Envirotec Magazine

JULY 29, 2022

The cores, which provide a historic record between 1957 and 2017, provide evidence that levels of these chemical pollutants have shown a marked increase in the remote snowpack of Antarctica over the last few decades. The most abundant chemical discovered by far was the shorter chain compound, perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In 1971, Eni set up a new company in Rome to study pollution problems called Tecneco. Eni’s prediction was quite accurate: Global warming in the year 2000 was exactly 0.5 ° C and CO2 concentrations were around 370 ppm. Eni also understood the need to limit fossil fuel pollution decades ago, according to the report.

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The City Fix

APRIL 12, 2023

Between 2000 and 2014, urban area in South Africa expanded by 1,464 km2. South Africa’s cities are economic engines, drawing workers across the country and the continent. Of the country’s 58.8 million population, 68% live in urban areas. Population projections.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With the help of initiatives such as the TFL scrappage scheme, the introduction of the ULEZ and greener transport options, pollution in London has been reduced by more than 40%. Offering a complete service, EMR will collect the vehicle, produce the Certificate of Destruction and recycle the vehicle in a responsible manner.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

With this change comes more energy and water consumption, more air and ocean pollution and more carbon emissions. Clothing production has approximately doubled since 2000, and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down. On top of the industry’s CO2 emissions , it also affects water consumption and air and ocean pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Secretary, given the increased use of [fossil fuels], has increased over the last century by an average of 10 percent worldwide; around the year 2000 this increase could reach 25 percent, with ‘catastrophic’ consequences on climate.” “ [C]arbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a recent report by the U.N. ‘Friend Methane!

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Most plastic pollution comes from inadequate collection and disposal of larger plastic debris known as macroplastics, but leakage of microplastics (synthetic polymers smaller than 5 mm in diameter) from things like industrial plastic pellets, synthetic textiles, road markings and tyre wear are also a serious concern.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 22, 2021

Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel. Regulations eventually reined in that problem, but coal-fired power plants still emit pollutants like mercury. Because of the various pollution issues associated with coal, most developed countries have moved away from coal-fired power. Comparing Coal’s Emissions. What is meant by that?

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Below he discusses the issue of water pollution in the fashion industry. Startlingly, the fashion industry is now the second largest generator of pollution on Earth after the oil industry, which is driven by the snowballing effect of ‘fast fashion’. The Citaram river in Indonesia is the most polluted river in the world.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That’s according to a newly reviewed 1993 document labeled “proprietary” that was written by the company’s Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil, one of the top producers in a heavily polluting oil deposit known as the Alberta tar sands. The surge in capital spending mitigates the impact on the economy after the year 2000,” Imperial learned. .

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Economic growth has driven ongoing demand for waste metals since 2000. To take the examples of copper and aluminium, global usage of waste copper has increased by 41%, while production of aluminium from waste increased by a massive 86% since 2000. Looking at the UK specifically, waste crime represents a major issue.

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2020

Through rampant overfishing, pollution, and coastal destruction, humanity has inflicted severe damage on the oceans and its inhabitants for centuries. percent of the ocean in 2000 to 7.4 The glory of the world’s oceans could be restored within a generation, according to a major new scientific review. and green turtles in Japan.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

Taking action to deal with water shortages and pollution will cost $55bn, just a fraction of the cost of failing to act, CDP estimates. per cent of companies made progress against pollution reduction targets, demonstrating that "businesses still have a way to go to achieve a water-secure world," the report states. Indeed, that just 4.4

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The majority of directors at the world’s biggest banks have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, a DeSmog investigation shows. There were also significant ties to banks and investment vehicles supporting polluting industries, as well as to thinktanks and lobbying groups with a history of campaigning against climate action.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

The report, which was commissioned by the Mayor, found that between 2000 and 2018 London achieved a 57 per cent reduction in workplace greenhouse gas emissions, a 40 per cent reduction in emissions from homes, but just a seven per cent reduction in emissions from transport.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 12, 2023

But while certain heavy industries have garnered the attention of funding programs and policymakers alike, the biggest polluter of the lot has not received the same attention. Since 2000, demand has outstripped that of other heavy industries. And work on ensuring it meets net-zero emission goals has been minimal.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Range of targets on deforestation, habitats, oceans, plastic pollution adopted a decade ago have all been missed or are heading in wrong direction, UN report warns. Goals around plastic pollution and excess nutrients are also far off track.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The study also found that such supplements in animal feed helped lower levels of phosphorous in run-off from pig manure by more than 20%, reducing the contribution of pig systems to freshwater pollution.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 24, 2021

