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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. Many companies were aware of the potential effects of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures on climate.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

In 1987, while in law school at Harvard, Cole traveled to South Africa on a Harvard Human Rights Fellowship and volunteered for the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University. In 2006, a federal judge found the mine had violated the Clean Water Act over 600 times. It gave him energy to go after the big guys.”.

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Climate Trial Against Oil Giant Eni Opens in Italy

DeSmogBlog

Italy’s first climate change lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and climate advocacy group ReCommon against Italian oil giant Eni opened with its first hearing on February 16, alleging the company contributed to global warming. to obscure the Italian oil giant’s true contribution to global warming.

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Top Tory Think Tank’s North Sea Oil and Gas ‘Vested Interests’

DeSmogBlog

They include Cluff Energy Africa, described as an “early stage oil prospecting company, seeking licences in Africa (Angola and Sierra Leone)”. Cluff was a director of the CPS between 1995 and 2006, coinciding with the executive directorship of the late Tessa Keswick.

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Top 10 Women of Solar

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

She is a DrPH candidate at UCB, as well as Associate Director of Emergency Obstetric Research in West Africa for the Bixby Center for Population Health and Sustainability. In 2006, Wentworth along with her husband, Stuart Wentworth, created Quick Mount PV. from University of California, San Francisco and an M.P.H.

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Collective interest should spur us to deliver at COP27

Business Green

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 And ultimately it will disrupt the trade that criss-crosses the planet and restrain the global economy's ability to grow. Working in partnership, we can support a truly global transition. degrees limit within two decades.

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The Rules for Early-Stage Cleantech Venture Capital Investment in 2021

GreenTechMedia

Despite successful counterexamples like Tesla, Nest, Enphase and Silver Spring Networks, those failures, combined with the Great Recession starting in 2008, led to the loss of roughly half of the $25 billion in venture capital invested in the sector from 2006 to 2011, according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers. The Washington D.C.-based