DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says. But I’m a little worried that some of this [meat] production is so baked into subsidies and policy, that even with decreased demand, this apparatus will just keep flowing. “We

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. He was basically demanding that they start to talk about climate change on TV,” Davies said. Swain echoed this. “I

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

All in all, whichever pathway is taken, monumental changes are needed to the global energy system over the next decade in order to avert the most catastrophic levels of global warming. At present, around 83 per cent of primary energy is currently fossil fuels, while wind and solar PV account for just 1.3

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Concerning the meat industry’s argument that some pastures cannot be used for other forms of agriculture, University of Oxford researcher Marco Springmann argues that “if everybody were to make the argument that ‘our pastures are the best and should be used for grazing’, then there would be no way to limit global warming.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, that inaction or delayed action on climate will create immense risks and costs,and populations across the world demand leaders to respond - and to respond now. That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 And they could see the effects of our warming world around them.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But demand for polluting fossil fuel-derived plastics could peak by 2035 if business and government works together to create a more sustainable plastic supply chain, report finds. Gilfillan said this outcome depended on all actors playing a part in overhauling the way plastic is used in modern society. of pre-industrial levels," he said.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The performance was driven by significant growth in Asia where 141GW of new capacity was added in China alone, helping to take Asia's total renewables capacity to 1.63TW of capacity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C A separate report from IPPC scientists last summer warned that global warming is on track to far exceed 2C this century, unless rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades. If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Flanders moves to ban gas boilers, GFANZ launches new Asia-Pacific network, and New Zealand steps up efforts to tackle agricultural emissions. China tops EV market league table, as global demand continues to surge. GFANZ launches new Asia-Pacific Network.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

But it’s also made social equity a centerpiece of its efforts, from made-in-America pledges to boost jobs to commitments to focus investments in low-income and minority communities suffering the most health and economic damage from industrial pollution and global warming. The Washington D.C.-based

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Even in a world with low greenhouse gas emissions - warming below 1.6C Under the same conditions, people in Africa's tropical regions are projected to lose between three to 41 per cent of their fisheries' yield by the end of the century due to local extinctions of marine fish.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

As such, the benchmark companies need to meet if they want to be regarded as leaders in the global effort to tackle the climate crisis is becoming ever-more demanding. "It aligned climate targets that support the Paris Agreement's more demanding temperature goal.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

warming between 2030 and 2052. In 2016, more than 150 of Australia's climate scientists wrote an open letter to then prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, demanding immediate action on reducing emissions. Compiled by WWF, the report analyses 24 "deforestation fronts" across 29 countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It is by now well recognised that nature-based climate solutions can provide more than a third of the carbon reductions needed to keep global warming below 2C, the target agreed at the Paris climate talks. Avoided deforestation is a the mos impactful nature-based solution for achieving the Paris Agreement targets.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

US re-joins High Ambition Coalition, as snap analysis suggests commitments made in Glasgow could bring global warming trajectories down below 2C for the first time. warming pathway. if they aligned with a 1.5C The climate threatened nations have everything at stake here in Glasgow.".

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

They spend your money to buy a seat at the UN Security Council, and also, they are giving your money to other countries to fight climate change in Asia and build roads in Africa. Elizabeth May: To avoid catastrophic levels of global warming, we must double our current target, we must listen to science.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Yeb Saño, Executive Director at Greenpeace Southeast Asia and Head of the Greenpeace delegation attending the COP, said: "The agreement for a Loss and Damage Finance Fund marks a new dawn for climate justice. Governments and non-state actors must unite to limit global warming to 1.5 We remain committed to 1.5

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2019, global demand reached a record 100 million barrels a day, driven in part by the needs of rapidly industrialising emerging markets. Yet when it comes to oil demand, there is little sign of this happening (3). History shows that predicting anything - in particular oil demand - is almost always wrong.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C No one likes to say 1.5C

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Read more » 10 Women at the Forefront of Environmentalism and Sustainability Women are leading a social movement that is demanding accountability. org and is the coordinator of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice. She founded the Green Belt Movement that has led to more than 13 million trees being planted in Africa.

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