Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Global warming to climate change; climate change covers a broader term and now special interest groups can use it for any situation, as we have recently seen with the fires in Western Canada and now Australia.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2025

Since then, the bathwater-like conditions have killed corals in a record-breaking mass bleaching event , fueled hurricanes , and collapsed entire fisheries. The oceans really set the pace for global warming for the Earth as a whole, Merchant said. Earths oceans caught a fever in March 2023 that has yet to break.

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 15, 2022

Global warming has driven an influx of extreme weather events and prompted city governments worldwide to seek sustainable solutions for greater climate resilience and public safety measures.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But at an event behind closed doors on Friday (20 September), its founder Alan Miller told a different story. But later that evening several speakers at Together’s third anniversary event would go on to repeat conspiracy theories and misinformation about the pandemic and net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Renowned environmentalist, entrepreneur and bestselling author Paul Hawken has been announced as a keynote speaker at global water technology event BlueTech Forum 2022 , which takes place 7-8 June 2022 in Vancouver. His seminal work, Drawdown, was a practical can-do guide on ways to reverse global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The UK’s new climate minister has pulled out of an event hosting two of the world’s most prominent climate science deniers, DeSmog can reveal. His speech would have been followed by a debate about global warming featuring Lord Christopher Monckton , who has a history of promoting climate science denial, and Marc Morano , a prominent U.S.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 18, 2024

Those of us who took global warming seriously would argue that the additional cost of renewable energy was worth paying to save the planet. Fast forward to today and we know that the cheapest form of new generation is wind and, above all, solar PV.

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Green Living Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I’ve been so glad to see and hear of all the events in the Hudson Valley. The one I’ve been dealing with the most is a virtual event in mount. The post Drive Electric Week Events through the Hudson Valley appeared first on Green Living Guy. So here are the dates folks!

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This blog is dedicated to the memory of Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, a pioneer in the attribution of extreme climate events. The lived experience of much our planet’s life now reflects what scientists have long expected: extreme climate and weather events are increasing as our planet warms. Extreme events, by definition, are rare.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Insurance companies are struggling with mounting losses from more frequent and severe extreme weather events as global warming accelerates. million to backstop insurers against extreme weather events appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Demex partners with reinsurance. The post Demex scores $10.3

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2021

The 2021 proxy season is officially here — much awaited after the tumultuous events of 2020. Whether lobbying activities and spending line up with the Paris Climate Agreement’s goal of keeping average global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius: Delta Airlines; ExxonMobil; General Motors; Phillips 66; United Airlines; and Walmart.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

Wildlife biologist Eleanor Shield said: “Human activities have caused global warming, which is increasing to dangerous levels. This is changing our climate, bringing more frequent extreme weather events and associated environmental and economic crises. “I

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

. | Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 130 companies, including Volvo Cars, Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé, and AstraZeneca, signed a letter calling on governments to adopt a global plan to phase out fossil fuels without carbon capture during upcoming international climate negotiations.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report , released on Monday, contained some of the group’s strongest language yet affirming the link between human activity and global warming. Court of Appeals dismissed the villagers’ case, citing a dearth of causal evidence. “It

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

Scientists said the deluge and its aftermath — not the county’s first “100-year flood” in recent years — are a harbinger of the intense and dangerous rainstorms that a warming climate is making more likely. Multnomah County, Oregon sued oil, gas, and coal majors after a 2021 heat dome that killed nearly 70 people.

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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. Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from industry.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A “sustainable development” conference taking place in London gave a platform to two prominent climate science deniers, who used the event to claim that coal-fired power is “clean” and call global warming a “religion”. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”, In 2010 he led Tea Party crowds in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

Since 2015, Stringer has been a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a group founded to contradict established climate science and advocate against policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Stringer has vocally questioned climate science and policies to achieve net zero emissions.

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The Verge: Energy

JULY 16, 2024

Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are supercharging storms and other extreme weather events while rising seas eat away at island shorelines. Fossil fuel companies knew for decades that their products would cause global warming and went about business as usual anyway, several studies and investigations have found.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy Foundation , as well as Conservative MP Lee Anderson and Reform party president Nigel Farage. Rees-Mogg also has a long record of opposing climate policies.

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Grist

JULY 23, 2021

Climate scientists have long warned that global warming would lead to extreme heat in many parts of the world. We said it is virtually impossible without climate change,” Wehner said of the event. I’m less convinced that recent events tell us that things are moving faster than projections have suggested,” Swain said.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Conducted international sustainability research network Future Earth, the survey identifies five global risks — failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation; extreme weather events; major biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse; food crises; and water crises — as the most severe in terms of impact.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. Many cities are already taking action against increasingly frequent extreme heat events. Experts have long warned about the potential outbreak of a major pandemic, yet governments around the world were woefully unprepared for its catastrophic consequences.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

During the emission event, UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) were deployed to map the vertical and horizontal extent of the methane plume. The estimated total mass of methane emitted during the event was 4.2 (± 1.4) km deep shale gas well. Such emissions should be avoided wherever possible.”.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Planet Labs The resulting paper , recently published in Science, blames man-made global warming for the collapse. It could be a one-off, random event, or a sign of spreading instability. “We We can maybe expect more of these events in the future,” Hicks said.

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Forbes Green Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This month, for the first time in history, a commercial gas tanker travelled from China to northwestern Russia through Arctic winter ice, an event U.K. climate experts have told Forbes.com was made possible by man-made global warming.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2022

Climate scientists have long known that global warming increases rainfall, since a hotter atmosphere holds more water vapor. But when the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept into the Northeast in the summer of 2021 , they brought the kind of catastrophic rain event experts had predicted would typically occur later this century.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. The Guardian revealed that Hintze gave £3,000 to Conservative MP Steve Barclay in October, weeks before he was appointed as environment secretary.

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Grist

AUGUST 24, 2021

Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at MIT, said it was difficult to pin any of the specific events on climate change. But, he said, there’s reliable evidence that global warming is driving an increase in the frequency of highly destructive tropical storms and heavy rainfall.

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Charged

JULY 26, 2021

The next stop on Extreme E’s five-event calendar is the Arctic X Prix in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, which will take place on August 28-29. As nine teams race head-to-head on the ice, the event will highlight the devastating effects global warming is having on the Greenland ice sheet.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

The proposals are included in a report which is being launched at an event this afternoon in central London. Commenting in advance of the 14 January launch event in Westminster, Minister for the Future of Transport George Freeman said: “We are 100% committed to decarbonising the UK’s road network.

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Grist

AUGUST 20, 2021

A study out this week found that 90 percent of media coverage accurately represented the scientific consensus that human activity is driving global warming, looking at thousands of articles from 2005 to 2019. It might be kind of a chicken-and-egg situation: The media reflect their audience and help shape its views.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

December’s COP28 event in Dubai took place against a backdrop of global emissions continuing to rise at a rate of 1.5% Embracing the suck CCS was pegged as “controversial” by many newspapers and commentators covering the event, but appears to be a relatively widely-accepted fixture on the mitigation horizon.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A clear message from the study is that climate change is the biggest threat to the world’s reefs, and we must all do our part by urgently curbing global greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating local pressures.”. Large scale coral bleaching events are the greatest disturbance to the world’s coral reefs. Key findings.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

global warming trajectory. global warming trajectory. Join us at the world's first Net Zero Festival - a three day virtual event running from September 30th and featuring over a hundred top business leaders, politicians, academics, and campaigners.

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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 We’re launching a new two-day online event dedicated entirely to the challenges of measuring, reducing and offsetting emissions.

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