GreenBiz

APRIL 13, 2021

In a 2019 study , the U.S. According to a 2019 survey , white staff represents 79 percent of the employees of U.S. Needless to say, investment managers and financial advisers are powerful. And as is the case with many axes of power, financial professionals across asset classes are disproportionately male and white.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

In 2019, Lance Bottoms and Lyles testified before Congress on Atlanta’s and Charlotte’s steps to create a more climate resilient city. The image of Bowser next to the late Congressman John Lewis is a powerful testament to change, progress and hope. . Like these other mayors, Bowser has pushed for a green and sustainable vision for her city.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This marks a significant change from 2022, when the party’s only donation was £20,000 from Tice’s company ‘Britain Means Business’, but 2023 is still well below its peak of £2 million as the Brexit Party in the election year of 2019. billion invested in fossil fuels. The company is owned by Terence Mordaunt, a major Conservative Party donor.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2025

The firm has worked in various capacities for BP, Kuwait Petroleum International, and TotalEnergies since 2019, while Imperial Oil and Gas was a H/Advisors client in 2023. H/Advisors, Havas, and Shell were approached for comment.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

million people worldwide working in the sector in 2019, up almost 500,000 from the year before, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Market leader Asia accounted for 63 per cent of the world's total renewable energy jobs in 2019, with China alone accounting for 38 per cent at 4.4 As many as 11.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) was founded by Margaret Thatcher’s former Chancellor Nigel Lawson in 2009 in order to combat what it describes as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change. million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 27, 2019

There were also some rare global warming impacts including massive volumes of ice melt in Greenland and tropical cyclones that intensified at one of the fastest rates ever observed. The World Meteorological Organization's annual " State of the Global Climate " reported a number of climate impacts in 2019.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2019, a significant milestone was achieved with the discovery of a new method to produce hydrogen using less energy and without the need for expensive platinum catalysts. This breakthrough process holds immense potential for the future of clean energy and offers a viable solution to global warming. volts and 8 mA.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

Department of Energy announced plans to develop a Versatile Test Reactor in February 2019. In a bombshell 2018 report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, nuclear played a role in all scenarios that kept global warming below 1.5 Financing aside, there is also the issue of testing.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued. Between 1998 and 2019, Exxon gave more than $37 million to organizations that sought to sow confusion about the scientific consensus around climate change and obstruct efforts by governments to take action.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage , who is a vocal critic of green policies and climate science, is standing in a constituency threatened by rising sea levels and flooding due to global warming. The party’s manifesto claims that “scientists disagree as to how much” humans have had an impact on global warming.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

Each of these gases remains in the atmosphere for different lengths of time, contributes differently to the greenhouse effect, and has a different global warming potential (GWP). Global Warming Potential. Major Greenhouse Gases. Fluorinated Gases. How to Calculate Carbon Dioxide Equivalents .

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was produced globally in 2019, the weight of 350 cruise ships the size of the Queen Mary 2; $57 billion in gold and other components discarded – mostly dumped or burned. per cent of 2019’s e-waste was collected and recycled. per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

But global warming is increasing sea surface temperatures, which can create a bleaching effect that threatens the survival of tropical coral reef ecosystems, adding to the global biodiversity crisis. 2018 : Ørsted began developing the ReCoral project.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 9 mins This story is part of Covering Climate Now , a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. . In 2019, I think it's safe to say that humans are capable of wreaking great and terrible changes upon Earth's systems. Reversing such problems is, on its face, quite simple.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

At the same time, emissions have rocketed, with global annual CO2 emissions rising to 36.3 gigatons in 2021 from 35.5 gigatons in 2015, further jeopardising the 1.5C Paris target. Otherwise, much-heralded net zero commitments amount to nothing but hot air.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. If human activity, including economic activity, is the primary driver of global warming, it only makes sense that an effective solution must start with changing that behavior.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Neil Record , a millionaire Tory donor and founder of the investment firm Record Financial Group, is chair of Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Between the 2019 general election and the start of the 2024 campaign, the Conservatives received £8.4

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

At the beginning of 2019, Bosch forecasted €5 billion in sales of electromobility components for passenger cars and light trucks by 2025. Bosch also entered into an alliance with chassis and automotive specialist Benteler at the beginning of 2019 to manufacturer a rolling chassis for mobility service shuttles. Source: Bosch.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

