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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. At best the trends in emissions, renewable energy and tackling pollution have improved only very slightly. This gives us an opportunity to take a safer, healthier, low carbon path, but we have yet to do so.

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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? of global climate pollution, the fact is every tonne of pollution matters.

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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. Construction was set to begin over the summer.

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

DeSmogBlog

But he stressed that this new legislation is needed to protect the most vulnerable communities from pollution and injustice because without it, future administrations could reverse those executive orders. John the Baptist Parish, long burdened by air pollution, as having an alarming death rate.

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Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020. Scientists Fear Feedback Loops

DeSmogBlog

And despite a dip in polluting activities due to the pandemic, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to its highest level in 3.6 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 million years. ppb rise in 2019.

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Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020. Scientists Fear Feedback Loops

DeSmogBlog

And despite a dip in polluting activities due to the pandemic, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to its highest level in 3.6 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 million years. ppb rise in 2019.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.