DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Italy’s first climate change lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and climate advocacy group ReCommon against Italian oil giant Eni opened with its first hearing on February 16, alleging the company contributed to global warming. climate denial theories into Italy. In 2002, in a hearing in the U.S. Ties to the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

million to national groups denying climate change is a crisis, according to federal tax data reviewed by DeSmog. Coyne himself acknowledges climate change is real and has argued frequently over the years that the most efficient way to address it is through a national price on carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

and The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change. My name is Geoff Dembicki, and I’m an investigative climate change journalist. That was more than a decade before NASA scientist James Hansen first brought climate change to the general public’s attention. In the U.S.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

The study also highlights a failure amongst business and political leaders to tackle widespread energy waste, pointing to BEIS statistics showing that energy consumption per square metre in commercial buildings has flatlined since 2002. The lack of progress comes despite the fact that potential solutions have evolved rapidly in that time.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Mimi Casteel of Oregon's Hope Well Wine uses regenerative practices to combat climate change. Soil is our largest potential tool in our fight against climate change," she has said, and she also sees wine culture as a powerful way to engage and educate. Mimi Casteel grew up on her family’s vineyard, Bethel Heights.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Olson is the executive director of the nonprofit law firm Our Children’s Trust, which has spearheaded youth climate change lawsuits across the United States. At a March 2023 hearing of the Senate Budget Committee , Curry testified that calling climate change a crisis was “at odds with professional judgments of climate risk.”

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GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2020

Dave Evans, founder and CEO of Fictiv and a former Ford engineer, said the pandemic has helped underscore the notion that digital manufacturing networks — ones that allow organizations to be more agile when it comes to sourcing — will be key to ensuring resilience in the long term, as disruptions brought on by climate change become more frequent.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

The link between climate change and expansion or change in mosquito distributions is real,” said Doug Norris, a specialist in mosquitoes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Climate change presents another emerging threat, World Health Organization officials wrote in their latest global malaria report.

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Grist

MAY 24, 2023

The last major one, Super Typhoon Pongsona, struck in 2002 and caused $700 million in damage. But Mawar is the strongest since then — and it likely was made more intense, and more dangerous, by climate change. Scientists are also investigating whether climate change is causing tropical cyclones to slow down.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

A separate academic paper , published in Climatic Change this week, analysed the role of industry-funded academia in obstructing “unfavorable policies” and influencing climate change policy and discourse. Between 2002 and 2021 Mitloehner and the CLEAR Center received close to $12.5 which was funded by a $2.9

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

In March 2020, Biffa debuted its "Resourceful, Responsible" initiative, which set out its plans for building a circular economy and tackling climate change. The three pillars of Biffa's sustainability strategy are: Building a circular economy, Tackling climate change, and Caring for our people, supporting our communities.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Vatan Hüzeir , a climate activist and doctoral candidate in sociology at Rotterdam’s Erasmus University, unearthed the documents over five years of research , gathering thousands of pages of Shell-related material from archives, former employees, and other sources. “You have to ‘crack the shell,'” Hüzeir told DeSmog.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2020

°C higher, according to the data, which is contained in the Met Office's sixth annual State of the UK Climate report released today. Dr Mark McCarthy, head of the Met Office's National Climate Information Centre said the statistics reveal "an undeniable warming trend for the UK". °C on 25 July in Cambridge.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

World renowned Welsh atmospheric physicist Sir John Houghton, a pioneer in climate change research credited with helping to drive concern over escalating climate risks into the mainstream, has died aged 88 from Covid-19. Thatcher also arranged for Houghton to deliver the first ever briefing to the UK Cabinet on climate change.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 27, 2020

In 1988, the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created. He was chair or co-chair of the IPCC’s scientific assessment working group until 2002 and lead editor of the first 3 IPCC reports. In 2002, American evangelical lobbyist Richard Cizik heard him speak on the evidence for global warming.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 29, 2020

Mimi Casteel of Oregon's Hope Well Wine uses regenerative practices to combat climate change. Soil is our largest potential tool in our fight against climate change," she has said, and she also sees wine culture as a powerful way to engage and educate. Mimi Casteel grew up on her family’s vineyard, Bethel Heights.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2023

It has for years been backing campaigns in Canada and globally to vilify climate protesters as dangerous extremists. The Atlas groups have an extreme free-market ideology,” Bob Neubauer, an assistant professor in communications at the University of Winnipeg who studies climate change disinformation, told DeSmog. “I

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

After her swearing-in ceremony, Secretary Granholm released a video message and blog post explaining how DOE will tackle climate change by deploying clean energy solutions that deliver cheap, abundant and clean power to fuel America’s clean energy revolution.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2021

So I would say on the small number, maybe close to 100 people, at least, that I've actually taken around to see this firsthand over the years, because I've been doing this since 2002. And whatever systems are put in place have to be monitored — because of climate change, a lot of them simply are not working.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It was determined that human activities such as overfishing, climate change and habitat destruction were responsible for the declining state of the corals. The study found that fish catches peaked in 2002 and steadily declined over the years. ” Researchers also noted significant drops in fish catches.

