Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Methane is a major contributor to climate change, and if we can’t measure it, we can’t manage it. Accurate, localized data on the sources of methane emissions will allow us to make critical progress toward the goals of the Global Methane Pledge – and our latest announcement aims to help do just that,” said Michael R.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

But global warming might be the death of it. The symposium was held Tuesday at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia , spurred by a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to the report, the global temperature is likely to rise above the 1.5 Original post:Â .

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

UNEP Adaptation Gap report shows the world is still hundreds of billions of dollars short of what is needed to finance climate adaptation. of warming above pre-industrial levels and are proving to be more intense than many scientists expected. UNEP's report does point to some progress made by governments on climate adaptation.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

He said the fight against global warming was “the most important story of our political time” and delivering successful action to combat climate change also “means a free world order”. Climate action means prosperity.”

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

Researchers have documented the insects making their homes in higher places that are typically too cool for them, from the tropical highlands of South America to the mountainous but populous regions of eastern Africa. A recent Georgetown University study found them moving upward in sub-Saharan Africa at the rate of 21 feet per year.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

Major new analysis from the Potsdam Institute warns climate impacts through to 2050 could do significantly more economic damage than previously expected How bad could it get? One of the biggest uncertainties surrounding climate change is precisely how severe climate impacts could prove to be.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. Danone’s size as a major global dairy company provides a significant opportunity for impact. The good news?

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The past year registered record-shattering global temperatures. degrees C (2 degrees F) of global warming, compared to pre-industrial averages. People around the world are already witnessing epic heat waves, wildfires and drought at 1.1 With current policies putting the world on.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Speaking at the launch of the report yesterday, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres rejected suggestions the escalating coronavirus outbreak could provide a silver lining for the climate in the form of lower greenhouse gas emissions this year. "We

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Grist

JUNE 13, 2023

Climate change is involved, but natural variations in global weather, and an unfortunate dose of serendipity, are also at play. Global warming itself hasn’t suddenly accelerated this year,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a live briefing on Monday.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C by the end of the century – a temperature that will result in the planet facing climate disaster. An alternative approach to carbon pricing.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

Protecting existing populations and restoring others to their natural habitats often improves the natural capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide within ecosystems, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change. According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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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. per cent of the country's GDP spent on development and assistance programmes in developing nations.

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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. Accusing people of alarmism has long been a favorite tactic of climate deniers and those who oppose climate action.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

From our favorites like bees and butterflies, to the lesser appreciated organisms such as wasps and mosquitoes, insects are facing threats such as climate change, and a myriad of other ills such as habitat loss and pesticide use. There are more than 200,000 protected areas around the globe , including marine protected areas. .

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic caused CO2 emissions from buildings and construction to fall significantly in 2020, but a lack of real transformation in the sector means that emissions will keep rising and contribute to dangerous climate change, according to the 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems. million km2) is now used to produce crops.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

They warn that if the trend is left to continue and food production systems are not reformed to cut harmful fertiliser use, the world will fail to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, established in 2015 to stave off the worst and most devastating impacts of global warming.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2022

Sharma is in Washington DC to attend the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF where he will attend a series of meetings with finance ministers, including from India, Indonesia, and South Africa, heads of MDBs, and US Climate Envoy John Kerry. The South Africa Just Energy Transition partnership is a great example of this.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Did you realize that by throwing food out, you’re also wasting water and causing climate change? Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. Did you throw out your dinner because you were worried about overeating, felt full, or were turned off by the flavor?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Rising heat and humidity caused by climate change is expected to significantly dampen labour productivity throughout the world, with costs to the global economy potentially reaching up to $1.6tr each year from lost working hours if global warming exceeds levels of around 3C, fresh scientific analysis suggests.

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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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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

a prominent theory for its sudden explosion has emerged: climate change. The pathogen was first identified 14 years ago in Japan and then found to have emerged spontaneously in three countries on three continents: Venezuela, India, and South Africa. auris, Ostrosky said that climate change is the most widely accepted one.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Sweeping new strategy aims to place climate action at heart of UK foreign and security policy. The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". The UK was the first advanced economy to set a net zero target for 2050.

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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. Heatwaves in Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Fighting for Justice.

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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. This year showed that climate change is an immediate, direct threat to every community on this planet, and it is only going to intensify," said UNEP's Andersen.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

Protecting existing populations and restoring others to their natural habitats often improves the natural capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide within ecosystems, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change. According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious. Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 But the connection between climate change and drought is not as straightforward as it seems. degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit); in areas of the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

"We will work together to establish rigorous and transparent voluntary carbon markets - which incentivise meaningful climate action by businesses. Action that is underpinned by deep and rapid cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, and credible climate change science.".

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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. recently labeled the sorry state of our climate as a “code red for humanity.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Access to appliances will also help off- and weak-grid communities in developing countries, which are often disproportionately affected by climate change, to adapt to global warming and build resilience to external shocks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And, as the film's director Adam McKay explained in a recent podcast with Volts David Roberts , no metaphor is ever going to be exactly right, especially for something as complicated as climate change, but a comet that the world chooses to ignore is not the worst parallel for our current predicament. billion and 3.6

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. 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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The company confirmed it would expand its Climate Science Information Center and rename it as the Climate Science Center, adding new features, like quizzes, to better inform and engage Facebook's community on climate change. pathway, then global warming this century could be limited to 1.7C.

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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 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures — the target named in the Paris Agreement that would prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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