Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). 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 ). A 2019 study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed that global energy demand grew 2.3

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. It may signal that fossil fuel companies do not have much of a future powering the state’s economy, Caleb said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Oxford English Dictionary's Patricia Stewart charts how language related to the environment, climate change, and sustainabiliy is changing to reflect global new realities and concerns. Humanity's response to climate change continues to give rise to new words and phrases, and we continue to monitor them. Going green or greenwashing?

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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 ). GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. Monitoring the storage temperatures of stored goods requires the use of technologies. It is crucial for supermarkets to reduce food waste.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

degrees Celsius above preindustrial norms (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2018), however, we are rapidly running out of time as we are already more than two thirds of the way there. An IPCC report (2018) indicates that all remaining gas and coal fired power plants need CCS technology. And we’re on the clock.

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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. households (U.S.

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 2, 2019

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. During this interval of rapid SLR, ocean levels rose an estimated 16 to 25 meters over about 500 years. During the 20 th century, coincident with global warming of about 0.6°C,

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The problem of global warming crosses geopolitical lines and boundaries, and thus must be addressed by humanity as a whole. Singapore to Regulate E-Waste Last year, Greentech Challenge reported that global electronic waste was set to grow by a worrying 33% in 2017.

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CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

Whether natural gas can play a constructive role in the energy transition depends on aggressive measures to reduce emissions that include methane,” said Fred Krupp, EDF president. “BP EDF will not receive any funding from BP, consistent with EDF’s strict policy prohibiting receipt of funds from energy companies and corporate collaborators.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

While they're not immune to the forthcoming fiscal challenges, entrepreneurs developing solutions for addressing climate change - from agtech to decarbonization to clean energy and more - are among those proving to be the most resilient. Since mid-March, as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic infected certain sectors of the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

And if we don't change course and start reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, we are on track for anywhere between 2°C and 4°C global warming by the end of this century, possibly even higher. Protecting and restoring nature - including habitats, soils and trees - is crucial to limiting global warming to 1.5°C

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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). 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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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The court rejected an appeal by French energy company Total, which had invested 300 million euros to convert a crude oil refinery into a biofuel plant that would use palm oil feedstock. Biofuels are still expected to play an important part in hitting ambitious climate targets; to keep global warming under 1.5°C

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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. Day Zero', when the taps for four million inhabitants would have been turned off, was only averted after emergency measures were implemented to cut the city's water usage in half.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. emissions in 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It is one of 31 new oil, gas, and petrochemical projects along the Texas and Louisiana coasts that will add another 50 million tons of greenhouse-gas pollution – the equivalent of 11 new coal-fired power plants, according to a report by the Environmental Integrity Project, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

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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 2018, the former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison, the first Black woman in space, told delegates at the U.N. It’s immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe.”.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Citing California’s extreme wildfire season as an example, Chris Beaufait, CEO of Sharper Shape, says that as global warming continues to threaten society, better decisions need to made. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

That year, the American economist and 2018 Nobel laureate William D. In it, he argues that “ if there were global temperatures more than 2° or 3° above the current average temperature, this would take the climate outside of the range of observations which have been made over the last several hundred thousand years. And they won.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 14, 2020

These concerns were reiterated in a 2019 report from Zurich that reviewed the risks to infrastructure and the need for businesses to prepare for rising sea levels associated with global warming. Supply chain risks are everywhere, including those associated with technologies that are geared towards managing climate change.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

For example, unregulated tree planting rolled out en masse in a bid to meet the government's manifesto pledges and reduce carbon emissions could inadvertently exacerbate global warming, the report suggests, highlighting how trees planted on peatland risk drying out carbon-rich soil and releasing more greenhouse gas than they capture.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. emissions in 2018.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

In addition, solvents used in the process often can be collected after usage and re-used continuously. "We In September 2018, HKRITA opened a pre-industrial scale facility in Hong Kong that makes use of the technology. Another potential complication of widespread usage of garment-to-garment recycling is greenwashing. "If

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

That’s ExxonMobil touting its “lower-emission solutions” and staff working to “develop our global strategy for creating sustainable energy” while planning a $10 billion investment in new oil and gas reserves in South America. ExxonMobil uses the phrase “advancing climate solutions” and “ lower emission energy future.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

In the absence of thick multi-year ice, which can be up to five meters deep, any water that refreezes would take the form of much thinner, more navigable seasonable ice. As long as there is ice in a body of water, any surrounding heat energy is carried towards the ice to make it melt. Good news for boats, bad news for polar bears.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

In his spare time, David Levy, owner of Petrotechnologies, a company that makes specialty parts for the oil and gas industry, monitors the fossil fuel industry across southwest Louisiana from the sky. Levy believes orphaned wells aren’t being monitored properly. Credit: Julie Dermanksy. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In addition, 74 per cent of the poor are directly affected by land degradation globally and over 80 per cent of the human diet is provided by plants, with just three cereal crops - rice, maize and wheat - providing 60 per cent of humanity's energy intake. SDG 15 to the rescue?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management employee who founded and runs True Transitions , an organization committed to making sure oil and gas workers have a seat at the table during the energy transition. In 2018, only 2,372 orphan wells were plugged in the United States. ” Biven is a Louisiana native and a former U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

The chair of a campaign by backbench Tory MPs against climate action runs a parliamentary group with a lobbyist who has an undeclared interest in the continued use of fossil fuel-powered vehicles, DeSmog can reveal. Mr Cox’s personal business interests are clearly skewing the climate sceptic, anti-electric car stance of the group.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Under that 2015 agreement, more than 2oo countries agreed to take steps to keep global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels and, to less than 1.5 China has gotten a lot of positive press for its investments in wind, solar, and electric vehicles. In 2018, annual emissions in the U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world and its oil addiction An overview of global oil consumption The world runs on oil (1). The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. million b/d in 1986. 6) Oh yes. “The

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The past decade has been a wild ride for America's massive electricity sector. Utilities will be front and center in America's efforts to combat global warming, from drastically cutting their own carbon emissions to assisting other sectors, like transportation, in cutting theirs. Today, no U.S. Today, no U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Unless you have good governance, any progress towards goals on healthcare, education, infrastructure, clean energy is going to be fragmentary, short-lived and quite volatile - Matthew Jenkins, Transparency International. Power corrupts. The hope is that the plea to "recover better" can gain traction. The fear is that it won't.

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 5, 2021

With the world’s focus on cutting CO2 emissions to slow global warming, cutting methane emissions is often overlooked. But with more potential to warm the planet in the short-term, it’s time to tackle methane gas emissions. The International Energy Agency estimates that 75% of emissions from the oil and gas sector—some 16.5%

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