DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A board member of a new MP-backed ‘Net Zero Watch’ campaign group has said today that “global warming is not a problem”, defended burning fossil fuels, and said carbon dioxide’s “principal effect” is the growth of plants. Net Zero Watch and the Global Warming Policy Foundation did not respond to a request for comment. .

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Limiting global warming to 1.5C warming involves two distinct questions. The second question is whether governments will take sufficient action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This answer depends on the ambition of governments, and the effectiveness of campaigning by non-government organisations and others.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Instead of using refrigerant gases with high global warming potential (GWP), Barocal’s technology uses new solid-state, temperature-changing materials. “So the government’s commitment to a 78% cut in carbon emissions by 2035 means there is a growing need for new low-carbon domestic heating systems.

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Financial Times: Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Governments need to step up clean energy supply to avoid shortages and price jumps, agency warns

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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Leaders from developing countries have criticized wealthy governments for driving global warming at the ongoing COP27 climate summit in Egypt. During their speeches on Tuesday, several leaders demanded that wealthy nations pay the ailing low-income economies.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 11, 2022

When was the last time you bought something without hurting the global green cover? Global warming and climate change are threatening our planet. Your shopping habits can help reverse the universal harm.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 14, 2024

I did the exercise with two different groups of students and the second World Government team really immersed themselves in their ‘character’ and kept putting off difficult decisions for later. Of course this is vastly simplified as the latter group is made up of 196 countries/bodies all with their own agenda. And guess what?

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2025

The oceans really set the pace for global warming for the Earth as a whole, Merchant said. That really needs to be understood, but it also needs to filter through to governments that changes might be coming down the line faster than they’re currently assuming.

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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. RD&D capabilities at government agencies and national labs should advance electrification technologies in collaboration with industry and utilities. Contributors. Ed Rightor.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Experts have long warned about the potential outbreak of a major pandemic, yet governments around the world were woefully unprepared for its catastrophic consequences. Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. But we need to accelerate our efforts to cope with global population growth and rapid urbanization. .

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

A report published on 26 August by an independent group of experts warns that reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is now “too little too late”, and will not achieve the long-term temperature goals identified in the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C C by the end of the century.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2025

In July 2024, four Havas agencies were stripped of their B Corp status for high environmental, ethical, and governance standards following complaints raised over the companys Shell contract. H/Advisors bid for Shells global public relations account last year, although the work eventually remained in the hands of Edelman.

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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? Is it ethical to even research such technologies?

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

Sustainability also relies on local government. A recent literature review published in the Journal of American Medical Association found a statistically significant correlation between low birth rate and miscarriage in Black communities with higher temperatures from global warming and climate.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

In June, the Canadian Parliament passed new amendments to the country’s Competition Act, which governs competition between businesses to protect Canadian consumers, by adding a new provision regulating environmental claims in advertising. Local governments have taken steps to raise awareness about the dangers of fossil fuels in other ways.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2021

The annual proxy season is also an important harbinger of change in how companies are evolving their governance models and approach to environmental and social issues. So, what are some ESG issues rising to the top for investors this year? Political lobbying: Walt Disney. Converting legal status to Public Benefit Corporation: BlackRock.

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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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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. Its chairman, former UKIP donor Andrew Perloff, has blamed rising inflation on climate policies, and defended those who question whether “global warming is happening”. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. Adding science seemingly too recent to have been included in the IPCC Report, the analysis from Europe’s Science Academies urges governments to treat the Climate and Biodiversity Crises as one, and as equally urgent.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 I am optimistic that the world is "waking up" Corporations, governments and individuals are enduring the conversation and mobilizing around solutions aimed at producing enough nutritious food for our growing population in a sustainable manner. In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

Kaitiaki Consulting is behind the Billion Trees Scotland re-forestation campaign announced earlier this year after the success of a similar mass planting scheme under Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government in New Zealand. The firm says it matches environmental need – such as carbon reduction and offsetting – with funding partners.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

With the governing Liberal party in disarray and Conservatives leading the polls by almost 25 percent, Canadians need to know how Poilievre would lead rather than the opposition attack dog role he has played for many years. The longer governments delay action on the accelerating climate crisis, the more expensive the impacts will be.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

In October, DeSmog revealed that Equinor had been holding more meetings with ministers to lobby the UK government over CCS than any other company, part of its plans to play a leading role in the countrys carbon capture plans. billion in Norwegian government subsidies, with an additional $141 million pledged by the European Union.

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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. In response to DeSmog’s request for comment, Harborne posted a lengthy statement on the AML Global website. It’s plant food”.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s been a wild start to 2022: Omicron cases are surging around the world, the oceans are hotter than ever , and a group of climate scientists are suggesting that the world’s leading global warming experts stop doing science. This, they argued, “offers the only real prospect for restoring the science-society contract.”

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

Researchers at Harvard University and the University of Potsdam in Germany found that Exxon’s estimates from 1977 to 2003 proved to be just as precise as those from independent academics and government scientists. The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued.

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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. The policy was ditched by her successor Rishi Sunak.)

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

But global warming is increasing sea surface temperatures, which can create a bleaching effect that threatens the survival of tropical coral reef ecosystems, adding to the global biodiversity crisis.

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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. Steve is fully committed to the government’s net zero aims.” Steve has never discussed environmental policy with him.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

Each of these gases remains in the atmosphere for different lengths of time, contributes differently to the greenhouse effect, and has a different global warming potential (GWP). Without careful consideration, methane emissions would considerably increase and have a potentially greater warming impact. . Global Warming Potential.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The letter, sent to 47 company chairs and chief executives, calls on emissions-intensive firms to align all direct corporate lobbying activity and indirect lobbying activity managed by trade associations with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5

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Energy Central

JUNE 29, 2022

As the oil prices soar continuously, and the European governments crack down on combustion engines to get rid of the global warming, more & more drivers are considering switching to electric vehicles (EVs).

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The UK government’s most senior climate minister has publicly celebrated a petrol campaigner who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims “man is not responsible for global warming”. In September, Cox posted on X that the government should “scrap all of net zero”. Cox continues to spread such views.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Solar panels alone generate more electricity globally than the entire US power sector does today. That’s the picture the International Energy Agency (IEA) paints in the World Energy Outlook it published today, which is based on governments’ current energy policies. degrees of global warming this century.

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