Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

A rapid shift away from fossil fuels is also needed alongside a major ramp up in renewable electricity capacity - largely provided by wind and solar projects - which will form the backbone of the future energy system, while development of hydrogen, carbon capture and new modular nuclear technologies is also crucial, the report warned.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s In its comment to DeSmog, the AHDB spokesperson also used GWP* to claim that “methane from UK livestock since 1990 has not caused global warming”. Just seven percent are based in Africa.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Under the relentless sun in Africa, the birthplace of humanity, every living thing had to find a way to beat the heat. And more heat will come, bringing parts of Mexico’s coasts and more of South Asia into the danger zone. In recent years, parts of Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula have already briefly crossed this scary threshold.

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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

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. Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. It calls on countries to phase-down unabated coal power and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

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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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Leaders of the world's biggest economies have today signalled their continued support for an ambitious outcome from the tense on-going climate negotiations at the COP27 Summit, emphasising their support for capping global warming at 1.5C, ramping up climate finance, cutting back on coal power, and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2021

Accordingly, the scientists call for far-reaching efforts to reform global economic models, education systems, and societal inequality, including abolishing the idea of perpetual economic growth, properly pricing environmental externalities, ceasing the use of fossil fuels, reining in corporate lobbying, and empowering women.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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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. We must go off fossil fuels as quickly as possible, and you bought a pipeline. The other leaders on this stage are globalist. It’s not our plan.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The final text of the agreement confirmed the adoption of historic plans to introduce a new fundiung mechanism to help climate vulnerable nations cope with climate-related Loss and Damage, marking a sizeable victory for nations from the Global South. A clear commitment to phase out all fossil fuels - Not in this text.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The No New Coal Agreement has already secured the backing of the UK, alongside Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Montenegro and Sri Lanka, in a move designed to ramp up pressure towards a global phase-out agreement for the carbon intensive fossil fuel at COP26 in Glasgow.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Don’t agree on the assessment or the different pathways to get rid of fossil fuels? This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below. The article was called ‘can the world kick its oil habit?’.

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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 is closing fast.

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