Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The previous goal on the other hand - to reduce the carbon emissions of every bottle of drink by 25 per cent by 2020 compared to a 2013 baseline - was relative to the amount of drinks being churned out by the company. Do I feel pressure? I feel very positive pressure. But it works both ways.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

For context, 100GW is more than the UK's entire current electricity capacity, which stands at around 75GW from both clean and fossil fuel sources. The firm was also part of the four-strong consortium behind the 630MW London Array offshore wind farm, which was the world's largest when it was completed in 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A study published in Science found that “even if fossil fuel emissions were immediately halted, current trends in global food systems would prevent the achievement of the 1.5°C The latest protein supply figures from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for 2013 recorded average protein consumption of 69.1g

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. There were also successful precedents, says Weiss, pointing to the decisions TRS made to jettison investments in South Africa in the mid-1990s, and firearms in the 2010s. We understood that,” Weiss says.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Australia, for example, has already put out a statement this week stressing that its 2030 target is "fixed" and highlighting how it has a near-unique position as an industrialised economy with huge extractive industries and fossil fuel exports. Coal and fossil fuels: An increasingly risky investment bet.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

But from 2009 to 2013 droughts occurred in Yunnan every winter, bringing water shortages and turning farmland barren for millions of residents. And natural land processes – such as soil formation, nutrient cycles and water cycles – absorb around a third of greenhouse gases emitted by burning fossil fuels and industrial processes.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Nassos and Nikos Avlonas, 2013 The new edition is a practical guide to about moving towards a Sustainable Economy updated with practical case studies and supporting teaching material. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In a 1982 memo, Fisher also outlined plans for think tanks in Argentina, India, South Africa, and Sri Lanka, noting in each place a local businessman or politician that wanted to start an institute. Wade often depicts those who would deny the continent its current fossil fuel boom as out-of-touch elitists.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Previous reports indicate that Tufton Street groups have received substantial funds from organisations that support climate science denial in the past decade, with some donations provided directly by fossil fuel firms. Every single one of its members was given the lowest transparency rating – E – by openDemocracy’s ‘ Who Funds You?

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. The worst year for oil ever Oil fueled the 20th century. Many of us now believe it is not a matter of if, but when we will transition away from fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. Africa counts more entrepreneurs than any other continent. We're testing products. It's writing copy, storyboarding videos. Hilda Liswani, 28.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

This “ final frontier ” for the world’s fossil fuel industry — with Somalia’s offshore oil estimated to be as much as 110 million barrels — was finally within reach, and these little-known exploration companies were the first to want a piece of the pie. Credit: Twitter/Asair Firin. Final Frontier’.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

South Africa’s grid is dominated by coal. According to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Statistics of Utility-Scale Power Generation In South Africa In 2022 Report, the contribution from coal dropped below 80% for the first time ever. of the 228 TWh was met by South Africa’s coal plants. […]

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