Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

Article continues below. Studies in the journal Science state that the global area of dead zones have quadrupled in the last 50 years, driven by a growing human population and an increase in the need for corn, soybeans, biofuels, and livestock feed. Like an upside-down tree its printed lines fan out into the ocean.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

The CCC's annual report is scathing on the lack of policy progress over the past year - the UK cannot afford another 12 months of inaction No aspect of the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) absolutely damning assessment of the UK's decarbonisation efforts over the past year is as dispiriting as the government's response to it.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Climate science makes it clear that ice-free summers in the near future are inevitable. The disappearing of the North Pole, the melting of the Arctic (ice), a “blue ocean event”… These all come down to the same thing: a pivotal change in Earth’s climate with many possible disastrous side effects.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

I remember its large, sturdy trunk protecting me from the wind, rain, and fear of violence. That tree still stands in southeastern Latvia, where I spent most of my life until my mother and I moved to San Francisco in 1994. the next day, fundamentally changing the composition of the forests across the West. But by how much?

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

For much of the past two years the global push to deliver net zero emissions has enjoyed a remarkable golden run. National and state governments have rushed to announce long term net zero emissions goals, to the point where around two thirds of global GDP is now covered by some form of target. because they were never intended to".

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

(Catching up on re-posting my articles. Like many people out there who are working on climate change, or are internalizing the news, I’ve struggled at times to stay optimistic and productive in the fight. Recently, my mother asked me why I seemed down. People say I make it sound serious, but with some hope.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

(Catching up on re-posting my articles. Like many people out there who are working on climate change, or are internalizing the news, I've struggled at times to stay optimistic and productive in the fight. Recently, my mother asked me why I seemed down. degree report” from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Grist

APRIL 20, 2020

— causing both countries to abruptly change course on containing the outbreak. President Trump also changed direction , switching from calling it a hoax one week to saying “every one of us has a critical role” to play in slowing the disease. Article continues below. So the model didn’t change; the policies did.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

This article was written by Kevin Crowley and Akshat Rathi. Exxon was set to embark on a project to do the reverse: pump the unwanted gas back down where it came from. The captured carbon may not have made much money for Exxon on its own, but a recent change to the U.S. For the original on Bloomberg Green, click here.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As usual, it was another year of ups and downs for sustainable business. With good reason: The climate and biodiversity crises, combined with the social and economic equity crises, are providing momentum and incentives for staying the course. The climate crisis became riskier. But it's a blip, not a reversal.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

Ed King reflects on how the world of high level sport offers some sage advice on how to drive climate action in the face of authoritarian and reactionary opponents. One-half second too slow, too fast, you don't quite catch it.". It's biblical - and that's before we even mention the non-climate related Coronavirus.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

But for those of us covering extreme weather and following climate science reports, the scene was tragically familiar. These climate impacts are evident in the growing number of apocalyptic landscapes I’ve documented after record-breaking storms hammer coastal communities along the Gulf of Mexico. It devastated the region.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Head of Global Market Operations, Indigo Ag; Boston. Delving into the sustainability world, Ballen trained with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps in Rio de Janeiro, where she got her first taste of inspiring people to act, and her zeal for public speaking. Now she calls herself a "corporate change agent.". Jesse Klein.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

This article by Sierra is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. They were headed for the massive floating construction site of an offshore wind farm 35 miles from the eastern tip of Long Island, New York. In other words, climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Amid February’s record-breaking temperatures, climate is emerging as a battleground – and faultline – between the UK’s two biggest political parties in the run up to the next general election. The rows have given more airtime to several fringe parties fielding candidates strongly opposed to climate action.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

My biggest article of the year is generally the last one; it’s an attempt to synthesize and summarize big themes in sustainability. We experienced climate-change-driven extreme weather: with record heat waves in Europe , India, and the earth’s poles ; sprawling fires in the U.S.; [Happy New Year all! In the U.S.

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Sustainability Fossil fuels Climate change Policy 88

Grist

JULY 2, 2020

Taking no responsibility for coronavirus infections raging to new records amid the rash reopenings of businesses, beaches and bars, the White House and governors are now playing the role of Aristotle: They blame the young for bringing us down. Article continues below. Activists shut down these cancer-causing plants.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act finally offers a chance for widespread change. It took centuries to build all those homes from wood and brick and steel and concrete, but, if we’re to seriously address the climate crisis, we have only a few years to remake them. So far, the climate debate has gone on mostly in people’s heads and hearts.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

And because we can’t help ourselves, we then attempted to extrapolate the straight line between these divergent views of what’s to come for climate tech in 2024. Despite a forecast of down rounds ahead, existing VCs have capital to deploy and new investors (somehow!)   But first, a quick retrospective.

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