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. last November was potentially made 60 percent more likely due to global warming.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

While Nitrogen Dioxide is primarily produced by cars(EPA USA, 2016), other pollutants like Carbon Dioxide were on the fall too, with reduced global air travel reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions in the US by 17% ( Zogopoulos , 2021). EPA USA, 2016. Air Pollution goes down as Europe takes hard measures to combat virus.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Analysis of data from campaign group BankTrack finds that eight of the banks represented at the summit have continued to finance highly polluting coal, oil and gas through commercial and investment banking in the five years since the Paris Agreement was reached to pursue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5C.

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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. It has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

The findings come as the banking industry receives increased scrutiny for financing polluting projects and builds upon previous analysis by DeSmog showing climate-conflicted board members at many of the UK’s top banks and across bank boards worldwide. Between 2016 and 2020, Australia’s “big 4” collectively provided $32.41

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The data gathered in the Race showed the Baltic Sea to have the highest levels of microplastics in Europe, with 230 particles found per cubic metre, on average, double the amount found in the Mediterranean (112 particles per cubic metre), which is considered a hotspot for plastic pollution. degrees Celsius. Int-Veen, I., Chiggiato, J.,

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2022

It will only further feed the scourge of war, pollution & climate catastrophe. trillion to the fossil fuel industry since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2016. The energy crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine has seen a perilous doubling down on fossil fuels by the major economies. And there is precedent.

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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. These challenges are of course exacerbated by climate change.

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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. Unlike CO2, reactive HFCs are consumed by chemistry in the air, so they only warm the climate for a decade or two. HFC emissions are increasing. What can replace HFCs?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Critics also point out that CCUS involves storing the carbon produced by fossil fuels rather than switching to renewable energy sources, thus permitting polluters to keep profiting from oil and gas exploration. Meanwhile, the chair of the Policy Exchange board is Alexander Downer, who served as Australia’s Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2007.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

During this era, humans began releasing concentrated amounts of carbon and other emissions, causing extreme air pollution and marking the start of the constant rise of atmospheric CO2, leading us to where we are today. . If this permafrost thaws, it will release CO2 and methane which can even further accelerate global warming.

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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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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). square feet of land and the assuaging of animal species distinction, water pollution and habitat destruction. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 Au contraire, it is the reverse.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. Transport is the single biggest contributor to carbon dioxide emissions in the UK, making up 26 percent of all CO2 pollution in 2021. billion invested in fossil fuels. The Tory party received £3.5

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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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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas: During its 12-year lifespan after being released, it traps 84 times as much heat as carbon dioxide, and its effect on global warming over a century is 34 times that of CO2. The need to rein in methane emissions is especially urgent in Cali­fornia, home to 1.8 million dairy cows.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. The only way to slow down a warming planet is to stop adding pollution to the atmosphere. and Canada alone.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement , first enacted in 2016, countries across the globe — and their respective cities, some of which are members of the C40 — have agreed to decrease global warming by keeping the collective planet-wide temperature rise to no more than 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

If successful, their lawsuit could spur Italy to make major cuts in climate pollution by 2030. In a statement, the lawyers called out the “contradiction” between the measures Italy should be taking to reach its target for limiting global warming and their “inadequate implemented actions.”

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

vi I think this reason alone is enough to warrant the use of recycled paper more extensively. In an undated article by the Department of Health (New York State), it was stated that “Methane and Carbon Dioxide make up 90 to 98% of landfill gas.

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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. There’s an irony here: In order to gain this more-than-sky-high perspective, astronauts and space tourists have had to take an incredibly polluting journey.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe. A principal cause of stress-inducing noise pollution and life-shortening air pollution in European cities. In 2016, for the first time, more bicycles than cars made journeys around the city over the course of that year.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. What does he care about the plastic pollution in the ocean? When the Prince, Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, was born in 2016, the King, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, ordered 100,000 trees to be planted in honour of his son’s birth.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

In fact, the International Energy Agency has said that new oil and gas projects are not compatible with keeping warming below 1.5C – an international climate goal that has been adopted by the UK government. million from fossil fuel interests, high-polluters and climate science deniers last year alone.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Ultra processed foods like snacks, drinks and ready meals, along with chemical fertilisers made from natural gas, are singled out as major sources of pollution. Published today (Thursday), the research comes weeks before global leaders gather in Dubai to discuss ways to limit catastrophic global heating.

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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. Without further ado, here’s what’s up with members of past GreenBiz 30 Under 30 cohorts. I moved from the U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. The True Cost, 2015 The True Cost exposes another major contributor of pollution, waste and consumption — the fast fashion industry. The images and reporting cover 20 locations over the course of four years.

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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). square feet of land and the assuaging of animal species distinction, water pollution and habitat destruction. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 Au contraire, it is the reverse.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Cohen, forward by Bill McKibben, 2016 Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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Grist

DECEMBER 21, 2019

According to a TIAA Institute study published in 2016, fewer than one in 10 women faculty are full professors. Studies on industrial and water contamination , air pollution , and other environmental concerns have since backed it up. Other research has shown that many of those female faculty members tick more than one diversity box.

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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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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. temperature goal alive. "If If oil and gas demand decreases in line with 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

While she believes members are having good conversations and that some really want to save the planet, the fact is that Louisiana is still allowing new fossil fuel and petrochemical development to go forward even as the state lives with the consequences of global warming, intensifying hurricanes and more frequent and intense flooding and heat.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

The fashion industry has a pollution problem. Since collaborating with the H&M Foundation in 2016, HKRITA has succeeded in developing a novel method for recycling textiles that uses water, heat and a small amount of chemical solvents.

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