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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Green Tech Challenge

JULY 10, 2019

A study conducted in 2016, reveals an 80-95% rate of failure in feeding dives by seabirds along the southwest coast of Africa. The study prescribed a cessation of purse-seine fishing activities of the west coast of South Africa. Some innovations are already available. million metric tons.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole was innovative and persistent, remembers Ralph Nader. In 1987, while in law school at Harvard, Cole traveled to South Africa on a Harvard Human Rights Fellowship and volunteered for the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University. and wrote about social justice, had a significant influence on him.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

” Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to global warming and a leading cause of climate change worldwide. within reach.” The steps we’re taking today are greasing the skids for rapid adoption and action by many stakeholders when the first satellites in our constellation are launched in 2023.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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”. Just seven percent are based in Africa. It’s notable that the solutions pursued by some of the GMA members are not always in the interests of Global South producers.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. Or, will it lock in an “innovation”-focused, industry-led plan to produce more food, with a slightly lower footprint?

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The summit also sought to highlight Africa as a destination for climate investments, rather than viewing the continent as predominantly a victim of droughts, famines, and floods. More domestic refining and processing of the raw materials for batteries and other critical mineral deposits located in Africa.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 I have witnessed agricultural innovation, to reduce emissions and boost productivity, in Brazil. By aligning efforts internationally countries can accelerate the pace of technological change, increase incentives for investment, and innovate faster.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tackling these multiple challenges and threats requires coordinated action from the public sector, private sector, NGOs, civil society, innovators and actors throughout the food value chain. 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

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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. Eden Full – Founder, Roseicollis Technologies and inventor of the SunSaluter At 21 years old, Eden Full is the youngest solar innovator on our list.

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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. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

But firms focused on early-stage opportunities are targeting technologies as well as process and business innovations that can incrementally improve on an already existing ecosystem of competitive industries — what Kann called the “so-called picks and shovels that enable the commodity to get to market. The Washington D.C.-based

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Moreover, under CAT's 'optimistic scenario' - which assumes full implementation of net zero targets set by countries that have set or are considering such goals - global warming could be limited to as low as 2C, for the first time bringing the world's decarbonisation trajectory within the threshold target of the Paris Agreement.

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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. In addition, adaptation can generate multiple benefits.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

With the world on the brink of irreversible harm, every fraction of a degree of warming matters to limit the dangers of climate change. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C The dangerous and costly impacts we are experiencing now will seem mild compared to what we will face if we fail to keep warming to 1.5°C

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Our new APAC Network, Advisory Board and Singapore office will bring Asian finance to the heart of GFANZ to help solve this global challenge.". As home to fast-growing economies with enormous potential for clean energy investment, the region plays a critical role in the global effort to confront climate change.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2022

Most notably, the conference completed the first technical dialogue of the Global Stocktake , a new process designed to review collective progress towards achieving the Paris Agreement's goal to limit global warming to 1.5C. COP27 has the potential to further hammer home these stark realities.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture. As water vapor itself is a potent greenhouse gas, more water vapor in the atmosphere means accelerated global warming. This leads to even more another feedback loop! And it will not only be regional.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The most contentious issue was on funding to address the loss and damage caused by climate change impacts in poor countries in Africa and around the world. Governments and non-state actors must unite to limit global warming to 1.5 This is an important agreement, and I am glad that a way forward was found.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The new investments are to be made in partnership with SK Innovation, a South Korean battery maker. Both the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats have also pledged to step up climate action in line with the European Union's climate goals and the Paris agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 °C

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

As revealed by DeSmog this week, a firm owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups – also donated £20,000 in March to House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox.

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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 💡 Sustainability Open Innovation Challenge : Apply for the chance to win S$75,000. respectively.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Five years later she oversaw the signing of the historic accord at COP21 in which 195 countries agreed to limit global warming. She founded the Green Belt Movement that has led to more than 13 million trees being planted in Africa. Wangari Matthai of Kenya, the first environmentalist to win a Noble Prize.

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