DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

A recently published book by Still Burning , a network campaigning against coal imports to Europe and neocolonialism, explores the links between our addiction to coal and the deteriorating ecological and social conditions of communities living near mines supplying European power stations and steelworks. Credit: Sally Low.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Among the projections: climate impacts worsen nearly 60 percent of infectious diseases. The lines’ thickness is proportional to the number of unique pathogenic diseases.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

“What we are trying to do as a fund is define what climate change entrepreneurship needs to look like,” Karthik Chandrasekar, the founder of early stage cleantech venture capital firm Sangam, said in an interview at his office early last year. But that’s changing. This is the second article in a series.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Sobering research by CDP and Planet Tracker lays bare the huge risks and costs companies are already facing as a result of worsening water security. It found that demand for water is increasing rapidly to meet the needs of growing populations, but access to high quality and secure water supplies is simultaneously falling.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 9, 2021

To repower our society with 100 percent renewable energy, we need to electrify our buildings. With electricity, we can hook our buildings up to a green grid that will eventually get all of its energy from the sun, the wind and the Earth. Burning fossil fuels in our homes pollutes the air we breathe outside as well as inside.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Publishing its annual progress report, the statutory environmental watchdog concluded the government's flagship 25 Year Environment Plan "has so far failed to bring about the changes needed at the pace and scale required", adding that the strategy "lacked clarity and commitment". "The But there is clear opportunity to change course."

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But conservation charities decry 'pattern of inaction' over past 15 years that could see waterway health worsen before it improves. Currently just 16 per cent of waters are thought to be in good ecological health, while none at all meet chemical standards.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Water companies must invest a collective £56bn towards tackling sewage spills and improving environmental practices over the next 25 years in addition to facing the "toughest ever" pollution targets, as part of a major crackdown on water pollution announced by the government late last week.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

The government's climate advisors will today publish a major new analysis of the UK's climate adaptation investment priorities, which argues that essential climate resilience measures remain badly underfunded by both government and businesses. This must change."

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

This breakdown of ecosystems is a risk to our food security. It could also worsen the impacts of flooding and undermine public health and wellbeing. That is why we must rally our international partners to protect and restore nature. I am passionate about conserving our wildlife. It is costing British taxpayers money too.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 9, 2021

Urbanization has the potential to make implementation of sustainable development infrastructure easier and enable people to have more equitable access to clean water, sanitation, and power. What is SDG 11? . Furthermore, dense urban cities require proper public transportation infrastructure to prevent intensive emissions and air pollution.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2022

New ECIU report details how climate impacts and soaring energy costs are a major contributor to food price inflation - and explores how farming subsidy reforms could help tackle the crisis. This year the UK's record-breaking heatwave was made 10 times more likely due to climate change, the report said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Vjosa has faced an almost constant barrage of planning applications from hydropower developers, while more recently the region has been targeted by Shell for oil and gas exploration. But the campaign of resistance appears to have paid off. That is not me; I have been to Albania three times in my life. The money is secondary".

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey said the policy programme will help the government "continue" its work on improving the natural environment through subsidy reforms, tree planting programmes, and better enforcement of the pollution rules covering water companies. We have already started the journey and we have seen improvements.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BusinessGreen takes a tour around Riverford Organic Farms to explore how the veg box firm is contending with worsening climate impacts. There is a reason some scientists have named our current epoch the Anthropocene. Farmers impose as much - if not more - order on their environments as urban planners.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

Climate change is an existential threat to the potato industry. In all regions, we are seeing escalating climate variability: cool springs, blazing heat domes, early frosts, unseasonable rain, and more. We need to both mitigate emissions and adapt to this new (and worsening) reality.

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Business Green

APRIL 10, 2022

Our species is in a race with climate change, and a lot of people want to know: 'Can I really make a difference?'. The evidence is clear that people are changing the climate dramatically. But human actions can also affect the climate for the better by reducing fossil fuel burning and carbon emissions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

The UK solar industry has rubbished claims from Tory leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak that solar farms pose a threat to farmland, pointing out that climate change poses by far the bigger risk to food security and therefore further underscores the need to decarbonise energy sources.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Liz Truss restated her commitment to net zero, renewables, and nuclear power, as well as North Sea oil and gas, in her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference this morning, which saw the embattled Prime Minister decry climate activists who briefly interrupted her from the audience as "anti-growth". Not everyone will be in favour.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Truss will immediately face a multitude of challenges, not least the worsening cost of living crisis, soaring inflation, and economic headwinds that threaten to tip the UK into recession. This may not be the pandemic, but the exceptional circumstances we now face mean government must play a central role in supporting our economy.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

As IMO hosts latest discussion on climate action, new report reveals 95 per cent of shipping executives see decarbonisation as one of their top priorities. To achieve that, we need to work with our customers.". It stems from Shell's own ambition to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 or sooner.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

So the visitors bureau is very sensitive to what the land bank wants us to promote or not promote, and what they want in our visitor guides and what they don’t want,” said Marrett. Fortunately for San Juan County, it has a land bank and the San Juan Preservation Trust. Nesler wrote the pledge, inspired by destinations like Aspen and Palau.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean. Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. This system of groundwater provides a vital supply for drinking water and irrigation, and feeds into rivers, lakes, and wetlands.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

Or does the plan represent the "blueprint" that Boris Johnson yesterday insisted would harness new technologies and innovation so that the UK can "grow and eat more of our own food"? The government’s new Food Strategy has sparked an angry response from environmental and farming groups alike, but is it really as bad as its critics suggest?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. The IPCC - a group of thousands of the world's leading climate scientists convened by the UN - has released yet another blockbuster dossier on the state of the planet's climate.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Natural Capital Committee again warns there has been virtually no zero progress against the government's own biodiversity, water, air, and soil quality goals. Our report highlights the limited evidence of progress and some worrying declines.".

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Clean Energy Canada is a climate and clean energy program at the Morris J. Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. Below are some of the recent key studies linking climate change to public health.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As environmental lawyers and professors of law , we are surprised to see FEMA move forward on a path that runs directly counter to the White House’s energy and climate policy. In our view, FEMA’s actions don’t support those goals. Burning more natural gas will affect air and water quality and contribute to climate change.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Even with concerted efforts to curb climate change, it’s clear we are already living through the effects of a warming world. As such, it’s time to get serious about where and how we build our homes to keep our families safe while also lessening our impact on the planet.

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Unsustainable

JUNE 11, 2020

Along with all the plastic donning store shelves, ecommerce websites and, of course, your body, comes millions more tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases accelerating climate change just to manufacture it all. Upshot: Climate change isn’t taking a break just because there’s a pandemic raging all over the world.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

It was another busy year in the courts for climate-related cases. From challenges to fossil fuel and petrochemical expansion to climate lawsuits against Big Oil and national governments, there were notable victories for climate action and accountability in 2022. — Center for Climate Integrity (@climatecosts) March 3, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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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. One of our number knows what is coming. Too late to save the environment. Quit single use plastic, My low key cocaine habit. None of my friends are okay.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2022

The visit coincided with Juneteenth weekend and the start of a heat dome stretching from the Gulf Coast to Canada, serving as a reminder of the urgent need to simultaneously address the climate crisis and racial injustice. Biden needs to do more to protect us from climate change.” “It’s as simple as that.”.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. The Fifth National Climate Assessment , released on Tuesday by the Biden administration, is unique for its focus on the present.

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