TechXplore

JANUARY 16, 2025

Aviation currently contributes to about 4% of the global warming that has been observed. As demand for flights is likely to continue to increase, researchers and governments are looking for solutions to make aviation climate-neutral by 2050 at the latest.

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TechXplore

JANUARY 22, 2025

According to the International Energy Agency, aviation accounts for about 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions, and aviation emissions are expected to double by mid-century as demand for domestic and international air travel rises.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 23, 2024

Limiting global warming to 1.5 ℃ above pre-industrial levels requires significant carbon reductions and 6 to 10 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide removal per year by 2050. The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is a key mechanism to scale those solutions.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 31, 2022

In a bid to meet its target of zero emissions by 2050, Australia has come up with decarbonizing actions ranging from adopting electric vehicles to developing ethanol facilities to support the chemical industry, encouraging renewable refineries for the growth of biofuels.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

The report examines the sources of global emissions, explains developments in emissions reduction and mitigation efforts and assesses the impact of national climate pledges. One of the report’s key findings is that limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy sector. Emissions growth rates.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2025

During her address, Badenoch suggested that we are bankrupting ourselves in the pursuit of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Badenochs Climate Denial Ties While serving in the last Conservative government, Badenoch described the 2050 net zero emissions target as crucial. Record has donated to both the IEA and GWPF.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2025

Climate policies must account for faster-than-expected warming by 2050 amid significant uncertainties and underpowered mitigation efforts, actuarial experts warn

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. For example, its analysis found that using electrified drying for the recycled paper industry could avoid 16 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2050. Sponsored Article.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Limiting global warming to 1.5C warming involves two distinct questions. So scientifically speaking, humanity can still limit global warming to 1.5C An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 2018 synthesised hundreds of studies and found rapidly escalating risks in global warming between 1.5C

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

All 154 commitments included targets to cut emissions by 2030, and 76 included long-term targets stretching out to 2050 and beyond. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Study: Global warming will stay below 2 degrees C — if countries actually keep their promises on Apr 14, 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Energy storage can help mitigate climate change, but it is still on low levels and needs to triple by 2050 to keep global warming below 2°C. Globally, only 3% of power capacity is being stored. To limit global warming to below 2°C, energy storage capacity would need to increase from 140 GW in 2014 to 450 GW in 2050.

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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 after signing up to the UN's Race to Zero, the company announced late last week.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

We are still feeling the ripple effects of investigations five years ago showing that ExxonMobil Corporation’s staff scientists were well aware decades ago that petroleum caused global warming. Scientific American: A Woman Warned GM about Warming, But Men Didn’t Listen.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

SSE has become the latest UK energy supplier to set a net zero emission target, pledging to fully decarbonise its business operations by 2050 "at the latest". That's why SSE is today, committing to achieve 'net zero' carbon emissions from all of our business operations by 2050 at the latest.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The predicted rise in plastic use between now and 2050 is on track to eat up more than an eighth of the world's carbon budget, according to a new analysis from Wood Mackenzie. of pre-industrial levels," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

McDonald's today announced its commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 across its global corporation, with the UK & Ireland branch of the business aiming to lead the way by achieving net zero emissions by 2040. The fast-food giant confirmed it has set climate targets in line with limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Workplace pension provider becomes latest to join the Make My Money Matter campaign which is pushing pensions industry to set 2050 net zero goals. Growing numbers of pension providers have begun pledging net zero targets over the past year, including Nest, Aviva and Aegon. and avoids paying corporate lip service.".

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Renew Economy

JUNE 6, 2022

New research suggests aiming for net zero emissions by 2050 would likely see the world blow past 2 degrees of global warming. C warming by 2025 without big emissions cuts appeared first on RenewEconomy. The post “Limited time:” World will lock in 1.5°C

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GreenBiz

MAY 20, 2021

In its landmark Net Zero report , the IEA said that there is still a path to limit global warming to 1.5 Scientists at the IEA have known for years that we already have enough liquid fuel available to meet the world’s needs through 2050. If the world heeds that advice, we’ll leave a lot of stranded assets lying around.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Xcel Energy, which operates the largest utilities in Colorado and Minnesota, has outlined a plan to reach zero-carbon electricity by 2050 , ahead of moves toward similar mandates in both states. Even so, other utilities have been moving toward long-range carbon reduction goals in anticipation of regulatory 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. Farage, who is projected to win the seat, is a vocal critic of the UK’s goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. metres) and 3.61

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 billion people by 2050. 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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Jupiter Fund Management has committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 across its full range of investments and operations, citing the "urgent need" to limit global warming to less than 1.5C in line with global climate goals.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) yesterday used its Annual General Meeting in Boston to approve a resolution calling for the global air transport industry to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The scale of the industry in 2050 will require the mitigation of 1.8 We have a plan," he said.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

Barclays has set out its ambition to become a net zero bank by 2050, today pledging to align both its own business as well as its entire financing, investing and lending portfolio with the goals of the Paris Agreement within the next 30 years.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Corporate commitments to net-zero accelerated over the last two years, with almost one-third (30%) of Europe’s largest listed companies now having pledged to reach net-zero by 2050, according to a new study by consultancy firm Accenture. Net-zero by 2050 — let alone sooner — will be feasible only with swift, decisive action in this decade.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Although prevailing wisdom holds that time is running out, BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2024 seemingly shows how the world could still achieve the major goal of the Paris Agreement – holding global warming to well below 2°C and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change – and what it would take to get there. is buildings).

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2024

Tom Tugendhat, who is running to be Conservative Party leader, recently called the UK’s 2050 net zero emissions target “not realistic” and has received donations from Tory peers with fossil fuel interests and a history of funding climate science denial. He replied: “No. It’s not realistic. All I’ve seen is that as an aspiration.”

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Grist

JANUARY 21, 2022

But the eruption illustrated a question that has been dogging scientific and climate experts for decades: If the world got unbearably hot, should scientists and governments opt to put sulfur dioxide or similar chemicals into the atmosphere to slow the rate of global warming? The first report on global warming that was handed to a U.S.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. He funded the campaigns of 2022 Conservative leadership hopefuls Suella Braverman – who vowed to “suspend” the UK’s 2050 net zero target – and Penny Mordaunt, with £10,000 given to each candidate.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

An area of seagrass and rock on the seabed, Mediterranean sea, France: “Blue carbon” ecosystems could prevent approximately 1 gigatonne of CO2e from entering the atmosphere by 2050, says the report. gigatonnes of CO2e annually by 2050, equivalent to taking over a billion cars off the road each year.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

All of the 'big six' US investment banks have now vowed to significantly reduce the carbon emissions of their lending activity in a bid to deliver net zero financed emissions by mid-century, after Wells Fargo announced yesterday it planned to align all its activities with global climate goals.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

But many are stopping short of a commitment to no longer use the fossil fuels causing global warming — particularly those that stand to lose business from such a pact. For context, the Paris climate accord adopted by nearly 200 nations in 2015 commits them to limiting global warming to around 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

The firm is owned by Terence Mordaunt , a director and former chair of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. The party’s manifesto falsely claims that “scientists disagree as to how much” humans have had an impact on global warming.

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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). Badenoch has previously suggested that she would be in favour of delaying the UK’s commitment to reach net zero by 2050.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

Seven years after the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, a large majority of country signatories and hundreds of companies have committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. At the same time, emissions have rocketed, with global annual CO2 emissions rising to 36.3 gigatons in 2021 from 35.5 Paris target.

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