Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic caused CO2 emissions from buildings and construction to fall significantly in 2020, but a lack of real transformation in the sector means that emissions will keep rising and contribute to dangerous climate change, according to the 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tropical forests are large and complex ecosystems that are a vital part of the solution to addressing the effects of climate change. Fortunately, organizations around the world are using Planet data to help protect these forests, including mission-based company Permian Global.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Yet almost 30 years after that warning, during the hottest year on Earth in 125,000 years , people are still arguing that the science is unreliable, or that the threat is real but we shouldn’t do anything about climate change. climate conference in Dubai. And is there anything that can be done to bring them around to reality?

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Editor of landmark IPCC reports – who famously called global warming "a weapon of mass destruction" – has passed away in his native Wales at the age of 88. He become chair of the World Climate Research Programme in 1980 and served as director-general of the UK's Met Office between 1983 and 1987.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Two teams, Ambersail-2 and AkzoNobel Ocean Racing, carried scientific equipment onboard to capture samples of microplastics as they raced, while a third boat, 11th Hour Racing Team, took measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2), sea temperature, PH levels and salinity – key indicators of climate change. degrees Celsius. Int-Veen, I.,

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The 200-megawatt Lone Star Wind Farm has safely provided renewable energy since 2007, powering the equivalent of more than 86,000 average Texas homes annually.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Production Gap report reveals governments still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C. This year showed that climate change is an immediate, direct threat to every community on this planet, and it is only going to intensify," said UNEP's Andersen.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. Climatic Change. The IPCC has warned us not to allow temperatures to surpass 1.5

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Unsustainable

APRIL 27, 2020

In 1988, the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created. In 2002, American evangelical lobbyist Richard Cizik heard him speak on the evidence for global warming. In 2007, he collected the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC alongside Al Gore. Not bad for a boy from Rhyl.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious. Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 But the connection between climate change and drought is not as straightforward as it seems. degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit); in areas of the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. “The science is clear: The world must act now if we’re going to avert the worst consequences of climate change,” Pichai wrote in the blog post. Europe and Chile.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

Carbon Dioxide, CO 2, bears the most responsibility for anthropogenic climate change. The United Nations has a set a goal to keep earth’s global temperature from increasing more than 2 degrees Celsius this century. rise in global temperatures, the average global carbon footprint per year needs to drop to under 2 tons by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Ministerial Meeting DeSmog has obtained the details of a meeting held on 23 February 2021 between Policy Exchange’s Energy and Environment Unit and Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who at the time was serving as Minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

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AGreenLiving

MAY 28, 2021

The gelatinous substance is really a floating blanket of out-of-control phytoplankton, stimulated by global warming. Sea snot was first reported in Turkish waters in 2007. Climate change will only exacerbate the situation, as phytoplankton grow faster in hotter temperatures.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Behar said the emergence of this new "economic powerhouse" of green economy companies provided hope the worst impacts of global warming could yet be averted.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

But in the 27 years between 1990-2007 there was 4.61 Drought is not new but its intensity and frequency have increased over the last thirty years due to global warming," said report co-author, Christian Aid's Nushrat Rahman Chowdhury. "It These are communities which have done the least to cause the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. Can Coal Replace Natural Gas? In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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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? The risk of climate change and its potential impacts on society and the ecosystem are widely recognized ,’ says another the following year.”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

From the dimly-lit stage, she opened the event’s first-ever panel on agribusiness with familiar talking points, mocking leftists for blaming climate change on cows. IEE has been a finalist for the Atlas Network “Templeton Freedom Award” several times, and won the award In 2007.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The objective of the convention was to: “ Stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climatic system.” – UNFCCC , What is the United Nations Framework on Climate Change? ppm in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

million from fossil fuel interests, high-polluters and climate science deniers last year alone. Policy Exchange and Climate Change Policy Exchange was co-founded in 2002 by Michael Gove, who has been a mainstay in the cabinet since 2010. Meanwhile, DeSmog revealed in March that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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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. But its problems go well beyond the farm. percent of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. The Story of Stuff, 2007 The Story of Stuff appears to be a playful, 20-minute video that is actually a dart thrown directly into the bullseye of consumerism and capitalism.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address. Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What few may realize, however, is that Al Jaber’s ascent to the highest levels of climate diplomacy began 16 years ago, and Edelman , the largest public relations firm in the world, played a crucial role. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently reviewed by DeSmog show that from 2007 to 2009, Edelman carried out a $6.4 Under the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address. Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Balmoral has donated £258,000 to the Tories, £67,000 to Labour and £40,000 to the Lib Dems since 2007, either directly or through subsidiaries. Balmoral also gave £5,000 to the Liberal Democrats’ local Aberdeenshire East party, whose candidate Conrad Wood works as an engineer for oil and gas firm RockRose Energy.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address. Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And as climate change has been swallowed up by the “culture wars”, ARC’s advisors include some of the world’s leading opponents of climate action. In her launch blog , Baroness Stroud gives an indication of where the alliance stands on climate change.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A poll from the Yale Program for Climate Communication showed that 70 percent of voters favor federal COVID-19 stimulus funding going to clean energy rather than fossil fuels. In 2019 it was becoming clear that Americans were increasingly at odds with their government on climate action. Roughly 79 percent of Americans said the U.S.

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