DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5 One of those names is John Droz.

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

Jean-Paul Yafali, a resident of nearby Kent, Washington, thanked his good luck for the two secondhand air conditioning units that a friend had given him back in 2019. Even so, the past eight years were the hottest in recorded history , the result of the warming effects of climate change. Global warming, after all, involves warming.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Connecticut’s Global Warming Solutions Act calls for a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and 80% by 2050. Eversource, the state’s largest electric distribution company, has eight projects currently participating, compared to just two in 2019, said Ron Araujo, director of energy efficiency implementation.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

degree Fahrenheit) limit to global warming that an international panel of scientists says is required to avoid catastrophic climate change. It is also endorsed by an array of labor groups, such as the United Mine Workers of America International and United Steelworkers (USW) International, among others. degree Celsius (2.7

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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. Companies should leverage a diverse array of global supply options. Supply chain risks were already apparent in 2013.

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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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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. The approach proved itself when the 2017 Tubbs Fire burned 95 percent of the preserve and the 2019 Kincade Fire scorched 60 percent. Between 2001 and 2019, the U.S. ranked third globally in forest cover lost to fires.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity. 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.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Planting trees encourages the absorption of carbon dioxide, one of the key greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. In 2019, the Independent reported on Scotland planting 22 million trees. Many are nationally and globally rare and some are found nowhere else in the world.” In Scotland alone, around 9.5

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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 13, 2022

Both of these global retail giants sell food, clothing and an array of other products. Even William-Sonoma has a 14 per cent reduction in Scope 3 emissions , compared to 2019 levels, plan by 2030. "I The answer lies in what’s left unsaid as much as what’s disclosed. Costco and Walmart; the tale of two supply chains.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It was notable that yesterday's event took place just around the corner from Tufton Street, the notorious home to a coterie of free-marketeer groups, including the Institute of Economic Affairs and notorious climate-sceptic organisations Net Zero Watch and the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“Hopefully the tipping point is where you see the full array of competitive forces aligned to reducing the carbon footprint of industry and society, and people competing on this basis,” he explains. “The sector can help businesses drive positive change,” says Woodford. Shutterstock Sundry Photos Close Authorship.

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