Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2020

A number of developing countries are coming forward with ambitious decarbonisation plans, but as Ed King explains, their significance is often too easily ignored. Last month Jamaica submitted a new climate plan to the UN - it garnered little global coverage or praise. But it was significant. Seen in isolation, this is a grain of sand.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

And now it is facing fierce criticism not just from the perennial climate-denying opponents of climate action, who allege the net zero mission is an exorbitantly expensive and unnecessary pipe dream, but also from a growing number of the world's most influential and respected environmental campaigners and scientists.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2021

Given the lack of policy or standardized guidance driving net zero commitments, not to mention the loopholes through which many companies seem to be leaping, there's pretty much a net zero chance that they will, collectively, meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement - at least, not without some significant changes. The problem?

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

It also criticised the previous government for "stop-start strategies", which it said could undermine confidence for business, investors, and consumers in committing to measures which could reduce CO2 pollution.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

The world is in a fractious state - geopolitically, economically, and climatically. As such, it comes as no surprise that climate protestors are back on the streets once again, voicing their anger and frustration at the lack of adequate progress on climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Since at least 2017, the EU, led by Italy, has trained and equipped the Libyan Coast Guard to serve as a proxy maritime force, whose central purpose is to stop migrants from reaching European shores. Climate change is expected to displace 150 million people across the globe in the next 50 years.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

percent of scientists would come to agree that burning fossil fuels had disrupted the Earth’s climate. Yet almost 30 years after that warning, during the hottest year on Earth in 125,000 years , people are still arguing that the science is unreliable, or that the threat is real but we shouldn’t do anything about climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In between all that, and various other advisory roles besides, the 68-year-old also managed to write five books on climate and energy. Highlands Rewilding - Leggett's "last climate campaign" as he calls it - was born. "I I viewed Solarcentury as a climate campaign more than a business, personally," he says. "So

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - NOVEMBER 30: COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber during the opening day of the United Nations Climate Conference. Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? Namely, should they even have a future? Now, that 1.5-degree With around 1.2 With around 1.2

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

This story is adapted from the forthcoming book WARMTH which will be published by Penguin Books in August. When the sky’s grown dark we stop hiking and set up camp behind the dunes. When at last he grew satisfied, he stopped roaming and launched himself into the sky. It is, he shows us, shaped unmistakably like an emu.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Roundup of reaction from politicians, NGOs, and business figures as the world's top climate scientists serve up latest evidence on scale of potential climate cataclysm ahead. But the report is also at pains to stress that the future extent of the climate crisis will be determined by the choices societies take over the next few years.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

As Yuval Noah Harari describes in his book, A Brief History of Tomorrow (page 58), the first people to cultivate grass were dukes and counts in the late middle ages of France and England. According to a study done by NASA and the NOAA lawns occupy about 2% of the surface of continental US. Is it just about status?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

A super absurd example of oil and gas companies appropriating and weaponizing the language of climate advocates for their own greenwashing,” commented author and climate activist Genevieve Guenther on Twitter. Ultimately, they’ve been using it to obstruct climate action, a longtime goal of the oil, gas, and coal industries. “If

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. Especially the combination of these technologies can virtually annihilate all climate issues related to food within five to ten years.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In a new Greentech Media series, we’re asking people with jobs in cleantech — from installing solar panels, to permitting wind projects, to promoting building energy efficiency software —to tell us what they really do all day. What do solar salespeople do? By 2024, 2.5 percent of all U.S. homes will have a solar installation.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

