Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017 fossil fuel industry trade associations spent almost $1.4tr on public relations, advertising, and communications contractors, according to Clean Creatives. "As long as they continue to engage in polluter relations, these firms will be one of our greatest barriers to climate progress.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

Indeed, the latest update to the report has revised the global warming potential of SF 6 upwards by over 7% from the previous 100-year impact of 23,500 to 25,200, i.e. that 1kg of SF 6 has the same global warming impact over a century as 25,200kg of CO 2. A reference value is 0.5%kg/year,

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

The new report features voluntary disclosures on climate-related information and details Ford's progress to reduce emissions per vehicle by 50 per cent from a 2019 base year and emissions from its operations by 76 per cent from a 2017 base.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 4, 2019

The 2017 and 2018 wildfire seasons were the worst two on record in British Columbia. The 2017 record-breaking B.C. A rapid attribution analysis of the heatwave in Europe this June, which saw temperatures of more than 45C in parts of France, found it was made five times more likely because of climate change.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Read next: A brain-swelling illness spread by ticks is on the rise in Europe] When contracted, the fungus can cause bloodstream, wound, and respiratory infections, and other severe illnesses. there were 2,377 confirmed clinical cases diagnosed last year — an increase of more than 1,200 percent since 2017. In the U.S.,

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Health Climate change Europe Global warming 84

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. Europe and Chile. It reached its 100 percent renewable energy goal in 2017, and last year got 61 percent of its global hourly electricity needs from wind, solar and other carbon-free sources.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

The US-based organisation – which has links to a network of fossil fuel funded think tanks and advocacy groups – has opposed climate-friendly measures in Europe, such as the phase-out of petrol cars and green farming reforms, despite being removed from the lobby register over a year ago.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It follows the issuance of Barclays' first ever green bond in 2017, which was the first from a UK bank earmarked for funding domestic residential mortgage assets, and last year the bank pledged to increase its green bonds commitment to £4bn over time, as well as pledging to deliver £100bn green financing by 2030.

Energy 57

Energy Energy Global warming Investment 57

Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 1, 2020

The heat records keep adding to the mountain of data points that demonstrate that we are suffering from ever worsening global warming. Europe suffered through brutal heatwaves that broke records in more than a dozen countries. This year (2019) is likely to be the second warmest year in the hottest decade on record.

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Rinexii

JUNE 18, 2021

Plan A , a leading carbon emission and ESG management software company, launched a Europe-wide movement against greenwashing. degree global warming limit enshrined in the Paris Climate Agreement. Greenwashing is theft from honest companies who really are environmentally friendly. What Plan A is doing to help.

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Carbon-neutral Global warming Carbon Pollution 52

Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So even if it was or is colder in some places, that does not detract from the veracity of global warming. percent chance that 2019 will be one of the five warmest years on record (NOAA's current global average yearly heat rankings are as follows: 1st: 2016, 2nd: 2015, 3rd: 2017, 4th: 2018, and 5th: 2014).

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? Burning biomass from sustainably managed woodland is a viable alternative to the release and accumulation of fossil fuel carbon in the atmosphere, and is a key weapon in the fight against global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2021

Earlier this month, RTÉ apparently sought to downplay the role of climate change in recent extreme weather when it republished a Reuters news report headlined “As floods hit western Europe, scientists say climate change hikes heavy rain”, which it changed to “Experts: too soon to link floods to climate change”.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In 2017, Mora and colleagues found that 30 percent of the world’s population was already exposed to potentially deadly heat for 20 days or more each year. Take the record-breaking temperatures that swept over Europe last summer, sending the thermostat soaring above 100 degrees F across the continent, resulting in more than 61,000 deaths.

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Climate change Cooling Health Solar Energy Monitor 86

Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola's sustainability director for Europe Therese Noordlander talks to BusinessGreen about the drinks giant's mission to drive down emissions and ramp up its recycling efforts. On topics like water scarcity, where we face serious issues in Europe, I'm looking to learn from my colleagues in Africa and Brazil.". Do I feel pressure?

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

For instance, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment of climate science finds that, globally, extreme heat events that used to occur once in every 50 years now happen nearly five times as often and are more than 1-degree Celsius (1.8 These global trends raise local questions. 2017 Bangladesh Floods.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

There is now a 50 per cent chance of average global warming temporarily reaching the critical 1.5C But that probability reached 10 per cent between 2017 and 2021, and has now increased to almost 50 per cent for the next five years in its latest assessment published yesterday.

