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The Lancet: Few countries prepared to tackle worsening climate-related health risks

Business Green

billion more days of heatwave exposure in 2020 compared to the baseline average between 1986 and 2005. This gives us an opportunity to take a safer, healthier, low carbon path, but we have yet to do so. At the same time, exposure to heatwaves has increased, with adults over 65 affected by 3.1

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. Welch, 2019).

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The Meat Industry Is Advertising Like Big Oil

DeSmogBlog

The fact that Mitloehner did not question the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector was overlooked in the subsequent media campaign that claimed that the FAO was wrong to blame global warming on livestock. “He In 2005, the U.S. Whose Speech Are Checkoff Ads? It’s our words. It’s our spending.

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The World’s Top 10 Carbon Dioxide Emitters

R-Squared Energy

Under that 2015 agreement, more than 2oo countries agreed to take steps to keep global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels and, to less than 1.5 would cease participation in the Paris Accord due to the potential negative impacts on the U.S. The Kyoto Protocol went into effect in 2005.

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Exxon Holds Back on CCS

Mr. Sustainability

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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Anybody can have a climate plan, but what makes for an effective one?

Clean Energy Canada

Here are five questions that Canadians should ask when evaluating whether the party platforms provide the responsible, effective climate policies Canada needs: Does it cut carbon pollution—in Canada—in line with our Paris target? This may seem obvious, but it’s a question worth asking. How do we share the effort?

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Rep. Grijalva Tours Cancer Alley Communities Plagued by Racial Discrimination and Environmental Injustice

DeSmogBlog

The same community, as well as Indigenous communities along the Gulf South, face elevated risks from pollution and intensifying extreme weather events, which scientists warn will worsen if we don’t drastically and quickly cut carbon emissions. Jo and Joy Banner speaking a June 18 press conference at the Whitney Plantation.