DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

In a 2016 article for American Thinker , Singer wrote: “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has to provide proof for significant human-caused climate change; yet their climate models have never been validated and are rapidly diverging from actual observations.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). UN Global Compact, Arlene Thompson. Jillian Lennartz (2016).

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Furthermore, agriculture, forestry, and land use change are responsible for about 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global warming, and agriculture uses about 70% of fresh water supplies. However, it has been estimated that around 768 million people were hungry in 2021.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The latest update confirms the Clean200 "handily outperformed" its peers in the MSCI ACWI global equity index by 47 per cent over the year running to the end of January 2021, and by almost 35 per cent since the rankings were first launched in July 2016, they said.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

2015; Bukvic and Owen 2016). Government officials sometimes assert homeowners have little interest in retreat, but instances exist when far more homeowners have requested assistance relocating than the budget allows (Koslov 2016). 2016) The case for retreat. Global Environmental Change 51:67–73. Disasters 41:101–123.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The average American spends $2,392 per year on food while the average Kenyan spends $543 per year on food (World Economic Forum, 2016). As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5

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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 claims to support renewable energy and has pledged to stick to the UK’s 2050 net zero target.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The government demanded “next to nothing of North Sea oil and gas firms” through the Transition Deal, said Khan. McAleenan is a senior fellow (formerly a “senior adviser”) at Policy Exchange on energy and the environment, while also running the consultancy Helmsley Energy, which he founded in 2016.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

According to figures from campaign group ShareAction's 2022 Oil & Gas Expansion Report , since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, all five of the UK's biggest high street banks have collectively funnelled $367.6bn towards the fossil fuel sector, with an additional $141bn provided to firms at the forefront of oil and gas expansion.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 16, 2021

For comparison, the Fort McMurray fire of 2016 was up to six times more likely as a result of global warming. There’s no pretending that things aren’t changing, nor is there any denying that global demand for what we produce here in Canada must change with it.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

HFCs are less harmful than CFCs, but they create another problem – they have a strong heat-trapping effect that is contributing to global warming. CFCs were destroying the ozone layer high in the Earth’s atmosphere, which is essential for protecting life from the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. What can replace HFCs?

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Grist

JULY 20, 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. But scientists agree mosquitoes are on the move.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The world should not develop any new sources of fossil fuels if it is stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C in line with international climate goals, as there are already enough supplies of gas required to meet global demand, a major new study today has concluded.

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Sunrun

APRIL 27, 2018

Experts from around the world report that we have three years to stop the harmful effects of climate change; if we want to stop the worst of global warming and dangerous CO2 emissions, it’s still possible. Global Warming Means Higher Utility Bills Did you know that 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have been in this century?5

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Green Tech Challenge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

As you read this, we’re selecting the 20 participants for 2016. Some of the participants have already secured themselves a spot in the sprint, simply because their business concepts are brilliant and have the potential to grow and make an impact globally. Food production is hence a major contributor to global warming.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2021

billion tonnes of food waste is lost on farms each year, largely as a result of poor infrastructure, inefficient practices, and demanding standards from customers that routinely sees 'wonky' fruit and veg rejected. The study, which is titled Driven to Waste and has been produced in partnership with supermarket Tesco, calculates that 1.2

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2021

Cohen emphasised the importance of "decarbonising oil and gas", but argued fossil fuels would continue to be required over the coming years to help meet energy demand. We must prioritise affordable energy solutions while decarbonising oil and gas, which will be required for years to come to meet global demand.".

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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.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, causing severe biodiversity loss and leading to changes in ecosystem services.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 16, 2020

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s “emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950.” ” His point was to make it clear that “we are not climate change deniers.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Before the Covid-19 pandemic spurred a sudden downturn in international travel in 2020, international flight travel had been forecast to continue growing significantly over the coming decades, providing a major challenge to hopes of limiting global warming to 1.5C.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

In 2016 , he said that the “culture of quarterly earnings hysteria is totally contrary to the long-term approach we need.” They are seeking to understand both the physical risks associated with climate change as well as the ways that climate policy will impact prices, costs, and demand across the entire economy.

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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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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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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

As the number of global internet users has grown, so too has demand for data center services, giving rise to concerns about growing data center energy use. And new forms of information services such as artificial intelligence (AI), which are particularly computationally-intensive, may accelerate demand growth further.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At the same time, food systems are also a major contributor to global warming, accounting for over a third of total emissions worldwide. Scientists and campaigners have raised major concerns about the lack of global action ahead of the COP28 summit, in a year of devastating impacts from climate-related weather events.

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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. In the 1980s, NASA’s satellite data and computer modeling helped scientists track ozone depletion and global warming. NASA / Joel Kowsky.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

This complexity has resulted in conflicting messages about the role of human-caused global warming in the droughts that have ravaged the American West and the rest of the world. Scientists have a measure for how “thirsty” the atmosphere is, or how much water the sky absorbs: evaporative demand. The sky gets thirstier.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2021

What’s the single word that fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and global warming? Within this frame, the company is an innocent supplier, simply giving consumers what they demand.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. China’s Coal Expansion.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. The new demand in contactless and physically distant healthcare has now become a precedent for the future.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Last week the Anglo-Dutch firm reported record-breaking losses of around £16bn during a torrid year for the oil and gas industry, having been hit hard by plummeting demand and even negative barrel prices triggered by the coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic disruption. global warming pathway set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

It found that 25 banks have provided over $400bn to finance these fossil fuel firms since 2016, with HSBC leading the way with $59bn of funding, followed by Barclays at $48bn, and BNP Paribas at $46bn. If oil and gas demand decreases in line with 1.5C temperature goal alive.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The average American spends $2,392 per year on food while the average Kenyan spends $543 per year on food (World Economic Forum, 2016). As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

In 2016, for the first time, more bicycles than cars made journeys around the city over the course of that year. the world can limit global warming. North American suburban households consistently have higher carbon footprints than urban ones: one study in Toronto found suburban footprints were twice as high.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

Moreover, Sunak said the plan's implementation would be overseen by a new Department of Energy in Whitehall, thereby once again separating out responsibility for energy from the current Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) created by Theresa May in 2016.

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