DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

A recently published book by Still Burning , a network campaigning against coal imports to Europe and neocolonialism, explores the links between our addiction to coal and the deteriorating ecological and social conditions of communities living near mines supplying European power stations and steelworks.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 8, 2020

The Coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on health, social ties and the global economy. Let’s be clear: a global health pandemic is not the way we want to reduce carbon emissions. But at the same time, regulations mandating a move to electric cars in places like China, Europe and California may help to mitigate this effect.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

A recently published book by Still Burning , a network campaigning against coal imports to Europe and neocolonialism, explores the links between our addiction to coal and the deteriorating ecological and social conditions of communities living near mines supplying European power stations and steelworks.

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Europe Climate change Logging Soil 84

Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Thousands of green projects are raring to go across Europe to help build resilient Covid-19 recovery, study suggests. Moreover, as the research was carried out over just four recent weeks, it likely only encompasses a fraction of all the potential shovel-ready green projects EY believes are currently under development in Europe.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 5, 2020

In the first quarter of 2020, global energy demand decreased by 3.8%, thanks in large part to lockdowns in Europe and North America. Amid today’s unparalleled health and economic crises, the plunge in demand for nearly all major fuels is staggering, especially for coal, oil and gas.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

As a result, studies suggest CO2 in Europe has dropped 58 per cent since lockdowns began several weeks ago, while the International Energy Agency (IEA) is projecting 7.5 per cent annual reduction in the USA's energy-related carbon emissions during 2020.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 30, 2021

The foundation hopes that by accomplishing this in four regions — the United States, China, India and Europe — enough global momentum will be achieved to stop the heating of the atmosphere. and in Europe. and Europe. The goal: eliminate the use of the combustion engine in personal vehicles and the trucking industry by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. In Europe, Spain and Portugal are battling wildfires, while Italy is suffering from the worst drought in the past 70 years, with many municipalities rationing water. Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Whether driven by animal welfare, health, or environmental concerns - or a combination of all three - more and more people are either becoming vegan and vegetarian or reducing their meat consumption and eating greater proportions of plant-based food. There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK. It has been getting easier.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixable,” according to a newly published report. Concerned Health Professionals of New York compiled all the literature into a “fracking compendium,” as they called it.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Addressing health equity is a special focus area for Narasimhan, who cut his teeth as a public health doctor addressing malaria and HIV in developing nations.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis calls went up for green stimulus plans, but while they gained some traction support was largely confined to environmental campaigners and clean tech industries and the opportunity to deliver sweeping climate-focused recovery packages was ultimately squandered.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

As well as entering new territories - Masdar announced its first projects in Greece and Armenia last year - Al Muharrami gave a strong indication of growth plans across the UK, Europe, USA, and Asia. In reality, you will see a lot of companies from Europe coming and asking to supply them green hydrogen, but the only issue is the price.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

NHS Sustainability Day campaign launches annual impact report as work continues by expert panel commissioned by NHS England to investigate into how and when the health service can meet net zero. The group was convened in January, as NHS England launched an intiaitve dubbed For a Greener NHS, in a bid to tackle the 'climate health emergency'.

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Better Ventures

JUNE 29, 2020

As was the case after the 2008 recession, many traditional workers who lost their jobs are likely to turn to alternative work either out of necessity or desire for flexibility and companies in many sectors will be reluctant to rehire amidst uncertainty. From financial management and planning, to insurance, to mental health and caregiving.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

The effective lockdown on economies throughout Europe, including the UK's, presents major challenges for energy companies in the immediate term, of course.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Elsewhere in Europe, AXA-director, Patrizia Barbizet, has been director of the European oil giant TotalEnergies since 2008. And between 2008 and 2010, Everest Re director John J. AXA did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication. Coal Connections.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2020, the world produced an estimated 353 million tonnes of plastic waste , vast amounts of which have gone on to pollute landscapes, oceans, and even the air, causing detrimental impacts to our climate, ecosystems, and health. Plastics are now in our food, our drink, the air we breathe, and almost every product we buy.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

In November 2021 the European Commission published a report entitled: ‘Hydrogen: Europe’s Industry rolling out hydrogen projects on massive scale’. In addition, it is necessary to measure NOx gases, because these gases are harmful to the environment and human health. New ammonia analyser.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

They contain organic matter (such as resin and brominated flame retardants), chemical residuals and heavy metal elements that can be seriously damaging to the environment and human health. In Europe, the RoHS (Reduction of Hazardous Substances) Directive aims to eliminate toxic substances in electrical and electronic equipment (EEE).

