DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Accusing people of alarmism has long been a favorite tactic of climate deniers and those who oppose climate action. In Italy, daily newspaper Il Mattino published multiple interviews with climate deniers saying the record heat is “influenced by the sun’s cycles” and “isn’t news.” Changing Extremes.

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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 Impacts.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

These industry-funded propaganda and polarization tactics have had a corrosive impact on democracies worldwide, resulting in a dangerously ineffective response to climate change. We are also unveiling investigations into a volatile oil deal in Somalia pursued by two U.S. and the world.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 16, 2021

” Carbon emissions are the top reason for global warming and a major factor in extreme weather events and ocean acidification. Carbfix aims to cut climate change off at the knees and help the world reach the Paris agreement goals. The project first started in 2006.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In the context of oil and gas companies, shareholder activism takes on “added significance” and has a “unique role” in driving real climate action by Big Oil, Benson said. 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.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

If humanity is to deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep warming below 2C, policies to lower emissions must triple; to keep warming below 1.5C, they must increase five-fold, it concludes. Gigatonnes (Gt) last year - 62 per cent higher than at the start of UN climate change negotiations in 1990.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2019

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. C and 2°C future climate scenarios. An new approach by Otto et al.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

While there’s reason to have hope for the future with multiple vaccines promising the end of the pandemic, we unfortunately have an arguably larger global crisis looming. Even during the past administration, state- and local-level climate pledges across the country continued to grow , with two-thirds of Americans (across party lines!)

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, that inaction or delayed action on climate will create immense risks and costs,and populations across the world demand leaders to respond - and to respond now. In short, climate is a space where national and global interests align. That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1

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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

At the end of September, the International Energy Agency, of which the UK is a member, released a report reiterating the need for a phaseout of fossil fuels if climate goals are to be met. 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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

New research published in Nature Climate Change in March, which was able to pinpoint the warming caused by livestock emissions for the first time, has added to the pressure. In 2006, he famously challenged the methodology of the UN’s landmark Livestock’s Long Shadow report. They’re all getting bigger.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tiny glass beads might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against climate change, but they may end up playing an outsize role in tackling one of the natural world’s most dire predicaments.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This logo marks the biggest difference between the fossil fuel industry’s PR machine and that of animal agriculture: The animal agriculture industry’s efforts to minimize their products’ climate impact are paid for from a pot of public funds to which all beef and pork farmers and ranchers are required to contribute.

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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Rupert Lowe, the Reform party candidate in Thursday’s Kingswood by-election, claimed in 2020 that there is “no definitive evidence” for “the cult of climate change”. The cult of climate change marches on with no definitive evidence to support or deny the factual accuracy of their assertions.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, it is also one that is inevitable with effects of climate change becoming more dangerous and unpredictable, prompting a more drastic response to reduce CO2 emissions as the world nears the imminent tipping point. Henning is member of LAWASIA since 2006 and the Chairman of the Asian-European Subcommittee since 2016.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During his first 100 days in office, Bush reneged on a campaign that promised to regulate carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants and announced America would not implement the Kyoto Protocol – a global climate change treaty. A binding treaty on climate change was signed by 197 countries on April 22nd, 2016.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During his first 100 days in office, Bush reneged on a campaign that promised to regulate carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants and announced America would not implement the Kyoto Protocol – a global climate change treaty. A binding treaty on climate change was signed by 197 countries on April 22nd, 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

In 2006, major tobacco firms were convicted of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in litigation brought by the DOJ. The post Congressional Dems Request DOJ Investigation into Big Oil’s Climate Deception appeared first on DeSmog. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Ted Lieu (D-Calif.),

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

She said her interest in climate issues began when she was in high school in Japan. She facilitated a youth leadership camp focused on combating climate change. He is concerned about the welfare of black people in an economy devastated by the climate crisis. Fionn Ferreira is from Ballydehob, West Cork, Ireland.

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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. The climate-change mantra of ‘the science is settled’ never got traction in a genuine crisis,” he said. The AEI has received over £2.9

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Climate change could cost US treasury $2tr a year by 2100, White House warns. Climate change could burn a $2tr hole in the US federal budget each year by the end of the century, according to a study published this week by the White House. This would mean that measures to tackle climate change would be sapping 7.1

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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. At the same time, the reality of climate change had and has continued to become all the more clear.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

As explained by Habermas, media both constitutes and maintains the public sphere and media professionals are key actors in the public sphere (Habermas, 2006, p 416). It is a place for mediated political communication by the elite (Habermas 2006, p 416). Nolte’s article is titled, “Scientists Prove Man-Made Global Warming Is a Hoax”.

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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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