Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Sixteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability will take place on January 29-31, 2020 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile & University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. The special focus will be Sustainability Lessons in the Global South: Priorities, Opportunities, and Risks.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2020, the CEOs of dozens of forestry businesses announced “an agreement of principles” stipulating that logged forests are beneficial for the climate. In 2020, more than a hundred climate and forest scientists submitted a letter to Congress advising lawmakers not to trust the industry’s sustainability claims.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. Earth Day organizers educated people about the value of sorting through their trash and advocated for community recycling programs. I recycle these.”

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Every day, the FAA's Air Traffic Organization provides service to more than 44,000 flights and 2.7 Nitrogen oxides produced by air travel increases ozone concentrations in the upper troposphere which warms the planet more than it would at lower altitudes. Air travel is a major source of climate change causing greenhouse gases.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

For instance, public health organizations rely on accurate air quality data to decide when to recommend opening windows at nighttime during a heat event, or conversely, when to keep doors and windows closed to maintain clean air during a wildfire smoke event. The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires the U.S. In 2022, the U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Ozone-safe or ozone-friendly. The FTC considers these terms deceptive if a product has any substance, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), known to erode the ozone layer. Expect 'ozone-friendly' to be under scrutiny as the next Green Guides are developed, as the FTC recently flagged the term. Recyclable.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2021

These are certainly meaningful and also have a social impact, but they do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector itself, nor its related co-pollutants, like black carbon, ozone, and nitrogen oxides. To some, this feels wrong.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2021

These are certainly meaningful and also have a social impact, but they do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector itself, nor its related co-pollutants, like black carbon, ozone, and nitrogen oxides. To some, this feels wrong.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. When energy use surges in the autumn and winter seasons, particulate matter and ozone increase to dangerously high levels.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. When energy use surges in the autumn and winter seasons, particulate matter and ozone increase to dangerously high levels.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet Poornima Param… Thu, 08/27/2020 – 01:00 Basic human health principles tell us that we should diagnose before we treat and that we should test before we diagnose. Furthermore, diseases are spreading quickly due to climate change and expanding global trade.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The report predicts with high precision and accuracy CO2 accumulation and global warming through the 21 st century, with around 1°C warming by 2020 and 3°C warming by 2100. He’s like, “Remember that whole ozone layer thing, and then governments got together to get rid of these chemicals? Available at ClimateFiles. FRANTA: Absolutely.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

billion people — notably in South and East Asia and the African Sahel — experienced at least 31 days of extreme heat, hotter than 90 percent of documented temperatures between 1991 and 2020, according to a new report. Pollutants from vehicle combustion, including nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, react in sunlight to form ozone.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Back in the fall of 2020, RISE. James’ march was set to take place, Lavigne learned that the town required her organization to post a $10,000 bond to obtain a permit for the march, money the group didn’t have access to on short notice. James protest march in Lutcher, Louisiana, on October 17, 2020. Two days before RISE St.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

More than 110 countries have since signed the Global Methane Pledge, promising to reduce worldwide emissions of methane by 30 per cent by 2030, relative to 2020 levels. However, the pledge falls short of the 45 per cent reduction which the UN estimates is needed to limit global heating to 1.5C.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The process helps organizations highlight and target high GHG emitting operations with emission reduction strategies. ppm in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

Rather than transforming the fossilized remains of organisms into gasoline and other motor fuels, the Texas plant breaks apart the molecular structure of oil, through a process called cracking, which turns it into the primary ingredient for car seats, single-use plastic bags, plastic coffee cups and much more.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Sir David Attenborough brought this stunning documentary film in 2020. Greta gained public attention after organizing a one-person strike at her school to demand climate justice. In November 2018, the youth-led organization Sunrise Movement , with the support of congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, demanded a new Green Deal.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. In 2014, he criticized the EPA’s efforts to regulate ozone, an odorless, colorless ingredient in smog that exacerbates asthma. “I

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, runs the all-volunteer Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Jamie Smith Hopkins / Center for Public Integrity. Jamie Smith Hopkins / Center for Public Integrity.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 21, 2020

May 21, 2020. WHAT: “ Public Hearing on Proposal to Retain the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter ,” an Environmental Protection Agency-organized hearing. Contact: Ben Schneider, bschneider@edf.org , 202-572-3279. WHO: Addy Zenko, Defend Our Future Campus Ambassador at The Ohio State University. ET, May 21.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ozone, which can aggravate lung diseases including asthma and emphysema, was well above the EPA’s eight-hour limit. The reporting found there had been nearly 500 illegal chemical releases in the region since 2020, including one that killed two workers and injured dozens more at a LyondellBasell plant. Nitrogen oxides, which the U.S.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Over the last four years (see our coverage from 2017 , 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), Congress has sought to maintain U.S. In 2009, developed countries made a collective commitment to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate finance for developing countries between 2020 and 2025.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Over the last four years (see our coverage from 2017 , 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), Congress has sought to maintain U.S. In 2009, developed countries made a collective commitment to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate finance for developing countries between 2020 and 2025.

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