Renewable Energy World

MARCH 29, 2021

For the past decade and a half, China became the dominant player in the PV manufacturing field, after the sector received critical help from government subsidies back in 2004. And these new technologies are key, as solar energy plays a major role in the fight against climate change. appeared first on Renewable Energy World.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has suggested it would be “extraordinary anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, while the group has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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Grist

JULY 26, 2023

Climate change has altered those conditions though, by warming oceans to record high temperatures and introducing more freshwater through sea-ice and glacier melt. We’re talking huge, huge climate changes in a very short time,” said Ditlevsen. “We The Earth is changing,” said Tedesco. degree Celsius (1.9

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Terra Infirma

MARCH 6, 2024

Firstly, it was reported that the UK’s Climate Change Committee was recommending that the UK Government refrain from carrying forward a surplus in its legality binding carbon budgets , arguing that this was caused by Covid restrictions rather than genuine decarbonisation. Two recent news stories made me ponder this question.

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Global Renewable News

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. What does this boy care about climate change? How much is to be invested for climate change? This group of stunning islands was at the forefront of the Tsunami destruction in 2004. There are millions of people like him in this world.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A former chief scientist for the oil and gas producer BP claims that journalists specializing in climate change reporting are spreading false claims about extreme weather — an accusation that a major climate media organization deems “factually careless and ideologically driven.” I urge Mr. Koonin to do the same.”

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Grist

APRIL 15, 2021

Back in 2004, when wildfires in Alaska burned an area the size of Massachusetts , Michelle Mack wondered just how much carbon had permanently moved from the landscape into the atmosphere. We keep talking about this runaway train of positive feedbacks accelerating climate change, but this looks like a brake.”.

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Eco-Business

JULY 18, 2023

Between 1970 and 2004, three extreme flood events occurred per year on average in India, but after 2005, the yearly average rose to 11. Rise in both land and sea temperatures has increased the capacity of the air to hold moisture for a longer time.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Jim had recently read Boiling Point , Ross’s 2004 book chronicling the fossil fuel industries’ strategy of denial and delay, which Gelbspan correctly labeled a crime against humanity. “I It was Ross’s books and journalism that sparked the flames of outrage and opportunity that inspired Jim Hoggan to create the DeSmogBlog in late 2005.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

The link between climate change and expansion or change in mosquito distributions is real,” said Doug Norris, a specialist in mosquitoes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Climate change presents another emerging threat, World Health Organization officials wrote in their latest global malaria report.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Former US vice-president Al Gore has teamed up with the former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), David Blood, to launch a new asset manager, which they say will prioritise tackling climate change. The new firm, Just Climate, says its mission is to achieve the limiting of global temperature rise to 1.5°C

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Warming temperatures from climate change are now expanding the northern limit of the fescue belt, and the grass is marching into new areas, taking root on disturbed land, such as pastures. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. The southeastern U.S.,

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

One of my bugbears is the constant attempts to shift the ‘blame’ for climate change to someone else – whether it is China, Big Business or the Super-Rich. Concerned about the damage being done to its corporate reputation by the climate crisis, BP hired a public relations firm to bolster its image.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the early 1980s, America’s biggest company knew more about climate change than basically anyone else. Evidence of this deception has become the basis for dozens of lawsuits against fossil fuel giants in recent years, with cities and states seeking to hold companies and governments responsible for damages from climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 2, 2021

113 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 on the papers. The inadequate regard paid to the effect of high housing numbers on climate change. Bioabundance announced on 1 April that it has filed a request for an oral court hearing to hear the application for a statutory review under s.113

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The last time online searches for hydrogen or fuel cells were this intense was back in 2004, according to Google Trends. ” “[It is] different this time because of the societal interest in tackling climate change,” he said. The country installed 130 GWs of solar PV in between 2010 and 2017. President George W.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. As the U.S.

