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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Grist

AUGUST 20, 2019

On average during the 2015 melting season, per square meter (to be clear, not in total ) these glacial rivers consumed twice as much CO2 as the Amazon rainforest. So ironically enough, glaciers melting under the weight of global warming can help sequester carbon, making such watersheds a previously unrecognized CO2 sink.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Aviation industry hails first ever long-term climate goal for sector, but green groups remain sceptical over credibility of new target. But today's decision marks the first-time nations have agreed to establish a long-term climate goal, albeit one that is non-binding in nature. But setting a goal is one thing.

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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.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). In addition, globally, over 22,000 companies disclosed environmental data – with a focus on business emissions – to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in the same year.

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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. And how were humans causing this change? Catch up on part one. Document 7: 1981. Available at ClimateFiles.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. The 90-year-old man, the oldest person to go to space, said humans can’t continue “burying our heads in the sand” about climate change, and that “we’re at a tipping point.”.

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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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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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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2021

states late last week, killing at least 88 people and flattening warehouses, nursing homes, and factories, many were quick to blame the warming climate for at least some of the damages. Over the weekend, many in the news media speculated that global warming may have played a role and pressed policymakers for answers.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. None of them were ever to be seen or heard from again until the wreck was found at the bottom of an Arctic bay in 2016, aptly named Terror Bay.

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Grist

MAY 17, 2023

The vision “You can locate the ways that climate and sustainability intersect with any good stories, without explicitly telling a climate change story. Any number of other social issues could easily have replaced climate change in the script. It’s Good Energy’s mission to change that.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

in 2016, set a target of keeping global warming to no more than 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, with an ambitious goal of keeping it below 1.5 To achieve this stricter goal, global greenhouse gas emissions would have to be slashed in half from current levels by 2030.

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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

UN Secretary General António Guterres has already declared that the world has "a responsibility to recover better" than it did after the financial crisis in 2008, arguing the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on climate change should provide the framework for the stimulus packages that are already taking shape. "We Power corrupts.

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