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

As Gideon Henderson, chief scientific officer at Defra, explains the 2008 Climate Change Act represented a "big step change" in the government's approach to climate change, introducing long term emissions goals, the system of five yearly Carbon Budgets that require governments to develop credible decarbonisation plans, and the CCC.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

federal energy infrastructure and modernization recovery funds in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Another thing that goes into knowing how much energy I’m going to produce is knowing the health and condition of the asset that is producing it. Gammons: Absolutely, we’re very optimistic.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Ice that survives for at least one year is called multi-year ice, sometimes perennial ice, which gives an indication of the health of the ice at the end of the melt season. With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.)

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

We anticipate that many consumers will shift to animal-free food products if those products begin to meet or exceed their animal-based alternatives on key areas like cost, taste, functionality, convenience, and health. In 2008, Blockbuster’s CEO declared that ‘Netflix wasn’t even on the radar’ in terms of competition.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Maybe however the best argument is not climate-change, animal suffering, health or low costs. The commotion surrounding genetically enhanced organisms has led to a virtual ban of the use for food consumption by humans in Europe. This is big business. Perhaps it is the chance to eat extinct or otherwise unobtainable kinds of meat.

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Solar Energy Monitor Organic Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Addressing health equity is a special focus area for Narasimhan, who cut his teeth as a public health doctor addressing malaria and HIV in developing nations.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Speaking shortly after that call to BusinessGreen from his makeshift home office - aka his bedroom - Stark is, like many working in the green economy, continuing to wrestle with what coronavirus could mean for the climate fight, alongside the wider fears about public health and economic uncertainty that everyone shares.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Green businesses and investors with long memories will be painfully aware of how the fallout from the 2008 financial crash disrupted low carbon infrastructure projects and clean tech programmes for years to come. We still believe that over the next decade carbon prices will increase, first in Europe, and then across other regions.".

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

During the last global economic crisis in 2008 emissions dropped in the immediate term, but stimulus packages largely failed to take climate change into account and global emissions quickly grew again throughout much of the 2010s despite increased investment in low carbon infrastructure.

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

In the summer of 1944, as war still raged in Europe and the Pacific, over 700 top politicians, diplomats, and economists from across all 44 of the Allied powers gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods to thrash out the foundations for a new world order. And the logistical challenges were just one small part of the problem.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

The report argues that its a trend that poses significant risks to health and the natural world, in particular in countries with weak environmental regulation, because it will reinforce a dangerous status quo that already sees investment "tilted towards brown" infrastructure.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

The Guardian reported that the city - which has been afflicted by one of the worst coronavirus impacts in Europe - is seeking to minimise a spike in air pollution as the country eases its way out of lockdown. We worked for years to reduce car use," Marco Granelli, a deputy mayor of Milan, told the Guardian.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. Geological Survey report noted. To put it simply,” the report states.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Recovery means investing in new jobs, cleaner air and improved health. The only question now remaining is whether the government will listen to the experts and support a recovery package that protects our jobs, our health and our climate.". The actions needed to tackle climate change are central to rebuilding our economy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2021

In September 2020, energy consulting group Rystad predicted that the 10 commercial scale carbon capture projects planned for Europe have good odds of being operational by 2035. In 2008, a new program known as the 45Q tax credit started providing financial incentives for carbon capture and sequestration. Clean Coal Tax Program Problems.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2020

Related: Discarded face masks now threatening wildlife habitats Should climate change run unabated, future zoonotic disease outbreaks may become the norm, asserts Conservation International and Harvard University’s School of Public Health. Europe is forecast to see a reduction of around 390m tonnes.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. Africans would push into Europe, Chinese into the Soviet Union, Latins into the United States, Indonesians into Australia.

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