DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

While they cloak their demands for more fossil fuel extraction in concern for their constituents’ household bills, the MPs have strong ties to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading producer of climate science denial and misinformation. Global Warming Policy Foundation Links.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

The report has an article and quotes from FairFuelUK founder Howard Cox , the APPG’s public enquiry point, and quotes APPG vice-chair Steve Baker MP and Graham Stringer MP , both trustees of the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), and Lord Peter Lilley , a former GWPF trustee.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The declaration would also commit countries to lobby for a strengthening of CORSIA, the UN aviation agency's flagship scheme for addressing aviation emissions through a new international carbon offset scheme. per cent of global carbon emissions.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) On top of this, 46 countries signed up to the Global Coal to Clean Power Transition Statement to phase out coal in the 2030s (for rich countries) and 2040s (for developing ones).

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

At the same time, the country aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 26–28 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 (a target which some deem “insufficient” and doesn’t go far enough towards helping limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures). billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Let’s halt bioenergy, reduce emissions and protect natural carbon sinks and landscapes rather than relying on false solutions.” Burning trees to reduce our carbon footprint is oxymoronic.” Carbon Debt.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

While these gains are not insignificant and provide further evidence of how climate considerations have permeated even the most polluting segments of the global economy over the last 12 months, the report's conclusions also hammer home that corporate climate leaders remain hugely outnumbered by laggards amongst their peer group.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Brazil announces 'indicative' goal to deliver carbon neutrality by 2060. Brazil this week announced a new 'indicative' goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, ahead of this week's global Climate Ambition Summit. Australia drops Kyoto carbon credit demand from Paris Agreement plan.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2020

As evidence of that, cities are considered one of four global systems that can accelerate climate action in terms of both mitigation and adaptation; as the IPCC laid out in its Special Report for Cities back in 2018: 'Climate science must be accessible to urban policymakers, because without them, there will be no limiting global warming to 1.5°C.'.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

IMIL has been a prominent source of climate misinformation in Brazil, allowing it to downplay the vital role the Amazon plays as a carbon sink regulating the Earth’s climate. IMIL’s global links will come as little surprise to Lula, who has been squaring off against the think tank since his first stint as president from 2003-2011.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2005, Jacobson worked with Stanford students to begin mapping regions of the U.S. Motivated by New York Governor Cuomo’s willingness to consider banning hydrofracking, Jacobson worked through the night to layer New York’s pollution, human health, morbidity and global warming data into a cohesive model.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Electric utilities all over the place are promising to eliminate or net out their carbon emissions — here's GTM's look at the top five. that have not committed to eliminating carbon emissions. Now, you just have to stop burning carbon.". Such promises were unthinkable for utilities just a few years ago.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

The author of the article is, as director of the climate science website Carbon Brief, Leo Hickman, noted , a consultant for “companies operating in the energy sector.”. Many companies were aware of the potential effects of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures on climate.

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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. A decade later, in 2005 and 2007, EU heads of government would confirm this path. Specifically, to 1975.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2021

What’s the single word that fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and global warming? And if that approach feels a little familiar, maybe that’s because it’s very similar to the tactics used by another industry in the past: Big Tobacco.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. That’s a larger share of global emissions than aviation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2020

President Xi, one of around 75 world leaders scheduled to speak at the virtual UN summit, reiterated his landmark pledge from September to peak China's carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060. I welcome President Xi's commitment to achieving carbon neutrality before 2060. TacklingClimateChange.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

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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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

The substantial electricity use of data centers also gives rise to concerns over their carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. Considering that global data centers recently consumed around 205 billion kWh, for this claim to be true, their average electricity emissions intensity would have to be around 4.4 Carbon Brief, February 25 th.

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Sunrun

APRIL 27, 2018

Between 2005 and 2015, around 60% of the analyzed sites were in the hot category, and nearly 15% were in a new category: extremely hot.4 Switching to solar today with a company like Sunrun is one of the best ways to reduce your carbon footprint while combating rising electricity prices. 4 Summers in several U.S. 5 Ironic, right?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. EPA was probably the most prominent environmental case handled during RBG’s time on the Supreme Court — with the court ruling that carbon dioxide is subject to regulation by the EPA under the Clean Air Act.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2022

Consequently, the last two weeks in Bonn have seen the focus on the deeply technical negotiations relating to carbon markets, emissions reporting, and verification mechanisms that has dominated the talks in recent years shifted slightly towards the critical question of how to deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

You can’t be a climate leader and spend ten to $13 billion more on a project that by itself blows through our carbon budget. No one remembers the Paul Martin plan in 2005. Andrew Scheer: There is no Canadian that believes they’re going to be better off by paying a carbon tax. We have to – Rt. It was better. Lawrence River.

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Charged

MARCH 16, 2020

Washington adopted California’s emissions standards in 2005, but did not sign on to the ZEV mandate. The Union of Concerned Scientists reports (via Electrek ) that the transportation sector is Washington’s biggest source of carbon pollution, and that the average EV in the state emits 1.3 This figure gradually increases to 8% by 2025.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. EPA was probably the most prominent environmental case handled during RBG’s time on the Supreme Court — with the court ruling that carbon dioxide is subject to regulation by the EPA under the Clean Air Act.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. EPA was probably the most prominent environmental case handled during RBG’s time on the Supreme Court — with the court ruling that carbon dioxide is subject to regulation by the EPA under the Clean Air Act.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

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 Nevertheless, China is also the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide by far. The Kyoto Protocol went into effect in 2005. and EU declined.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

utilities have promised to eliminate their carbon emissions by midcentury. utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5 Most of the biggest U.S. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 6, 2020

In 2005 she became Germany's first female chancellor and in 2011 she launched an energy transition policy called energiewend which is moving the country away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy towards renewable sources of energy. Global warming is real. Her first portfolio was that of minister of the environment.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Oliver Griffith explains how a Wildlife Works Carbon forest conservation project is helping to both protect the environment while also sustaining local livelihoods in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Operational since 2011, it has attracted substantial private sector resources through the sale of carbon credits.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

utilities pledging to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, with a long-range plan that invests nearly $8 billion in renewable energy and accelerates some coal plant closures — although it will retain much of its coal fleet through 2040. Ameren has joined the ranks of U.S. Ameren joins a growing list of U.S. GW by 2040.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Brandon Lewis – Justice Secretary.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

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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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 18, 2019

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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The SBTi requires signatories to set climate targets in line with limiting global warming to 1.5C, with the long term ambition of committing to net zero by 2050. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scenarios for limiting global warming to 1.5C The most ambitious signatories have joined the Business Ambition for 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2022

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.

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