DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading climate science body, states it is “unequivocal” that human influence has caused “unprecedented” global warming. “Climate denial has no place in our politics,” Liberal Democrat climate and energy spokesperson, Wera Hobhouse MP, told DeSmog.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Climate Strategies.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Department of Justice to investigate carbon majors for potential violations of federal law. In 2006, major tobacco firms were convicted of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in litigation brought by the DOJ. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Ted Lieu (D-Calif.),

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

The company said it has now reduced its Scope 1 and 2 direct emission intensity by 87 per cent since 2006 and is "well on track" to becoming carbon-neutral in its own energy generation and operations by 2025. A sustainable future for our planet requires a rapid transition to renewable energy and limiting global warming to 1.5C.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Why, after all this time, do 15 percent of Americans fall for the lie that global warming isn’t happening? Spreading lies about global warming like these can further social divisions and undermine public and political support for action to reduce emissions, according to the Climate Action Against Disinformation’s report.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 16, 2021

An Icelandic startup has an intriguing solution to the emissions problem: turn carbon into stone. As most of us know, trees and plants bind carbon from the atmosphere. Carbfix’s technology just makes the process of the carbon getting into the rocks a lot faster. The project first started in 2006. But, so do rocks.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. The report was one of the earliest attempts to grapple with the impacts of rising carbon dioxide levels, which the Stanford research warned “ could bring about climatic changes. ”.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. The report was one of the earliest attempts to grapple with the impacts of rising carbon dioxide levels, which the Stanford research warned “ could bring about climatic changes. ”.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

The meat industry is increasingly viewed as a sector where greenhouse gas emissions cuts can and should be made, just like the fossil fuel industry Livestock accounts for a third of total global emissions of methane, a potent gas that traps heat about 80 times more effectively than carbon dioxide but breaks up more quickly in the atmosphere.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

They will be joined by David Frost, a Conservative peer and a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group. There is no scientific evidence or method that can determine how much of the warming we’ve had since 1900 was directly caused by humans,” Young told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. But it also had a textbook answer: putting a price on carbon. business and political history.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We believe this category is an excellent fit for the venture model and absolutely essential to building our new carbon economy. Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. Business models also vary in this category from carbon offset marketplaces to underwriting platforms for insurance.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This is “due to the sector’s role in driving global warming, and the seismic risks that climate change and the energy transition present to the industry,” he explained. Prioritizing technological solutions such as carbon capture and storage. Most of the proposals proved unsuccessful in the face of these strategies.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Research from WWF, for example, has found 46 per cent of the UK's carbon footprint is generated overseas by goods produced to satisfy UK consumption. It warned that emissions of the short-lived greenhouse gas were roughly 15 per cent higher in 2021 than in the period between 1984 and 2006.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 4, 2019

SF6 is the most potent GHG, with a global warming potential (GWP) tens of thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide. Assembly Bill 32 (2006) (AB 32) requires that the State reduce GHG emissions to the 1990 level by 2020, and the SF6 Regulation was adopted as an early action measure under AB 32 due to the high GWP of SF6.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 4, 2019

SF6 is the most potent GHG, with a global warming potential (GWP) tens of thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide. Assembly Bill 32 (2006) (AB 32) requires that the State reduce GHG emissions to the 1990 level by 2020, and the SF6 Regulation was adopted as an early action measure under AB 32 due to the high GWP of SF6.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Beginning in 2006, the Pork Checkoff paid NPPC each year for the license to this slogan — even though the slogan was retired in 2011. The United Nations Environmental Programme’s assessment found that methane has accounted for more than 30 percent of global warming in the modern era. Every word, every dollar is the government.”

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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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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Signed into law in 2006, the legislation created a mandate to put 3,000 megawatts of solar on California roofs by the end of 2016. The Million Solar Roofs initiative was created in 2006, and suddenly $3.2 What challenges has CALSEIA had to overcome in the race to stay on par with California’s growing solar markets?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It has been compared to the hugely influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 15 years ago, which famously framed global warming as the greatest and most wide-ranging market failure ever seen.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

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. Actions and ambitions towards de-carbonization have also increased. degrees limit within two decades.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

In 2018 she joined Project 90 by 2030 , an NGO working to cut the country’s carbon emissions by 90 percent by 2030 and in 2019 she joined African Climate Alliance , a pan-African climate justice group. Melithafa stands up for and mobilizes young people of color and the poor. Hilda Nakabuye is from Kampala, Uganda.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As I wrote earlier today, New Jersey has a legal requirement to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050, based on 2006 levels.

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