Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Major report highlights goals of Paris Agreement are threatened by weak climate ambition from countries and limited climate finance flows from rich to poor nations. emissions, despite more than 113 countries and states submitting new climate plans over the last two years, a major UN report has today warned.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Rearing livestock is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, in part because it contributes to deforestation as land is cleared either to rear animals or to grow crops to provide animal feed and in part through methane emissions from cattle. Crucially, the seaweed can be harvested just 60 days after planting.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Both were part of NCBA’s multi-pronged PR campaign about how beef is actually a climate-conscious food. The group, which is the beef industry’s largest trade association, plastered the New York Times (including its popular podcast The Daily ) and the Washington Post with climate-conscious food messaging.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

“If they just do the usual plugging job, and now there’s a suspicion that this well was leaking over some period of time and contaminating the water supply,” he said, “you’ve lost the opportunity to do the diagnosis.”. Done right, plugging can stop climate-warming methane emissions and other environmental issues like water contamination.

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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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Greentown Labs

JULY 15, 2020

This interview is part of Greentown Labs’ Climatetech Leadership Series, which profiles C-level executives from our most committed and climate-oriented partners. Read on for insights into how corporations are taking climate action and underscoring their commitment to sustainability as the world navigates and emerges from the global pandemic.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

UK Prime Minister also calls on countries to 'move beyond coal and hydrocarbons' as UN climate talks enter crunch final stage. Here in Glasgow the world is closer than it has ever been to signalling the end to anthropogenic climate change," he added. "My Will you help us grasp that opportunity, or will you stand in the way?".

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In addition, a January study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology found that stoves leak gas even when they are turned off, an indication that gas appliances are worse for the climate and human health than previously thought. Xcel legitimately has some strong claims for climate leadership.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For Nuñez and her friends, the fight against the scheme — known as Rio Grande LNG — is about protecting their community from air pollution; preserving shrimping and tourism; and defending habitats for pelicans, endangered ocelots, and aplomado falcons at the project site on unspoiled wetlands between Port Isabel and the larger city of Brownsville.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

target and pledge to stop financing coal power plants overseas, but fall short of confirming coal phase out date and fail to set out concrete measures for how they will accelerate climate action and finance. Countries formally back 1.5C as a common goal. as a common goal.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. After decades of gridlock, the US looks set to pass sweeping climate legislation for the first time.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Trump, who has repeatedly made baseless claims of mass electoral fraud, has still not conceded the race and is likely to use the courts to try and fight the results in several key states, fuelling fears of potential civil unrest and a chaotic transfer of power. And in exactly 77 days, a Biden Administration will rejoin it.".

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