DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

Deforestation to create pastures and feed for livestock releases CO2; methane is emitted from animals and their manure; and fossil fuels are used to transport animals and power the globalized meat supply chain. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8 million cattle, 46.7 million pigs and 4.9 billion chickens. . chatów in Poland released 33.2

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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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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

Global temperatures have risen to 1.1C above pre-industrial levels after more than a century of burning fossil fuels and current policies are expected to lead to global warming of 2.8C Global emissions rose again last year and are not expected to peak until 2025 at the earliest. by 2100, the report warns.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

And as the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted , emissions pathways that limit global warming to 2°C or below generally assume that some form of carbon dioxide removal, such as CCS, is necessary, alongside reducing emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming. Another ad features miniature power plants to promote “cleaner electricity” from natural gas, whose methane emissions are a major driver of rising global temperatures.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Anthropogenic. Kyoto Protocol.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The first lawsuit focuses on changes related to the LCFSs avoided methane crediting system. CARB accounts for avoided methane emissions when calculating the CI of renewable natural gas (RNG), which is considered a replacement for petroleum-based diesel due to RNGs predominant use in mid- and heavy-duty engines.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The world is not remotely on track to limit global warming to 1.5C G20 countries have a critical role in driving action, the report notes, calculating that actions taken by these major economies alone could cap global warming at 1.7C, the lion's share of emissions reduction required to avoid catastrophic levels of warming.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

In a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York City this afternoon, Guterres is expected to reiterate that despite further climate pledges made in Glasgow at COP26 in November, the world remains "far off track" towards limiting global warming to the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5C. by the end of the century are to be kept alive.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Paris Agreement followed at COP21 in 2015 and introduced a goal of holding global temperature increases to below 2°C, as well as pursuing efforts to limit the temperature to 1.5°C. It also encourages parties to reduce methane emissions by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Recent findings from the System Change Lab collaboration , similarly found that emissions reduction progress across six "climate critical" sectors were falling significantly short of a pathway which would stave off dangerous levels of global warming. The need for continued action, regardless of the feasibility of the 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. NCBA did not respond to a request for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. percent lower in 2020 than 2015. .

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. So Biven is determined to make sure her “Methane Memo,” which lays out a plan to safeguard the funds, makes its way to him. Methane Without Measure.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The biggest international deal yet to tackle climate change came out of COP21 in 2015, when countries brokered the landmark Paris Agreement. That set a goal of limiting global average temperatures to close to 1.5 And during COP28, they’ll host a meeting to address methane pollution, an even more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The world’s foremost climate science body, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has said that “immediate and deep emissions reductions” are needed “across all sectors” to limit global warming to 1.5C – the global target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. threshold, worsening global heating.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down. The protocol sets binding and measurable objectives for combating climate change for the first time, stipulating global ceilings for GHGs.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

The progress update builds on previous data compiled by the Lancet commission, which showed that pollution was responsible for 9 million deaths in 2015. Notably, both methane and many major forms of PM 2.5 Notably, both methane and many major forms of PM 2.5 Now, the researchers say that number has remained virtually unchanged.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. Another pledge by more than 100 countries to cut methane by 30 per cent by 2030, essential for reducing this potent and prevalent greenhouse gas. degree Celsius warming trajectory. So, what happened?

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

With the world on the brink of irreversible harm, every fraction of a degree of warming matters to limit the dangers of climate change. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C The dangerous and costly impacts we are experiencing now will seem mild compared to what we will face if we fail to keep warming to 1.5°C

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Then, there are also methane, nitrous oxide, and other industrial gasses, about which we seldom hear. Methane and nitrous oxide do not persist in the atmosphere as long as CO 2. Methane is a component of natural gas. Some people still deny that greenhouse gases are culpable for climate change and global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

To meet Paris Agreement commitments of keeping global warming “ well below ” 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, specialists in climate, public health, and other areas advise cutting herd numbers, particularly on intensive farms, and eating less animal protein, especially in richer countries.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

climate summit in Paris in 2015, officials agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 Seventeen percent of those surveyed said that global warming affected their decision to have children; 21 percent said they had reconsidered lifestyle choices with carbon-heavy consequences, such as diet, transportation, and travel.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

We either choose to achieve rapid and large-scale reductions of emissions to keep the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C, or we accept that humanity faces a bleak future on this planet.". We need to leave Glasgow with a balanced package of decisions that reflects the positions of all countries.". "We

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

There was limited progress on countries increasing their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), with many still considered to be falling short of what’s necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Methane milestone? We are very encouraged by Britain’s commitment to addressing the issue.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

US re-joins High Ambition Coalition, as snap analysis suggests commitments made in Glasgow could bring global warming trajectories down below 2C for the first time. warming pathway. if they aligned with a 1.5C

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. degrees Celsius.”

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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). They are all choosing growth. So should we.”.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it. Construction was set to begin over the summer.

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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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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 5, 2021

With the world’s focus on cutting CO2 emissions to slow global warming, cutting methane emissions is often overlooked. But with more potential to warm the planet in the short-term, it’s time to tackle methane gas emissions. Why Focus on Methane? C off the average global temperature in 2050.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Steve Brown, Orcadian’s founder, regularly shared posts on social media from his recently-deleted Twitter account that cast doubt on climate policy and modelling, including content from the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s principal climate science denying group.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2025

She cited the Parable of the Talents, in which a “master” punishes a man who didn’t use the gifts he had given him to illustrate her opinion of the climate and environmental laws passed by the Liberals since 2015. Canada’s Ex-Conservative Party leader Candace Bergen speaks at this year’s ARC conference in London.

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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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