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 16, 2020

One tangible way to measure the positive contributions of investment portfolios on the climate is via reductions in carbon emissions and this is something more and more providers are reporting today, while a growing number of investment products are aligning themselves with the Paris Agreement goals. per cent of 2018 GDP.

Climate change 85

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. million since June 2018. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018. million views.

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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.

Climate change 96

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. billion tons of CO 2 in 2018.

Ocean acidification 445

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The business sustainability movement is picking up pace, e.g., in 2018, 88% of consumers desired green businesses. In 2018, over half of the global asset owners were currently implementing or evaluating sustainability in their investment strategy. If not, how can we offset our carbon emissions? Risk Management.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. This could happen to my son any day of the week," she said. "I

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 97

R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Earlier this month, France’s constitutional court upheld a law cutting palm oil from the country’s list of approved biofuels and eliminating associated tax exemptions. This severe deforestation has undermined biofuels’ sustainability credentials, as these tropical forests are key absorbers of carbon dioxide.

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Building Energy Monitoring Asia Energy Monitor Carbon-negative 60

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade. A spokesperson from Fertilizers Europe said “transition to green and low-carbon production cannot be done overnight and will take more than 5-7 years.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Home Energy Monitoring 98

Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

All nations are requested to show their commitment by promulgating law and policy that promote investments in preserving the climate. For example, humans and trees benefit each other by supplying oxygen and carbon dioxide. This global commitment is not possible without a huge investment.

Agriculture 89

Agriculture Global warming Climate change Sustainability 89

R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

In a previous article , I analyzed the carbon footprint of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels. To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas. kilograms of carbon dioxide emitted per kilogram of hydrogen produced.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Yorkshire-based biomass giant is among over a dozen signatories to an industry-backed document that claims bioenergy could increase its output to nearly threefold, and reduce net global emissions by over one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050. to Yorkshire, in the UK, and the emissions impact of burning wood for power. “It

Sustainability 86

Sustainability Carbon-negative Carbon COP 86

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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Pollution Agriculture Carbon-negative Climate change 98

Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. Recent wildfires in the northern territories were reported to have acute and long-term negative impacts for mental and emotional well-being. November 2018. November 2017.

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Climate change Health Pollution Carbon-negative 45

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. In 2018, that $3 million fee covered NPPC’s entire lobbying budget.

Agriculture 96

Agriculture Fossil fuels Methane Sustainability 96

Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The first is to avoid a governance gap and ensure that environmental law continues to be properly applied and enforced in a post-Brexit world. For example, healthy soils and peatland play a vital part in reducing risks from flooding and absorbing carbon. From a business perspective, legally binding targets are crucial.

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Business Energy Monitoring Investment Climate change Government 50

Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed landmark the deal on Christmas Eve as a major victory for the UK, claiming it was worth around £668bn of trade in 2019 terms, while allowing Westminster to "take back control" of the UK's laws, borders, money, and fishing waters. Carbon pricing and energy. Electric vehicles.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Here, BusinessGreen sums up some of its key findings and recommendations for how all actors can work together to deliver a greener, more equitable, lower carbon future. limit but could be bent back down by the end of the century through the use of negative emissions projects, the report contends. is now lower than it was in 2018.

Climate change 36

Climate change Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Policy 36

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

“And then we’re going to create a carbon offset by plugging and abandoning that well, so it never leaks methane again.” One strategy, he said, for offsetting methane from wells is to go find leaking abandoned oil and gas wells and measure the emissions spewing from those. and parts of Canada.”.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

Mills, an organic vegetable gardener and self-described energy geek who prefers gin and tonics to ganja, spent 40 years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before retiring in 2018 as a senior scientist, although he remains an affiliate there.

Sustainability 82

Sustainability Transportation Carbon-negative Policy 82

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Black carbon released by flares can be a powerful — if short-lived — greenhouse gas in its own right. In 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Shell over allegations that flaring at the site violated the Clean Air Act and state law. Norco’s flares light up the sky a day after Hurricane Ida hit.

Home Energy Monitoring 98

Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 98

GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

greenhouse gas emissions in 2018. Fossil fuels development on public lands and waters is responsible for almost one-quarter of the country’s emissions, according to a 2018 U.S. Currently, the country’s 154 national forests absorb about 10 percent of the nation’s total carbon emissions each year, and a U.S.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

For example, New York law requires a 60 percent reduction in emissions in just eight years. Meanwhile, at the national level, the Biden administration has set a bold goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Further, the poor appearance and fit of the turbines with the landscape were cited as negative.

Energy 52

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Grist

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Since the Fourth National Climate Assessment in 2018 , a lot has changed. All of those put people at higher risk for more negative experiences and impact during and after disasters. But that’s not something that is considered as part of the policies and laws in place for disaster relief and response.

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Health Climate change Organic Law 97

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. “This could happen to my son any day of the week,” she said.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential Katie Lebling Wed, 11/11/2020 – 00:30 To meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. billion tons of CO 2 in 2018.

Carbon 28

Carbon Ocean acidification Carbon-negative Energy Monitor 28

AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential Katie Lebling Wed, 11/11/2020 – 00:30 To meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. billion tons of CO 2 in 2018.

Carbon 28

Carbon Ocean acidification Carbon-negative Energy Monitor 28

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

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Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

Logistics 52

Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Carbon Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In 2018, the city’s five funds began studying what divestment on climate grounds — including the imperative to move to clean energy to meet the nation’s Paris Agreement commitments — might entail. They found a way to do this and continue funding pensions.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2021

And the negative impacts associated with constructing a pipeline across waterways has caught the attention of the EPA. Lapp also said MVP has not provided adequate detail on the water bodies it will cross, and has not demonstrated that it has done everything feasible to avoid negative impacts.

Natural gas 98

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This documentary was created in reaction to the Trump administration’s slashing of the laws protecting these public lands. The approach focuses on topsoil regeneration to increase biodiversity, improve water recycling, and support carbon capture by biosequestration. Where to watch: Available on Amazon Prime and Hulu. #8:

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Hüzeir’s findings build on earlier Shell material obtained by Dutch journalist Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent and published by Climate Files and DeSmog in 2018. Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative 98

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

If passed into law, the bill would be a valuable step toward limiting misinformation about fossil fuels and countering greenwashing.” “The The United Nations has estimated that in 2018 alone, air pollution from fossil fuels caused $2.9 Spokesperson Kaitlin Power told CBC that the government would carefully review Angus’ proposal.

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