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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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

The year 2020 will be remembered as a year in which humanity weathered a dangerous and fast-spreading disease, costing companies and governments billions in management and recovery. WSP, a London-based engineering consulting firm, conducted a study regarding the actual footprint of this work-from-home alternative (WSP, 2020).

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, contributing about 0.55°C C present-day global warming relative to pre-industrial times. As a result, in 2021 countries signed the Global Methane Pledge, committing to reduce methane emissions by at least 30% of 2020 levels by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Contributed by Shuli Goodman, executive director of LF Energy . As we approach COP26 in November, it is increasingly clear that speeding up the transition to a low-carbon economy is not only essential– but urgent. Global warming is dangerously close to spiraling out of control, a U.N.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Transition Deal echoed the fossil fuel lobby by emphasising the importance of hydrogen power and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to the green transition. The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with net zero.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And consider – after the US and China, wasted food is the third-largest carbon dioxide generator in the world. Between 8% and 10% of the world’s carbon emissions result from all these unconsumed products. billion tonnes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) equivalent to carbon dioxide are emitted annually due to food waste.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emissions cause heat to be trapped in the atmosphere which is warming the globe and driving climate change. Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). billion tons of CO2e in 2018.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. Hopes that energy-related emissions could peak in the next few years feel more fragile than ever.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible.

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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.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

Nearly three-quarters of Brits underestimate the contribution of British homes to global warming, research conducted by Citizens Advice in partnership with the Energy Saving Trust has found. million UK households - said they had done nothing to lower energy use.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We need to look no further than the steady stream of record breaking warming. Last month was the warmest November on record, and 2020 is expected to be one of the hottest years on record. These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report. gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e).

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

The company, which manages £13.7bn of real estate assets and owns £10.3bn of land, yesterday said it was targeting a 51 per cent cut in its Scope 1 and 2 emissions between 2020 and 2030. million square feet of floor space. But British Land is now seeking to go further with a suite of "challenging" new targets in line with a 1.5C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The global net zero transition risks being "delayed by decades" unless there is far greater collaboration between governments and businesses to accelerate the roll out of the key low carbon technologies required to deliver deep cuts in emissions before 2030, a major UN-backed report today warns.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

$1bn 'Ambition Zero Carbon' aims for zero carbon emissions across global operations by 2025, and ensure entire value chain is carbon negative by 2030. The new goals were set out in the firm's ‘Ambition Zero Carbon' strategy published yesterday, which brings forward its plans for decarbonisation in line with a 1.5C

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Black carbon. Carbon sequestration.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. They claim carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and the expansion of the so-called blue hydrogen industry are climate solutions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in August that such extreme weather events will become a more regular occurrence if global warming continues. Despite numerous governments setting targets to reach net zero carbon emissions, the world is not on track to contain rising temperatures.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Looming Crisis and Awakening Opportunity 2020 was a brutal year and 2021 has been off to a rough start. 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. What is ‘Climate Intelligence’?

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, 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.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule. Mon, 10/12/2020 - 01:30. Carbon is everywhere. Carbon atoms flow through all living organisms, from the atmosphere to the earth to the oceans and back again. So, how do we catalyze an evolution of carbon-related economic activity all over the world? David Parham.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Governments and energy companies should look beyond carbon dioxide and ensure their climate plans include drastic action to reduce the methane emissions from fossil fuel operations, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned today.

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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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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2020

The most obvious climatic impact of the fires is that they’re spewing millions of tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, contributing to a vicious feedback loop of heat and flame. In addition to carbon pollution, the fires are producing, well, regular air pollution.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

In its most recent report , Walmart concluded it avoided 186 million metric tonnes of emissions through Project Gigaton in 2020. Ten pharmaceutical companies have joined forces with Schneider Electric to accelerate renewable energy adoption and emissions reductions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Despite drops in energy usage during the pandemic, coal power use only declined by four percent in 2020, according to a new report. While coal used for power generation dropped 20 percent in both the U.S. GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. electricity consumption was 2.5

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2021

Time is running out to protect our tropical forests from irreversible loss and limit global warming to 1.5C.". John Kerry, US special presidential envoy for climate, said the coalition was a "ground-breaking example of the scale and type" of collaboration needed to achieve global climate goals.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

ICAO, the UN body that oversees the global aviation sector, agreed its first major international climate deal six years ago, when some 191 nations agreed to establish a controversial, market-based carbon offset system dubbed CORSIA that applies to global passenger, cargo, and business flights. But setting a goal is one thing.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Sailing through ice faster than ever before On a sparkling day in May, the nearly 300-meter-long tanker Christophe de Margerie set sail from the northern Russian port of Sabetta. But Rosatom won’t wait for global warming to run its course. This article is taken from Bloomberg. For the original, click here.

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

Although the event was exceedingly abnormal — a 1-in-1,000-year event in today’s climate, according to some estimates — researchers say that without global warming it would have been at least 150 times rarer and several degrees cooler. This allows more sunlight to reach the ground and exacerbate warming.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The latest report from the Energy Transitions Commission has set out a roadmap for how the world can move on to a 1.5C warming trajectory over the course of the coming decade. It is hard to fault the UN for naming the 2020s the 'decade of action'. threshold set out in the Paris Agreement. in the current decade? pathway by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Cameron LNG in Hackberry, Louisiana, which started operations in 2020. According to its air-quality permit , the Exxon-SABIC plant is allowed to emit about 3 million tons of carbon dioxide a year into the atmosphere. I asked GCGV and Sasol whether they monitored the air for such chemicals. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. However, as DeSmog has previously reported , carbon capture has failed to work in blue hydrogen production facilities at rates that would qualify the hydrogen as “clean.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the minds of the fossil fuel executives, this point must have been hammered home when federal scientists published a report on carbon dioxide and climate change in 1979. Exxon completes an “Atmospheric CO2 Scoping Study,” which concludes that reducing fossil fuel use through efficiency and renewable energy is the only foreseeable option.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Think thin-film solar and biofuels, the two “big bad bets” that Shayle Kann, partner at Energy Impact Partners, identified in a 2020 Interchange conversation. Global tallies of VC and private equity investment into cleantech in that year range from $9.2

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

Despite the (slow) migration to electric-powered cars, consumer trends are making driving even more wasteful and unequal. A recent analysis found the emissions saved from electric cars have been more than cancelled out by the increase in gas-guzzling Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs). Reducing car use in cities.

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