GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The letter, sent to 47 company chairs and chief executives, calls on emissions-intensive firms to align all direct corporate lobbying activity and indirect lobbying activity managed by trade associations with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). Efforts to manage emissions demand that we see major reductions in our use of fossil fuels. A 2019 study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed that global energy demand grew 2.3

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

Utilities worldwide are arguably facing the most demanding and far-reaching changes in their operations, with multiple pressures, both top-down from governments and bottom-up from grassroots consumers in addition to their own responsibilities as modern-day businesses. Electricity 4.0 Electricity 4.0

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. Google addresses some of these technical challenges in a new white paper , released Monday as an update to a 2018 “ discussion paper ” looking into the potential for 24/7 carbon-free energy for its data center fleet.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2021

By investing in forestry assets used to produce carbon offset credits, investors can benefit from growing demand for both compliance and voluntary credits, explains Gresham House's Olly Hughes. As much as 17 billion tonnes of CO2 must be removed from the air by 2050 if global warming is to be kept below 2C. per cent and 48.5

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). Efforts to manage emissions demands major reductions in our use of fossil fuels. These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report. percent per year since 2010, to 2.6

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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. Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ). We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. John Bello (2018). Willemijn Brouwer (2018). Joseph Gale (2018).

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Global wildlife populations fell 69% between 1970 and 2018, according to the World Wide Fund For Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund) in its Living Planet Report. “With global demand for meat increasing, plant-based and cultivated meat use up to 95% less land.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

describing a method used by the company Carbon Engineering, gives a range at $94-235 per tCO 2 (Keith 2018). C goal is greatly affected by how late fossil emissions peak and how steep they decline (IPCC 2018). Four scenarios to limit global warming to 1.5°C. C by 2100 pushing global temperature over 2°C.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Doing so would address a glaring omission in the 2015 Paris accord, which never actually mentions coal, oil, or natural gas despite being an international agreement to stop global warming. Solar and wind power are already cheaper alternatives to coal, oil, and gas in most of the world when it comes to meeting new electricity demand.

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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Endnotes. [1] at 150-51. [5]

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Limiting global warming to 1.5C warming involves two distinct questions. So scientifically speaking, humanity can still limit global warming to 1.5C Between 2013 and 2015, an extensive United Nations review process determined that limiting warming to 2C this century cannot avoid dangerous climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

in 2018 while chief secretary to the Treasury, Truss met with several Koch-funded libertarian think tanks and lobby groups with a history of climate science denial, including the Cato Institute , the American Enterprise Institute , and the Heritage Foundation. Truss has ties to other American fossil fuel-linked groups.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Shareholder proposals that demand companies disclose how their climate lobbying aligns with the Paris Agreement reached a record high in 2020, with Chevron shareholders approving such a proposal in a landmark vote in June.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The new pledge comes amid growing demand for palm oil for use in a huge number of everyday consumer products, which has fuelled deforestation in producing countries where farmers clear rainforest to make way for palm oil plantations, thereby exacerbating climate change by destroying crucial natural carbon stores.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In 2017, hurricanes, severe storms, and flooding resulted in deaths, disrupted lives, and over $280 billion in damages (NOAA NCEI 2018). has occurred primarily through voluntary post-disaster buyouts of flood-prone properties (Siders 2018). Lincke D, Hinkel J (2018) Economically robust protection against 21st century sea-level rise.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The 2020 Green Bond issued this week has received Climate Bonds Initiative certification, while Carbon Trust is acting as an assurance provider for its wider green bond framework in order to ensure it meets the International Capital Market Association Green Bond Principles 2018, Barclays said.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

An annual greenhouse gas inventory released last week for 2018 — the latest available data — showed vehicle exhaust remains the state’s largest problem, but the sharpest year-over-year increase came in the residential sector. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted in Connecticut in 2018 was up 2.7% metric tons.

