kinder Morgan $4.5 Here are few examples of oil spills that illustrate the dangers of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

The implications of this court-ordered corporate climate goal go well beyond the energy sector. Water scarcity, ecosystem collapse, sea-level rise and many other climate-related calamities could become the basis for mounting "duty of care" human rights litigation, even if a company is hewing to the law of the land.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

As a backdrop to the United Nations climate conference in Dubai, it’s a fitting venue for a planet-wide shift that scientists say needs to happen: The region has extensive deposits of oil and gas, but also immense, untapped potential for renewable energy. Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. More research, heated debate and negotiations ensued leading to the adoption of the December 2015 Paris Agreement , a watershed moment in dealing with the causes of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Her energy secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg this week announced that the UK’s zombie fracking industry would be resurrected, despite a much-awaited report saying that there was still “limited” understanding of the UK’s shale gas reserves and the impacts of extracting them, with earthquake forecasting remaining a “scientific challenge”.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

The implications of this court-ordered corporate climate goal go well beyond the energy sector. Water scarcity, ecosystem collapse, sea-level rise and many other climate-related calamities could become the basis for mounting “duty of care” human rights litigation, even if a company is hewing to the law of the land.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When, at the annual United Nations climate conference in Paris in 2015, the countries of the world agreed to the goal of limiting global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, it seemed possible, probable even, that humanity was on track to avoiding the worst effects of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Campaign finance records filed this week show that the Party received more than $90,000 in donations from utility companies, energy producers, and their executives during the elections for two Louisiana Public Service Commissioners. Entergy, Cleco, and CenterPoint Energy did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 10, 2022

Tice claimed the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) suggested sea level rises would not occur for hundreds of years, adding: “Why are we investing all this money in getting to net zero? If you were worried about sea level rises, you’d be better investing the money in defences.”

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