Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences. Ever since the Paris Climate Summit in 2015, there has been much focus on tipping points.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28. Hansen was the first to sound the alarm on climate change in 1988 in testimony to Congress.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s the first “Global Stocktake” of the progress nearly 200 countries have made since they adopted the Paris agreement in 2015. By pushing nations to slash their greenhouse gas emissions, the global accord strives to avoid climate change so extreme that life on Earth would struggle to adapt.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Global warming may be interacting with regional rainfall and deforestation to accelerate forest loss in the Amazon, pushing it towards partial or total collapse. The research findings are important because of the vital role the Amazon plays in the global climate system.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Last month, Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Clare Coutinho met with and praised fuel pricing lobbyist Howard Cox , a Reform UK candidate who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims that “man is not responsible for global warming”. million in donations from fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers in 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

Image credit: Kerckweb / Shutterstock.com Scotland’s environmental regulator has issued a civil penalty of £75,000 to a health food supplements manufacturer for failing to provide a leakage detection system on equipment containing powerful greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and contribute to climate change.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 14, 2021

The study shows that many species known to reside in the equator’s warm waters are migrating to cooler waters. Scientists behind the study have linked this situation to global warming, saying that water at the equator has become too warm for some species. In turn, this can lead to the death of weaker species.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

campaign designed to give 20 million people their say on the best means for governments to tackle climate change. The game sees players take on the role of policymaker to try and decide how to keep global warming within the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5C In many ways, it is the People's Climate Vote.". Mission 1.5

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

In fact, a new study estimates that if countries fulfill the climate pledges they made at the United Nations climate change conference known as COP26 last year, warming could be limited to just below 2 degrees C (3.6 The new study also adds to the growing consensus that limiting warming to 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. Hintze has said that he believes “there is climate change” caused “in part due to human activity over the past century”.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Three weeks away from the 26th Conference of the Parties ( COP26 ), the World Biogas Association (WBA) is preparing to travel to Glasgow to represent the global biogas industry at the UN Climate Summit and demonstrate the value of the biogas industry in tackling climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

While Eni is among the world’s largest oil companies, the company’s role in climate change has so far undergone scant scrutiny. The cover of a 1970 study by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warns of “catastrophic” climate impacts from burning fossil fuels. In 2022, Eni reported a profit of $14.12 billion (13.3

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

. | Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 130 companies, including Volvo Cars, Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé, and AstraZeneca, signed a letter calling on governments to adopt a global plan to phase out fossil fuels without carbon capture during upcoming international climate negotiations.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Cold temperatures and snowfalls confuse some people and cause them to question the veracity of global warming. However, climate change is a function of global average temperatures over protracted periods of time. We need to understand the difference between weather and climate. Subscribe in a reader

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 1, 2024

. | Photo by George Rose / Getty Images 2023 can now boast a terrifying record: planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions from global energy use hit a record. It’s been almost a decade since the adoption of the 2015 Paris climate agreement to stop global warming.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Emma Howard Boyd's speech to the Committee on Climate Change's Adapting to 3C+ of global warming conference. Before I start my speech, I'd like to add my condolences to the Committee on Climate Change and everyone who knew Professor Dame Georgina Mace. billion today, to more than 5 billion by 2050.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

Seven years after the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, a large majority of country signatories and hundreds of companies have committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. At the same time, emissions have rocketed, with global annual CO2 emissions rising to 36.3 gigatons in 2021 from 35.5 Paris target.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Last year was one of the worst on record for climate change-related disasters, yet Canada’s federal government spent $18.6 It is 10 times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015. The pipeline has been called a ‘global warming machine.’

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. She also claims that, while serving in the Treasury, she attempted to cancel the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. She adds that “the U.S. is beyond reach.

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2021

It might seem odd to find supporters of climate action debating the merits of a concept that science shows to be essential for halting climate change, and which is accordingly embedded at the heart of the defining global agreement. We should get net zero right - not get rid.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Ex Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has joined the UK’s main climate denial group saying: “we need more science”. Abbott announced he was “pleased” to join the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which had “consistently injected a note of realism into the climate debate”.

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Energy Central

APRIL 29, 2022

Signed in 2015, the UN Paris Agreement is aimed at curbing global warming. Climate change has now emerged as an important issue for the nation states and the businesses in these countries.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2024

percent of the vote in the 2015 general election. 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”. Reform’s policy platform claims that “scientists disagree as to how much” humans have had an impact on global warming.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Climate-tech company A Healthier Earth has been announced as the official biochar partner at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28). Alongside the policy discussions on how to reach the Paris Agreement of 2015 and limit global warming to 1.5⁰C,

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) filed its latest accounts on 18 January, showing an income of £280,000 for the year ending 30 September 2023, a drop of £110,000 from the previous year.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

Susan Hall, the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, has opposed key climate policies, backed the reintroduction of fracking and promoted articles online which spread climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. It is an “absolute delusion”, the article suggested, “that humans can control the climate with their CO2 emissions”.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A University of Victoria economics professor who has spent years questioning whether global warming is “a real thing” is doing research supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the Canadian government. Meanwhile his peers are producing leading-edge research about climate change.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 4, 2019

2015, 195 countries adopted an international treaty aiming to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsiuc (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above average preindustrial temperatures in order to avert the worst of Earth’s climate emergency. See more here: What to expect from the UN’s COP25 climate change conference.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2021

Conservative MP Steve Baker has joined the UK’s principal climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). adults thought that addressing climate change was very or fairly important, while three in four wanted politicians to prioritise the issue. Read profile. Read profile.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , a director of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has been reappointed by the government as an adviser to the prestigious Board of Trade. The GWPF has gained a number of high profile directors over the last year.

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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. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels has been the gold standard for climate action since at least the 2015 Paris Agreement. degrees Celsius, or 2.7 Even more surprising than the findings, perhaps, is the fact that they were derived from the study of sea sponges.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Craig Mackinlay, chair of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), recently hired Harry Wilkinson, head of policy at the anonymously-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), to work for him in Parliament. The NZSG claims to accept climate science and Mackinlay recently said he is “not a climate-change denier”.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic caused CO2 emissions from buildings and construction to fall significantly in 2020, but a lack of real transformation in the sector means that emissions will keep rising and contribute to dangerous climate change, according to the 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2020

Without the necessary carbon storage from forest trees, global temperatures will continue to rise and intensify consequent climate change damage. Climate change exacerbates conditions through insect and pathogen outbreaks that further compromise tree health and development. Science Via NPR and PNNL.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Current and future risks from climate change are far worse than previously estimated, but urgent action is still possible to “secure a liveable future for all.” The release is from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, a United Nations body of leading climate experts from around the world.

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