This is a campaign group funded by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, described in a DeSmog profile as the UKs most prominent climate science denial group, founded by former chancellor Nigel Lawson with the purpose of combating what it describes as extremely damaging and harmful policies designed to mitigate climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Customer service company alldayPA also looked at the percentage of waste recycled in each area between 2019-2020. Figures released by the ONS now show that during October 2021, with hybrid working in place, 30% of the UK’s population were working from home. According to the firm’s stats, Brighton and Hove is 8th on the list, with 42.1%

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 1, 2020

The heat records keep adding to the mountain of data points that demonstrate that we are suffering from ever worsening global warming. This year (2019) is likely to be the second warmest year in the hottest decade on record. Except for January of this year, each month in 2019 has been in the top three hottest on record.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

It is republished here as part of DeSmog's partnership with Covering Climate Now , a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Tags: Covering Climate Now 2019 fracking advertising spin ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) bp

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In November 2020, Vodafone set an approved 2030 Science-Based Target in line with carbon reductions required to keep global warming to 1.5C, becoming the first major telecoms operator to follow the emission reduction pathway developed for the ICT sector.[4]. Carbon emissions and energy efficiency.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

.” Key recommendations to biogas industry stakeholders, governments and policymakers around the world include: The global AD and biogas industry must come together to develop and adhere to best-in-class principles and norms associated with responsible investing (including good governance and supply chain transparency).

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GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2021

A critical next step is to implement an emissions-reductions plan that’s in line with limiting global warming to at most 2 degrees Celsius, and preferably 1.5 Post Holdings sources less than 2% of its energy from renewables, has not responded to any CDP surveys sent since 2012 and has not announced an emissions target.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

million has been given to pro-fossil fuel think tanks by Tory donors since the 2019 general election. million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election. Lord Moynihan donated £53,000 to Liz Truss in 2022, and £100,000 to Boris Johnson in 2019.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the past ten years, vocabulary moved from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’ to ‘climate crisis.’. The report highlights how attitudes to the environment have shifted, how discourse was becoming more urgent and how Covid-19 has affected the global online climate conversation. On March 1, BayWa r.e. Covid-19 takes over.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9 Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 However, in addition to improving practices, there is an opportunity for producers to rally around the idea that less and more sustainable meat options, which will be critical to limit global warming, can still be good for business.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

None of the coverage notes that NZSG leader and former Brexit minister Steve Baker is a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), whose founder and board member Lord Nigel Lawson recently said “global warming is not a problem”.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If existing fossil-fuel-based power infrastructure continues to operate as is, global warming would be locked in at 1.65 From 2000-2019, solar generation increased by 664 gigawatt-hours from a base close to zero. degrees Celsius. The Paris Agreement's stretch target is 1.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2021

British American Tobacco (BAT) has committed to delivering net zero emissions by 2050 across its value chain and will bring its existing sustainability targets in line with limiting global warming to 1.5C In 2019, the company introduced three reduced-risk products, Vuse, glo and Velo.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Limiting global warming to 1.5C [above pre-industrial levels] with no or limited overshoot requires deep, rapid and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions of 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035 relative to the 2019 level and reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. pathways.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

More to work on: A bill to increase the State’s insufficient targets for emissions reductions to match the Paris Accords failed to advance for the second year in a row, leaving Washington state’s targets far below what’s necessary to avoid the worst harms from global warming. This policy was Front and Centered legislative priority. **We

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

Grassroots protests influenced the UK’s decision to impose a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing – fracking – for shale gas in 2019, an effective ban climate sceptics are now calling to be overturned. claims that, while experts and world leaders gather at the conference, “the scientific community is split over global warming”.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Various climate change-related placards carried by protesters at the Global Climate Strike Rally and March in downtown San Francisco in September 2019. For example, last year 20 U.K. Sponsored Article. Shutterstock. Sundry Photos. Close Authorship.

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Grist

APRIL 15, 2021

Mack, an ecologist at Northern Arizona University, knew that the carbon dioxide released by these burning trees could further accelerate global warming. Massive fires in the northern boreal forests are becoming more common : In 2019, fires raged for months in Alberta, and millions of acres routinely burn in Russia.

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