Green Market Oracle

MARCH 18, 2020

anthropogenic GHG emissions (based on global warming potential) and about 93% of total U.S. billion metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution (MIT, 2012). According to the EIA , in 2017, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy were equal to about 76% of total U.S. anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Simultaneously, there are unprecedented restrictions on civil society access to the talks, which only exacerbate the gross imbalance of power between people and polluters, and threaten to undermine the legitimacy of COP26 outcomes.”. Abuleif is Saudi Arabia’s chief negotiator at COP26, a position he has held since 2012.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2020

That’s not a record, he said, noting that considerably more carbon was emitted in 2011 and 2012, when very large fires raged across Australia’s northern territory and out west. By any measure, 400 million tons is a significant chunk of heat-trapping gases that will get mixed into the atmosphere, fueling more global warming.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 In 2012, he co-founded Boston Electrometallurgical (a.k.a.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

He recently critiqued policies such as Canada’s cap on oil and gas pollution as belonging to “a slew of costly, ineffective regulatory and subsidy schemes.” Reducing greenhouse gases cannot achieve significant reductions in future global temperatures.” Fraser Institute senior fellow Kenneth Green wrote in an op-ed this March. “In

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Further, the United Nations former secretary-general Ban Ki-moon endorsed the concept of planetary boundaries on 16 March 2012. Chemical: emissions of toxic and long-lived substances such as synthetic organic pollutants, heavy metal compounds, and radioactive materials can have potentially irreversible effects on living organisms.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

Although reflecting the sun to slow global warming has been discussed for over half a century , precious few experiments have actually taken place. In 2012, for instance, a British project to reflect the sun with water droplets was canceled due to conflict-of-interest concerns over patents.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

That chance encounter with Swan in Kotzebue led to Cole representing Kivalina in a lawsuit in 2002 against one of the world’s largest zinc mines, Teck Cominco’s Red Dog Mine, alleging that the Canadian mining giant was polluting the Wulik River. In 2003, intruders broke into the office of CRPE, the small nonprofit Cole had founded.

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Low Impact

APRIL 30, 2021

After death, we don’t want our corporeal form to leave a damaging legacy – but, many current practices surrounding both burial and cremation mean people often do leave a negative legacy of environmental pollution behind them for future generations. Allow poisonous substances to enter our ecosystems and pollute the environment.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. The True Cost, 2015 The True Cost exposes another major contributor of pollution, waste and consumption — the fast fashion industry. The images and reporting cover 20 locations over the course of four years.

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Grist

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Jack Stilgoe, a sociologist at University College London, says he joined the Spice project in 2012 to help the scientists make sense of what had gone wrong. Studies on industrial and water contamination , air pollution , and other environmental concerns have since backed it up.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 31, 2019

million barrels of crude oil polluting the coasts of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Extreme weather events become more frequent As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned, global warming escalates weather disasters. disasters included Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and the Missouri tornadoes of 2011.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

ranked third globally in forest cover lost to fires. Wildfires now account for nearly half of the fine-particle pollution in the West. She compares them to the academically credentialed climate deniers who once got equal attention in the news despite volumes of data about the effects of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

. “It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The aim is to put pressure on governments and companies to meet goals set under the Paris climate agreement, which aims to limit global warming to less than a degree Celsius more than the planet has already warmed since the Industrial Revolution. That includes Chevron, the oil giant Angulo grew up seeing from their window.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

As revealed by DeSmog this week, a firm owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups – also donated £20,000 in March to House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox. trillion since the Paris Agreement was signed.

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

degrees Celsius of global warming. 2 Another study published by McKinsey says that if the current trajectory continues, global temperatures would increase by 3-4 degrees Celsius by 2100, rendering 90% of the global population’s current habitat areas uninhabitable. years left to limit global warming to 1.5

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it. Construction was set to begin over the summer.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Tice has said “CO2 isn’t poison, it’s plant food”, while the party’s London mayoral candidate Howard Cox has said “man is not responsible for global warming”. He has since been elected to parliament twice – in 2005 for his Respect party and 2012 as an independent – each time serving one term.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This changed in 2012 with the adoption of a progressive party platform and the Climate Change Caucus led by former Democratic Senator for California Barbara Boxer (1993 to 2017). The DNC policy platform in 2012 was less environmentally focused then the one they adopted in 2008.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a global warming potential many times higher than that of CO2. To that end, over 100 countries including the US, EU, and UK signed the Global Methane Pledge at COP26 last year, setting a global target to reduce methane emissions by at least 30 per cent below 2020 levels by 2030.

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