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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. In a blog post written in 2020, the think tank claimed that it had been a “leading voice for hydrogen” – citing its 2018 “Fuelling the Future” report.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

The alarms that are being sounded on global warming, income inequality, and humanitarian crises are the result of materialistic greed. So, limiting human strain on natural resources is the main area of concern to ensure the earth is able to fulfil increasing food demand by reducing stress on climate.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. Photo of Mark Jacobson and Stacy Clark, August 1, 2018. Geothermal would provide constant power, with wind and solar contributing intermittent power.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Biofuels are still expected to play an important part in hitting ambitious climate targets; to keep global warming under 1.5°C Driven by demand thanks to the U.S. Sinar Mas spinoff Paper Excellence, for example, has been picking up Canadian assets, estimating that the company’s customers in Asia will ensure long-term demand.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 29, 2019

Baldwin’s report of March 2018 dismissed this concern while candidly admitting a lack of data to justify doing so. Allowing such “green” offers is in fact a great way to help fight global warming in a politically painless way. For a more detailed discussion, see T.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

Forecasting work carried out by the Climate Change Committee in 2019 on the UK's contribution to stopping global warming shows that 59 per cent of the changes the UK needs to make to achieve net zero rely not just on the large-scale transition to low-carbon technologies but also on wider human and societal behaviour change.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Recent studies from from the world’s top climate modeling groups suggest that high clouds that shade the Earth during the day may burn off as the world warms increasing global warming. These threats are not new, in 2015 it was clear that climate change was real and demanded urgent action.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

But if we want to release the full benefits of this transition and drive the uptake of new technology, support behaviour change and move at the pace climate science demands, then our ambition must be matched by an equally ambitious 2030 UK target, or Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in the language of the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In one document, the industry acknowledges that the global meat sector has a “job to do” in making sure governments are positioned to push for what it describes as “balanced, science-based outcomes” rather than what it characterises as “ideologically driven solutions”.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

While much of the climate community considers global warming beyond 2C to be highly dangerous, William Nordhaus in his 2018 Nobel in Economics acceptance lecture called 4C "optimal". A small risk of economic collapse should demand drastic action. Even if the worst risks are unlikely, it would be wrong to ignore them.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 25, 2022

Ultimately this led to the Low Energy Demand Scenario, represented by P1 in Figure 4. Source: IPCC Special Report on 1.5º, 2018. For example, could the ongoing heatwave, which climate change has made much more likely , in India and Pakistan accelerate popular demand for climate action? IPCC, 2018: Summary for Policymakers.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

It also highlights the experience of Cape Town in 2018, when the city came within days of becoming the first major city in the world to run out of water. According to Christian Aid, global water use grew at more than twice the rate of population increases over the course of the 20th century. Meanwhile, less than 0.01

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

For example, while terms such as ‘global warming' and ‘greenhouse effect' have decreased in use across society, ‘ climate crisis ' (added to the OED in October 2021 but first used as early as 1986) is increasingly being used in preference to ‘climate change'.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2018, the Camp Fire decimated the northern California community and killed at least 85 people. “We A Public Campaign of Deception First, as the complaint notes, “Defendants have known about the potential warming effects of GHG emissions since as early as the 1950s.”

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 8, 2020

The organization hopes to achieve its mission through initiatives that unite the public, policy-makers and businesses behind a common goal of reversing global warming. Extinction Rebellion This global environmental movement founded in October 2018 is based in the U.K. but has recently expanded to the U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

At the surface level, these companies have little in common, but they are all representative of a wave of innovation known as climate tech - technologies that are explicitly focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions or addressing the impacts of global warming.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Despite the news that the worldwide lockdown led to a 17 per cent fall in daily carbon emissions in April according to research in Nature Climate Change , this is only a temporary effect and the existing trend line shows we are nowhere near to limiting global warming to well below the 2°C set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

Beginning in late 2018 and stretching into 2019, she created a global movement, spoke truth to power , and collected more than 10 million followers on social media. More than 8,700 Amazon associates signed an open letter to CEO Jeff Bezos demanding the company develop an aggressive climate action plan. degrees Celsius.

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