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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 15, 2021

In Europe, coastal communities from the Iberian Peninsula to the northern British Isles used seaweed to enrich infertile agricultural soils at least as far back as Roman times, researchers have found. Biostimulants, meanwhile, have been shown to improve crop yields , by enhancing nutrient uptake, growth and stress tolerance.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Italy’s first climate change lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and climate advocacy group ReCommon against Italian oil giant Eni opened with its first hearing on February 16, alleging the company contributed to global warming. to obscure the Italian oil giant’s true contribution to global warming.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Global warming Africa 120

Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

The European Union, for example, should achieve net-zero emissions by no later than 2050 if the world is to succeed in restricting warming to 1.5° And Shell has built a specific scenario looking at what Europe might need to do to decarbonise energy in the next 30 years. ° Celsius. That is, indeed, the EU's aim.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Burning coal is the most polluting way to generate electricity and probably the best way to quickly destroy the world (global warming, anyone?). How biorefineries transform ‘waste’ into all the building blocks of chemical industry The best example I found on transformation in the chemical industry is Chemport Europe.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

However, Anthony Chant, investment director at sustainable investment firm OnePlanetCapital, cautioned that the ONS figures "should be taken with a pinch of salt" due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on UK economy and employment, and that growing commitments to net zero across Europe and worldwide were "key triggers for emerging growth".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Separately, the Guardian reported today that a group of over 100 academics have written to the UK government urging it too to quit the treaty, arguing that "continued membership of the ECT will harm our prospects of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

That figure could rise further with more dangerous levels of global warming." Climate change risk assessments were subsequently published in 2012 and 2017 with the third in January 2022 setting out 61 risks to infrastructure, human health, nature, and vital systems such as food, transport system and opportunities.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

According to a 2017 study , Europeans use 36 billion disposable straws annually. Across Europe, a single-use plastic ban will come into effect from 2021, targeting straws, cotton buds, and disposable cutlery, among other products. In the US, that number rises to half a billion straws used every day. However, these need to cater to all.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

The approach proved itself when the 2017 Tubbs Fire burned 95 percent of the preserve and the 2019 Kincade Fire scorched 60 percent. Although the forest was thriving before the fires in 2017 and 2019, we see few signs of regeneration. Friedfel is warm and personable, and his intimate knowledge and passion for this land is infectious.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

For textile waste generated in Europe, for example, an average of only 5-10 per cent was suitable for reuse within the continent, according to Swedish research institute Mistra Future Fashion. In order to stem the global flow of textile waste, an alternative to reuse must exist.

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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. It reveals the behind-the-scenes action that takes place to convert the rhetoric of climate change into the action on the ground that actually reduces the GHG emissions and global warming. Climate impacts 2.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

C stated in the Paris Agreement, according to the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming and Mercator Research Institute. But it is not just about carbon emissions… According to most estimates however, international shipping worldwide is responsible for ‘only’ 2-3% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. Where can we choose from?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Del Chiaro’s other triumphs include playing a lead role in getting passed into law AB 32 , also known as the Global Warming Act Solutions, which requires California to sharply cut carbon-dioxide and other climate-changing emissions by 2020. As a result, we have a really solid foundation upon which to build.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. degrees Celsius of global warming. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

global warming pathway. A major new report from the IEA today notes that more than 30 commercial CCUS facilities have been announced globally in the last three years and projects nearing a final investment decision represent an estimated potential investment of $27bn, two times the amount planned in 2017.

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Technology Carbon Global warming Policy 80

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Architecture in Masdar City, January 2017. House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming in June 2008. and Europe to lobby for IRENA headquarters • Edelman contacts U.S. The Masdar Institute merged with the Petroleum Institute to form Khalifa University of Science and Technology in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

Climate change 83

Climate change Fossil fuels Government Policy 83

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Sadly, this agreement was later revoked under Trump’s presidency starting in 2017, giving Earth Day and its mission yet another political hit. It took another 7 years before our changing climate was defined as global warming – the phrase did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal until 1975.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Sadly, this agreement was later revoked under Trump’s presidency starting in 2017, giving Earth Day and its mission yet another political hit. It took another 7 years before our changing climate was defined as global warming – the phrase did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal until 1975.

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