DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. He helped develop the fusion bomb, which is immensely more powerful than even the atomic bomb.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Industry Voice: From UNFCCC to NDCs and IPCC to 1.5°C, This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Black carbon. Carbon sequestration.

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Grist

AUGUST 20, 2019

Full-tilt chaos has descended on the Arctic, a region that’s now warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. million acres in Alaska alone , releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide. Still, the findings are a key piece in understanding the monumentally complex carbon cycle on this planet. But again, this is not in total.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. Hopes that energy-related emissions could peak in the next few years feel more fragile than ever.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

The progress update builds on previous data compiled by the Lancet commission, which showed that pollution was responsible for 9 million deaths in 2015. Some of the biggest global health projects tend to be oriented toward infectious diseases, leaving pollution mitigation up to less powerful departments of the environment.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The court rejected an appeal by French energy company Total, which had invested 300 million euros to convert a crude oil refinery into a biofuel plant that would use palm oil feedstock. Biofuels are still expected to play an important part in hitting ambitious climate targets; to keep global warming under 1.5°C

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 2, 2019

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. During this interval of rapid SLR, ocean levels rose an estimated 16 to 25 meters over about 500 years. During the 20 th century, coincident with global warming of about 0.6°C,

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The problem of global warming crosses geopolitical lines and boundaries, and thus must be addressed by humanity as a whole. Sweden’s Pledge to be Carbon-Neutral Despite uncertainties in global leadership, Sweden promised to honour the Paris Agreement made by the United Nations and cut all its greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Castillo clarified that the “barbecue” was a ground flare at the $10 billion manufacturing complex — a joint venture between ExxonMobil and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) known as Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV). The industry claims ground flares can be cleaner than tower flares. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Data centers utilize different information technology (IT) devices to provide these services, all of which are powered by electricity. households (U.S. households (U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Despite drops in energy usage during the pandemic, coal power use only declined by four percent in 2020, according to a new report. While coal used for power generation dropped 20 percent in both the U.S. GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. electricity consumption was 2.5 degrees.” .

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Analysis by E3G and Global Energy Monitor calculates pipeline for pre-construction coal plants has plummeted 76 per cent since 2015. Moreover, it claims a further 16 countries only have one new coal power plant each in development, putting them just "one project away from a future without coal".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. Carbon capture is technically possible but not economic. And how were humans causing this change? Catch up on part one.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C Nordhaus published an article in the American Economic Review entitled Can We Control Carbon Dioxide?

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Several promising carbon reduction measures are combined which are technically viable and based on matured technology, although scaling of existing technologies and cooperation with key partners is required. It originates from Heerema’s ambition to become a carbon neutral offshore contractor. Why Do We Need Zero-Emission Vessels?

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Despite substantial progress in the power sector, it is a long way off being on track for net zero and the government lacks a credible plan. If you ask energy and climate experts for a UK success story, they tend to give you a remarkably consistent response: offshore wind. What explains this success? What explains this success?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

On a recent episode of the Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria,” American Petroleum Institute CEO and President, Mike Sommers , said that “the most important environmental movement in the world is the American oil and gas industry.”. “A Some researchers have called this “fossil fuel solutionism.” . Learn how his work is shaping our future.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

solar industry. The state leads the country by housing about half of the nation’s total installed solar capacity, according to the latest data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Concern that the Golden State’s solar industry could weaken is heavily rooted in the murky future of solar policy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. At the same time, keeping global warming to well below 2C can be achieved only by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors including land and food.". SDG 15 to the rescue?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The law’s current implementation also offers no assurances that the new jobs promised for oil and gas industry workers will materialize, although it is a stated goal of the law. State regulators controlled by the oil and gas industry helped create this crisis,” said Biven when I met her in January 2022. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Under that 2015 agreement, more than 2oo countries agreed to take steps to keep global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels and, to less than 1.5 China has gotten a lot of positive press for its investments in wind, solar, and electric vehicles. degrees above if possible. and EU declined.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This blog reveals why we are addicted, and provides a possible methadone that is needed to transform the transportation, buildings and industry sector. This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The past decade has been a wild ride for America's massive electricity sector. Cheap wind and solar have turned the industry's conventional economic wisdom on its head. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. Today, no U.S. Today, no U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Unless you have good governance, any progress towards goals on healthcare, education, infrastructure, clean energy is going to be fragmentary, short-lived and quite volatile - Matthew Jenkins, Transparency International. The fact that goal 16 was included in the final agenda in 2015 in itself was a pretty significant achievement," he notes.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 5, 2021

With the world’s focus on cutting CO2 emissions to slow global warming, cutting methane emissions is often overlooked. But with more potential to warm the planet in the short-term, it’s time to tackle methane gas emissions. 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial averages.

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