These findings come after the Chamber attacked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) late last year for the agency’s efforts to step up enforcement of unlawful corporate behavior, calling increased oversight a “war on American businesses.”. “In Other banks also topped the list , including Citigroup and Wells Fargo.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The world has reached a tipping point in terms of climate action, according to former Unilever CEO Paul Polman. Awareness of environmental, social and governance issues reached new levels around COP26 in Glasgow, and more corporations are clamouring to share their good environmental intentions lately, including net zero goals.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So what can we do to stop this pollution and mitigate the risk of our next space mission getting decimated by a flying paper clip? Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash Since the dawn of the space age in 1957, humans have successfully launched over 5,000 rockets into space and placed roughly 9,000 satellites in orbit.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This article is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of news outlets strengthening coverage of the climate story. It has confused the public about climate science, bought the eternal gratitude of one of America’s two main political parties, and repeatedly out-maneuvered regulatory efforts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A personal essay on how the climate crisis is reshaping everything and why COP28 matters much more than you think We've passed the point of no return. Too late to save the environment. Quit single use plastic, My low key cocaine habit. None of my friends are okay. John Maynard Keynes It is the Australian autumn of 2002.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

While still daunted by the epic and tragic scale of the climate crisis, this community has been buoyed by the way in which their work has already helped deliver both plummeting clean technology costs and a decoupling of greenhouse gas emissions and global GDP. And it's coming from the unlikeliest of quarters.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Like many people out there who are working on climate change, or are internalizing the news, I’ve struggled at times to stay optimistic and productive in the fight. Because the existential problem that gnaws at my well-being is the destruction of the natural world and the profound climate crisis. I won’t belabor this.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Like many people out there who are working on climate change, or are internalizing the news, I've struggled at times to stay optimistic and productive in the fight. Because the existential problem that gnaws at my well-being is the destruction of the natural world and the profound climate crisis. I won’t belabor this.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

The Asgard incident comes as climate scientists warn that hurricanes are likely to become increasingly volatile, making them not only more difficult to predict, but also more difficult to evade, for those onshore and off. If not properly controlled, this type of incident can sometimes lead to a blowout. consumes in a day.

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Grist

JANUARY 4, 2022

I stepped onto the battlefield of climate change, sidestepping carcass after carcass. As other climate war zones smolder with wildfire embers, are strewn with flattened homes, or marked by bleached coral, the signature of conflict on a seabird island in the Gulf of Maine is a maddening quietude. My head said of course it is.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Fringe climate crisis deniers who claim that the earth is “cooling” and greenhouse emissions are good for “biological productivity” are getting exposed to millions more people than they normally would on YouTube thanks to conservative influencer Jordan Peterson. ARC advisor Ramaswamy: ‘the climate change agenda is a hoax.’

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

A DeSmog analysis has found climate denial and a hostility to net zero to be a common feature among many of the individuals speaking at the three-day summit. They will be joined by David Frost, a Conservative peer and a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021. By not including women at equal levels — in companies, in government, in NGOs and elsewhere — the climate movement is itself experiencing a crisis, they argue. "As Heather Clancy. Mon, 03/08/2021 - 02:00. The idea of a day celebrating the accomplishments of the female gender in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. kilowatt output,” according to the book. business and political history.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Copper supplies, for example, need to increase by as much as 6 percent per year to meet the goals laid out in the Paris Climate Agreement. Other metals supplies need to rise, too, in order to get companies and countries to their carbon neutrality goals — phasing out fossil fuels. . Wed, 02/10/2021 - 01:15.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

This article by Sierra is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. ” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. .”

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

The idea that there are "12 years left" on climate change comes from the big IPCC 1.5 The idea that there are "12 years left" on climate change comes from the big IPCC 1.5 The year 2018 brought extreme change — in weather and environmental ecosystems, in political winds and power, and in the expectations of business.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Copper supplies, for example, need to increase by as much as 6 percent per year to meet the goals laid out in the Paris Climate Agreement. Other metals supplies need to rise, too, in order to get companies and countries to their carbon neutrality goals — phasing out fossil fuels. Kostigen Wed, 02/10/2021 – 01:15 Metals.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act finally offers a chance for widespread change. It took centuries to build all those homes from wood and brick and steel and concrete, but, if we’re to seriously address the climate crisis, we have only a few years to remake them. So far, the climate debate has gone on mostly in people’s heads and hearts.

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