But people criticized that version for not considering how these companies polluted nonwhite communities. Newly added criteria weigh whether a company acknowledges environmental justice issues and researches any penalties it has incurred for pollution. Factor in its $1.5 Some of them seem beyond shame.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Overall the country's carbon output tripled between 2000 and 2018, and its CO2 emissions now represents almost one third of the global total. This electrification effort is being driven by the nation's war on pollution. China is now the world's second largest economy and the largest carbon emitter.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At the American Petroleum Institute’s annual meeting, president Frank Ikard announces to industry leaders that President Lyndon Johnson’s council of scientific advisors has found that continued fossil fuel use would cause climate change by the year 2000, resulting in serious global impacts. And they considered CO2 a pollutant back then.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the late 1960s, as the complaint details, the Stanford Research Institute issued reports that accurately predicted the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in 2000. The “Make Polluters Pay” campaign billboard in New York’s Time Square on September 18, 2023.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 19, 2022

As far back as the 2000 publication of their book, The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World , Paul H. In the conformist, status-conscious 1950s, it may not have been seen as a marketing strength, but as a liability. .

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

IIASA contributed N2O emission inventory data from the Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies (GAINS) model, including those from industrial processes needed for data alignment. “We TgN y-1 (approximately 10% of the global total) between 2000–2005 and 2010–2015.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 12, 2020

Just as real-life youth are growing up in a world where pollution will ruin their health , neighborhoods, oceans and planet if they don’t take drastic action, so go their virtual counterparts in The Sims. Originally, The Sims came out in 2000, a spinoff of the SimCity game introduced in 1989.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

The influential think tank urged urban planners to make restoring nature a "foremost priority", warning that almost half of global GDP in cities - $31tr - currently runs the risk of disruption from flooding, drought, air pollution, a lack of green areas, and unsustainable urban growth, all of which are exacerbated by nature loss.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

The research was limited to the primary pollutant in each of the three biggest classes of solar panel today: crystalline silicon, cadmium telluride (CdTe) and copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS). The pollutants were lead, cadmium and selenium, respectively. because most PV panels are still in use. Credit: PV Cycle).

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The study was conducted by overlapping the geographic coordinates of industrial mines in operation from 2000 to 2019 with forest loss data from the Global Forest Change dataset for the same period. per cent of the total tropical deforestation observed from 2000-2019. The data covered 26 countries representing 76.7

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

per cent in the decade to 2021, with a corresponding rise in water pollution and declines in air quality caused by an increase in nitrogen fertiliser use. According to the California Air Resources Board , livestock emissions in 2019 “are 18 per cent higher than 2000 levels”. Steep Cuts for Other Sectors.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

The process will compensate shuttering lignite, or "brown coal," plants, which are the most heavily polluting, via a flat rate. Hard coal plants, or those burning more carbon-dense and less-polluting types of coal, by contrast, will be closed via least-cost tenders. power in Q1 2020 compared to 39 percent in Q1 2000. In the U.K.,

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

Hundreds of countries around the world have agreed to draw up an international treaty to tackle the devastating impacts of plastic pollution, in an "historic" UN-led decision today that could lead to legally-binding international commitments and targets to slash plastic waste levels and engineer a more circular economy.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

The only way to slow down a warming planet is to stop adding pollution to the atmosphere. Many companies pledge to reduce carbon emissions while actively lobbying governments against regulating pollution like improving car emissions standards or reducing methane leaks.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

The report also alleges that pension funds have overstated the costs of previous divestments from controversial industries like the tobacco industry (which CalPERS voted to divest from in 2000) and from thermal coal (divested under a 2015 state law ). Gonzalez, who introduced SB-1173, wrote in an April op-ed in the Sacramento Bee.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 29, 2021

In the early 2000’s, China set its sight on the solar industry, and began hiring international solar experts and shopping for the necessary manufacturing machinery, while inviting global market leaders to move their manufacturing to the country, where they could find cheap, skilled labor, and tax credits.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

The Bank of England, for example, recently warned businesses to start bracing themselves for substantial price increases of carbon as the world looks to eliminate greenhouse gas pollution. not co-located to sites of emission) to capture 1M tons of carbon a year, equivalent to 40 million trees.

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Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Business Energy Monitoring 130

Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The Sustainable City 2019 conference follows a series of very successful meetings that started in Rio (2000), followed by Segovia (2002), Siena (2004), Tallinn (2006), Skiathos (2008), A Coruña (2010), Ancona (2012), Kuala Lumpur (2013), Siena (2014), Medellin (2015), Alicante (2016), Seville (2017), Valencia (2019) and Rome (2020).Urban

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