Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Investment will monitor, report, and verify collective climate actions in support of the Global Methane Pledge. ” 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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

CTL burns some of its CH 4 to produce CO 2 and steam (since CH 4 has 21 times the global warming potential of CO 2 ) and sends the rest to a thermal power plant with which it partners. However, the rate of MSW reuse is still very low in Brazil (2.2%). “That would correspond to between 4.9 million and 57.2

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Danone’s size as a major global dairy company provides a significant opportunity for impact. Cutting methane emissions is the most immediate opportunity we have to slow the global warming rate and prevent irreversible damage to the planet. This is a step-change for the food and agriculture sector – and for the planet.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The technology leads back to the days of Ancient Egypt, but its unique design and nature-friendly way of improving the lives of those around is a clear and hopeful image for us today. In Indonesia this number drops to nine per cent; in South Africa six per cent; and in India as low as five per cent. Why is this a concern?

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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. However, governments continue to plan for and support levels of fossil fuel production that are vastly in excess of what we can safely burn.".

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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 Repair: Thorough and urgent research is needed to explore and investigate safe methods and technologies that could repair parts of our damaged climate systems. Dr Robert W.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. Just think about this: According to WEP, consumers in wealthy nations squander nearly as much food annually as is produced in sub-Saharan Africa every year. Ways To Decrease. It is crucial for supermarkets to reduce food waste.

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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 degrees C is made possible by “negative emissions technologies” that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and compensate for the overshoot in emissions. . degrees Celsius (2.7

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

But global warming might be the death of it. Australia and Africa each have at least 100,000 rock art sites, some stretching back 28,000 years. But this time, human technology is rocketing the planet — including its Indigenous rock art — toward disaster. Indigenous rock art has survived tens of thousands of years.

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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 What concerns you about the current global food system when it comes to environmental sustainability and human health? Au contraire, it is the reverse. In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

For over 60 years, the laboratory has studied whether nuclear technologies can be used to breed new and more resilient varieties of crops, and the seeds from the space capsule were its newest venture. Other mutations can be induced using chemicals , bypassing nuclear technology altogether. billion in agricultural losses in 2022 alone.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

million jobs globally, showing just how important the sector will be in creating new jobs around the world. Globally, we need to radically change the way in which we develop and use appliances and technologies to help safeguard the health of the planet.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2022

Oil and gas firms should resist using the recent rise in prices as a green light to plough more money into new production projects, as it could risk well over $500bn being wasted on assets that quickly become worthless as climate policies and green technologies become increasingly effective over the coming years. are to be kept alive.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

We will now begin an unprecedented programme of new investment, taking forward our 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution by funding British research and development in green technologies, and helping the developing world with the UK's International Climate Finance.". Urgent action is needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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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

JULY 29, 2021

A robust voluntary carbon market can incentivise emissions reductions, encourage technology innovation, and promote reforestation while also helping to raise finance to tackle climate change," he said. Alok Sharma, COP26 president-designate, urged all stakeholders to "engage as fully as possible" with the VCMI's work. "A

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

And compared to coterie of more complex and expensive technological solutions such as carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCS) or direct air capture (DAC), many of which have not been proven at scale, tree planting seems a far easier, cheaper, and ecologically beneficial means of compensating for on-going emissions.

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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. Technologies for sustainable and smart fishing are therefore required to regulate fishing.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

It contends that EVs are likely to become the most economic choice for drivers in the next five years in many parts of the world, while renewables such as wind and solar are also set to become increasingly competitive with fossil fuel-based power generation as battery technology improves. goal of the Paris Agreement, the report warns.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Carbon Recycling International (CRI), the Iceland-based company behind the technology, said the pioneering plant marked a major milestone in the development of carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies. The initiative, which was launched at COP26 in Glasgow, claims that achieving its ambitions could shave 0.2C

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Global investment needs to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels to green energy throughout the 2020s, but bets against that happening look increasingly risky. In order to cap global warming at 1.5C Encouragingly, the pandemic has not put a stop to this accelerating trend - quite the opposite in fact.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . 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.”.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Up to $173tr may be needed to fund the global economy's net zero transformation over the next 30 years, although the precise decarbonisation pathway the world will follow remains highly uncertain due to the different potential mixes of clean technologies available, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).

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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. Tipping points are not just needed in technology.

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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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Smart Energy International

MARCH 11, 2024

Shading the Sun and other forms of geoengineering are increasingly being mooted to slow the pace of global warming. Moreover with that warming also the winter refreezing results in less ice recovery. What’s on the technology radar for Europe’s DSOs? Have you read?

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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

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 without nature," she said. "It It is vital that parties ensure this language remains in the final text.

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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

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. It is a moral imperative.

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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. As Lucey noted to Changemakers , “Advances in solar technology have created a tremendous opportunity to eliminate rural energy poverty.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 And the global race to supply the technologies and solutions a net-zero world needs is on. By aligning efforts internationally countries can accelerate the pace of technological change, increase incentives for investment, and innovate faster.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

On topics like water scarcity, where we face serious issues in Europe, I'm looking to learn from my colleagues in Africa and Brazil.". Do I feel pressure? I feel very positive pressure. But it works both ways.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Clean technology venture capital investment strategies for the next decade will look much different than those of the past two decades. In the first wave of venture green technology investing, firms sunk billions of dollars into companies whose success depended on replacing entire industrial ecosystems. The Washington D.C.-based

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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. The technology-focused “sustainable farming” partnership, which is led by the UAE and U.S., This year will be different.

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