DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For decades, scientists have relied on a standard metric called GWP100, which measures the global warming potential of greenhouse gasses relative to carbon dioxide over a timeframe of 100 years. 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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Legislation aimed at "closing the gaps" in the UK's Climate Change Act by including the nation's international aviation, shipping and supply chains in greenhouse gas reduction targets is set to be tabled in Parliament today, pulling in support from MPs across much of the political spectrum.

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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. Eleven opinion writers were board members or academic advisors at the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Mark Fullbrook, who ran Truss’s leadership campaign, launched a political consultancy – Fullbrook Strategies – in March , with clients including Cerulean Winds, official records show. A veteran political strategist, Fullbrook was appointed chief of staff by Truss after she took over as prime minister last month.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

But what is less clear is how this global warming will translate into increased weather extremes and how these extremes will then impact hugely complex human infrastructure, agricultural systems, and the economies they underpin. Such outcomes would trigger huge geo-political risks that could impact the entire global economy.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Stark reasons that resilience and adaptation are seen by politicians as less-glamorous cousins to exciting net zero missions and clean tech investments, while the long-term planning required falls outside typical election cycles, leading to limited political pressure for the government to act.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 25, 2022

The model also demonstrates how support for policy or technology adoption accelerates when learning leads to cost reductions, or dampen when political, legal, or cultural winds shift. Positive (+) feedbacks reinforce changes, while negative (-) feedbacks dampen them. Politics in modeling. Source: Moore et al. Public support.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

The alarms that are being sounded on global warming, income inequality, and humanitarian crises are the result of materialistic greed. Considering potential risks, the Paris Agreement-2015 is the latest global initiative to keep the increase of the earth’s temperature (global warming) below 1.5

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the top comments from business, politics, academia, think tanks and civil society.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

He argues oil and gas company advertising is usually not directed at getting consumers to buy their products and services, but is more akin to political lobbying. This is political advertising that they're running to maintain their influence over public policy," he suggests.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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AGreenLiving

JULY 22, 2020

The Transform to Net Zero initiative launched Tuesday 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 1.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

I don't think it's good for a political party to be on the side of, you know, climate change scepticism," he tells BusinessGreen. That is not to say the public are unconcerned about the potential costs of decarbonisation, though - far from it.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

In this digital, mobile and social media age, we are constantly bombarded with new environmental, economic, social, geo-political and technical terminology that creates confusion, misguided actions and misinterpretation. The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But the solutions are there On the other hand, the report stresses there is still time to deliver a low-carbon, sustainable economy where climate-resilient development becomes the norm. of warming is just about still feasible, and keeping temperature increases below 2C is definitely achievable if rapid action is taken.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. With the major climate summit COP26 just around the corner, our strategy sets the example for other countries to build back greener too as we lead the charge towards global net zero.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to the report, the figure falls drastically short of the levels required to halt biodiversity loss, limit global warming to 1.5C, and achieve land degradation neutrality, with estimates suggesting $384bn is required annually by 2025 and $484bn is needed by 2030.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Yet as the global economy emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions are on the rise once again, presenting a monumental challenge over the next eight years if the world is to keep to the 1.5C global warming target countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement on the table.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. A small kingdom in Asia seems to be offering an alternative At a time when citizens are desperately asking their governments to take action, there is one country that is already carbon negative; it is the land of the Thunder Dragon, Bhutan.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

” He argued oil and gas company advertising is usually not directed at getting consumers to buy their products and services but is more akin to political lobbying. “This is political advertising that they’re running to maintain their influence over public policy,” he suggested. For example, last year 20 U.K.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

One of the major advantages for using the Biofuel is that they are renewable energy and don not lead to global warming unlike the fossil fuels. Environmental change can truly have a ton of negative outcomes. A green economy is thought of together that is low carbon, asset conservative and socially far reaching.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” As for politics, I am liberal, while Dr. Peterson is conservative,” he said. Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree I am asking corporate leaders to support a minimum international carbon price and align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement. The public and private sector must work together to ensure a just and rapid transformation to a net zero global economy.

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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 The first has to do with the carbon budget — the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the planet warms more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. In its comment to DeSmog, the AHDB spokesperson also used GWP* to claim that “methane from UK livestock since 1990 has not caused global warming”.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

Almost half of all global coal plants are already set to run at a loss in 2020, warns think tank Carbon Tracker. Building new coal and propping up the existing fleet with stimulus money would be throwing good money after bad," said study co-author Matt Gray, Carbon Tracker's co-head of power and utilities.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) Sea Ice extent is going down. This leads to even more another feedback loop!

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

New report from PwC models a tiered carbon pricing framework proposed by the IMF earlier this year and finds it would broadly pay for itself, while slashing carbon emissions. per cent at a cost of less than one per cent of GDP. per cent at a cost of less than one per cent of GDP.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

In what it acknowledged was a "huge task" given the scale and carbon intensity of its activities, the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate said it would aim to sell more low carbon products, reduce the CO2 intensity associated with all its activities, and work with its customers to mitigate remaining emissions from its products by 2050.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

And yet: Last year, the global average temperature was almost 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average, due to the vast amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide that humans have added to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. How would disputes about the negative impacts of any geoengineering regime be adjudicated?

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit. billion and 3.6

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

The window for us to avoid the worst impacts of global warming is rapidly closing. It claims that most major car manufacturers are continuing to negatively engage on climate policy issues, with eight out of the 12 firms it assessed scoring 'D+' or below in its rankings. In order to keep the sector in line with a 1.5C

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There are plans for huge “SAF” refineries in Paraguay using soybeans as a feedstock and such fuels are permitted under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) , which is the only internationally agreed policy and runs until 2035.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Squandering finite resources, creating extravagant amounts of waste, and the excessive release of carbon emissions is causing our planet to belch at the seams. Carbon in our atmosphere is 280 parts per million (ppm). Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Our reality.

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