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COP26 left the world with a climate to-do list: Here are 5 things to watch for in 2022

Renewable Energy World

In island n ations that are losing their homes to sea-level rise, and in other highly vulnerable countries, there were bitter pills to swallow after global commitments to cut emissions fell far short of the goal to keep global warming to 1.5 That group is expected to report back in 2022. degrees Celsius (2.7°F).

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Fossil Fuel Firms Use Permitting Loopholes to Fast-Track LNG Export Projects Near Black Communities

DeSmogBlog

When it evaporates, it’s methane. You can’t breathe methane. Roishetta Ozane, speaking in 2022 against another proposed LNG export project. “It will literally freeze anything it comes into contact with and it’s going to float on the water. It will kill you.” I just wanted to get to the root of the problem.”

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

These indicators, including but not limited to carbon dioxide, methane, ocean acidification, tropical forest loss, population, GDP, water use, and transportation, have reached the point past natural variation, showing indisputably that the Earth is in a different state than before. .

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

After the Army Corps of Engineers awarded key permits for the MBSD project on December 19, 2022 , two nonprofit organizations entrusted with funds meant to reverse environmental damage caused by the 2010 BP oil spill made funding available for the project. Trandahl’s salary and compensation in 2022 exceeded $1.5

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

DeSmogBlog

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.

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The trust cost of climate change inaction

Renewable Energy World

Most people understand the general impacts of climate change: sea-level rise, worsening weather events, severe heat, etc., As it thaws, it releases trapped greenhouse gases like carbon and methane, which in turn drive a vicious cycle of more warming and consequential thawing.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

DeSmogBlog

In February 2022, the Independent quoted Clarke’s argument that “it would be positively irrational for us to resile from our net-zero commitments” in response to pressure from the Net Zero Scrutiny Group of anti-green MPs. That is why we need these companies to be ploughing that investment into the North Sea.”.