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 coalition’s pledges have been applauded but also met by some criticism from various environmentalists. Greenpeace U.K.’s

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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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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

These richer countries promised to invest $100 billion annually in a global green energy fund to help developing nations. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In his first speech after staging a stunning political comeback at Brazil’s presidential elections, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to halt the Amazon deforestation that surged under outgoing rival Jair Bolsonaro. Truss did not meet any other political groups during her trip. He will also have to win a battle of ideas.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

They reflect the interests, the conditions, the contradictions and the state of political will in the world today. They take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions. Of course global politics shape these summits, but the Prime Minister has hindered not helped.

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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

Australia and the US are the second and third largest beef exporters globally, and their governments have a strong economic interest in supporting the growth of these industries, which enjoy close political ties. Just seven percent are based in Africa. Scoones explains that this can lead to unhelpful discussions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2022

McKinsey analysis suggests $9.2tr needed every year to achieve net zero worldwide, but report stresses such massive investment should 'not be seen as merely costs'. It is the multi-trillion dollar question: how much will the net zero transition cost, and what benefits and challenges will that investment deliver?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

When asked about its board members’ business interests, a CPS spokesperson said that the think tank is “grateful for all our supporters, especially the support of our board members, but the investments of other boards on which they sit have no bearing on their relationship with the CPS”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

of warming. And it includes a call for industrialised nations to double adaptation finance by 2025 and work with the private sector to further mobilise investment in climate resilience. WWF's global deputy lead Vanessa Perez-Cirera welcomed a new reference to nature's key role in achieving the Paris Agreement temperature goal.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 Indeed, in one of its recent reports, Chatham House makes the case that such factors could, ultimately, displace people, disrupt markets, undermine political stability, and exacerbate conflict. degrees limit within two decades. Clean is competitive.

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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. They are not inevitable.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There has been movement but I would be exaggerating if I said it was matching exactly what the political statements are," said Aboulmagd. The Partnership Global for Infrastructure and Investment is an important geostrategic initiative in era of strategic competition," said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As the world's two biggest economies and emitters, the USA and China have particular responsibility for making such a "historic" Pact a reality, said Guterres, as he called on the two superpowers to come together in the mutual interests of the planet, despite their political differences. "It Sunak also met with Kenya's new President H.E.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth's land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature's capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.".

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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. Additionally, she serves on the Editorial Board for the Berkeley Wellness Letter and co-chairs an international working group on Energy and Health for the UN Foundation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The terrifying information and dire warnings it contains are a lot to take in, but crucially the report also sets out potential political, financial, and practical solutions for enabling climate resilient development, which it argues are both cost effective and urgently needed. Supporting and investing in nature is critical.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Negotiations around adaptation plans and carbon markets have spilled over into the second week, eating into time typically earmarked for political discussions between government ministers. We must now shift gears and complement the technical discussions with more political, high-level engagement.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And there in lies the rub for policymakers, businesses and investors: more ambition and speed is urgently needed, but investing in adaptation efforts works and will help reduce intensifying risks and economic costs, if done correctly, the report suggests. Tangible progress in this area must be a key outcome of COP27 in Egypt.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century. The climate crisis poses enormous financial risk to investment managers, asset owners, and businesses. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C

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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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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. Major political decisions, notably on finance for Loss and Damage, need to be taken at COP27.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The key final decision texts on the UNFCCC website include a raft of new commitments and legal language aimed at pushing for more investment, resources, and ambition in support of efforts to drive down emissions, boost economies and support countries tackle the worsening impacts of climate change. The same goes for businesses.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

They spend your money to buy a seat at the UN Security Council, and also, they are giving your money to other countries to fight climate change in Asia and build roads in Africa. We need the kind of leadership that lifts people up, that doesn’t make people feel as if politics is rather disgusting and they’d rather not look at it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It gives the key political signals that indicate the phasedown of all fossil fuels is happening. "We Clearly this will not be enough, but it is a much-needed political signal to rebuild broken trust. Simon Stiell, executive director at the UNFCCC, said: "This outcome moves us forward. We have a series of milestones ahead.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We must now shift gears and complement the technical discussions with more political, high-level engagement.". Coal reliant countries such as itself have been singled out in the Glasgow Climate Pact, while developed and developing countries heavily invested in oil and gas have not. That would appear to be putting it lightly.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

No political party should be taking any money from fossil fuel interests whatsoever,” Caroline Lucas, the Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, told DeSmog. “To This investigation is yet more evidence of the stranglehold the oil and gas industry has on our politics,” Georgia Whitaker, Greenpeace UK’s climate campaigner, told DeSmog.

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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. Nick Mabey, co-founder and CEO of climate think tank E3G, said the HAC grouping "makes the political weather at COP".

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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. ’ 2022 report into think tanks. Britain is now their laboratory.”

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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. Investment in renewables will continue to soar.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The 'domino effect' of net zero pledges from world leaders in recent months could prove hugely impactful on global warming trajectories, a new analysis suggests, but is its optimistic outlook justified? Back then, CAT's estimate for global average temperature rise by 2100 was 3.5C. It is hugely encouraging news.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Yet this mine will provide a fraction of those that investment in green infrastructure could provide - as many as 9,000 over the next 15 years, compared to the mine's 500. Coal is hugely damaging, we have the resources in the UK to accelerate our investment in renewables not go backwards.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Even as our thirst for oil seems insatiable, it is becoming politically and environmentally toxic. Why is $45bn in fossil fuel considered ‘an investment’, while every dollar invested in renewables or the energy transition or viewed as 'costs'? > (2). I always wonder. It will become a diminishing percentage of the energy mix.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

After decades of political unrest, a relative emerging peace had emboldened the government to put its oil up for sale. Any internal disputes over resource sharing could spell disaster in Somalia, a politically fractured country recovering from decades of war. The two companies vanished from Mogadishu. Credit: Twitter/Asair Firin.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Steve Brown, Orcadian’s founder, regularly shared posts on social media from his recently-deleted Twitter account that cast doubt on climate policy and modelling, including content from the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s principal climate science denying group. Find out more about EnQuest in its company profile.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Read more » Women are at the Forefront of Historic Change in the US Women are claiming their rightful place in the halls of political power and they are changing the world in the process. More women than ever have taken to the streets to make their voices heard and an unprecedented number of women are vying for political leadership.

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