Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emissions are warming the globe and driving climate change. We need to look no further than the steady stream of record breaking warming. According to a 2019 study there is currently more CO2 in the atmosphere than there has been in at least 3 million years. percent in 2019.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Did you realize that by throwing food out, you’re also wasting water and causing climate change? Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. E-commerce is expanding globally. In 2020, global e-retail sales increased by 27.6% Approximately 1.3

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Business Green

JULY 10, 2022

That is the latest warning from the Changing Markets Foundation, which commissioned a survey of more than 200 investors that revealed significant concerns over the risk of stranded assets in the meat and dairy industry as the transition to net zero emissions accelerates and diets start to shift in favour of plant-based options.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

MtCO2e in 2019. . Deforestation to create pastures and feed for livestock releases CO2; methane is emitted from animals and their manure; and fossil fuels are used to transport animals and power the globalized meat supply chain. No company that buys meat from JBS can claim to be serious about climate change.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When asked about this by DeSmog, Stafford – who worked for Shell prior to becoming an MP in 2019 – defended the oil and gas funding for the hydrogen APPG, which, like other APPGs, is set up to lobby on specific policy areas. “On Using methane – [to make] blue hydrogen – always results in some residual emissions.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2020

Almost exactly a year ago, we reported that June and July wildfires in the Arctic had released as much carbon as Belgium does in an entire year — an unprecedented summertime burn that would amplify the region’s climate change–fueled fever. But things were still heating up.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change. Headline writers had a field day. million dairy cows.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

With widespread commitments made to reducing CO 2 emissions, attention is turning to other greenhouse gases, specifically methane and nitrous oxide as the next largest contributors. However, in practice on the human and utility timescales, the impact remains unchanged and is significant.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

New report warns world is 'heading in wrong direction' post-pandemic resulting in a 48 per cent chance the global 1.5C There is now a near 50-50 chance of global warming temporarily rising above the totemic 1.5C Last year global fossil fuel related O2 emissions returned to pre-pandemic levels, after a 5.4

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) capacity is a key feature of the UK’s strategy to reduce emissions and hit its climate targets. CCS technology has been under discussion and development for decades and governments are increasingly relying on it to meet their climate goals. percent of global yearly CO2 emissions at most.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

In a joint letter , the scientists say that they are “consistently faced with a major and needless challenge” of having to correct false information and rebut the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to downplay the severity of climate change. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Governments approve landmark report that warns window for action is fast closing to avoid catastrophic climate change, but affordable technologies exist across every sector to slash emissions this decade. goal set out in the Paris Agreement. goal alive.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 9, 2020

As the leading source of climate changing greenhouse gas emissions fossil fuels are problematic but they are far more problematic in the Arctic. Arctic warming is a global concern that adversely impacts global weather patterns and may push us past tipping points from which we will not be able to recover.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

It’s yet another sign of how climate change is shrinking the Arctic. One is looking for clues to climate change, and the other is racing to exploit that change for financial profit. Petersburg, Russia on April 9, 2019. But Rosatom won’t wait for global warming to run its course.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

A recent study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters suggests that beavers’ actions could be contributing to climate change. When they form new bodies of water, they contribute to the thawing of frozen permafrost, which is a natural reservoir for methane and carbon dioxide.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

With respect to the warnings of the severity of climate change, this is presently far from the case. With regard to addressing climate change, the transition to a new renewable energy-based paradigm is the greatest economic opportunity of all time. The challenge. gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year).

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The Earth is changing. The beginning of 2020 marked the end of the hottest decade so far; 2019 being the second hottest year ever recorded. By now, we are all familiar with climate change. Yet, some claim it a hoax and deny actual changes happening to our planet. Methane is a component of natural gas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

If humanity is to deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep warming below 2C, policies to lower emissions must triple; to keep warming below 1.5C, they must increase five-fold, it concludes. ppm in July 2019. ppm in July 2019. And now 2016-2020 is set to be the warmest five-year period on record.".

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9 Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 The battle against climate change is vital. I have three concerns with the global food system.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. Can Coal Replace Natural Gas? In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The study found that an alternative method of quantifying the impact of methane emissions has led to a raft of industry-friendly findings that the livestock sector seems to be using to claim climate neutrality as they continue to pollute. GWP* prioritizes the trend over the last 20 years. Credit: Matt Brown/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog. 20 percent of posts focused on corporate climate plans and projects.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

While there’s reason to have hope for the future with multiple vaccines promising the end of the pandemic, we unfortunately have an arguably larger global crisis looming. Even during the past administration, state- and local-level climate pledges across the country continued to grow , with two-thirds of Americans (across party lines!)

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

warming, we need to slash emissions dramatically – and at speed. Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. Animal production also emits 65 percent of global nitrous oxide emissions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Take a look at the " nine planetary boundaries ", the limits that scientists say humans must respect to keep the planet habitable, and you'll see we're already beyond the safe operating space for four of them: climate change; land-system change; biodiversity; and biogeochemical flows of phosphorus and nitrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

The sources cited by Garson are a 2019 article in the New York on-line news service vox.com, and a 2014 feature on the website Ecowatch. 3 Its author is Duncan Brack, who was an adviser to Chris Huhne when he was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012. Brack’s report caused quite a stir.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Major report highlights goals of Paris Agreement are threatened by weak climate ambition from countries and limited climate finance flows from rich to poor nations. The world is not remotely on track to limit global warming to 1.5C warming pathway. within reach.". he asked.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

Related: Eating seaweed could reduce cows’ methane production Why is kelp a good idea for food sustainability? For one, Harvard University has documented that kelp plays a significant role in reducing global warming. That is attributed to kelp’s rapid growth rate, typically about 2 feet per day.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The objective of the convention was to: “ Stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climatic system.” – UNFCCC , What is the United Nations Framework on Climate Change?

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? Countries have already suffered deep losses as a result of the fires, floods, and other disasters intensifying with climate change. That set a goal of limiting global average temperatures to close to 1.5 Now, that 1.5-degree

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

Instead, today's agenda is determined by the fact I have something significant to speak to you about in relation to Shell and its plans to respond to climate change. *. But it is undoubtedly the case that the biggest long-term question for an oil and gas business like Shell, is the question raised by climate change.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9 Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 The battle against climate change is vital. I have three concerns with the global food system.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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