Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

The world may be on the cusp of a global pandemic, but the scale of the climate crisis presents a greater long term threat and political and business leaders should not be "diverted away from climate action" as they seek to contain the worsening outbreak.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2021

C as the desired limit for global warming, scientists and journalists alike have regularly asked whether it is achievable. Collectively, they are pledging to bring emissions down by one per cent below 2010 levels rather than the 45 per cent proposed by the IPCC as being compatible with meeting the 1.5C target now is.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Ruth Porter, who will be Truss’s senior special advisor and ran her election campaign, was communications director from 2010 to 2013 at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an influential anti-regulation think tank with a record of opposing climate policies. BP-Funded Think Tank. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. I was fortunate to interview Jacobson for an Energy Boom story in 2010 about the real cost comparison between coal and wind power. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The first report, which the United Nations secretary-general called a “ code red for humanity ,” was released last summer and addressed the physical science of climate change , warning that global warming was “widespread, rapid, and intensifying.” Dan Kitwood / Getty Images.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Helmsley website says that it provides “communications, government relations, thought leadership and political risk to companies on the front line of the energy transition.” “The Meanwhile, the chair of the Policy Exchange board is Alexander Downer, who served as Australia’s Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2007.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In the social media posts, published between 2010 and 2012, Trevelyan insisted global warming was not happening and branded global warming campaigners as "doom-mongers" and "fanatics".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

The sprint for a new prime minister marks the latest act in the UK’s political drama. All of the remaining contenders were elected in 2019 on the Conservatives’ manifesto pledge to “lead the global fight against climate change by delivering on our world-leading target of Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050”. . Foreign Secretary.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

Today's study - Political Decisions, Economic Realities - assesses the underlying cashflow of 95 per cent of the more than 7,700 coal plants currently operating, under construction or in development worldwide. global warming pathway, it argues China and other nations should focus instead on greener post-coronavirus investments.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

A few years later, I interviewed someone who attended the event and he said, ‘We all knew it was real, but it was too political to talk about on TV.’”. Many companies were aware of the potential effects of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures on climate. The backlash [from deniers] was intense.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In a statement, the lawyers called out the “contradiction” between the measures Italy should be taking to reach its target for limiting global warming and their “inadequate implemented actions.” This is compared to around 380 in 2010 and approximately 40 in 2000. .

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change. Harris said that to address this systemic problem, Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

global warming pathway are to be kept alive. In snap analysis published yesterday, the IEA said it had calculated the impacts of the net zero pledges and emissions targets announced in recent days, and concluded that if national climate pledges are delivered as promised, the planet could potentially limit warming to 1.8C

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Stark reasons that resilience and adaptation are seen by politicians as less-glamorous cousins to exciting net zero missions and clean tech investments, while the long-term planning required falls outside typical election cycles, leading to limited political pressure for the government to act.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense. Because of global warming, our natural environment is also hotter and drier than ever before, making fires caused by failed power lines more likely and extreme.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

Walnut twig beetles from the Southwest started an outbreak of “thousand canker disease” in 2010, causing the long, slow death of black walnut trees all over the U.S. The sap passes quickly through the bugs as they dine, meaning they simultaneously squirt waste—politely called “honeydew” by entomologists—from the other end as they eat.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to the report, the figure falls drastically short of the levels required to halt biodiversity loss, limit global warming to 1.5C, and achieve land degradation neutrality, with estimates suggesting $384bn is required annually by 2025 and $484bn is needed by 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

Strong political will is needed to make affordable, clean, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all a reality by 2030," said UNECE executive secretary Olga Algayerova. "As Italy prices largest ever sovereign green bond.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, has repeatedly attacked Labour over the connection, writing in the Daily Mail that Labour has become “the political wing of Just Stop Oil”. Meanwhile, DeSmog revealed in March that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

In November 2017 Shell's said it would aim to reduce the carbon intensity of the energy products it sells in half by 2050, which it said was based upon keeping temperatures below 2C of global warming by the end of the century. warming pathway. But now, Shell has recalibrated that ambition and associated targets based upon a 1.5C

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

In all, we have screened nearly 800 peer-reviewed reports and case studies from throughout Europe, published since 2010, seeking those that quantified where and how cities had successfully reduced car use. the world can limit global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2022

Samuele Furfari , a former EU energy advisor, this month joined the “academic advisory council” of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – the UK’s main climate science denial group, which has ties to several of the politicians who ran to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Furfari and Climate Denial.

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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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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 20, 2020

In 2010, climate and environmental risks were altogether absent in the WEF risks report. The report also includes infectious disease and we know that global warming will increase water-borne illnesses and diseases like Zika. All that remains is to summon the political will to actually do it. Subscribe in a reader

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 31, 2019

As we begin a new decade, we’re taking a look over the biggest environmental news stories since 2010. According to the TED blog, only four TED Talks specifically on climate change were posted in 2010 and 2011, although speakers mentioned the phenomenon. There’s a little good news, and a lot of not-so-good news.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Without this ice cap, global warming will accelerate as less sun is reflected out into space. Take the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster for example. With a lack of care for the environment and workers, BP bore a disastrous financial, political, and PR fallout. 2040 : The artic will become ice-free in the summer.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

For her work at Sunrun, Jurich was named on Fortune Magazine’s list of top 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in December 2009, and, with her co-founder Edward Fenster, Jurich earned a 2010 Ernst & Yung Entrepreneurs of the year. Currently, Jurich serves on the Sierra Club Foundation Board of Directors.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Risks A report from Zurich reviewed the risks to infrastructure and the need for businesses to prepare for rising sea levels associated with global warming. They point to a two-fold increase in sea levels between 1993 and 2010 compared to last century. According to the U.K.’s Mass migrations will result from widespread flooding.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 average. outcome of an ice-free Arctic: global conflict. +

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

alive", it states that "rapid, deep and sustained" reductions in carbon emissions are needed, and crucially it quantifies those reductions, putting on the record that emissions need to fall 45 per cent by 2030 relative to 2010 levels, before then achieving net zero around mid-century, "as well as deep reductions in other greenhouse gases".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), any group working for a foreign country to conduct political activity or public relations in the U.S. political strategy group GMMB , to lobby for the UAE to host the newly created International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), an intergovernmental body. Under the U.S. companies and institutions.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Bseisu left Petrofac in 2010 to set up EnQuest and there is no suggestion he had any involvement in the alleged bribes. The Times recently revealed that Conservative Mayor of Tees Valley Ben Houchen worked as a consultant to a number of Upshall’s businesses before entering politics, one of which was involved in large-scale VAT fraud.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

It comes after DeSmog revealed that Mackinlay, whose group claims to accept climate science, employs two parliamentary aides linked to the UK’s leading climate science denial body, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Political Ties. Convicted Testing Company.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Anne-Marie Trevelyan – Transport Secretary.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 18, 2019

A few provincial elections later and we’re back to political fragmentation. As Canada’s Climate Action Network has recommended , “iIt should be responsible for keeping the country on track to meet its 2030 commitments, and empowered to set 2050 targets based on climate science, in line with the goal of holding global warming to 1.5°C.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

She launched her own chapter of Fridays for Future after she realized that the strong rains and long droughts that hurt her family’s crops could be attributed to global warming. Media is ever reporting politics and celebrity gossip. It culminated in the National Green Tribunal Act of 2010. Luisa-Marie said.

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