Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Deforestation and fires have soared in the Amazon Rainforest in recent years, while huge global demand for products such as palm oil, soy, and timber is also driving destruction of critical forests in Asia, Africa, and beyond. Corporate efforts to combat the issue have also largely failed.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. It’s notable that the solutions pursued by some of the GMA members are not always in the interests of Global South producers.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. Even in a world with low greenhouse gas emissions - warming below 1.6C World must urgently slash emissions, as well as boost resilience to climate impacts. As such, there are plenty of key takeaways for businesses.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide life-critical services such as food and clean water," said IPCC Working Group II co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. "By The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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Climate change Global warming Resilience Sea level rise 68

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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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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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

The spectre of such impacts should be galvanising urgent action, it adds, warning that climate-induced mass migrations, pandemics, and conflicts over resources will be inevitable unless sweeping measures are taken to slash emissions and bolster climate resilience. warming between 2030 and 2052.

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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 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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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

Building Energy Monitoring 101

Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 101