Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

Latest update from investor-backed Transition Pathways Initiative (TPI) reveals that 'credible' net zero targets have doubled over the past year, but warns the majority of energy, transport, industrial and materials and consumer goods companies are yet to establish climate plans in line with global climate goals.

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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. At best the trends in emissions, renewable energy and tackling pollution have improved only very slightly. At the same time, exposure to heatwaves has increased, with adults over 65 affected by 3.1

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement , first enacted in 2016, countries across the globe — and their respective cities, some of which are members of the C40 — have agreed to decrease global warming by keeping the collective planet-wide temperature rise to no more than 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

But instead of a long-term carbon commitment, NextEra pledged to reduce its carbon emissions rate 67 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. It remains to be seen if that reputation will suffer from being out of step with the sector on tackling carbon pollution. It generated 73.6 Now, you just have to stop burning carbon.".

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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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. In 2001’s Whitman v. trillion in CARES Act funding approved within two weeks, $2.4

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

No one remembers the Paul Martin plan in 2005. You have given a massive exemption to the country’s largest polluters, and your plan is already failing. We are committed to a real plan that’s going to take on the biggest polluters. Paul Martin did more, but that’s alright. It was better. Justin Trudeau: There’s much more to do.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2022

Most notably, the conference completed the first technical dialogue of the Global Stocktake , a new process designed to review collective progress towards achieving the Paris Agreement's goal to limit global warming to 1.5C. COP27 has the potential to further hammer home these stark realities.

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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. Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. In 2001’s Whitman v. trillion in CARES Act funding approved within two weeks, $2.4

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. In 2001’s Whitman v. trillion in CARES Act funding approved within two weeks, $2.4

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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? of global climate pollution, the fact is every tonne of pollution matters. isn’t small.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

degrees Celsius of global warming. 2 Another study published by McKinsey says that if the current trajectory continues, global temperatures would increase by 3-4 degrees Celsius by 2100, rendering 90% of the global population’s current habitat areas uninhabitable. years left to limit global warming to 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2022

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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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). Graham Stuart – Climate Minister.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including fresh WHO air pollution guidelines and global coal, methane and HFC commitments. World Health Organisation unveils tighter air pollution guidelines. UN energy summit sees $400bn new backing committed to clean energy.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it. Construction was set to begin over the summer.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

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 There is some movement at the federal level to cut methane pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

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 There is some movement at the federal level to cut methane pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Tice has said “CO2 isn’t poison, it’s plant food”, while the party’s London mayoral candidate Howard Cox has said “man is not responsible for global warming”. He has since been elected to parliament twice – in 2005 for his Respect party and 2012 as an independent – each time serving one term.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A carbon neutrality pledge from the world's largest polluter would be a major milestone for the climate movement and would send a signal to other nation states to boost the ambition of their own climate targets.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a global warming potential many times higher than that of CO2. To that end, over 100 countries including the US, EU, and UK signed the Global Methane Pledge at COP26 last year, setting a global target to reduce methane emissions by at least 30 per cent below 2020 levels by 2030.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We surely would be in a different place if COVID-19 and global warming slammed Americans of all races, regions, and classes at the same time, allowing no room for denial of their impact. The spectacle of waiting for so many white people to collectively see the cost of their political choices to themselves is an expedient way to go mad.

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