Unsustainable

APRIL 27, 2020

In 1988, the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created. He was chair or co-chair of the IPCC’s scientific assessment working group until 2002 and lead editor of the first 3 IPCC reports. In 2002, American evangelical lobbyist Richard Cizik heard him speak on the evidence for global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Ministerial Meeting DeSmog has obtained the details of a meeting held on 23 February 2021 between Policy Exchange’s Energy and Environment Unit and Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who at the time was serving as Minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As with the rest of the Arctic, they are threatened by climate change. 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. degrees C (2.7

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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. . Related: Wildfires made air quality worse in 2020, despite lockdowns According to the study, zombie fires were responsible for about 0.8%

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The International Energy Agency warned last year that there can be no new oil and gas projects if the world is to reach net zero emissions by mid-century to avoid catastrophic climate change. A veteran political strategist, Fullbrook was appointed chief of staff by Truss after she took over as prime minister last month.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

A recent study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters suggests that beavers’ actions could be contributing to climate change. Related: Climate change could lead to dramatic decline in narwhals The sudden rise in the number of beavers in the Arctic region has lead to more of these dams.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

The emerald ash borer, native to Asia, has been devouring ash trees from the Midwest to Pennsylvania since 2002, and the brown marmorated stink bug, also from Asia, has eaten its way through orchards in 43 states to date. In America, the bug is still too new to say for sure that it’s able to thrive because of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Italy’s first climate change lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and climate advocacy group ReCommon against Italian oil giant Eni opened with its first hearing on February 16, alleging the company contributed to global warming. to obscure the Italian oil giant’s true contribution to global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

million from fossil fuel interests, high-polluters and climate science deniers last year alone. Policy Exchange and Climate Change Policy Exchange was co-founded in 2002 by Michael Gove, who has been a mainstay in the cabinet since 2010. Meanwhile, DeSmog revealed in March that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

Every decision made on offshore wind in the coming year could dictate the UK's success in reaching future climate goals, writes Ørsted's Duncan Clark. Building the right framework. Right now, the UK has just over 10GW of offshore wind capacity installed.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Language around climate solutions is particularly susceptible to this treatment, especially as polluting companies invest in strategies and tactics to present themselves as part of the solution to climate change when, clearly —as they continue to prioritize drilling for globe-warming fuels — they are not.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

” “Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” Shell executive Ged Davis wrote in a contribution to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published two years later.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

And that is precisely why - aside from the unique biodiversity - the preservation of these ecosystems is so critical to the avoiding catastrophic climate change. In 2002, Sumatra's peatlands stored at least 18.8 Sumatra alone has seen 90 per cent of its rainforest destroyed or degraded, and between 1990 and 2002, around 1.1

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