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The quest for cleaner air

Envirotec Magazine

The industrial revolution – despite its many benefits – sounded a death knell for air quality, increasing coal-generated smog levels 50-fold in many large cities. 2 Of real concern is its estimate that 99 percent of the global population breathes air that exceeds its published air quality limits. trillion, equivalent to 6.1

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Carbon Dioxide Equivalent – Applications for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Business Bureau

Greenhouse gas (GHG) levels in the atmosphere are at an all-time high due to human activity, especially that of industry. This leads to excess levels of greenhouse gases being trapped in the atmosphere thus warming the planet and starting to shift the global temperature into levels never before experienced in human society.

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

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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Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020. Scientists Fear Feedback Loops

DeSmogBlog

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 ppb rise in 2019. Human activity is driving climate change,” Colm Sweeney, assistant deputy director of the Global Monitoring Lab, a division within NOAA, said in a statement. Left: Trend from 2017-2021.

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Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020. Scientists Fear Feedback Loops

DeSmogBlog

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 ppb rise in 2019. Human activity is driving climate change,” Colm Sweeney, assistant deputy director of the Global Monitoring Lab, a division within NOAA, said in a statement. Left: Trend from 2017-2021.

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