DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health. Myisha Majumder. Stacia Betley, 29.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

So, this is very much a health intervention. And that’s a complete waste, it just adds carbon to the atmosphere for no benefit and you’re not getting the benefits of a clean energy. You can argue that carbon dioxide actually is not dirty. Carbon dioxide causes climate change, but in itself, it’s not dirty.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Many of the risks related to fats and oils, such as human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor working conditions, are recurring features of agricultural commodity supply chains. How might these regenerative approaches restore the health of ecosystems? This is an opportunity to flip how we frame impacts.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Green Tech Challenge

JULY 10, 2019

Ocean acidification has negative effects on sea-life and the ecosystem. We have written, here , that ocean acidification disrupts the growth and productive health of some sea life, the most vulnerable being shellfish larvae, and developing fish. The ocean has experienced a 26% pH drop in the last century.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Just Energy Transition Partnerships pioneered in South Africa, Indonesia , and Vietnam will begin to mobilise billions of dollars of clean energy investment, providing a template for other emerging economies to follow. The IEA's prediction global emissions could peak in 2025 looks an increasingly plausible scenario.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As underscored by recent flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires across parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, the report makes clear that climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet. Natural carbon sinks become less effective as emissions rise. by the 2100.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

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. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The inclusion of biodiversity is part of Textile Exchange’s Climate+ strategy, which focuses on urgent climate action and recognizes that soil health, water and biodiversity will play a key role in this transition. ” Biodiversity conservation is a central pillar of land management.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The role of livestock in low-income countries has recently been highlighted by the EAT-Lancet Commission themselves: “Because many regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, still face severe burdens of undernutrition and malnutrition, and growing children often do not obtain adequate quantities of nutrients from plant source foods alone”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

In April last year, oil prices dipped briefly into negative territory and scores of oil majors, including global players such as ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP, have announced thousands of job cuts and written down the value of their assets by billions of dollars. carbon budget for 2100 as soon as the early 2030s.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 29, 2020

of warming, our emissions need to immediately start reducing rapidly towards zero and then on to negative figures.We Science is central to the demands in the letter, specifically adopting science-based binding carbon budgets, "which gives us the best possible odds to limit the global average temperature rise to below 1.5 °C."

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To me, this was a particularly silly question, as I recently finished writing an article on the future of fossil fuels and oil prices were actually negative for the first time in human history. Virtually all of them face rising pressure to push harder for carbon neutrality, mostly in the West. O boy, was I triggered.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Inclusive and green economies, prosperity, cleaner air and better health are possible for all if we respond to this crisis with solidarity and courage. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree I am asking corporate leaders to support a minimum international carbon price and align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. For the first time in history, oil prices were negative. Carbon Tracker states that the world is “witnessing the decline and fall of the fossil fuel system”. The transition is among us.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. This fast-evolving legal strategy has placed a premium on new archival research. Shell had other plans.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. From a historical perspective however, warning about the negative effects of our food consumption are commonplace. About Food What is food? This is called photosynthesis. Absolutely.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

As explained by Nina Munteanu in a Vancouver Sun article , the reason that conservative men are so negatively disposed towards female environmentalists is because these women threaten their gender identity. Compared to men, women litter less, recycle more, and leave a smaller carbon footprint." kilograms of carbon per day.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) Ice that survives for at least one year is called multi-year ice, sometimes perennial ice, which gives an indication of the health of the ice at the end of the melt season. Sea Ice extent is going down. feedback loops will cause this melting to possibly accelerate. Lot’s of Methane.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

. “I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun,” he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health.

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