DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Transition Deal echoed the fossil fuel lobby by emphasising the importance of hydrogen power and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to the green transition. The North Sea Transition Deal announced by the government in March 2021 set a net zero target for the basin but allowed for the continued exploration of oil and gas.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 25, 2021

of forest areas burned in the boreal forests between 2002 and 2018. Scientists have now warned that continued global warming may lead to increased damage from zombie fires. The boreal peat protects the permafrost below, which holds large volumes of sequestered carbon.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But there was reason to hope for Milne Fjord: For years, scientists believed this area, home to the oldest and thickest ice in the northern hemisphere, would survive the worst effects of global warming. Even if we do manage to limit global warming to the goal of 1.5 degrees C (2.7

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A small metal platform at the top, 48 metres above the floor of a peatland rainforest reserve, provides a unique, 360-degree vantage point to witness one of the most biodiverse, carbon-rich habitats left on Earth. In fact, peatland contains up to 50 per cent carbon content, compared to the two per cent typically found in mineral soil.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Powering the rig with offshore wind power will “remove up to 20,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, equivalent to taking more than 4,000 cars off the road”, Cerulean says. Twenty-three million barrels of oil equate to 9,890,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, using an emission factor of 0.43

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

While this presents a significant opportunity for the UK to contribute to global efforts against global warming, reaching this target won't become a reality unless the energy sector receives the collaboration it needs from government and stakeholders to remove existing technical obstacles and regulatory barriers.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

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. Reducing greenhouse gases cannot achieve significant reductions in future global temperatures.”

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

When they form new bodies of water, they contribute to the thawing of frozen permafrost, which is a natural reservoir for methane and carbon dioxide. ” The study found that the number of dams in a 100-square-kilometer area around Kotzebue increased from two in 2002 to about 98 in 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Nordhaus published an article in the American Economic Review entitled Can We Control Carbon Dioxide? For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. In 2002, U.S. Specifically, to 1975. That year, the American economist and 2018 Nobel laureate William D.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2022

In a statement announcing the change, the body credited Simpson will playing a pivotal role in bringing corporate disclosure on climate and environmental issues into the mainstream, noting that disclosures on its platform had increased 53-fold since 2002 and by 141 per cent since 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

But then when you look at ExxonMobil’s language around carbon capture, for example, they’ll say things like ‘it’s going to take an all-of-the-above approach,’ and when the oil and gas industry says ‘all of the above,’ they mean oil and gas first.”. Lower carbon future.” Chevron is “ advancing a lower carbon future.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

If the industry continues on its current pathway, it could use more than a quarter of the carbon budget associated with a 2 degrees Celsius pathway by 2050, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The fashion industry has a pollution problem.

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