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Global Briefing: France launches major floating offshore wind tender

Business Green

First domestic route in Denmark to use sustainable aviation fuel. So far, air traffic here in Denmark has primarily only been able to offer carbon offset arrangements in relation to emissions. Sustainable Aviation Fuel is crucial to the Aviation Industry reaching net zero emissions, alongside new technologies and carbon offsetting.

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Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28

DeSmogBlog

percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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Revealed: Two Thirds of Online Posts from Six Major European Fossil Fuel Companies ‘Greenwashing’

DeSmogBlog

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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How can the world kick its oil habit?

Mr. Sustainability

To just remove them from our energy system within a decade or two is completely fanciful,” says Kingsmill Bond, an energy strategist at think-tank Carbon Tracker, which is calling on governments and financial institutions to align themselves with a low-carbon economy (6). This applies to short-distance shipping and aviation too.

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'An atlas of human suffering': Top figures react to IPPC's latest climate warning

Business Green

Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction - now. The world's biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home. The carbon budget clock is ticking, and the UK government needs to show that its proposed measures will deliver the necessary emissions cuts.

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SDG17, coronavirus, and the battle for a collaborative future

Business Green

Within hours the whims of the American Electoral College system empowered autocrats, nationalists and polluters everywhere. Bilateral ODA (overseas development assistance) to least developed countries fell by three per cent in real terms from 2017, aid to Africa fell by four per cent, and humanitarian aid fell by eight per cent," the UN said.