Clean Energy Canada
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) While not yet in line with what is needed to limit warming to 1.5C, this is still a big step for countries that rely heavily on coal power.
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 8, 2022
But the parliamentary register of interests shows that Baker received £5,000 from Neil Record , a Tory Party donor and chairman of both the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Forum and the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank, which has received funding from oil giant BP, and has a record of opposing government climate policies.
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DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
The UK’s main climate science denial group has been invited to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the country’s energy transition and the cost of its net zero policies. Gas and nuclear have to be fast-tracked if there is any chance of publicly acceptable, long-term climate policies.”.
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Barclays was the largest European financier of fossil fuels between the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2016, which set a goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C, and 2022. Over 100 universities across the UK , representing 65 percent of the higher education sector, have pledged to divest from the fossil fuel industry since 2014.
Energy Innovation
APRIL 27, 2020
The industrial sector was responsible for 33 percent of global anthropogenic emissions in 2014, and industrial emissions are only projected to rise – direct industrial emissions rose 65 percent from 1990 to 2014. Limiting global warming to 2°C requires reaching net zero emissions by 2050-2070, but this is no small task.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 6, 2020
Other key findings from the Global E-waste Monitor 2020: Proper e-waste management can help mitigate global warming. per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Since 2014, the number of countries that have adopted a national e-waste policy, legislation or regulation in place has increased from 61 to 78.
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
As environment secretary between 2014 and 2016, Truss cut subsidies for solar farms, calling them “a blight on the landscape”, and claimed without evidence that they were harming food production. Truss’s position on climate policy has deep roots in the libertarian movement. But it will absolutely fuel the climate crisis,” she said.
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