Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiate launches alongside consultation into how carbon credits should be embedded into business strategies. In a statement, the group said it planned to address "credibility concerns" surrounding carbon offset markets and close a "number of critical gaps in voluntary carbon market integrity".

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

Based on the results, they propose the creation of a national carbon credit fund to support sustainable waste management initiatives. million metric tons of CO 2 equivalent, for annual economic benefits of USD 44 million to USD 687 million in carbon credits.” “That would correspond to between 4.9 million and 57.2

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And consider – after the US and China, wasted food is the third-largest carbon dioxide generator in the world. Between 8% and 10% of the world’s carbon emissions result from all these unconsumed products. billion tonnes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) equivalent to carbon dioxide are emitted annually due to food waste.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) - a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide - have risen by 20 per cent from pre-industrial levels, with agriculture responsible for the lion's share of the increase, researchers from Auburn University in Alabama found.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Cutting methane emissions is the most immediate opportunity we have to slow the global warming rate and prevent irreversible damage to the planet. Methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere. while reducing emissions per gallon of milk.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In Indonesia this number drops to nine per cent; in South Africa six per cent; and in India as low as five per cent. With global warming making some regions uninhabitable during the hot season - particularly for vulnerable populations of elderly citizens and those with chronic diseases - cooling solutions will become essential.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Globally, jobs in the energy sector are projected to increase from 18 million today to 26 million in 2050 if the world cuts carbon to meet the well-below 2°C target set by the Paris Agreement , according to a model created by researchers in Canada and Europe. The new study was published earlier this summer in One Earth.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

Investor-led Transitions Pathway Initiative warns four in five firms in carbon intensive sectors currently fail Paris Agreement test. of warming, as set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In Asia and Africa, building stock is expected to double by 2050. Global material use is expected to more than double by 2060, with a third of this rise attributable to construction materials. “The Some small progress, but not enough.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Production Gap report reveals governments still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

A new atlas published on 26 May shows that 54 per cent of the world’s land surface consists of vast tracts of land covered by grass, shrubs or sparse, hardy vegetation that support millions of pastoralists, hunter gatherers, ranchers and large populations of wildlife – and store large amounts of carbon.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

But what is less clear is how this global warming will translate into increased weather extremes and how these extremes will then impact hugely complex human infrastructure, agricultural systems, and the economies they underpin. Such outcomes would trigger huge geo-political risks that could impact the entire global economy.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 The first has to do with the carbon budget — the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the planet warms more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

New funding builds on unique partnership to tackle potent methane emissions between Bloomberg Philanthropies, Carbon Mapper, Planet, the State of California, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University (ASU), High Tide Foundation, and RMI . The pledge needs to be matched with bold solutions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The announcement came as the retailer unveiled an expanded partnership with the Fairtrade Foundation and Fairtrade Africa aimed at supporting communities vulnerable to the growing impacts of climate change in its supply chain. Chris Oluoch, programmes director of Fairtrade Africa, welcomed its expanded partnership with the retailer. "Co-op

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Global wildlife populations fell 69% between 1970 and 2018, according to the World Wide Fund For Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund) in its Living Planet Report. Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In island n ations that are losing their homes to sea-level rise, and in other highly vulnerable countries, there were bitter pills to swallow after global commitments to cut emissions fell far short of the goal to keep global warming to 1.5 More South Africa deals, please. degrees Celsius (2.7°F). billion from the U.K.,

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The analysis details the wide ranging and severe impacts that climate change will have on the ocean and ocean-based economy and calls for a forward looking, cooperative and equitable global response. Even if action is taken to cut carbon emissions, the industry is still expected to suffer economic losses of up to 66%.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

Oil prices may have surged in recent months, but investing in new fossil fuel projects risks 'catastrophic levels of value destruction' when prices fall, new Carbon Tracker analysis warns. are to be kept alive. Shareholders could face catastrophic levels of value destruction as prices fall.".

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Related: NYC Metronome clock now displays deadline for irreversible global warming The climate clock forms part of the backdrop in which the United Nations General Assembly began its meeting in New York on Monday. “ Africa needs countries like the U.S.—that billion promised this year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

New analysis warns national climate targets for 2030 point to dangerous warming of 2.4C, as rush for LNG capacity risks further undermining chances of meeting goals of Paris Agreement. Projected global warming in 2100 based on national climate targets announced to date remains at a worryingly high 2.4C by mid-century.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Global investment needs to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels to green energy throughout the 2020s, but bets against that happening look increasingly risky. In order to cap global warming at 1.5C From 2011 to 2015, for example, the low carbon to fossil fuel supply investment ratio was 0.5:1. BNEF compared 1.5C

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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. 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”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Rapidly growing understanding of the scale of the climate and ecological crises facing the planet, and the carbon capturing potential of forests, have led to growing advocacy for forestry protection, cultivation projects, and more ambitious incentives and regulations from policymakers.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

Climate change is already having “widespread, pervasive impacts” on people everywhere in the world, a new report from the scientific panel says, due to the warming that has occurred so far — roughly 1.09 Global warming doesn’t only affect humans by changing the weather and melting the ice caps, the report warns.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But hidden on page 25 of the “Summary for Policymakers” was an even grimmer note: That even in the IPCC’s most optimistic models, the chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 degrees of warming only to dip back down later. degrees Celsius (2.7 Why does 1.5 degrees continue to attract so much fervor?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

New report warns world is 'heading in wrong direction' post-pandemic resulting in a 48 per cent chance the global 1.5C There is now a near 50-50 chance of global warming temporarily rising above the totemic 1.5C Prolonged and severe droughts in China, the Horn of Africa and the United States. of warming.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, scientists posit carbon emissions must drop rapidly to 25 gigatons by 2030, or 7.6 Au contraire, it is the reverse. In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Enhancing access to affordable, high-performing, and inclusive appliances that can be powered by renewable energy sources offers a low carbon pathway to sustainable development. New skills and an expanded workforce will be needed to deliver this clean energy transition and improve access to renewable and solar-powered alliances.

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Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 16, 2017

Primarily, they are centered in parts of Africa, parts of India, Pakistan and regions in Asia – and most of them are centered in rural areas. In Africa , for example, the national electrification rate is 45%. It is, however, also very dependent on the burning on fossil fuels, which contributes to global warming and carbon emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

But we've also seen pictures of lions and elephants enjoying the warmth of unused tarmac roads in South Africa's Kruger National park, watched clips of curious deer wandering suburban streets, and heard that giant pandas in Hong Kong's zoo have rediscovered passion for one another in the absence of their usual visitors.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

global warming pathway are to be kept alive. In snap analysis published yesterday, the IEA said it had calculated the impacts of the net zero pledges and emissions targets announced in recent days, and concluded that if national climate pledges are delivered as promised, the planet could potentially limit warming to 1.8C

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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. billion and 3.6

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

The economic slowdown and travel constraints that are resulting from the coronavirus outbreak are expected to lead to lower emissions this year, but experts have warned any carbon savings will likely prove shortlived as governments seek to stimulate their economies in the coming months.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

Gazi and Makongeni villages have in place a carbon offset project, the first of its kind in the world to successfully trade mangrove carbon credits. Mangroves store three to five times more carbon than tropical forests, which makes them elemental in the fight against carbon emissions and global warming.

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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. Many companies were aware of the potential effects of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures on climate.

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