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

JULY 29, 2021

There is also an intense debate around which industries should be able to purchase carbon offsets, amid fears the market will provide cover for large polluters taking minimal steps to reduce their absolute emissions.

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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. square feet of land and the assuaging of animal species distinction, water pollution and habitat destruction. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 Au contraire, it is the reverse. My biggest concern is running out of time.

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Health Sustainability Agriculture Organic 533

Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Accelerator program will give public and private sector leaders the information they need to take action and reduce methane pollution, starting right away.”. ” Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to global warming and a leading cause of climate change worldwide. within reach.”

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The effects will be felt most acutely in sub-Saharan Africa, South and East Asia and the Middle East, with a disproportionate impact on areas that are already fragile and on the people who live in them.". Urgent action is needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C °C and to end species decline and environmental destruction.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. Legal protection.

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Soil Health Pollution Climate change 98

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. 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.

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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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Fossil fuels Climate change Resilience Global warming 68

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

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. He would break new ground, and he might lose, but he keeps trying again,” Nader said. “It It gave him energy to go after the big guys.”.

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Law Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming 99

Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2019

As many as five billion people will face hunger and a lack of clean water by 2050 as the warming climate disrupts pollination, freshwater, and coastal habitats, according to new research published last week in Science. People living in South Asia and Africa will bear the worst of it.

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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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Fossil fuels COP Global warming Politics 81

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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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. Analysis by DeSmog last year found that of roughly 300 partners, just seven percent were based in Africa.

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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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Methane Agriculture Africa Climate change 123

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.”. “There is a yawning gap between the marketing claims of fossil fuel companies and the reality of their businesses,” said Jonathan White, a lawyer at ClientEarth.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

They want the biggest, heaviest-polluting nations to do something about it. Stipulating the phaseout of “unabated fossil fuels” in a deal means that polluters can continue using coal, oil, and gas as long as they install controversial new technologies for capturing CO2 emissions that have yet to prove effective at scale.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Pollution Government 90

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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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. McGibbon added that the bank had evaded questions on supporting the world’s biggest polluter, Saudi oil company Aramco.

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Fossil fuels Pollution Global warming Africa 98

Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Working Group II analysis published this morning - the first report on the impact of climate change from IPCC scientists in eight years - notes that climate change is already affecting billions of people around the world and warns these impacts are set to intensify over the coming years as global temperatures continue to accelerate.

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Climate change Global warming Resilience Sea level rise 68

Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute. Do I feel pressure?

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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. of pre-industrial levels," he said.

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Plastics Carbon Fossil fuels Packaging 96

Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Leaders of the world's biggest economies have today signalled their continued support for an ambitious outcome from the tense on-going climate negotiations at the COP27 Summit, emphasising their support for capping global warming at 1.5C, ramping up climate finance, cutting back on coal power, and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

But it’s also made social equity a centerpiece of its efforts, from made-in-America pledges to boost jobs to commitments to focus investments in low-income and minority communities suffering the most health and economic damage from industrial pollution and global warming. The Washington D.C.-based

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The UK, the EU, France, Germany, the US, Italy, Canada, Japan, Norway, and Denmark have all backed the plan, which mirrors similar agreements reached with Indonesia and South Africa. Back then, we were concerned for our industry because of the unfair competition of heavy polluters. A global clean tech race has started.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree Today, scientists are telling us that the window of opportunity to limit warming to 1.5C, and avoid even more severe impacts, is closing - but it's not yet slammed shut. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C We need immediate action on energy.

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Sea level rise Climate change Fossil fuels Government 82

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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2021

With air pollution choking some of its largest cities, it has shuttered dozens of old coal facilities in recent years, and has subsidized renewable energy projects, both domestically and globally. Countries are expected to strengthen their pledges this year — hopefully enough to keep global warming in check. But will it?

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Climate change Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels Carbon 96

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. square feet of land and the assuaging of animal species distinction, water pollution and habitat destruction. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 Au contraire, it is the reverse. My biggest concern is running out of time.

Health 28

Health Organic Sustainability Agriculture 28

Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Bringing an end to the burning of coal for energy is one of the single biggest priorities if the world is to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C by the end of the century, and has been one of the UK's top priorities in its role as host of COP26.

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Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Climate change Global warming 84

Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction - now. The world's biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home. It is essential to meet the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone - now.

Climate change 67

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The US and EU are reportedly remaining steadfast in their historic resistance to proposals for a Loss and Damage funding mechanisms, amid fears such a move would be interpreted as an acceptance of legal liability for their historic pollution. alive" by "undertaking rapid, deep and sustained cuts" in greenhouse gas emissions.

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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 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.". Financial markets in the Asia Pacific region helped jump-start the growth of sustainable investment around the world," said GFANZ co-chair Michael Bloomberg.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Methane 36

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Two-thirds of the directors who run the Conservative Party’s multi-million-pound endowment fund have interests in fossil fuel firms or polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. million in donations from fossil fuel interests, major polluters and climate science deniers in 2022. billion in 2021. Lord Spencer has donated more than £2.2

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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. You have given a massive exemption to the country’s largest polluters, and your plan is already failing. The other leaders on this stage are globalist.

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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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Politics Fossil fuels Government Climate change 90

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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