GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

This year, financial institutions must make a significant leap forward on climate — from pledges to progress. For example, in the oil and gas sector, investors can assess progress and pace toward net-zero by monitoring companies’ methane emissions, flaring intensity, capital expenditures, lobbying and governance.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

State-owned oil and gas fields across the United Arab Emirates have flared almost constantly despite a long-standing policy to eliminate “routine” flaring in their operations, DeSmog can reveal. Flaring also allows the escape of some unburned methane gas, which is a powerful greenhouse gas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

By necessity, modern farming has become a global, well-oiled machine. For those who spend their lives in the countryside, city visits can feel chaotic, confusing, and loud in comparison. In truth, neither perception paints an entirely realistic picture. There is a reason some scientists have named our current epoch the Anthropocene.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

This article was published alongside new additions to DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database , where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ current messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. We cannot continue business as we have done in the past,” he went on. “If

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Speaking earlier, Johnson acknowledged that while there had been a flurry of "game-changing announcements" on methane, deforestation and finance last week, the Summit was now "firmly in the hard yards of international diplomacy", adding that "with a few days left there is still a huge amount to do". "We

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Fossil fuels COP Climate change Carbon 36

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

How Wall Street can win on climate In 2021 Ben Ratner Mon, 01/25/2021 – 01:00 This year, financial institutions must make a significant leap forward on climate — from pledges to progress. At the start of 2021, leading investors openly recognize that climate change presents a massive systemic risk and a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Methane 28

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

But while more than 130 governments pledged to tackle agriculture’s carbon footprint, a slew of announcements and initiatives failed to set binding targets, or to broach the question of reducing herds of ruminant livestock such as cattle and sheep, which are agriculture’s largest driver of emissions.

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