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Front And Centered

JUNE 30, 2023

Twenty years ago, we saw the same sort of moral panic over gay marriage, which ended up being used as a wedge issue during the 2004 presidential elections. What often gets left out of environmental and climate justice is the fairness in your experience of and interaction with your environment.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

where recent research has found that one in ten premature deaths are caused by air-polluting fossil fuels, medical schools have only begun grappling with a lack of curricula focused on climate change in the last couple of years. The paper says that climate change is already affecting human health in every country on earth.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Maurice Golden MSP, Shadow Climate Change, Environment, Land Reform Secretary, commented: “We want to see an ambitious and inclusive system that works well across the whole of the UK. 2004: Can sales dropped from 6.1 We must avoid this scenario playing out in the UK.”. iv] Excluding milk bottles. [v]

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 27, 2021

A new rainfall app is helping farmers in Indonesia’s Sumbawa Island navigate climate change. But climate change is throwing off generations of traditional knowledge as weather — especially rainfall — has become less predictable. Misjudging the best planting time can lead to financial ruin. Wright: Dr. Armi Susandi, MT.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

Globally, organisations are starting to take steps to reduce emissions across their operations in order to adapt to the effects of climate change, resource scarcity and ensure long-term commercial success. From our experience, it's helpful to break it down: What does climate change mean to your business?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The Bahama nuthatch has been in trouble for some time as a 2004 survey reported its population was around 1,800. Three years later, a 2007 survey noted more hurricanes decreased its numbers to a mere 23. By the time Hurricane Matthew struck in 2016 the bird’s population dropped and in 2018 only two were found.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 27, 2020

In 2004, Hurricane Frances caused massive waves in a pond on top of a phosphate plant in Riverview, Florida. For example, wastewater ponds — which phosphate plants use to store acidic and somewhat radioactive waste produced by mining operations — can also have a major impact if disturbed or damaged by natural disasters.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 31, 2021

New Energy Nexus is described as a catalytic nonprofit organization bringing together a global community of climate change accelerators and entrepreneurs. New Energy Nexus started in California in 2004 as the California Clean Energy Fund, which was a non-profit venture capital fund. What is your role?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 1, 2021

New Energy Nexus is described as a catalytic nonprofit organization bringing together a global community of climate change accelerators and entrepreneurs. New Energy Nexus started in California in 2004 as the California Clean Energy Fund, which was a non-profit venture capital fund. What is your role?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 1, 2021

New Energy Nexus is described as a catalytic nonprofit organization bringing together a global community of climate change accelerators and entrepreneurs. New Energy Nexus started in California in 2004 as the California Clean Energy Fund, which was a non-profit venture capital fund. What is your role?

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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

JUNE 27, 2022

The first step, as with any climate change-related issue, is sizing up the scope of the threat. Historical range: Chikungunya fever was first identified in Tanzania in the 1950s, remained relatively rare for half a century, and then exploded into more than 60 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas after 2004.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

Having broken away from the left-wing Green Party of Switzerland in 2004, the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland has gone on to make large gains in the last Swiss election, securing 7.8 You don't have to be left-wing to recognise that climate change is a serious issue that requires greater attention from policymakers.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

Fossil fuels are a leading cause of climate change and research shows that ubiquitous spills and leaks are often far worse than reported. Taylor Spill A 2019 report states that a spill that began in 2004 may rival the Deepwater Horizon.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

Since 2004, renewables' share of UK power has risen tenfold. But we know that to tackle the existential threat of climate change, we need to decarbonise not just electricity, but also heating and transport, where progress has been glacial," she added. "We Taken together, renewables and nuclear accounted for 54.4

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

And building on the outcomes of COP26, the upcoming Middle East and North America Climate Week will help regional stakeholders identify actionable climate change opportunities. How climate risk plays out on a local level. Expo 2020 focuses on creating sustainable links between food, agriculture, and livelihoods.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. For instance, suddenly sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and achieving gender equality. In 2004, Kofi Annan, then the UN Secretary, asked major financial institutions to partner with the UN and the International Finance Corporate.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Campaigners said the revelation was a “slap in the face” for those suffering the effects of climate change in the South Pacific, where the archipelago is located. As a non-UN member, the Cook Islands first applied to join the IMO in 1999, when the body’s executive body recommended its membership bid.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It brought together geothermal professionals from 54 countries throughout five continents to study and discuss the exploration, development, and utilization of geothermal, accelerate the development of renewable energy, and stand together to respond to the challenges of global climate change.

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