DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Ridley wrote last year that global heating was “mostly beneficial”. Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate denial group, which is based on Westminster’s Tufton Street. Its author said that the UK climate “remains absolutely benign”.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, a group of 14 heads of government [3], ‘The expected impacts of climate change on the ocean economy’ assesses global to local climate impacts on three of the largest sources of ocean-based revenue and jobs – coral reef tourism, wild capture fisheries and marine aquaculture.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a stark warning that time is running out to adapt to climate change. Global warming doesn’t only affect humans by changing the weather and melting the ice caps, the report warns. degrees Celsius (1.96 degrees Celsius (1.96

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

In the early 2010s, climate scientists were painting a grim picture of the future: If humans didn’t curb carbon dioxide emissions, the world was headed toward 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming by the end of the century. A decade later, the planet is on a different path. degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. The time is now to flatten the climate change curve. Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Turning down a client contract to run a major PR campaign for an oil major that consistently has lobbied against climate action and has not even signaled its intention to be part of a future net-zero economy is one thing, but more clients from carbon-intensive industries do not fall quite so easily into the climate laggard category.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Randeep Somel explores an important issue pertaining to how climate targets will be reached. This November, world leaders, climate activists, and business executives have been gathering in Sharm El-Sheikh for COP27, the UN’s annual Climate Change Conference. Enabling solutions: Shrinking your digital carbon footprint.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 4, 2022

However, current net zero plans fall short of what is required to stop the effects of global warming, leading one to question whether net zero is truly the optimal solution. Carbon Positive- Business as Usual. Global warming is likely to reach 1.5°C Carbon Offsets. In the U.S.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date. Climeworks.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The asset manager has faced significant criticism from green campaigners in the past for failing to use its hugely influential position to lead robust environmental stewardship of the companies it engages with, and for not taking radical enough action to back away from carbon-intensive investments. They ask us about it nearly every day.".

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Grist

APRIL 15, 2021

Back in 2004, when wildfires in Alaska burned an area the size of Massachusetts , Michelle Mack wondered just how much carbon had permanently moved from the landscape into the atmosphere. Mack, an ecologist at Northern Arizona University, knew that the carbon dioxide released by these burning trees could further accelerate global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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Energy Central

APRIL 27, 2023

Many companies tell their customers that they are dedicated to reducing their carbon footprint – but one industry has the biggest global warming impact. Watch the video to learn which industry and what they are doing to mitigate their negative impact.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Shermer has hosted prominent climate crisis deniers such as Steve Koonin and Michael Shellenberger on his podcast. Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Maintaining and improving global energy security; empowering Indigenous communities; seizing the global LNG opportunity — these were some of the talking points speakers were keen to discuss throughout the Canada Gas Exhibition & Conference, which took place in Vancouver in May.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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Climate 4.0

MARCH 7, 2021

the keys to bending the curve of the linear economy toward the circular The Climate 4.0 Economy will be achieved only when global warming is held to 1.5°C The UN’s 195-member-country Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sets the target year at 2050. What makes it truly the Climate 4.0

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures — the target named in the Paris Agreement that would prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

Most notable are our warming winters , which are melting wonderlands under the brunt of climate change. In this Green Business Bureau article, we address the focal environmental challenge for the ski industry, namely climate change. Climate change challenge: Thawing winters threaten the ski industry.

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Rinexii

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Some of those people saw messages involving things you could do as an individual about climate change, while others saw a message about policy changes instead. After viewing these messages, the people being surveyed were asked about their thoughts on climate change. Is there any place for personal change at all?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

Current levels of investment in negative emissions technology fall far short of levels required to cap temperature rise in line with Paris goals, new coalition warns. Most global pathways to achieving decarbonisation in line with 1.5

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2020

The Transform to Net Zero initiative launched today will see members of the coalition - which also include Danish shipping giant Maersk, Indian information technology company Wipro and Brazilian beauty company Natura & Co - collaborate on research, guidance and roadmaps to help businesses slash their carbon emissions in line with a 1.5C

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Majority of risk experts and the general public in the UK view climate change as the number one threat facing society, ahead of future pandemics and economic instability. Moreover, he said that London's financial sector had a major role to play in leveraging its world-renowned risk expertise to tackle the climate crisis. "It

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Of all the tools we have to curb climate change, devoting land to growing bioenergy crops is among the most contentious. The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage. The case for negative emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Global mean surface temperatures reached 1.2C above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5C Scientists believe that stabilising our warming world’s temperature at 1.5C in as little as a decade.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The data represent a tripling of global net zero ambition in just eight months since the green NGO launched the tracker, which highlights Germany ($3.7tn GDP), California ($2.8tn GDP), the UK ($2.6tr GDP), and Tokyo ($1.9tr GDP) as among the largest economies around the world which have net zero targets in place.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

Reducing carbon emissions caused by commuting and traveling saves money and your employees’ time. You will also help the environment by reducing global warming, mitigating the waste of finite materials, and reducing pollution. Operating as a sustainable business comes with many advantages. Excessive traveling.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and staving off most of the worst effects of climate change, experts say.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While virtually everyone agrees that anthropogenic methane emissions play a huge role in climate change, different approaches to measuring that impact can result in dramatically different narratives. This approach makes methane’s potency clear: A pound of methane warms the climate 30 times more than a pound of CO2.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

"There is a growing urgency in Europe and globally to identify solutions that address the negative consequences companies and institutions face due to climate change," said Reid Steadman, global head of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

Major new analysis from the Potsdam Institute warns climate impacts through to 2050 could do significantly more economic damage than previously expected How bad could it get? One of the biggest uncertainties surrounding climate change is precisely how severe climate impacts could prove to be.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. The initiative comes as corporations are redoubling promises to address climate change. Carbon Engineering.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

UK academic study outlines a series of positive 'tipping points' in key sectors that, if reached, would catalyse the global net zero transition. Limiting global warming to well below 2C now requires transformational change, and a dramatic acceleration of progress," he continued.

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