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Grist

MARCH 18, 2020

In November 2002, a 46-year-old man from the Chinese coastal province of Guangdong developed a fever and struggled to breathe. For pandemics and climate change, voluntary measures aren’t enough. Coronavirus postpones major climate plan in Congress. Warming temperatures brought on by climate change exacerbate the problem.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Language around climate solutions is particularly susceptible to this treatment, especially as polluting companies invest in strategies and tactics to present themselves as part of the solution to climate change when, clearly —as they continue to prioritize drilling for globe-warming fuels — they are not.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

CT Group was founded by political consultant and lobbyist Lynton Crosby in 2002. The UK register of lobbyists shows that since January, the influential CT Group has been representing the Legatum Institute , a think tank funded by the Dubai-based investment firm Legatum Group, which co-owns GB News.

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Grist

JUNE 4, 2021

They calculated that between 2002 and 2018, overwintering fires were responsible for 0.8 If there are more carbon emissions, that would lead to climate change. And climate change will make these soils drier and hotter, and there would be more fires and bigger fires.”.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

She is a graduate of Notre Dame law school and she worked in the private sector before becoming a law professor at Notre Dame in 2002. Barrett may share the views of justices like John Roberts and Clarence Thomas, who resist the right to sue the government over climate change.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Thus, the things I have seen frame my opinion of the current climate change investigations involving ExxonMobil. Finally, you might argue that regardless of what ExxonMobil did or didn’t “know”, they have spent years funding anti-climate change organizations. I would agree that this is true. There was sincere disbelief.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 27, 2021

A new rainfall app is helping farmers in Indonesia’s Sumbawa Island navigate climate change. But climate change is throwing off generations of traditional knowledge as weather — especially rainfall — has become less predictable. Misjudging the best planting time can lead to financial ruin. Wright: Dr. Armi Susandi, MT.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

As countries begin to form post-pandemic recovery plans, many are considering it an opportunity to tackle climate change. Three researchers at Oxford University looked at the link between firms’ environmental, social, and governance practices (ESG) and GDP between 2002-2017.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

A recent study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters suggests that beavers’ actions could be contributing to climate change. Related: Climate change could lead to dramatic decline in narwhals The sudden rise in the number of beavers in the Arctic region has lead to more of these dams.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

million from fossil fuel interests, high-polluters and climate science deniers last year alone. Policy Exchange and Climate Change Policy Exchange was co-founded in 2002 by Michael Gove, who has been a mainstay in the cabinet since 2010. Meanwhile, DeSmog revealed in March that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2021

"Through this funding, communities across the nation will have the critical resources needed to invest in adaptation and resilience, and take meaningful action to combat the effects of climate change," said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Ethiopia looks to tackle farming emissions in updated climate plan.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Discovered in 2002, the field lies 25km north-west of the Shetland Islands. When the exploration licence was first awarded, the UK had no climate change legislation and had not yet ratified the Kyoto Protocol. It contains over 800 million barrels of oil and is majority-owned by Siccar Point Energy.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

Twenty-year research project comprising 30 million records unearths 'powerful and concerning' human impact on native plants A new publication from the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) has revealed a catastrophic decline in native plants caused by climate change and intensive agricultural practices.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

"Overcoming a century of deaths and illnesses that affected hundreds of millions and degraded the environment worldwide, we are invigorated to change humanity's trajectory for the better through an accelerated transition to clean vehicles and electric mobility.". Africa's governments must give no more excuses for the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As with the rest of the Arctic, they are threatened by climate change. Not only does its disappearance sound an unexpected warning bell for climate change and the carbon cycle, it also means there may be little time left to learn from the Arctic’s unique ecosystems — before they disappear.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

The government plans to spend a record £5.2bn on flood defences over the next six years across England as it gears up for extreme weather becoming an increasingly regular fixture of the British calendar due to climate change. We have seen some devastating flooding around the world so far this summer," she added. "No

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