DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

The New Allies The list of NZSG allies released today includes individuals associated with the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s principal climate science denial group, which has extensive ties with the parliamentary caucus. NZWG’s policy demands track those of NZW, and Mackinlay has helped promote NZW reports.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

But there are other GHGs that contribute significantly to human-induced global warming such as methane (CH 4 ), nitrous oxide (N 2 0), refrigerant gasses (HFCs, PFCs, and CFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ), water vapor (H 2 0), and ozone (O 3 ). This translation is based on the global warming potential (GWP) of a given GHG.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. Meeting of The Solutions Project and Sierra Club at Cornell University on April 20, 2013. Jacobson, Mark Ruffalo, and Josh Fox. © Jon Wank.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The report, published this morning, argues the government's ongoing support of overseas fossil fuel infrastructure not only fuels environmental degradation and global warming, but is a huge missed opportunity to generate tens of thousands of UK jobs as part of a 'green recovery' from the coronavirus crisis.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. Read more here. In the years since the discovery, New York has become an epicenter for C.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The Trump administration has restricted federal agencies from sharing information on the global warming impacts of human-caused carbon emissions. Danly graduated from law school in 2013 and worked as a corporate energy lawyer before he was named general counsel at FERC in 2017. Danly’s rise to a Republican-dominated FERC.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

That led, in turn, to a major drawback from big VC firms, with early-stage funding for climate tech companies falling to about $418 million in 2013. Global tallies of VC and private equity investment into cleantech in that year range from $9.2 But by 2019, venture funding had picked back up. The Washington D.C.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

They will be joined by David Frost, a Conservative peer and a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group. million) in funding from DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund between 2011 and 2013 – two opaque groups that have provided finance for anti-green causes.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Bseisu has given £417,000 to the Tories since 2013, according to Electoral Commission data , including a donation to Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi’s local party ahead of the 2017 General Election. He has previously talked up the potential for new discoveries to be made in the region, allowing the industry to extend its lifespan.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

But unchecked global warming poses an exponentially greater danger. Scientists believe the gannet’s nesting and feeding grounds off the coast of Canada will shrink nearly 70% if the planet continues warming apace, a contraction that may be impossible to survive. How might global warming alter its annual trek?

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

Forecasting work carried out by the Climate Change Committee in 2019 on the UK's contribution to stopping global warming shows that 59 per cent of the changes the UK needs to make to achieve net zero rely not just on the large-scale transition to low-carbon technologies but also on wider human and societal behaviour change.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Recent studies from from the world’s top climate modeling groups suggest that high clouds that shade the Earth during the day may burn off as the world warms increasing global warming. These threats are not new, in 2015 it was clear that climate change was real and demanded urgent action.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. degree limit as the main demand. And so they fought.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The state comptroller said the fund would ditch many of its fossil fuel stocks in the next five years and sell its shares in other companies that contribute to global warming by 2040. The government has also set a target to cut emissions by 26 per cent against 2013 levels by 2030. Mcdonalds serves up US renewable energy deals.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 14, 2020

Whether as a defense against global pandemics or as part of a wider climate strategy companies are exploring ways of improving their supply chain resilience. Now more than ever companies need to increase their efforts to build more resilience into their supply chains so that they can quickly respond to changing demands and disruptions.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As always, the venture community is eager to participate in the blooming opportunity this demand represents. According to recent reports, VCs invested $60B in climate tech between 2013–2019 with an 84% CAGR in capital deployed, with no signs of slowing in 2020 (see below).

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2019

A general sense exists that anthropogenic climate change is changing global weather patterns and events, but that general understanding doesn’t help inform decisions on the regional scale, and decision-makers are demanding reliable information about local conditions and future hazards. An new approach by Otto et al.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

C stated in the Paris Agreement, according to the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming and Mercator Research Institute. But it is not just about carbon emissions… According to most estimates however, international shipping worldwide is responsible for ‘only’ 2-3% of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Coastline, in its former incarnation as UK-registered Soma Oil and Gas, signed a seismic option agreement (SOA) with Somalia’s federal government in 2013, giving them exploration rights and first dibs on up to 12 oil and gas blocks. Lord Michael Howard, the former Conservative leader, chaired the company since it was founded in 2013.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Clearly, the firm faces an enormous challenge over the coming decades to cater to growing public demand for action against plastic waste, climate change and other environmental concerns. It is an output that would make Coca-Cola responsible for roughly a fifth of the world's annual PET bottle production.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Concerning the meat industry’s argument that some pastures cannot be used for other forms of agriculture, University of Oxford researcher Marco Springmann argues that “if everybody were to make the argument that ‘our pastures are the best and should be used for grazing’, then there would be no way to limit global warming.”

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

M.P.H. – Co-Founder and executive director of WE CARE Solar Dr. Laura Stachel’s story of how she went from unknown OB/GYN to one of CNN’s Top 10 Heros of 2013 , starts in Northern Nigeria in 2008. Stachel , M.D., She was named one of the Top 10 Women in Cleantech by earth2tech in 2007.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As was noted by the UK's COP26 Presidency, these agreements are far from perfect and will certainly not satisfy the demands of every nation, campaigner or business, but that was always the likely result of a process that aims to achieve consensus through complex, multilateral negotiations.

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