DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

These agri-giants will be rubbing shoulders with over 80,000 participants – the highest attendance of any climate conference – which these days comes with increased media fanfare and activity, including protests, side events, drinks and dinners happening in and around the main event. This year will be different.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The GMA declined to offer a formal comment, however a spokesperson told DeSmog in an email that the group works to “simplify and distil public information” around international events which are “often dominated by an anti-meat narrative”. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Subscribe Now 📩 Submit deals, announcements, events & opportunities, or general curiosities for the newsletter at hello@ctvc.co. Setting the scene: The goal of the event, which drew ~25,000 attendees, was to bring together national leaders to establish a shared position on climate priorities ahead of COP28 in November.

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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. Water and forest management, and other human factors, contribute to the severity and likelihood of these events.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

They added that “the Centre for Policy Studies has been one of the most prominent champions of free-market environmentalism, with a dedicated workstream on net zero” and that “Where our work is sponsored, this is made clear in the report acknowledgments, in press releases, and in event invitations.”

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

But global warming might be the death of it. As extreme weather events like fires, cyclones, floods and erosion intensify, rock art fades and disappears. Australia and Africa each have at least 100,000 rock art sites, some stretching back 28,000 years. Indigenous rock art has survived tens of thousands of years.

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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. But annual additions of renewable power capacity must grow three times the current level by 2030, if we want to stay on a pathway limiting global warming to 1.5C." "As

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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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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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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. Swain and his colleagues estimate a 25- to 100-percent increase in such “extreme dry-to-wet precipitation events” in California over the next century.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 12, 2021

Related: Polar bears could go extinct in 80 years if global warming persists In their pledge, the countries have agreed to reserve at least 30% of the planet’s land and water as natural habitats. The event was addressed by various world leaders, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

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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 A section of bike path covered in ocean water during the “King Tide” event — made worse by sea-level rise — in Mill Valley, California, in January.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

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. In the U.S., the most cases last year were found in Nevada and California, but the fungus was identified clinically in patients in 29 states.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

"The impact of existing climate change will cause increasing damage: more frequent and intense events such as extreme heat, storms and rain, leading to increased flooding, landslides and other impacts such as wildfires," the report states. Urgent action is needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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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

MARCH 11, 2020

Meanwhile, many parts of the world experienced extreme weather events that "were unprecedented in scale", leading to serious flooding in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Iran, and parts of South America. Specifically, he argued that the Summit should aim to secure more ambitious national climate plans that will keep global warming to 1.5

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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 21, 2023

More than half a dozen Tufton Street alumni currently serve as special advisers to the government, while seven ministers have appeared at events hosted by Tufton Street groups since Sunak became prime minister in October. These groups have often acted as a blocker to climate action. Not for her own benefit.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

It has also prompted fears that the rise in oil and gas revenues could make it harder to wean the world of fossil fuels, despite the International Energy Agency's (IEA) clear conclusion last year that no new fossil fuel exploration projects should proceed if the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are to be kept alive.

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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 In contrast, Nigeria spends over half of its household income on food, followed by nine other countries that spend over 40 percent on food. Au contraire, it is the reverse.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

For decades, there was no reliable way of evacuating people in the event of a severe storm; the only way on or off the island was by small plane or boat, neither of which are available or safe during high winds, storm surges, and inundation. A bridg e to the mainland was only recently completed. It gave him energy to go after the big guys.”.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

Drought is not new but its intensity and frequency have increased over the last thirty years due to global warming," said report co-author, Christian Aid's Nushrat Rahman Chowdhury. "It Our study of that event found climate change made the drought about three times more likely to occur.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A variety of smaller, but significant, commitments on accelerating the energy transition, net zero steel production, fossil fuel phase-outs globally and specifically in South Africa, EV ambitions, and exploration of nuclear power and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. degree Celsius warming trajectory.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

Whether they took the form of Brexit, President Trump, Covid, or Putin's invasion of Ukraine, events that were widely regarded as unlikely have not only come to pass but have proven even more disruptive than many feared, sparking cascade effects across the global economy. The 'Black Swans' have kept coming home to roost.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

But it depends on solutions moving exponentially faster than impacts, and getting on track to halving global emissions by 2030. This summer, we have already seen the extreme weather events caused by a heating world. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C COP26 will be the moment of truth.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Even in a world with low greenhouse gas emissions - warming below 1.6C Under the same conditions, people in Africa's tropical regions are projected to lose between three to 41 per cent of their fisheries' yield by the end of the century due to local extinctions of marine fish.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 2, 2019

More than 1 million people , fleeing not just poverty but the drought, food insecurity, economic instability, civil wars, and insurgencies in the Middle East and Africa, arrived in Europe, their flight driven in no small part by global warming driven climate change that Europe was in no small part responsible for creating.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

US re-joins High Ambition Coalition, as snap analysis suggests commitments made in Glasgow could bring global warming trajectories down below 2C for the first time. warming pathway. if they aligned with a 1.5C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C No one likes to say 1.5C

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A UN assessment of current country-level climate commitments found that if all commitments were met, global emissions may be about 5% lower in 2030 than they were in 2019. However, to limit global warming to 1.5°C °C above pre-industrial levels, they would need to be 43% lower.     A somewhat bright spot?

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Rodrigo Constantino, another founder, columnist at Gazeta do Povo , and president of the libertarian Instituto Liberal, has accused scientists of deceptively using the term “climate change”, rather than “global warming”, in order to blame all extreme weather events on the phenomenon.

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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 The task of COP26 was to make decisive progress towards halving global emissions by 2030 to keep alive the hope of limiting global warming to 1.5

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This book explains how events like these are influenced by climate change and offer ways you can get involved in the fight for solutions. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

or 2C of global warming, the paper warned the SBTi was at risk of becoming a "platform for greenwash". He reflects that enticing more firms from Asia, Latin America, and Africa to the initiative might be largely a case of adapting communications to take account of cultural differences.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

warming trajectory. Scientists have made clear that global emissions cuts of 45 per cent by 2030 are needed to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, yet UN analysis suggests that present national commitments would see emissions rise by 16 per cent by the end of the decade, compared to 2010.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As current events make all too clear, our continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the global economy and energy security vulnerable to geopolitical shocks and crises. Instead of slowing down the decarbonisation of the global economy, now is the time to accelerate the energy transition to a renewable energy future.".

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