Grist

JULY 20, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. Together, the two countries accounted for 6 percent of global malaria deaths in 2021.

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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. ” The post REPORT: Wildlife loss is increasing rapidly.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

Prices per barrel of oil have surged in recent months as economies ramp up activity in the wake of Covid-19, with supply having struggled to keep up with the pace of increased demand. However, this could become a nightmare scenario if they go ahead with projects which deliver oil around the time that demand starts to decline.

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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 Dr Fatima Denton, United Nations University – particular expertise in natural resource management, especially in regards to Africa.

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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. As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 Demand drives supply. It makes a difference.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The study shows how the G20 is responsible for around 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, meaning that were G20 nations to align their official national climate action plans - or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the UN jargon - with a 1.5C pathway, then global warming this century could be limited to 1.7C.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Climate change is "landing blow after blow on humanity" yet the world is still failing to mobilise the hundreds of billions of dollars of investment needed to better prepare for and guard against the myriad worsening impacts of global warming. These impacts are being experienced at just 1.1C

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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 Meanwhile, in the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia, gas production could increase into the 2030s to help those economies grow before peaking. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. Read more here. In the U.S., New York remains a major hotspot.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says. But I’m a little worried that some of this [meat] production is so baked into subsidies and policy, that even with decreased demand, this apparatus will just keep flowing. “We

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Yet large scale tree planting has proven to be anything but easy, if the state of global forest cover today is anything to go by. A host of global corporates signed up to a voluntary Soft Commodities Compact target over a decade ago pledging to deliver zero net forestation in supply chains by 2020, a goal they badly missed.

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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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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

MAY 16, 2022

But it concluded that urban water shortages are increasingly a systemic risk, as the combination of urbanisation and climate impacts mean many countries are struggling to adapt to changing weather patterns and growing infrastructure demands. Meanwhile, less than 0.01 These are communities which have done the least to cause the climate crisis.

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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. He was basically demanding that they start to talk about climate change on TV,” Davies said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But today's agreement is a big step forward and, critically, we have the first ever international agreement to phase down coal and a roadmap to limit global warming to 1.5 But we have seen too many promises for tomorrow, not the action that the climate emergency demands today. Boris Johnson bears some responsibility for that.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

WWF's global deputy lead Vanessa Perez-Cirera welcomed a new reference to nature's key role in achieving the Paris Agreement temperature goal. The science is clear, there is no viable route to limiting global warming to 1.5C It has been suggested that in the UNFCCC style guide "requests" is deemed stronger than "urges".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

With increased demand for such solutions, we look forward to continuing to make meaningful impact by deploying the technology with our current and future partners.". off global warming by 2050, as methane's warming potential is 84 times greater than carbon dioxide over 20-year timescale.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

Additional threats include conversion of mangrove areas to other land uses, pollution, rising infrastructure and development leading to human encroachment and increasing demand for mangrove resources. Urban areas such as Tudor Creek in Mombasa have lost nearly 80% of the vegetation cover through harvesting of fuel wood.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Yet as the global economy emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions are on the rise once again, presenting a monumental challenge over the next eight years if the world is to keep to the 1.5C global warming target countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement on the table.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Clearly, the firm faces an enormous challenge over the coming decades to cater to growing public demand for action against plastic waste, climate change and other environmental concerns. On topics like water scarcity, where we face serious issues in Europe, I'm looking to learn from my colleagues in Africa and Brazil.".

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

All in all, whichever pathway is taken, monumental changes are needed to the global energy system over the next decade in order to avert the most catastrophic levels of global warming. At present, around 83 per cent of primary energy is currently fossil fuels, while wind and solar PV account for just 1.3

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. But Global North groups dominate. But its problems go well beyond the farm.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, that inaction or delayed action on climate will create immense risks and costs,and populations across the world demand leaders to respond - and to respond now. That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 Working in partnership, we can support a truly global transition.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

This complexity has resulted in conflicting messages about the role of human-caused global warming in the droughts that have ravaged the American West and the rest of the world. Scientists have a measure for how “thirsty” the atmosphere is, or how much water the sky absorbs: evaporative demand. The sky gets thirstier.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And, echoing the demands of many developing nations, Guterres stressed that progress on Loss and Damage - a thorny issue surrounding new forms funding for climate vulnerable nations facing the brunt of global warming impacts - should serve as a "litmus test" for the success of COP27 as a whole. Progress on LEAF.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Concerning the meat industry’s argument that some pastures cannot be used for other forms of agriculture, University of Oxford researcher Marco Springmann argues that “if everybody were to make the argument that ‘our pastures are the best and should be used for grazing’, then there would be no way to limit global warming.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But demand for polluting fossil fuel-derived plastics could peak by 2035 if business and government works together to create a more sustainable plastic supply chain, report finds. Gilfillan said this outcome depended on all actors playing a part in overhauling the way plastic is used in modern society. of pre-industrial levels," he said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2022

Importantly, too, the report points out that given global emissions need to fall by 45 per cent by 2030 in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C, the increase in spending would have to be front-loaded within the current decade. per cent of global GDP between 2026 and 2030, up from around 6.8

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C A separate report from IPPC scientists last summer warned that global warming is on track to far exceed 2C this century, unless rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades. If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2021

The bank has also committed to achieving its targets in line with the more ambitious Paris Agreement goal of restricting global warming to 1.5C, which is less reliant on negative emissions technology.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

She is a DrPH candidate at UCB, as well as Associate Director of Emergency Obstetric Research in West Africa for the Bixby Center for Population Health and Sustainability. Stachel is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist with fourteen years of clinical experience, holding an M.D.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

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.”. He continued: “The millions spent on sophisticated marketing and advertising campaigns are about shaping public opinion and maintaining demand for fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Renewables capacity in Europe and North America grew by 57.3GW and 29.1GW, respectively, while Africa added 2.7GW of capacity, delivering a marginal year-on-year increase. The strong business case of renewables coupled with enabling policies has sustained an upward trend of their share in the global energy mix year on year," he added.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 Demand drives supply. It makes a difference.

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